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0:02Hi, great. So, um, welcome to this Zoom discussion. Um, thank you again so much for supporting my work. Um, as many of you know, I am in the process of of transition. I have left my um um teaching job and now um I am trying to uh figure out what next steps are.
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2:02discussion tonight. So um are there any questions? Um I hope I'm hoping this is this this will be an interactive session. So um I'm hoping that you guys will ask questions and I'll just respond um with with my thoughts. But are there any questions or comments?
Um does anyone want to raise uh his or her hand to begin?
Um hello anyone. I would like to.
Okay. Yeah. Thank you, Sarah.
Thank you. Um, so good evening everyone. Hi, Professor Jang. Thank you for the uh Zoom meeting. So, I'm just uh my my question is a little bit general because with the very recent developments with Trump, his uh we go back to war situation.
Um obviously apparently he mentioned he still wants to talk to Iran, but the ceasefire is over. So the whole story continues there. But what are your thoughts now? Do you think they might then now start to get the ground troops going um or at least get the soldiers ready so to say? Yeah, my English I'm from Belgium so I try to um make it clear.
So it's a bit general I know but it's just a startup and it's with the recent information I got yesterday when I was checking the news.
Yeah. So I think for the next two to three months you will have a lot of back and forth. There's going to be some uh moments of of intense um warfare like what's happening what's been happening these two these two days and suddenly it will stop for for a few more days they will say theou is still in force and then for whatever reason uh we're back at war again. Okay. So I I want to go over why this is happening.
Okay. Okay. Um, first of all, what's really important to appreciate is that uh the
4:03military leadership is now divided from the political leadership in Iran. So the political leadership are the ones who are negotiating. They're the ones who are trying to have a permanent ceasefire in order to maintain economic stability in their country. the military leadership uh which is basically the IRGC uh they have they have actual control of the shoo and from their perspective um there's no point in an MOU there's no point in a ceasefire because the Israelis and Americans won't won't respect it anyway. So um there's this dynamic dynamic going on where um on the surface politically Iran is stilling to the MOU but militarily uh Iran is uh has decided to that America and Israel will eventually invade and so they need to prepare for this eventuality.
Okay, that's point one. Point two is that um Iran, the United States and the Israelis are committed to war, but the world is going to suffer a great deal from this conflict. And so you have countries like uh China, especially China, but also India, Pakistan, the GCC who are trying to apply as much diplomatic pressure as possible um on the Iranians to uh to agree to a ceasefire. Um it's impossible for the world to apply any pressures to the Israelis and the Americans. They don't they don't care.
Um so what they're doing is they're applying a lot of pressure on the Iranians to uh stop the war and open up the shamus. It's completely unfair to the Iranians because it's really the Americans and Israelis who are the aggressors. But unfortunately uh the world especially China and India can only apply pressure to Iran. And China has a lot of leverage because China buys up 90% of uh Iranian oil. So um the the Iranians have absolutely no choice but to respect uh the Chinese
6:05desire to seek a political settlement as soon as possible. And so they only maintain this theater where you know on the surface they're trying to um come to a peace peaceful ceasefire as soon as possible but they know that eventually Americans will send in ground troops. So they have to prepare for this eventuality. Okay, that's that's the second point. Uh, and the third point is that the Americans have already decided on a on a ground invasion.
The problem right now is it's too hot to send in troops. They've got 60,000 uh soldiers. They've got two aircraft uh carriers. They've got like 20 warships. Um, so the ground invasion is being staged right now.
But again, it's just too hot. Also in a ground invasion, uh the Americans want to be the support force, right? So basic they basically want want to send in the Kurds and um other groups in the front line to draw out the IRGC so that it can be targeted by the um um by by American air power. So um the Americans need time to convince the Kurds to go in first and they need time to stage entire ground operation which just means bringing logistics uh preparing the soldiers preparing the battlefield um uh plan but um I would say they've already they've already decided on renovation. It will happen as early as October um possibly after the midterms.
Um, so a lot of what we're seeing right now, it's just theater. Uh, they're just they're just trying to delay um the in inevitable. Okay. So I I'm not sure if if if you even a followup question, Sarah, was this clear?
Um,
I have just a a follow-up question, Professor. So because you mentioned China buys up the a lot of oil, so they have that leverage. Um but we're seeing now after the first situation where they were like oh it's going to cost so much
8:06for the people because of the straight off Hermoose and in your your last post in the article you mentioned it like now no one is talking about it everything stays the same price because there uh China went like probably did some bargaining um to to lift the pressure actually for the public of the world um what do you think is the the development is that the same pot they're going to keep going until the invasion in the second part of the year goes and then we going to feel it more or uh yeah that's my follow-up question.
Yeah. So I think one really important thing we need to keep in mind is the people in charge right now do not do long-term thinking. They don't do long-term strategy for them. It's all about shortterm benefit. Right?
So uh Trump does not want the price of oil to skyrocket because then the American public will freak out. So he so he's made a deal with a lot of people but the Chinese but also the Iranians, the Russians, right? So he's basically allowing the Iranians to sell oil to dump oil uh in in the market primarily to the Chinese. Uh he's got the Chinese to promise him to lower demand and control their own supply. Um so um that's that's what he's doing.
You know, he he thinks he's he's a dealmaker. He thinks, you know, it's the art of the deal and he can get everyone on the table and agree on a plan. But, uh, the reality is that the world needs oil. It needs cheap oil from the Middle East. It is impossible to substitute, uh, cheap oil from the Middle East with Venezuela oil or Russian oil or American oil.
And so in a few weeks time you will see a massive global emergency which will include uh food shortages which will include inflation which will include uh the price of oil skyrocketing. Okay. So all Trump is doing is delaying the inevitable. Right. So, so I I I appreciate that.
Um, a lot of what's happening is confusing, but basically
10:06what they're doing is they're trying to um p kick the can down the road if that makes sense.
Yes.
Okay.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, Professor.
Um, so thank you so much, sir. So, Leandro, uh, Leandro, could you, um, um, ask ask a question or make a comment, please?
Hello, Professor, can you hear me?
Yes, I can. You sound great. Great. Yes. So, great to be here on the call.
First of all, thank you very much for your lectures these past few months. Um, so what I'm cur what I'm curious about is like in the media like these last few years with the rise of certain influencers like how do you see how do you view that rise of like influencers like um like even you've talked to Sneo on a few calls as well obviously. How do you kind of see the rise of these influencers who promote young men to be like, "Yeah, you need to be more masculine. You need to make more money, uh, get fit and strong and all of that." Do you view is that kind of a natural occurrence, you think, or is it also more like an industry planned in a way if you understand my question?
Sure. I I understand. Yeah. So, I mean, we've seen a lot of influencers these past 10 years that have skyrocketed to fame, right, who speak to young men. Uh, the most obvious example is Jordan P.
Peterson. And Jordan Peterson was able to capture the imagination of young men, especially young white men, because at this time in history, this this year, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, right, the especially these four years, DEI world politics, um, progressive politics has basically taken over um the American, Canadian,
12:06Western school system. And you know, young men were taught that masculinity was toxic and that they were the real problems uh in society and a lot of people uh especially from minority groups were being promoted in schools. And we have to keep in mind that in the school system, especially at the primary school level, most teachers are woman teachers. And women teachers tend to prefer or advantage a certain student uh that is obedient uh that is focused that is diligent and these tend to be uh more this tend benefits more girls than boys. Okay.
I mean the reality is if you look at statistics girls do a lot better in school than boys. Uh so I think like the ratio in university right now like if if like it's I think it's like 60/40 right 60% of all students in university right now are female and 40% are male uh it could be 55 45 but there's a clear advantage for uh women students over uh uh uh men students and so it's very confusing if you're a young white man because in your world it seems the women have all the advantage Right? But you've been taught that you're the problem in society. It's your masculinity that is the problem in society. And this also ties into how people especially young kids are over subscribed or or or over prescribe medication.
Right? So if you happen to like have questions or you run around too much, they get they diagnose you diagnose you as ADHD and they make you take uh rolin or something and and that's just destroying the psychology of of young men and you know I have two boys and I think it's one of the thing that they run around that they rough house that they ask questions that that
14:06they disobey me. I I think that's just part of the growing up grow up process. So I think that you know young men especially young white white men feel extremely disadvantaged feel extremely discriminated against uh in society but but they could not articulate uh these concerns because their teachers their parents all these authority figures um told them that they were the problem and then that and that's why someone like Jordan Peterson is such a a breath of fresh air right and then the tape brothers come along and look the reality is that Um, if you're a young person, I'm not saying like, you know, young white man. I'm just saying if you're just a young person, you're completely screwed over because the baby boomers have all the wealth, they have all the people power, and they're not dying. So, there's really no social mobility in society.
So I think because all these like social economic factors because all this you know discrimination against young uh men in society um the tape brothers um um Nick Fuentes uh Jordan Peterson they all give voice to these people and I think look I think it's a great thing like there's more debate in society. I think it's a great thing that there are more voices in in in society. So um it's unfortunate that what's happened is that the debate has become much more siloed and marginalized. What I mean by that is you're not you're like you before when I was growing up it was important to engage people's arguments. Now it's just like well I don't like who you are.
I I don't like who you represent so I will now just ignore you. Okay. So deplatforming cancel culture have become very very common and all this does is feed the appetite for people like Jordan Peterson, Nick Fantes, the tape brothers even more. Um so so those are my thoughts. Do you have any more questions, Leandrew?
Yeah, like basically so it's uh kind to
16:09sum it up. Um, it's kind of like because of the like these last few decades that people have that young men have become kind of
Thank you so much. just more disemb that that has that like this shift in structure has like just allowed the space for these people to then as you say uh provide a breath of fresh air and then but it's kind of just a natural process then that that's the logical consequence of the of the of how the last few years and decades developed.
Yeah.
Essentially.
Yeah. And I I think the major issue is that rather than engaging people like Jordan Peterson or the Tape brothers or Nick Fuentes um in instead of like engaging them in debate, these people
Yeah. people just follow them blindly then.
Yeah. the these these people are labeled in a certain way that does not allow for debate. So I'm a big proponent of free speech. I'm a big proponent of free debate. So if you don't disagree if you disagree with someone, it's important to engage that person in uh in a debate and uh show the uh problems or uh vulnerabilities in that person's argument.
And but when you actually just uh cancel other people then that makes them martyrs and that makes people even more uh loyal to them.
Right. Okay. Thank you for now. We have some questions later.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Uh uh so Pedran uh Pedran it's Yes. Hi.
18:11Hello professor. Thank you so much for your time. Hello class. Um, in your most recent post, The Perfect Storm, uh, you had a lot of great correlations. One of the big ones you made was the collapse of the Bronze Age, to where we are in history.
So, I'd like for you to talk a little bit about that. And the the point that really stuck out to me because I think many people would sweep it under the rug is that at Anchorage at the most NATO uh, the most recent NATO conference, Trump gave the green light to Zillinsky
for producing the Patriot Defense Missile System in house in Ukraine. What does that mean? How will Putin escalate?
Right. Okay. So, um I draw a correlation between our time and the bronze age collapse because uh both times are represent a time of maximum globalization. Meaning that um Pax Americana, the American Empire is able to cover every aspect of the globe. And so if there's a collapse, it has to be a complete systems collapse, right?
Um so in World War II, Europe did collapse, Asia did collapse, but North America really wasn't that affected. And so North America, uh primary United States to come over and rebuild the rest of the world. And this is what's led to Pax Americana. Okay. Unfortunately, today uh Pax America covers every part of the world.
So if Pax America falls, the American Empire declines, the rest every part of the world is uh affected. And uh this is most uh noticeable with the closing of the street of Hamuz where be whereas if this straight of Hamus stays closed for the next few weeks then you'll have famine Africa you you'll have um lockdowns in East Asia you'll have inflation in uh America the global south won't be able to feed the population in about a year's time so so so we can see how one part of the world can cascade and affect every as every other part of the world. Okay. So that's that's a correlation between the branch age and our world today. Um and then the
20:12idea of Trump telling Zilinski like now he can manufacture patriot air defense systems. Okay. So this is a major escalation and it shows us that this conflict between Trump and NATO it was just it was just theater. It was never really a conflict. Uh the Americans were always in control of NATO.
And so this is something that I've talked about before. But if you look at the national defense strategy that the Pentagon or the state department of war has published uh it calls for a three pillar strategy. Okay. The first pillar is something called the Don Ro doctrine which is America will uh maintain control and hegemony throughout the western hemisphere. Basically, it will remove Russian China from the Western Hemisphere and force China, especially China to to to pay a heavy premium if it wants to trade with say Brazil or Argentina or Chile.
Okay? And China has no choice but to trade with the Western Hemisphere because China relies on the world for its food and energy needs. Okay? So that that's pillar number one, the Dunro doctrine. Pillar number two is for America to use its um naval supremacy and and air supremacy to control the world's major maritime choke points which includes the sh of Malaa the sh of Jialter the Panama Canal the Arctic Circle uh the Cape of Good Hope uh and also the shoo so even though it seems as though uh the Iranians have control the shoo ultimately it's Americans who can uh control who leaves leaves and enters trade of moves.
Okay. So the second pillar is for uh the Americans to control all the world's major maritime choke points in order to control trade. The third uh pillar of the strategy is to create conflicts in the three major spheres of influence in the world. Okay. So basically what America wants is uh a conflict conflict between NATO and Ukraine uh sorry NATO and Russia in Ukraine.
a conflict between uh Japan and
22:14China over Taiwan, a conflict between Iran and Israel over the Middle East. Okay? And in with these conflicts, America doesn't need to win any of them. All America needs is for these wars to be continues, to keep on going. And that way America can can supply all three regions with uh resources primarily energy and food uh armaments, weapons and also financing, right?
And this will resolve the issue of the $40 trillion of US national debt because what America will do is offload its debt to the rest of the world. And so that that's really the strategy of America moving forward. And we're seeing this play out now um in Ukraine where now uh America is going to subsidize Ukrainian manufacturer of weapons. So when Trump says to Zinski, you're now able to manufacture Patriot missiles, he's not saying that Ukraine will do so. What he's saying is that Europe will do so.
