Understanding Power Empowers w/ Jiang Xueqin (Predictive History)

one welcome to the stoa today uh so excited to have professor jang with us uh some are calling him the based professor and he went viral uh this summer for predicting the u.s would bomb iran and right now he's blowing up on youtube rightfully so and uh jan weaves game theory geopolitics parapolitics and history into a unique presentation that aims to give perspective on our present moment i have the chance to hang out with him in the the summer when he was here in toronto and we might do something in person um when he returns if he returns we'll have to see um but for now we're glad to have him here at the the stoa uh so for today i'm going to talk with him for about a half hour and then we're going to do q a so if you have any questions anytime pop them in the chat and i'll call

you you can unmute yourself and you ask your question to jan so uh yeah uh so good to have you here welcome to the stoa

and you have to unmute yourself yeah thanks so much for inviting me peter really excited to uh to be with you and having this conversation cool cool um so i thought for for people who

are just being introduced to you for the first time maybe you can explain what your problem is and what you're trying to solve and what you're trying to solve and what you're trying to solve and what your project is what predictive history means yeah so um i'm trying

to start a new global movement uh intellectual movement called predictive history and the idea is that um i want to reimagine reframe history to solve three problems the first problem is how do we connect the past meaning how do we uh tell coherent story of how we got to where we are today uh the second um goal is to explain the present to help us understand why we are in the predicament we are in today and the third is to predict the future to um basically use analytical frameworks that we've developed by analyzing the past and apply it to the future and see um if our prediction models hold up against reality um so i've been doing this for a few months now and the public response has been overwhelming um i think it's been overwhelming um i think it's been overwhelming um um and um i've made certain predictions based on my um modeling

and um quite a few of these predictions have turned out correct so i predicted that donald trump would win the 2024 president election that should not be correct i predicted that that he would um attack iran and i predicted that uh there will be civil conflict a civil war in the united states in the next five to ten years so all these predictions are turned out to be correct um um and um um i've continued to do some more modeling and i see us in the next five years headed towards a world at war um where there'll be war everywhere east asia middle east um europe south america uh just about everywhere and if there's no war then there'll be civil conflict so the united states will descend into civil chaos um so yeah not very pleasant

um and i want to get into uh some of these predictions and um the reason why you came here today was talk about the series that you um are doing right now on youtube you had seven episodes on uh understanding power secret history um and i'll give a summary of it in a moment but one thing i wanted to ask you is about cultivating a power literacy and the importance of that something that i've been thinking about for a while and you know it's just people are shockingly illiterate at like understanding power not just on that like a geopolitical stage but in their own like life and if you can't understand who has power in your life you're not gonna have a chance of understanding it in a wider context um and and so before we dive into the uh the summary of the series uh like why isn't so important uh you think to

understand power yeah so um i think

that one thing that people understand is that it's humans who drive history but knowing that it's only a certain human who drive history and in fact an absolute secretаешь and jesus because it's only a couple of people who drive history and it is not a complex war that's the idea of seeking power but due to that by the usin but Civil War no naturalized conflict liquid may simply Zusun's history. So I think in school, we believe that in school, we're taught that it's logic that drives policymaking. So, you know, policymakers, they come together in a room and they debate, they argue, and then they come up with the most logical, the most rational, the most economic decision and then implement it in policy. And that's what we're trained to believe. And given the reality that we live in today, given the wealth inequality, given the fact that you have these destructive immigration policies, given the

fact that you have all these wars overseas, clearly, decision making is not driven by a rational perspective. And so what I'm trying to figure out is how power is manifested, how it expresses itself and who has real power in this world. And so, you know, I think it's really important for policymakers to be able to think about this. So I've been focusing a lot on the power of religion, on how certain religious groups, through certain religious rituals, they're able to develop a very coherent framework for the understanding of the world. And this framework is almost like a script for them to implement. And they do that subconsciously in different corridors of power. And because they're able to secretly coordinate, they're able to wield tremendous power in the world. And so it's my theory that it is certain religious secret societies that have real power in the world.

And so I'm going to share some slides to kind of summarize the series, because if you haven't watched it yet, it might be a good teaser to inspire, you know, kind of catch you get up, get you up to date. And, and so there's seven episodes so far in this series called Secret History. And I'm just going to summarize them and then let me know if I if it's accurate. So session one, reality is mind constructed, humans are controlled through various means, such as financial alchemy, scientism, induced individualism and schooling. In session two, you talked about these three aspects that financialization lead overproduction and civilization lifecycle that is unfolding, which is leading to economic collapse, the more immigration civil war and then stupid foreign wars. In session three is probably my favorite one. Case study Canada, our very own Canada. Canada is in decline, and some theories of why is like neoliberalism, techno feudalism, replacement theory and competence.

But the real driver you argue, is the interest the self interest of boomer pensioners, the boomers. And session four, you talk about how power and evil intertwined in the powerful gain cohesion through ritual transgression, including child sacrifice. And, and then you move into the kind of the secret societies, the conspiratorial, realm where session five you talk about how secret societies preserve uh suppressed spiritual traditions while a demi -urge ultimately rules suppressing the divine spark within us and then session six um this ancient egyptian style programming trauma ritual drugs evolves into a mind control uh manufacturing disassociated weaponized obedience then session seven you talk about your experience in the ivy league and how the meritocracy rooted in the ivy league missions uh selects for traumatized and insecure individuals for power resulting in a soulless elite so as you can see it's pretty wide reaching and you're building a story and you do it

very like it's like an art i see like you're kind of an artist of ideas uh first and foremost but um i'm curious is that reflection is accurate like the main premises of each

session yeah no um that was really well done so thank you so much yeah um and. and so um i'm so slowly trying to untangle who holds real power in the world um and um looking forward what i will say is that it's really ideas that have true power and we can metaphorically express these ideas right and and you know people have metaphorically express these ideas i mean some people use the term satan to describe these ideas to describe these ideas um um you know a lot of people um you know david eick would use the term um you know interdimensional uh lizard people uh you know the 13 families um so so there are different names for these ideas but but i think the main idea that um um creates a reality we live in is that matter is fundamental it's matter that is the nl and be all and this is counterintuitive or this has not been consistent with how humans have traditionally understood themselves and their world.

