Final Examination

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0:01So, welcome to the final examination. Before I start, I want to I want to thank the people. Uh, first of all, I'd like to thank Alan and Vincent for being in this class all year long. Uh, you have been consistent and hard-working uh, throughout the year. So, thank you very much. I'm sorry if now and then I lose my temper. Um, but I've really appreciated your dedication. I've really appreciated uh, the questions you've asked in this class. I would I would like to thank the school for giving me this platform and this classroom and this smart board for the past 4 years. Believe it or not, but I've been here for 4 years in this classroom. Uh, the school has been very generous to me letting me teach whatever I want. Including the great books, including geo-strategy, including game theory, including uh, secret history. I'll be leaving the school at the end of this week. So, this is my second last class. Tomorrow will be my last class. Um, the reason why I'm leaving the school is I feel that I have a global audience and I want to grow this global audience by grow grow out grow out into the world and engaging people outside in the world. So, I want to focus more on my global audience. But, I've been very thankful uh, to the school. And uh, third and last thing I would I would like to thank my Substack community. Um, so most of my income this past year has come from Substack. The subscribers have been very generous uh, to me. Because of the generosity, I've been able to keep my YouTube free of monetization. I've been able to avoid sponsors. I've been able to s- I've just been able to focus on my teaching, on the quality of my teaching. And so,

2:01I would like to thank the founding members today by by first of all point out their generosity, but also by answering their questions. Starting next week, I will do a monthly Substack live stream with both founding members as well as paid subscribers. So, once a month it'll be founding members and then once a month it will also be paid subscribers. I'll I'll talk more about that later on, okay? So, this is the end of one journey, but the beginning of another journey. And don't worry, I will continue doing what I do because I love teaching, I love sharing my ideas with the world, I love learning. And I I want to be doing this for the next 50 years. That's my ambition to structure it so that I can continue to influence people for the next 50 years. All right. So, let's start the fun examination. So, first of all, what what I'm going to do is I'm going to read all the questions from the founding members on Substack. There's a lot and after that, we will look at some questions from YouTube that my wife, uh who is here today doing the filming, I also need to thank my wife for um filming uh and editing uh this class. Um she's here and she's helped me pick out some questions. And it's pretty random. So, I So, I apologize if uh your question was not picked, but there was just too many questions and uh for the sake of time, we just picked a few. But, we'll probably run over time today, okay? Just just a warning. All right, so let's start. So, this is from Noemi. Um and he or she just says, "I don't have a question, but just a thank you. And this is the name of the Obegan Twitch which you sent her, Nomina.live.

4:02And this person is also working to raise consciousness. So, thank you so much for your generosity. All right, now we move to Karina. And Karina says that based on my lectures, it seems the US is pretty screwed. Yes. They need to They need to other countries to buy US treasuries. Yes. Israel's not loyal. Israel probably wants to work with other countries to establish their petrodollar. Yes. Okay. Russia's trying to make the dollar collapse and trying to exert its own dominance as well as protect its own people. Yes. And China's just trying to figure out what is in its best advantage. Okay? So, that's what geopolitics is. It's a It's a It's a game. Everyone's just looking for the optimal strategy. There's no loyalty. There are no friends. Okay? It's just a game. All right. So, the US is currently in a race to make these AI data centers. Um and they need to control population. Yes. Okay? So, there are three questions. What are we to do? I I understand we should build communities, but what does this look like? Pretty much anyone who has US dollars would be in a world of hurt. I mean, how would we buy food? What do you think our world will look like? Okay. So, it's hard for you to predict what the world will look like because it it hasn't happened yet. All right. It's important to have game theory in mind because it gives you the over structure of the world. But it's also important to remember that we create the world that we want. All right. So, let's just say tomorrow there's no more electricity. It doesn't mean that we start taking knives, start killing each other. What it means is that we change mentality because the circumstances of our lives have changed. So, we start caring about each other more. So, what happens is maybe before in your apartment complex, you didn't know your neighbor. The lights go out all out. So, what you do is you open the door and you go meet

6:02your neighbors and say, "Hey, let's figure this out." Okay? So, the thing to keep in mind is that fundamentally, we humans are extremely creative, extremely resilient. And the spark in us hasn't activated yet. But in the circumstances that are required of us, we will become creative. And this has been true consistently throughout human history. So, what we need to do is recognize that what makes us who we are are our creativity, our resilience, our empathy, our imagination. This is who we are really. And the idea that we are economic machines or economic tools, that all we care about is buying stuff and making money, that's just a indoctrination that we have to suffer uh in recent history. Okay? So, what really important to keep in mind is that our greatest power is our imagination. So, what we should be doing is working hard to build our imagination. And that just means learning. Learning through books, but also learning by listening to other people, experiencing viewpoints that are different from yours, and by experiencing things in the world. Okay? For example, traveling more. Or [snorts] doing things that are beyond comfort zone. All right. Who do you believe would rise to the next global power and how do you believe they would govern the trust around the world after such epic fall from the US dollar? Would it would be money backed by gold and other resources again? Um So, I talked about this I talked about this before, but the US dollar as a global reserve currency, it's a historical accident. And it's never happened before in human history. And quite honestly, it probably would never happen again in human history. So, once the US dollar falls, that it doesn't it does not mean that the global economy collapses. It just means that global reserve currency will probably transform into a basket of currencies, which includes US dollar, which includes gold, which probably

8:04would include British pounds, Swiss francs, a basket of currencies, right? So, people could still will continue to trade, but it will not be as convenient as before. Okay? So, and this is a process that doesn't happen like now it's or tomorrow. It's going to take many years, many decades for this process to play out. Um is there any way to get out of the Ponzi scheme once you're in it? This is a really good question. The answer is that the Ponzi scheme has collapsed before you you can get out of it. And basically a Ponzi scheme collapses when the US dollar or the US government defaults on its debt. Okay? That's that's what a Ponzi scheme collapse looks like. And at that point, the US dollar is basically worth very little or or almost nothing. It's going to happen one day. It's just a question of like when. All right? And it may sound painful, but again, we humans are actually resilient. Just because there's no electricity, just because we can't drive our cars, just because we can't buy anything, does not mean we'll starve to death. We'll figure out a way to survive, okay? So, so let me give you an example where I take 100 people from different countries. I For whatever reason, I try to put you all to a desert island. Okay? It doesn't mean that you'll just fight each other because you're from different cultures. It won't mean that you'll starve to death because you don't speak the same language. What it will mean is that somehow, some way, the 100 of you will create a new language and instinctually, intuitively, understand how to work together. You figure out that, "You know what? I'm a good carpenter, so I'll go make wood." And another person like, "Well, I'm good at singing, so I'll so I'll make songs and entertain us at night." Okay? It will happen very organically, it will happen very fluently, dynamically. And that's what makes us humans so creative,

10:04okay? We have empathy for each other. We don't have to speak the same language and we're still able to work together. All right? So, don't worry about the end of the world, it just means a new world comes into being. All right? All right. All right, this is from His- Hidden History Society. Okay, uh this is very long, but to summarize, what he's saying is that Freemasons were critical in the in America's founding and Benjamin Franklin uh was a Freemason, Alexander Hamilton uh mother was Jewish, so he was half Jewish, he was Scottish and Jewish as well. And so, there was lots of these linkages between the Freemasons, between the Jewish faith and these founding fathers. And [snorts] I would say don't put too much emphasis on this, okay? There's going to be these overlaps, convergences everywhere. Doesn't mean that they're that important. All right? All right. And then he goes on and says that, "Look, Engels and Marx congratulated Lincoln upon his re-election and Lincoln was a like- was a big fan of their publications, okay?" What's that mean? It means that people with talent, people with ideas, respect each other. Okay? It just means that, you know, I'm a curious person. I'm just interested in anyone who proposes new ideas and who does great things and who's an interesting person. Okay? Doesn't mean that we're all conspiring together. It just means that we're all looking for new ideas. We all respect people of talent. All right? [snorts] Okay. Basically, do you think these American leaders were English assets and can you explain British capital shifting America

12:05from 19 from 1888 transatlantic period culminating to Bretton Woods and America taking over their empire after World War But they have contacts in the British Empire, of course, because because Britain was the most powerful country at this time. So, there's going to be a lot of overlap. Okay? There's going to be a lot of shared affinities, a lot of shared interests. Did they have French contacts? Yes. Did they have um Canadian friends? Yes. All right? So, the world of the elite is very, very small and they they're always in contact with each other. All right? Um so, it is true that British capital shifted America after after the Civil War, right? And this led to the founding of the Federal Reserve, which led to Bretton Woods. Okay, so what happened was that the British were getting very, very rich off India and China, right? So, they basically enslaved India and de-industrialized India and char and and they stole trillions of dollars from India. They enslaved China with opium. They were stealing trillions of dollars from China. And now what they have to do is put this invest their money somewhere. And the best place in the world to invest your money at this time would be America. You can also invest in South America, but the Americans were much harder harder working, they were much more ambitious. So, a lot of the money went to America. Now, at this time in history, the Americans didn't like the British because they fought a war to get rid of the British, right? So, the idea that you have all these trillions trillions trillions of dollars coming into America to to buy out America, the Americans wouldn't have put up with this. So, the solution was to have agents, people like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, disguised as entrepreneurs, right? They were poor and through their

14:06hard work, through their merit, they became billionaires. And that was the um but that they were creation of the City of London. They were creation of British capital in order to co-opt America. And they were so powerful that they were then able to influence American politics, and then create the Federal Reserve, which which then after World War II led to the Bretton Woods system, okay? So, that's what happened. So, um this something that is still impacting America today, and many people who support Trump believe that Trump is um a Messiah figure who's come to help America rid itself of the disease of transaction capital, to get rid of the British, okay? To fight another 1776. There are millions of Americans who who believe this, all right? And they have a point. All right. From Zorahad from Zorahad. Um so, he asks, "It seems that the world is collapsing. Is there a way out of this collapse?" Um "The world is a fat person, but is it possible for for the fat person to maybe work out, lose weight, and become healthier? Um is it possible we take this step? Um if we can imagine, we use our imagination, is it possible for us to save ourselves before we kill ourselves? And this is really good question. And um first of all, I would say it's unlikely. Okay? Because the reality is that yes, in theory, we could change, but in reality, you just look at look around the people around you, most people don't change. Okay? I would say if all the nations of the world, the nation that is the most resilient, that is most creative, that could change possibly, is America. So,