That's a huge difference, right? Because if these weapons are being manufactured in Ukraine, it's fairly easy for Russia to target these these factories and destroy these factories. But if these factories are uh located inside Germany, Latvia, Romania, uh Poland, these places, if Russia were to attack these factories, that that that would uh invoke article 5 of NATO, which would basically lead us to nuclear armagging. And I I don't think Russia wants to uh cross that line. I don't want I don't think Russia wants to escalate to that point.
Okay. So that that's that's what's happening. So when Trump says he is arming he is giving Ukraine patriot missiles, what he's really saying is that he's arming Europe for a long-term confrontation with uh Russia. So and then Russia knows this and what we're seeing from Russia is they're moving towards total war. So right now it's a special military
24:14operation but now you have a lot of top Russian officials saying look this is a war against NATO. So let's stop pretending and let's move towards total war. Okay. So so so that that's the situation with Ukraine.
Thank you so much.
Okay. [snorts] Great. All right. Uh Nicholas.
Hello professor. Can you hear me?
Yes I can. You sound great.
Okay. Thank you very much. Uh hi everybody. Um yeah um so also taking into consideration uh what you just spoke about uh uh the current state of the world. Well um I live in Colombia.
I was born in Peru. So uh I I always think that uh this kind of uh pressure in uh in the other side of the world especially with Iran and with the the food production over there is going to create more instability in this part of the world in Latin America. So I'm not sure if you have any predictions or any thoughts about how that's going to play out in our part of the world.
Yeah. So unfortunately um America will become very aggressive in the northern hemisphere. So we saw what America did to Venezuela in January of this year. Uh right now what America is doing is embargoing Cuba. So these millions of Cubans are not not have lost access to energy.
Okay. So Cuba is not able to produce its own energy. It has to import it from Venezuela. And now Russia's trying to supply Cuba with energy and with food, but that's not a long-term solution. So we can expect Cuba to be the next domino to fall.
And Trump also has ambitions for Greenland and for Alberta as well in Canada. So Trump, he's he speaks his mind. I mean, that that's a thing that that that's very um confusing about Trump in that Trump is really the only politician in the world who actually speaks what he thinks. I mean, he changes his mind all the time,
26:14but he's going to tell you exactly how he thinks. And so, he want he's he's he's uh he wants Mexico. So, they will use a pretext of fighting the cartels to eventually subvert Mexico and force Mexico into into becoming a basel state. They will also go after Colombia as well, uh using the same pretext of fighting the cartels, uh trying to stop the drug trade, uh trying to stop fentanyl from from crossing the American border. Um, and what this is going to lead to is a major surge of Latin American nationalism.
And so, um, um, you know, Latin Americans are really disgusted by what happened in Venezuela. They're really disgusted by by what they're seeing in Cuba. And unfortunately, the, um, Americans will only become more aggressive over time. And the reason why is their economy is suffering. The global economy is suffering.
So what what what they need to do is cannibalize the western hemisphere. They basically need to go in and steal resources from the western hemisphere. Um and at first it will seem the Americans are very successful but eventually you will have u many indigenous movements rise up uh and fight against America. There's a very good reason why America didn't didn't do this in the past, right? America could always choose if it wanted to to colonize the entire Western Hemisphere.
didn't do so because it was a pain in the ass because you you don't you didn't want to deal with nationalists. You didn't want to deal with guerrilla warfare. Um so that's a situation that um the Western Hemisphere is heading towards. I will also point out Argentina is a flash point. Um, so I I wrote about Argentina a few weeks ago and one of my readers made a very interesting comment, which is, you know what, they'll probably fix the World Cup for Argentina to make the Argentinas more submissive to Paka and to the Americans.
And that's exactly what's happening right now. If you just watch the World Cup, it's it's clear they are fixing they're fixing the stupid thing, okay, for Messi. And you
28:15know what? I wouldn't be surprised in five years time Messi is elected the president of Argentina for life. Okay. I would not be surprised if in five years time they make Messi king of Argentina and and of course he will serve the Zionist and uh American imperial interests. So um so so so yeah.
Yeah.
All right. Professor Professor if you don't mind I have a second question.
Sure. Go ahead related. It it has to do with what someone else put on the on the chat. It's regarding um for example since I watch your classes I have access to different books that maybe I have not come before. uh I basically had to build my own own curriculum so I can study on my own.
But sometimes it feels overwhelming and I'm not sure if you have uh any kind of way or any advice for us that some for example I feel like I've been left behind by the education system. I'm I'm trying to catch up right now but it feels hard while trying to play the adult in the society. So do you have any words or or advice in regarding that?
Yeah. So I would suggest that it's very important to read good books because reading good books really enhances your own capacity to think deeply and to really study the news, right? So we're bombarded by news all the time. The problem for us is how do you differentiate what is real news from what is fake news, right? So I I spend all my time on Twitter and I need to figure out um what is real and what is fake because 90% of what you read on Twitter is going to be fake news, right?
And so I think reading the reading really good books really trains the mind to do so. So the first book I I would recommend is maybe um the the pelian the pelpian war by fusidities. It's a great book uh really fun to read and there are lots of YouTube videos that uh that explain it and fusidities is I think the
30:15greatest ge geopolitical strategist ever in human history. So I I I I strongly recommend uh fusidities and you know the the great thing is like what's happening in the world today is very similar to what happened between Athens and Sparta like you know over 2,000 years ago. So it's really relevant. And the thing about the Greeks is they're very objective. You know, like Fidilities even even though he was he was an Athenian general, he was trying to write about the war from a very objective lens.
So So that's the first book I would recommend.
Okay. So basically reading good books to uh discriminate truth from from fake.
Exactly. Right. Yeah. Reading good books will really uh enhance your critical thinking skills. Thank you so much.
Great. Okay. Uh Joyce.
Hello, Professor Jen. Um my name is Joyce. I live in the New York City area. So, I actually have three questions. Um if it's too much,
no worries. No worries.
You don't have to answer all of them or pick the one you like.
Lots of time. Yep.
Okay. So, um, no, in no particular order, um, what signals do you look for?
Like I understand I've asked you like about timing before and you say like you don't like to talk about timing because um it's impossible to know like when things will play out, right? Okay, that's fine. So then I guess what are like signals that you will look for actively as kind of a um like a sign that things are going to change dramatically one way or another. [clears throat]
Yeah. So um when I follow the news I'm always looking for anomalies. Okay. Or the idea of cognitive dissonance which is um given my understanding of something this should not be happening.
32:17And so the best example of co cognitive dissonance is um um when the FBI in like they rated Trump's Marilago uh mention back in I believe was it 2021 March of 2021 but I knew that when the FBI did that that Trump would become president in 2024 and the reason why is that with the FBI weaponized against Trump, Trump would have no choice but to reclaim the presidency to defend himself. Also, the FBI by doing that made Trump into a folk hero, right? Because the American people are disgusted with the political elite and uh Trump in the four years he was in office really didn't really do much for American people and that's probably why he lost his election his uh re-election campaign. Uh but when the FBI invaded uh sorry when when the FBI raided Trump's house, the the the people felt that Trump is now the underdog. And it's possible that Trump, if he goes back into office, he would basically um uh make everyone piss their pants, you know, really shake things up.
and and and so so that so I was convinced at that that event that um Trump would win in 2024 and uh that's number one. Uh number two is um when in January 2020 when the Americans killed General Kasam Salmani and the reason why is the uh General Salmani was the Middle East envoy for the Iranians and for the past 20 years he was working with the Americans uh dur for on the war on terror. So the Iranians were huge uh supporters of the Americans in their fight against ISIS in Iraq because the
34:17Iranians did not want these you know these Sunni extremists uh near the border. So for these past 20 years uh the Americans and General Solomony were getting along very really well and then they killed him. So that basically told me the Americans were intent on declaring war against Iran. Um, so those are two things that I thought were anam anomalies and didn't really um accord with how things worked. And that just tells you that there's a sea shift in place that um something is is a foot.
So the assassination of General Solommani convinced me that the Americans would invade uh Iran really really quickly and they would have done so if Trump had won uh his re-election campaign in 2020. Um, and then when Trump got raided by the FBI, I was convinced that Trump would win the 2024 election.
Interesting. Thank you. Um, so my second question is, um, it it seems to me you read primarily English news. So I'm curious, you know, if you read or or can read news in other languages. Um, and if so, what do you read and kind of what are the disparities that you see between different languages?
That's a great question. Uh, I wished I read widely. Um, but I I don't read widely. Um, I I stick primarily to English news sources just because it's easier for me to access. I tend to read really quickly.
Uh, I can read Chinese, but I read it very slowly. Now, I do keep um um I I I I do uh keep a prize of Chinese news and uh my wife just tells me what the headlines are every every single day. I'm interested in Chinese news because I find actually Chinese news to be actually pretty objective when it comes to foreign events. China China doesn't seem that invested in the world and so its news media tends to be pretty objective when when it reports.
36:17Um, and I'll pay attention to some Russian and Iranian news as well, right? So, when an event happens, I'm trying to get information from all sort all all sources. So, maybe maybe uh the Americans will say something. Maybe the BBC BBC or New York Times says something about uh Iran, in which case I would want to know what the Iranian state media would say about the same uh thing. and uh where they converge.
I know it to be um objective, but but I mean like it's a great point where you know if you really want to keep informed about the world, you want to have as many different news sources as possible in different languages. And nowadays with social media, it is possible to auto translate a lot of u of of of news items.
So I don't know if you've seen um like that thing called press reader. They have it in hotels from time to time and it kind of collates a lot of different newspapers from everywhere,
right?
Um, okay. So, I have my my last question is so, um, I have kids as well. Um, I have two young daughters. Um, so I'm curious, you know, for the purpose of helping them, you know, not be stuck in a box, right, in whatever education system they're in to, you know, develop them as critical thinkers. Are there programs that you know of that are good for that that aren't necessarily in any particular um physical location?
Um and or is that something you're developing yourself?
Yeah. So um I'm not sure if you know the Wardorf school system.
Uh the Wardorf school system developed by Rudolph Steiner.
Um that's something to uh look at. uh these Silicon Valley executives in California, they sent all their kids to Rudolph uh uh these Ward schools because um these Ward schools emphasized um a lot of natural play just like kids run around uh in the forest a lot and uh
38:18that's really important for for kids and Silicon Valley executives do this because they know that technology is designed to be as addictive as possible. Um so if kids at a very early age start looking at the screen too much um their minds are captured uh the screens are set in a certain way that it becomes almost um addictive right it's always causing um this dopamine release inside the brain and so um you want your kids away from sugar you want your kids away from the screen as much as possible we I have three kids I struggle with this because these things are so pervasive throughout our society, right? And these things are things are are designed to be addictive. So, uh you know, the the quickest way to solve a problem is, hey, you know, if the kid is naughty, hey, here's a candy. Shut up, man.
Or hey, here's an iPad. Go away for half an hour. So, it's very convenient um these things, but they're really really bad for children. So, my best advice is to really limit as much as possible both sugar access as well as screen access. Thank you.
Great. And you you had a third question.
Oh, no. That was my third question.
Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I lost. Okay.
Thanks [clears throat] a lot. Okay. Okay. Uh Nick,
hi Nick.
Uh hi, professor. Hi. Uh this is Nick from Beijing. Um thank you for hosting this meeting. I really appreciate this opportunity.
I basically have two questions on self exploration and the other one on educating young children. I be I believe Troy's question is actually quite similar uh to mine. Um so let me first set up my perspective. Sure. Um so when watching through Yeah, thank you.
when watching through your lectures I feel enlightened many times and I like to I would like to think that my inner spark shines when I got my own ideas uh inspired in this process. So from these
40:20experiences, I also recollected that when during the process of me growing up in China, I actually have had some of these similar moments where I can simply relate to the idea and believe it to be true even without logic reasoning. And in many of these cases, however, those insights I had are opposite to the common sense I was taught in China education system or uh my by my parents. Therefore, most of them are actually discouraged and I was taught uh the priority is to get good marks and good scores and a good job. So, these conflicts have always been in my mind even until like uh a couple of years ago in my 30s basically and in the system is finally clear through learning your view of the world and reflecting it um into my daily life. So um and then however from this enlightenment I have a new dot which originated from a Marxist theory I once firmly believed to be uh to make sense.
So basically the base and the super structure theory the material base um is kind of dominant when shaping the superructure. So my oversimplification is basically that um and uh my doubt is based on this is that if the base and superstructure theory is true and also can relate to personal on personal level um then is it possible that my enlightenment is based on the materialist education I received which granted me my current economic status which I would say is comfortable in in China and then I So then I would have the free bandwidth and also the sort of the vision the open vision to access more knowledge and seek insights. Um so I'm curious then my first question is um I'm curious how your view is on this base and superstructural theory and does my adult make sense and then directly
42:20related um I have a four-year-old son um I want him to have the same insights that I had when he grows up and seek his own path of enlightenment but then it's a really the classic question for China family how should I balance this education for his material base for aiming for the good marks and then um then then the education for his imagination and exploration. Um it's might be sounds stupid for me to be anxious about this but I'm a father as a father I'm generally concerned. I also have read your uh book.
Oh right
try to look [laughter] look it's a really great book. Um like I I spend like one afternoon and reading I just cannot stop. Um so but really want to have this discussion with you uh on these topic directly as you see they're kind of related. Yeah. So, thank thank you so much and I really sympathize with your plight because I'm also Chinese and uh you know we grew up in a culture that is extremely materialistic.
Um, so I was not schooled in China, but I was schooled in Toronto. And [clears throat] [laughter] my parents were were were Chinese. And so I've always develop a very materialistic uh worldview. And we were not at all religious. And um, for the longest time I was a firm believer in Marxist theory, especially the idea of base and superructure.
And I really believe the world was materialistic. But as time progresses, I recognize that materialism is a dead end. If you really believe that the world is just materialistic and there's no spiritual aspect to the world, there's no God. Um I think that's a source of your fear and anxiety, right? Because if you just take that as a premise, then you're just stuck forcing your kid uh try to do as well in school as possible.