For most of human history, look at all these ancient traditions, whether it's a Native American tradition, whether it's the Hindu tradition, whether it's a Buddhist tradition, whether, you know, like all these different traditions, they all say that it's consciousness that creates reality. And as a result, there's like a divine spark in us. It's almost as though God manifests itself through our imagination. And as such, we have agency and control over the reality we live in. And for most of human history, this was true. We lived in pretty egalitarian, free societies without a sense of property, without a hierarchy, without war. But as human societies continued to develop, we had wars, which creates hierarchy, which creates the idea of private property. And now the leadership of the elite have an interest in transforming the way we perceive the world. And

now they're going to use new ideas that really didn't exist before in order to essentially enslave us, to enslave. Because if we're able to remember that the divine spark in us, if we're able to remember like the world we live in is only transitory and our soul is eternal, so who cares what happens in our world, then it's hard for the elite to justify the hierarchy. It's hard for the elite to justify private property. It's hard for the elite to justify the hierarchy. It's hard for the elite to justify private property. So they need to brainwash to us to believe that matters and all, and when we die there's nothing. So be afraid. Obey us and maybe you'll live a good life. And that very much explains the world we live in happening in our live. So that's how I perceive power. Power is really about trying to change our perceptions of the world and

trying to help make us believe that we are powerless, that that we're only a collection of matter, of atoms, of synapses, and once we dissipate, then we're gone. And it's this fear of death that allows the elite to control our behavior. There are other control mechanisms as well, but I would say that's the main strand that explains development of human history. And who these elites are, of course, has changed over time, but really, they're all worshiping this one power, and you can call this power Satan, you can call this power, you know, interdimensional lizard people, you can call these people, you can call this power Zeus. Whatever name you have for it, different elites will have different names. It's the same concept. And whichever elites are the most loyal to this concept will find themselves in power. The families or the secret societies, the religions that are most dedicated to creating a material world, and

who are the most diabolical, and most inferior in trying to create a material world, will triumph in the end. And so another way of saying this is that, you know, maybe NASA's shooting up rockets up into space, it's not really about space exploration. Maybe it's trying to create a framework of the universe that defies our intuitive understanding of the universe. We previously understood the universe as conscious and as spiritual, but NASA's shooting up rockets, Rockets in the space, having people land on the moon, having to walk on the moon demonstrates to us that the material is not conscious. It's material. And as such, we as humans for science, technology can Manipulate this material world and thus you have the atomic bomb. So, so, so another thing. This is the 20th century of the The, the atomic bomb the space landing NASA, including 911, including wars. It's all to create a perception of reality that Only the material world exists.

And that is the true God materialism is a true God and as such, you must pursue money, you must pursue materialism and that's what's led to, I would say, tremendous Unhappiness, you know, like mental depression. Is on an all time high, it leads to tremendous inequality tremendous suffering. So, so I would say that's the world where we're living in today.

There's One book, Stephen Luke's on power is the power Where you have like a decision making power, then you have agenda. If you set the agenda. The second phase, you have more power. And if you can like set the worldview The ideology of the most powerful Power because that influences the agenda that influences the decisions. So this like worldview kind of formation and how it leads to power is quite interesting. And in one of your presentations. You talked about how like we used to have the polytheistic worldview. And like, you know, the diamond and it kind of connected us with this divine spark and A clearer way rather than this like modern scientism individualist worldview. Where all this like separate atoms. We can't go here. There's no kind of collective movement towards change. And and then kind of like that level like like linking that the power was interesting. And so I'm curious how conscious

the power elite or whoever has influence wants to promote this view in order to maintain power or is there is this emergent phenomenon where people are Just truth seekers and then some kind of new paradigms have emerged and then those in power started parasitizing it.

Yeah, yeah, that's a great question. And it's something that I wrestle with. I believe it's more than a ladder. So if you look at the development of ideas. It's much more emergent. It's more much more accidental than we give it credit for. So I think the development of monotheism. It's kind of intuitive. It was an accidental It. I mean, it's a combination of of an accidental accidental series of events. So, So let's let's talk concretely. So the Protestant Reformation mark a radical turning point in Western history. Because it gave rise to two questions that never really existed before. Okay. The first question is, what is faith. Before I'm doing really appreciate this, but for most of history. You didn't really think about faith because all you had to do was follow certain rituals, you got certain you have to practice certain rituals, you have to show in order to show devotion to the gods and that that was it.

So that's the first question faith. The second question is who goes to heaven. And this was never really a question before because it was assumed everyone to have it right because There's divine spark in us or sorcery or eternal. So when we die, our souls go up to heaven and then we reincarnate at a later point, maybe 100 years 1000 years, who knows. Okay, but this is something understood for our The ancient world and with the project Reformation in order to counter the influence of the Catholic Church Martin Luther and others. disputed these two ideas. First of all, they said that faith is not about rituals faith is about your devotion to God before the Catholic Church emphasize Justification by works just follow the rituals just do what the church tells you and you're good and Martin Luther said no that's like that can't be true. Because obviously wants to undermine the public of the church.

Right. So he introduced a new idea called justification justification by faith, you have to show true faith in God, you cannot waver. Now this is key. Because for the first time, it creates the idea of religious anxiety and fear, because how do you know you truly believe in God. Right. How do you know you truly love God. And the answer is, you can never know. And there have been different solutions to this problem. So the Calvinist proposed that the solution of Wealth creation. Right. So the more wealth, you have the more you demonstrate your faith in God. And as such, you will go to heaven. Now, so it's only those who demonstrate true faith in God who can go to heaven, you know, Calvin's term is double the idea of double predestination. Okay, so And this marks a radical turning point in human history because now individuals have this tremendous anxiety.

To prove their faith in God. And this leads to And this anxiety leads to material acquisition. Right. So this leads to creation of the Dutch Republic, which then leads to the creation of The British Empire, which, which, which then transfers to America. So the very basis of civilization is one of religious anxiety. How do you, how do you show your true faith in God. How do you know God truly loves you through material acquisition. Through saving money and listen, this is this is surprising for for people, but like this. It wasn't true before. If you had any money. The first thing you do is spend it all on a feast for your community because why would you keep this money when you die, your soul goes to, you know, the afterlife to To heaven. Like, why would you, you can't take your money with you. So just spend it now, you know, have people enjoy it.

So, so if you can spend all your money, your lifetime all your money which spent on a funeral feast for the community so that they will remember they will cherish you, but now with this positive information. Because of this anxiety. Created by the process of information, people feel that they have to continue to save this money in order to demonstrate their true faith in God, and they can't spend this money because they can't sin as well. You create this weird dynamic, but it leads to tremendous wealth creation and that's Republic and later in England, which it becomes a basis for the British Empire. Okay, so that's a process. Now what's really important for us to understand is that all these religions, all these religious traditions, whether it's Islam. Christianity or Judaism. They're always in contact with each other and always in conflict with each other. Okay, so these this idea this anxiety. Okay, now spreads to other religions.

And so, so let's talk about Judaism. Okay, so Judaism has a huge problem because Jews believe they are the chosen people and this this this concept was sanctified by Abraham's covenant with God. God said Yahweh said to Abraham, I choose you. And your seed will form the nation of Israel and the nation of Israel will be given the promised land and rule over the world. Okay, the problem, though, is that in 1492. Okay, the Jews were expelled from Spain and they were given a choice. You can either choose to Convert or you have to go or you had to go to Turkey, the Ottoman Empire. Right. And what was traumatic. For the Jewish community that your diaspora on the world is that many chose to convert and this breaks the first commandment, you should have no other God, then Yahweh you shall not worship false idols. That's the very first commandment.

And now you have this tremendous anxiety in the Jewish diaspora. What do we do with these people who've converted they broken the ultimate law. I mean, like, like, do we have Do we believe that now they're not condemned to hell. Do we now believe that the seed of Abraham is now lost to us forever. And this creates tremendous anxiety. In that world. So what happens. Okay. And this is something that is that history is not known. Well, um, so I'm tell you my understanding, but, but there's gonna be a lot of problems. Okay. So what happened was that a Messiah emerge his name was sometimes Debbie and in 1666 and you know he's a subject of the Ottoman Empire in 1666 He declares himself the Messiah. Right. So he's a counter to Jesus Christ, the Christians have Jesus Christ and seven times every says I am the Messiah of the Jewish people and like the Messiah.

