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A contemporary Achilles would more plausibly try to become an Olympian athlete than a soldier because his deeper desire is to stand out, be admired, and become famous, not simply to fight wars.
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A contemporary Achilles would more plausibly try to become an Olympian athlete than a soldier because his deeper desire is to stand out, be admired, and become famous, not simply to fight wars.
Achilles would probably fail in today's society because modern paths to athletic fame require coaches, sponsors, regimen, authority, structure, and conformity that conflict with his independent nature.
Modern dating is a status game rather than a sex or procreation game: people seek partners who display or increase their social rank.
The Young Turks are framed as carriers of secularism, liberalism, and individualism, which Jiang names as the basic ideas of modernity.
The lecture ends with Jiang's speculative question: are Marxism, liberalism, individualism, Darwinism, and psychology psyops meant to turn people into slaves?
Jiang speculates that Frankist philosophy influenced the Illuminati, Faust, Jesuits, Freemasons, Mormonism, Scientology, Brandeis, Yeats, and modern Western culture.
Jiang introduces Yeats as a Nobel poet and member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, then uses Crazy Jane Talks with a Bishop to show Frankist influence on modernity.
He claims Frankist belief has conquered modern Western culture, to be shown in the next class.
"He's always testing boundaries. He has a very vivid imagination. And the last question is, imagine Achilles today. What would he be doing, okay?..."
"Look at these billionaires, right? Like Elon Musk. How many wives does he have? How many children does he have? Right? All the women..."
"We know what the players are. The players are doing stupid things. The rules, we know, okay? But incentives is something that we have..."
"...And they believed in individualism. Just basically the basic ideas of modernity. And eventually, the Young Turks were able to overwhelm the Ottoman Empire..."
"of all this is, as Buchanan tells us, it's all self -directed inwards, which gets us nowhere, okay? It's just you looking into yourself...."
"That this world is ultimately an illusion. Okay? So, does this philosophy make sense to you guys? All right. All right. So, one thing..."
"with Mephistopheles, the devil, and says, and Mephistopheles says, I will give you eternal wisdom in return for your eternal life, your soul. And..."
"All right. Again, the Frankish infiltrate the Jesuits and so a lot of people believe that the Frankish now control the Catholic Church or..."
"...by Yates to show you the influence of Frankish philosophy on modernity. In fact, what I will show you next class is you can..."
"is also a Nobel Prize winner also a member of a secret society called The Order of the Golden Dawn. Okay? All right. So..."
"Where is God? Where is love? God is in in garbage. Okay? So you have to sink low to truly find God. You have..."
A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
The lecture asks where secret societies come from and answers by rebuilding Western religion as a sequence of world models: womb, war, empire, false God, inner light, and poetry as an encoded map back...
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