You're trying to you're stuck trying to get your kid into
44:20the best school, the best university, the best job. And um it it's a dead end. So I think that um you have you have to really question this materialist perspective. And you know these past four years uh from my intense study of Dante, the great books, Homer, Plato, uh from my own um analysis and research in the occult, um I'm convinced now that the materialist worldview is just wrong. uh it makes absolutely no sense and it's a dead end.
And so I've I've adopted a much more spiritual religious worldview and this it's very similar to you know Hinduism, Buddhism, uh hermeticism, narcissism. Um, I think all the great religious traditions align in the belief that the universe is conscious and that our consciousness is what makes us human and our consciousness is connected infinitely to the universe across infinite dimensions. And you know, I plan to do a series on their cult very soon uh hopefully as soon as September or October. But I really want to enlighten the world and teach the idea that the universe is conscious and that we are all spiritual beings at the end of the day. And once you recognize that, then the answers unfold before you.
And once you're committed to living a spiritual life, then you'll figure out how to raise children to the best of your ability. So, I have three young kids and you know I uh the the eldest is eight. Uh the middle is four, the youngest is three. And um I struggle with the same issues that you struggle with, Nick. And what I've come what what I recognize is that as long as you make the commitment to love your child and respect your child's uh individuality, then the child will be fine.
And your
46:20child doesn't really need to go to the best university. Your child doesn't need to be a millionaire. Your child will be a very very happy person. So um you know love it's really about trusting the other person, right? So so I understand there's there's a lot of pressure to make sure your child does well.
Um but you know if you find the strength to just trust your child and let your child and let and like you know communicate more of your child then your child is is going to do really well. I mean, you know, I work in education. I for the past 20, 30 years in China, you know, I I've written two books about Chinese education. And in my experience, the the kids who who do the best are those with with parents who are loving, who give them a lot of um space, who respect the choices, who are like friends to them. And the kids who don't do really well are kids with who who are like tiger moms, right?
Who are who pressure the kids to succeed every single day. So I think you know if you love your child you would uh trust your child and respect his or her opinions. But if you want your child to do really well in life you would also just trust your child and respect his or her opinions.
Okay.
Gotcha. That makes sense. U maybe a very quick followup. uh you talk about religious and spiritual uh learning and what is a right time or right uh avenue for introducing those ideas to to to to children um especially I grew up you know I I grew up in China so I don't have those experience so I just uh yeah I'm kind of lost on this
I I think children are intuitively relig religious people so there's It's really uh yeah, you should start right away. Uh you know, we have great conver conversations at home about religion. You know, my my eldest son who's 8 years old, he's convinced that he's from another planet. Okay, his soul transmigrated to our world. So, so they have an intuitive understanding of these
48:20things. So, you know, I mean, you know, introduce your child to Buddhism, to taloism, uh to to to different aspects of religion and that that I think is really going to motivate your your child to do better in in in school. You know, I I have a good friend in Beijing and she has three kids and they're a Catholic family and her kids are wonderful. So, I I think having that sort of like religious community is really really helpful um in in in raising a child. Gotcha.
Really appreciate. Thank you.
Thanks so much, Nick. Okay. Uh Fred,
hey Jen, hello founding members. I'm uh Fred coming here from Kentucky. And the question I kind of have for you has to go back kind of with the war situation currently. Um I'm interested. I guess Joyce started to point it out with some of the viable signals that you use and see uh in order to help make some predictions or assumptions on what's happening next.
Um, and I was wondering if you could go over some of the possible attack and uh movement vectors of some of the proxy groups uh for the IRGC. Um, I know you briefly touched upon a potential strategic um, attack on like maybe the three ports or the port of Hafa in particular for Israel. And that kind of piqu my interest as something I hadn't
thought about and I wanted to see if there was any other strategic movements there that uh, you could go over as far as the proxy groups. I don't think it's covered too much in the news.
Yeah. So if I'm issue, okay, if I'm the United States, the proxies are huge problem because if I launch my ground invasion, my flank is still vulnerable because of these proxies, right? Uh the Huies, the Shia militias in Iraq and Hezbollah in uh Lebanon. Okay. So I need to neutralize all three before I can
50:21launch my grand invasion.
Okay. So um the the the signals are are this. Okay. Lebanon is uh the major point of contention, right? So uh if you look at theou uh it's extremely generous to the Iranians, right?
It's like it promises $300 billion in investment after the war ends. It promised to lift u sanctions. It promises to unfreeze assets and and I think the assets total about $200. Okay, there are a lot of ass Iranian assets that have been frozen by the Americans and their allies. Okay.
So, it's very favorable to the Iranians. The point of contention is Hezbollah, right? So, the Iranians demand that whatever peace conditions uh that the Iranians and the Americans agreed to will will apply immediately to Hezbollah and the Americans said yes, but Israel is not respecting this this clause. Right? So, I think that the MOU is structuring a way to um create a wedge issue between Iran and Hezbollah.
Right? The Iranian people are like, you know, why do we care about Hezbollah? You know, like and Hezbollah has always been a source of tension and conflict throughout the Middle East. So, if the Hezbollah were eliminated, wouldn't this mean more peace
in the in the the Middle East?
Uh, sorry.
Okay. All right. Okay. So, uh, so Hezbollah is a point of contention. Um we're also seeing that Trump is now being very nice to Syria.
Um you know uh El Galani participated in um um the NATO summit in Ankara and America is going to lift all sanctions on Syria and I think the idea is to bring in Syria into the war against Lebanon. Right? So what's going to happen is this. Um
52:23Trump is try is going to try to create a wedge issue in Iran where the polit political leadership just wants to abandon Hezbollah. Um Trump wants to create a civil war in Lebanon where Hezbollah is fighting the uh government of Lebanon and then and then the Syrians will attack from the north and the Israelis will attack from the south. And I think that given all this dynamic, it's going to be very hard for for Hezbollah to survive. I I I think I think like there are a lot of players in the Middle Middle East who are committed to eradicating Hezbollah because they've always been a huge problem in the Middle East and um so I think I think that's the Lebanon. Okay.
So watch for what Syria does. I think Syria will start to send in forces from the north. Uh watch what the Lebanese government does. Lebanese government may decide to take up arms against Hezbollah. uh watch the rhetoric coming coming from Iran where the Iranian polit leadership may start to criticize um Hezbollah more.
Okay. Um so that's Lebanon. Now we move to Iraq and what's really important in um in Iraq is that maybe a week ago there was almost like a coup in um Iraq where the prime minister uh launched a corr corruption crackdown on major political figures in Baghdad. And a lot of people suspect that what he's doing is he's trying to clean house, basically eliminate the Shia militias um and then use Iraq as a springboard for an American invasion. Basically arm the Kurds and have them cross the border into northwestern uh Iran.
Um so that's Iraq. And the third point are the Houthies. And what what Saudi Arabia is doing is they're arming the tri local tribes people in in Yemen against the Houthies. Right? So there are lots of different uh ethnic groups in Yemen and the Houthi are just
54:24one of them and so basically Saudi Arabia wants wants to finance a civil war in in in Yemen and they've been fighting a civil war in Yemen for the past decade anyway. Okay. So with these three movements you are now trying to neutralize and isolate uh each of these proxy groups so they so they can no longer coordinate and then once uh these groups have been neutralized then you launch a ground invasion against Iran and during this process I hate to say this but there's very little Iran can actually do about it right because um before the way that Iran supplied uh Hezbollah was through the language for Syria but now Syria uh is now controlled by the Israelis and the Americans. Um the Houthies are far are too far away um and uh the Shia militias um are too weak. So so so it's a very dire situation right now for the Iranian proxies.
So um does that make sense, Fred? Do you have any follow-up questions?
Absolutely. No, that uh yeah, basically seems like the only option they have like is to really maintain control of the straight in order to get enough money in order to fund those proxies to to kind of get them in the best position. Um, my second question I did have for you was, uh, it's actually very similar to Nick on if you had any recommendation based on what you've been able to selectively attend to, uh, with different great books if if someone was going to go about uh, reading about Zoranastronism or the Cabala. Do you have a recommendation on where they should start with that?
Yeah, so um, again, I plan on doing a whole series um, in a month or two. I'm doing a lot of research right now, but you know, it's very hard to do the Cabala, uh to do the cult by yourself. It it really is um you really need to uh
56:24be taught the basic principles and to work with with with a group, right? Um to just learn by yourself, it will just confuse you, especially the cabala. The cabala is one of the craziest things you will ever uh learn. Um, and they say a lot of these cabalists there they're they're um they have schizophrenia. I mean like like if you actually just study the cabal and you try to make sense of it, it'll drive you it'll drive you insane.
So, um, you know, I I I I'm going to do this a cult series and I and you know, like we we'll do these monthly um live streams and so uh plea so please follow the a cult series and and I'll give you a lot of recommendations um and then you and then we we're going to discuss a lot of these ideas um during the live stream. If you want to get started, um, the best book I I would recommend is Manley Ph. Hall. I'll write I'll write for you, you okay? Many Phal.
And it's all free online, okay? Many Phal uh he's he's probably one of the best writers on the occult. And so I I would suggest reading him to uh to start.
Awesome. I really appreciate it. Thank you.
Thanks, Red. Okay. Uh Dominique Yes. Hello, professor. Um, before I start, could you write down for us also the reference to the other book that you recommended?
Yeah, sure. It's called The Pelipinian War by Fusidities. Yeah. And again, all these books are free online or the library.
Thank you. Um I have quite a few questions and I would like to start by having basically a discussion with the current situation in Europe
with because we have a huge u problem
58:28with immigration and uh very big lack or decrease of cohesion between the nation itself and the population within the nations and I'm in Switzerland so it's not as uh disastrous let's say as in the European Union but just last uh at the start of the month for example a bill was a new law was passed and now the supreme uh let's call it court but it's it's not really a supreme court it's the law basically the supreme law system in Switzerland now has to respond to uh the European Union to
Brooks.
But it was m created underneath uh as this top to 10 million people
and in order to do that then that was a this was a consequence. So and we see this uh basically in an exponential trend throughout Europe. How much hope do we have in the coming years because I believe this is kind of a natural phase in which we have to go through. It's unfortunate we are in the middle of it but it's it's inevitable. Even those who oppose this this trend are opposing a natural phase of history I believe but based on past uh patterns how do you see it going forward?
Yeah. So the trend in Europe is not very good and a lot of the issue is that you have this aloof bureaucracy in Brussels and they live in their own bubble right it's like Washington DC in uh America
60:28where um they really don't care what the local people think all they care is you know what their friends and their colleagues think and they're a bubble okay and um these people in Brussels are committed to total war against Russia They see Russia as the greatest threat to uh Russian civilization. They believe that Russia will be defeated in Ukraine and once Russia is defeated in Ukraine then peace and prosperity will come to Europe. Okay, this is like literally how they think. They think that Ukraine is only a day away from uh winning this war. They think that Vladimir Putin is only a day away being from being overthrown by his own military.
They think that Russia the entire economy is is only a day away from collapse. Right? And once this war
this war in Ukraine is won, then uh Europe will be able to exploit Ukrainian resources as well as force Russia to pay reparations for the war. In which case you have a you have like 10 trillion dollars in which case you've solved all the problems of Europe. Right? Now you're able to finance the pension system. Now you're able to provide social welfare to a lot of people.
So as long as the Europeans are willing to make these sacrifices, then Europe will win this war and save Western civilization. This is literally how they think. Okay? And if and so like it's esquetological. It's it's it's visionary and it's delusional.
And so they believe that all sacrifices are necessary and justify to defeat Russia. Okay. And so unfortunately what this means is that
62:29Europe is slowly moving towards total war basically mobilization for war. This means conscription right where young men are now conscripted to fight this war in Ukraine. This means diverting all financing to weapons production to um to continuing this war in Ukraine to basically creating as much debt as possible in order to make you make make sure Ukraine stays afloat and basically um storing stirring up as much anti-Russia hatred as possible. Okay. So, this is my prediction of where of like where Europe is heading and this this is usually what society's decline do, right?
So, um you know, in the chat there's a really good conversation like where uh Leandro asks, "Why doesn't America just pack up and leave the Middle East?" And the answer is that's not how the world works. Uh this is not how empires behave. Empires are empires because they're able to exploit and suppress the people who are weaker than they are and extract value from this exploitation. Right? So if America were to the next day say, you know, screw this, we're leaving the Middle East, the American Empire would collapse, right?
Because now the GCC has to pay reparations to Iran. Iran now controls the shoo. Iran, Russia, and China can create their own trade block. And so America would collapse financially and uh America would declare insolveny because has $42 in debt. The American people will rise up and and there'll be a revolution in America.
So the imperial elite in America has absolutely no choice but to continue to fight this war. Same thing in Europe where the bureaucratic elite in Brussels has absolutely no choice but to continue to fight this war in Ukraine. and they honestly believe that this war will be won next month or next year at at the latest, but this war will be won.
64:29Do you have any follow-up questions? Uh, Dominique, cuz um do you see it as an option? Uh I think this was uh from one of your lectures on YouTube when you were teaching and you said that when you want to send uh troops, one of the first when there is no support uh from the population for a war, then one of the things that you can do is send immigrants or those who are unwelcome. Welcome. So, do you see that as an option in Europe as well when all of this is going to play out?
Yeah, that's a really good question. Right. So, um a lot of these immigrants are military age men. Um the problem is that it's very hard to get these men to go to war. um these men are are much are not going to fight for you.
Uh they might run away. So the problem is that these bureaucrats in Europe, they will often take the path of least resistance. Okay? Meaning it is easier for them to get their native population to go fight this war than it is to get the immigrant population to go fight this war. Um, and so it's not a conspiracy.
I mean, a lot of people think, okay, isn't this this population replacement where you have these millions of Muslim immigrants in the country and if Germany, if Romania, if Poland send their native people to go fight uh in uh Ukraine and they all die, then you have population replacement because these Muslim men just take over, right? And
66:29um it's a it's a nice conspiracy theory, but the people in charge are not that smart and don't think think that long term. They always pick the path of least resistance. And for them, it's always like what is the most politically expedient thing to do in the short term? And again, they're not planning for total war. They're not planning to send young men to die in Ukraine.
