Game Theory #28: Predictive History

So, on Thursday, we will do the final examination. This is an opportunity for you to question and challenge my understanding of the world. And so today, what I'm going to do is reveal all that we've learned this semester and combine together into a framework of how the world works. So, the main driving question of the semester is, why did the US attack Iran? So this is the central mystery of the world today, because even today, Donald Trump has yet to articulate a reason for attacking Iran. And I do understand that right now. There are ceasefire negotiations going on, but unless we can properly understand or diagnose the rationale for this war, it's very hard for us to appreciate the difficulty of coming to a ceasefire, okay? So I'm going to present to you the three major reasons that we learned in this class as to why the United States attacked Iran.

The first major explanation is it's geopolitical, geopolitics. And so, according to this theory, what the United States is most afraid of is that Russia, Iran and China would come together into a grand alliance, okay? So you have Russia here, you have China here, and you have Iran here, okay? Now, why the United States is afraid of this grand alliance is that if these three nations were to combine together. And just trade amongst themselves, they could encompass the entire Eurasian continent, which would include Europe, the entire of the Middle East, the GCC, Africa, India. And they could negate the American maritime power and just trade amongst themselves using railways constructed by China. Alright? And there's nothing America could do about it, and it's a huge problem because right now the Americans have $39 trillion in debt. And so the only way to finance this debt is to force others to continue to buy US Treasuries, okay?

So the reason why the United States attacked Iran is to force everyone to buy US Treasuries. Why? Well, because if you attack Iran, you knock off at least 20 % of the world's energy. And as a result, the world, Europe, China, and Japan specifically, are forced to buy more US Treasuries. And then, by knocking out Iran, you can then start to control the world's major chokepoints, in short, the short of Hormuz, the short of Gibraltar. And then, by knocking out Iran, you can then start to control the world's major chokepoints, in short, the short of Gibraltar. So this is the Strait of Monaco, actually. This is the Strait of Gibraltar. This is the Cape of Good Hope. And so as a result, you control the world's trade. So if the world wants resources, they can only do so from buying from the Western Hemisphere that America controls, okay? So attacking Iran is crucial to achieving this geopolitical vision of America in order to maintain the American empire, okay?

So that's the first major reason. There's also another explanation, which is different, very different, and this is eschatological. Number two is eschatological. And what this means is that there are religious fanatics within the American empire who believe that a war in the Middle East will launch a chain of events that will ultimately culminate in the return of Jesus, okay? So these are people who believe very strongly in the Bible, and they believe that what the Bible teaches them is that if there is a war in the Middle East, okay, this Iran War, this will lead to the Third Temple, which would also involve the destruction of the Al -Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in the Islamic world, which would lead to the War of Gog and Magog, which would lead to the rise of the Antichrist. And at this point, if you are Jewish, you

believe that this will lead to the coming of the Messiah and the ushering in of the Messianic age. If you're a Christian, you believe that this will lead to the second coming of Jesus and the rapture and the millennium of peace in the world before the Day of Judgment and then Heaven. Heaven comes to Earth, okay? Now, what's interesting about this eschatological vision is that it also aligns with both the Islamic eschatology as well as the Orthodox eschatology, okay? This is important because the Islamic, of course, is Iran, and the Orthodox is Russian. And so what's really strange is that the four major nations involved right now in this war in the Middle East, including Iran, Russia, and Iran. The United States and Israel share a similar eschatological outlook. And as a result, they're all actually, in many ways, working together to achieve a certain geopolitical outcome, which includes the building of the Third Temple,

the War of Gog and Magog, the coming of the Antichrist, and ultimately, the end of the world, okay? So that's the second explanation. The third reason is actually the most mundane, okay? And the third reason is this imperial decline. And when an empire declines, it does all sorts of stupid things, because internally, it is fracturing for three reasons. The first reason is financialization, which is to say that you have a few people who control all the capital. And as a result, all they do is go bankrupt. All they do is force everyone into debt slavery, and then everyone's forced to engage in speculation in order to try to get rich, because there's no honest way to make a living, all right? So capital controls the empire. And this leads to corruption, inequality, and debt, and ultimately, slavery. Second problem is demographic crisis. And this is true for all empires in decline, in that young people

refuse to have choice. They refuse to have children. But not only that, but old people live longer and longer. So you have this huge problem where old people live longer and longer, they have pensions, they require young people to work, but young people don't want to have babies, okay? So just naturally, over time, the empire's going to collapse. So the way for the empire to resolve this issue is through immigration. So they welcome millions and millions. They welcome millions of outsiders in order to do the jobs no one actually wants to do. And this leads to ethnic tension within the empire, okay? The third reason, the third symptom of empire decline is something called elite overproduction, which is a phrase coined by a historian named Peter Turchin. And he argues that if you look at all societies in decline, it's driven by the fact that you have certain elites. Who want to control policy, who want power.

But power by definition is a zero -sum game. And so these elites compete for the limited positions of power. And this leads to civil war. And one manifestation of the civil war is that this war is projected outwards, okay? That's what an empire does stupid things like go invade Venezuela for no reason, go attack Iran for no reason. Right now, America is talking about it. They're talking over Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, okay? So this is the other explanation for why things are happening the way they are. Because empires decline, all these internal conflicts that are destroying the empire from within are projected outwards. And so this turmoil is projected onto Iran, okay? So these are the three major reasons. Now, what's interesting. What's interesting about these three major reasons is that they're actually not in competition with each other. In fact, they support each other. And honestly, they lead to the same outcomes.

