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Okay. So, uh today we we are looking at three major events in American history. Uh the moon landing, the assassination of JFK, and 911. Now, as you may know, the official story is something that a lot of people do not accept. Okay? So, we're going to look at the official story and then we'll see some of the issues with the um official story. So, first I want to show you some videos. First, we're going to watch the moon landing. So, 1969, July 20th, they shoot three men into space. Uh Boss Uldren, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man in the world to walk on the moon. Okay? And this is his journey. All right? So, let's watch it together. >> What you will see is that it takes a lot of thrust to get the man into space. >> 30 ft down. 2 and 1/2. Picking up some dust. 30 ft. Two and a half down. Break that out. Four forward. Forward. Drifting to the right level. >> This is considered the greatest achievement in human history. It took years and years of hard work involving 400,000 people are working for NASA to accomplish this perfect landing on the moon. >> We're breathing again. Thanks a lot. Okay, Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now. I'm at the foot of the ladder. The lamb footeds are only uh >> What is amazing is that this is being broadcast live from the moon back to NASA. So, their technology back then is far superior to to our technology today. Small step for man, one leap for mankind. This is so great you can't believe it. >> Oh, I believe it. Charlie, >> get ready. John, >> look at it. Would you >> got all your steering and get straight? >> Oh, this is going to be some kind of different ride. Hippity hippity hippity up and over hill. I know this looks fake, but it's not. Okay, this is official NASA footage live from the moon. And this is the best part. Okay, the best part is when they return from the moon back to Earth. You see how easy it is? It's just like they just fly up. No resistance at all. Okay, perfect. Humanity's greatest achievement. Now, what's amazing is that while they were on the moon, >> both of you, >> President Nixon and the astronauts had a phone conversation. >> Okay. >> Yeah, I think something rather important is coming up here. Uh >> Neil and Buzz. This is being broadcast broadcast live to American people. Okay. Would like to say a few words to [Music] >> Hello Neil and Buzz. I'm talking to him by telephone from the old and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made from the White House. I just can't tell you how proud we all are of what you have done. For every American, this has to be the proudest day of our lives. And for people all over the world, I am sure that they too join with Americans in recognizing what an immense feat this is. Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. >> Okay? The heavens have become part of man's world. Right? Remember how last class we talked about how they wanted to bring the heavens down to earth. Okay? This is idea of inversion. Okay? But do you see how amazing it is that they were able to have this seamless phone conversation? Okay. Okay. Now they go to the moon and you would think that they would come back and they're heroes, right? Imagine if the school took you all on a trip to Mount Everest. You spent six months climbing the world's tallest mountain. You come back and you feel amazing, right? You feel on top of the world. You're ecstatic. You want the whole world to know about it. Well, they should be feeling the same thing, right? >> Okay. Here's a press conference after the uh >> Sorry. >> I have two brief questions I'd like to ask if I may. When you were carrying out that incredible moon walk, did you find that the surface was equally firm anywhere or were there harder and softer spots that you could detect? And secondly, when you looked up at the sky, could you actually see the stars and the solar corona in spite of the glare? We were never able to see stars from the lunar surface or on the daylight side of the moon by eye without looking through the optics. Uh I don't recall during the period of time that we were photographing the sonar what what stars we could see. >> I don't remember seeing any. >> I don't remember seeing any stars. He doesn't remember anything. Okay. Did you see how nervous they are? It's very strange. All right. And that's why even today there are a lot of people who do not believe the moon landing happened. Okay. So, we'll go over the theories as to why later on, but but now let's switch focus and let's look at 911. All right. So, this is the buildings coming down on 911. Watch how watch how they come down. It's very strange. The North Tower came crashing down. a rumble. >> So, this is strange because a plane hit that building, right? Now, it's on fire. It's very strange that the building could come straight down like that. It's almost like a demolition. I'm not saying it's a demolition, but it looks kind of strange. Okay. What's even stranger is that there were two planes that hit the twin towers that day. But there were three buildings which came down. The north tower, the south tower, and building number seven, which was across the street. Nothing hit that thing. It came down. Okay. So, let's watch the video. It's on fire. Okay. But but whoa. It's kind of strange. Comes straight down. Nothing hit that. Nothing. A plane did not hit this thing. Okay. And then of course there's another video that's kind of strange, which is the president of the United States, George W. Bush >> during the attacks. >> He's president of the United States. He's sitting in a classroom watching a teacher teach. >> That's kind of strange, guys. He's kind of busy, right? >> He spend the entire morning while the attacks are happening just watching the class being taught. >> His positioning is weird because if you're if you are a president, you should be behind. >> This is his assistant telling him there's an attack. Why is he being rushed out of that bu that room and being put in a safe place? Right. >> Okay. >> He's just he's just sitting there. >> America's being attacked and he's just sitting around with kids. Mr. >> President York. >> Thank you all. Step out. >> Okay. So, a reporter is asking him, "Mr. president, do you know that America's being attacked right now? And he's like, we'll talk about it later. He's not worried. He No, at this point, no one knows who's attacking America. No one knows how large the attack is. As president of United States, he should be rushed immediately to a safe location. And he's not worried. He's like, "We'll talk about later." very very strange. Okay. And that's why even today people are suspicious about what happened. Okay guys, so having seen the videos, let's go over what happened. Okay. Okay. So, um, let's talk about the JFK assassination. On November 22nd, 1963, JFK was assassinated. And Lyndon B. Johnson, new president, he organizes a commission called the Warren Commission to investigate what happened. And they produced this huge huge report thousand of pages and the report says that only one person was involved Lee Harvey Oswald and he was able to kill the president of United States because of his common sympathies and that's it. Okay. There are certain problems though. Okay. So, this is the president of United States and he's in Dallas touring um uh Dallas. I want to point something strange about this picture. Okay, you see how in the front JFK is in the front, but all the security is behind him. That makes no sense. What's the point of security if the security is all behind him, right? Because if someone rushes and attacks him, they're too far behind, right? Also, you see how the sold the the the the bodyguards and the police officers are to the side. Well, that's to prevent snipers, right? So, my question then is why is this car behind structuring a way to protect the people inside, but the carrying JFK, it doesn't have any bodyguards? >> That's kind of strange. All right. Um, this is the location, the map of the motorcade. So, JFK, he's streaming down and then he when he gets into the spot, Leo Hareld is able to take three shots at him and kill and kill him at the spot. So, so Leo Oswald takes three shots and kills JFK. But as you can see, the problem with location is there actually lots of places where you can take a shot at the president because he's in an open car >> with no security. And there were a lot of witnesses who believe that there were other shooters as well, at least one more shooter. >> And they heard the shot from other places. Many of these witnesses, almost 30 of them were all killed or died. They die mysteriously soon afterwards. That's very strange. Um this is the manora. Okay, which is a uh holy candle in the Judeaic tradition. You you see how the shape is very similar to this plaza called the Alia Plaza. What's also interesting about the Ala Plaza is it was a site of the first Freemason large temple in Texas. Okay. So there's there are these religious significance to this place. It was almost like they picked this place for a ritual sacrifice. Okay. So we'll talk about the Freemasons later on because they're very important. The Freemasons are the ones who uh some say control America. Okay. Um, Leo Harold fired three bullets and there's one bullet which hit JFK, but it's called a magic bullet because it was also able to ricochet off JFK and hit Governor Connelly who was also sitting in the car as well. >> Okay. So, they insisted that there was only one shooter. He fired three shots and one bullet was able to injure everyone because the bullet was a magic bullet that was in the official Warren Commission. Okay, so Leo Harvey Osweld, he's he's been arrested and he's been charged with killing the president. This is Leo Harvey Osweld when he's going to court. He is ambushed by a man named Jack Rubin. Do you see how close shot gets and shoots Leha Roswell point blank? Okay, now this is a strange picture because first of all, how did Leo sorry, how did Jack Ruby get so close? There was no security. Second of all, you see how Leo Harold, he's being held in held in place by two police officers who are much bigger than him, right? So, it's very hard for Osworld to dodge the bullet. Okay, that's number two. Number three is do you see his reaction? He is a trained police officer and he looks scared. He looks confused. >> If you are a police officer and someone comes at you menacing, right? You know to push him away or draw your gun. But you see how he just freezes. >> That goes against his training. That's very strange. Okay, I'm not saying that this is a conspiracy, but I'm just saying how this doesn't really add up. There are lots of questions that are raised by this. Also, um JFK has a brother, Robert F. Kennedy, and in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy runs for president, and it seems as though he's about to win the Democratic nomination, and then he gets killed, too. And again, the question is how did this happen? And it's a mystery how this man named Sirhan Sirhan and he does not look like a killer. Okay. Lehar Rosa does not look like a killer. He does not look like a killer either. Okay. But they charge him with a crime and he's still in prison. Even today, he's saying, "I didn't do it." Okay. All right. So, now let's look at 911. And as you can see from some of the video footage, it's very suspicious what happened. There's other things that are suspicious about what happened. First of all, a month after the Twin Towers came down, all that concrete and steel were shipped to China. >> Huh? >> Yes, the Twin Towers, the debris is now in China being put in other skyscrapers. Who knows? Okay, but that's kind of strange because you would obviously want to run an investigation before you ship that thing off. But they did not do the investigation. They shipped that debris to China right away. That's the first thing. Second thing is that never in the history of humanity has a fire brought down a skyscraper. Never before and never afterwards. Investigators explained that what happened was that the jet hit the uh skyscraper and then because of the explosion, because of the gas, the steel frame start to melt. Okay? And then when the top melt, it start to melt the the um bottom one and the bottom one and the bottom one. And and this is what we call a pancake theory. Never in human history has this happened before except with the three buildings on 911. Okay. And the third Yeah. And then two planes brought down three buildings. The last thing is that the plane the explosion was so intense that no bodies were recovered, no luggage was recovered, but we found their passports. Okay, we found their passports. Uh these are the 19 hijackers who were who the government decided was solely responsible for the attacks. They had no help. They had no government help. They just acted by themselves and they got really lucky. Okay, luckiest people on the planet. As you can see, this is their passport that was found on a plane wreckage. Didn't find any bodies. Didn't find any luggage, but we found the passport. So, we know for sure that it was a terrorist and no one else. This is a boarding pass. This is a boarding pass. Okay. Found in the debris of the Twin Towers. Pretty lucky. But this is conclusive proof that the terrorists were responsible and no one else. Okay. Some more strange things about 911. First of all, um we have a document dated to 1962, a document called Operation Northwoods. And the plan is for the government to hijack civilian aircraft planes and then blame it on Cuba so that the United States can declare war on Cuba. Also, um, 6 months before 911, Fox, a television station in the United States, they aired a television show called The Lone Gunman. Okay? And the and the um plot is this. The government pretends to be terrorists who hijack a plane and crash it into the World Trade Center so they can blame it on terrorists so they can start all these wars in the Middle East. What's amazing about the show is that the plane is not being controlled by terrorists. It's being remote controlled by government operatives. So it sounds almost like exactly like what happened on 911 6 months before 911 happened. That's very strange. Okay, it gets stranger. This is this man is named Larry Silverstein and he is both the dumbest and the luckiest businessman in the world. He's the stupidest businessman in the world because six weeks before 911, he buys the lease to the World Trade Center. Okay? Why is that stupid? Because the World Trade Center has asbestos and like a dangerous chemical. So, they had to clean or remove the asbestos. The problem is the cost of rem of reming all that esbestos would have been more than the value of the twin towers. That's kind of stupid. Okay. Why would you lease the twin towers knowing that you you have to put all this money into renovation which would bankrupt you. >> Also, what's stupid is to have the lease, you're required to have insurance. Okay? And so the insurance company says we value the World Trade Center at $ 1.5 billion. Okay. And Larry Silver, no, it's not $1.5 billion. They are worth $3.5 billion. So he is asking to pay more insurance than he needed to. That's kind of stupid. But again, he's the luckiest man in the world because none of it happens. And guess what? He can now claim that two towers were struck and therefore he should get twice as much as 3.55 million. He should get 7 billion. And he sued they went to court and he got 4.55 billion. Okay. He's also lucky because he's he's a workaholic. He never misses work. But that day because of a dermatology appointment, he had to miss work. He wasn't there when 911 happened. The luckiest man in the world. Okay. So this teaches us that in life, do not be um smart. Just be lucky. Okay, that's all you need. All right. Now, I know all this sounds suspicious, but there are lots of reasons why we should just believe the government. Okay? Why we should believe the United States government is telling us the truth that 911 was um done just by 15 terrorists operating alone running help that JFK was killed by one lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald that the moon landing was actually real. Okay, so let's go over the reasons why we should never ever believe conspiracy theories. Okay, the first reason of course is the government would never lie to us. Okay, that's the first reason. It's probably the best reason. Second reason is well the government is too stupid to do anything like this. Okay, they're incompetent. Okay, the third reason is why is there so much evidence that there's a conspiracy theory, right? If the government is so powerful, if they're capable of like doing these conspiracies, surely they can cover it up as well. Why is it on 911 we have all this footage? Why is it that we have uh the passports? Why is it that we have like this TV show? Why is there so much evidence? That makes no sense, right? So, the fact that there's so much evidence suggests to us that the government is not involved. Okay? because the government is so powerful that it can just cover everything up, right? Another thing is NASA has 400,000 people working on the space program, right? Why has anyone come forward and confessed? Why has anyone told the truth? That's kind of strange. So the fact that so many people were involved but no one has come out and told us what happened means that um the government was telling the truth. Okay, does that make sense? It's very hard to keep 4,000 people quiet. Okay, someone might have told a friend or a family member or just might have gotten drunk and then you know done a YouTube video. Who knows? Okay, but it's very hard to keep 400,000 people under wraps. Um JFK, why not have to kill him in public? Why not just make it a private thing? You know, just give him give him some poison, he dies. No one knows. Why make it into a spectacle? Okay. So, another reason to doubt um conspiracy theory. Okay. And the last thing is if the government was really involved, they would not allow us to discuss this, right? They wouldn't allow me to find this video online. They could just cover it all up. Right? All all these videos I've shown you are online. So, this tells us the government doesn't have anything to fear. Right? Okay. So, we're in a strange situation where we can either believe the government is telling us the truth, but then we have all this evidence to suggest that they're not telling us the truth, or we can believe that they did this, but we all what we also have to believe is that they did this and they want us to know that they did this and they want us to talk about these conspiracy theories. Okay, that's kind of strange. Well, it turns out we have an explanation for this. It's called revelation of method. The idea is that those who engage in evil must tell you that they are engaging in evil. The theory is that those who do conspiracies must tell you they're doing conspiracies. And there are three reasons why. Okay, so let's go over them. The first reason is the idea of learn helplessness. And so the idea is okay let's just say that we everyone knows that they did this right we get angry we write emails we make YouTube videos then what nothing >> right so the idea of learn helplessness is like the more angry you get the more helpless you feel and therefore the more obedient you become okay that's the first reason second reason is the idea of karmic responsibility and the idea is that the people in power are extremely super or excuse me superstitious. They believe that when they die, God will judge them. Okay, so we're all dead and God says to the government, "Hey, why did you do all this evil stuff?" And the government says, "No, no, no. I did not act alone. Everyone participated." Why? Because I told them what I was doing. They didn't stop me. They didn't raise any concerns. They didn't protest. Therefore, they are complicit. Okay. So, another way of saying this is if you just look at 911, if you just look at the moon landing, you just look at JFK, the evidence is so overwhelming that if you still believe the government, it's not because you are ignorant