They literally believe that the war will be over next month and as long as Europe stays united, as long as Europe stays committed to the fight, this war will be over next month. Okay. So, what's going to happen is a sunk cost fallacy where right now they're sending in um weaponry financing to Ukraine. Okay? And this war has not been won.
So now you send in special forces. Then you send in mercenaries. Then you set in you start incending in volunteer forces. Then you start to conscript young men. Okay?
This is World War I all over again. And so again, it's not long-term thinking, okay? Because these poor arc capable of long-term thinking. It's just like a short-term politically expedient solution to a problem that that they're in. And unfortunately, all that's going to happen is they're going to uh keep on digging a bigger hole.
Okay. Uh Sarah says they made a budget for the next eight years. We pay automatic taxes that go to Ukraine. Yeah. Yeah.
Exactly. Right. So So they're digging this hole where they think that we don't have to send men men to die in Ukraine. We we just have to send in financing. But eventually you're going to have to reach a point where you're forced to send forces troops into Ukraine.
It's some cost fallacy. It's like going to a casino where you didn't expect to be $10 $10 million in debt, but once you're $10 million in debt, you're stuck there for the rest of your life gambling to pay it off, right? And that's that's that's what's what's going to happen in in Ukraine. Um, does that make sense?
68:32Questions?
Yeah. I just as you were speaking I also thought well but there is also the fact that as the uh lif style keeps become in Europe is always harder and harder and harder in exponentially there is going to be like a point uh triggering point in which people will can will not be able to take it anymore say and we're going to have to see some violence in the streets.
Yeah. So sending away young men to play and fight the your war for you is also a prevention from this from happening.
Exactly. You're exactly right. So again, they're not planning for this, but when they're forced a choice between, you know, sending the man to die in a war or having them, you know, uh burn down your uh streets like go rioting. Well, we'll send the men off to to to die in in Ukraine. And unfortunately, okay, the native population is gonna be a lot less obedient than the immigrant population.
Okay, so the immigrants are going to stay at home and not riot. The native people are going to riot and so you send the native people to go die in war, not the immigrant population to go die in war. So, so it's very strange like everyone knows what's going to happen. But again, um, the bureaucrats in Brussels, they're they they're in a bubble and they're stuck in a stuck cause fallacy and they're just going to dig a bigger hole for themselves. And when you send young men to die in a war, eventually you're going to have mutinies.
Eventually, you're going to have civil war back in Europe. So, I I think this is how it ends. You It ends with political revolution in in Europe.
But then, do we have because you also said a war is made to destroy money. Yes.
So if we are going to basically escalate this war uh so much alongside all the other wars that are going to be around basically when it's going to be over
70:33let's say metaphorically speaking the money is going to be destroyed AI system is going to be in place the surveillance state. So there is no reason for people to revolt anymore. So it's like it has to go faster and faster and faster.
Yeah. I I think I think this ends when the world is exhausted. Okay. So wars end when a certain faction um of the men in your society have died off. So in war one I think it was like maybe 10% of the German population, the male population were killed and then and then uh the Germans could no longer sustain the war and so they had to sue for peace.
So um I I think this war ends when um there's political revolution in Europe when these parties right-wing parties uh such as AFD in Germany um uh Mary Le Pen's party in France when they're able to take to assume power but they're only they can only assume power when there's a political revolution uh because the bureaucrats in Brussels they'll just cheat they'll steal elections they will do a lot to suppress these parties Yes. Just one last the very last thing. Don't want to take too much time
is uh about the reelection of Trump.
Yes.
You said that uh Trump is going to try to make a third term. Yes.
And potentially is a vice president. Now the objection is well the constitution says that you cannot be elected. And you said, well, it doesn't say specifically because it says exactly the it cannot be elected, but it's not an election for the vice president,
right?
But as we know there, they as you said in an interview, they are part of the whole package. Like now we have Trump vans. So if they part of the old package, the vice president is elected
72:34alongside the president, meaning he cannot run alongside the president because it would be part of the election.
Okay.
Does it make sense?
Yeah. Okay. So um I did some research, okay, and my my analysis before was wrong. Okay. I I I said that the vice president was not elected and so that's technicality that that's wrong.
Okay. Um the constitution uh there's something called the 22nd amendment. The 22nd amendment is explicit and says that a pre someone no one can be president for more than two terms. Okay, that's what the 22nd amendment says. Then I believe there's something called the 12th amendment.
Uh I I I could be wrong. Okay, let let me just really quickly Google this. The 12th amendment basically said that um whatever conditions apply to the presidents, right? What what whatever qualifications you need to be president also applies to the vice president. So it says in the constitution that you you have to be born United States states to be president.
Well if you're vice president that also applies to you. Okay. Now so theoretically the 22nd amendment and 12th amendment together uh means that Trump cannot run as vice president. Okay that's what it should mean. But um the difference between the spirit of the constitution and the letter of the constitution.
Right? So if I'm a Supreme Supreme Court justice, what I can what I could say is well the 12th amendment meant uh what what it means is you have to satisfy the conditions of being president in order to be vice president which means you have to be more than 35 years old which means you have to be born in United States and that's a that that's it. Okay. And and no no criminal offense of course. Um so these two things are separate.
Okay. So what what I'm saying is um is that is that explicit that Trump cannot run as vice president? It's ultimately up to the Supreme Court to decide what the relationship between the 12th
74:35amendment and the 22nd amendment is. And unfortunately what we know is that uh first of all the Supreme Court is heavily conservative. I think it's a 63 uh majority for the conservatives and Trump appointed three of the justice justices and it's very possible within a year or two he will also appoint a fourth. Okay. So I think that if this were to go Supreme Court then Trump would win and he'll be allowed to run to run as vice president.
But that but he has all also other possibilities as well where he declares war and then he can suspend the constitution, right? in which case he's he's dictator for life now. So there there there lots of possibilities but but but but I'm pretty convinced that that that he will get a third term. Okay. Okay.
Thank you. All right. Uh Janice,
hi Janice Armade in uh the states Midwest. And what I wanted to know is what what's one question you wish uh students would ask more? that almost never do.
Yeah. So, um I think that it's really important to hear the counterargument, right? So, I made this argument. What's the counterargument? Right?
Uh what would someone else say and what's a counterpoint? And I I I I think it's very important to have that debate. And you know, honestly, um it's um it it's good for me because it makes me think think a lot deeper, but students don't really do that. Um so yeah. Uh did did you does that make sense, Janice?
Did Did you have a follow-up question?
No, I didn't have a follow-up question, but did you say the you did you say counter or I didn't
the counter
the counter point? Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.
Right. Okay, thank you.
76:36Okay, thanks. Uh, Katria Katrio.
Hi.
Hi, Professor Chong. I have a question.
Sorry. Can you turn on your mic, please?
Yeah. Yeah.
Hi. I have a question about magic. You said that you would teach magic. Yeah.
Is that on applying?
Yes. Yes.
So if you Yeah.
Go. Sorry. Sorry. Go ahead.
Sorry. Sorry. Go ahead.
Uh you said you don't know who you want to choose to teach. So if there is a standard, what is it?
Um sorry. I I'm sorry. But but could you um repeat the question? I I I I didn't catch a question.
You said that you will teach magic. Is that true? Is that on your plank? Yes. Yes.
Um,
so that's the question.
Yeah. So I I do plan to teach magic as part of the occult and so I've been looking at, you know, Alistister Crowley, I've been looking at witchcraft and to me it's very interesting what magic is. Um, I think magic is an appreciation that we are all conscious beings. And the question is, how do you focus our conscious energy in a way that allows you to obtain a goal? And so the idea is that's what magic is, right?
Magic is a mechanism for you to completely focus yourself on a goal that allows you to achieve it. Um, but it but also magic is a way to convince others that you will achieve it and you deserve it. And so it allows you to manifest your your dream a lot easier. So that's what I think magic is. Magic is to convince yourself uh that the goal is worthy and to
78:36convince you that you must focus all your mental energies on achieving the goal and to convince the people around you that the goal can be achieved. Right? So uh ritual magic. Uh so so so that that's the main idea of magic and and that that and so I'm teaching as part of their cult.
Okay. So does that make
uh I yeah I just know want to know have you ever read a book about magic? So I have read so many so I just wondering how you will teach that. Is this things about spirits or just the things about Cababara? I just want to know more about this.
Sure. Sure. So again, I'm just doing research right now. Okay. But one book I've read that was very useful is on sex magic.
So Azer Crowley uh was a major proponent of sex magic. And so if you just go into the techniques of sex magic, right? So so what do you do? Well, first of all, you have to train your body to engage in sex in a long term, right? So, basically, you want to go out for hours and hours of penetration of ecstasy without actually uh ejaculating, without actually um uh having an orgasm.
And so, you have to actually like train yourself for years to do that. It's not that easy to do, right? where you just go for like six hours straight and have fantastic sex, but you don't act ejaculate. You you're able to control yourself in a certain way. And then what you do is you also have to find a partner [clears throat] that's able to uh work with you in this ritual.
And then before the sex, there's this very elaborate uh ritual. And what you're trying to do is during the sex, both of you are trying to align your uh imagination, right? It's like
80:36you both have a wish and during the six-hour sex marathon, you're all you're all visualizing together this um this vision. Okay. And why Alister Crowley would recommend this is first of all uh he thinks that um there's this potency to sex, right? So you take this sex drive and you turn it into uh and and the sex drive can motivate you to greater heights. Okay, this like like the sex can be channeled in a very positive way.
That's point one. Point two is like the universe itself is sexual, right? So if you look at the cabala, uh it's about sexual reunion, right? So when you are engaging in sex, you are actually tapping into the fundamental structure of the universe and it's it it's as though you're with God. And so with through sex with enough concentration, so think of think of it as meditation, enough concentration, you're able to implant your idea into the very fabric of the universe and let it spread, right?
It's like planting seeds. Okay. Um and then third of all, um through sex, it's also an act of inter interdimensional communication, right? So, so um sex you're opening a portal into other dimensions which allows ideas to come into you. Okay.
And that's that that's a very idea of sex magic. And and so the way I I'll teach this is to examine the different theories um and then explain the mechanisms and explain how different writers describe what what's happening.
Yeah. Uh it's more like sex magic. What you uh it's more like the uh mysteries of aces.
Yes.
What you said? Let me think that book.
Yes.
I I will recommend that the secret sex
82:37life of angels. That books is the things about sex magic you have talked about.
That's right. That's right.
Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. That's all I want to say.
Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much. Okay. Uh so uh Ben
uh yes hello can you hear me?
Yes go ahead.
Uh yeah first of all thank you for taking the time. Um but yeah maybe a bit of uh broader political question. So what in your opinion would be the background factors uh that people become divided into opposing political groups? So uh I often uh notice and uh get the impression that people simply feel they have to be pro or or anti- something. So it just seems like the public narratives are uh framed so that there's only two possible sides.
Uh especially I don't know if we focus on America there's like two two major parties. So why in your opinion does this happen?
Right. Okay. So there's been a lot of social uh scientific research into political polarization. Okay. And so there are different factors.
Um so people align with the political party uh because of their allegiance to the community, right? So if you're born in a certain neighborhood and that neighborhood is Republican or Democratic, you're much more likely to share uh their political beliefs. Okay? So uh community um is one is is one very important factor. Another important factor is the decline in institutions of authority.
Right? So if people no longer believe in the media, if people no longer believe in the government, if people no longer believe in science uh in schools, then they're forced to
84:39rely on their tribalism, right? they're forced to rely on the people around them and and that makes them much more anxious to adopt the opinions of the people around them. Okay. Um so the breakdown of institutions of authority, right? Because remember like you know like only 30 years ago people would watch the news NBC news ABC News and just agree with everything and NBC News and um CBS news they were meant for national consumption.
So they were trying to create a broad national consensus for people but now no one actually watches uh mainstream news except may maybe you know like these baby boomers but young people get all their news sources from social media. Okay so that's a that's a breakdown of institutions of of authority. The third thing is the rise of social media uh where people now are in their own social media bubbles. But the worst thing is how these al algorithms are designed right? So you look at Facebook, if you look at uh Twitter, they know what they want to do is um try to create as much engagement as possible.
They they want this engagement to be intense, what they call intensity. The best way to do that is to provoke strong emotions in people, especially anger, fear, and hatred. And so, uh social media just just brings out the worst in people. And because you're in a bubble, uh this these emotions are reinforced. Um, and you know, I mean, so you know what what gets attention on social media are not the this objective analysis what's going on.
What gets attention on social media are just these stupid feuds between influencers, right? Um these stupid fights um that break out between these um different influencers, right? So um that's that's a third factor. And um the four factor is like we don't actually spend that much time
86:41with other people. Okay. Um we live too much we spend too much time online. We we are too lonely. And so it's very easy to reinforce our own prejudices about the world.
I mean, if we were part of civil society more, if we like, you know, went bowling with people who are outside our our political um affiliation, then we'd be much then we'd be much more open-minded. Um and then of course you have the growth of counterculture on both the left and the right where um people are encouraged to just disparage people people that you don't agree with. Right? So, I think there's this amazing statistic where 90% of women will not even date uh a man from a different political party, right? That's that that's amazing to think about how like just you you could be the most attractive guy in the world, but but if you are a Republican and I'm a Democrat, I'm not going to date you.
All right? So, so so there's a lot going on, but this political polarization, it's been going around for a long time. It's gonna be very very hard to to fix. Okay. Did you have a followup question, Ben, or or does that make sense?
Yeah. Yeah, it makes sense. Uh I mean, thank you. I see there's still a lot of other questions. So, that's all for now.
Thank you.
Thank you. Uh John,
hello. Very pleased to be with you all. My name is John Salasar. Thank you, Professor Dang, for sharing soy your thoughts and your lectures. I'm now going through um Dantes divine comedy finding um very very refreshing very useful all your lectures along yellow university in Beijing in order to understand further Dantes cosmology um [clears throat] I I have a question regarding um humanity's expansion into space I watched all your lectures where you've expressed skepticism I understand part of that may be as as a natural
88:41evolution of your own cosmology as you were you were alluding to at the start of this call and I wanted to ask you whether you see oceans the oceans as a more possible frontier for human civilization particularly as there is massive untapped um energy resources for example over 80% of wind resource pinnacle wind resource lies from deeper waters and that's still to be to be untapped we are commencing now to develop that in some in some countries such as China and some nations in in Europe as well,
right? Thanks so much, John. Um, so, uh, the idea of green tech or clean tech, right? Green tech, green, uh, clean tech. Actually, these things aren't that clean, right?