If you believe in the eschatological model, okay, you believe that this is the end of days, you believe that the Israelis will build the third temple, you believe that this war in the Middle East will just expand outwards. Before it encompasses the entire world, it's something called the War of Gog and Magog. You believe that a charismatic leader will rise to unify much of the world. And if you just analyze the geopolitical framework, you can actually come to the same conclusions. If you look at the imperial decline framework, you can also come to the same conclusions. Okay? This is really, really strange in that you have these four main points. There's three divergent explanations for what's going on. But in many ways, they're very, very similar. In fact, they lead to the same conclusions. So what I want to discuss today is why is this the case? Why is it that eschatology and geopolitics

and imperial decline all end up giving the same understanding of the world and forces us to make certain predictions about the world? Okay? So my explanation to you is this. Eschatology is really just an understanding of geopolitics framed allegorically. Okay? So what we're saying is that what eschatology really is, it's not religion. What it is, is it takes thousands of years of human history, tens of thousands of years of human history. Okay? And it's framed into stories that then can be told to children and passed on through generations and generations. Okay? So it is impossible for humans to pass on complex history over thousands of years. But it is easy to take this history, frame it into stories, and then tell it to your children. And then your children can remember it. And then these children will then pass it on to their children. And then this is how we develop eschatology. Okay?

So then the question then is, how did we develop this particular framework of eschatology, where a war in the Middle East will lead to the Third Temple, the return of the Jews to Israel, the War of Gog and Magog, and the coming of the Antichrist before the coming of the Messiah? Where does this story come from? And what I will show you now is that this is actually a persistent story in the Middle East. The first thing that I need you guys to appreciate is the Middle East, especially the Levant, is the most important part of the world. Why? Because historically, it's been the wealthiest part of the world. All right? So let's look at the Levant. This is the Levant. Okay? Which includes President Israel, Syria, Jordan. Okay? And Lebanon. What's below the Levant? Egypt. What's above the Levant? Anatolia. Then if you go further east, what do you get? You get Mesopotamia. Okay?

If you keep on going east, what do you get? You get Persia. Okay? And then if you keep on going east, you get India. Okay? And historically, this part of the world was the center of the Levant. This part of the world was the center of the Levant. The wealthiest, the most advanced, the most geopolitically important. And the hinge, the pivot, is the Levant. Okay? Now, historically, Egypt and Mesopotamia were the wealthiest parts of the world. By the way, Mesopotamia includes Babylon and Assyria. Okay? All right? So, everyone wants to conquer Egypt. But the way to conquer Egypt is through the Levant. Okay? So, if it controls the Levant, it has a huge advantage over everyone else. Okay? Now, because of a historical accident called the Bronze Age Collapse, the Israelites came into being. Okay? Israel. And Israel is the crossroads of empire. And again, this was a historical accident, the Bronze Age Collapse, so Anatolia, Mesopotamia,

and Egypt declined in power, which allowed for a new power to arise in the Levant called Israel. But they only stayed in power for about 1500 years. After that, they became a subject to an empire, which is a historical norm. But because they were so important, it was easy for Israel to keep on switching sides. Maybe today they supported Israel, the next day they supported Mesopotamia, then they supported Anatolia. Okay? But whoever paid them the most, whoever brought them the most, they would support. Okay? And so, this area became the most contested territory in the world, which led to all sorts of apocalyptic wars. Okay? Lots and lots of death. And the Israelites suffered the most because, obviously, their location led to a lot of conflict. Now, the Israelites, there's something called the Bible. And this would change human history forever. Because what the Bible is, it's a collective memory. And the Israelites were called people of the book.

Okay? So to be an Israelite meant that you believe the Bible. And what's the Bible? The Bible is a collection of stories that became your collective memory. So it's entirely possible, with the Bible now, for people who have never been to Israel to not be Israelite in blood, but to read the Bible. And then imagine themselves as an Israelite. Okay? And this is unique in human history. And if you're an Israelite, what do you want to do? You want to return to Jerusalem. Because Jerusalem is where God lives. Okay? If you want to fulfill your destiny, you must return to Jerusalem. So what's happening in this time is that the Levant is concerned. Jerusalem is a contested territory. The Israelites are a pain in the ass to deal with. And different empires try different solutions. You could try to bribe them. And then ultimately, the solution they came up with is, you know what?

Let's just remove them from Israel. So they went to Babylon, something called the Babylon exile. Okay? But remember, they have the Bible with them. So even though they are now removed from Israel, the land itself, and the people, the people, the priests, still have this historical memory of Israel. So they long to return to it. Then what happened was that Persia, under Cyrus the Great, comes and conquers Babylon, and he meets these Jewish priests who long to return to Israel. And then what the Persians figure out is, hey, if we insert the Jews back into Israel, and now they are strangers in a strange land. They're not going to come back. They must be loyal to us only, because only we can protect them. Only we can protect their identity, okay? So the Persians would sponsor the return of the Israelites to Israel, and now they're called the Jews, okay?