Like the promise Messiah. I will sacrifice myself now to free my people. And so what he does. Okay. Is he makes ultimate sacrifice. And what he does is he converts to Islam. All right. So the story is that the The Sultan. Is a Jewish man who is converted by the Jews and he forces him to convert and that may be true. But think about what he's doing here by converting he's cleansing the Jews of the original sin. For Christians, they believe that original sin is disobedience to God. Well for the Jews, if you think about the original sin would be to to Ignore God or to defy God did so so By committing the ultimate sin. Stabilized every now now freezes people and says it doesn't matter now if you convert it because what matters is your true faith in god it doesn't matter what religion you are as long as you yourself

believe that you are all the chosen people as long as you and your heart know you're jewish it doesn't matter what religion you are okay and and so that was a radical revolution in the jewish faith but this now creates all sorts of other problems right so the problem is wait a minute the first commandment doesn't apply then what about the other commandments right and zebedee's answer is nope they don't apply as well it's justification by sin now right so catholic church is justification by works the prostitutes are justification by faith and now zebedee's followers are justification by sin you show your true faith to god by defying the rules of humanity because humanity has no right to set rules it's only god that has the right to set rules you show your true faith to god by defying the rules of humanity because humanity has no right and god knows your true faith so

by defying the laws of humanity you're showing your devotion to god so now you have this new concept that justification by sin that didn't exist before um and so this creates an interesting dynamic because whereas in the calvinist faith um this religious society creates this need for material acquisition this justification by sin concept creates the concept of um a need for to transgress and this culminates of course in the jacob frank movement so i'm not sure if you're familiar with jacob frank and the frankest okay so this is 19th century that uh vienna okay and it's it's theorized that um schindler and freud was part of this movement but at this time in history in vienna okay in eastern europe the the jews are well established and they're extremely wealthy and um their religion they follow a man named zechariah who follow a man named jacob frank and he's a regular part of the community

Jacob Frank, who considers himself the reincarnation of Zebedee Zebe, and he takes Zebedee Zebe's ideas to the logical extreme, which is to say, you know what, we're going to transgress and transgress through ritual sacrifice, through ritual incest, so just go on, I know this sounds weird, but just go to Wikipedia, I'm not saying Wikipedia is a great source, but it's a mainstream source, just go to Wikipedia, just look up Jacob Frank, and it will tell you that they engage these people, okay, I'm not saying they're Jews, but this is a sect of the Jewish faith, they engage in ritual incest and ritual sacrifice in order to practice their faith of justification by transgression, by sin, okay, and why this is important is that because... What? What they believed is that we, if we are to survive, we need to convert to other faiths and embed ourselves in other faiths as well, so they converted to

Catholicism, okay, these are followers of Zebedee Zebe and Jacob Frank, and they convert themselves to Catholicism, and guess what, they become very powerful within the Catholic Church, and also, guess what happens, they now move to America, and they establish branches in America as well, and guess what, in 1949, is it 1949 or 1948, okay, but the state of Israel is founded, a lot of them were Frankists, a lot of them were Frankists, and so these people, the Zebedee Zebe, the Frankists are in prominent positions in Israel, and that helps us understand what's going on today in Israel, but not only that, but they are embedded in the Catholic Church in Rome, they're embedded in America, in the financial industry, and in the national security apparatus, and no one knows who they are, because their religion requires them to maintain absolute secrecy, now, I'm not sending these people out, okay, what I'm saying is that these

people secretly run the world, and we can imagine that other groups that are similar to them, that hold similar philosophies, similar practices, also hold power, and these include the Freemasons, right, these include the Jesuits, so you have these different secret societies out there, and no one knows of them because well i mean the first rule fight club is fight club doesn't exist right and uh but i believe they're the ones who hold true power and when their interests align then things happen so i believe that this war in the middle east between israel and iran um what's happening in the middle east uh what's happening in gaza it's driven by the eschatological framework all these different secret societies which which include the mormons the jesuits um these frankists um the freemasons the christian zionists okay so you have different groups but they all believe that their eschatological framework requires a a war in which israel

fights the whole world and when that happens then magic happens and jesus returns or the messiah arrives or war government is created and jewish becomes heaven on earth

and um you know i imagine you're getting some feedback of like this the conspiratorial nature of this analysis and you know like some people call it parapolitics like hidden politics or some people just demonize it or stigmatize it as like conspiracy theories um and then there's this funny meme i came across i wanted to share it it's like 2015. uh no that's a conspiracy no it isn't uh 2025. my conspiracy theory is more elaborate than yours no mine is so it's like everyone is uh into uh conspiracy theories uh conspiracy theories uh conspiracy theories uh conspiracy theories uh conspiratorial uh thinking it seems like right in order to understand reality uh because of this sort of um core premise that you mentioned like in order to maintain your power you conceal it you hide it and that doesn't happen on the geopolitical level it happens on just everyday life um and so there's just like

theories that russian to fill uh the gap and some are like more uncalibrated than others um and also it seems like the stigmatization stigmatizing quote -unquote conspiracy theories is related to like a control mechanism for people are in this like you know scientism materialist worldview is that you're just a conspiracy theorist so i'm wondering how you handle that if you've got that feedback you're a conspiracy theorist this and that and then like how do you address that and how do you kind of make sense of

that accusation right okay so all i do is engage in intellectual speculation okay i'm trying to create predictive models that allow us to foretell events all right so i'm perfectly open to the possibility that this is all nonsense well what i'm saying is fine if this is nonsense let's just figure out where what this nonsense leads us to okay so if you just assume that the world is run by this um cabal of secret societies that want to fulfill political prophecy well what do what do they want to do well they want you to create predictive models that allow us to foretell events all right so i'm pretty open to to um destroy the al -aqsa mosque in order to build a third temple that's fundamental to their fulfillment of biblical prophecy they want israel to anger the whole world and force the whole world to attack israel because that's part of the prophecy they

want anti -semitism to surge all around the world they they want jews to be hated despised spat on on the streets of paris the streets of new york toronto to force them to go back to jerusalem and build the pax judeica the the great empire of the jews the davidic kingdom um they want the war of gog and magog for the islamic world to attack um israel and usher in armageddon right so so now the question then is are these things happening if you look at the news okay they are happening all right they are happening you like so um so i'm not sure if you know about the red heifers um but israel imported five red heifers from texas and these five red heifers they were genetically modified to be perfect the bible requires them to be perfect and now you know they're in israel they're in jerusalem and why they're important is that

biblical prophecy requires to be sacrificed in order to consecrate the land in order to build the third temple so the only reason why you would go to all this pro trouble spending years and millions of dollars to um breed these red heifers and then transport them to israel is because you want to build the third temple the problem putting a third temple of course is that uh the temple mound uh is where the al -aqsa mosque is so you need to first destroy the al -aqsa mosque to build a third temple the al -aqsa mosque is the third holiest site in the islamic world which would which would and if they were to do that then every muslim in the world would be compelled to seek vengeance against the nation of of of israel and you know if you are just a geopolitical strategist if you're just like a politician in israel why would you