or stupid. It's because you are complicit. It's because you are involved. Therefore, you share the guilt. Therefore, the karma is spread to everyone. Okay, that's the logic, right? The third reason is attention capture. These events are set up in a way so that they will be remembered forever. Okay? So, everyone remembers where they were, what they were doing, who they were with on 911 when JFK was assassinated during the moon landing. Okay? So you probably were not in United States. You might have been in China. You might have been tun uh floor uh Tunisia. You might have been in South Africa. It doesn't matter. Okay? You could have you could have been on the moon. Okay? But you still remember what you were doing on 911 because it's edged into your consciousness. And that's the point. The point is to control people by controlling people how by controlling how people perceive reality. How okay? Because then you have the power of God. Okay, so these are three ma major reasons why um they will do this evil but they will tell you they did this evil and they want they want you to discuss and continue to discuss why they do this evil. Okay, so even today people are still writing books about JFK. People are still writing books about the moonlighting. It's allowed because it's attention capture. Okay, it's like the idea of top of mind. So if you're a company, you don't care about bad publicity. All publicity is good because it's top of mind, right? So if you are hungry and you want to go out for lunch, what's the first thing that um you want to eat? It's the first thing that comes to mind, >> right? So maybe pizza or hamburger. Okay, that's the idea of branding. So that's what they're doing here. They're trying to control your reality through these events. Okay, does that make sense, guys? >> Okay, any questions? All right. Now, what I want to do is look at a question. Okay. Let's look at certain questions. Why is this happening? All right. So, let's look at JFK and 911 and the moon landing. What are common characteristics about these three events? Okay, the first thing of course is that they are spectacles. You can say that they are rituals. A lot of care, a lot of attention was put into preparing these rituals. So for example, the JFK assassination, look at the location, right? Look at the um choreography. Okay, they did it purposely in front of people but also in front of cameras so that it'll be remembered forever. Okay, the moon landing as well, 911 as well. Okay. Um that's the first thing. Second thing is the idea of numerology. So when you look at these events, what you'll find is that numerology is very important. Okay. Okay, it's a very simple concept to understand. So, for example, let's just say you want to get married, right? Well, you want to pick an auspicious date. So, maybe August 8th, 88, right? Or June 6, an auspicious date because that will give your wedding the most chances to prosper. You also want to pick pick a nice location fun, >> right? Same thing with with with this idea. Okay, so look at the let's look at the numerology. JFK was November 22nd, 1963. 11:22 1963. The moon landing was 1969. And then 911 was of course 911. Pretty easy to remember, right? Okay. Now, what's interesting is that these are all triangular numbers. Okay. What are triang numbers? 1369. Right. 1369. 1963. 1969. Okay. Also, the number 33 is very very important. Okay. Number 33 is almost like a magic number to these people. Okay. And so like what what what we what we believe is that it's secret societies that are responsible for these events. Okay. Uh mainly the three masons but there are others as well. Okay. I I'll I'll discuss later. Number 33 is important. Okay. So look at this. 11 + 22 is what? 33. Okay guys 33 um one one one. Okay. You see how nice this number is? 33 is also two triangles right? What happens when you put two triangles together? you get the star of David which is the flag of Israel. Okay. So number 33 is a very special number for secret societies. All right. Here's something that's that's really also really interesting. How about number 33? If you look at the world map, okay, the equator. If you go north 33 degrees, you get a lot of places. Okay. The first place you get is uh in Mesopotamia, Iraq. It's where the tiger is and Euphrates. These are two rivers. This is where they meet. Okay. Why is this important? Because the meet this meeting place is what we considered the birth of civilization. It's a crit of civilization. Over here is Baghdad. Baghdad was the capital of the Islamic u golden age. The Islamic caliphate. Okay. Historical city. Over here is Damascus, one of the oldest cities in the world. Over here, of course, is Jerusalem, the holiest city for both the Christians and for the Jews. Okay? You keep on going over here to America. This is Dallas. Why is Dallas important? Because that's where JFK was assassinated. >> But you keep on going, and this is like interesting. You go to New Mexico and you get to the Trinity test site. This is um where the atomic bomb was detonated. Okay. You go over here 33 degrees in Japan. Do you know what city is 33 degrees north in Japan? >> You mean not Tokyo? There are two cities, Hiroshima and Nakasaki. >> Why are they important? Okay, these are the two places where the atomic bomb was dropped. Okay, think about that. 33 north in New Mexico is where they tested the atom bomb and then Hiroshima Nagasaki 33 33 north is where they dropped the two atomic bombs. Okay. All right. So, why is this important? Because if you're a secret society, what makes secret society important is the mythology or the story that they tell about their purpose. Okay. Now, it's easy to understand here why 33 degrees is important. Okay. Because 33 degrees, you're not too hot because you're away from the equator, but you're not too cold. Okay? So, you can farm. That's why all these major cities including Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem are situated 33 degrees north. Okay. Also a place called Harappa. Okay, which is the Indis Valley civilization is also 33 degrees north. So a lot of major cities are situated in this latitude. So that makes sense. Okay, this is the old world. What's the old world? The old world is obey God. Okay, that's the old world. Now we go to the new world. Okay. What makes the new new world different? Well, when America was founded, there was a religion called theism. And theism, the belief is that God created the universe, but then he went away. So, the universe is what we make of it. Okay? So, now we can be we are God. And this is the grand secret of these secret societies. They exist in order to do what God could not do or what God can do to replace God. So what is it that God does? Well, what the first God does is he changes matter. Changes matter. Second thing is he can kill other gods. The third thing is he he can create life. All right. What does change matter mean? It means the nuclear bomb. >> Right? the nuclear bomb. So what what what does kill the gods mean? It means you can kill president of United States JFK who is considered a prince. Okay. And what does create life? It means you create artificial intelligence which is the last step. Okay. So this is part of the mythology. The old world is being replaced by the new world. Okay. Now, if you're able to do all three things, now you're able to bring heaven to earth. Now, you're able to declare yourself God. And for that, what you need is a world government. And to show that you are truly in power, what you do is you combine the old world and the new world together by making Jerusalem your world capital. Okay? So towards the end of semester I will tell I I will show you what the grand plan is for Jerusalem. But for now what you need to understand is that right now in Jerusalem there's something called the alaxac mosque which is the third holiest site in the Islamic tradition. It is the place where Muhammad ascended to heaven. They plan to destroy the alac mos to rebuild the temple of Solomon called the third temple. Okay, this will start World War II. Okay, because the Muslims will get angry at this and they will come invade Israel and that's the purpose. So there's a grand plan to create the world government by initiating World War II. Okay. So uh we'll be discussing this later on in the semester. Now I want to discuss how secret societies are able to wield so much power. Okay, first of all, how is it that they're able to keep everyone quiet, right? How are they able to maintain their secrets? And then how are they able to exert power? Okay. All right. So the first thing you need to understand about secret societies is that there are different layers to secret society. Okay. So in Scottish right Freemasonry there are 33 grades. 30 33 grades. So you start at one and then you slowly climb. Okay. Some people can skip and at each different grade you're taught different secrets or understanding of the world. So maybe here here here you have four grades. Okay. In the bottom grade, all you're taught is just to be a good person, to do good works, to do charity, to be kind. That's all you're taught. Okay. But as you as you move up, you're taught something else, which is um we can do God's work. Okay? God has given us a mission. We must do God's work. Okay? And up here is we don't need God. Okay? The higher you climb, the more secrets you're told. And then the as you move up further, you're taught we don't need God. Okay? So guys, I'm not part of a secret society. I'm just making this up. Okay? I'm just showing you how they might work. I'm just spec speculating. The last layer is we can be God by killing God. Do you understand? So it's almost like school, right? In primary school, you work hard, you learn a lot. You go to high school, in high school, they teach you everything you learn in primary school is wrong. Let us teach you new knowledge. You you work hard, you learn all this new knowledge. You go to university, the professors there are like everything you learn in high school is wrong, so let's learn something new. Okay? And then you go to to graduate school and you're taught everything you learn university is wrong. Okay. So that's how these secret societies work. So this the word we use is carartmentalized. So it's a need to know. Okay. Does that make sense? You are only taught what you need to know at your grade. Okay. And as you can see the secrets get worse and worse as you climb. So how do you maintain secrecy in the system? Okay. So there are two major mechanisms. Okay. The first major mechanism is incentives. Incentives. Sorry. Incentives. The idea here is the higher you climb, the more power you have. >> Okay? So these people in the middle, all they care about is maintaining a privilege. >> Okay? So that's so does that make sense? Incentives. Okay. The higher you climb, the more invested you are. >> Therefore, you want to believe the lie. Then there's blackmail. So if you really want to climb to the top, you have to reveal your secrets too. So you can be blackmailed. >> Okay? And we talked about this, right? The idea of transgression. If you really want to climb to the top, you have to commit crimes with other people. So therefore, you can never betray other people. >> Okay? And the last thing that helps the system is confirmation bias. And the idea of confirmation bias is you just want to believe what you want to believe. Okay? People don't want to believe the government lies to them. People want to believe the government tells the truth. So we like to live in a fantasy world. Okay? So this is what keeps the system intact. Okay? So this is how secret societies keep their secrets. Does that make sense? Okay. Now the question then is how is it that they're able to to wield power? And the answer is this structure is perfect for a bureaucracy. Last before we talked about bureaucracies, right? How as society matures it becomes more bureaucratic. Well, the problem is that bureaucracies become topheavy. Too many managers also the idea of silos. So each department does its own thing. Okay. And as I said also bureaucrats don't want to do any work. >> So imagine if your secret society how much you can benefit from the system, right? because you want to work because you want to achieve your vision and you're able to work with other people secretly. Therefore, you're able to promote each other into position of power and because these departments are all siloed off. They're all independent. You're able to control the entire bureaucracy because you're able to coordinate but they're not. >> Okay, does that make sense? So what we learn is that in history as societies become much more mature, as they become much more bureaucratic, secret societies have much more power and in and today we are living in a heavily bureaucratic world and therefore the secret societies have more and more power. Okay? >> And um does that make sense? The other thing that we need to remember is that um there are thousands and thousands of secret societies. Okay. So, so let's name some of them. The Freemasons, the Jesuits, uh the Mormons, the Frankus. Okay, lots and lots. Okay, we'll we'll we'll go over each one later on the semester. What you need to remember is that at this stage in development when society's bureaucratic when they become parasites on the bureaucracy they are incentivized to work together to achieve their vision. Okay. But once they create the world government then they will fight each other but at this point in their development they will work and actively collaborate together. Okay. So 911, JFK, Moonlanding, they were all working together. Okay. So we'll be setting this more as the semester progresses. All right. So um let's conclude. Sorry. Okay. Okay, let's let let's let's let's conclude. Okay, sorry I'm uh Okay, so let's talk about the atomic bomb. This is Henry Henry Truman. Okay, Henry Truman is the 33rd president of the United States, number 33, right? He's also a 33rd degree Freemason, which is the highest Freemason. Okay, why is it important? Because he's the one who ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now, this is controversial because at this point, America didn't have to bomb n have to nuke Japan. Why? Because America was firebombing Tokyo. You can see the damage, right? In Tokyo, all the houses are wooden. Guess what? If you drop firebombs on these houses, everything burns. So, America was just burning Japan to death. They didn't have to drop the nuclear bombs. Okay, you can see the devastation. Okay, this is Tokyo. They burned everything down. There was talk that if America launched a land invasion of Japan, lots of people would have died. But you didn't have to invade Japan because you were just bombing Japan to to ashes. So why did they drop the bomb? Well, the other argument is that they dropped the bomb to scare the Soviet Union, but that only encouraged the Soviet Union get to get their own bomb, right? So you have to ask yourself why do they do this? And if you go back to the 33 degree story, okay, which is just explained, it gives you an explanation. I'm not saying it's right, but it offers you a possibility. Okay? Okay. So as you can see um all these major cities including Babylon, including uh Baghdad, Damascus, um Hiroshima are all part of 33 degree latitude. Okay, guess what guys? A lot of famous athletes wear number 33 and they are Freemasons. Okay, so this is Scotty Pippen and and and Shaquille O'Neal. We know they are Freemasons. Larry Bird and Kareem Adul Jabbar also wear number 33. Okay. Um 33 is important. Jesus died when he was 33 years old. The word God, Elohim, appears 33 times in Genesis. King David reigned for 33 years. The Vic Pathalon. Hinduism has 33 dietes. Human spine has 33 bones. Okay. So number 33 appears over and over. So these societies see number 33 as a magic magic number. Um, the moon landing. Okay, I'm not saying the moon landing was faked, but there's an argument that it is impossible for humans to leave something called the Van Allen belt. Okay, the Van Allen belt is this electromagnetic field that protects us from cosmic radiation. So that the belts themselves have heavy radiation. So if you go into it, you die. But also, if you leave the Van Island belts, there's nothing to protect you from cosmic radiation. So you could die as well. So some scientists actually believe that it's impossible to leave Earth. Okay, we'll just die. I don't know how they were able to do this. And um as you may know, right now a lot of countries, America, China are trying to get back to the moon. They're having a really hard time. Okay, they're having a hard time because NASA lost all the technology, lost all the footage, lost all the data. Oops. Oh well. Okay. So, so um how was NASA able to keep this secret? Well, guess what? A lot of their most important people were Freemasons. Okay. This is Boss Boss Uldren, one of the free astronauts. He was a Freemason. Okay. Um John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, was a Freemason, 33 degree Mason. Okay. Um all as was James Webb, one one of the first NASA administrators, James Webb. Um Kenneth K. Um so these people are embedded throughout the bureaucracy and because they're able to coordinate that complete control of the bureaucracy. Does that make sense? So it doesn't matter who's at the top. What matters is which barecross are able to work together to achieve their vision. This is um Warner von Brown and he was one of the first NASA leaders and he's a German. He was actually a Nazi who was brought over after World War II to help America build its space program. Okay. Um and he had a he had a friend or a colleague named Carol Rosen. And we don't know if this is true. Okay. But what Carol Wilson tells us is that when von Braun died, he told us that America, the American government was first and foremost concerned about spending weapons, sorry, spending money on space weapons. Okay. And what and to do this, what America will do is continue to manufacture threats to justify all the spending on weaponry. Okay. And then she lists the different threats. First, they will use Russians. Okay. the Russians. We have to defeat the Russians in the space race. Then they'll be like, "You know what? Terrorists, okay, 911, then third world countries, the craziest like North Korea. Okay, Iran. And then an asteroid. We we need we need space weapons to protect the earth from asteroids. And then the last thing is a fake alien invasion." Okay, >> aliens. Okay, does that make sense? Okay. So, we'll talk about this later towards the end end of the semester about a fake alien invasion. Okay. That's part of the plan and they've been seing this for a long time. So, um I'll conclude by talking about different possibilities. You don't have to believe me. Okay? In fact, there are I think five different possibilities as to what happened. Okay. The footage looks fake. So, how to explain this? Well, the first explanation is it's real footage and we should we should just believe the government. Okay. But we we also need to believe that they lost all the footage, lost all the technology, lost all the data. Okay, that's possibly number one. Just believe what the government tells you. Possibly number two is America went to the moon, but the astronauts discovered too many secrets on the moon. Like there are space aliens on the moon, they can't tell us. So they create this fake footage. Okay, that's second possibility. Third possibility is America went to the moon, but because of the lighting, because of the difficulty of filming, they couldn't actually take any footage. So they made it up to please the American people. Okay. Um the fourth possibility is America went to the moon. Um but they NASA decided to create this fake footage to fool the Soviets, right? Because if it's real footage, the first Soviets might be able to copy the technology. So we should just fake this thing and make fun of the Soviets. Okay, let's fool the Soviets so they couldn't so the Soviets cannot reverse engineer the success. Okay, that's also a possibility, >> right? And the last possibility of course is America didn't go to the moon. >> And it's entirely your choice which possibility to believe. Okay? I'm just proposing different possibilities out there. So how can we know the truth? Well, we can use game theory to logically deduce what happened. Okay. So let's use game theory. All right. So, we know that NASA's Apollo program cost $26 billion between 1960 and 1973. That's almost $20 billion today. They spent all this money. They need to produce a result, right? This is almost like 4% of all government spending in America. That's a lot of money. Also, you don't know this, but by 1969, America was falling apart for three reasons. First of all, America was fighting this pointless and hopeless war called Vietnam. Tens of thousands of Americans were dying for no reason. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans were protesting on the streets. America, the American dream seem to be dying. Okay, that's the first problem. Second problem is that the Soviets were destroying the Americans in the space race. The Soviets were the first to send an animal to space, the first to send a man to space, the first to orbit um the Earth, the first to walk in space, the first send a lun lunar modu module to the moon. So it seemed as though commis were superior to capitalism. It seemed as though the Soviet system was better than the American system. Okay, there's a real fear that the Soviets would get to the moon first. Okay. And also the last thing is remember in 1963 JFK was killed. JFK was the prince, the king. So that put Americans in a very bad mood. But but then later on other prominent Americans like uh Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, they all killed as well. So 1969, America was divided, was falling apart. People felt hopeless, right? So what this means is that if America sent a mission to the moon and all the astronauts died or they didn't get there, America would have been broken. Okay? People would have been depressed. And so according to game theory, America could not afford to take the risk of sending people to the moon. If they died, if it failed, America would have looked like idiots. Okay? But of course, there's always a counterargument. The counterargument is, okay, this makes sense, but why did the Soviets call out the Americans and said, you guys fake this, right? >> What the America and soviet Union were in competition with with each other. Everyone believed America went to the moon, but there's a lot of evidence suggest that it America didn't go to the moon. So why why did the Soviets tell the world? Okay, that I can't answer for you. >> All right, so I just leave you with this thought. Okay, but what I believe is with the next two years the truth will slowly start to come out and you will see for yourself what really happened. So this class is not meant to tell you what happened. This class is just meant to give you different possibilities and give you tools to understand or figure out for yourself what might have happened. Okay. >> All right. So, any questions before we conclude? Um, as we said, uh, the secret society might have a, um, might fighting with the governments, but why don't they send their part of their people into the governments? Why don't they like work together? >> No, no, they are the government. >> Oh, okay. Fine. >> Yeah. Right. Because they because like secret societies cannot exist outside of bureaucracies, >> right? They have power because they're able to coordinate within the bureaucracy in a way that other organizations cannot. Right? >> So only when the broadcast has reached a certain maturity, a certain size can secretist have true power. >> Right. So secret societies are the ones who control the government basically. >> Yeah. Any other questions? >> Okay. Great guys. So we'll continue this next class, next week. Okay. All right.

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So today we start a series on the entirety of human history. We'll be going very fast and again what's important is for you to understand the concepts and so if there are ideas you don't understand it's very important that you raise your hand challenge me and ask for clarification. So we start off with the dawn of humanity and um this is Charles Darwin and arguably he is the most influential thinker of the past 20 years and the reason why is he wrote a book called the origin of species and he presents to us the theory of evolution and you all know the theory of evolution because they teach this to you in school and is embedded in our everyday lives. And there are three main ideas to the theory of evolution. The first is that it was all accidental. So you have these genetic mutations and the mutation that is best fitted to survive in environment would win out. Okay? So it's all a random accidental process. That's the first thing. Second thing is that it is materialistic meaning everything that you can see is all that exists. And the third thing is it is emergent meaning that feel things build on top of each other. It is a bottomup process. Now the the fear of evolution marked a turning point in in human history because before um European countries were Christian and Christians believe that there was a divine God who created us and as such we were all equal before the eyes of God. Therefore you cannot go and enslave other people. You cannot go and kill other people as well. There were three main ideas to Christianity. Okay. Okay. The first idea is one omniscient and omnipresent God. The spirit, the Holy Spirit is what infuses uh life. It's what gives meaning and purpose to life. And the world is a mystery. We have to hold faith. There are things that we cannot understand. God has a plan, but it is a mysterious plan. And so, we must uh be humble and serve the purpose of God. Okay? And the theory of evolution destroys this concept conception of the universe and introduces a more materialistic one. So why did this happen? Well, it happened for three reasons. The main purp the main reason is that we live in an in the 19th century when Darism came into being Europeans were engaged in a process of imperialism. They were going around the world and conquering other people and colonizing other people and essentially committing genocide. So they needed a theory to explain why this this happening and Darwin's theory of surround the fittest was the most appropriate theory and the idea is that the world is divided into races and of and the white race is superior to everyone else and therefore the white race um has reason has legitimacy in colonizing other people. Um and evolution would give rise to racism and eugenics. Okay. So before Darwinism, we didn't really have a concept of race because everyone was equal in the eyes of God. And now with the rise of Darwinism, the world is divided according to race as well. Because of evolution theory, people started to believe in eugenics, which is the idea that stupid people, people who are not white, they should be sterilized because if we if we let them live, they would just all they would do is dilute the genetic pool. Okay? And even today, guys, there are still many people who believe in racism and eugenics. The thing about evolution that's very important is that it's a theology. Okay? What does that mean? means that it's a theory of human progress about God. So even though evolution thinks that genetic mutation is an accident, the theology is that well the strong survive and that's what's right. Okay, so might makes right. So in many ways evolution is a rejection of Christianity. So you would think that Christians would oppose Darwinism and evolutionary theory. But what was surprising is that when the book came out in 1859 only in 20 years the theory of evolution would come to dominate the entire western world. It be it became the dominant idea in schools in universities in the sciences. And even today evolution is a dominant paradigm meaning that you cannot question evolution. If you question evolution it means you're crazy. Okay but I'm crazy. So we're going to question evolution today. All right. So you've said this in school all but evolution means we came from monkeys, apes and then there were different species of humans and eventually the best our species the homo sapiens won out. Okay. So what evolution says is that we are just a monkey guys. Okay. We're just a monkey. And what do monkeys do? Monkeys like to have sex. Monkeys like to eat. Monkeys like to fart. That's all we are. We're just monkeys. All right. And this is the evolutionary tree of primates. The but there are certain problems with this theory. Okay. The first problem is if you look at evolutionary theory, what you should have is tremendous diversity as the species develops. But so why is it that we only have one human species? Okay, why aren't there many different ones? Well, the argument is that um there are there were many different species before but we want out. Okay. Okay, that's fine. But another problem is why are we going all around the world? Okay. So all species of human beings like to migrate but primates don't do that. Why is that? Humans like to migrate. And so the explanation often is well because of climate change, because of war, because humans are chasing game. Okay, bisonens and and and food. But then how do you explain these people? Okay, the these are people who went to populate the Pacific islands, Micronia. That's kind of weird. First of all, it's really dangerous to go out the Pacific for months and months, right? Also, like, how do they know that there'll be islands waiting for them in the Pacific? So, that's something that's very odd about human beings. In fact, there are lots of things that are really odd about us that other animals don't do. For example, we're very religious. Okay. Okay. So, the Neanthods are supposed to be before Homo sapiens. But as you can see, what we've discovered are these religious ritual sites, the Neanthals where the anthos engage in religious ritual practice. That's kind of weird. What does religion have to do with survival? In fact, you can argue that religion is a waste of time. Why aren't they hunting? Why are they using so so much resources and time in building these uh ritual sites? Okay, Homo sapiens did cave paintings and these cave paintings I will show you later on. They're very extremely elaborate. As you can see, it's very time consuming uh to actually do these paintings. Also, these paintings are in caves, deep inside caves that's very cold and where there isn't much ear. So, it's kind of dangerous actually to be in these places. But we know that homo sapiens spend a lot of time in these deep wet caves drawing these paintings. That's not very utarian. Why would we why would we do that? So, that's a mystery. Okay. Also, um, when we drew on caves, we figured out how to make it artistic. So, we figure out that red ochre would give us red yellow pigment on the caves. We also use charcoal to use black. Okay? So, we were very creative. We were very we resourceful. All right? So we know a lot about the ice age because as you can imagine during the ice age things freeze over so they can be easily preserved and actually for most of human history uh we were in the ice age period. Okay and as you can see during the ice age the entire world was basically frozen over. So how did we survive? We survived by using the resources around us. Okay, so this is a mammoth and so they killed a mammoth and they turned the mammoth into a house. Okay, now the question is how did they know how to do that? How did they figure it out? And we've been trying for a long time to figure this out. But my answer to you, and this is a theme that I will uh keep on emphasizing for the rest of the rest of semester, is they just knew it. Okay. So, let's do a thought experiment. Let's just say that we there's 10 of us and I give you this wall, right? And I say to you, you cannot talk. You cannot communicate with each other. All I want you to do is draw a picture. Now, you would think that the picture would be disgustingly ugly. It would be incoherent. But if you actually to do this experiment, something weird and wonderful would happen. Okay, there's 10 of you. You're not communicating. You don't have a plan. There's no draft. But one of you would draw something. Okay? And then the rest of you would see that something and then you would draw something else. Okay? So for example, maybe you draw a sun, then you draw a tree, then that other person draws a mountain. Okay? It's almost like telepathy. And that's how we are. If you put humans in a group, they would know instantly how to work together. They would know how to share ideas together. And so that's the idea I want to present to you. All this stuff is all all this is because of intuition. Okay? No one said, "Hey, there's a mammoth. Let's go kill it for food and for housing and for clothing." But if you walk together and you saw a man, you all of you together had the same thought. Oh, that could be a source of food and clothing and shelter for us. and you all knew how to work together. That's the beauty of the human imagination and the human empathy. And that's something that back then they practice a lot, but we've lost because of civilization. Okay? Does that make sense to you guys? All right. Um, and as you can see, back then, humans were just very good at working together. No, there you didn't have need to have a boss to say, "Okay, you should go and hunt bisons. You should go and you should make clothes. You should go and you should feed kids." Everyone knew exactly what to do and you didn't have to communicate. But also, what's really interesting about this time period is the diversity of human organization. So, what I meant by that, what what I mean by that is that in different times of the year, in different locations, humans would form different organizations. So most of the time maybe there'll be groups of like five to 10 would go and get food. Okay. But then you have some times of the year when you have these religious festivals where hundreds possibly thousands got together and you celebrated your god together. It was all intuitive. You didn't have communication but they all knew at what time what organization would best fit them. If you didn't like the situation, guess what? You'd go somewhere else and start your own organization. Okay? So mo early human history it's a very diverse very dynamic very creative period in our lives even though we've forgotten about it. Okay. And the third example of our creativity are these cave paintings that that were discovered uh recently but which date back 30,000 40,000 years. Okay. You can see how beautiful these paintings are. Whoever painted these paintings put a lot of care and devotion into them. Okay, it was it's not just kids playing. It's adults who spent a long time purposefully ensuring that every detail is exact. Okay, then the question then is how do they do this? Because there's no paper, there's no planning. And again, I present to you the idea the imagination. They dreamt this. They had a dream. They saw the picture in their heads and they went and drew this in a cave because they wanted to express themselves. They wanted to leave a legacy. They wanted to leave a memory. There's a calling in you to be creative and to be imaginative. Okay. All right. So, and you can see there's a lot of diversity. Um, this is a story, right? Because you have these uh horses, but then you have these predators, lions. Okay. So this picture is telling a mythology. It's a telling a story of how nature works. Okay? So people are observing nature and what they see is a cycle of life and death, of destruction and renewal. We're all together. We're all unified. We're all one. It's balance and harmony. And that's why if you were to kill these animals, you also had to commemorate them. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, because this this is a word of balance and harmony. If you kill these animals and you eat their food, you must thank them for the sacrifice by commemorating them. The same thing as later on uh when humans fight in battles, we build monuments to celebrate those those who were fallen, right? Because we want to create balance and harmony in the world. We want to commemorate those who made our lives possible. Okay. So in this world, what matters are these animals because these animals are what gives humans food um and clothing. Okay. Okay. You can see how beautiful these pictures are. Like you do you see how lifelike the animals are? Okay. So clearly we humans had all this creative potential back then. All right. Okay. This is in Spain when Alamera. This is a bison. And you can see the red ochre how beautiful it is. Okay. Okay. And you can see how it's not meant to be realistic. It's meant to be surreal. It's meant almost to be a mythology. There's there's there's a story being told in these pictures. We don't know what the story is, but you can imagine that there's story of life and death, destruction and renewal. Okay? And you can see the struggle of humanity to get food from nature, but also a willingness to celebrate those who have fallen. Um, and there's religious significance to everything these campaignings. How do we know? Because this is clearly a shaman, right? What we call a leper man. This dates back to 40,000 years in Germany. So we believe that in the early societies the shamans were the leaders because they had the most wisdom because they had a connection to the vine. Also what's really important is that music okay this instrument was really important to these to these civilizations. Now there's a lot of mystery as to how we first spoke and as I said actually we don't really need to speak because we can all understand each other. So why do we speak? Because we want to sing. Okay, does that make sense? Singing, creating music was a way to express ourselves in the same way as painting was. And music once you add words, it becomes storytelling. And that's why we created language. Okay? Not for economic reasons, not in order to create a hierarchy, but for creative reasons to celebrate our humanity together. And these pictures as you can see there are um religious elements. Okay. So you can see how there are two almost bird figures and um back then the bird signify mother earth. Okay. So the bird figure is very important. You can see almost like the bird figures are leading the animals uh hurting the animals across. So then ask yourself why are they why are these paintings appearing in caves? Well for these people they all believe that um nature was connected right and the spirit world and material world were connected together. So then the question then is how does the spirit world connect with the material world? Well through caves right through portals rivers caves mountaintops. And that's why these places were considered appropriate sites for religious ritual. Okay? And that's why you painted these pictures in caves because these caves you it's almost like you're summoning the spirit of these animals to return, right? You've killed these animals. How do you get them to return? By calling for them in these caves, right? Right. So, as you can see, it's a complex but a complete mythology of how the world works. And for them, this was very real. Okay? And you can see how these shamans would actually turn themselves into these bees in order to better communicate with them. Okay? Because these bees, these animals, these bisonens were the basis for all life on Earth. If you didn't have them, then you would die off. So you dressed up like them in order to better communicate with them in the spirit world to draw them back. Okay. Okay. So this is another religious depiction. All right. So these cave paintings, there's always three questions associated with these cave paintings. The first is how are they painting caves? What are they painting? And where and why are they doing this? Okay. And I've I I've explained to you there is religious significance to what they're doing. They're trying to complete the cycle of life and death. If you kill an animal, you have to you have to thank the animal. Okay? You do that by making a religious sacrifice. Okay? By sorry, by making a religious