And now what's happened is, not only the Jews long to return to Israel, but they also recognize that only by working with an empire against other empires can we return to Israel, okay? And this pattern will repeat itself throughout human history, okay? So after the Persians, the Romans come, and again, the Romans need to control this territory because of Egypt. The Jews rebel against the Romans because the Romans insist that the Jews obey Roman law, obey the emperor, think the emperor is divine, but that goes against Jewish belief, okay? This leads to a civil civil wars. Rome kills the Jews. The Jews are forced into Arabia, the Arabian desert. And there, they take their Bible and they start teaching the locals about their religion, and this will give rise to a new religion called Islam. Back here in the Levant, a new religion is Rome. Rome is rising in order to try to control the Jews, and

this new religion is called Christianity. And of course, Christianity will also give rise to Orthodoxy, which is the religion of the Russians, okay? So the eschatology is so similar because all the major religions come from this conflict in the Levant. And the pattern that emerges is the Jews are central to this story because the Jews are trying to return to Judaism, build the temple, which is where the god lives, but to do so, they must fight empires that are trying to use them as pawns. Also for the Jews to thrive, they need a leader, okay? This leader is called the Messiah, and it was prophesied in the Bible that God would send the Messiah, the son of man. And to lead them to ultimate victory, but historically, whenever the Jews tried to revolt, they lose. So now the problem is you have this great story, you have this great belief, this pattern repeats itself over time, but how do you explain the failure of the Messiah?

The answer, of course, is the Antichrist. What's the Antichrist? The Antichrist is the false prophet, the false Messiah. Okay? So this is a story that doesn't really work, and so they edit the story in a certain way to make it believable. Okay? So rather than say, you know what, the Messiah came and we lost, so this means the story is nonsense. No, no, no. That was not the real Messiah. That was a lesser Messiah or the Antichrist. Okay? We need lesser Messiahs or the Antichrist to come before the Messiah himself can come. Okay? And this is how we got the story. What's amazing about this is that this story, this story, this story, this story, this story, this story would be applied throughout the history of this area. So after the Roman -Jewish wars, the next thing we have, about 600 CE, is the rise of Islam and the rise of Muhammad.

If you look into the history of the rise of Islam and the Muhammad, a very similar framework where there's two empires fighting each other, the Romans and the Persians. And the Persians are the ones that are fighting each other. And then a Messiah emerges, Muhammad, to unite the world, the Muslims, the Jews and the Christians, and they very quickly return to Jerusalem and build the temple to God, the third temple, which is now called the Al -Azhar Mosque. Okay? All right? So in other words, the history of the Middle East has been condensed into a simple eschatological story. A story that gives us insight into how geopolitics works in the Middle East. For the longest time, the Middle East, especially Levant, was a crossroads of empire. So there's always going to be wars fought over that territory. The Jews long to return to Jerusalem, so they're going

to figure out ways in order to return to Jerusalem, and that often means working with different empires. Okay? Okay? And during this war, you're going to have Messianic fever. You're going to have people who believe that, I am Messiah, and they're going to come and lead the Jewish people. And because the Jewish people are looking for Messiah, well, then he becomes a Messiah because he volunteers to be the Messiah. Okay? And when he fails, he's like, no, he's actually the lesser Messiah, or he's the Antichrist. Okay? And this is a pattern that is consistent in the Middle East, and therefore we can assume that this is a pattern that will continue. Okay? So we can expect the next few years, the same thing will happen where maybe in the Middle East, a man will emerge to, and he declares himself a Messiah because everyone is expecting the Messiah to emerge. And if he fails, then he's just the Antichrist, or he's a lesser Messiah.

Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? And a lot of this is being driven by the idea of imperial decline. Okay? Okay? Meaning that this is possible because the empire is too weak to stop this messianic vision from emerging in the Levant. Okay? And the empires, which before included Rome and Persia, they would externalize their internal conflict. So we can see from this how all this combines together. Okay? Eschatology is just geopolitics told in a story. And the main driver of geopolitical, of geopolitical eschatology is imperial decline. Alright? Because it loses equilibrium, it loses stability, and so all these events converge together in one particular pace. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? Okay. Now I want to discuss another question, which is why is eschatology so important? Why is it so powerful? Okay? How is it possible for eschatology to drive geopolitics? And the answer has to do with the structure of power in society.

Okay? So let me explain what's going on. Okay. So the first thing you guys need to appreciate is that the occult is the basis of everything. Okay? The occult is the basis of reality. The occult means basically esoteric or hidden knowledge, or a mystical understanding of how the universe works. Okay? Another way of saying this is action comes after ideas. Only if you can imagine the action can the action actually take place. Okay? And the occult are these mystics who are trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, which includes alchemy, eschatology, and so on. Okay? Alchemy is just trying to transmute or transform nothing into something. Okay? Basically lead into gold or death into life. Okay? They're trying to animate things. Eschatology is an understanding of how the world ends. Astrology is an understanding of how the moving of stars influences historical patterns. Okay? All right.

So these are the three main fields. Now, there are people in power who form secret societies and there are lots and lots of them. Okay? And they form secret societies because they want to access the secrets of the occult in order to gain more power and wealth for themselves. Because if you think about it, the more secrets you have, the more power you have. Okay? So that's why they form secret societies, in order to worship the occult, in order to obtain more power for themselves. Once these secret societies and these occult form an alliance, they transform each other. Okay? The occult before was very much just focused on eschatological knowledge. But once it comes in contact with these secret societies, then they focus more about eschatology. Okay? Because now they have the mechanism, the means, in order to achieve their eschatology and the end of the world. The elite like eschatology because they believe

that if they're able to bring about the end of the world, then they themselves can have the most power because they'll be close to God. Also, what's important for you guys to understand is, secret societies do not believe they can change the world. They don't believe they can actually alter the course of history. What they believe is they can ride the wave of history into absolute power. Okay? And then once this alliance is formed, what they do now is they basically select leaders or agents or puppets or scapegoats. Okay? Whatever name you want to call them and become the person who propels history forward. Okay? These are the agents. And historically, these people included Napoleon or Julius Caesar or Hitler or Stalin. Today, they are, of course, Trump and Putin. Because you need an individual to capture the imagination of the people and create action in order to achieve this eschatology. Okay?