want to submit your people to such tribulation why do you want like a billion muslims around the world united against you um so that to me is like really weird and then you go back and um you look at things like the jfk assassination uh 9 11. uh the recent charlie kirk assassination if you look at them very closely there are these all these occult elements to all these assassinations as though they're almost like ritual sacrifices so an example is jfk jfk was assassinated november 22nd 1963. that's 11 22. guess what 11 22 33 are the three secret numbers of the messianic order um jfk was assassinated uh near delaney plaza which was form the site of the first freemason temple in in in texas um then you go to the charlie kirk assassination number 33 appears over the place it took 33 hours for the fbi to track down tyler robinson um when charlotte

cook was sitting he sat beside a table with three hats white hats with number 47 on all three hats okay and 47 of course is um donald trump is the 47th president united states but but but look 4 plus 7 is 11 11 times 3 is 33 right and also september 10th is the 30 is the 33rd week after trump's inauguration september 10th is 34 days before charlie kirk's 32nd birthday and jesus people some people said that jesus that was 32 or 33 and in many ways charlie crook is being presented as his messiah figure so if all this is conspiracy bunk then why are these why are they like these coincidences they could be they could be coincidences but i mean the likelihood is very very low so so so i raise these questions okay um and and and so all i'm saying is this this is all intellectual speculation let's see what happens

next year or two years if they do destroy the al -aqsa mosque um if they do declare war against iran um if they do build a third temple then this is going to force us to ask the question why are they doing this why are they doing this why are by force ourselves why is this happening um and and then we and then the solution i propose is it's because of religion eschatology it's because of this cabal secret societies and that to me is the only explanation for why this could happen so um i understand that for a lot of people this is conspiracy theory uh for me it's intellectual speculation i'm trying to figure out how the world works so i'm trying to create this prediction model if this prediction model works out if my predictions worked out then i would argue that it's because my article model is true if it could it's

big and and it is true that it's what is being run by this couple of secret societies

um so regarding uh well first if you have any questions for people who are here uh pop them in the chat we have a couple so we're gonna um turn to the q a portion in a minute or so but i have a few more questions so regarding this para political sense making that you have um uh the predictions everyone wants to know the predictions uh so in the next you know five ten years uh what do you sense is going to happen uh with this greater israel project and then the

world more generally so i think literally kirk assassination was a major turning point um just as much as 9 11 was a turning point as well um and i think that this was for me the kirk assassination was almost a ritual sacrifice and you do second ritual sacrifices in order to galvanize the world and you do that in the same way that you do that in the same way that you do that in the same way that you do that in the same way that you do that in the same way that you do uh the followers you want to energize them and you want to call upon divine energy um to help you in the mission that you're about to undertake and so i think that uh from now on things are gonna ramp up so i think the the peak hexf rally i think people underestimate its significance um i i think that

that rally signifies that america is going to go to war now what's scary about that pep rally is they never find who the enemy is right pick up says if it's like we're gonna like defeat our enemies but but like who's the enemy is it russia or china they don't really say so we're going to assume that it's undefined it could be anyone it could be everyone and that i think is the great fear that america is going to launch wars against everyone including uh venezuela including iran uh including russia um possibly against china in the south china sea although i i don't i doubt that i think the more likely opponent in several asia is north korea and not china and we can discuss why if you want okay so let's go over some my basic predictions my prediction is that the united states and israel will attack iran the next few weeks it

could be next week it could be two weeks from now it can happen very very quickly and this time around the united states is now all in uh and iran is all in um you know the 12 -day war it was just a test uh both were you know testing the waters but now all sides iran united states israel was committed to a full -scale war um and eventually iran will close off the street of humus the united states will send in ground troops and i do not believe the united states can win a ground war against iran the united states could destroy the country but the united states cannot actually defeat uh iran uh in a ground war and as a result i think I believe the United States will be forced to leave Middle East, leaving the Middle East to Israel. Once the United States leaves, then it'll be the Pax Judaica. Israel will become a dominant power in the Middle East.

Iran will be too destroyed to challenge the power of Israel. Turkey is too weak to challenge Israel, and Turkey is in many ways co -opted by NATO already, okay? So that's the Middle East. That's one major flashpoint that I see happening. Second major flashpoint I'm seeing is Odessa. I think the conflict between NATO and Russia will culminate in a battle of Odessa. And to me, it is in many ways the second iteration of Stalingrad. It will be this horrific battle in which, you know, Russia encircles Odessa and NATO refuses to surrender Odessa. And this siege could last for a number of years. And after the siege happens, then Europeans will be asked to make sacrifices in order to win the war. They'll be forced to ration food, you know, cut back on winter heating. And the Europeans will be like, why are we making these sacrifices?

And there'll be a lot of anger on the streets. Eventually NATO will call up a draft, and then you have these young people who will rebel against their governments. So we will see regime collapse in Britain, in France, in Germany, and even in Turkey as well. So this will spread. Okay, so that's the second major flashpoint that I see, Odessa. And then you go to South America. I don't know whether or not the United States will be committed to regime change in Venezuela. If the United States is committed to regime change in Venezuela, it will be the stupidest thing the United States could possibly do. Why? Because the United States doesn't have the capacity to occupy a nation. And this will set the entire South America in flames. You'll have popular rebellions against the local elites. America will be forced to send in troops to support these local elites that are beholding to American power.

So South America will burn, basically. But again, I'm not entirely sure. The United States is stupid enough to go and actually invade Venezuela. I think a lot of what's happening in Venezuela is to create regime instability. They're banking on the idea that the Maduro regime is extremely unpopular. And as long as the United States threatens regime change, then eventually the people will rise up and overthrow the regime. That, I think, is the strategy in Venezuela. I think they'll use ground troops in Iran, but they won't use ground troops in Venezuela. So I think that's the third flashpoint. The fourth flashpoint is North Korea. My thinking is very simple. I use game theory. If I'm North Korea, I'm a revisionist power. If I'm China, I'm a status quo power. If I'm China, I like the way things are. I don't want wars happening in my region because that's going to affect my economy. South Korea, I've got absolutely nothing to lose.

So if the United States is fighting a stupid war in Iran, if NATO is occupied in Ukraine, then all I have to do is threaten to use my artillery against South Korea. Most of the South Korean population is like 30 minutes away from North Korean artillery. In a whole day, North Korea could pulverize Seoul to the ground. They're that close to each other. So why would North Korea do this is not actually to destroy South Korea, because it's not going to destroy North Korea. It doesn't have any interest. What North Korea wants to do is be a kamakura state. It wants to collect extortion money. Either you pay up or we'll attack you. And so I think North Korea will be another flashpoint in the world. So I see these four major flashpoints right now. But eventually, we're going to move towards a world almost like a perfect storm of crises, including economic collapse.