ritual. Um what are they painting? They're painting the story of life itself, right? They're trying to paint a picture of how life works. a cycle of death and life, destruction and renewal and everything's connected together. The stars, the caves are portals into the spirit world and that's why you celebrate them. Okay? And um how are they painted in the caves? Um they're painted together and they're using um red ochre and charcoal. What's most important is that because these caves actually lack oxygen when they're painting when they're painting these uh paintings, it's almost like they're in a trans state. Okay, does that make sense? Because you don't have enough to um um breathe. So, it's almost like you're you're you're on the precipice, the edge of life and death. And it's almost as though you are actually communicating communicating with the spirit world as you're doing this. So it's all divine inspiration, all divine intuition. Okay. So what they believe is that when they paint, they're channeling the power of the spirit world. It's not about us using our experience to paint. It's we are channeling actually the divine when we do so. Okay. And the same thing when we sing or when we tell stories. We're not doing this out of our own will. We are we are only a portal or a mechanism or channel for the divine to communicate with everyone else. Okay. So, does this make sense? >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. The other thing that's really interesting about these cave paintings is um we find symbols inside these cave paintings. So this is Genevie von Piter who is a Canadian archaeologist and she spent decades going to different uh caves in Europe and she cataloged all the different symbols. Okay, so these are not pictures, they're symbols and as you can see there's a lot of them. Okay, so why would they have these symbols? And also what's interesting is if you think about it this is a writing system. In other words, they had the capacity to write, but they chose not to write. Why? Because if you think about it, in this world, writing is a corruption, right? When you speak, you're channeling the vine. So when you are writing something down, you're actually counterfeiting the divine. Okay? Also remember that for them, what's stop talking is really like singing, right? And you cannot capture music in the written form. So it's almost like a corruption of the song. Okay. And and also for them, this is really important. All everything is meant to be a communal experience. When you sing, when you talk, when you paint, we do it together. Okay? But you when you write, it's a solitary experience. And that's why even though we humans from a very um like right from the beginning we had the capion to write we chose not to write. Okay, this is really important for us to understand. Writing was a conscious decision. It was not something it was not a technology that was invented later on. We just chose not to do it because we thought it was a corruption of the natural world. Okay. All right. Does that make sense? Okay. So this is a um these are all the geometric signs of of ice age Europe. It's very similar to alchemy. Okay, alchemy is trying to figure out the secrets of the universe. So the question then is where do they get these signs? And the answer of course is it came to them in a dream or they were inspired with these signs. Okay, this is a world of inspiration, of intuition, of imagination. It's not something that's deliberate. They don't plan this out and discuss it. It just comes to them and when they draw it out, it makes sense to people. Oh, I know what this means. Okay. All right. So, uh let's summarize. Okay. Why are the symbols in art? Well, because there are certain abstraction, certain concepts you cannot draw out, right? So, for example, energy is a very important concept. Life force, cycle, repetition. Well then you have to use symbols in order to express uh these ideas if you want to tell the story. Okay. Second is you are trying to visualize the language of the spirit world. Okay. So the spirit world is talking to you but they come to you in images. So you use the symbols in order to express what what what they're talking about. Um, and when you draw the symbols on a stone, you're making the stone divine and sacred, right? You're storing a memory inside the stone. Maybe something wonderful happened here. Maybe you gave birth to a child here, right? Then you commemorate the stone with a symbol. Okay, does that make sense? Okay. So, why you're doing this is well, first of all, you're trying to bring beauty to the world. That's that's why we're we humans were created, right? To make this world a more beautiful place, a more imaginative place to celebrate the divine. Um we're showing God or the spirit world or the underlying soul of reality. Okay? We're trying to figure out how the spirit world works inside our reality. The third reason is we're trying to tell a story about who we are. Okay? We're trying to combine our imagination together to create society, to create belonging, to create community. Okay? Okay. Does that make sense? >> Yeah. >> So, >> sorry. >> So, you said about human trying to connect with the divine spirits, right? So, do they come? >> Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Let me clarify. Okay. >> This is really important. We're not trying to connect with the divine spirit. Why? Because divine spirit is all around us. >> We we coexist with the divine. >> Okay? Everything everything around us is divine. But what what we're trying to do is we're trying to be in harmony with the divine. >> Okay. >> Okay. Do you understand? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Because because in this world there's no separation between the material and the spiritual. It's all one world together. The spiritual is all around us. But there are certain things that we do in order to reconcile our existence with the spirit world. For example, we kill an animal. We need to commemorate the animal through paintings and through songs. Okay. Does that make sense? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Does that answer your question? Yeah. >> Okay. Good. Okay. All right. And we even today we still do this. Okay. So, so let's see examples. This is graffiti. Okay. Street art. But you can see what's happening where uh this is Spain and you can see how beautiful this is. Okay. It's the same concept as the K paintings where we're trying to give meaning to our community. We're trying to tell story of who we are, where we came from, and where we're going. Okay. And it's and it's designed to um build a common imagination. Okay, no different from the cape paintings. We still do this today. And this is another example. And you can see different communities might have different focus. But you can see how the painting what it does is it unifies the imagination of the people. Okay. So for this community what matters is the family. Okay. So the matriarch, the mother is the cornerstone of this community and that's what you do with this painting. Okay? You can see how beautiful these buildings have become because of the paintings. So that's what art does. Art gives purpose, meaning to our world. All right. Okay. So, some really important concepts I need you guys to understand. Okay. And we'll go over this as a semester progresses. And these concepts are going to be counterintuitive for us. Okay? But the first concept I want you to understand is preiterate people. Okay? People who could not read and write. They were more intuitive. They were more imaginative. And they were more empathic. Okay? Meaning I can know your emotions right away. I don't have to ask you anything. I don't I don't have to ask you how you're feeling today. I know exactly how you're feeling right away. Okay. All right. So we can see this. This is Inuit art. Okay. So this is art um by native people. So even in communities of today that have hold to this tradition, you can see how they perceive the world, right? They perceive the world as unified. The gods are with us. In fact, everything we do is a celebration of the gods. So our house is our temple. Okay? The temple is not a place you go and and um celebrate the gods. You celebrate the gods in your house. If you if you have enough faith to turn your house into a temple, okay? So this is inward art. Okay? And if you go to like many native communities, communities that maintain the traditions of the ice age, they're all like this. Okay? In their perception. But the problem is they cannot communicate it using modern language. So we just think they're stupid. Okay? They can't write essays. They can't give speeches. And so therefore we we think they're stupid. But they're not stupid. It's just that they're focusing their energies on empathy, on imagination, on intuition. All right. So let's give examples of empathy in action. And this is this is true for the entire world. Okay? So once there was a horse in America that could do math. All right? So the horse would go on stage and then the trainer would ask the horse a question like what's 2 plus two? And the horse would be like nay nay nay nay. And it would be like oh the horse can do math. Okay? So the horse cannot do math. Okay? I'm telling you right now, the horse cannot do math. So what the what what the horse is doing, you think about it, is the horse is reading the room, right? Because the people who pay the money to go into the theater, watch the horse do math, obviously believe the horse can do math. Okay? So what happens is when the trainer says to the horse, "What's 2 plus two?" The horse is nay nay. And the horse is watching everyone. Okay? And as the as the horse comes to the answer, the horse sees that the peoples are like really excited. Okay, their eyes are bulging, their breathing is faster because people are anticip anticipation, right? The horse is, "Oh, now I know the answer." Okay, this is empathy. Animals can do it. We can do it as well. It's actually our super superpower. Okay, does that make sense? Right. Second example is telepathy. So in America right now there's a very popular pro podcast called the telepathy tapes. You might have seen it. You may you may have heard of it. Okay. The idea is that kids with autism are able to read the minds of their parents. Guys I'm telling you right now kids the autistic kids cannot do that. They do something else. Okay. So let me tell you a story of how they do this. In China there's also a a similar case where a mother in the countryside. Okay. So she's not educated. She has no money but her son is autistic. It's an autistic boy, doesn't really speak. Can I make eye contact? Okay, lots of issues. Can I go to school? So, one day the mother contacts CC CCTV, the national broadcaster, says, "Hey, my son can read my mind." And you know, these are TV people. She like, "Okay, this will make a good documentary." So, they fly all the way down to this village, this poor village, and the mother is, you know, doesn't speak great Chinese. So, they have to film this process. Okay. So what happens is the boy is put into a room by himself. And then the mother is given a number, okay? Like maybe five. Then the mother goes and asks the boy, "Please read my mind." And the and the boy says, "You saw the number five." And it's pretty amazing. And of course, it's not really believable. So this documentary team spent days and days figure out what happened. Okay. finally brought on they brought in artificial intelligence AI. What the AI AI figured out is it's the pitch of the voice that gives the answer. Okay. So now they're saying read my mind. Read my mind. Okay. And the difference in the pitch there's a different number in that pitch. But the problem is it's so subtle that only the boy can hear the difference in pitch. We humans ordinary humans cannot hear the difference. And so the documentary crew confronted her and says, "Listen, we the AI artificial intelligence system tells us that what you're doing is you're cheating. You are uh using pitch to give signals to your son. Is that true?" And the mother is like, "Yes, I'm sorry. Yes, it's all a lie. We're poor. My son is autistic. I want my boy to go to school. I want my boy to get professional help." And that's why we devised this scheme in order to trick you. So we we can get some television coverage and then maybe we can get some donations. Maybe some people will help us. Okay? And that's why we did the scheme. And so that's it. But think about this. Think how amazing it is that the two together were able to deise a scheme, right? Think of how think of how amazing is that they were a that they were able to devise a scheme that was so creative that it tricked people. Only an artificial intelligence system could figure the system out. Okay, they so this mother is not educated but she loves her son and she wants the best for her son. So she figure out what her son's special ability is pitch. she able to hear different sounds and devis a scheme to make full use of the sun's ability. Okay, so that tells us the power of the human imagination if we truly love someone. Okay, so they created a hidden emotional language together which again is amazing and it's it's something that that you will see when two people actually love each other. they will create their own language that that only they can understand. Like in the last example is some cooperative painting, right? So we discussed this where if I put 10 of you in a room and I give you a blank wall and I ask you to draw the pictures you're going to create are going to pretty be going to be pretty amazing. Okay? You're not allowed to speak. You're not allowed to cooperate. You're not allowed to plan it ahead. But I guarantee you when the two 10 of you get together and you start drawing together, you will draw a great picture. And the reason why is not because you want to draw a great picture. It's because you all want to help each other. You don't want to let each other down. Okay? Because of cooperation, because of empathy, you want to be at your very best. You want to be at your creative best. That's the secret to creativity. Okay? When you're able to find a purpose and meaning in other people, your creative potential will be fully released. Does that make sense? Okay. All right. Um, so back to the horse horse example. If you ride a horse, one thing that you will learn over time is the horse can read your mind. Okay. And so this is a polo game. And if you watch a polo game, it's pretty amazing because you're not you can't speak to the horse, right? But the horse will know exactly instantaneously what you want to do. If you want to turn right, the horse knows. Turn right. Even before you think the thought, the horse will know. Okay? And this is why throughout human history, warriors on horseback were the greatest warriors. They were invincible. Why? Because what happened was basically the men had four legs. Okay? Because because in these um uh pneumatic societies where people fought on horseback, they were born on horses and they were riding horses since they were early or since they were young. And so they developed this emotional connection with the horse. So the horse knows exactly what you think even before you think it. Okay? And there are lots of examples like this. If you have a dog, you know that dogs have telepathy, right? So you go away for a week and then and when you come back, the dog is waiting for you at the door. Then the dog knows you're coming back. That's the emotional connection. That's telepathy. Okay. So te telepathy exists, but it's an emotional connection. There's no way that I can actually read your mind, but I know how you feel even at long distances. Okay, does that make sense? All right. Um, another important fact about human beings that is not really understood is we are obsessed with being creative and expressing ourselves. That's who we are. Okay? We are the imagination personified, manifested, made tangible, made visceral. Okay? We are imagination itself. Our imagination is resilient and will always find a way to shine. Okay? So you may know of people who lose uh sense right so if you can't see your hearing improves or these people are deaf okay so they can't hear but then able to see much stronger okay and they use sign language to communicate and one thing that I've noticed in China is that when I go to restaurants now and then there'll be groups of deaf people communicating with with each other They're always happier. In fact, they're the happiest people you will ever meet in China. And it's not because they're doing sign language. It's because deaf people have a deeper emotional intelligence. And so when when they're together, they're communicate emotionally and that brings tremendous joy and comfort to them. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Let's give another example. This is a great composer, one of the greatest composers in human history, Beethoven. His music is startling. Okay, his famous, his music is extremely famous. Problem is, he was deaf. That's kind of strange. How is it possible for you to be deaf at the same time compose some of the world's greatest music? The answer is he saw the music. Okay? The music came to him in dreams and was able to see the picture. Okay? Because what is music? Music is vibrations, right? So, [Music] but they're like vibrations. They're waves, right? So, you can actually see for yourself a movie of vibrations. And the more symmetrical these vibrations are, the more beautiful the music is. Does that make sense? So because he saw the music, he was able to create music that was unique in human history. Others hear the music, but he saw the uh music and it turned into a movie. Okay. Of movement. All right. This is John Milton. He wrote Paradise Lost. Problem is he wrote it while he was blind. Okay. How did he do that? Because he heard the songs. Okay. He turned Paradise Lost into a musical, into music. So he actually didn't need to speak it out. He just heard it out. Okay. So he had um secretaries who wrote out whatever he sang out. And that's why when you read periodiz law, it's actually like music. It's beautiful. One of the most it's probably the most beautiful poetry ever composed in the English language. So you can see how resilient the human imagination is. If you want to express yourself, you'll find a way. Okay? It's all about will. Do you really want to express yourself? Because if you do, you'll always find a way. Okay. All right. So, this is another lesson that you will learn the semester. We are socialized into mundanity. Our true selves are divine. Okay? You're normal. You're boring. You're not talented because you believe what others tell you. Okay? Society does not want talent people. Society does not want interesting people. Society just wants robots and slaves. So schools, companies, organizations socialize you into mundanity. Okay? Into nothingness. But if you look at your true self, it is divine. And I'll give you examples of this. Um, a lot of people have Alzheimer's. So what literally happens is they're losing their minds. And this is um a self-portrait of a artist who documented himself losing his mind. So when he was first diagnosed, he drew a picture of himself. Okay? And then a year later, he drew another picture of himself and on and on and on. As you can see, by this time, he's completely lost his sense of being. Okay? So you can use this picture as a metaphor for Alzheimer's and and you can see for yourself what it means to lose your mind. But there's another way to understand this picture which is what's really happening is that the artist he's shedding his artifice. He's shedding his clothing and revealing his true self. Okay. What Alzheimer's is is losing your socialization because you're losing your ability to speak. You're losing your ability to verbalize your ideas. You're losing your ability to communicate with others. And what what's left behind are three things. First is your spiritual desires. So, a lot of people with Alzheimer's for for whatever reason, they go to church suddenly, okay? They're not religious. Maybe that maybe they they're they grow