Does that make sense? So, this is a basic framework of how history happens. Okay? You always need the occult in order for history to happen. If you don't have the occult, you end up like China. Okay? China just focuses on harmony and balance. All right? Once you have the occult, then that gives rise to secret societies who then pick agents in order to achieve the eschatological vision. Okay? Now, I want to discuss why these secret societies are so powerful. And it has to do with the structure of society. Okay? So, society is often bureaucratized into different departments. You have the military. You have the political system. You have science or religion. You have finance. You have the bureaucracy. Okay? So, it's basically different segments of society. Now, within each segment, you're going to have a range of personality types. Most people just want to live normal lives. They want to get along. They want to collect their paycheck, go home, and raise their families.

That's all they care about. About 90 % of people are like that. Okay? Then you have some extreme people who are more idealistic. Then you have more extreme people who are power hungry. Okay? And these people that are power hungry, they converge together and they work together because they're all more interested in order and control. All right? In order to obtain more order and control, they form secret societies. And once they have these secret societies, they're able to achieve three things that give them more power and control over other people. Okay? The first is secrecy. Second is trust. And the last is coordination. Okay? And how they're able to achieve this is through eschatology. Eschatology is a script for them to act out. Okay? And that allows for them to coordinate even though they may not know actually what they're doing. Okay? Because they're all trying to achieve the same script.

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Does that make sense so far? Okay? Are there any questions before I continue? Any questions? Okay. All right. So now what I want to discuss is this. Why is eschatology so powerful? Why does it compel us to do things that are, from an outsider's perspective, irrational or extreme or fanatical, like start wars in the Middle East? And the argument I want to make to you is that the reason why is that eschatology that we have today in the Middle East, it is fundamentally sexual in nature. Sexual in nature. All right? So remember this. That the eschatology, it's not just an idea. It's sexual. It's something that you want to move towards. You're driven by this sexual urge in order to fulfill the eschatology. Okay? All right. So let me explain how this works. All right. So we first start off with the occult, right? And I'm going to show you how it leads to eschatology.

Okay. So the most dominant understanding of the occult is something called hermeticism, hermetic philosophy. It comes to us from Egypt. Okay? And there are seven basic principles of hermetic philosophy. Okay? The first is that everything is mind. Everything is energy. Everything is vibration. So, you start off with a source. We'll call it the monad or the source. And what the source does is it breathes. It emanates. It thinks. It meditates. And so, it vibrates. Okay? Pff. Oh, oh, boom. Okay? And it's infinite. Okay? So it is... It has infinite vibrations. Okay? And the higher the vibration is, the faster it is. The lower it is, the slower it is. And so this gives rise to the material world. So yes, so even though the dimensions are infinite, we can roughly classify them in different categories. At the very bottom is the material world, which is our world. Then you might have the emotional. Then you might have the spiritual.

Then you might have the divine. Now, according to hermetic philosophy, there are certain characteristics about this universe. The first is that there is rhythm to it, meaning there's a pattern to its vibrations. It's not just random chaos. There's a pattern to it. And this pattern will become the basis for astrology, right? That's what astrology is. Astrology is trying to figure out the pattern of the universe. The pattern of the stars, which determines the movement of the universe. Second thing is the idea of correspondence. What correspondence means is that divine, spiritual, emotional, material, they all line up. They all correspond to each other. They're not different realms. They're all realms that can influence each other. This then leads to the idea of cause and effect, which is that the entire universe is, is combined together. So that what happens in the material world can impact the divine. What happens in the divine can impact the material, okay?

And what this means, and this is really interesting, is that you can have impact on others as well. So this gives rise to the idea of telepathy, okay? And there's a belief that if you meditate long enough, okay, if you will it long enough, you can make something happen. There's an idea of manifestation. Okay, so there are many secrets to this, okay? This gives rise to the idea of as below, so above. And this has to do with the idea of the interconnectedness of this universe. And what this means basically is that the universe are just fractals of each other, okay? Fractals of each other. So you, in your mind, you are just a fractal of the entire universe. And the entire universe is a reflection of you yourself, okay? Does that make sense? As above, so below. As below, so above. The interconnectedness of everything, okay? Then this gives rise to the idea of polarity.

Polarity just means opposites. So if there's a black, there must be a white. If there's a female, there must be a male, okay? So the universe is divided into extremes, into opposites. Then this gives rise to the idea of generation, the generative principle, okay? So you have generation and production. So production is the female, generation is the male, okay? This is a fundamental movement of the universe where new things are created when the male and the female come together, when the yin and the yang come together. So think of thesis, antithesis, synthesis. And this is what allows for the universe to constantly create new things, okay? So these are the seven fundamental principles of the universe. First, everything is energy, everything is mind, everything is vibration. That's number one. Number two is there's a pattern to all this. Number three is the different dimensions correspond with each other. They're all connected somehow.