The US dollar, they basically default on the sovereign debt. The US dollar collapses, but there's nothing to replace it. War is everywhere. Civil unrest everywhere. I see a civil war emerging in America, mainly because Donald Trump will seek a third term. And this will unleash a lot of popular unrest. Donald Trump will call for military draft. This will also unleash a lot of popular unrest. But you also have geophysical events. So it's entirely possible in the next five years, we begin to experience a mini ice age, because we're overdue for an extreme weather event. And they say that this winter in Toronto and other places, you'll experience extreme weather events. And this will be a recurring pattern for the next few decades. So yeah, so not very pleasant. Sorry.

You know, this is heavy stuff. And then, I'll ask this last question. And so, yep, the questions that you ask, you can ask whatever you want, what was said today, what was said in the series, or anything you feel called to ask the professor. So you're going to get all sorts of questions. But yeah, it's like this Doomer aspect, right? When you focus on the negative, and like this, everything's quite heavy. How it could lead to being dispirited, you know, it could leave its own sense, you know, how you said that there's like this worldview of the scientism. everyone's atomized, fragmented, that's dispiriting. People don't have agency in that context. But when they have this like download of the world as it is, how dark and Doomer, you know, Doomer -ish it feels, that is his own form of disempowerment. And then a lack of agency could emerge from that. So how do you deal with that?

How does hope play in all this, and how does one become agentic while seeing the world as it is?

Um so I think that for me um these events seemingly a great spiritual awakening and in many ways this is all part of the divine plan. We humans were not meant to be materialistic slaves. We're not meant to pursue money. We're meant to pursue a higher calling. We're meant to be more conscious of the world that um that that we're in. We're meant to live lives of flourishing of creativity of love and we've denied it to ourselves and we feel tremendous pain and suffering depression because of that and the universe hears our pain. The universe is responding by cleansing the world in a great flood but and if you are willing to embrace the universe if you would if you're willing to awaken yourself spiritually this could be a tremendous opportunity for you to seek spiritual enlightenment and fulfillment. Um if you are wedded to the spiritual world then unfortunately you may be um you know you you may be washed away.

Um there's a saying you know I was talking to this Vedic monk and he said that in the Vedic worldview this is the Kali Yuga and what's interesting about the Kali Yuga is that you have all these souls up there and these are great souls. They all want to come to this moment okay and these are like our greatest psychics. They all want to come to this moment because for them this is the great test of their spirituality. This is an opportunity for them to better the world by spreading a spiritual message by giving hope the the hope of redemption and salvation to to everyone. So in many ways this is maybe perhaps the greatest time to be alive as a human being because um in a time of darkness the light in you has most potential to

shine so that that what you said right there just made it all better i like that um that thought there so uh we're gonna go some q a um ali uh you have a a question

hey uh thanks for this it's fascinating um yeah my question is um on the methodology used for predictive history and how it compares to um peter turchin's cleo dynamics are there

similarities crossovers yeah that's a great question so i'm like i'm a big fan of peter turchin's um and i and i i've read all his books and i'm a big fan of cleo dynamics um so peter turchin he is an academic and he's a very rigorous academic and he's brilliant and he's developed this mathematical framework in order to predict events and he's mathematically modeled this this framework and which is very impressive um for me i think that mathematical modeling is too limiting i'm much more intuitive and i'm much more flexible so i think that as humans our great strength is our intuition where this intuition comes from we can debate it can come from god it can it could come from our experience but but i do believe that human intuition or human imagination is our true power and relying too much on mathematical modeling um is limiting for us and so um for me

i'd rather trust the universe i would rather leave space for my mind to roam to explore rather than trust the matter modeling too much uh but but again i rely heavily on peter turchin's work for my own analysis but i think that his modeling can be blinding at times so he's able to predict certain events like he predicts american civil war uh but he's not able to see the larger relationship between the world's potentials and his just framework that's necessary to fully grasp how power works in this world so so yeah any follow -up

uh share question ali no no i want to really dive in into your work a bit more this is the first um i've come across it i just felt cold i saw this pop up um and peter and i are good friends and i thought this this will be really interesting so i'm glad i came yeah i know that thank you for

that yeah thanks ali and um yeah buckle up when you uh check out the series um adam you had a question on transhumanism if you can unmute yourself and ask your question adam hey sorry

i'm on an airplane with booming starling uh my question is um how do you relate how do you connect the transhumanist movement into your your analysis and then do you see uh moving forward do you see uh things the way like schmachtenberger does with kind of like there's a um there's a tyrannical uh possibility there's like an anarchic possibility and then we're looking for like a

thank you yeah great question um so uh this answer is a bit long -winded it might be confusing okay so please feel free to stop me if you get lost okay so if we just go with the framework that human history it's really about this war between matter and mind between god and satan we actually we have to ask ourselves what is it that people who believe in satan what is it they want to do well the ultimate objective is inversion to invert the world right because in the existing model of the universe um there are different dimensions and higher frequencies are the high dimensions and lower frequencies are the low dimension right so spirit is up there matter is down here um and if they really want to control the world they need to invert this order making matter the dominant force and spirituality like a lower lower force so you invert the world

you make god lucifer lucifer god um and and so that's the ultimate objective and i'm saying this is a conscious thing i'm saying this is a subconscious thing and it's i'm not saying that these you know um interdimensional religious people exist all i'm saying is um let's assume that they exist what is it that they really want to do um and so my argument is that they're really interested in the idea of inversion so then the question then is how do you create inversion well the previous model was to create a dialectic okay so um it's pretty well known that communism was a creation of in many ways of the anglo -american empire right so karl marx wrote his books in a british museum in london um you know supported by the british the bolsheviks were funded by wall street in the city of london um so trotsky lennon these were all figures that spent

a lot of time in the anglo -american empire and certainly the intelligence apparatus knew that they existed in many ways they called them government they were the people who supported them and they were the people who were able to elevate them and support and supported them okay so it so what then the question is well why would capitalists want to create communism and the answer is because a dialectic changes the way you perceive the world before people ask the question do we need property is property sanctioned by god and now with the dialect between capitalist and colonism the debate is should property be but but but by but what this dialectic has done is it's forced you to believe that property is intrinsically valuable when it's not when it's just made a concept okay so now we move towards the internet and what again what the powers that be want to do is wed ourselves

to this world because as long as we believe this world has power as long as we believe this world has value then it has power and value reality it's all just perception okay uh reality it's a massive hallucination so their objective is to control the way we perceive the world and that's why you know they sent a man up to the moon even though you know you could argue they didn't really succeed they really didn't get past the van allen belts okay i i'm not going to go into that but but you can make the argument like like nasa it was just a big spectacle to make us believe that matters the animal and be all and now also artificial intelligence is a very interesting concept okay so the very idea of transhumanism is part of this project of inversion where we um sink even lower okay where it's like transhumanism is trying to challenge

these demonic forces um and trying to trap us in our world forever so um the idea of transhumanism and immortality it's a demonic demonic concept because if you think about it um if you talk if you look at these ancient religious religions they're not just the same concept they're the same concept traditions death is a release you know like on this earth you know you feel pain you feel trauma and then you start embracing these demonic forces well death allows your soul to escape this world and then reflect on what's happened understand that these are different demonic forces and you choose more of a divine life okay so death is really important for our own education but if you don't die okay or your soul can't leave then the dominic force becomes the one and all and be all and this is important why because the reason why you need to corrupt human beings the