So, you look at electric vehicles, uh, which China just dominates. Um, these batteries that they use cause a lot of pollution. So, I'm in Beijing and there are there are um several battery recycling facilities around Beijing and they they release so many chemicals into the air. Um and electricity uh is not it comes from coal, right? So, um so these EVs are very very um dirty for the environment.
So and and it's same for um you know these um solar panels as well because they rely a lot on rare earths and we know it is very very um uh it costs a lot of pollution to mine rare earths and that and that's why China dominates the rare earths market because China is willing to bear the environmental cost of mining rare earths in a way that other nations are not right. I mean basically because China is so aggressive in mining rare earths in order to feed its green tech or clean tech industry uh China is dooming its many generations to
90:43um basically pollution right so a lack of access to clean air clean water clean land so um I I I I think green tech these are misnomers and I think like they're not the solution I think the solution is to create a much more sustainable way of life where people are less focused on consumerism and more focused on uh spirituality on being kind to people around them.
Right. So, so John does that make sense or did you have a follow-up question?
Well, I would like to add um how about coming from the point of view of scarcity of resources? Even if we make society more sustainable, fossil fuels are still a limited resource and at some point that's that's coming to an end. So we can we can still have a more sustainable um society that you're alluding to but relying on in this case energy. The sun is over there. The wind is is generated as a consequence of the sun and it's it's plentif resource.
Um that that's the that's the counter argument or or the or the other angle I would I would I would put on the table for you to consider.
Yeah. Um yeah I mean hopefully this works. Hopefully renewable energy, clean tech, green tech provides a solution, but I'm not that optimistic. I think the world is too dependent on cheap energy. Um and right now the best place to access cheap energy is um the Middle East.
So, um I I mean like again I I would love to be wrong, but I'm not that optimistic about green tech.
Much appreciated for your thoughts.
Thanks. Okay. Uh Sean the Scribe. Um Sean the Scribe.
Hi Sean.
92:44Hey. It's Shannon but or Shan describe.
Oh, okay. Hey Sh. Hey.
Hi. No worries. Uh, greetings from San Diego. I had a couple questions about um some of your Okay. So, I had a question about something that's come up in the US recently.
So, um I noticed that one of the things that Trump campaigned upon was like um student loan stuff and student loan forgiveness, which I was just like that's not happening. But he's definitely getting elected based on that. And something that I noticed recently is that um so originally a lot of student loans were in forbearance, but because they cancelled some of the repayment plans, they were restarting the payments this year. And I was like, that's kind of weird. So I reapplied for the forbearance cuz it was supposed to be in like 2028 was when it was over.
But then if you get approved for the forbearance, they only give you until November, which my brain was like, that's kind of interesting because isn't that when all of these things are supposed to transpire? So I guess my question is like do you or one of my questions is do you think that like you know um because of like the war and stuff like that? Do you think that Trump would maybe use that money for like to fund the war or something?
Yeah. Um I I mean I hate to be cynical but I think the people are in charge they lead they're interested in stealing as much money as possible as quickly as possible. So the idea like they're actually going to use any money for maybe a national objective like winning the war in the Middle East that I think I think that I think is questionable. I think you know um so so recently Trump has earmarked $ 1.5 trillion dollars to the Pentagon and people are like wow this means that America is going to remilitarize no it doesn't what it means is a lot of this money is going to go to um the swamp right it's it's been siphoned off by these military contractors this is this is this is a reason why America is losing this war in the Middle East because America's not
94:44not that serious about winning the war America's serious about what the American elite wants to do is steal as much of money as possible during the course of this war. Right? So, you know, Julian Assange said it best. The point of wars is not to win. The point of wars is just have wars so that the transnational elite can just steal from American taxpayer.
Hi, Shannon.
Okay, that does make sense to me,
right?
Sorry, can you hear me?
Yeah. Yeah.
That does make sense to me. Uh, something else that you talked about in terms of the Constitution. I had a question about that because um, the last time I went to the bookstore, they actually had like a little zen of the Constitution. It was like $2. And so I ended up buying it because of some of your lectures.
And it does say technically on the 12th Amendment, but no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of the vice president of the United States. But I do think that what you're talking about about him getting a third term through like not like a main way because he can't technically be the president again, but I do think that there's like some sneaky intention to somehow get the third term or get a lot of influence over whoever is going to be the next person. Um, so I just I just wanted to point that out cuz I I I remember seeing that um when I open it's like it's really small. It just has like all of the rules in there for some reason. Yeah.
So, so again, I think Trump wants to be president for life. Okay. I think the idea like he just steps back and have and and is a public master behind JD Vance is not going to work for him. He like if you just look at his entire career, he's never had a prodigge. He's never really had um anyone that he trusts like like basically he he just has a habit of like not trusting anyone around him, including his own children, and screwing everyone over.
Okay. Yeah. So, Nicholas says king Trump. Yeah. He wants to be king for life.
Okay. And like like like that that's the only way that like and like that that's the only way he'll be satisfied. So that so he's not gonna be
96:45a pup master behind the scenes. He he he will be president I think for a third term. And again there are many loopholes that he can use to achieve this. And again I think this is going to go to the Supreme Court uh because Trump is so narcissistic that he wants to be elected to a third term. Right.
And you know what what what what really funny is that in 2028 if Trump actually runs as VP, the Democrats will put up Obama as as their VP,
right?
I can see that,
right? It's be Obama Trump in 2020.
This will be like the greatest political event in our lives.
The definition of an American politic.
Yeah. Like like this it'll be a complete circus. Okay. Obama Trump. This is this is something that that Trump would actually want because he actually thinks that he could defeat Obama in a general election.
So So again, I I'm pretty confident Trump's getting a third term and if he does run as vice president, the Democrats will put up Obama as the candidate.
Yep.
Right. Because just because it's against the law doesn't mean somebody's going to actually doesn't mean he's not going to try because it takes a long time for the bureaucracy to catch up with his actions. So he'll still maybe try it.
Yeah. So, so I would argue it's actually not against the law. It's not explicit in the constitution that you cannot run as a VP. Um the a lot of laws are just based on social convention. So if you just actually refuse to accept a social convention, you can get away can get away with a lot.
Okay. So uh what I tell people is like Trump running for a third term, it's crazy. It's dangerous. It's insane. It's wrong.
It's but it's not illegal. So So we we'll see. But but but I think it's very likely he'll he he he'll run for a third term. Yeah.
Okay.
Can I ask one more question?
Sure. Go ahead. Go ahead.
Okay. So I watched your Dante series and
98:45I really really liked it.
Um
but I had a question about I had a question about unconditional love.
So that's something that was really prominent in the series. But do you have any advice for people who maybe didn't have unconditional love as a child and maybe like like if you never experienced it? Yeah, you can experience love, but how do you know if you're able to produce unconditional love if you yourself never experienced unconditional love?
Yeah, thank you so much for the question. Um, so I had a very traumatic childhood and I was convinced no one loved me and that screwed me up screwed me up for like throughout my life because I any relationship that that I got into I self-sabotaged and it really impacted my professional life in that you know I was fighting with my boss a lot and I didn't trust anyone. So I was really screwed up for most of my life and then I met my wife and my wife you know had unconditional love for me and then we had children and then uh and then having children is what enabled unconditional love for for for me and so I I'm a changed person because of a family but I also appreciate that I got very lucky like I won the lottery of life. I I met like the most wonderful wife any any man could have and I have like three wonderful children that's forever changed my life for the better. And I would just say like for um like ordinary people um I think like you have to make the commitment to family.
Um, so it go it goes back to the idea of magic, right? Like like how was I able to find this wa my wife? And the answer is well I think I think I manifested it. I mean like like I said to myself I want nothing in my life. I don't want fame.
I don't want fortune. I don't want power. I all I want is a family. And once you commit yourself to that, right? Then the
100:45universe will will respond. And I'll talk more about this in in a cult series like how how how you can actually manifest what you want. Uh but but you basically have to visualize this and and make the commitment commitment to it. And it's not an easy thing like I waited I waited like you know 20 years to find my wife but eventually I I found her because I was willing to make sacrifices necessary in order to find my wife. for example, uh not choosing a path of wealth, um of power, of fame, because if I if I chose that, there's no way I I I could have met the woman woman of my dreams who I truly loved.
So, um so, so, so great question, but but but but um we'll we'll discuss this more. Okay.
Okay. Thank you so much.
Thanks, Shannon. Okay. Uh, Moyak, sorry. I I Moyak.
Yes. Hello. My name is Muyak. Yes.
I had a question about um we were talking a little bit earlier about um the the oult and um all that stuff, but uh I had more uh a question more about esquetology. uh you have uh yeah just as uh what we said before is that you think it's good to teach children early on like about dowoism about all these different religions um but I think also I think that's very uh very good to teach children that way to open up their mind but um I also think it can be really dangerous to
teach children because when you teach children that um this is the truth and they grow up like that and then later on they at least if they're lucky they find out that actually it's all a lot of it a lot of it's based based on assumptions and fabrications um they they would they would have really difficult time to break out um from this mentor framework um um so and and so what I would uh my
102:46question is about esquetology you talk a lot about esquetology but I have the feeling that um you are talking it about it uh you're talking about it more from a outside perspective. This is what the Jews believe. This is what the the Shia Muslims believe. This is what the Sunni Muslims believe. But I think and this from personal experience is that you really had to live in esquetology.
You really had to live in oult to really experience um how it can change your life and how it can change your perspective. So for me, I had to really like throw out all the assumptions, all that was taught to me and really gain evidence-based knowledge to be able to go back to these sources and filter out what's right and what's wrong. So my question was more about um how would you do do this? You are talking about uh esquetology and you're also passionate about it. It it's it um it inspires your game theory a lot.
Um what is your personal perspective on esquetology and about reality itself?
Yeah. No, I I think um esquetology is really interesting and I could do an entire series on it. Uh but I'll make certain points about esquetology. Okay. So I think first of all esquetology comes to us from a certain tradition the protoindo European tradition.
um which then came to take over Europe uh Iran and um India and so you look at East Asia we we are not esqueological at all okay we don't um and the reason why is that the protoindouropeans believe the world started with violence right so you look at protoindo-uropean mythology it's always like these brothers these twins who kill each other in order to um claim power and this this is embedded in much in much of um uh European culture, right? So in Rome, you have um um Ramlas killing his brother Remis in order to
104:47become king of of Rome. And the problem is like once if the world begins with violence, it must end with violence as well, right? That that that's that has to be logically true. If the world starts with violence, then it must end with violence as well. So esquetology comes from the fact that uh you believe the world is based on violence but but there are lots of cultures for example in China we don't believe the world is based on violence so we're not at all esqueologgical we believe like the world can be balanced and harmonious uh so that's my first point that esquetology will be unique to western civilization and not is is and is not global um my second point about esquetology is that Um it's a great way to motivate the people into action right so for example in China you know like once you once you certain once you hit a certain uh income right once you become wealthy well your ambition is just like play majong every day okay you're not that ambitious a after a certain threshold but in the west people aren't like that if you're really wealthy uh it's often because you want to achieve a certain esquetology you you want to achieve a certain certain vision for the world.
Um and um my third point about escology is the is that it is particularly effective when the world is declined because when the world is declined and people lose hope people you know in the west we call it quite quitting in China it's called tonging you know young people give get young people just give up right so what keeps young people motivated well it's esquetology right it's a belief that you're achieving God's vision So when when a society's in decline, there's certain groups, for example, Zionists in America who are particularly powerful because they're committed to a vision and they're willing to work hard to achieve their vision whereas everyone else is basically given up on life.
106:47Okay. But but I'll talk more about esquetology what when I do my cult series.
Yes. Uh um so I I I I I was more um I appreciate your perspectives but I I was also curious about um uh because you were saying oh the these are like the elements and I I'm seeing it uh I am seeing it that esquetology is it's giving way to esquetology and they are using esquetology in to um in the societies in their mind way of thinking but I I was also curious about um about like your own experience in esquetology because you're talking about being connected to the monet and all these things. What is your own perspective or feeling about like maybe a certain promise that has to be fulfilled or this kind of uh thing?
Okay. Well, I will say this. Um when whenever when I was younger, I had many visions and these visions stayed with me throughout my life. And I saw wars and fires and destruction, you know, like when when I go to bed, um I I see like air airplanes like fighter jets just roaming the sky and causing all this destruction. I see the world burning.
So um I think these visions are presented to me because uh it because I feel compelled to act. I have three kids, right? So I I need to act. I can't just like, you know, sit back and I need to prepare the world for a time of war and destruction. Okay.
So and I think there are a lot of people like that. I I I think there are lots of people who from an early age are gripped by certain visions of the world. And these visions they can interpret differently you know like some are like you know I need to go achieve this vision but some people are like I no I I need to present another path for humanity and and so I so I I I think
108:48there are quite a few people like this around the world and these are the people who drive esquetology in the world.
Thank you for your answer. I I had a very small other second question is about uh uh you you were talking about having this plan of setting like uh schools like educational institutions. U you were soon also think thinking about visiting Malaysia for for this. I I was uh curious about how this is developing and how you are thinking about setting this up and um how would uh I or maybe some others I know that be able in this endeavor because we are thinking also about doing this but um we need a lot more help and support in getting this goal.
Yeah. So thanks a lot. Um so I would like to set up schools around the world to promote um new ideologies, a new education system, okay, that teaches basically game theory, the occult and the great books. And um so I so what I want to do over the next year is visit different places like Japan, Malaysia, uh Europe, uh North America and figure out places and people that I can work with in order to promote the promote these these schools. But basically what what I want to do is find young people such such as yourself who are very motivated and who want to create a community uh uh to promote new ideas.