16:09could America change? Possibly, but it would take tremendous leadership. A figure, a messianic figure, would arise to rally American people in order to change. And that I don't think is likely. It It may happen, I hope it happens, but I think it is very um unlikely. I mean, the problem with this metaphor of an individual who thinks he's fat and wants to change is you need to recognize that a nation is a collection of vested interests. Okay? And this is this is conflict among these vested interests, what we call elite overproduction. That's what leads what leads to decline. And the And the reason why this decline is they're so focused on their internal conflict, they ignore the larger picture. And they only win if they focus on winning. So, they're willing to do whatever it takes to win, even if it means the destruction of their own civilization. All right? They're willing to sacrifice everything, anything, in order to win. What is a billionaire? A billionaire is a person who is willing to kill his own grandmother for money, okay? That's what a billionaire is. All right. From Um I I I'm sorry, I can't pronounce this person, okay? All right. Um why do you never mention Vedic eschatology? Um It's very, very important, yes. And Vedic thought has spread across Europe and America through new age collectives and movements. Um Do you think these will shape the world in the coming decades? Um I want to be overlooked them because their eschatologies don't seem aggressive enough to move history. Okay. So, um one thing I want to clarify is that the way I teach is I see learning

18:10as a journey, okay? So, when I teach, I'm asking questions and I'm trying to work out the answers myself. So, it isn't like I know all the answers and then I'm giving you a glimpse into my mind. That's how it works, okay? I myself am working with certain assumptions. I'm expanding outwards in order to form a more general understanding of the world. So, so this is a very simple way So, another way of saying this is I don't know enough about Vedic eschatology to comment on it. Okay? I want to know more. I will learn more. Eventually, I will I want to make a trip to India and learn about Vedic eschatology. But right now, I don't know enough about it. That's the first point. Second point is that maybe in the future, India will play a very important part in geopolitics. I hope it does, but right now, it doesn't, okay? So, Israel, America, Russia, Iran are the four major nations that I'm studying right now. And so um um I want to expand outwards. So, first I want to understand these four nations and then I will expand outwards to include India as well, okay? So, it's not that I am um it's not that I don't think highly of Vedic eschatology. It's just like I don't know enough about the comment I'm making. Uh this is from Christie. Um what are you and your family doing preparation for what is coming when the world seems to be falling apart when there's energy price, uh food shortage, AI surveillance state? Um well, I have a family. My wife is here. We have three kids. And the answer is we're focusing on loving each other as much as possible. My wife and I spend most of our time

20:10talking about our children and thinking about how to make them happy. Because we believe our children can be resilient, can be imaginative. But our responsibility as parents is to make sure they're loved enough in the house in the in the time that we're with us so that they have strength to surmount any difficulty. Okay? So, it So, our strategy is not to make, you know, a billion dollars and then build a bunker and then hope that we we are safe in this bunker. That gets you nowhere. Our strategy is to have faith in our children, understand that once our children grow up, it's entirely their choice how to live their lives. We We will not intervene. We will not interfere in their own path. And in the time of us, our responsibility is to make sure there is love as poss- as much as possible, okay? So, that that's where our is. Um number two, you mentioned US wants to introduce stable coins in China and the US will do everything it can to keep USD valuable. Does that mean gold is our safe haven or store of value going forward like it has been for hundreds of years? Um gold, well, I don't buy gold. I don't even want to buy gold. Okay? The reason why is that you're using money [clears throat] in order to uh buy things to solve everyday problems. Gold is a store of value because you obviously can't use gold to go to the convenience store and buy a a bottle of water. That's just okay? Um so, if you have a lot of money and you have no place to put put your money, then you should put it in gold or real estate. The problem is imagine a world in which there's a lot of instability, when there's a lot of chaos, when the population is declining. Well, in that scenario, well, your problem isn't how

22:10much money you have because the value of gold is going is going to go down in value because there's less demand, there's less people. Your problem is how do I maintain my faith in myself? How do I have the strength to surmount the psychological turmoil of chaos? How do I find the courage to go work with other people in order to rebuild a new world? Okay? So, it's really about spiritual energy as opposed to uh material wealth. All right, number three. You will mention there will be a depression after the fall of the petrodollar, but then you mention that the US will force China and other countries to purchase gas from the US so that people will keep buying US debt and rely on the US dollar. Do you see an economic depression happening worldwide due to the downfall of US dollar or will this crisis be averted due to US forcing others to buy its gas. Yes, I did mention the United States has a strategy of forcing the entire world to buy its gas and its oil. I didn't say it was going to work. In fact, I probably I I probably said it did or was not going to work. Because it's Because when you do something like this, when you try to control the entire world and force it to to to do its bidding, um it's basically blown in your face, okay? So, yes, in theory, if the United States forces the world to buy its oil, then the United States could maintain the petrodollar. The problem is that the United States is doing this not for the national interest. The United States is doing this in order to promote the interest of certain factions and interest groups within the American elite. Okay? It's a very important distinction. The The The people in charge don't care if there's if there's an economic depression. An An economic depression just means that you can buy things for really cheap. Okay? It also means that you can enforce

24:11an authoritarian state upon this the the the the nation because people are will be desperate. So, they're doing what they're doing in order to um obtain more wealth and more money for themselves. Right? So, Trump is doing what Trump is doing not to save America, but to help his friends. And once you understand that, then you understand there's no Just because they're going to do this does not mean the the United States will not collapse economically. They don't care the United States collapses economically. Um Number four, I'm from New Zealand, which is a country that has not been mentioned in your lectures, although all your charts seem to show that New Zealand will be quite badly affected by the Iran war. Do you see New Zealand joining NATO in the fight against Ukraine? I read news that billionaires are building bunkers in New Zealand. Does that mean we will some be somewhat safe from future conflicts? What will New Zealand do? I'm just an everyday citizen wanting the best for my children here. Okay. New Zealand is an interesting um because New Zealand is very much a Canada and Australia. Okay, these three places: New Zealand, Australia, Canada. They're not nation-states. They are resource colonies of the British Empire. All right? Meaning that they are owned, literally owned by the British. So, their resources, their wealth belongs to the British. And so, what's happening in these countries right now is a corporate restructuring where the population is being replaced. All right? The populations there have become lazy, complacent. And so, they're importing millions of new immigrants, primarily Indians, but also a lot of Chinese, a lot of Filipinos, to replace the population because in a time of economic decline, you need your colonies to perform better. All right? So, I don't see New Zealand participating in any wars, but I do see New Zealand, the population being

26:11replaced by immigrants. Okay? And this will probably lead to a lot of um civil conflict in these places. All right? Uh from Demi. Uh you mentioned how before how you used to live with your parents, play video games, and feel disconnected from the world. What is your typical book, philosopher, or work of art that inspired you towards the path you're on now? What concrete advice do you have for young men who feels aimless and nihilistic who want to get back on a spiritually productive path? Okay, this is a really hard question for me to answer. Yes, it is true that in my late 20s I was very depressed and I felt that life was hopeless and um and I feel as though you have to go through stages like this in your life. So, it's not something to be avoided. It's something that you'll have to suffer through. And when you when you hit rock bottom, you instinctively or intuitively understand that I need to move on with my life, okay? So, during this during this time period, what I did was I engaged in a period of self-reflection in which I questioned my assumptions about the world. I went to Yale University and after I went to Yale University, I thought the world was meritocratic. It was logical that if you worked hard, if you have talent, then you succeed in life. And and then after floundering through life uh in my 20s, I had many years where I became very depressed and I just thought and thought about my own life and I recognized that I need to have a better understanding, a more nuanced understanding of how the world works. And this led me to the journey that has led me to today, okay? So, failure is not something to be ignored or avoided or be to be feared. It's something to be embraced. Okay, don't fear failure.

28:11If there's a work that has had the most influence in me on me these past 10, 20 years, it would be Dante's The Divine Comedy, okay? But that's very hard to read. Um so, in mid-June, I will teach a two-week seminar line by line uh close reading of Dante's The Divine Comedy. And what I'm hoping to do is inspire people to engage in their own self-reflection and to think much more deeply about their own uh purpose in this world, okay? And ho- hopefully this will help in the future. If I'm Alex, um I don't I don't disagree with the notion that AI is an occult project, but I find there's a curious similarity between what you call the occult and the sentiment of courage that a scientist or inventor must have in pursuing the development of some revolutionary technology that they truly believe is a benefit for humanity. I don't disagree with it. I think that if you want to be a true scientist, your imagination must involve the occult. If you're a great scientist like Isaac Newton was, you're not interested in like creating a patent or an invention that will make you a billion dollars. You don't care about that. You want to know the mind of God. You want to change the world forever. That's what leads to tremendous inspiration and imagination. Your lecture on the Holy Empire of AI interpreted the quote from Peter Thiel's Zero to One as an invitation to start a secret society to access the occult as a way to dominate the world. I don't necessarily disagree with your interpretation. However, I find a similarity between the passage you quote from Thiel and another book called The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Exactly. Exactly. So, all these heroic figures in history, they've all have similar characteristics. They all believe that they are on a mission, a secret mission from God, and they must create a movement around them in order to advance humanity. Yes. Um