up in an atheist household. They don't have any association with religion, but once they develop Alzheimer's, they have this spiritual desire to go to church and pray. It's really amazing. Okay, that's number one. Number two is they love to sing. Okay, they don't talk, but they sing. The third thing is they draw. Okay, this is a painting by a Alzheimer's patient. Okay, not great, but guess what, guys? He did this when he was like eight years old and he never painted before. Okay, that's pretty amazing. Never painted before. But the moment he had Alzheimer's, his true divine self opened up and he wanted to express himself. Okay. So, what they say about Alzheimer's is you hear voices, you see things that aren't there. It's a hallucination. But guess what guys, I told you this. During the ice age era, we all did this. We all believe that we were we co coexisted with ghosts, with spirits, with fairies. Okay? And this was true throughout most of human history. So even though yes, medically speaking, psychologically speaking, these people with Alzheimer's, they are hearing voices, but then the reason why is the voices were always there. We just forgot about it because we're socialized to forget about the different forces, the different voices that exist along along us. Okay, this is a person who used psychedelics. Okay, he's like she's an artist, but she's using psychedelics. And the thing about psychedelics is it's almost similar to um having Alzheimer's where you shed away your socialization. You almost enter a spiritual realm. Okay, as you can see, this is a picture of a cat. What she's doing is she's drawing a cat that's the divine cat. Okay? She's seeing the energy field of the cat. She's seeing the memory. She's seeing the aspirations. She's seeing the intuition, the imagination of the cat and embedding it into the artwork. This is another person on psychedelics. What's interesting is there's no time and space in art in this art. So, it becomes almost incomprehensible to us. Okay. Why is there a helicopter? What's a cat? Okay. Well, that's how we truly are. Okay. We don't have a concept of space and time. We see things as they are. And and this picture shows you that. And we can see how the pictures are. It's a heightened reality. Okay. Much more vibrant colors. Okay. Another psychedelic painting. Okay. As you can see, no concept of time and space. Okay, it's all just one unity of things. Ventang go, okay, the greatest painter who's ever lived. His paintings are utterly unique in human history. This is Star Night. Um, and this is Sunflower. Okay, but you can see how he has shed away his socialization. He doesn't care what this how this is communicated to other people. All it cares is about the picture itself. Okay? So it glows with life. All right? So let's summarize the concepts that we've learned. Okay? So you've been brainwashed into thinking certain ideas about who we are. They're not true. The first myth is we humans are driven by material desires. Okay? So why do we want uh so what do we want? We want a lot of money. Okay? Okay, we want to pass on our genes. We want to marry a lot of beautiful women who are young and so they can give us a lot of lot of babies because we want to pass on our genes. Okay, and we want to maintain our status. All we care about is power. Okay, fundamentally we we we humans are fundamentally imagination and we care about three things. The first is we want to express our religion through art, music and rituals. We want to know where we came from, why we're here, where we're going. Okay, that's who we really are. That's that's the first thing. Second thing is we are diverse and want to differentiate ourselves. Okay, we want to stand out. We want to be different. We want we want to be creative. The third thing is we are curious and want to explore. And that's what explains why we go everywhere. Okay, this has been true throughout human history. We may not have documents saying that we were traveling, but we were traveling because there's always some of us who want to go and see a new world, even though it may not exist. That's who we are fundamentally. So don't believe people when they say, "Okay, you just care about money. You just care about power. You just care about sex." That's not who we are. We what we are are fundamentally religious spiritual beings that want to create and to love and to connect. Okay, that's the first myth. Second myth is the most natural unit is a family and men want to protect their property which includes women. So you maybe you've been taught that okay men are in charge and women are just uh animals to breed babies. Okay, that's not true for most of human history. It was women who had control of their bodies. Women could choose who to sleep with and how many men to sleep with. And they often chose to sleep with everyone. Why? Because sleeping with other men, first of all, women enjoy it. Okay? But second of all, it allows women to create social co cohesion. So for most of human history, early civilizations, women were the core and center of all societies. And the third thing is there's actually a strategy in sleeping with many different men because now everyone is responsible for raising a child. Does that make sense? If I if I'm this father and I know exactly who my children are, then I'm going to protect my children and and discard everyone else. Okay? But if no one knows who the fathers are, everyone responsible for caring for for taking care of every single child and that's the best strategy that they can have. Okay, because that ensures that every child becomes um successful. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, so the second myth that we will discuss later on. Third myth, humans follow the iron rule of nature, survival of the fittest. Okay, that's that's taught by Darwin. That's what evolution is. But that's wrong. Okay. Throughout most of human history, humans cared for each other. We were compassionate, empathy, right? We believe that every cre creature has divinity and those who are weakest have the most divinity. That's why when we kill an animal, we still thank the animal because we're all part of the same life cycle. All right. Number four, humans have gotten smarter over the centuries. Civilization is far superior to primitive cultures. Again, this is wrong. Okay. The truth is that with the development of civilization, the human imagination has decreased. Our brains can be supercomputers if we allow them to be. But if people are more creative, which means they have they have better memories than we do. Okay? They're able to recall more stuff. They're able to store more information. They're more sensitive, more sensitive perception, they have more empathy. Okay? They know exactly how you're feeling, why you're feeling it, and how to make you feel better. and uh greater emotional resilience. Okay, so they're much more mature than we are. Number five, we evolve from apes. The truth is that we are uniquely imaginative and we can choose our own evolution. Don't believe we're apes. Okay, if you believe you're an ape, then you're an ape. Okay, if you're an ape, then you like to go beat people up and like have sex with with like a lot of women. Okay, but we're not apes. We're imaginative first and foremost. And as such we have control over our lives and something that you have to like learn for yourself. All right. So let me give an example of this to conclude the class. Um this is Roma 2 and we discovered him 10,000 years ago um in a bureau site. Okay, this is an ice age bureau site. He's a dwarf guys. Okay, he's a dwarf. You can see how small he is. He's a dwarf. And you would think that dwarfs don't really contribute to the community. So maybe, you know, he's born. It's clear he's he's um uh deformed. So just kill the guy, okay? Because he's not going to have a great life anyway. Instead, what we found is first of all, he lived to a pretty old age and he was buried with um jewelry. He was buried elaborately. And you only do that for people you really prize. That's kind of strange, right? The people who we think that are most worthless dwarfs that actually don't do anything, they actually thought was divine and deserved a extremely elaborate ritualized funeral. Why? Okay, so this is a book um that done everything by David Grabber and David Wangro. Great book. Okay, so what they say is this. When archaeologists undertake balance appraisals of huntergather burials from the p paleothic, they find high frequencies of health related disabilities, but also surprising high levels of care until the time of death and beyond. Since some of these funerals were remarkably lavish, this is an amazing idea to think about. But if you were deformed, if you were ill, they didn't throw you out. They spent a lot of time to take care of you. Even though from their perspective it was a waste of time and energy because you're going to die anyway. So why would they why would they do that? Well, there are three possibilities. Okay. The first possibility is it's really about maintaining cosmic balance and harmony. Effing is a cycle. Meaning what? Meaning we're all part of God. And if you suffer then we have to make you better because we're all part of God together. Okay. So the concepts are unity of all as above so below. Set a good example to others. Okay. So that's the first possibility. Second possibility is because this is a pre-iterate society, people have a stronger sense of empathy and morality. So they didn't want to see others suffer. Okay. And the third possibility is they appreciate diversity and difference in a way we don't anymore. Okay. Our entire school system is designed as survive the fittest. If you can't do math, goodbye, you're worthless. If you can't get 100 on on a test, goodbye, you're worthless. Okay? But back then, they saw difference and diversity as gifts from God. Right? So, if you're a dwarf, it meant you had something special to offer. If you're strong, yeah, you can go hunt animals and you can protect the the family. But if you're a dwarf, it meant that you might have something else to offer. And if we just celebrate you as someone who has something special to offer, then you can offer it to us. Okay? And often what they could do is well, they could probably seen better. They could probably tell better stories. They had more wisdom. They were have more intuition. The connection with the divine. Okay? That's true even today where the best storytellers, the best musicians often those who are marginalized from society, those who are strangers, who are those who are outsiders, those who society persecutes. They probably have greater imagination, greater intuition, greater empathy. And today we don't celebrate these things. But back then they did celebrate those things. So if you are different, if you're deformed, if you were ill, they saw you as blessed rather than cursed. And that's what we've forgotten today. Okay. All right. So that's it. This is just introduction into the entirety of human history. Okay. We're going to go pretty fast. Any questions? Yeah. >> So would you say that because you made the examples using um let's you said Alzheimer's um autistic people. So would you say that people with um cognitive disability in like modern age are like closer to the divine where like we're returning to the divine by uh abandoning our cognitive so-called like um you know the like um logic and everything that the civilization is. Would you say that makes us closer would bring us closer to the divine? >> Yeah, good question. Okay. Yeah. So, um, first of all, we're all connected to the vine. But we just choose to forget we're connected to the vine. Okay? Why? Because society, mass society, needs you to be obedient, needs you to be a machine, needs you to work, to be obedient. Okay? So, so the entire point of school is to separate you from the divine. Why? Because at an early age, you're removed from your parents. Okay? And in school you're taught all sorts of like really strange knowledge like 1 plus 1 equals 2. Like what? Who cares? 1 plus 1 equals two. Okay. But you're taught this is what matters. Um and before we would just let kids run around nature and learn resilience, learn courage, learn creativity. Okay. So the entire point of society is to brainwash you or remove you from the divine. But there's certain members of society who can't be um removed from the vine because we don't want them, right? So kids who are autistic, uh kids with disabilities, kids who are just different. Okay. Once you discard it, they actually return to the vine. Does that make sense? >> Yeah. So is like for example a lot of people develop cognitive disabilities after a lot of um like you said being put into schools um being uh kind of um limited by the civilization. Would you say that in that circumstance by developing or be given a cognitive disability we're actually reconnecting with the divine? >> Okay. Yeah. Okay. So let's clarify. Okay. So in China, in United States, everywhere in the world, we're seeing a massive surge in mental illnesses, right? So depression, eating disorders, um suicidal tendencies, um >> anxiety, >> anxiety, fear. Okay. So, so I mean like it's just an explosion these past 20 years, especially with the uh advent of mobile phones, social media, the internet. Okay. So kids lives suck. Okay. So why are kids so miserable? And the answer is that when you're born, you have an automatic connection with the vine. Okay. So and as you lose this connection, you grow more and more confused which lead leads to anxiety and doubt. And over time if this confusion is not addressed properly, then it will lead to depression. Okay. So another simple way of saying another simple way of saying this is we we crave human connection. We crave um knowledge of the divine. We crave purpose and meaning in our lives. But the social media system has created this fake system in which we're in prison. Our imagination is imprisoned in pursuing activities that absolutely have no purpose. Right? So on social media all you care about is likes. How do I get my friends to like me? like me, like me. Okay, so you do a sort of silly things like I don't know post pictures of you dancing in Hawaii or whatever even though it g it gives you no meaning. Okay, so what's happening is before we cared about what makes us happy and now we care about what we think would make other people happy. Okay, and that's not who we are. Okay, once you lose that connection to the vine, then you you can only get lost. So if you deny your intuition, if you d if you deny your emotions, then you'll just become more and more miserable. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. >> Uh like the strong empathy that you just mentioned, I thought that I'm curious where the strong empathy come from because I usually thought that the empathy is our empathy is shaped by the socialization and social norms by the society. >> Yeah, actually that's a really good question. Okay. So empathy just means our connections with others. Okay. And this something we are born with. So a mother is born with a emotional connection with a child, right? And a child has has emotional connection with a mother. And over time as this connection grows their empathy develops and this empathy almost becomes telepathic. So that even if the child is is in school and the child is bullied, the mother is doing is washing her clothes. She's like, you know, I don't feel right. Maybe I should call the teacher and ask how my child is doing. Okay. Okay. So, that's what empathy is. Empathy just means a natural emotional connection that we're all born with. But it's entirely possible um and we know this from our society to break that connection by setting the child off to school, by having a child online too much, by having a child watch television too much. Okay? Severing breaking that emotional connection. And once the emotional connection is broken, remember empathy, we crave empathy. We crave emotions more than we crave food. So it's as though we're becoming zombies almost, right? If you don't have empathy, you don't feel connected with other people. It's as though you become a zombie. You don't you don't have any you don't have any direction. You don't have any purpose. You don't have any meaning in life anymore. And that's what leads to tremendous depression. Okay? Does that make sense? So we are not socialized into empathy. We are socialized out of empathy. We're born into empathy. Okay. All right. Great questions. Okay. Any more questions? Okay. Great guys. So, I will see you next time. All right. We'll continue this next time. Okay. So, I'm just introducing these concepts, but we'll expand them and use more examples and learn more about human history from this framework. All right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

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So we continue um our run through h a run through of human history today. So last class we did cave paintings and what I will do from now on is I will highlight some YouTube comments um for for us to review what we learned last class but also um as a chance for us to better engage the YouTube audience. Okay. So this comment comes to us from Gary Zorakiski and he talks about the K paintings. He says that um it is possible they created art everywhere the paintings only survived in the caves and the answer is absolutely. So back then during the ice age they made these cave paintings as a ritual as a celebration of their religion to express their imagination. They really didn't care about leaving a legacy that comes later. Okay. So that's a very important comment. So thank you. Um, this man says that when I was talking about Beethoven, uh, he points out that Beethoven wasn't born deaf. He became deaf much later as an adult. And that is true. Um, so but one thing about Beethoven that people don't really discuss is that he probably had symphysicia. Okay? And this is just a fancy word meaning the mixing of senses. So some people are born with a special talent and so what happens is that their senses get mixed up. So when people hear things they actually see things. Okay. So the classic example is that they have pitch perfect. So there are some people musicians when they hear something they they exactly what the pitch is. Is it C um minor D uh major? Okay. And the reason why is when they hear something they see a color. Okay. So they mix the audio sense with a visual sense and that's part of the situation with Beethoven as well. So a lot of really talented people in life what happens is that they mix up their senses. Okay. Um, another person is Leonard Uler who was a mathematician and uh this YouTuber says that the pirate the pirate bay he says that uh he probably did his best work after he went blind and the reason why is that when you go blind um you're able to imagine much more strongly and much more deeply. Okay so he's able to see the math in his head. Okay. Um, this man says that I also learned from indigenous people that they don't produce trash and garbage. And that's something that's very true for most of of human history. For most of human history, we saw ourselves as part of nature. And so when you go to someone's house, you don't leave trash. Um, same thing for primive people, okay? They saw themselves as interconnected with nature. And so they have to respect nature and therefore um they had to keep it clean. Okay. All right. So from now on we'll just have highlight some YouTube comments. Okay. So let's talk about heaven on earth. So we did the ice age and now what's happening is that the um planet it's warming up and allows for agriculture. It allows for settlements. Okay. So now we will discuss today what happens during this time as the population grows and as we settle down to form um cities. Okay. So let's review what we learned last class because in this class we don't learn facts or places. Um we learn about ideas and concepts. So if you want to understand human history, you need to internalize certain concepts. So in history class um in our culture, you're taught certain myths about who we are. Okay? So I'm going to go over some of these myths and show you they're wrong. Explain why we have these myths. Okay? So the first myth is that we are materialistic. We like money, sex, and power. Okay. The truth of the matter is that throughout most of human history, we had three goals or three concerns. The first is that we have a religious impulse and we want to express this religion through art, through music, through dance. And when I mean by religion, I mean that we have three questions in our heads. The first question is where do we come from? Second question is why are we here? And the third question is where are we going? That's why we had religion to answer these three questions. Okay? And that's why we still have religion today. Second thing about us is that we're all diverse and we want to differentiate ourselves. We want to stand out. The last thing is we are curious and we want to explore. That's fun fundamentally who we are. Then the question then is why are we telling you that we're materialistic? And the answer is it's better to control you. Okay. So in a society there's a hierarchy and the people in charge they want you to work hard. They want you to be obedient. But if you believe that um you want to explore then you're not going to be obedient enough. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. Second myth is this is going to be hard for you to understand. What you're taught is that the nuclear family, father, mother, children, that's the most natural human unit. And it's not true. Actually, if you look at most ancient societies, the most natural um organization is that women are usually in control. Why? Because women have complete autonomy over their bodies. So, they can choose who to have sex with. And that's where the power comes from. They control access to to sex, which gives men pleasure. And um with this power, they often choose to sleep with as many men as possible. Okay? And there are three reasons why they choose this strategy. The first is it's fun. Okay? It gives them pleasure to have sex with as many men as possible. That's number one. Number two is women are really good at negotiating politics and they use sex as a political strategy. So if two guys are fighting each other, she has sex with both and then voila, they're best friends now. Okay? So women are very good at managing emotions through sex. Okay? And then number three is the most important. If you're a woman, you want to make sure that all your children grow up successfully. They don't die, okay? And they're happy and they're healthy. So from your perspective, it's in your advantage to hide paternity, to hide the fact who the father is. Why? Because now all the men in the village in the community are responsible for raising a child because no one knows who the real father is. So everyone assumes that I could be the father. Okay. And this is historically um how societies are usually organized with the woman in charge and as such societies tend to be very egalitarian because women don't really care about status and power. They care about harmony and balance. And the question then is why did we change? There's actually a very simple reason. The simple explanation is in order to have produce more children. Because if you're a woman, you don't want to have too many children. You want to make sure that all your w all your children have access to resources, but you also want to stay healthy, right? If you have too many children, it's possible you could die in child birth. It's also possible that your children die in child birth as well. So women have always practiced population control. But we when we switch to a uh patriarchy, now we can have as many children as possible. Okay? Because now women are basically become slaves and their main duty is to have as many children as possible. And that's why after this transition from matriarchy to patriarchy, a lot of women start to die. Okay, so that's number two. Number three is humans believed in survival of the fittish. And that's not true. Historically, if you look at how societies are organized, we tend to be compassionate. We look after the ill. We look after the elderly. We look after the weak. Okay, that's who we are. We have empathy. We care about other people. So why do we believe uh in survival the fittest? It should create fear and anxiety. Okay. If you have fear and anxiety, you work harder, but also you're easier. It's easier to control you. Any questions so far? Okay. All right. Let's continue. Number four. Humans have gotten smarter over the centuries. And uh one one thing that you will learn in this class is that's not true. Humans have always been smart, but we've expressed our intelligence in different ways. So uh printive cultures, they express uh themselves through art. They had better memories. They had more they were more sensitive and they were more resilient than we are. So why are we taught that we're smarter? The answer is confirmation bias. because everyone likes to believe that we're smarter than the people who came before us. Okay, so now let me give you an example of how smart they were. So let's just say that you have a boat and you want to navigate the Pacific. Okay, that's very hard to do and you usually need a computer. Why? Because there's so much information that you need to process in order to navigate the ocean. Okay, so let's go over some of the information. All right, so these are the Polynesian people. What's amazing about them is they settled the entire Pacific. Wherever there's an island, they had a settlement. And this is a testament to our desire to be to explore the world. Okay. What is fascinating is how they did this because if I were to put you in a boat in the Pacific, you'll probably die. Okay. And that's true for most people. So the question then is how do they navigate the Pacific? Well, what they did was this. They built boats that allow them to navigate Pacific. But as you can see, these are not large boats. Okay, so they had to get to an island fairly quickly. So what they needed to do was read the stars. So in their heads, they were they were able to map out the stars and from the stars figure out exactly where they were. They also had to memorize oceanic currents, okay? How the oceans were moving in order to better navigate the ocean. Also, every island has its own distinct oceanic ecosystem. Okay? So, there's so much information that they have to take in. They have to look at the wind. They have to look at the oceanic currents. Have to look at the stars. And that's why we have computers to do this for us today. But back then, they didn't have computers. So, they had to do this all in their heads. Okay? And they had some maps that help them. Okay? So, this is a a map of the stars and this is a map of the oceanic currents. But they were all doing this in their head. And what's really amazing is while they were out in sea, they couldn't sleep. Okay? They have to keep track of all this information to know exactly where they were were. If they fell asleep, the navigator fell asleep, they got lost and then they died. Okay? That's the power of the human imagination. Okay, last myth. We evolve from apes. And the truth is that we are imaginative and we can choose our own evolution. Okay? So um you're taught in school about the theory of evolution, how we evolve from apes. And maybe our bodies evolve from apes, but our minds did not. Our minds come from somewhere else. Okay? So why are you taught we evolved from apes? It's to it's to justify the power power hierarchy. Okay? Right? All right, the people in charge are just stronger and better and more fit than we are. All right, so having revealed last class, let's now talk about um the religious imagination. Okay, so this is the pyramids. Um it was built 2400 BCE um and today it's the same pyramids. This is one of the most Yes. Yeah. Go ahead. >> Um, you said that that the the uh previous people are like smarter than today's because they can uh navigate the Pacific like just with the boat and and the and and don't sleep but nowadays we use computer right uh but I think that uh nowadays we use computer is not because that we cannot uh navigate the ocean just by a boat and and and human is because uh this manner is we could add more precise and accurate information. >> Okay, that's not true. Okay, if I put you on a serial computer, you would die. It's it's that simple. Okay, the computer's not going to help you navigate the ocean. Okay. All right. All right. So, um these are the pyramids, okay? And there's a great mystery as to how these pyramids were built. And you might have on the internet heard sill explanations like aliens came and built the pyramids. Okay? Or maybe the lost civilization of Atlantis gave the technology to the Egyptians to build the pyramids. And this is an example of confirmation bias. We think that we're smart and everyone before were stupid. Okay? And what and what you'll learn in this class is that these people had an imagination that allowed them to build the pyramids. Okay? So I'm going to show you how they built the pyramids. All right? So as you can see, the pyramids are extremely complex structures. Okay? And first of all, there's debate as to what the pyramid is. What are you taught in school? What the pyramids are? What is it? Come on. You guys are taught all this in school, right? The two pyramid is what? It's a tomb, right? >> Okay, guys. It's not a tomb. Okay, it looks like a tomb, but it's not a tomb. It's a temple, right? Okay. So, how do they build the pyramids? Um, so what happened was that they didn't have blueprints, have computers, but they had the imagination. so they could see the building of the pyramid in their heads. And what they did was they actually built it from the inside out. Okay. All right. So again, it's hard for us to imagine that they would do this because it's like, wait, you don't have a pen, so you couldn't write it down. You have a computer so you can process all the all the information. They did it all in their heads. And that's the power of the human imagination. Okay. All right. Um and as you can see it was a massive undertaking huge organization. It took about 20 years and lots and lots of people. And then the question then is how were they able to organize in such a manner? And the answer again is empathy. The imagination. Someone had a vision and this vision was so compelling that everyone knew exactly what part to play. Okay. Also, what's really important is that in school, you're taught that the pyramids were built because the pharaoh is God and there's a tomb for the for the pharaoh. Okay? That's really insulting to the Egyptian people. Like all cultures, the Pharaoh wanted what's best for his people. Okay? So, the Pharaoh would in his lifetime undertake a lot of public works projects, okay? including canals. Okay. So that so the pyramids were just a public works project, a temple. Um what's amazing about the pyramids is that we could not do the pyramids today. Okay? Back to your point. We have computers. Guess what? We have all these machines. Okay? And guess what? We cannot build the pyramids. Why? Well, because the way we work is different from the way they worked before. Let's go over the differences. Okay? Ancient times people had religious devotion when they worked on a project like the temple like like the pyramids or whatever the point was to bring heaven to earth to bring God to earth to create eternal peace. They felt that my dedication my sacrifice would make my children my grandchildren my great-grandchildren all more prosperous. Okay, that's why they worked so hard. Today it's make more money. Okay, second thing, vision. People back then had bigger brains. Okay, not bigger brains, but like stronger imagination. So in their heads, they were able to see the entire vision in their heads. And this vision was a was able to pass on to other people as well. It was almost like they had telepathy. It was almost like they could see the same thing. Okay. The structure of the parent was designed in a way that people saw the same image and they work towards that image. Today we focus on something called top- down process oriented management. Okay. The idea here is rather than work together you just go and work a particular part and then once you do that part you go away. Okay. So an example is maybe art class. Now I'm not sure if you take art class but you guys know like to produce a great piece of art you stay in a room and you work really hard at it. Okay. But in school what do we do? Well, first we do is first thing we do is make you write a plan, right? And you do the plan well, I give you 10%. Then after you do the plan, what do you do? You write the outline. Then you do a draft. Then you do an iteration. Okay? You understand? We break it down in a process. And you think that this would lead to better results. It actually leads to worse results. Okay? Because you're no longer focused on the vision. You just focus on the process. And that's why today everything we do sucks. Okay? I can give you the greatest computers in the world and you really couldn't do the pyramids. Okay? I I can give you the best machines, the best computers. It wouldn't matter because you lack that vision. The last thing, this is most important is when you have vision, when you have religious purpose, everything you do is careful. Okay? You put your best effort into doing it because you're trying to create eternity. Today you try to do the least amount of work for the most amount of pay. Right? So the idea today is to do it as fast as possible, as cheap as possible to maintain the budget. Okay? So do you understand? It's not about how smart you are. It's about your purpose in working. It's about how you work. And that's why everything we do today is just crappy. Okay. All right. Uh let's go over some examples of tremendous human achievement. Okay. This is the Haga Sophia. Um and this was built in 532 in Kenapole. It's still instant. You can actually take a plane, get on a plane and fly, and it's still there, guys. Okay, this is a modern picture. So, you can see the amount of attention and care put into architecture back then. Okay? because it's about bringing heaven to earth, creating heaven on earth. This and you can see inside how beautiful it is. Okay? And so every inch, every piece of the church is just beautifully constructed. Everyone who worked on it was working with the same vision and working with the same dedication. This is the Aken Cathedral built in 1790. Okay? And guys, this is what it looks like today. No different from what it looked like when it was first built. And guys, no one said this was built by by aliens, okay? No one said this was built by the Atlanteanss. So the idea that the Egyptians couldn't build the pyramids by themselves and have to rely on aliens, that's just a racist comment. Okay. Um, also Charlemagne, the first Roman emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor, he was buried, he's buried inside this cathedral, but no one's saying this is a tomb. Okay? We all know it's a church. So the pyramids are a church, a temple to their gods. And once you understand that, then we can better understand how they built the pyramids. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. And this is what it looks like inside. Okay? Again, this is today. You can actually get a plane, go to Germany, and go walk inside this church and see for yourself how beautiful it is. Back then they put care and love into everything they did because because they believe that what they did was to make a more godly spiritual world. Okay. Minute Manhattan project. Okay. This is probably the greatest achievement of humans in the 20th century. All right. And there were 100,000 of scientists who worked on the Manhattan project to build the nuclear bomb. Same concept where they believe that they were creating eternal peace on earth, heaven on earth. And that's why they worked so hard. And guess what? They were right. Right? Because now with the atomic bomb, nations are afraid to go to war. Before the atomic bomb, World War I, World War II killed tens of millions of people. And even though they're still wars, they're not as devastating as before. Okay. All right. So, this idea of bringing heaven to earth, it goes way back to the beginning of humanity. This is go Goblé Teepe. Um, it was first built in 90 in 9600 9,600 B.CE. And this considered the world's first temple. It's the first temple that we discovered. We can assume that wherever humans go, they will build temples because as I mentioned last class, humans are first and foremost religious. They express themselves through the especially religion through art, architecture, music, dance. Okay? And it's an amazing achievement um because these pillars, okay, they're really tall. So we don't know how they were able to move these pillars into place. Okay, you can see how small people are, how big this is. But if you think about what we said about having a vision and then working together to achieve this vision, then it makes more sense. Okay, so let's discuss how they were able to build Pepe. And this process is important for us to understand because it repeats itself throughout human history. Okay, so let's go over the process. Okay, the first is that there's always a charismatic leader. It could be a man. It could be a woman. But he or she has a vision for creating a temple, a place of God. Okay, that's what a temple is. It's a play. It's a place for God to live on earth. And he shares this vision with everyone and everyone works hard to achieve this vision. Okay? But then the leader dies and now you have different people competing to be the new leader. Okay? Why? Because a temple and this really important for you guys to remember a temple is always the most valuable real estate on earth. Okay? If you if you are in a temple, people come to pray to you, right? So they have to give you gifts. They have to give you tribute. So what's happening in this time is that they would organize a religious festival um once or twice a year and people would have to bring gazelle had to bring food as a tribute to the um priests and then they would celebrate it together and then they would um feast. Okay. So if you're able to control this temple you lived a very good life. You were a very powerful person. Okay. And so there was so when when the first leader died, you would have secession crisis and they would vote who the next leader would be. And so what happened is they would have these trials where they prove to each other who the god's favored. Okay? So it's possible maybe there are two hills. Okay? You stand on one hill, I stand on another hill and we'll see where the bird lands. If the if the bird lands on my hill, then the gods favor me. Okay? Because at this time um humanity believed that the mother goddess ruled over all because because if as humans at this time you're concerned about two things right you're first concerned about farming agriculture fertility and then you're concerned about having babies okay so that's why the mother god was important because the mother goddess provided fertility for everyone okay um but then over time what they realized is you know what we just cheat okay and how do How do you cheat? You cheat by forming secret societies, okay? By getting people to follow you and then you swear blood oath to each other and you also maybe have sex with each other and you become a faction, okay? And this led to logo conflict. And the way they set they often settled this uh dispute or debate is for human sacrifice. Okay? So if your faction lost, you'd all be sacrificed. And we know this because under Gobl there are tombs okay of human remains. So we assume that um these people lost a power struggle and as such they were all sacrificed together. Okay. So in other words power struggle, political conflict, uh religious dispute, human sacrifice, secret society, they go all the way back to human society. Okay. All right. So this is go tepe today. Again you can you you can get on a plane flight to turkey and then go visit go play teepe. Now one thing that's really important for us to understand is that with