So you know this uh Zoom discussion it's part of the process but I but I'll also be organizing meetups as well. And basically what I want to do is work with people to set up these schools. So rather than like me have a vision and you just like follow my vision, I want to uh promote ideas that help communities uh grow organically. Uh so uh if if if I my community is
110:48based in Malaysia and so I was thinking if you before you go to Malaysia maybe you can contact them and or maybe help this idea grow into reality. So how would you be able to contact if that is the case?
Right. Yeah. So, um, I want to do a YouTube series on education reform and how to build great schools. And I want to use this as a theoretical framework for new schools of the future. Originally, I was supposed to go with Sneo to Malaysia uh, last week, but it got cancelled because um, it was just too rushed.
And so, Sneo and I want to um, go to Malaysia together. we we've we've already agreed to do that. We wanted to be as impactful as possible. So, you know, we're in touch um and we will definitely visit you in Malaysia and then we'll definitely have conversations in private about how to uh promote schools in in Malaysia. Um and and we want to meet with people like the prime minister um and get his endorsement.
Uh basically what I would like what I want to do is create schools that educate the future poets, intellectuals and thinkers and educators of the world because that I think is is the best hope for for humanity.
Yes. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Okay. Uh Jonathan, hi Jonathan.
Hi. Can you guys hear me?
Yes. Yes.
Great. All right. Um thanks a lot for this opportunity actually. [clears throat] Um, Professor Johnny, thanks for for organizing this. Just uh I was actually going to make a comment, but the previous uh commenter actually said something that really struck me.
I was very interested in your alternative uh for your new education model. So, a little bit about myself. I'm a I'm a coming at this from a different place. I'm a thoracic surgeon in Montreal. I
112:48work at McGill.
Okay.
I'm a prof I'm an assistant professor and I have a lab. I do tumor imunology. And so I mean historically I'm sort of coming at the world from a very materialistic point of view, very reductionist point of view and that's sort of how I got to where I am. But my last [sighs]
I would say decade in practice and probably 20 years of cancer research have really changed my worldview. And when I came across your videos they really struck me. So, you know, what does, you know, your work and my work sort of overlap have in common that really struck me? And what what's interesting is, correct me if I'm wrong, but when when I interpret, you know, game theory and the predictions that you've made about the world as we live in it today, what I see is you're describing the world at scale, right? It's a different scale.
And I think one thing that humans are really bad at is understanding different scales.
Yes. And different rules apply to different scales. And one of the things that has really struck me about the natural world is that nature repeats over and over and over again. You know, we're fractal. You know, our our biological system fractal.
So, a lot of these macroeconomic and macro societal trends that you talk about are are governed by the rules of game theory. And that that has allowed you to make these very astute predictions and and made you quite popular as a result. And I think this sort of systems thinking that you've put out into the world is huge. Um, and it's something that I think is severely lacking in universities,
these places, these bastions of of openness and education. I'm a little bit I have to say disappointed in in many ways. And what I'm seeing is that we have a very reductionist view of the world. And
what's relevant to me in my daily life, I treat cancer patients. I do surgery for cancer and I see people struggle with this disease and I do research with cancer and I work with pharma and all
114:48these drugs and and what I see is predominantly failure, right? I think every I'm sure a lot of you in this group have been touched by cancer in some way by your family and and it's devastating. And I think what's sorely lacking is is this concept of openness systems thinking. We have to stop thinking of ourselves as little machines. These are living things just like us.
Um, and actually if you look and I've applied a lot of your thinking to my own research and and in my opinion and and what I have seen fundamentally and objectively is that if you apply systems thinking to biology, it it is very informative. It opens up a whole new avenue of thinking and understanding things. And I think it's very relevant to, you know, you said something like you want to influence people because that's the way forward for the world to have this this different approach, this openness to to to thinking and that's the way forward. And I have to say I agree with you 100%. I just find it extremely difficult to convey this.
It's very hard to get people to change their way of thinking. Even if it's a very minor perturbation in the way that we see the world, right? It's really hard to get people to accept a novel way of looking at things. Even my own students sometimes they kind of look at me sideways and then I end up right. Um, and then, you know, they have to get their degree.
So, I guess they have to listen to me to some extent. But how do you get your message out there? And, and when I heard you talk about setting up these schools or these alternative models of education, that really struck me as something that I personally would love to be a part of. I think this systems thinking, this idea of thinking at scale and applying rules that describe reality as it is, not as we necessarily want it to be, is is so important to get out there. I I just wanted your commentary on that.
No, thanks so much. Yeah. Um, no. I I really appreciate the comment and um
I I mean I'm really serious about promoting these schools because as you
116:49point out it's really important for people to look at the world from a macro perspective and that's why I want to teach game theory. I want to teach the occult. I want to teach the great the great books uh on top of of other subject matters as well. And um as to uh my approach um I think what's really important is for us to have these conversations right because now I I understand like like like what who who who like who you guys are and like what what what what your thinking is and this helps you better you know um create a much more concrete vision for these schools. Um I also think it's really important to be patient because as you point out um these ideas are not commonly accepted but I mean like two years ago you know uh it would have been unimaginable to me that I would be this popular today you know like two years ago when I started this YouTube channel I was like my ambition is to have 5,000 subscribers.
Okay. So the way the world the world has changed has just bogged my mind and I'm pretty confident that in a two years time the world is going to change a lot as well. And you know, I'm I'm continuing to make these predictions, right? So, I got lucky. I made three three predictions that Trump would win, that Trump would start a war against Iran, and that Trump would lose this war.
And all three predictions have turned out be correct. But and but it's easy for people to say this is all a fluke, right? You know, like like who cares, right? It it you you just got lucky. You won the lottery, right?
So, I want to continue to make predictions and show no, my theories, my framework has validity, right? Okay. So, I continue to make these predictions. I think Trump will get a third term. I think that there'll be a national draft in America.
I think, you know, Europe is going to go to war against Russia. And so, this is a way for the world to validate my ideas, right? If I'm truly a crazy person, then I'm I'm going to be completely wrong. But if my but my theories are are going
118:50to continue to be correct, then that gives validity to my ideas. And so, maybe you should start adopting my ideas. And and I see myself as first and foremost an educator. I see my myself first and foremost as trying to spread wisdom and enlightenment to to the world. So So that that's my approach to continue to meet people such as yourself and and everyone in this group to try to collectively come up with with a concrete vision for how to reform education in the world and also uh for me to continue to make these predictions to show to showcase my my my framework.
Thanks for for the comment. I I'll I'll keep this brief because I want to let everyone you know make it continue to speak but um I I would say you said you know you want to educate and honestly you you've educated me in a lot of ways um when I look at this application of systems thinking and I've really come to appreciate this concept of like you know the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior
right that's sort of an adage that has existed for a long time and we just sort of say it it's almost a cliche right but it's not um In reality, what you're describing, what I see when you describe things is if you take nature or the state of whatever you are talking about right now as it stands today, the past, right? Um there's only a certain number of possible futures that are possible.
Yeah.
And you're describing it. And so, you know, I don't think you're getting lucky. You're describing a limited set of possibilities that exist if you understand the world as a complex system. And I think that's what you've done. And so I want to congratulate you and it's been very very inspiring to somebody like me and I've been able to apply that across my work which I didn't think I would get to at this point.
Right? It's like a very reductionist point of view. It's a very conservative environment and it's very difficult to to to bring in oddly enough bringing new ideas into science is actually very difficult to do. So um thank you for that and yeah I would love to be a part of any educational endeavors you have in
120:50the future and I I hope to keep coming to these kinds of things as they keep going. Thanks. Thank you so much, Jonathan. Thank you. And and I I hope I hope to be in Montreal back in uh the fall.
Um like I'm I'm from Toronto originally, so like you know, let's try try try to meet up in in Montreal. [snorts]
Absolutely. Absolutely. I'll I'll reach out. I'm Miguel, so anytime. And I live in the house.
Thanks. Thanks so much. Uh Jackson, uh Jason Tucker, um are you here? Hi,
how's it going? Uh, I had a few questions to start. Sure.
I wanted to open the discussion to some dissenting opinions.
Sure.
Not that I really hold any, but I want to know what are some like significant events that could happen in the near future that would change your analytical model?
Yeah. Yeah. Great question.
Great question.
Great question. So, if Trump were to die in office or if he were to resign or if he were to lose in 2028, this would change my model completely because I see Trump as almost like a uh Julius Caesar figure who who who has been propelled by the current times to assume power. Okay. So, if Trump were to die and Vance were to come to power, this would change my model completely. Okay, that's that's the first major test of the validity of my model.
Second major uh test would be Russia and Ukraine come to a peace, right? Because I I I see what's happening as just continuous warfare. And if Ukraine and Russia were to sign a peace deal and that I I'd be very I'd be ecstatic if that would happen. It would completely destroy my my model. Um the third would be if China were to invade Taiwan.
If China were actually invade
122:51Taiwan, then I'm completely wrong about China. I'm completely wrong about uh the East Asia and this would completely change the dynamic of of the world, right? Imagine if China were to actually invade Taiwan. Well, then United States is kind of screwed over, right?
Uh so I I I would say these are the three big things so far. Um, and I don't think any of these things are likely. I think Trump will win in will get a third term. I think this war between Russia and Ukraine won't won't expand over time. Will only escalate and China would not invade Taiwan militarily.
Okay. And in these scenarios, although unlikely, do you have like is this a shift in your thinking? Do you have a different like path forward in these scenarios or is it just open water at that point?
Yeah, great question. Okay. So, um if Trump were to die in office, then this would radically shift my model because right now I think um I'm using a lot a cult theory in understanding geopolitics. And if Trump were to die in office, then I think the materialist viewpoint would be much more valid. And I think the world would be much more random than I assume I assume it to be.
Um um so if Trump were were to die in office then I I would have to radically re reconceptualize the way I understand the world. Okay. So that's Trump. Um if Russia and Ukraine were to sign a peace deal then my very understanding of how the world works it it it it fails. I would have to like start from scratch if Russia and Ukraine were to come to a peace deal because um I can't see a scenario in my current framework in which they come to a peace an ever an everlasting peace.
Okay. So I would have to start start from scratch um and then if China were to invade Taiwan then I would need to completely
124:54reconceptualize how I how I understand China. Uh because from my perspective, it is impossible for China to go invade Taiwan militarily. The culture doesn't allow it. Democracy doesn't allow it. The political system doesn't allow it.
Um and so I so honestly honestly I'll be honest with you. If China were to invade Taiwan, I'd be very impressed with China. I really would be.
Yeah.
Okay.
Awesome. And then another question I had is we talk a lot about like Plato's allegory to the cave and a collective consciousness. Um and you have mentioned in previous lectures that there are some sciences that do that are starting to like lead into this direction specifically neuroscience. Yes.
And I have a basic understanding of quantum theory or uh string theory. Do you think these are other like physics that uh point to this conclusion as well? And what are your thoughts on that? I I I I would not be surprised in the next like five years there's major consensus emerging in mainstream science that says that um yeah I mean Plato's allegory of the cave is completely right that we the world is what we imagine it to be and you you already have a minority uh within neuroscience which argues this point their argument is basically the universe is this simulation it's it's it's a simulation right it's a projection of imagination so I think I think this will be the economic consensus in a very short time like maybe the next 5 to 10 years.
Yeah. Thank you. And then my last question uh kind of connecting to back to some other points where people are asking you for book recommendations. Um I think a lot of us are going through your lectures as well and I understand that these are all very deep and interconnected like uh topics and I would like to explore them more deeply. Uh is there a point in the future where you'd be able to get like a list of book recommendations that kind of uh follow your lectures uh so we can take our own
126:56dive into this material or is it that you conduct mainly independent research on these topics?
Yeah. So, if you go back to my um civilization series, I I list books as sources. Um and on my Substack, if you go back to an to an early Substack um uh essay, I I I will have book book recommendations.
Um yeah,
I missed that. I apologize.
No, no worries. No worries. Yeah. Okay. Um
that's all I have.
Okay, great. Okay. Uh Karina,
thank you. Oh, and and and Cassie um has has the the the link uh to the reading list. Um so, yeah, in the chat. Okay. Karina,
hi. Yes. Can you hear me?
Yes. Yes. Go ahead.
All right. Thank you for taking my question. Um I have been watching you for quite some time and um I kind of got to this point of like freezing from some of your videos. you talked about how uh Hollywood is kind of implicated in a lot of um I guess you know like the movies that they make they kind of show or depict ideas that they want society to follow before you know things happen. Um as well as um you know like the government like doing like false flag events and stuff like that.
And I remember one video you talked about how like one, you know, uh, you know, idea would be like if they really wanted to do something that, uh, was like all eyes were on it, it would be at like the at the FIFA World Cup games because everyone's watching it. And I just, you know, just took that and went on to like, you know, Chachi BT. I was like, "Can you show me the uh mo any movies that have any plot lines about um you know any type of like terrorist attack at a sporting event?" And I just wanted to like read the plots to see you know
128:57what came up. And I saw this plot line for a movie called Black Sunday from 1977.
Yes.
And it talked about a uh Palestinian uh group called The Black September.
Yes. that uh took control of a blimp
for a sporting event
and um basically wanted to like blow it up in uh and above like 80,000 people uh watching at in the movie of the Super Bowl. Um and they were trying to, you know, kill the president and all these people, but they were saved by a partnering of Mossad and the FBI,
right?
They were able to, you know, move the blimp and exploded over the ocean. Um, and the game was hosted at a Miami, Florida uh, stadium. And I was looking up, you know, what's any um, you know, games that are happening in Miami, Florida, and there's actually like one happening today at 5:00 pm and and the finals are happening in the same stadium on the 18th. So, that honestly kind of freaked me out because I was like, you know,
yeah,
this is a weird weird timing. I don't know what was going on in 1977 when this movie was coming out, but to depict Palestinians as these, you know, a terrorist group and then to have, you know, the FBI and the MSAD be like partners that save the day seems odd giving our current standing with um, you know, they're trying to partner our militaries and everything. So, it's just like a very odd timing for it to just match up like perfectly. Of course, I don't want this to happen, but I just wanted to get your ideas on like how false flag events come to be and your thoughts on this this plot.