30:12Okay. Yes. Um I don't disagree with your intuition in particular about lumping the occult and society, world dominance, religion, and AI into one basket. You then point out that all true innovation is occult in nature. I completely agree with this. You have to understand the occult if you want to be innovative. That's why I teach it. And the occult is agnostic to whether your intention is to access it for the benefit of mankind or to access it with an intention intention to dominate the the world. Exactly. Um so when I teach tonic, I teach people like God has given us free will. Free will means you can do good, you can do evil. Does he doesn't care, okay? Doesn't matter. Uh for what and it just happens that the most visible tech voices seem to have used technology dominate the world. This is exactly correct, okay? So people who are truly innovative there's a diversity among them, but the people who will succeed are those who are most aligned with power and control. Okay? So if you love making money, then guess what? You'll be successful. But if you want to help help humanity, guess what? You won't be successful, okay? So there's almost like a like a direction to history. If you follow that direction, you almost like a right away to power. So people who are extremely greedy like, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, they'll be much more successful than people like me who is much more interested in educating people, okay? And that's the reality of the world we live in, but the thing to remember is that um God wanted this way because only by giving us complete free will can we be truly imaginative, all right? And I could be doing what I'm doing unless there were evil people like Mark Zuckerberg doing what he's doing, all right? So all right? So um what's important is the free will. All right. So Alan, can you help can you help me read

32:13this, please? Okay. A question from a 21-year-old American male. Do you believe that American draft is still coming, Professor Zhang? Many young American men follow you and those who are willing to take drastic action are left wondering what direction to go. If a draft is still coming, is it worth fleeting the US this summer? Do you have any general addition advice for young men? Thank you. Okay. Uh first of all, I do believe the draft is coming. But not only that, but I believe that the draft is coming to many countries including Canada, Australia, Europe. And you think that the purpose of a draft is to fight a war. But you think about about deeply, the purpose of a draft is to reorganize society in a certain way. So, in America today, what do young men do? Well, they buy Bitcoin, they gamble online, they're on OnlyFans. They don't want to work because the pay is too low. And this is a disaster for the country. Young men go to college and for 4 years they drink beer and watch football games. And they don't learn anything, right? So, you have this huge social problem on your hands that young men are effec- aren't contributing effective to your economy. So, what you do is you enter near financial crisis like the Great Depression so that you're forced to work because your parents have no more money. And then you have an actual draft to teach you skills that you will need in order to contribute more effectively to the economy, okay? So, a draft doesn't necessarily mean that you go to war. A draft just means that you work for the government for like 5 to 10 years. It's possible like they make they train you to be an engineer in the Navy. Believe it or not, but the best education you can possibly receive is often from the military because

34:15unlike schools, they're incentivized to actually teach you something useful. Okay? And it's often for free. So, um a draft is something that they they they need in order to basically train young men to be effective contributors to the economy. And it's something that many countries will adopt as well. If you If you let young men do what they want, they're just going to play video games, spend all their money on OnlyFans, and gamble everything on Bitcoin, okay? And they don't really know anything useful. So, this is a huge problem, and that's why they need a national draft to fix this problem. So, should you run away if there's a draft? I I just told you there's no place to run to, okay? Either you go to a nation with a draft, or you you go to a nation which has even worse problems, like famine, okay? So, I mean, what's important is to recognize that the world is changing. You're not going to We're not going to go back to the old world. Things are not going to stay the same, and so you must embrace change. All right? A national draft means that if you're useful, they'll keep you alive. If you're not useful, they'll send you to your uh where you'll die, okay? That's what it means. So, make yourself useful. Read books. Learn skills. Work hard. Okay, that's my advice. I'm sorry I'm sorry to be so blunt, but that's just the world we live in, okay? All right. Uh John Zack says, "Thank you." Well, thank you, John Zack. All right. Uh can can you read Macquell? Um Alan? Professor, what is your take on the uh cat and AI design to bypass the false optimization minimum of human extinction? Instead of forcing a stereo piece, it would optimize for minimum conflict energy and maximize creativity creative collaboration. By structurally

36:15limiting the harm capacity capacity of non empath- empathetic actors, could such a framework successfully steer humanity's historical traject- trajectory toward healthy, constructive competition without violating our autonomy. Yeah, that's a great point. It is possible for AI to do this. The question is, who's going to pay for this? Right? If you're a billionaire, the reason why you invest in AI is to have more money to extend your power and your wealth. And that means to control people better, right? So, then I have to create AI system. That means you don't need government anymore. Government's going to invest in this in order to have more control of people. Okay, so that's the issue that we face. The reality is that AI is very expensive. You need trillion dollar data centers in order to run AI effectively. Okay? All right, can can you read, Alan? Thank you for your work, Professor. In an upcoming multipolar world order, do you think the general populace, especially American, is prepared or even capable of making the mental shift and understanding just how much the world is shifting? Or is this something the next generation will only understand? Yeah, this is a great question, and unfortunately, the reality is that most people will not be able to make this mental shift, especially older people. That's why most people are going to die. You're not able to make the shift, you're going to die. Okay? Because you'd rather die than accept the new reality. And it's unfortunate, but a lot of the conflicts are going to come from the fact that the world is changing. People in society need to make changes to adapt to this new world. For example, if there's energy shortages, that means we need to share more. There's not enough energy to go around, guys, but it means you need to share more. It means you have to make personal sacrifices to make sure that your neighbor has enough to eat. And unfortunately, there's going to be a lot of people, especially baby

38:17boomers, who are built who are millionaires. Now, I'm not saying I'm not I'm not all baby boomers are millionaires. I'm saying that baby boomers are poor millionaires. They're extremely selfish. They They're not going to want to make these changes. They're not going to want to pay more taxes or give up their million-dollar mansions so that the world can be better. Okay? And we know this because if they were willing to do this, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. So, a lot of conflict is going to come from the fact that you have people in power who will be stubborn, who will be too old to change, and who will be violent in resisting change. Okay? All right. Uh can I keep on going? Hi, Professor. Can you tell a story about one of the times you felt really connected to the monad and what insight did did give you? Love the lessons. A big hug to you and your family. Take care. Okay. So, there are many many instances where I felt connected to the monad. But, when I teach, I feel connected to the monad. It's a very strange experience. But, you know, the first time I started teaching was like when I was like 20 years old. I was in China. I was not a very good teacher. But, when I'm teaching and the students are learning, I can feel them learning, I feel as though we connect back to the monad. Okay? So, the most gratifying gratifying experience I have is when I teach and I see students um edify by the teaching. When I see students learning. Okay? That is direct connection to the monad. When you love someone, like I love my wife, I feel connected to the monad. When I hug my child, when I have a newborn, I hug them my newborn for the first time, that's connection to the monad. So, the monad is with us all the time. It's just do we choose to connect with it or not. Okay? If you just listen to your heart, um then you can easily connect to to the monad. Connection to the monad is the greatest happiness in the world. So, moments of

40:19greatest happiness in our world are when when we hug someone we love. Okay? When we care for a friend. Your friend is sick and in a hospital, but you spend 2 weeks just by the bedside of your friend. Is that a Is that a feeling of pain or pleasure? I think for most people it's it's a feeling of deep pleasure that you're helping someone, that you're contributing to the world positively. Okay? All right. Keep on going? Yeah, okay. Professor John, many discussions around AI focus on surveillance, government control, censorship, and manipulation. But, what if that is only the surface layer? As AI, social media algorithms, governments, collective emotions, and human consciousness begin recursively interacting with one another, it feels like we are entering an era where reality itself become fragmented and amplified simultaneously. Not just fake news, but entire emotion and psychological ecosystem shaking how different groups perceive truth, identity, memory, and meaning. In the future, do you think humanity risk losing a shared consen- consensus reality altogether? And if so, what anchors human consciousness will when billions of people are each interacting with different AI mirrors trained on different values, narratives, and emotions feedback loops? At that point, is AI merely a tool of civilization or does it become part of civilization's involving consciousness itself? Okay. So, there's a very famous Canadian media theorist named Marshall McLuhan. And his famous saying is, "The medium is the message." And the idea here is that the medium itself, whether it's radio or television or the internet, it shapes the way you perceive yourself and the world. So, you look at ChatGPT. In theory, chat GPT is supposed to enhance your imagination because chat GPT is able to reduce the grunt work,

42:20right? It's able to provide you all information and then you're able to build on top of this information. But in reality, what happens is that people become reliant on chat GPT and you lose your imagination, okay? Chat GPT is not going to make you smarter, it makes you dumber. So, why is that? And the answer is the monad. What makes you smart, what gives you your creativity, is your constant connection to the monad. So, if you shift your focus from technology and away from your uh intuition, then you're going to lose. Okay? But why we have why we have chat GPT, why why we why we have AI is it's a way to structure your thinking in a way that allows the powers that be to control you better. All right? Okay? So, remember this idea that all technology in a way reduces your connection to the monad. And therefore, all technology is bad in a certain way. Doesn't mean it's useless, but it means it's going to deepen your connection to the monad. What strengthens your connection to the monad is other people. All right? And yourself. So, if you really want to be creative, if you really really want to explore and understand humanity, take long walks in the park, talk to strangers, read a lot of books. Okay? All right, let's keep on going. Question, how do you define beauty and how should general public members purchase pursue beauty in the current world? Beauty is the divine. Okay? Beauty is connection to the divine. Beauty is a glimpse into the divine. Beauty are the sparks that are prominent [snorts] throughout the world. Okay? And so, beauty are experiences that change you for the better because they shock you into a new

44:22reality. And so, beauty would include the great books, Homer, Dante. It could It could include an experience that you have that forever changes you, okay? That's how how I would I would define beauty. All right. Uh can I go on? Great to be part of this. I have several questions. Please pick whatever you like. right. All right. All right. Let me just pick one random, okay? Um Um what happens if Saudi Arabia says I'm building its new pipeline? Uh no. Well, you know, then Iran will just blow it up, okay, guys? It's a desert. Okay? You have to build things in a desert. It's pretty easy to blow things up in a desert. There's There's no place to hide. Pipelines are very easy to blow up because there's all energy inside, right? Just a ballistic missile, boom, that thing is blown up. All right? Okay. All right. Uh let's go to Shelley. You have [snorts] discussed Pax Pax Judaica many times. The idea of Israel as the center hub of a new regional order, but Pax Silicon reframes Israel as merely a node in the broader US-led technology and supply chain architectures, not the dominant power. What is your take on Pax Silicon? Okay. All right. So, Pax Judaica is Israel is is at the center of Middle East, okay? Pax Silicon, the idea is that artificial intelligence, um backed by silicon, is the new world power. The problem with Pax Silicon is that it's really a trade network. Now, trade networks are often very, very fragile. Trading networks requires the cooperation of different nation-states to maintain its coherence. And what we know from history is that power comes from the nation-state. Okay? So, unless you have a nation-state backing Pax Silicon, it's not going to work. So, you can you can say that behind Pax Silicon will be Pax Judaica. That's a possibility.