Number four is cause and effect, where if you make one movement in the material world, you can also influence the divine, okay? You can also influence others as well. As above, so below, so that we're all reflections of God itself, the universe itself. Polarity, there are opposites, and these opposites work together to create the life force, okay? That allows for creativity. So these are seven basic principles of the universe, okay? And this has been known for a long time, ever since the Egyptians, then it went over to India. So now what's gonna happen is about 1100 to 1200, okay, around this time, a new force is something called lyric capitalism is going to come into being, okay? Why? Because hermetic philosophy, is the most intuitive understanding of the universe. The Bible are the most powerful stories in the universe. And so what Luria, Isaac Luria, who is a Jewish rabbi, what he's

gonna do is he's gonna combine the two together, meaning he's gonna take the stories of the Bible and explain it using hermetic philosophy, okay? So let me give an example. Story of Adam and Eve in the Bible. Great story, all right? God created Adam, and then from Adam created Eve, and told the two together, and told the two, this is the Garden of Eden, this is paradise, you'll never die, you'll always have enough to eat, you guys can have sex every day, but there's only one thing I ask you not to do, and it's like, don't eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. And that's it, guys. That's all you have to do. Don't do that. And then of course, they eat that stupid fruit and they get banished from the Garden of Eden. Okay? So this is a story of the Bible. And the question that plagued many religious scholars for thousands of years is, why did they screw up?

Okay? And now what they're gonna do is, they're going to take hermetic philosophy and explain the story of Adam and Eve using hermetic philosophy. Okay? And this explanation. The explanation is, in the beginning, God was everything. Okay? God was everything. God is eternal, immutable, perfect. But, it wants to know itself. It's curious. It wants to expand itself. Okay? And God is the will to bestow. The will to give. The giver. But if you are the will to bestow, then you need something to give it to. You need something to give yourself to. Okay? So what God does, is he contracts, he starts to build the universe. And the first being that he creates is something called Adam -Kedmon. Okay? Which becomes the will to receive. Okay? Or the ego. Doesn't make sense, guys. Okay? So God, in order to bestow, must create a new being called Adam -Kedmon, so that he can bestow himself onto Adam -Kedmon.

Okay? The problem, though, is that Adam -Kedmon is the ego. So he can only see the world through the lens of selfishness. God is love. God is forgiveness. God is generosity. So God wants to give. But Adam's like, why do you want to give to me? All right? So the analogy is, let's just say I invite you to my house. And I am honored that you're coming to my house, and I cook you a wonderful meal. Okay? Twelve courses. It's sumptuous. You come into my house, and you are shocked. You're embarrassed by my generosity. You run away. Because you think to yourself, does he want to borrow money from me? Like, why is he being so nice to me? Okay? It scares you. And that's why Adam and Eve disobeyed God. Because they were embarrassed by the generosity of God. They were too immature. They were too egotistical, too selfish, to appreciate the generosity of God.

Okay? And so when this happens, when Adam and Eve betrayed God, this is something called breaking the world. And the point of the universe is to repair the world. How do you repair the world? By making yourself so enlightened that you can now receive the generosity of God and create a reunion. Okay? That is the repair of the world. A reunion. Now, there are different ways in which you can do this. Okay? The way they teach you is just basically self -enlightenment through education, through knowledge. Another way is love. Okay? Love thy neighbor. Embark on a journey, a lifelong journey, to be as nice and kind to people as possible. Okay? The modern term for this is, of course, called social justice. All right? Try to save as many people as possible. But there's a third way, and the third way is the most controversial, which is the idea of sin.

Okay? And the idea of sin is you must break yourself before you can learn the wisdom to welcome God into your heart. And the story that explains this idea is the story of David. Okay? King David was the greatest ruler of the Israelites. And one day he falls in love with a woman named Bathsheba. And David is king because he's close to God. God favors him. Okay? He falls in love with Bathsheba. The problem... Okay, so Bathsheba and David have sex. Bathsheba becomes pregnant. The problem is that Bathsheba is already married to a warrior named Uriah the Hittite. Okay? So David thinks of many ways of solving this problem. And ultimately he decides, I'm just going to kill this guy. Okay? So he kills Uriah the Hittite and he marries Bathsheba. And he's very happy. And he's going to... And Bathsheba is going to give birth to their son.

God learns about this and sends his prophet Nathan to David and says, King David, do you know what you've done wrong? David's like, not really. I mean, what did I do wrong? I don't know. So God gets angry and punishes David by killing his son. And this forces David into mourning. And when he mourns, he breaks his heart. When he breaks his heart, he welcomes God back into his soul. And the two become the best of friends because every day now, David is praying to God and God is answering him. David has given up all the material desires of this world and fully embraced God. He's humbled himself before God. He's become God's servant. Every day, he asks for forgiveness. He's engaged in poetry, in prayer. Okay? So the Israelites remember David not as a great conqueror, not as a great king, but as a man who understood his humility, who always asked for forgiveness, who was best friends with God.

Okay? And this is the idea of repairing the world. Nothing matters except your relationship with God. The whole world could be in nuclear war. Doesn't matter. Okay? What matters is your true faith in God. And so from these three things, we now understand what's going on in Gaza and the Middle East where the Israelites think that, hey, if I break the world and I force the entire world to hate me, and I sin so much that I suffer, that's a good thing because that's going to let me develop a close relationship with God. And this will repair the world. But, and this is really important, okay? We also need to appreciate is that there are also Jews in the mind and who are more numerous than the Israelis who think, no, that's wrong. What's important is the idea of social justice. Okay? To stand for what is right. That's

why during what was happening in Gaza, if you go to American universities, the protesters, most of them were actually Jews protesting what was happening in Israel. Okay? So this shows you the diversity and debate within the Jewish tradition. But it also tells us they're actually looking for the same thing. Okay? What they're looking for is reunion with God. Now, why I bring this up is that the idea of the Kabbalah, because it's able to take the source of the Bible and make it mystical and give it a deeper meaning, the Kabbalah has become the most powerful mystical tradition in the world. It becomes a basis for most secret societies, especially the Freemasons. Okay? Which control America. Okay. And the thing about the Kabbalah that we need to appreciate is that it's different from other occult traditions in that it's sexual in nature. Okay? You are moving towards a synthesis. You're moving towards a reunion with God.