reason why transhumanism is important is if the divine spark is within us you if you corrupt the divine spark in us then you come to the divine you corrupt the vanity divinity itself you cut every divine force in the universe so this is going to be shocking but the war of good and evil it's not out there between uh these nation states the war of good and evil is inside your heart every single day and transhumanism artificial intelligence all this is to make you um slide further into the material world and embrace these demonic forces so i'm not sure

if that was clearer um i don't know if you have a um space to respond adam or ask a follow -up question uh you know i know you're on a plane um yeah okay so he says thank you uh i have a quick follow -up on that one uh and you're good for another 30 minutes right uh um yeah yeah yeah

yeah so so i'm good for another hour if you need me but you know 30 minutes after an hour is fine

yeah cool um so follow up on that question it's kind of transhumanist trajectory um and also related to like the tech technocracy and the technocratic push you know people are talking about the the great reset and everyone doesn't have it it was like a conspiracy theory but then is it was written you know wf there's a book and they talk about state holder capitalism and uh uh central banking and digital ids and if you're following the news you know the uk and switzerland they're they're moving forward with digital um ids and um and the whole thing like you know um you will own nothing and be happy um which is related to the property thing that you you were talking about and it's framed as a positive push you know for for humanity the criticism obviously is that it's just going to create a greater control mechanism curious and then with the disruptive aspects in

society with the war you know there's something called elite panic at least come they want to crack down they want more control um due to that kind of anxiety um so i'm curious what is the predictive uh uh what is your predictive front on this great reset uh that's potentially unfolding yeah that's a great question um so i

think what's really important to understand is that there's a fundamental weakness to power why is it that power cannot sustain itself over the centuries these empires rise but they also fall and so the problem with power is that it is unimaginative it lacks the capacity for self -reflection it lacks the capacity for innovation so all that we're seeing is the further bureaucratization of society okay because that's how they maintain control by bureaucratizing society so um even though it sounds scary all all that we're seeing okay um the great reset it's just the logical extension or logical combination of all these trends that have been inside for the past few decades um mainly the over -parachartization of society so i i think um eventually they'll start to want to implant microchips um in in us and that'll be the mark mark of the beast but again i say this the problem with power is that it

lacks imagination it does not appreciate uh how spontaneous how imaginative people are and how people will rebel again these trends against these policies so that eventually these policies will blow up in the face of the elite so a couple examples are immigration so i i know like people believe that immigration is the white replacement theory or whatever but but just from a bureaucratic perspective immigration makes sense because you're bringing young people to replenish a aging society okay and so it was a perfect solution and now what's it's now what has happened is it's blown from the face of the elite and that you have this massive discontent in these societies and they're much more ungovernable than before another example would be digital currency where um you know digital currency will implement it to cover up the financial corruption or the financial bankruptcy uh in in these societies but again i think it's gonna blow up

in their face so um you're gonna say it's intentional but i would say it's just that power lacks imagination and the great power that we as individuals have is a capacity to imagine um a new future for ourselves so um so yeah i like i i do understand like they have all these plans and it does seem as though plans are going like it seems that it seems as though these plans are being pushed in the uk with you know digital id eventually in canada they'll have microchips and digital currency i think digital currency will first appear in in in canada at scale because of mark harney um but i think these things are going to open their face and i i think like the world that we're heading towards will be one of anarchy one of chaos but it'll be one of regeneration as well interesting and so it's like this push is more

of a sign of weakness of anything

i think so yeah um all right so we have uh dana you had a a question uh on elite overproduction

so uh this is a relatively moderate question compared to like the you know the big questions we think about going evil we've been having so far but like uh you mentioned earlier in your slides about elite overproduction and you know i have a college degree so i probably fit into that category as well so is it elite overproduction because there aren't that many problems that require these advanced degrees or is it an issue of like world view where there are plenty of things for these elites to be doing but we just don't predict the future uh so feel free to get in the prioritize those sort of activities like you know we have climate change like you know on the horizon you know our infrastructure you know at least in america is you know crumbling if not already like crumbled and our health care system needs major like reworkings so are there truly too many

elites or we or do we just not know how to utilize them correctly yeah that's a great question so um for

peter turchin um in his understanding of elite of production the elite are people who can impose rent on others they're rent seekers so just think of a university dean who just sits in his office all day he collects his salary and he'll collect his big fat pension think of this canadian bureaucrat in wadawa right this federal employee who makes six figures uh has a generous uh pension waiting for him so um these are the true elite in peter turchin's framework and you know i think that's a great question and i think that's a great question and i think that's historically uh these people were aristocrats you go back to rome you go back to france if you go back to old europe uh people who occupy these positions of rent seeking okay or aristocrats they might have their own land and then they could work they could become clergymen and then become like officials okay

um nowadays um these people uh have to go through a certain education system in order to achieve their level but the reality is that uh power is a zero -sum game lead rent rent seeking is a zero -sum game you know um and so everyone's trying to be this bureaucrat in ottawa who's making six figures and not doing anything and who's basically a parasite but there there might be like 20 uh people for that one position and so like what do you do in that instance well you know the reality is that even college degree as you say you want to put it to good use you want to you don't be a cook you don't you don't want to be like a gardener you you want to be a bureaucrat you want to be an intellectual the problem is that um these jobs are rent seeking jobs they're they're parasitical um you know it's

it's it's like maybe you like well i have this great idea but once you go into the system you're not allowed to actually exercise this idea you're not actually to you're not allowed to actually implement this new idea you're not allowed to challenge the system basically you're just allowed to sit in your office and collect your paycheck and shut up that's how brokerages work um and so for peter turchin this is fundamentally an unstable situation and the great irony is that as the economy gets worse and worse the number of rents just go up and they become even more parasitical so maybe before these uniform professors um would write books and they would do a good job nowadays they're just trying to like milk as much as they can from the system so even though they're retired they're still working as deans in the college so they're collecting both a pension as well as a

salary and this is a very typical of elite in appearance period of rapid decline um so and and this just antagonizes young people even more because you know you have these baby boomers working on like three or four jobs and collecting you know like three or four salaries as well as a pension and there's nothing for you and they're not retiring as well so what do you do in this instance right and so for peter church what what will happen eventually is a fracturing of the elite that you have these different factions of the lead which will go to war against each other in order to uh maintain a privilege affecting rent on the overall population any follow -up question to share

dana uh uh i don't really think so i'm guessing like engineers and it's mainly just like the people who are trying to get into these bureaucratic positions it's not necessarily those who get these degrees but are trying to utilize them to be doctors or like engineers or what have you like it's mainly just like the ones who are trying to go for these bureaucratic

positions those are what you define as like the elite yeah so if you just look at um the growth of administrative jobs like in every situation okay which is hospitals universities the growth of initiative jobs for the past 20 years has been staggering okay so the number of faculty like professors at maybe uft has stayed constant but like the number of deans and administrators have gone way up and that's true for hospitals number of doctors have stayed constant but the number of administrators has gone way up and as and and peter tertian says like like a time economic decline they lead one to milk as much rent as possible of the system before it collapses um and they don't really care about the functioning of the system so and and because they behave like this it's almost impossible for anyone to engage in productive productive labor anymore and and like again uh he he's using