46:23But, then Pax Judaica is in charge, okay? Not Pax Silicon. All right? So, the idea that you can have an independent, autonomous trading system to produce AI, it can't work. Okay? Ultimately, you need a nation-state to back it with military power, with resources, with people. All right. Okay, let's keep on going with Isaiah. Awesome day, John and wife. Thanks for the love you have shared together to create such treasured treasured content and family. I'm going to list some topics uh and Qs, and I'd like to know the most important things you'd like to share about each one you choose. One, unconditional love. Two, the good side of Kabbalah. Three uh third, three, non-dual awareness. Four, fertilized crisis. All right. Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry. This is like way too long. I appreciate the question, but this this this is going to take too long, okay? So, let let me just look look at the top two. I'm going to do love. Unconditional love is something that once you achieve it, it changes you forever, okay? And you basically achieve unconditional love when you have a child for the first time. Because you have to love your child unconditionally. Because a child is about experience, okay? Uh the good side of Kabbalah, there are many good sides of Kabbalah. I don't understand why Kabbalah is put in such a negative um light. But, Kabbalah it's a really it's a very powerful way of understanding the world and forces you to think very deeply about your place in the world. Look, the reality is that if you go to American University, there are two ethnic groups that are pretty dominant in academia in America. They are the Indians and the Jews. The Indians have a Vedic tradition, the Jews have a Kabbalah tradition. This is not an accident, okay? If you want uh like if you really want to be creative, and we've said this in

48:24the past, you need to understand the occult. The Kabbalah forces you to wrestle with the occult, and recognize that beyond the material world, there are these deep mystical questions that can guide your life. And by dealing with these questions, not only will it help you better understand your place in the world, but they also advance your own scientific inquiry. Okay? [snorts] All right. Uh Okay. Can you keep up with me, boy? Yeah. Just just read this. My question is, what do you think? Yeah. My question is, what do you think of the Yuga cycle, and according to universal laws, why do you institutions like the Roman Empire to exist? The Kabbalah speaks of Earth being a center figure forge, essentially the Earth being cycles upon cycles upon cycles, Fibonacci sequence, uh samsara, etc. Stop, okay, all right. So, this is a really important idea where for 1,000 years, humans have come to an understanding, which is the world works in cycles. You rise, you fall. You live, you die. There's summer, there's winter. There's nothing you can do about this. What is hubris? What is stupid? What is arrogant? It's a belief that you can stop history. You can end history. And that can only lead to destruction, okay? So, that's So, that's the world live in today where it is natural for the American empire to decline and to go away. That's just That's just human history. That's just a cycle. But, there's suffering because the American empire refuses to go away. It refuses to die. And therefore, we must suffer, okay? But, there's nothing that you can do about this. The more you resist, the greater the pain, the quicker the fall. Okay? And this is something that all religions teach us. Just accept the life cycle.

50:24Okay? Saying that empires decline is the same as saying that an earthquake is coming. Okay? Can you stop an earthquake coming? No. You just have to prepare for it. An empire decline, same thing. It's just a natural cycle. Okay? All right. This is from Sarah. Yeah. Date noted. I'm very interested in the live streams. I hope it is the basics for the school you would like to build up. I'm going to be present thinking of good question for the last class. Thank you. Yeah. Great. So, yeah, exactly. I'm very excited about our first live stream, which is scheduled for next Sunday at 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. in Beijing time. That'd be like 9:00 p.m. in New York on the East Coast. Um I understand that there'll be many people around the world who are not able to participate in the live stream, especially people from Europe, okay? But, the idea is that we'll change the timing of the live stream as time goes by, okay? In order to accommodate more people. But, uh Sarah is absolutely right. I'm doing this in order to in order to to form the basis of a school community. And this is all experiment, but but we'll try the first live stream um next Sunday, June 7th, okay? So, uh so I'll send a note to all founding members that we'll be doing this live stream as as an experiment. And then And then after June 7th, uh a week later, I'll do a live stream for all paid subscribers on Substack. All live streams will be eventually uploaded to my YouTube channel, so you so no one will miss the content. But But during the live stream, only founding members or paid subscribers will be able to participate, okay? All right. Keep on going. Uh hello, Professor. I want to begin by saying your lectures have given me an under Oh, sorry. Can I Can you just Go on to the question. Okay. My question focuses on the takeaway from Dante's Divine Comedy and the Great Books. Specif- uh specific uh specifically the argument that we can

52:25only move closer to the divine, unlock our imagination, and find the motivation to achieve greatness by directing our love toward another human soul. How does this framework account for the individuals who find this exact same spiritual and creative uh awakening through nonhuman subjects? For example, consider someone who grew up isolated without supportive parents or an interest in romance, but who form a deep profound attachment to colors, sounds, or concepts after intense love for painting, music, sports, or technology provides the exact same drive and beautiful imagination. Can that abstract devotion serves as an equivalent path to the source? Are they not adding to the imagination of the universe and expanding it as well? Okay, this is a really good point. Um yes, it is true that in Divine Comedy I say that the way to activate our love, our connection to the monad, is by connecting with another person, by loving that person unconditionally, like a child or a mother or a partner. But what if you are for the reason alone in the world? Uh and you are non-verbal. You express yourself through colors. And um um you can still connect to the monad. The monad is still in you. Okay? And you're right. There are lots of people who are like that, like Vincent van Gogh, who who produced tremendous artwork. Okay? So, the point is that anyone and everyone can produce great beauty in the world because of our connection to the monad. The question is, as a society, how tolerant, how generous, how loving are we? Okay? The more generous, the more tolerant, the more loving we are as a society, the greater our creativity. And so, the

54:26example I use would be autistic children in schools. I have researched autistic children. They're not that different from you and me. They just have limited emotional regulation. Meaning like they make noises in class. But teachers don't accept that. They're like, "No, if you're making noises in class, then you are a problem. Therefore, you should be on medication." Okay? So, so that's the society that we live in today, which is extremely intolerant, which is extremely um selfish, very individualistic. And so, if we are truly to uh love every child, then we need to change, transform our society that is much more loving and generous. Okay? All right. You want to go ahead? Uh Which part? Okay. Professor, thank you for everything you have done and what you continue to do. In your lecture, Trump world order, you discuss a potential grand plan being carried out by Trump. From my understanding, you believe that the failures of the US in the Middle East may ultimately lead to a decline of the US empire globally, but the rise of map the American nation in this scenario, US will be forced to retreat and return focus on the Americans where there is an abundance of natural resources. Being forced to retreat, the American global empire is hurt significantly, but it may be better for the actual citizens of America. By focusing internally, America will stop overextending itself abroad, which will actually help the country. Do you truly believe this is Trump playing 4D chess, or is this just a lucky result where America basically stumbles into success in the Americans? Is there an unknown party behind Trump that is driving him to make these decisions? Okay, Trump is not playing 4D chess, okay? Trump is stupid. He's playing 4D chess in American politics where he's trying to get a third third term, okay?

56:26That's what he wants. But the idea that Trump has this grand vision how to make America great again, that doesn't really work, okay? What America's doing what he's doing is this is a how an empire behaves in decline. An empire would before would prefer to control the world through soft power. And that this is true for the past few decades where America could control the world through Hollywood, through um newspapers like the New York Times, through an image that America is a benevolent uh power, okay? And for the longest time that was the case. But now that the world is turning against America, America has no choice but to use force to make people obey its will. When you do that, eventually the world is going to unite against you, okay? So this is not about America shifting strategy, making America great again. This is about an empire in decline will always use force in order to maintain its advantage over the world. The problem with this is that once um you leave the world, once you retreat back into your own territory, then the conflicts among the elite um, become internalized. So, before the conflicts could be um, exported, projected overseas. Okay? So, we do the conflicts internally. Once they retreat back, then they're forced to fight each other. Okay? And who are the people behind Trump? Well, it's the people who want to use American power in order to promote their own interest. And this includes um, oil companies like Exxon. This includes uh, Silicon Valley who want to create an AI surveillance state. Okay? This includes the military-industrial complex that wants to expand itself. Okay? Okay, this is from Carlos. A lot of conceptions that I hear in your classes about social economics and

58:26materialism remind me of Karl Po- Polanyi's thoughts. Do you know his writings? Are you inspired by him in some way? Do you think China was some way able to surpass its elite corporations of the Western model and achieve some fair wealth distribution and energetic transition? Is China's elite also ruled by secret societies? Okay, so China's elite is not ruled by secret society, it's ruled by certain families. Okay? This is very different because families don't have eschatologies, they have bloodlines. Uh, secret societies do have eschatologies, meaning there's less energy in China. China's just interested in maintaining its stat- the status quo. Whereas secret societies are interested in in achieving certain eschatologies, okay? Um, will China be able to surpass its uh, elite corporations of the Western model and achieve some fair wealth distribution and energetic transition? No, okay? No. Um, China is on the decline. And this is something that cannot be averted. Listen, I personally think that China is is a historical accident. There are many things about about China that should have been destroyed a long time ago. But because China has been historically isolated from the rest of the world, China has been in East Asia protected by the sea, the mountains, great wall, um it really was not in competition with the rest of the world. Okay, so I'm not really that optimistic about China. [clears throat] Okay, Mark. Dear Professor, thank you for your lectures. They have shaped the way I think and approach new things I learn. I recently wrote an essay on uh Serbia that develops a model I believe may resonate with some of the themes you teach. If you happen to have the time to read it, I would be honored to hear your thoughts, especially on whether the framework feels coherent and useful. Okay, so this is from Mark and I did read the essay, okay? And the essay is about how Serbia can try to navigate,