And the sexual aspect to the Kabbalah is what energizes, galvanizes people into action. Okay? The sexual nature comes from its physicality. Its corporality. Okay? Corporality. The fact that you can feel it. The fact that you can touch it. Most mystical traditions are just monks meditating. Okay? Meditating and trying to achieve the divine. The Kabbalah is about achieving the stories of the Bible. Becoming David. Okay? Becoming Moses. Becoming Isaac. Joseph. Alright? So, because of the Kabbalah, the eschatology becomes sexual in nature. Because it's sexual in nature, it energizes people. It energizes us. Okay? It becomes very urgent and immediate. And that's what helps us explain why things are happening so fast. Because the people involved, the Sikh societies, they're trying to climax as soon as possible. Okay? They believe that the faster I move, the more I'll be able to reunite with God. Okay? So they want to accelerate. This is accelerationism. Okay? Accelerationism. Alright?

Okay. You have a question?

I think if the people in the Sikh society see, they need to see the Kabbalah as a sexual thing, I think the condition that they must have a strong belief. I think a belief is rational. How can it be sexual to them just like the sex of human? That is sort of a sense of biological?

Okay. Okay. I hate to say this, but you're way too young to understand what I'm saying. You know what's going on. Okay? It's hard for me to explain to you using theory. You just have to know this. Okay? Belief is not abstract. Okay? Belief is your soul, your heart. Belief is what your soul aspires to. And for most of human history, most religious traditions believe that the soul was divine. Okay? It was not material. It's removed from the material. The Kabbalah, by almost an accident, it makes the soul almost have a sexual urge. Okay? So it drives the soul to action. Again, you know, I can't explain this to you. You either know this or you don't know this. Okay? All right. Okay. So this is the eschatology. All right. So to further explain to you what's going on, I'm going to use a metaphor. Okay? Plato's cave. So what Plato's cave is going to

do is it's going to take all this occult, hermetic understanding and transform it into a story that we can all understand. And once we understand the story, it helps us better understand the movement of history. Okay? So Plato's cave. So imagine a cave and there's a blank wall, all right, in front of everyone. And everyone is lined up together as prisoners. They are chained to the floor. And there's about a million of them. Okay? And their necks are shackled so they can't move and look behind them. Behind them is a great fire. And there are certain people. We don't know who they are. It's just like they. Okay? Plato just used the word they to describe them. And what they do is to take shadows and project the shadows onto the wall. And the people, the prisoners, don't know any better. So they think these shadows who are just random shapes, it's reality itself. Okay?

It's like you're, it's like you live in three dimensions but you see two dimensions and so you think only two dimensions exist. And so they give names to these two -dimensional shapes. They give it language. They create a world around these things. Okay? This becomes reality itself. All right. Okay. So the thing to know about this is that what wealth is is consciousness.

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And this is what Hermetic philosophy teaches us which is like everything is just consciousness. The imagination is the animating force of the universe. Okay? Remember this idea. The imagination or mind are what gives life to the universe. The second thing is that power is the ability to direct consciousness. All right? Which is just so the example of course is money. All right? So money is not real. Money is something that was made up but we believe it's real and those who can make us believe money is real are the ones who have the real power. Okay? So does it make sense? All right. So what we do now is I'm gonna explain to you how Plato's Allegro of the Cave explains the world that we live in. Okay? So there are two competing forces two competing centers. They are there'll be money and AI artificial intelligence. Okay? Money and AI. Okay? All right. So let's look at money.

All right. The banks. So in theory how this works is depositors you guys you save enough money and then you put your money in the bank like a million dollars. Okay? Then what the bank does is take this million dollars and to create wealth society gives it to entrepreneurs loans to entrepreneurs to do to create value inside. Okay? Entrepreneurships. And so in theory the bank should have zero. Okay? Because what it's done is it's taking your hard -earned money and give it to entrepreneurs to create more value to give you jobs. Okay? And this is what we believe how society works. There's a problem with this. The problem is that if you look at the bank balance sheet when it does this when it takes a million dollars and lets out two million dollars it doesn't have zero. It has two million dollars. So the great secret of our world is that banks have a power to print as much money as they want.

So money if you think about it is actually valueless. Okay? But it's like lead. But in our world it becomes gold. So this is the secret of alchemy. How are banks able to trick you into believing that lead is gold? By using your imagination. By focusing your imagination on a world that animates the world. Okay? So this is about imagination. And this is the world that we live in. Alright? The thing that makes money valuable and the only thing that makes it valuable is the idea of omniscience omnipresence. It's everywhere. Okay? So let's just say I convince all you guys that US dollars are worth nothing. And you're like huh? You wanna buy something? You're like and so the you buy a snack and the guy's like okay five bucks. And you're like yeah but this money is worthless. And he's like screw you man where's my five bucks?