Yeah, I know. Um, so when I was making a comment about, you know, like how the World Cup would be a perfect place to to like do a false flag, I was actually thinking of that movie. Um that movie uh I watched like you know many years ago
130:57but it left a laughing lasting impression because honestly it seemed pretty realistic like like you know if I wanted to create a false flag event and I really want to traumatize like the population well a sporting event would would be the ideal place because as you point out there's like 80,000 people in a stadium and they're a captive audience right so um if you if you were to uh set set off a bomb in a sporting event, you could kill a lot of people. And um and the World Cup right now is the like like if you want to create a full slack event, that the World Cup right now will be the ideal place to to do it, right? Um so um when I teach you a cult, I will talk more about these false flags because they're clearly rituals, right? If you look at 911, if you look at the Charlie Kirk assassination, if you look at JFK, there are rituals. Um, the like clearly the people who are doing this, they're trying to almost summon demons.
They're they're trying they're trying to um implant it. It's a magic ritual. It's magic. That's what it is. So um the exact invol involvement of Hollywood um it's speculative.
I don't I really I don't really know but I will point out that um Hollywood is heavily heavily penetrated by Mossad, right? So you know like I I saw on Twitter like when Messi got married at age 30, it was the Israelis the Mossad who provided security for that wedding, right? And if you just go into like Hollywood and you look look at who these bodyguards are for these like these ageless actors like Brad Pitt, they are MSAD, they are IDF, they they are people who are uh very uh closely affiliated with uh the state of
132:58Israel. So um does that translate into predictive programming? Um, does it mean that MSAD and Israel will get really favorable coverage in the in in Hollywood and in television? I think absolutely. So, um, the connections are there and how they actually work is something that I'm still working on.
Um, any more questions, Karina? Well, does that make sense?
Yeah, I mean it really does make sense. Thank you for uh, you know, adding to that. I was trying to get other people's attention on this and it was so difficult. So thank you for having these meetings because that is like I need to tell someone that you know you know you you provided a platform for me to be able to actually talk to someone about it. Um but I have a different question as well completely different.
Um I have been reading you know Dante's Divine Comedy
and um I did something that you know you said that you know there's a lot of like filters that really would help you understand the book more if you learn. So, I decided to try to learn Italian and um I started transcribing line by line like it's it helps because I know Spanish,
right?
Uh you know, line by line like from Italian to English because you know they have a mandibal transcription. And I mean honestly, even on the first line, like even if you don't know Italian, you just know Spanish, there's some words in there that don't really make any sense to why it was transcribed that way. For example, on the first line where it says, you know, glory to thee, the one that moves um all things and permeates um you know, his light. Um permeates, that's the word that's given in English, but in Spanish and in Italian, penetra is penetrates. M
and I feel like that's like a pretty big like distinction to make because if you think about it like penetration is from the outside coming in and permeation is like you're already in and you're just you know you you've already spread it's it's a static word so it's not dynamic
135:00and you when you do a lot of these like translations from Italian to uh to English you start to realize like a lot of the words that Dante wanted to use are action words they're verbs like they He wants that to be like the common theme of like God is movement, God is action. Yes. And um you know if you were to emulate that then you should be action as well. You should be movement. You should be acting.
And um I just it does you know when I look at the the English version I'm like it doesn't really come out that way. It starts to say things like you know glows but the word is radiates like it's like shine like to the point that you like you can't handle it anymore. Um, and I don't know why they translated it this way. I don't know if it was like their own style that they wanted to add to Dante's work, but I I do um hope that like others also, you know, took the time to like just translate some of these Italian words because I'm only on like line nine and just by translating it from Italian to English, it like really made me think and like understand the book way more than just reading it um in English itself.
No, that's a great point, Karina. I mean definitely Dante was a revolutionary. He was definitely a prophet. Um and he really believed that love is action that if you really want to uh show faith in God, you have to take action in this world. Um and uh he really believed in social justice.
So you're absolutely right. Um, and I mean like each translation of each translation of DA will be different, right? So I use the metabomb translation because it was almost accessible. It was pretty it's just pretty easy to read. But there are better translations out there.
There are translations um that rhyme. There are translations that try to show the complexity of of Dante. So, um, so, um,
137:03you know, met Metam, I think he he he chose accessibility, uh, but you know, like when you try to translate, you're only going to capture a small part of the total essence of of the poetry. So, um, so I would encourage everyone to read to read it in Italian. So, so thank you so much, Karina.
Thank you.
Okay. Uh Cassie
uh my pleasure. Um can you hear me?
Yes. Yes.
Um yes. So um great thank you for hosting the meeting and all the viewed the videos. So my questions would be um would you um would you actually believe like um debate would help us to um open our like our perceptions because I think from my experience so uh I just moved here from Vietnam.
Okay.
And um the the past uh moved to sorry it moved to Michigan. So I'm I'm in US right now and um the past year has been a very transformative year for uh for me and I have to relearn a lot because if you know Vietnam pretty much like China in the way that we are very materialist and um um focus a lot on just you know um getting a good grade and getting a good job and all of that and um and I think that um I'm trying to build everything u from scratch again and uh try to rebuild my whole worldview uh again and there are there are times when I try to share this with other people or at least with like my friends or people that I know now know but I think um when we try to have a debate is either two reaction one is that they just getting very angry because they attack their own worldview
or the second is that have a co they have a cognitive disonment so they just ignore it
so I I I don't know like how we are able to like convey this kind of message or how to actually help like conversations that have both of both participant to
139:05like open their worldview in in that way.
Yeah. I I think um it's very hard to convince people if they don't want to be convinced. But what I think is the world is changing very rapidly and people's understanding the world it's being um challenged right because of global events. So I would say um it's very important to keep on learning by yourself and eventually people are going to come to you and ask what's going on and when they open their hearts when when they're ready to listen and you speak you'll have impact but but right now what's really important is to keep on learning by yourself and to really develop your own unique worldview. And that's what I'm doing you know where um I want to travel a lot.
I I want to talk to um you and and others on this call and I and I I I I just want to keep on learning. So So like when people come to me, I'll I'll have more answers for them.
I see. Yeah, I think I think that's also speak to like my next question because uh when Dante we have that uh um part in Patty. So talking about the Francis and the um Dominican right when Yeah. and in the in the way that they also try to do something good. They want to go out and act.
Um I think that is the that is the spirit right now that there's a lot of people who want to act but they also kind of see the the world around them is that somehow all this good will just turn into a bad things.
Yes.
Somehow they going to be tricked again and got like you know everybody just turn out to be one they just want power again. So it's it's feel very uh demotivated to actually act on it and and you become like kind like paralyzed in in in in um just try to live live by. So do you have any like suggestions or advice on that?
Yeah, I I think it's very important to take a long-term approach. So rather than be like you know like I want to impact the world today. Um I think it's
141:07very important to keep on learning develop your own uh skills to try to um get to get involved in the community and when the time is right then people will naturally look look to you for for leadership and and and for advice. So I think it's very important to just keep the faith to think long term and be patient.
Thank you.
Okay.
Thank you. Yeah. And sorry it's just the last questions is actually I want to ask about how you conduct your research um in order to actually help um um you know learning by yourself right but there's a lot of resource out there and there are a lot of different opinions and all of that and some um and I want to ask like how will I be able to for example any sources that you uh tend to like gear toward um there are any particular pe person or scholars or any places that you tended to uh gather resources sport to actually um you know form a framework like able to actually learn that that able to advance your learning not just you know try to run in a whole discourse about everything.
Yeah. So I try to uh be very wide in my research. So I like listening to like Jimmy Door uh the Jimmy Door Show. Uh I like listening to Toro Carlson. I like listening to Kenneth Owens um because they will raise questions and topics that I'm not familiar with and this will encourage my my own uh research.
So people like David Ike, uh Kenneth Owens, they mentioned Son Frankus and so I'm just curious like who who are these people and start doing my own research. But it's really important to um be as open-minded as possible and to engage with people who you disagree with um and to really like try to [clears throat] expand your comfort zone. So So rather than just like look for people who tell you what you already
143:07know, look for people who tell you uh tell you things that you do you may disagree with or you may not know.
Okay. So thank you so much. That's my last question.
Okay. Uh, Andy. Uh, Andy.
Hi. Hi. Hello.
Yes. Can you hear me?
I can hear you fine.
Oh, lovely. Lovely. Thank you so much. Um, I am I am on uh down to number six uh from your uh series that you launched uh two weeks ago.
Sure. um uh from your lectures and I'm I'm very uh emotionally connected to it and I've been following your work for uh more than a year or so and um the the Dante connection the the uh unconditional love um and I truly believe this this is as you uh explained pretty well on the number six lecture number six uh that I've been just this point that Dante connected you to faith in your journey [snorts] and I'm I'm I'm very confident to tell you that the same applied to me. I'm a I'm a very uh I was a very skeptical uh person uh scientist, engineer uh rational rationalizing everything and um you your your your endem word has been very profound. I'm very thankful for that. Um and if you and I completely I'm completely align with uh
145:10uh your education uh system uh uh ideas of of uh of developing this uh uh uh worldwide and if you feel that the moment has reached to has has approached to move to South America, Brazil will be very happy to uh uh host you and um I'm here doing my bit spreading your message as much as I can. Even though Brazilians speak Portuguese, it's very hard for them to connect uh with English. And I'm very thankful that I I spent many years in Europe uh which got me to a connection with English that uh um I'm I'm I'm I'm confident to understand your message. But um I am here daily thinking how can we uh translate this into uh other languages also. uh and the education model that you proposed is is as as vital as I I can see.
So um yeah, thank you for uh creating all of this this momentum is is amazing and yeah uh hope you hope to see you one day. Thank you.
Thanks so much Andy. Thanks so much for that. Okay. Uh Kevin,
hi. Can you hear me? Okay.
Yes. Yes. Perfect.
Hi. Uh just a follow-up question about reading. Uh apologies to people who are good at English or English courses. I was never a good myself, but when you read books, for example, let's say like the words of Jacob Frank, it's a very dense complex book. It's hard to get through in especially when you have other projects like work or studying.
Uh
147:10h how do you dissect a book? um do you um or how do you how do you finish a book quickly and so you can move on to other things and just take out key key messages from that book instead of reading every single line because I I I assume that's what you did instead of reading the whole entire book.
Yeah. So I I read the whole book um because I'm a very fast reader. I was an English major at Yale. So I've been reading books for my entire life and I'm a very good reader. I I'm able to read something very complex like, you know, Jacob Frank's writings and figure out the main ideas and figure out what's what sections are really important.
Uh because that that's what I was trying to do at a place like like Yale. Um and I would just say like if you're getting just started um it's very important to read it with other people um maybe for form a book club where you are um and maybe teach it to others. Um, so reading is is a very hard skill to develop over time. And I I would just suggest like before you tackle on hard text, you might just start to get in the habit of just reading for pleasure, right? So every hour or two hours, just just read for fun.
And it could be, you know, comic books, it could be um Stephen King, Harry Potter, it doesn't really matter. But once you train your mind on how to read, your mind is going to subconsciously pick up a lot of really important details when you when you encounter complex text.
Thank you.
Okay. Did do you have any more questions, Kevin, or or followup?
Uh I I guess just follow up like so I assume you you stay away from other people out there already that's analyzed the work. Do you like to read it yourself originally before you do that?
Uh, yeah. I mean, well, I'm a very good reader, so I'm able to um just read it myself and figure out what's going on. But you're actually right in that, you
149:10know, like if you're just starting off, it's it's pretty it's actually pretty good to just read what the scholars tell say about the text. Um, and it's a very good overview. You might even want want to talk talk to Chachi BT uh and just get a brief summary of of of the text.
Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Thank you.
Okay, thanks. Uh, AGM.
Yeah. Hi. How are you?
Good.
Um, just a quick one from my end. You've um spoken about several esquetologies um in your courses and in your videos um that might or might not um happen in the future. among them um you know is Russian esquetology, there's a Jewish esquetology with Pakist Judea, there's the Islamic esquetology um with the Iranian uh with with with um it's Shia Islam. There's also the um the um the American technate as well. Um are these essentially um zeros um um some game in your point of view or can they um happen generally at the same time or not?
Yeah, that's a great question and I think it's not zero sum. I think it's perfectly possible to achieve all esquetologies, right? Because if you look at the major ones, America achieves a technate. Um then you have Israel achieved Paxica, the great Israel project. Uh Russia achieves the third Rome prophecy.
Um and then uh Iran achieves um its esquetology which is uh basically p Islamaka and these things are not actually in conflict with each other. Uh they they can coexist at the same time. And what and what I will say is that um maybe in the future um you
151:11have many different systems exist in parallel uh with each other.
I see. Um and just just a quick follow up with that like when you're uh taking a look at at you know at the macro and then when you know with when you know in some of the lectures that you have you're also talk about the kind of the micro like to to just you know you know introduce yourself to to to your um um neighbors etc etc and just to take those steps um to kind of get ready for what to come. Um it just it's you know the kind of link that or you know or the stretch to take from the micro to to the macro. It's uh it's quite challenging I'd say. So what what would be like your advice over there?
Yeah. So um you always want to solve the macro because the macro gives you the framework, right? And the micro is are just like specific instances that confirm the macro. So um you know it's very important to have a conceptual theory of the world and then build on top of that.
I see. All right. Thank you very much.
Thanks.
Okay. So um we have five more people and then and then it's getting pretty late where I am. So so so we'll end the um stream. Okay. So, uh, Leanduel, um, did you have a question or a comment?
Yes, I have quite a few questions now actually that I've thought about. I want to start with more of a like a debate where of a topic that I'm unsure of because like you talked in one of your very early lectures on like uh the dawn of civilization basically and there you said that um
153:12before the people from the steps invaded uh kind of Europe and Asia that these parts were like all they were peaceful and egalitarian. But and and that basically humans naturally are are um not actually violent beings. But then I kind of struggle to make sense of that because then why is it that for example when a fight breaks out like people are naturally they seem to be naturally drawn to that fight to go see it or when um or that when people get emotional obviously angers are very strong emotions that can take hold of somebody easily or also So when the when homo sapiens um basically asserted its dominance over other human species like that couldn't have just happened naturally. I have a feeling that and that instead we have conquered these people like the Nanderthals for example. So I'm kind of questioning how we could really have always been peaceful and egalitarian.