60:26negotiate, and balance the different powers that surround it, including Russia, including Europe. Um and it's a very interesting point. Um the point I will make is that if you really want to know how resilient a society is, don't worry about how carefully it navigates diplomacy, okay? You should ask yourself three questions. Is this society energetic? Meaning do people in the society work hard? Do they take work seriously? Second is, is this society open-minded? Meaning is it willing to learn from its mistakes? Is it willing to be humble and innovative? The third question is, is it cohesive? Meaning that there's a coherent ethnic identity that binds people together and makes them want to sacrifice uh themselves for each other, okay? If Serbia is answering these three questions, then Serbia, no matter what it does, will have a good future. Okay, I don't know enough about Serbia to comment, uh but those are the three questions you want to ask. And everything else is not really that that important. All right, this is from Wild Encounters. Why are people obsessed with games? Why are games such a useful framework for understanding ourselves and our world? Can a game still be considered a game if it has no limitations, only players and incentives? Uh yeah, this is a really interesting uh question. Um so, I use game theory as a way to frame human behavior. Okay? But it doesn't necessarily mean that people are less like are you are themselves using game theory. Game theory just helps me make certain predictions about the world. Okay, that's my first point. My second point is that um games is a way for us to socialize with each other. Okay? And I don't know what what what it is, but um we live in a world in which

62:27status really matters. But this is this is not always been historically true. So, you go back, you know, a few thousand years when most of the world was actually matriarchal. Okay? That was not a game-based society. Matriarchal societies tend to be very cooperative. And it really it really is about balance and harmony, making sure everyone gets along. Now that we moved to a patriarchy and where status is zero-sum game, then you're forced to play games in order to achieve status, okay? So, games aren't the natural state of humanity. They're a natural state of humanity for now, but not in the past and maybe not in the future, okay? All right, this is from Adeel. Uh Professor Jordan, thank you again for your Zarathustra lecture lecture and your broader work on civilizational strategy. One thing I appreciate about your analysis is that it takes seriously the psychological and historical stories societies tell about themselves, not just economics or military capacity. Lately, I've been wondering whether a lot of modern geopolitics is really about preserving civilization meaning and legitimacy. America still depends on the story about liberalism, liberal liberalism, freedom, and historical progress. China depends on the idea of national rejuvenation after humiliation. Russia sees itself as a civilization with a spiritual and historical mission distinct from the West. Iran draws on Kabbalah, martyrdom, Shia Shia, and other Persian memory through the Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let us skip to the last part, okay? Okay. So, my question is, how do you think civilizations can tell when their founding narratives are still helping them remain coherent and reality-oriented versus when they those same narratives begin insulating them from reality and pushing them towards

64:28self-deception? Okay. So, I think that the best civilizations um the strongest civilizations are those that have stories that are universal, that they're able to connect with other cultures, that they're able to transcend time and space. And that's why these four particular civilizations, America, Russia, Iran, and Israel are so powerful because their stories resonate across time and across space. America is one fundamentally based on the individual, freedom of the individual to pursue his or her ambition, right? Russia is about community, tradition, orthodoxy. Iran is about sacrifice, about eschatology. Israel is about covenant, about history. And these themes resonate throughout time and space. And that's why right now we're seeing a conflict between among these four different traditions to see who will win. It's not really clear to me which will also which story will ultimately triumph, okay? All right. Francisco. Okay. Hello, Professor. A fundamental sorry, sorry. You You know what? Um Okay, so the question is um is there a fine line between stories that unite and stories that maybe blind you from the larger reality? And um I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I the more it's able to transcend time and space. Okay? And that's why, and this is really interesting, is let's just say the entire world is destroyed tomorrow.

66:2810,000 years from now, humanity will build itself. Guess what, guys? You have the same narrative, the same stories, the same conflicts between freedom and tradition, between history and the future, okay? This is what humanity is finally finally about. We're trying to work out the stories that we tell ourselves. Okay? All right, this is from Francisco. Okay. Um a fundamental question about a pattern under global perspective, and one that intrigues me concerning the issue of civilization. From other videos of the past about history, from the evolution of humankind and the tragedy of writing, to the patri- patriarchal shift and suggestions that the Indo-European victory brought about, as well as the expansion you can you just can you just read the question? Yeah. Given this, in your opinion, what are the benefits of civilization and empire, or are they inherently evil and anti-human? Okay, stop. Okay, all right. Okay. So, a major problem with how history is taught, how we think about the world is we apply labels to things, okay? Like, good, bad, beneficial, not beneficial. That's not how history works, okay? History works in um [snorts] cycles. Rise, fall, up, down. Civilization um and then barbarity, okay? There's nothing good or bad about these things. It's an earthquake. We don't say it's bad, is it good? It's a storm, is it good or bad? It's just part of the world we live in. So, stop assigning values and labels to these things and accept accept that there's a pattern to these things. And our wor- our role our purpose in this world is to navigate these patterns, to seek our own individual meaning in this world, okay? The world

68:29could collapse tomorrow. That doesn't that doesn't that that that that doesn't absolve you responsibility to be a good teacher, to be a good parent, to be a good neighbor. Okay? Focus on on what you can do individually and and don't give labels to these things. Is America good or bad? America is just America. Is Russia good or bad? It's just Russia, okay? Just keep that in mind. Okay? This is from from Iran. Isn't there's a possibility that there are more nation-states with culture and the popular cohesion that can effectively combat the international capital elites that we imagine. For instance, Iran is an extreme case of the resilience, but recently Spanish Prime Minister and South Korean President have been vocally criticizing Israel anti-humanitarian actions. Assuming that is this is the case, do you see your predictions more or less unchanged or do you think they need to be corrected to be less extreme? This is very important, okay? Yes, I do oversimplify like my analysis. The world is extremely complex. There's like a million data points you can choose from. I choose from like a few. Okay? And you're exact exactly you're exactly right in that I need to consider more factors, more possibilities, and more data points. Uh and I will in the future. It's just like what's really important for me is to first build a framework, the skeleton, and then work from there, okay? And that's why I do what I do. Because you always want to start with a framework. When a framework allows you to make better observations. Don't be too concerned about being factual. And this is an argument I'm going to have with a lot of people where, you know, like I'm so obsessed with making predictions that I'm not very factual. Well, what's important is to first build the framework, okay? The skeletal the skeleton, and then build from there. Whereas if you just focus on the facts, it doesn't really get you that many

70:29places, okay? So, you're actually right that I need to consider more data points, and I need to make my arguments more nuanced and more subtle, and I will in the future. All right. Uh this is from TXC. Yeah. Uh Professor Chow, your game theory approach consistency drives toward a coherent conclusion of US decline, Chinese uh vindication, Iranian and resilience. In the spirit of the brutal skepticism you ask for, what specific 12-month outcome, concrete and falsifiable, would prove your macro thesis of structural degrowth decline wrong? This is a great question. I want to thank you so much for this question. This is exactly the sort of question I'm looking for from my audience, okay? Yes, because I'm always looking to invalidate my theory. So, what could happen in the next 12 months that would uh destroy my prediction? Okay. All right. So, um the US midterms midterms is something that I can't really predict what happen. Okay? It's entirely possible the US midterms will surprise me in a way that will have to change my predictions. I don't know how it will surprise me, but it's possible, okay? Uh if Trump were to die tomorrow, that would change a lot of my predictions, okay? Because I'm not predicting that Trump will get a third term. Okay? If Trump were to die tomorrow, that would change the entire uh world. Um if the Democratic Party in the United States picked a leader who was as charismatic as Trump, who was revolutionary as Trump, then I would think that my entire worldview is wrong. That we can avert the collapse of history. That America could regenerate itself. Unfortunately, I think the most hopeless part of the United States right now is is the Democratic Party. If the Democratic Party were to say, "You know what? Screw this elitist politics. Let's get rid of Obama. Let's get rid of Clinton. Let's have a real democracy and

72:30pick a leader from the grassroots who could lead us forward." That I would I would think would be the greatest thing in the world, okay? Would that ever happen? Probably not. Okay? Keep on going. Is there a prediction you made in the last 18 months that contradicted your directional thesis? Lately, uh cyclical uh cyclical history models, Athens, Rome, tend to project present onto the past to pattern match. How do you account for drastically different inputs today? AI labor displacement, climate change, space race, etc. in your model. What's your confident that our current transition is a historical analog via via truly uncharted territory? Thank you. Okay. So, um for me the question is, do we believe that we are truly in a new age of humanity where AI could lead us to a new future? Or is it possible that we discount the complexity and the sophistication of ancient civilizations like the Athenians and the Romans? Is it possible that they also had technology that they thought could be life-transforming and which would allow them to transcend history? Um I think that it's much more likely we ignore the sophistication of the past and overemphasize our own sophistication. There's nothing about AI uh that tells me that we're heading towards a new future. I think AI is just another hocus pocus hallucination meant to fool us into obedience. And then there might also be an alien invasion, okay? So, there's nothing really about the world that we live in that I think makes us distinct distinct from the past. All right. Okay, from there. I've watched every single one of your videos over the last year. Some of them two or three times. I'm curious as to why there is not nearly no mention of