Okay? Do you understand? Doesn't matter what you believe it's money is valuable because it's everywhere and everything. Okay? It is God. So we create a society in which God money is God because money is everywhere. And God is everywhere. Okay? All right. So the problem with money though is that if you can create out of thin air you must constantly destroy it as well. Does it make sense to you guys? The banks can create money out of thin air and the banks have to figure out ways to destroy money as well. Otherwise you have too much money and no one's gonna work. Right? The point of money is to get people to work and that means scarcity. And so the way you do that is by creating a um okay there are two ways. Okay? The first is financial collapse basically basically a recession or depression. The point of this is just to remove money from the system.

Okay? It's wealth destruction because you printed too much money. So you need you need to destroy this money. Second way of course is for wars and this helps us explain why things are happening because these past 10, 20 years the Americans printed too much money and now they need to create wars and destroy this money so the global economy can continue. Okay? The problem with this is that it makes people question the authority and the legitimacy of the elite. And because of elite overproduction this gives a possibility for a new elite to arise and this new elite is AI. Okay? So remember that money is alchemy in that it's turning lead into gold. Well guess what guys? AI is also alchemy in that it's turning lead into gold. Okay? Let me show you how. Okay. So I'm going to put this in very simple terms but

when you use AI what you're trying to do is you take out your database you have a lot of information in this database and you're trying to search and sort this database. Okay? So you've got information in this database you're trying to organize this information in a way that is useful and you're trying to search information from this database that you need at this moment. Okay? So think of like Google Search. Right? Google has all the information in the world it's a database Google organizes it sorts it and then what you do is you search for it for it. Okay? So Google is just a database. Alright. Um the problem with the database is eventually you reach a point where there's just too much information and you don't really know how to search and sort it properly. So what you do is you train the computer to do it for you. Okay? How? So let's for example use facial recognition technology.

Let's just say you have like a billion faces one billion faces. Now what you're trying to do is you're trying to differentiate these billion faces and you're trying to match it to the proper name. Okay? You have a face database you have a name database and you're trying to align the two together. Okay? You don't know how to do it but so what you do is you train the computer to do it for you. And so what you do is you create a system of weights just a million variables. Okay? Variables. And then the input sorry okay the input are just the databases. Alright? And then the output is uh yes or no. Does it match or doesn't it match? Okay? Depending on the output this information is fed back into the database and the weights okay? And it so what the computer is doing is it changes the

weights in a certain way that allows for all these billion faces to match up with their names. Alright? And we call this back propagation. And that's how AI works. And that's all it does. Okay? Is it possible for us to advance beyond this? The answer is no. Remember what you tell me. Okay? I've done a lot of research into AI. There's actually nothing more we can do than back propagation. What we do what we do now is we now give it names to make it sound very fancy. Okay? So the weights is now called neural network. Okay? Um the back learning back propagation is called deep learning and this together is called AI. Okay? That's it. Okay? That's all it is. We will never get beyond this. Okay? And this is what allows for uh large language models. Okay? So you have a similar situation in that money is just being printed out of thin air and you have a similar situation where AI doesn't actually do anything.

Okay? So how you solve this problem is twofold. The first thing you do is you create omniscience. Okay? What does this mean? It means the way to solve the money problem is by making money everywhere. Well the way to solve the AI problem is making having AI know everything. That means combining every single database in the world into one major database. Does it make sense? Okay? That's the idea where you're born the hospital your health records it's all in one database. You go to school how what you do in school what your teacher say about you it's all in the same database. When you grow up what job you do what you buy it's all in one database. Your police record one database. Your health records one database. Okay? Your browsing history one database. And then I have omniscience on you. Okay?

Then it gives the illusion of AI of God because he knows everything about you. Okay? And then the second thing it does is it um becomes a religion. Okay? For AI to be fully AI it needs to turn itself into a religion where everyone is worshipping it. And the way you do that is by making people believe that this thing is alive because demons have been summoned into it. Because Jesus is resurrecting itself through AI. You understand? Okay? You want to trick people to believe that behind all this electricity behind all this um semiconductors it's an inter -dimensional portal for demons for Jesus to come alive in. Once people believe that then the imagination takes effect and the imagination will then animate the AI. Okay? That's the trick. Once they achieve these two things omniscience and religion then AI will be achieved in this world. Okay? So what's happening today is a civil war. Okay?

In the world. Where right now money which is controlled by transnational capital is God. They're trying to create a new God called AI. Okay? An AI God. Okay? So there are three forces of Polish transnational capital. They are nationalism religion and AI. Okay? And all together they're trying to create an AI God in order to replace money. Okay? So I was talking to my wife about this idea and one question she has for me is what's the conflict here? What's the problem? Why is there war? Why can't transnational capital just become the AI God? And the answer is because these are two fundamentally different systems. Think like this I'm going to put this in very simple terms but think of transnational capital as capitalism. Okay? Free market capitalism. And what is AI God? It's techno -Marxism. Okay? The difference is this. The difference is that with money everyone still has a lot of freedom. Okay?

To generate as much money as possible. But there's still freedom in place. Whereas with a techno -Marxist system you have an elite who control the God AI God who then control all your attention. Okay? It's basically techno -slavery. So imagine a computer chip implanted into your brain that tells you everything. Okay? You don't have to think anymore. You just have to listen to this microchip. It tells you hey you should get up at 7 o 'clock in the morning. When you get up at 7 o 'clock in the morning go run for half an hour. And you fall in love with the system because you don't have to think anymore. There's this microchip who you think is actually the voice of God. It's an angel. It's a demon. But it's all coming from God. Okay? And this microchip is this AI system is helping you live the best possible life. You're now more healthy. You're now more hardworking.