Okay. So, um, that's a great point and what I will say is the the history of humanity is very very incomplete. And the idea is that our brains have been have been like this for the past 300,000 years. Okay? 300,000 years.
Yet, um, we only have like 10 12,000 years of recorded human history. So, so what were we doing before um we had like recorded history, right? So, it's very hard for for me to imagine like we were doing nothing before, you know, 12,000 years ago dur uh when when
155:12civilizations just just started off in Goepe. So, that's my first point. Second point is there's a lot of evidence that there are these hidden civilizations from us that we've never really fully investigated. Okay, so goep is one example, but also like if you go to the Amazon, it's clear when you do uh like this survey of the Amazon, it's it it it seems as though the Amazon was made by another civilization. It was not the Amazon is not a natural thing.
It it was it was cultivated. it was designed. Okay. So let's say Amazon then you then you have these megaliths all around the world like uh if you go to to Antarctica uh there are regions where you cannot access but where people where where a lot of people is believe that there there was also a previous civilization and there's talk of like Atlantis right so I think that our traditional way of understanding uh the beginning beginning of humanity I think it's very problematic and I think that over the next few decades I think a new understanding of our history will will emerge. And quite honestly, I I'm I also want to teach a course um I do a lecture series on humanity on like where we came from and on these ancient civilizations like like Atlantis and um so that's number one.
Number two is to understand my argument just just do a thought experiment. Let's just say like you got like the 50 most violent men in the world. Okay? And these are mass murderers. They're criminals.
And you put them on a deserted island. What would they do? I mean, like, you can say, well, they're violent, so they'll just kill themselves. But I mean, you could also argue, well, you know, there's 50 of them, and they need to work together or they're all going to die. Um, so, uh, you could argue like violence is just a function of the scarcity of resources, right?
If you have overpopulation,
157:12right? So, it's environmental basically. It's not within us, but the environment forces us then to be
I think so. Yeah, I think so. That that's what I would argue.
Okay. Um
Okay. So, it's really it's really first of all that the history is just unclear enough to really fill in all the gaps of our understanding.
Yeah.
And that like if we humans existed in a vacuum, then we wouldn't be violent. Then we wouldn't be so violent because there would be nothing like there would be no emotions that would be that the environment would trigger in us basically. Okay, that makes a little more sense. Yeah,
right. Yeah. Yeah. So, I think over the next 20 years there's going to be like a radical um uh reworking of primitive human history. Um I I I think there'll be a lot of research, a lot of new discoveries that challenge the traditional framework that we have.
Yeah. And I also have uh just two uh really quick questions as well uh on reading again. And that is how much time do you spend like reading a day like currently or in the past? And like how often also do you reread something like for like if you want to re refresh your mind either or if you want to get like look at something from new perspective like how do you go on? And this can also be applied to not just reading on for example history or religious stuff but also geopolitical research like all kinds basically.
Yeah. So I try to do one or two hours a day and it's really good practice and um I'm blessed with a really strong memory so I usually remember what I read. So when I do reread things, it's because I need certain passages to teach a class. And so I'm going to reread it in order to find a passage I need in order to
159:12teach a class.
Okay. And in the past, you're also stuck to this kind of one to two hours or has been more.
This is the best way to build your brain. like just do one or two hours of reading a day and I guarantee you like like your brain is going to really expand uh if you do this o over like you know 10 20 years
and then you also focus on one one book for those one to two hours or do you also read two or three things at the same time when
uh no you you want to keep focus on one book yeah
okay
okay thank you very much
thanks I don't want too much time
yeah so Shanu has a question, right? Um, so she's kind of shy, so I'll I'll I'll read her question for everyone. She asks, "Can you speak more about education reform and what are some resources to learn more about it?" Um, so I can go on for hours and hours about education reform, but basically my main concern about schools now is that they sap or they destroy students intrinsic love of learning. So students are naturally curious, they're naturally motivated to learn for themselves. But because um teachers are trying to implement a curriculum and they're trying to make students take tests, it's very easy for students to lose focus and to uh drop out, become become demotivated.
So it's really about appreciating students as divine spark and really about cultivating their curiosity, really cultivating their passion for learning. And you you can do that in many different ways, but the most important way to do that is to allow students to ask questions and to engage in debate and to structure learning around their their interests. Um so so that's Shannu. And then Alexander asks, "What do you think about the space race 2.0? Do you think this is collaboration between China and America?
Yeah, I think space is I I think um we don't we don't we don't have the technology to get to the moon. I
161:12don't think like there's any point in getting to the moon and I think that China and America are working very closely to create this illusion of the space race. Um, China gets a lot of technology and science from America and um, you know, obviously China sees this as a way like like as a form of national propaganda of of trying to rally the people uh, in a time of economic males, but um, I don't think they'll they'll get back to the moon. Okay. Um, okay. Uh so uh Leo asks, "Professor, what country should I move to if I want my children to grow up in a safe place with high quality life and education away from internal and external tensions?" Yeah.
Okay. So this is something that my wife and I talk about a lot like where to move to. And the reality is that the world is going to guys. Okay? There's no place you can go and be like, "Okay, this country is great now." uh there's going to be problems in every single country you you move to.
So, it's really about having the proper mindset and really about building a community that aligns with your mindset. And so, you know, what I'm doing is um I am going to go and try to find people like you guys and and figure out how we can work together to build a more ideal community because the idea of just because the idea of like just moving to New Zealand or Chile and all your problems be solved that I think is a dead end. Okay. Uh Hannibal asks um does professor John have any recommendation on how to avoid or escape the inevable total surveillance state in the west? Okay.
Like how how to escape the AI surveillance state? And um what I do is I try not not to participate in it, right? So try to reduce your online presence. Try to uh use cash where you can try to um talk to people rather than write
163:12write long emails. So the more time you spend online, the more easily you can be surveiled. Okay. Um so so that that that's my best advice. But, you know, the long-term solution, of course, is to build a very strong community.
And, you know, that that's what we're trying to do right now. Okay. Um, Jackson, uh, Jason Tucker, uh, are you here?
Hi. How's it going?
Yeah. So, so did did you have a more another comment or or question?
Oh, I apologize. My hand has been raised.
Okay. All right. Sorry. All right. Sorry.
Sorry. Uh, Pedrin,
hey, professor. Thank you. I know it's almost midnight over there in in Beijing, so thanks for your time. Um, I wanted to ask you a question and just have you helped me navigate, I guess, if if you were in my position, how you would maybe respond to questions like this. So, I was born in Iran.
I'm currently in the Los Angeles area. So, when you're in LA, let me know. Would love to meet up.
Absolutely. And one thing I struggle with is I would say probably the biggest portion of the Iranian diaspora is in Southern California uh and other parts of America, but Southern California specifically. And I have a tough time with most of my peers, especially my age range, cheering for the bombings, let's say, and other things like that. So, I guess how do you navigate the mixed esquetology in Iran? Meaning I have friends who are like, "Hey, 4,000 years ago is Arian and then it was Zastrinism and then it's, you know, Shia Islam." Is it cynical to ask like what is Iran or any country?
Like is it one or the other? Is it to your point earlier the world is what we imagine it to be? Is it just whoever's empowered is kind of like picks whichever one they want? Uh you know his the victor you know his story
165:12they write history. So what is your thought on that? How would you approach that? Answer that. I just have a tough time wrestling with that kind of question and thought.
Yeah, I I mean I would just say the world is what you make of it. If you really believe in your vision, you have to like think long term. You have to spend 50 years, 100 years to achieve your vision. And those who are going to work hard, those who are willing to fight and sacrifice their lives to achieve their vision will will do so. So the people in power anywhere in the world are there because they're willing to die for what they believe in.
They're willing to do whatever what whatever it takes to um obtain the power.
Absolutely beautiful. And if I could just have a follow-up question, thank you for that. is how imminent do you think based on this current game theory view, right? Assuming not nothing crazy changes, right, and it kind of stays its course. How imminent is a civil war in Bahrain, which would
in a way kind of expand the proxy
net
of Iran? How does that look like? I think Bahrain is a country that most people don't think about. If you go ask like 100 people, they they might not even know where it is on a map.
Yeah.
Uh what do you think about that?
Yeah. No, you're absolutely right. So um Bahin is is is a uh power powder keg because it's majority Shia and it's uh it's ruled by a Sunni minority. Uh so the people are very sympathetic towards Iranians and the leadership the elite are extremely corrupt and very unpopular. So you're absolutely right in that a civil war will break out sooner or later.
I can't tell I can't tell you the time frame because um um America and Israel can still um you know suppress the people if a civil war breaks out but I think that you know once America sends in ground troops into Iran then all bets are off then then I think like you know um the entire region may may burn. I also point out that eventually what's gonna happen is the AXC mosque will be destroyed. Um,
167:12and this is going to cause a huge configuration throughout the Muslim world. So, a lot of people are expecting it. Uh, Israel has signaled that it will be destroyed at some point and it's all part of part of the wider esquetology.
False flag. Thank you.
Yeah. Yeah. Um, uh, Fred then Dominic.
Yes. uh question here kind of goes similar with Hannibal there uh with what we're kind of seeing on the surveillance side happening in Kenya. You know, we've you've touched briefly on Peter Teal as well and kind of what he's doing there in Argentina and I was wondering if you could kind of go into a little bit of the context that he's trying to create there based on what you've seen so far.
Yeah. So I don't know known about Argentina but I I know Peter Theo wants to create the network state right. So basically he wants like like the way he thinks he's very strategic you know he's like I made all this money but how do I translate this money into power into long-term power? Well, basically I need to create my own society and have people uh treat me as a god, right? And I need AI surveillance in order to control the people.
And so he needs to figure out where where in the world he can actually implement this vision. And there's certain places in the world, right? So for example, Gaza is is a perfect um test case, right? because it's been flattened, it's been destroyed, the people are essentially prisoners and uh the Israelis are occupational army. So, it's possible for him to try out his theory in Gaza.
Argentina is also another test case scenario uh because um the government there is very friendly towards Peter Theo and it's a very rich country but um um the economist isn't doing so so well. So a guy like Peter Theo will try to look at different possibilities. He's also look something called seasting which is like to have
169:14your own city in the oceans far away from other nations. So he so he's going to like he's a venture capitalist right? He's not going to put all his money in one in one basket. He's he he's going to spread everything out and he's going to figure out you know what is going to have the most impact and generate the best ROI. So so that that that this will be his approach.
Thank you. That makes sense. Further uh seems like further auditions to come that he'll kind of try different areas. I appreciate it.
That's exactly right. And also Australia is a possibility as well, right? Um so you know, Peter Field is a very flexible guy. Okay. Uh Dominic.
Yes. I uh quickly have a just a couple of questions that are more occult related.
Sure. And we um have seen that you know I don't remember in what one of the latest lectures in game theory you said that with AI and all these uh new technologies they are trying to uh do summon demons and then they specific explicitly uh declared it not even tried to keep it hidden and there are all these things going on. So we have always referred to these beings like gods, demons, angels like external beings. But in your opinion, how much chance is there that instead these are structures within our consciousness or how can I put it like interfaces through which our consciousness encounters maybe realities that otherwise on its own could not comprehend.
Yeah. No, I I I agree with that. Um, and if you look at people on psych on psychedelics, they say the same thing where, you know, like on psych psychedelics, their minds open, they
171:14encounter all these demons and angels they wouldn't have before. And depending on on on psychedelic, you encounter the same um demons and and angels. So I would say that our minds, our consciousness are connected to infinite dimensions and within these infinite dimensions are all sorts of like these different beings. So, so they all exist within us and it's really a matter of like tapping our conscious in a certain way that connects us to a certain demon or angel. The other question is more uh historical because um geographically we have many many many cultures uh in many places all around the world.
But why do all these geographically separated cultures repeatedly produce stories of you know divine kings and forbidden knowledge and secrets or sacrifice uh a reset of civilization?
Yeah.
Why are basically discrepancies but no differences but it's almost like it's one.
Yeah. Yeah. No. Um I mean I I will go this I will go this into greater detail the cult series. The idea is game theory right where um society eventually reaches a point where where it's a critical mass there's a lot of people and the elite become parasites on the people and so the elite like how do they maintain control over the population and how do they maintain internal unity and how do they access secrets?
Well they do it for the occult, right? They do it for rituals. They do it for child sacrifice. Uh it's very similar to to what's happening today. You ask yourself why is there Epstein Island?
Why are there things like Pizzagate going on? Why is p pedophilia such a huge thing in in the world and I think it has a lot has to do with the idea that the elite in order to attain power they make certain
173:14sacrifices to demons you know and it's all part of our consciousness right but it's a way for them to focus their mental energies. is a way for them to maintain internal cohesion among the elite. And when you make deals with a demon, well, you have to make the the greatest gift to demons, which are often children, right? So, so, so, so I think it's a game theory. I I I think it's just a way for the elite to um access uh universal secrets, universal power, and for them to maintain internal cohesion and to in order to continue to exploit the the population.
Well, how come are always so similar between each other?
Because this is the most effective way to do it [laughter] because if you want to rule for a long time, then you just have to use a system.
All right. Awesome. Thank you.
Thank you so much. So, uh I will answer Shannu's question and we'll call for for for this first session. Okay. So, thanks so much everyone for uh u participating. Uh it's been great.
Okay. So, Shannu asks, "What are some things I can do to to help find my purpose and help others find theirs?" Um, so I would just say teach. Uh, teaching is the most beautiful thing you can give to the world. So, you know, if you have time, go volunteer at a kindergarten, go volunteer at a Sunday school, go volunteer anywhere, you know, and just teach and be with kids and share yourself with others. And this is going to really open your mind to new possibilities.
Uh, you know, teaching is is the greatest is the greatest joy in the world. Um, so that's something that I would highly recommend everyone do. Uh, just go out there and spread and and like spread yourself or like share yourself with with others. Okay, guys. So, it's been a lot of fun.
We'll we'll do this we'll do this again next month. Okay. All right. So, thanks a lot and uh and goodbye.
Thank you so much. Okay. Bye. Bye.
175:14Thank you, professor. Have a good one.