74:30white supremacy and structural racism woven into historical and contemporary analysis. Quite literally, I do not think the words white supremacy have been said once. Does geopolitical geopolitical game series, uh supersede white supremacy and structural racism. Do the latter function more as a tool of domestic management of nation rather than a cohesive fabric throughout the world? Do you view them as identity politics more so than pertinent issue of our times? Okay. So, um white supremacy does exist. Um socialism does exist. I know because I grew up in Canada. And if you grew up in Canada as an immigrant, there's a lot of white supremacy. There's a lot of social racism in Canada, even though they won't admit it, okay? The reason why these things exist is this is an outgrowth of empire. This is an outgrowth of the stories, the narratives that bind a nation together. Okay? So, a lot of what's happening in the world today is for the longest time, white people were in charge. Everyone want want to be white. And then you have the rise of China. You have the rise of a multipolar world. Um and then these countries, the United States, Canada, Europe, they became much more decadent, much more corrupt. And and then they start to see their white supremacy decline relative to other cultures. And they didn't like that. Okay? But I don't like to frame it as white supremacy because that's not that's not the root of the problem. The root of the problem is just empire, imperial arrogance, hubris, civilization. Okay? So, I mean, would Chinese supremacy be better than white supremacy? Would Japanese supremacy be better than white supremacy? I don't necessarily

76:31think so. Okay? It's just like, you know, we are part of a culture. It is right and good for us to be proud of our culture. And to think that we should be that we are superior in many ways. That's what often leads to cultures to greatness. Okay? So, there's always going to be a struggle over supremacy, and this is what leads to conflict. Okay? So, yes, white supremacy does exist, but again, I don't think that's that's the root of the problem. The root of the problem is that um people want to belong in community, and people want want to believe that their stories in this community are more legitimate than other stories. Okay? And to ask people to just be completely open-minded and be non-racist, I think goes against human nature. All right. This is from Sean. Hello, Professor Jones. Thanks for all that you do. I have a layered question. You talk about Plato's caves a lot, and it mostly makes sense to me, but I get a little confused about the illusion part. Is the material world itself the illusion? As in one's own hand, the device on which I'm writing this, the building, etc., or is society with its arbitrary rules the illusion? As if these things aren't real, why do you do they impact and influence us on such a deep level? Thank you again, Professor. I didn't think I was very interested in history or geopolitical speculations until watching your Corgis courses. So, I'm very grateful to you for living your truth and your family for inspiring you. Take care. Okay. Yeah, okay. So, first of all, society is a complete illusion. Okay? When you come to school, they you're just taught nonsense. You're taught all this illusion. Okay? What allows society to function is the fact that you comply to the rules, which are illusions. Okay? So, the point of school, the point of media, the point of culture is to make you believe that these illusions are real.

78:32And you want them to be real because if they're if they're not real, then you can't you can't really function in uh society. So that's that's pretty obvious to people, okay? The social rules are uh are just illusions. And we know they're illusions because um once you recognize these illusions, that they're illusions, these taboos are just illusions, it allows you to better navigate society, okay? So last semester we talked about Frankism, Jacob Frank. That's what he teaches his followers. Look, everything around you is just an illusion. Okay? Do what you want. And once you are able to enforce your will on other people, you can achieve what you want because people are just surrounded by illusions, okay? They they they don't yield to what they believe in. So it's very So it's very easy for you to impose your own illusions on other people. Okay? Um so but the deeper question is, is this material world an illusion? And it is an illusion. What is real, and I keep on emphasizing this in in in this class, is that it's consciousness that is real. Our hands, our eyes, these are the illusion. But that's a very hard thing to appreciate, okay? That's why we have sick societies. That that that's why there's these mystery schools in ancient Greece because to convince someone that your mind is more real than your head, they think you're insane. Okay? But once you're able to to make this divine or mental leap, your entire world changes, okay? Now you're able to access truth, really. But the reality is that 99% of us will not be able to make this um realization, okay? To discover for yourself that, oh my god, it's my consciousness that is real. Everything I see around me, this material world, these buildings, this money, this wealth, it's all just a fake, okay?

80:34All right. I've been able to do so, but um it's hard, okay? This is from Lazar. Yeah. Hello, Professor John, a new subscriber here looking forward to reading more of your geopolitical analysis. I wanted to ask, are you going to maybe cover the future of Europe and Balkans in one of your analysis? It is a region that was the most unstable in Europe, at least in recent history. When talking about the big players, you also mentioned how the smaller regions and subregions relate towards Russia, China, US, like South American parts of African smaller Asian countries, etc. Recently, China has been kind of using Balkans as an entry into Europe with their infrastructure investments. Right after Trump's and Putin's visit to China, president of Serbia also visited China and received a medal from Xi and only 12 other leaders received. Also, the visit was on the headlines of Chinese media, too. Okay, yeah. So, exactly, right. The Balkans is his- historically one of the most one of the most important and volatile regions of the world. So, the Middle East is probably the most volatile, but the Balkans are also very volatile for very similar reasons, okay? One reason is just the geographic um necessity of the Balkans. Uh it is an access point to many continents. Uh second is the religious conflict in the area. You have many different religious groups fighting for control over that area. And the third is the historical animosity built up over the centuries of conflict. So, we can we can expect that the conflict between Russia and Europe will convert again in the Balkans. But I I don't know enough about the area to comment specifically. Okay? I was expecting major conflict to arise in that region, um as a proxy war between Russia and

82:36Europe. But the specifics I I don't really want to discuss, okay? Again, in the future, what I want to do is explore more of the world and really try to understand the different uh communities in this world. Okay. All right. Uh keep on going. Yeah. If Tucker Carlson left Fox over the two 2020 election domination trial and he say Maduro Maduro was captured to testify that they helped trigger the 2020 election, what did you and Tucker discuss off air after he got emotional? Thought on Larry Johnson and other CIA agents uh agents and boomer analysts' criticism toward yourself. And I agree, your great books list is great, but more sources and any channels you recommend would be great. Seems you draw or are tapping to a similar vein as simulated Lavendan in regard to the links between Kabbalah, Hollywood, and AI. Thanks again, Professor. Love your work. Uh looking forward to seeing your next chapter. Best of luck. So, I was on Tucker Carlson's show uh a couple months ago. And he got very emotional because I think that he is an American patriot. I've always admired and respected Tucker Carlson, even though politically we don't align, okay? He and I will disagree a lot on politics, but I admire the fact and I respect the fact that he loves America and he's fought very hard to protect what's best about America, especially its civilization, especially its culture. He's been very consistent about this. Okay? And so, um for a few minutes when the show ended, we discussed the fact that American culture is being erased. How um the very essence of American civilization, what made America great, was really Christianity

84:37uh and European civilization. And because of DEI, because of immigration, um a lot of this is being eroded. And that's a very bad thing for uh for America. And I agree with that. Um so, what I admire about Tucker Carlson is that he's been very principled in his viewpoint. And he's been fearless and courageous in fighting for what he believes in, including maintaining American civilization, which is Christian and white and European. Also, he's been very consistently anti-war. And that's cost him a lot. In fact, there's talk that because of his anti-war stance, his his he doesn't believe that America should be fighting this war in Iraq. There's talk of him getting arrested. Okay? So, I I think I've always admired Tucker Carlson. I think he's an extremely courageous man, even though we don't agree. I know that Larry Johnson, another man I also respect a lot, he has been criticizing me. A lot of people have been criticizing me. And quite honestly, I don't pay attention to the criticism so because I don't want to be a YouTube star, okay? I don't want to be a social media influencer who spends all his time arguing with other social media influencers. I want to be an educator. I want to teach people how to think for themselves. Okay? And that's why I don't involve myself in arguments with other people, okay? Larry Johnson is someone I I admire a lot. I've watched a lot of his interviews. I agree with a lot of his sentiments. I don't know I don't know what he said about me. And quite honestly, I don't care. Okay? The fact that he doesn't like me, the fact that he criticizes me doesn't really impact the way I perceive him. Because what I care about are opinions, okay? What I care about is analysis. And I sort of like ignore the personalities behind that, okay? All right. Um Julian? Yeah. Thank you very much, Professor, for your lectures and for understanding

86:37our world universe better. My question would be about your theories that secret societies don't understand that they do transpiracies theories in the game theory 26. The concept you use in that lecture I find very interesting. But more interesting would be when you add to this concept the fallen angels, uh reptiles, gang giants, dragon, lost ancient civilization, uh Tartaria, etc. All these conspiracy theories together to predict our universe. Look, okay. There's a lot of things I don't know, okay? I'm very interested in the idea of lost civilizations. They must exist. Okay? It doesn't make sense to me that you know we only have like 10,000 years recorded human history, but we have but we've been around for 200,000 years in our current state, okay? Our current minds, our current um mental development. We've been around as modern humans for 200,000 years. So there have been there must have been other civilizations in place, okay? If you look at the Amazon, if you look at um the Grand Canyon in America, if you look at Antarctica, there's reason to believe that there have been other civilizations before us. Okay? So I'm very interested in that. I'm very interested in the concept of fallen angels, I I I the Nephilim, okay? There might be some in in in dimensional reptiles who rule us. I'm open to these possibilities, but right now um I haven't found enough evidence to discuss them, okay? I'm very much on my own journey to discover the truth. And I'm open-minded about these things, okay? Uh can you keep on reading, Alan? Uh hi, John. You said multiple times that Israel and Japan will dominate the region. Israel will achieve the greatest greater Israel project, and Japan will rebirth from its ashes. Uh the greatest Israel project, if I understood what you said in the lecture, I didn't rewatch your lectures, so it's based on my memories. The US will launch a ground invasion of Iran. They will

88:38lose, and the process both the US and Iran will be destroyed. The GCC will be destroyed, and two, since it is just a creation of empire and is not sustainable. Uh CENTCOM will be transformed transferred to Israel. So, the last player available is Israel, okay? But, how can Israel achieve its project if Iran uh and annihilates Israel? For example, by destroying this alien nation plants or energy infrastructures, etc. Israel has nuclear weapons, so it can use it, but Iran can build 10 to 20 of them in a matter of weeks. And we don't know the full capacit- uh capabilities of Iran. Well, we can see what the US and Israel are capable of. We can also add that Israel is energetic as has high fatality rate, etc. But, it doesn't really matter if the country is wrecked. So, I'm perplexed about your take. Okay. I don't understand why Iran would want to destroy Israel. Iran wants to survive. Iran wants to remove the United States from the Middle East. Iran wants to unite the Muslim world. Those things make sense, but what Why would Iran want to destroy Israel? For what purpose? I don't understand that. Just because of animosity? That's not how geopolitics works, guys, okay? There has to be some very specific reason for why Iran want to destroy Israel. You look at what's happening, Iran is directing most of its attention against the UAE. Why? Because the UAE, from the Iranian perspective, it is an um ab- abomination, okay? It is sacrilege what the UAE is. It is demonic, okay? The Iranians hate the I think the people in the UAE far more than they hate people in Israel, okay? And the Americans. So, I don't understand why Iran would want to destroy Israel. Also, why would Israel want to use a nuclear weapon against Iran?