our architecture there's mythology in place. Okay. And here we assume the mythology is the mother goddess with a bird in the sky and this might be a human skull. Okay. So there's a very complex diverse mythology in place. We don't know what it is. Okay. But they had a sophisticated mythology and also remember humans are diverse. So once the mythology becomes established new people come to establish a competing mythology. Okay. So um this place is called Karanepe and as you can see the mythology of this place it's different but these places are very close to each other. Okay. So this is maybe the cult of the skull. The idea here is when people die, you can still communicate with them in the spirit world if you have their skull. Okay? Almost the skull becomes a portal into the afterworld. Okay? So you can draw on their wisdom. You can draw on their spirit with the skull. And this called the skull. We see this in many ancient cultures including in China. Okay? It's what we call ancestor worship. And as you can see, uh this is a cult of skull. Okay, the Tower of Jericho. The Tower of Jericho is another settlement and we just assume that okay, if it's a tower, it's for defensive purposes. Okay, it's to ward off invaders. But there's actually a better much better explanation for the Tower of Jericho. It's a religious temple. Why? Because during the solar equinox, the sun hovers above the of the temple and it causes the temple to flood this area with shadow. Okay? So if you are a religious person, you feel as though heaven is coming to you directly. Okay? So you have a ritual, you have a celebration when the solar eclipse happens and you can feel as though you're ascending to heaven or heaven is coming down to you. Okay? That's a Howard Jericho. Okay. Kak Hoyak. Kai Hoyak is one of the first settlements that we found. Remember Kepe um is just a temple. So they they would go there maybe once or twice a year for a religious celebration but then they would leave. Okay. Kak is where they decided to settle down permanently for decades. Now in school you're taught that we started farming because it allowed us to access more food and so we could grow the population. we will become healthier and stronger. Okay? But if you actually dig up bodies of hunter gatherers as opposed to farmers, what you'll realize is one, hunter gatherers are taller, a lot taller than farmers. Hunter gatherers are stronger, live longer, healthier, they have better teeth. Why? Because if you're a farmer, um, you so sorry, if you're a kind of gatherer, you have access to lots of different food, right? meats and and getting the food is actually pretty easy. Okay, you can just pick fruit off a tree. As a as a farmer, you have to work really hard to grow food that's not very nutritious and often the food is just similar. Okay, you're just eating one vegetable, one crop, okay? It's very limited diet. And also because of starch, your food, your teeth gets really rotten really fast. Okay. Also, because you're living together in a close quarters, it's really easy for diseases to spread. Okay. So, um it's hard for us to appreciate this, but being a hunter gather, it's an easy, happy, healthy life. Being a farmer sucks. So, the question then is why they become farmers for religious purposes, right? So that they could settle down and be with their religion. Okay? Be with a charismatic leader. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So this is Khoic. This is the this is this the religion of the mother goddess. Okay. And accompanying the mother goddess is the bull. Okay. Because if you think about it, a woman cannot give birth by herself. She needs a male. And this male god is the bull who represents vility, energy, strength. Okay. So they worship both. As you can see how people are worshiping the bowl. Uh this is an image of Kakoya. It's a very sophisticated community. It's also very egalitarian. And each house is a temple onto itself. Okay. Each so they have these paintings in order to bring in the energy of their gods that they worship and that's why they want to stay here because they want to be with their gods even though it meant a harder life for them. Okay, this is um Katak. As you can see, it's beautiful. This is what it looks like today. Okay. All right. This another image rendition of Katak. Okay. As you can see, each house is a temple on to itself and they bury the dead underneath. Okay. So, they're trying to um practice a religion like here. Okay. As as I mentioned, each house is a temple onto itself. As you can see how each house is elaborately decorated with, you know, the bowl with ornaments to their gods and to the religion. Um, this is a gazelle. So, they hunt gazelle for food. But as you can see, it's really a dance, right? So they're hunting the gazelle, but they see it more as a dance, as a c celebration. The reason why is at this time in history, we feel an obligation to the animals we killed. We have to thank the animals that we killed. We have to celebrate the animals we killed in order to maintain balance and harmony in the world. Okay? It's almost like a contract. Before you can kill animals, you need to pray to the gods and ask for for permission. After you kill the animals, you must fetg the animals for sacrificing their body to you so you can you can uh eat. Okay. All right. You guys got it? All right. So, let's go over the pattern of human settlements. Okay. And I I need you guys to remember how this process works. So, let's look at how Kat came came together and I'll explain to you why it fell apart. Again, you have a charismatic leader who has a messianic vision. He takes us to this place and says this is where the gods are. This is divine place and let's settle down here and and as such we can bring heaven to earth and then they be become a creative artistic community. Okay. And they often choose a place where the climate is very nice and allows them to farm to supplement um their hunting gatherer. Okay. And over time as a population grows they become much more dependent on um farming. Okay. So so it's a gradual process that doesn't happen overnight. In the early days there's lots of social mobility in that all leaders are elected and also it's very egalitarian. Okay? Does that make sense? But over time the system breaks down. What happens? Well, first thing that happens is because of overpopulation, there's too much stress on the environment and so you have um the land uh you're not you're not able to grow as much on the land. Then you have climate change happening as well. Okay. Another big issue is that the hierarchy becomes hereditary. Before the leaders were elected, now they are just inherited. Okay? And this leads to corruption where the elite bully and exploit everyone else. And people forget the memories of the first days. And so what do people do? People just get up and they leave. Okay? Do you understand? You can always choose to leave. And so if you don't like the community anymore, you and your family just get up and you go to another place to build a new community based on your principles. Okay? All right. So based on today's lecture, I want you to remember three things about how we humans come together in a community. Okay? And these three basic principles are almost like laws. I want you to remember them. And then these laws will help you better understand how societies rise and fall. Okay? The first important principle I want you to remember is societies are fluid and dynamic. They're always changing over time. Okay? Okay, they're never still. Second thing is that diversity within societies is greater than across societies. So another way of saying of saying this is yes there's a conflict between United States and China. But actually if you actually look at differences in diversity, the difference diversity within China is greater than the difference between China and the United States. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, the third law is communist exist in opposition to each other. Okay, so think about the cities in China. Okay. Uh, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chungdu, they're all different. Why? Because they want to be different from each other. Okay. But also within Beijing, you have Haiden, Tayyang, different districts, right? They're all different from each other because they want to be different. Okay? So, these three laws will help us better understand how societies form, thrive, and ultimately ultimately die. Okay. All right. So I'm going to go over some books to highlight certain issues that we discuss in this class. This is a thought of everything uh by David Grabber and David Wangro who are both anthropologists. Okay. And they've looked at different societies and what they emphasize is diversity the dynism of different societies. Okay. So let's look at one particular society which is the native people of of the Canadian northwest coast. Okay. These are the native people and what happens what's really interesting is throughout the year they have different social structures. So during the winter everyone comes together and they form a hierarchy where there are palaces where there's an aristocracy um and where the different they're divided into different classes. Okay. But then what's really interesting is that during the summer people will just go away and start new societies. Okay, this is like really interesting how in different times of the year when the needs are different people will choose different social organizations. Okay, people actually adopted different names in summer and winter literally becoming someone else depending on the time of year. Okay. So, a metaphor that you can think of is think about how when you play World of Warcraft or a different video game, you adopt a different identity. You you adopt a different persona and that's fun for you. Okay? So, um what's common in the ancient past is for people to adopt different social structures and they can choose what social structure to go to. Okay? And certain certain communities still practice it today. Okay, this is the wayfinders by Wayade Davis. One of the best books I've ever written uh sorry, I've I've ever read. Um he's he is looking at also print of communities, native tribes throughout the world. Okay. And he's looking at specifically the Amazon people. If you go to the Amazon, you'll have many different indigenous tribes. Okay, so let's look at the religion. And as you can and one one thing I will show you is that even though these people look simple like you know they wear the same clothes and their life looks very simple spiritually they're very complex people and they're very complex and sophisticated mythology. Okay. So these are these called called people of the anacana. Okay. In the beginning, before the creation of seasons, before the ancestral mother Romeo, woman shaman, opened her womb, before her blood and breast milk gave rice rivers and her ribs to the mountain ridges of the world, there was only chaos in the universe. Okay? So, they have this very complex mythology. I'm not going to I'm not going to go through all of it, okay? But I will show you the picture of it. This is a universe that they've created from themselves. It is complete. It's unified. It's very complicated. And that's true for all mythologies. One thing that's really important for them is maintain balance and harmony in the world. Okay. So like most printed people they believe there are different dimensions and their role is to maintain harmony across these dimensions because that that is what guaranteed a happy and prosperous life. Okay. So let's read this together. The people living today in the forest of the parapane which is the Amazon. The entire natural world is saturated with meaning and cosmological significance. Every rock and waterfall embodies a story. Plants and animals are but distinct physical manifestations of the same essential spiritual essence. Okay. So every plant, every rock has a life force and they appreciate the diversity, the complexity, the sophification of different life forces. Okay. So even though they can express themselves, they don't have a written language. Their minds are extremely vibrant and dynamic and energetic. At the same time, effing is more than it appears. For the visible world is only one level perception. Behind every tangible form, every plant and animal is a shadow dimension. A place invisible to ordinary people, but visible to the shaman. This is the realm of the hood spirits. A world of diaphsores where rocks and rivers are alive, plants and animals are human beings, sap and blood, the bodily fluids of the primordic river of the anacona. Hidden in cataracts behind the physical veil of waterfalls. In the very center of stones are the great moleculus of the hus where everything is beautiful. The shining feathers, the cocoa, the calabash of tobacco powdered which is itself the skull and brain of the sun. Okay, you can see how the mythology is very complex and how they imbued it, embedded into their everyday life. Every day when they wake up and they see the world, they see a world of color, of energy, of change. Okay. All right. He continues, "Among the Barasana, such renewal is the fundamental obligation of the living. In practice, this implies the Braz see the earth as potent, the forest, as being alive with spiritual beings and ancestral powers. To live off the land is to embrace both its creative and destructive potential. Human beings, plants, and animals share the same cosmic origins in a profound sense are seen as essentially identical, responsive to the same principles, oblate by the same duties, responsible for the collective well-being of creation. There's no separation between nature and culture. Without the forest and rivers, humans would perish. But without people, the natural world would have no order or meaning. All would be chaos. Thus, the norms that drive social behavior also define the manner in which human beings interact with the wild, the plants and animals, the multiple phenomenon of the natural world, lightning and thunder, the sun and the moon, the scent of a blossom, the so sour order of death. Everything is related, everything connected, a single integrated whole. Mythology infuses land and life with meaning, encoding expectations and behaviors essential to survival in the forest, anchoring each community, each malaka to a profound spirit of place. Okay, so you can see how sophisticated their imagination is. Okay, so one thing that um I discuss continuously because it's very important concept is how effing is a harmonious whole. And so when you kill something, you first need permission. You need you need have a contract. Okay, this is true through most of human history. So these people are no different. When mango forest to hunt or fish, it is never a trivial passage. First, a shaman must travel in trans to negotiate while the master with the masters of the animals forging a mystical contract with the spirit guardians in exchange based always on reciprocity. Okay. D reciprocity. If you kill an animal, you need permission. Now, if you kill the animal, you must thank the animal through through ritual sacrifice. Okay. The basana compare it to marriage for hunting towards a form of courtship in which one seeks the blessings of a greater authority for the honor of taking into one's family a precious being. Meat is not the right of a hunter, but a gift from the spirit world. To kill without permission is to risk death by spirit guardian. by it in the form of a jaguar, anakona, tapar or harpy eagle. Okay. So the concept here is karma, right? If you do evil, evil will come to you. Okay? So it's important to maintain harmony. All right? And this is no different from the cave paintings. Okay? So you go back way back to to the dawn of humanity. We believe the same thing. Okay? We believe that these animals came from the spirit world. And that's why you paint it. That's why you express art to thank the animals for coming from the spirit world to feed and nourish us. And after we kill them, then um we pray that they return to us. Okay. And this goes back, you know, tens of thousands of years. All right. Let's go to Africa. So, so we were in the Amazon. Now, let's go to Africa. And in Africa, there's some some people call the force people. Okay. This is a book by Colin Turbo who spent a few years with them. And these are the pygmies. They live in the forest. And guess what? Even though the mythology is a bit different, they have different names, they have different structures, it's still the same essence. Okay, so let's let's go over um this is called Mullamo, which is a mutual instrument that they use to communicate with the spirits of the forest. Okay. All right. So one thing that's really important for these peoples is the idea of ritual. You are a member of the community if you participate in all their rituals. If you believe in the mythologies, if you honor their ancestors and the and their traditions, okay? If you're not, if you refuse to honor their traditions, then they will ostracize you or they might even kill you. Okay? So um uh the pygmies are having a religious festival and Colin Turbo says this. I was told however that everyone had to eat just as no adult male was allowed to sleep but had to sing while Malomo singing was in progress. Apparently one of the greatest crimes that Pygmy can commit if not the greatest is to be found asleep when the Malobo is singing. Okay. If you refuse to participate in the ritual or if you break the seriousness of of the ritual, then you are a threat to community and they will kill you and they will forget about you. Okay? So the if so once they kill you, the woman would be told that the malommo itself, the great animal of the forest had carried off one of their number. But like the men, they would ask no questions and would never again mention the missing men. So if you disrespect them, they would not only kill you, but they would forget about you forever. So this is how they explain why they do what they do. Why do they practice these rituals? Why these rituals such an important part of their lives? Normally everything goes well in our world. But at night when we are sleeping, sometimes things go wrong because we are not awake to stop them from going wrong. Army ants invade the camp, leopards may come in and steal a hunting dog or even a child. If we were awake, these things would not happen. So when something big goes wrong like illness or bad hunting or death, it must be because the forest is sleeping and not looking after its children. So what do we do? We wake it up. We wake it up by singing to it. And we do this because we want it to awaken happy and everything will be well and good again. So when our world is going well then also we sing the force because we wanted to share our happiness. Okay. So their idea of God is heaven on earth where you're connected to the environment around you. Everything that you do impacts the environment. The envir environment also impacts you as well. So you practice these rituals in order to maintain balance and harmony in the world. Okay. The world is a script. living in living you must follow certain practices in order to respect the traditions of the world and that's what brings harmony and heaven to the world and this something that we've for most of our history something that we've understood and we've appreciated then the question then is what do we change okay and we'll we'll be discussing this as the semester progresses okay so that's it there questions before we end. Uh yeah. >> Uh so before you said that people nowadays Okay. So so first of all I I I totally agree that people nowadays are lack of vision and imaginations you know contrast to people back in the days uh because of you know multiple reasons. And so my question is that I I I agree that people nowadays are lack of vision, but I kind of are a little bit confused about what your argument your argument that we cannot rebuild the pyramid because well from my point of view um nowadays we have the ability to you know build skyscrapers or metropolitans and so why what what is the factor that kind