rome the father roman republic and the french revolution as examples of this and and this is happening in canada as well and and so you know and i think you're right if you're a young person what you would want the government to do is um promote the free market reduce regulation and allow young people to be more innovative to be more creative but then that threatens the rent seekers okay that's this threatens this parasitic bureaucrats because if you reduce regulation they have nothing to do now and so they can't justify their you know salaries and pension and benefits so so that's why in canada you're you'll see an increase in their bureaucracy over regularization of society and an increase in

regulation right yeah thanks so much i think that answered my question awesome um so i think that's it for the question in the chat if you have any remaining questions anyone feel free to pop it in and then we'll sneak it in before we close i'll have a few closing questions um so kind of like on a personal level you know uh you got all this attention um in in the summer uh you know i think your youtube channel went from like 40k to like it's like half a million now and growing uh everyone's talking about you like you know when i was hanging out with you in toronto we got approached by some random person like hey can i um and so what is that doing to you and how is that affecting um your sense making um because you know like i'm i even getting a little bit of attention it's just sort

of it does something to you in a weird way especially when you're sense making power i'm curious how you're navigating this and if you have any concerns about this this type of attention that you're receiving yeah that's a great question it's one of a question so

um when i was 32 i was head of my own school in china and it was a very innovative school and it was extremely well funded and um you know it was the first of its kind a liberal arts high school and it was a very innovative school and it was extremely well funded and um you know it was the first of its kind a liberal arts high school um you know it was the first of its kind a liberal arts high school in china we had a 5 000 book english book library we had ten ivy league graduates teaching these seminar classes um we had our own newspaper we are on coffee house we had an english magazine we had our own buildings it was a wonderful program and i got a lot of attention both in china and overseas and um i let it get into my head because i was young and

i've never done such a thing before and suddenly um for my own imagination from our own hard work in about a year's time i was able to build my own school and this would this would become the best school in china or in the next 10 20 years um and it let and it let you know and it got to my head and it made me arrogant and people started criticizing me because they thought that i was using public funds uh for private benefit and i um you know i started to argue with teachers because we're still part of the public school system and eventually it let my downfall because there's so much opposition that had to be fired okay and that to me was an extremely important experience because um it taught me that success is a danger uh so so you i always have to ask myself what is that i want do

i want success or do i want to achieve my vision because these are not mutually compatible right you want to achieve success that's one thing um but if you want to achieve your vision then that requires discipline restraint humility okay so that's something that i learned something else that happened is that um you know i married i have three young children now and they anchor me and they center me okay so you're right in that you know in may i had you know um you know a small youtube channel and now um it's a very large youtube channel but that to me doesn't matter that's just a mechanism that's a tool to achieve what i want which is um i want to be able to deliver a message of hope to the world i want to prepare the world for this spiritual enlightenment or awakening that's about to take place and i want to do

it because i want to build a legacy for my children and that's what matters to me okay so i think that as long as you're aware of what your vision is as long as you're able to articulate this vision you're going to be able to do it because you're going to be able to build this vision through strategic steps then the success is a bit of a distraction okay um and so an example is i get a lot of views on my youtube channel but i don't monetize my youtube channel and and people email me and says like you're an idiot you've this video got a million views why aren't you monetizing why aren't you collecting ad revenue and the answer is money is distracted um my wife told me this in in china a million dollars okay that's a magic number before a million dollars you have total intellectual freedom you can do whatever

you want but after a million dollars people are gonna come knocking your door and ask you and ask you where's my cut okay um and and and so for me what matters is my intellectual freedom what matters is um achieving my vision what matters is my family and these things ground and center me and they sort of block out the the uh noise and also my experience you know um 18 years ago in china i mean that that was a very traumatic experience for me and i don't want to experience that again so i don't want to be hot -headed i don't be i don't become arrogant i don't want that success to get in my head um and and that's why i choose not to monetize my youtube channel because if i see all that easy money rolling in right it's going to make me greedy it's it's going to blind me it's going

to make you know it's you know it's it's going to corrupt me and and so i will not deal with it um i do have a sub stack which generates reasonable income okay um so yeah i want i want to generate income but not to the extent where it's like winning a lottery and it traumatizes me and it blinds me from from my true

purpose yeah and one of the reasons i asked this is um something that i've been wrestling with with like not just platform capture you know like when your livelihood is embedded in a platform you know like when your livelihood is embedded in a platform you know like when your livelihood is embedded in a platform you know like when your livelihood is embedded in a platform then you can and towards it or what they call audience capture it's like you have this validation the support criticism and that bends you in a certain way and how do you kind of like be in relationship with that while maintaining your integrity um and so just kind of like you know people talk about it the attention economy not just the the economy the attention economy and like having uh viewers and giving people's eyeballs that's a form of currency now and a form of power because you can

say things that influence people's minds and you can kind of like make an impact in that way and so you have this capacity to exercise this power now and change world views and there's going to be people who want to like influence you because you have that you know um and so maybe you can speak a little bit about your the power that you have and that we'll be having due to this attention and how you're going to be influenced potentially and how to like protect yourself against it beyond the means that you mentioned about like maintaining integrity to your vision yeah so

yeah so for me what really matters is intellectual creative freedom so i want i want to be able to share my ideas with my students and with the world at large but the impact of these ideas is something that i cannot anticipate i don't have real control over okay so for example one video that blew up recently is my discussion of um evil uh why people commit evil and i and um i talk about what's happening in gaza as an example as a real example of why eagle happens and why people commit commit evil and that video blew up okay it looked so much that andrew tate you know copied me i mean he basically took my words and and then um had his own video sharing my ideas and that's wonderful i mean i i want people to share uh share my ideas and i'm perfectly happy for people to share my ideas and

barack obama also used my my ideas as well you know i had this one video where i discussed how baby boomers are destroying the world and they're not destroying the world and barack obama in a speech said you know problem this world is uh people over 80 refusing about power and you know audience went wild and obviously he was using my ideas as well so i'm very thankful for the influence that um i have and i understand that eventually i'll be monitored by intelligence agencies because as you say attention is power um and they need to control my voice if they are to control my voice they're not going to be able to control my voice they're not going to be able to control perception and make people more docile and obedient and i'm aware of this but my theory is this okay and i'm not i'm not sure if this theory is correct or

not but you have to let the devil in you know you have to like be greedy you have to like welcome the devil into your house before he's allowed in what i mean by that is you need to take their money right if you refuse their money they can't they can't do anything about you like they have to like you know like impose and allow people to do things that they are not going to do and i think something about it whether it's money or it's flesh whether it's power but they need to tempt you they have to make you an offer if your entire attitude is like i don't want this crap leave me alone then there's really nothing they can do about it and this is something that i've learned um in my my life where you know i in china um when i was working in study abroad in education i had