90:39For what purpose? Yeah, I would I understand that if Israel were to nuke Iran, Iran could build nuclear weapons and then go nuke Israel. But, why would Israel want to nuke Iran? Israel wants to weaken Iran, but why would it need to use nuclear weapons to weaken Iran? Wouldn't you be better off destroying reservoirs, waterways, energy infrastructure? Okay? I don't understand what the purpose of a tactical nuclear weapon would be, okay? Now, people have discussed the possibility of using a tactical nuclear weapon to destroy underground missile bases. Yes, but there are a lot and lots of underground missile bases scattered throughout Iran. You don't have enough nuclear weapons to destroy these these missile bases, okay? So, I don't understand the logic of this. I don't believe Iran cares about Israel enough to commit suicide, okay? If you go against Israel, Israel will use nuclear weapons against you. And why would Iran want want want want want to cross that line if it means the destruction of the civilian population? Okay? And then Israel doesn't really need to destroy Iran. Israel needs to remove the United States from the equation and then deal with Iran at a later stage, okay? It wants to weaken Iran to a point where Iran has to spend all its time rebuilding itself. And if And so, my argument is that if a war between Iran and United States reaches a point where United States is forced to send millions of ground troops into Iran, it's going to destroy both places, both the United States and Iran. The The only person left standing will be Israel at the end. Okay? That's my argument. I still maintain this belief. Okay, keep on going. [clears throat] Two, Japan as a missed dominant force in Asia. In one of your lecture about South Korea, you said that the country will collapse because of its low fertility rate. But, it is the same for Japan. The

92:40population is old and the young don't want to make children. The most dominant industrial power in the region is China. Okay, China is an hallucination of an hallucination with low fertility rate, obsessed with money, no uh stock uh s- uh s- s- s- s- Okay, I I I understand what you're saying. All right. All right. So, um when I make predictions, I look at several factors. One factor that I look really closely at is resilience. Okay? So, if things are the same, yes, I understand China will dominate, Japan will decline. But, the thing about history is that there's always change. There's always these cycles. And if the world is heading towards disaster, which I think it is heading towards disaster, I ask myself, which nation states will be resilient? In that they will The people will most likely stand together and make changes necessary in order to overcome this adversity. And historically, it's always been uh Japan. Okay? Japan, in the in the 12th, 13th century, was able to survive two Mongolian invasions. 19th century, when they were being invaded by the Western powers, they uh underwent the Meiji um restoration and became an industrial power in about 20 30 years time. After World War II, when they were completely destroyed by the Americans, they came together, we changed their political and industrial system. Before they were That's something called the Zaibatsu system, which is basically monopolies, industrial monopolies. After World War II, they got rid of those things. They ate the rich, and then reindustrialized, and in about 20 30 years time, they became the most industrial They became the most They became the most advanced industrial economy in the world. Okay? So, the Japanese have a history of resilience, of making changes when when their survival is threatened. And that's why I think that Japan will probably do it again. Whereas, I I've not seen an instance of China being resilient. [music]

94:41Okay? I have not. Okay, can I go on? This is the last question. Thank you, Professor, for all the lectures you posted. Also, honorable mention, the YouTube algorithm that managed to draw a lot of us in the beginning to create a critical mass of viewers to start the hype. One question. If you would need to move permanently to another country in the next 6 months, what would be your top 10 and why? Okay, um first of all, because I have a family, I have three kids, I would not make any changes lightly. Okay? I would prefer not to move unless I was entirely sure that there's a better option for me. Okay? But, let us say for the for the reason, tomorrow I have to make that the move. Where would I go? Well, some countries that come to mind would include Botswana in Africa, because it's it's like far enough from everywhere. It's a It's a pretty stable society. Okay? So, Botswana is something to consider. Then you have Chile, uh in South America. I would consider New Zealand, possibly. Um Malaysia. Okay? So, these are four places I would consider if for the reason tomorrow World War III breaks out and Europe is on fire, America's attacking everyone, America's in civil war. Um There's lot lots of conflict in East Asia between Japan and China, who knows, okay? All right. Okay, so that's it for the um um founding members and that took us a lot of time, guys, okay? Um so I'm I'm going to I'm I'm I'm going to try to do some YouTube uh questions for another 10 minutes, okay? And then we'll break because it it it it'll be impossible for me to get through all of the YouTube questions. All right. Okay, so this is from Joyce live.

96:41Um space. What's my theory of space? I personally don't think space matters. I personally don't think we'll ever get to the moon. I don't think we'll be able to mine asteroids for resources. I think society will collapse much more quick quickly than we assume, okay? We we don't have the time, energy, the resources to go conquer the moon, okay? I think the space race it's all just an illusion. Space race, AI, alien invasion, they're all just lies perpetuated by the elite. I I I pay absolutely no attention to the space race. And this is strange because I grew up watching a lot of science fiction. I love science fiction. I read a lot of Isaac Asimov, um Ray Bradbury. I watched a lot of science fiction like Star Trek, okay? I love that. So I would love it if we could get to the Mars. We're not going to Mars, guys, okay? Not going to happen. I don't care what Elon Musk says, it's not going to happen. Let's get to the moon first, okay? Let's get the men on the moon first. All right. How can you explain India's position in this chessboard of as far as convergence? Um India, look, again, I don't know enough about India to make predictions. But, I will say that geopolitically, India is a very bad position because it has a large population. Uh its political system is very chaotic. And it's very resource constrained. It doesn't have that much resources. So, my prediction for India would not be that optimistic, okay? Uh but, eventually, I want to go visit India and discover for myself the strengths of India. All right. Um Why do you think the people of Israel have been constantly been expelled for from many countries over the course of history? Um the Israelites say it's because everyone is envious of them, but is that

98:42really true? If a kid is expelled from 109 schools, are the schools at fault or is the issue with the kid? Okay, so this is actually a question that a lot of people, I think, are really interested in, okay? So, let let me spend spend some time to explain what's going on. So, the Israelites have the Bible. And the Bible commands them to be forever loyal to God. And over the course of history, most Israelites have been absorbed into different communities, like the Christians and the Muslims, okay? And a lot convert themselves to uh Greek Hellenism or they just abandon uh Judaism because um they wanted to to join the elite. So, it's only been a minority, a very small minority, that has kept the Jewish faith alive over the centuries. As you imagine, these people are fanatical. Okay, so imagine like this a small community. A small community. [snorts] And so, the main problem is like how do you endure? Because their faith teaches them that what matters is their faith in God. They're the chosen people. [snorts] How can they endure as a people? And so, what happened in history is they basically made a deal with the devil. And what I mean by that is they made a deal with local nobility to serve them in exchange for being able to practice their faith. Okay? The deal often goes like this. Nobility will hire them as subcontractors to manage their wealth. The Jews are diaspora, okay? So, what they're really good at are trade and

100:42finance. Also, throughout most of human history, nobility were not allowed to engage in usury. Okay? Why? Because usury led to often to destruction of society. Okay, when you collect interest on debt, the debt often multiplies to an extent that no one can pay it off, which often leads to revolution. But, the problem is that usury was the most profitable enterprise you can you can engage in, okay? So, what they really did, which was very clever, is say, "Let's let's get the Jews to go do it, okay?" So, the Jews are not allowed to own property, go to school, but they're allowed to engage in usury, basically finance. Okay? So, this is the deal that a A of Jewish communities made with European nobility. As you can imagine, this is going to be a problem because when times are good, it's fine. But when times are bad, people are going to get angry. And who do they blame? They blame the Jews. Right? Because it's not the nobility that's collecting debt from you, it's the Jews that are collecting debt from you. The Jews think they are the chosen people, so they set themselves apart from you. They live in different in their own communities, they practice their own religion. And they think they're better than you, okay? And this is going to lead to a lot of conflict. So again, um when times are good, it's fine, but when times are bad, the Jews always get blamed. And again, history goes in cycles. And so when when when when when when times are bad, the Jews get expelled from a certain location and they move elsewhere where they restart again. But they don't care because for them, their mission is to endure, to keep the faith. Okay? And over the centuries, they've learned certain uh strategies

102:42of how to endure. Okay? And a lot of this is basically um segregation. Where they keep themselves separate from other people and they basically think that other people are dirty or whatever. I'm not saying all Jews, but like they have these traditions in place in order to endure. And a lot and a lot of these strategies tend to be very extreme. Okay? And unfortunately, we're seeing the same um same pattern emerge again in today's world where anti-Semitism is now a very common thing around the Western world. Okay? Not just because of what Israel is doing, but because of certain cultural practices of the Jews. Okay? That said, I have tremendous respect and admiration for the Jewish people because they are first and foremost intellectual people, a people of the book, who have contributed many great ideas to human history. Okay? All right. Which branch of studies have a future in our modern world? What would you study if you were at the crossroads of life? Okay. One advice I give to people is ignore AI. Okay? If you want to become a computer programmer, if you want to go master AI to make it to become a billionaire, you're going you're going to be disappointed. If you really want to prepare for the future, read books. Okay? Read the great books, but it doesn't matter you you don't have to read the great books, just read books. Because the skill that you will need in the future is the capacity to think critically, think independently, and think deeply about the world. And by reading books, you can start to engage in an inner mono- monologue, sorry, inner dialogue with yourself. Okay? And that's going to make you much more imaginative, much more resilient in