You're more successful. You find happiness in your life. Okay? So this is where the world is going. And underneath everything that we've seen so far the geopolitics this is actually the real conflict in the world. The real transition of the world where one God is replaced by another God the AI God. All right. So what I've done what I've done is basically giving you a complete understanding of how the world works. A framework a predictive history framework for understanding how the world works which then allows us to make predictions about the world. Okay? Depending on our predictions the accuracy of our predictions we can then go back and refine this model. All right? So the entire point of this class has helped us observe the world better to learn about the world better. Okay? So again it's all speculation. I'm not saying this is 100 % correct. All right? Most of this

may even be wrong but at least it gives us a framework for us to learn about ourselves and the world around us. All right? Okay. Any questions?

Question about money which is that USA have like around 39 trillion national debt but if the banks really have the power to print as money as more money as they want why don't they just print some money and like hide them and solve this debt?

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Again I mean all right. All right. I'll explain it to you. All right. All right. All right. It's very simple. I'm the US government. Okay? I don't print money but I need to spend money. So I borrow the money. Right? So I have I borrow the money from something called the Federal Reserve which is able to print money. Okay? Do you understand so far? All right. But for the Federal Reserve to lend you money they want to profit from it. So they charge you an interest. Right? 5 % is usually the interest. So right now the US government debt is $39 trillion in debt. Right? Now interest rate means the US government has to pay $2 trillion a year in interest payments alone. And you're like well why doesn't the US government just not pay the interest rate interest because it's a government. It can do whatever it wants. No.

That's not how the system works because the Federal Reserve borrows its money from banks which then borrows its money from depositors. Okay? Does that make sense? From you basically. So you're the one and you don't even know you're the one doing it but you're the one lending money to the US government. So the government has to pay you back interest. Okay? So if the US government were to say screw this I'm not paying off this debt then this entire system collapses. And then people recognize that it was all just a hallucination. Money is not God. Money is not valuable. Money is worthless. It's just lead. I thought it was gold all this time and now it's just lead. So what do you do? You revolt. You burn things down. You're angry now. Okay? So the US government cannot afford to not pay off this debt.

So despite that the Federal Reserve might can print as much money that they want but they still cannot solve this problem. Right? Because if this if the US government really choose not to pay the interest the whole system just collapse.

Okay. Okay. So you need to prioritize ideas. This is just the surface. This is what we just look at. Underneath all this is Plato's cave. What Plato's cave teaches us is that as long as we believe that money is real then it's real. So this entire system is set up to trick us into believing money is real. Okay? As long as we believe money is real this doesn't matter. The US government could have like 500 trillion dollars in debt. Who cares? As long as you're willing to still use money as long as you're still willing to believe in money as God this doesn't matter. The problem is that from a fiscal perspective if you have too much debt then it's harder and harder for you to run the government. Okay? If it's harder and harder for you to run the government and people are no longer getting basic services like healthcare and water then they

question the very foundations of society which leads them to question the very foundations of money itself. Okay? So this is a huge problem but you first have to understand that it's the human imagination that is the key. I need to trick you into believing something. Okay? As long as I'm able to make you still believe in this thing I'm okay. Alright? Okay? Yeah? Alan?

So I have a question about money as well. As you say like money is hallucinations that prevent us from seeing the other like truths but what is the motivations for those guys who create the motivations? Is that for power but isn't power a motivation

Okay. Alright. Okay. So this is hard for you guys. Okay? It's really hard. Alright. Okay. Plato's cave. Alright? The imagination the consciousness is the energy of the world. You understand? It's the only thing that exists in this world. So what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to suck your energy for myself. You understand? Because the only energy is real. Everything else is just false. Everything else Everything comes from imagination. Okay? So how do I get your energy and then transfer it to me? By tricking you into believing that by using your energy you're using it for yourself. And the mechanism I do that is through money. Okay? Alright? So the example is let's just say I ask you to build me a house. Okay? I'm gonna live in the house and you're like well someone else is gonna live in the house. I'm not gonna live in the house so I don't really care.

Okay? So you don't really do a serious job. You spend five days building me a house. It's a crappy house. So what I do now is I say hey Alan let me give you a million dollars to build me a house. Now you take it much more seriously. Right? Now you spend a lot of time you spent two years building me a great house for me to live in. So what I did what I've done is I take your energy your attention and basically use it for my own ends. Doesn't make sense. Okay? The only reason why you do that is you think that this million dollars is actually worth more than my own energy. Right? Because these two years I could go read books. I could write poetry. I could go fishing. Why am I gonna build this stupid house like for this other guy? Because he gave me money a million dollars. Okay?

Does it make sense? Right? So what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to capture everyone's energy for myself. And the mechanism I do that is through money. If I can't use money then I need to use something else. That has to be AI. Okay? What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to capture your energy your imagination your consciousness your attention because that's the only value in this world. All right? Make sense? Okay. All right. So I present this theory and you guys what I want you guys to do for homework is think of this theory and come up with ideas or arguments against this theory or show me where this theory is wrong. Okay? And people online can participate as well. So on Thursday we will do the final examination. Okay? I'm gonna answer your questions and we're gonna look at and I will answer your questions using this theoretical framework. All right?

So we can expand on it better understand it and what's really important is for everyone to constantly question and be skeptical about my ideas because I'm also trying to figure out how the world works and this is a theory that I have so far. Okay? All right. So I'll see everyone on Thursday.