access to all these admissions officers at Yale, at Harvard, I could write recommendation letters and that's a very valuable currency in China at that time, it still is. And so these parents would offer to take me out to dinner and they would offer to pay me as much as I want in order for me to write these recommendation letters which would help their child get into Yale or Harvard and I always said no, I don't want to meet you, I don't have dinner with you, I always always said no and they left me alone. They didn't bother me anymore because they didn't want to go through the trouble. So I think you get in trouble when you take their money, you make them these promises and then you deliver on the promises or you betray them and I think that's what happened to Charlie Kirk. I mean Charlie Kirk at 18 years old, he was

supported by these billionaires and they helped him to build up Turning Point USA and when Charlie Kirk started to defy them, they saw it as a sign of betrayal and I think that's what ultimately led to his assassination. So I think it's a really important concept to understand. If you refuse to let the devil in the door, there's nothing he can do to you. Once you let him in the door, he has your soul. He thinks he has complete control over you. So it's never like, oh well you know what, I'll take a million dollars from him, but that's it. No, once you let him in the door, he'll always be there and he always has control over you. So my entire philosophy is, I just won't let them in the door. These intelligence agencies, whether it's Chinese, whether it's Israeli, whether it's American, who knows, whether it's Russian, if they come to the door, I'll just say, you know what, I'm not interested.

I don't want your money, you have nothing to offer me and that's my attitude going forward. Now, but you're absolutely right in that as I become much more influential, much more famous, it'll be very hard to avoid them. But I'm 49 turning 50 next year and I've been in China for 30 years. And so I know a lot about corruption. I know a lot about bribery. I know a lot about how people manipulate other people. And I've been very good at keeping myself clean in China. But I do understand that moving forward, this will be a test of my faith. This will be a test of my determination. This will be a test of my resolve moving forward.

Well, Godspeed to you and that resolve, my friend. We'll have one more question. If someone else pops another one in, then we'll gently close. Daniel, you had a question. You got to unmute yourself and ask it.

Thank you very much. I would like to ask, yeah, in his opinion, what is the most valuable trade? Some suggestion, some advice generally for the, yeah, in these turbulent times, in these difficult times? And also maybe if we have some time. I'm very curious about his opinion on alternative currencies like Bitcoin and so on.

Okay. So these are two questions, right? The first question is what's the most valuable trait in these turbulent times the second question is what is my opinion of bitcoin yeah is that is that correct yeah that was his question yeah okay all right all right so um love is the ultimate power um and when i mean love i mean your willingness to love someone else whether it's your mother your child anyone okay once you love someone else that the vine spark glows in you now the problem though is that there are lots of things that inhibit us from loving others and a lot a lot of it is just ego and fear self -hatred maybe when we're young we're traumatized or we've had some bad experiences and what's really important to understand is we can't move forward forward unless we're willing to let go of our past unless we're willing to forgive

ourselves um once we're willing to forgive ourselves then we can commit to someone um fully and freely now um there's a um problem with people's with modern understanding of what love is a lot of people think that love is possession or you know like if i love someone i'll give her a million dollars that's not what love is um love is you want that person's divine spark to glow to glow as bright as it glows in you when it glows in you it in you it glows in her when it glows in her grow it glows in you and so you want good to happen to her so if she says to you if you love me you'll give me a million dollars then you'll say back to her i love you so i will not give you a million dollars i love you so i know you're better than this i love you so

i know that you've been corrupted and and you don't know what true love is and but i will be here for you i will forgive you i will wait for you i will do whatever it takes to show you the light um and so love it's about selflessness uh it's about giving it's about generosity it's about openness and it's it's about want a person to be better no matter what the circumstances are um so so um that's what love is and it's a very complicated concept um but but you know if you read spirituality if you read um dante he goes into deep detail about the power of love okay so that's so i'm not sure if this answers your first question um my second question uh bitcoin so so um bitcoin all due to the currency it is a construct of the american military of the pentagon okay so back to 2008 bitcoin is

introduced and it's introduced on like this random like email and by a man i can't remember the name off okay but no one knows who this guy is he says oh you know what i create this you know blockchain and it's all open and transparent and maybe you guys can use it okay and um slowly became more popular but no one's asking hard questions okay the hard questions are who spent the resources and the time to build a blockchain who is financing the servers who has expertise in technology well you just do some basic research you will know it's usually DARPA okay the research arm of the Pentagon they're the ones who came up with GPS they're the ones who came up with the internet okay they're always coming with this new technology then the question then is okay why would the Pentagon want to give the Bitcoin out for free and the answer is

the same reason why they get the internet out for free because the internet is the ultimate surveillance tool whatever you run on the internet is complete it's captured it's stored and all the state is being analyzed to create a profile on you you are freely giving up all your privacy to the US government to the Pentagon and you think it's free and that's why it was important really important for Steve Jobs Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg these guys become the face of the internet because you trust these guys right in the 1970s depending on says listen hey we've created something called the internet it's all free do you guys want to go use it it'll be like screw you you are the Pentagon your response to the Vietnam War you're evil I'm never gonna touch this thing okay that's why Steve Jobs Bill Gates were important um well thumbed the internet could not have been popular

as it is today same thing with Bitcoin okay Bitcoin is designed as the ultimate surveillance technology who's gonna use Bitcoin drug dealers terrorist groups and who's financing these terrorists and and drug deals you the CIA okay so the Bitcoin becomes a mechanism the CIA to finance all its illicit activities around the world um sponsoring you know terrorism sponsoring drug dealing um sponsoring all these coup d 'etats around the world let me give you another example Google this so um the big the big boss twins um they have this huge dispute with Mark Zuckerberg about who found out Facebook okay they were classmates at Harvard uh and the Vector uh boss twins uh the father's a hedge fund manager they um beat Mark Zuckerberg to write the code for Facebook what would become Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea and created Facebook uh and the bigger thinking boss twins sued Mark Zuckerberg and I think

they got like 100 million dollars settlement which is nothing okay like like you know Facebook is worth tens of billions of dollars today a hundred million dollars is worth not that much did you do what they did they spent every single cent of that settlement on Bitcoin and now they're who the hell does that who the hell spends every single cent on something on an investment well they would if they knew exactly what bitcoin was what it was designed to do and who owns bitcoin okay so bitcoin is the biggest scam out there it's it's run by the pentagon you don't you don't have to trust me just do some basic research okay all right and ask yourself hey who funded this thing what was the expertise the technology to fund this thing who is financing the hardware to run bitcoin who benefits from bitcoin why would they want bitcoin around right and the answer

is the

cia and the pentagon and that's the only answer any uh quick follow -up daniel or share no um it

was very enlightening actually and um yeah just wanted to have a broader view on this uh topics but thank you very much all right thank you so we'll uh

uh close here um any any parting words you'd like to give us jan um any kind of thoughts you're

leaving with today um i mean um i mean i i just really enjoyed the experience of committing community guys you guys great questions um yeah so so maybe you you want to um conclude or have

some parting remarks yeah yeah um well we'd love to have you back um to the stoa um it was a fun session and definitely check out his youtube channel and his substack predictive history which will be listed on the um uh show notes and um there's a an experience that we'll be doing called uh what's it called uh worldview um studies it's a course at the stoa uh so you can sign up for that the information will be on the youtube channel as well so that being said uh professor everyone thanks so much for coming to the stoa today