104:43the future. So, my best advice is doesn't matter what you study, but what what it does matter is to read books. Okay? All right. Um Could you help help help me read the next one? Uh I want Prof to talk about what advice he would give to his kids in this situation. We are going to collapse and the whole system is going to change. What advice Prof would give to his kids, how to prepare themselves for upcoming situations, and show how well you prepare your kids for the new war world. I would be delighted to hear professor's answers to these questions. Okay. So, every day I would just tell my kids three things, okay? And that's all I have to do. Okay, first thing I will say is like, I will always love you. No matter what happens, I will always love you. No matter what you do, I will always love you. If I die, I will still always love you, okay? Just know that. Wherever you go, wherever whatever you do, I will always love you and I'll always be with you. Okay? That's the first thing I I I I tell my kids. Second thing I I I'll tell my kids is I believe in you. Meaning whatever you do will be good. Just believe in yourself. Okay? All right. And the third thing I will say is just believe in yourself. And if my kids understand these three things, okay? That their parents always love them no matter no matter what they do. That their parents believe in them. And their highest mission in life is to believe in themselves, they'll be fine no matter what. Okay? So, it's not really about what university you should go to. It's not really about how much money you have. It's really about how you perceive yourself and your place in the world. And I want my kids to always believe

106:44that no matter what they do, no matter what where they go, their parents will always love them. Um Okay, can you can you help me read out? My question for the final exam is, if an AI civilian state as the end goal, why is there such a negative feeling in the general population for AI? What primary social, political, political, or game theoretic factors drive this public resistance, and how does it impact the trajectory of AI deployment? There is such negativity towards AI because everyone knows what the purpose of AI is. The purpose of AI is to make you as a human being worthless, redundant. We don't need you anymore because we have robots, we have AI. Okay? And human beings want to feel they're participating. Human Human beings want to feel uh valuable. Human beings want to contribute to the greater good. And AI is a system designed to make you redundant, okay? Um keep my voice You predicted US-China grand bargain where China absorbs Americans' 39 trillion steps via stable coins, the Janian act to maintain the global USD uh hallucination. However, you also taught us that the US grand strategy is to embargo Malacca and use 21st century warfare economic strangulation to force Beijing into submission. If China is already a fragile hallucination of a hallucination with collapsing consumer confidence, what American strangulations could accidentally trigger a total collapse of the CCP? How can American extract wealth from the Chinese consumer if their own choke point strategy destroy the Chinese state from within? Okay. So, this is a really interesting question. Okay. So, So, I'll make some So, the comments. The first comment I'll make is that if you If you're a hallucination, you don't know you're a hallucination, okay?

108:45You don't. Um so, objectively, this may be true, but the players don't know that it's true. That's the first point I'll make. Second point I'll make is that in a game, your objective is to win the game. Now, by winning the game, it may cause the game to collapse, but you don't care. The point is to win the game. And you'll use whatever tools you have in order to win the game. So, it's possible that this US-China trade war will end up collapsing both nations, but that's not the point. The point is to win the game. Okay? The point is not to survive the game. The point is to win the game. And sometimes winning the game means destroying yourself. Like committing suicide, basically. Uh that's my second point. Um the third point I will make is that um China and America um they need to engage in a sort of struggle in order to come to an agreement. Okay? The reason why is that there's lots of domestic interests that they have to deal with. So, for example, if you're Donald Trump and you want a grand bargain with China, there's going to be a lot of people opposed to this because they think that China is the great threat and that any compromise with China means selling out the American nation. Okay? So, you need to engage in certain conflict and warfare in order to dissipate or reduce domestic tension in order to advance a deal. Okay? Does that make sense? So, I I understand it's a really dangerous game they're playing, but welcome to geopolitics. This is the way the world works. The people in charge are psychopaths. Because in order to win the game, you have to be a psychopath. Okay? Think about who in this world is respected. Well, Israel is is respected.

110:48Putin is respected. North Korea is respected. Donald Trump is respected. Why? Because they're all crazy. These people, everyone agrees on is they could, if threatened enough, they'll press a button and blow up the world. Okay? That's what gets you respect in this world. The crazier you are, the more legitimacy you have. Okay? And that's why the games they're playing are crazy. Will this lead to the end of the world? Probably, okay? That's what That's what I've been teaching you guys for a long, long time. The people in charge are crazy. The game they're playing is crazy. It's going to lead to the end of the world. All right. We're going to do three more questions because we could be here forever, okay? But we'll do three more questions and we'll end the examination. Okay, can you read, Allen? Yeah. Explain that American needs an AI civilian state operation strategy uh Stargate to manage domestic rebellion against a coming national draft. You also noted that the current global civil war pits transactional capital against an alliance of nationalist, the church, and tech elite Trump, Thiel, Musk. But if the tech elites are using Masonic a code philosophy to build an arc anti-Christ uh technate that strips human free will, won't Trump's fierce uh fiercely armed Christian nationalist base eventually realize they are being enslaved by the exact system they're fighting for? Won't the technate trigger a second American civil war instead of preventing it? Yeah, this is exactly right. Um So, a civil war is going to happen and there's going to be many different factions. There's There's going to be many different reasons why the civil war happens. But one reason is that there's going to be a lot of resistance towards an AI civilian state. This This is exactly exactly right, okay? Um and and there's really nothing anyone can do right now to stop a civil war from happening, okay? Keep on going.

112:50In this recent lecture on putting in Beijing, you noted that Vladimir Putin wants Russia to lead the multipolar world even if it means acting as a junior partner to China. However, given Russia's uh fierce historical emphasis on absolute sovereignty and it self imagined as the third Rome can putting strategy generally survive a long-term future where Russia is economically subordinate to the Chinese elite that fundamentally preferred that American was hot policeman. What is Russia's exist game if China choose a divorce? Okay, this is exactly correct, okay? Um, the Chinese don't trust the Russians because the Russians are extremely nationalistic. Extreme I mean there's Russian supremacy, okay? Even though Russia will pretend to be the junior partner to China, the Russians believe they're superior to China. And a lot has to do with the third Rome eschatology that uh they have. Um, so if there's a divorce, can Russia survive economically? And the answer is yes. It doesn't need China. Okay, it just needs to fight wars. Because if you think about historically, how a nation developed wealth was by conquering other nations, okay? So what Russia is going to do is move towards a total war economy and completely focus on the conquest of its neighbors, especially uh Ukraine, but also the Baltic states as well, and then Central Asia. Okay, so as long as Russia is able to maintain its internal cohesion, engage in all war, then Russia will be fine. All right, can you hear me all right? Yeah. Hello Mr. Keating, my question is for the final exam would be plainly simple. According to the lecture material, I'm inclined to believe Putin has a grand plan laid out. What would happen if Putin would cease being Russian leader for reason outside of his control? Would there be individual or collective effort to follow same

114:50ideology and continue his plan? This is a great question, okay? Um, so first of all, I think Putin is going to live a lot longer than people believe. I think he's going to live another 20 years. Okay, that that that that what my that's what instinct tells me. Uh he's going to live for another 20 years, okay? We also know what happens when a great leader dies. It it it's very interesting what happens, okay? So, if you look at um Genghis Khan and Muhammad, when they die, okay? There's a pattern that emerges, which is there's at first internal friction. Okay? So, the different interests in Russia get together and they start fighting over succession. Who succeeds? And then they decide we cannot possibly agree on succession. So, what we'll do is we will just go to war with everyone, okay? To just expand outwards. Okay? Russia will just expand outwards. Okay? So, you have this massive expansion that might go on for 10 20 years where they basically conquer everyone around them because no one is no one is as militaristic as they are. But then what happens, and this is really interesting, is just exhaustion. Where they either lose or they win, but everyone's exhausted and then they they just decay internally, okay? So, I I myself don't see Russia as having a great future, but this is a pattern that emerges if you look at history. You know, when a great leader dies, there's internal friction, internal chaos, which leads to military expansion overseas in order to reduce this internal friction, and then eventually the empire exhausts itself because it's fighting too many wars at once. Okay? And that's the fate I see for Russia. Okay, guys. Well, we've been all here for almost 2 hours. We can go on for another 2 hours, but I don't want to because I I'm exhausted. Uh yeah yeah yeah, Vincent. I think I have a final question. Like I I always wonder like why are we born in

116:53like up by ourselves? Like why am I Asian? Why am Chinese? Why am I not a white guy? Or why I'm not a like people I'm not a person in another place of the world. Like, why are we ourselves? It Is this connected to Mona? Yes, okay. So, why you here? Okay? And so, the theory is this. And there are lots of reasons why, but but but but let let me give you a basic theory, okay? Theory is that you come to Earth as a soul. And your soul has a purpose. And the purpose is always to um enlighten yourself. Enlightenment, basically. All right? So, the So, you basically up there decide on a purpose. Your purpose could be like, I want to experience being rich. Or I want to experience uh being in love. Okay? You always have a defining purpose that becomes the core of who you are. And so, once you have this purpose, then you're assigned to a place in this world that allows you to achieve your purpose. Okay? So, you are who you are for a purpose. And this purpose is good. When it's good, it's for you to try to achieve your purpose. Unfortunately, what happens in our world is that because of school, because of parents, because of society, you're blocked from knowing your purpose, from truly pursuing your purpose. That's part of the purpose as well, because for you to truly fulfill your purpose, you need to overcome a lot of challenges and obstacles, okay? And once you achieve your purpose, then you understand yourself a lot better, okay? Then you go back and you're like, okay, now I want a new purpose. But maybe you don't want to this purpose, in which case, well, you do it

118:53again, okay? All right? And this this is this is the idea of samsara in Vedic um mythology. Okay? So, that's one explanation. There are other ex- ex- explanations, okay? But, the thing to remember is that you came here for a purpose. You may not remember what your purpose is, but you can feel what your purpose is. And so, what you should always do is trust your intuition, because that's what that's what's going to lead you to your purpose. You're in this You're here in this classroom as part of your purpose. I'm here teaching you as part of my purpose. Okay? And that's the structure of the universe. Does that make sense? Okay, guys. All right. So, thank you. Uh enjoy the rest of your life.