of stops we us to to build you know structures like a pyramid. Um okay so the question is what why can't we build the pyramids? Okay. All right. So there are different factors in place. The first is um the resources that are required to build the pyramids it is tremendous. Okay. Okay. So, um to give you an example, the stone that um sorry, let me just bring this up. Okay, the stone that they used to build the pyramids is enough to build a wall around France. Okay, so this the size, okay, is beyond our imagination. Okay, that's number one. Okay, where we where we find the resource to do this? Second is the question of will why would why would we want to do this like do you want to rebuild the pyramids like okay well yeah that's another problem okay the third problem is organization which is um how would we organize the people in a way as to build the pyramids because back then it was a massive undertaking but again people were united by a a similar vision which is like we're bringing heaven to earth. Once we build the pyramids, the gods can rest in peace. The gods can come down and shine a divine light all over us. So that's the end of history. We're done. Okay? Just do just work hard for 20 years and then there'll be heaven on earth. Okay? That's what drove them. What inspires people today? There's nothing there's nothing that inspires people today. Okay? Like, oh, make a billion dollars. Make a trillion dollars. Okay? That's what inspires people. But you know what? To make a billion dollars, it doesn't mean you have to work hard. It just means you have to cheat and lie and steal. Okay. So, so does that make sense? >> Yeah, it makes sense. But u well nowadays we we people still have religions, right? Let's say Christian is still one of the most powerful religions and uh people share and so are are they capable to you know build another very tremendous or imaginary structure or buildings. >> Okay. Okay. So um this is hard okay for you to understand it means it's a different world and the brains work differently back in this age religion was the end all be all okay you live for your religion okay does that make sense today our religion is capitalism okay so and capitalism is just make as much money as you possibly hand and the the difference is back during the time of the Egyptians it was a spiritual age okay so you sought inspiration from the heavens and people's imaginations could expand because um they would wake up with ideas okay today we live in a materialistic age which is say we don't believe in God. We don't believe in divinity. We just believe in numbers, in computers, in process. Okay? Does that does that make sense to you? Okay. It it's hard to understand because you live in a time of complete materialism. So, you don't understand what it means to live a life of spirituality, of divinity, of trying to bring heaven to earth. Okay? But if you did do that, then you'd be a very different person. There were there were things that you could do that would be unimaginable to you. Okay. For example, if you go visit a temple or a monk, they could meditate for months and months and months. They could walk barefoot in the cold for years and years and years. We can't do that. Okay? Because the moment I say, "Hey, meditate for a whole month. Just don't eat. You can't do that." And you're like, "What's the point?" And then their answer is because I want to be with God. Okay? Because I want to feel as though it's heaven on earth. So it's not just a question of how smart you are. It's a question of faith and purpose and meaning as well. The the reality is that not only do we live a life of purpose and meaning and spirit, we also think these things don't matter. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. Any more questions? >> Yep. Um so so I I do agree that we cannot be permissed nowadays and and I'll definitely die if you just put me on a pathetic but uh so but like for more for more more than people we also can do like a lot of things that previous people cannot. So, so how does the the the building of a pyramid these things demonstrate that the py the the previous people are smart? >> Can you tell me what we do today that is so wonderful and spectacular? >> What what what >> yeah what what do we do today that's so wonderful and spectacular and and you think is amazing. >> What what >> give an example of something that we do today >> that is spectacular and wonderful. >> Um Okay. Yeah. I mean, give you an example. >> Okay. >> Okay. Well, thank you. Okay. Yeah. So, give an example. Any any more questions? >> Does it matter for the first person who have the vision to build it and the second person have the same vision or it doesn't really matter? They just build. They just want to bring heaven to earth. >> Look, that's a great question. Okay. And this is hard for us to understand, but there's no sense of individual proparity. Okay. Okay, it's like this is my idea. You can't have it. Okay, it's it's always like we're in this together. Okay, we don't know who built the pyramids. Why? Because it doesn't matter who built the pyramids. All that matter is it was built. That's the spirit that they had. Nowadays, like if I have this idea, how do I patent it? How do I get credit for it? How do I make money out of it? Okay, and that's why ideas suck. Back then, it was just like it doesn't what what matter what my idea is. What matters is this idea is expressed to other people. Okay. When you have that spirit, when you have that heart, when you are when you share who you are, then God comes into you and gives you ideas. You understand? But if you're like, "Nope, all I want to do is make money." God leaves you. >> Okay? And and that's hard for us to understand. That's so back then there must have been a genius, a charismatic leader, and God gave him this vi not God, but like the spirit world, okay? The universe gave him this vision for the pyramids. And he knew exactly how to do it. And then he goes to the pharaoh and says, "Listen, I have this vision." The pharaoh says, "Let's just do it." Okay? So the pharaoh got credit, but it didn't matter who got credit. It just doesn't matter. What mattered is it was built. Do you understand? There's no sense of individualism. There's no sense of capitalism. There's no sense of like private property. It's all like let's just make let's just work together to build a better world. Okay? And yes, the people who worked on it were getting paid, but that was that's not what mattered to them. What mattered was achieving this vision together. Okay. So, it's hard for us to understand, but once you have this mentality of common sacrifice, you are able to do tremendous things together. Okay. And I'm sorry, but I can't think of an example of things that we do wonderful today like chatbt. Give me a break. Okay. >> All right. >> Any more questions? >> All right. Great. So, I'll see you guys next week. Okay.

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Today we discuss the idea of civilization and um first I want to present to you the general understanding of how we get civilization and then I will present to you an alternative. Okay. So the traditional understanding is the Marxist understanding. This is idea proposed by Carl Marx and it's the dominant idea. So in the beginning we were hunter gatherers and it sucked to be hunter gatherer because you could not find food and then we discovered agriculture farming that allowed for surplus food. Surplus just means that you have more food than you can eat. And so now you have people who don't have to work. Okay? An elite. And as such, they can engage in activities that improve the well-being of everyone and which create the basis for civilization. These things include religion, okay, which is just myths and stories, but also arts, dance, music, song, songs, um, paintings, and then of course you have science and technology. And with these three things in place, now you can grow as a society. Okay? You can now build cities. Why? Because now you can have irrigation and farming. Okay? You can now direct the river the river flow. So you can use more farmland. Okay? [snorts] you can now have a heredit her hereditary elite and so that these people can focus their entire time on innovation on science on progress. Okay? And then you have writing because only a herited elite has the time and the resources to learn how to write because remember back then writing is a very difficult activity. You have to spend your entire life learning it and practicing it. And then you have the idea of money and property. Okay. And together these four things are what we refer to as civilization. Okay. Now there are good things that come from civilization, religion, arts and science. But there are also bad things as well which include war, slavery and debt. Okay. And that is a story civilization that you are taught in school and that most mainstream academics understand. Today I wanted to propose an alternative and I think this is a much more compelling alternative than this one. And the idea is this very from the very beginning we were religious, artistic and capable of science. Okay? We do not need an elite to do this for us. We are all capable of doing this by ourselves. And the examples of course are the cave paintings that we discussed as well as these religious settlements. Go play temple koak. Okay. And as we discussed before people come together to practice their religion building temples, building monuments. And then slowly around these temples you have development of farming in order to sustain these temples in order to practice the religion. But over time what happens is that the temple people become corrupt rather than be being elected by the people rather than serve the people they become hereditary. Okay? They be they engage in rent seeking and so what people do is they just leave and build a temple somewhere else. Okay. And throughout this time all these temples are being built. But in certain locations the temples can also engage in trade. Why? Because they're the meeting place of many many other communities. And as such, their real estate is the most valuable in the world. And so it's hard for people to leave. And the place just grows and grows and grows. And as this civilization grows, the people in charge create something called a temple economy. [snorts] Okay? And this is just a primal form of of taxation. Basically what happens is that everyone brings food to the temple and the priest then redistribute the food amongst everyone else. Okay. That allows for public works projects like irrigation mainly irrigation but also more temples. Okay. And because of this economy now you need writing. You need to record how much food you have. You have to record who gets what food, the rations. You also need to record trade, right? How much um grain you're getting from here, how much cows you're going giving to over there. Okay, they have a running system. Then you have money and but as this civilization develops a strict hierarchy emerges and the hierarchy goes against the natural order. Also remember that people at any time can just choose to leave. So how do you make people stay where they are and just follow the natural order? Well now you have to create mythology. Okay? [snorts] Which then you encode or write down. So that seems as though it's coming from the gods themselves. Okay? Does that make sense? In other words, civilization did not give us religion, arts, and science. We already had these things. We could at any time in our history do all these things. Civilization is a device meant to gaslight or fool people into believing that a hierarchy is legitimate when it is not legitimate. It is meant to fool people into thinking of a that this hierarchal system is divinely ordained. Okay. So that's the argument I will make to you today. Before I continue, are you clear about this framework? This is this is traditional framework. This is this is what you've been taught in school. The problem with this framework is that it assumes that we're all stupid. And if we're all stupid, it's hard to explain how we did the cave paintings, how we built kabe, okay? How we did ko. It assumes all these things. This this new understanding is that we're all capable of creativity but eventually because of um social development we have these large cities and now the people in charge need to create civilization in order to justify the hierarchy. Okay. All right. So having said that, let's look at the four earliest major civilizations in our history and they are of course Egypt, Mesopotamia which is modern day Iraq, the Indis Valley civilization. This is al also referred to as the Harapen. Okay, Harapen civilization because their capital is Harapa. And then the last one of course is China. Right? Now the question then is why is that these four are the early civilizations and they have three unique characteristics. Okay. The first is their latitude. They're actually in the same latitude. They're not too hot and they're not too cold which makes them perfect for agriculture. Okay. That's the first characteristic. Second characteristic is that they are by major rivers. Right. So Egypt is of course by the Nile. Uh Mesopenia has been called the Tigris and the Euphrates. Um Indis Valley of course has the Indis River and China has of course the Yellow River. Okay, that's the second major characteristic. This allows for you to build a fairly large city. Okay, because now you can solve the water and transportation problem. Okay, and also agriculture. And the last characteristic which is the most important is they're by the sea or they're by the ocean which allows for them to engage in trade. Okay, transportation bringing in new goods, new people and new ideas. So uh Egypt has the Mediterranean as well as the Red Sea. Mesopotamia goes into Arabian Sea which goes into the Indian Ocean. And so the India is the same situation. Okay? Goes in the urban sea and then the Indian Ocean. China of course goes into the Pacific. [snorts] All right? So what will happen over time is that because of the trade location they're able to build a very large city okay over time. So um but then what will happen is that as larger city becomes larger and larger they will develop colonies upstream and downstream of the river. Okay. Um so they will build more colonies and this is how you get civilization. Okay, you you always have a major city and as it becomes too big, you have other places in order to um expand your trade reach. Okay, so the the priority is trade and as you can see what's happening is that these now these areas are able to connect the entire world, right? So Egypt is able to connect Europe and the Leavant and Africa. Okay. Uh Mr. is able to connect Anatolia um Asia, Central Asia and then Inis Valley is able to do the same thing. Okay, China is a special case because of the Himalayas. So there is trade actually between China and these other parts but not as much and so China is a special case and we don't so that's why we don't we don't discuss China in this class. Okay. So this is these three places are what we collectively call western civilization. So you may have thought that western civilization is just Europe and America. That's not true. Okay. If you just look at the history um these places have always been in contact with each other and collectively they built a foundation for western civilization. Let me ask you this question. Looking at this map where is the most strategically located place? You guys know >> it's here, right? Does that make sense you guys? This is right in the center of global trade. And guess what? This place is where human civilization began. This place is what we call Samaria. Samar, okay? And this is where writing was invented. Okay? And this is where a lot of trade happened because if you just look at this map, Samaria is what connects everyone to everyone else. Right? If you're in the in civilization and you want to get through Egypt, you have to first transport your goods to Samaria, which then overland takes it to Egypt. Same thing with Egypt. Okay? Same thing if you want to reach everywhere else. Does that make sense? That's why Samaria was um the first major civilization. Okay? and they invented writing as well as irrigation as well as a lot of technology. And there's been a lot of debate about Samaria because one thing that puzzles scholars and historians is the language that Samarans speak is not the same as the surrounding areas. Okay? So that's why a lot of historians believe that the people in Samaria came from somewhere else and that may be true. Why? because this is the major trade route, right? And it's possible that what happened was that different people came together in this area to trade and they form their own language. That is possible. Okay. Um also scholars have been surprised or amazed at the rapid development of Samaria and that's why okay I don't know why why but there are some people on the internet who believe that aliens came to Samaria and created humans okay these aliens called are called the anunnaki and it's a really stupid idea and what you learn in this class is that if you put humans together and they need to do something they will do it very Okay, does that make sense? >> Okay, necessity is the mother of creativity. It's because they have to come together to trade during an act that they create their own writing system. Okay. So, if I were to take different people from from the world and just dump them on an island, you guys would really quickly be able to develop your own language, your own writing system, your own civilization because again, necessity is the mother of invention. All right. All right. So that's the general framework we're working with. Any more qu any questions before I cons continue? Okay, good. All right. So let's do the PPT. All right. So in this class I want to talk about how because of civilization development they start to uh promote writing and promote mythology. Okay. And what I will show you is that by studying mythology properly, you can actually uh decode or uncover or reveal the history of the civilization even though it may be lost to us. Okay. All right. Let's continue. All right. So, um, one principle that I want you to learn about human history is that it's a constant process of inversion. Okay. And what I mean by that is that as humans progress or as humans as human society grows and grows they need to constantly re innovate in their system and they do it through inversion. So um during the caping era it was an egalitarian society uh which was fluid which was dynamic and they were animistic which which meant that they believed that um everything had god in it. Okay, they were all part of God. And then agriculture, you had the mother god of civilization because you needed fertility, right? The mother goddess um is able to give you more children as well as help you grow crops. But over time, as as societies became larger and larger, they start to go war with each other. Okay? And now the male overtakes the female. Rather than worship the mother goddess, they now worship the sky god. And before during the mother goddess, it was assumed that the mother goddess serves us because she's kind, she's compassionate. But now the sky god, we have to serve the gods. Okay. Um and then as society becomes more hereditary, what happens often are civil wars where the prince kills the king. Okay. The son kills the father in an aversion. Okay. The last process is that um over time as society becomes more populated you need a bureaucracy. What happen will happen is that the bureaucrats will collude together to steal power from the king. Okay. The servant rules the king. Okay. So this is a major pattern of historical development that that I want you guys to remember. Remember that history is a constant process of inversion. Okay. where the old order is being dethroned by the new order. Okay. So that's one idea I want you guys to remember. Okay. All right. So basic uh framework we're working with is that before we saw that the mother goddess where women were in control and they focus on balance and harmony, okay, and fertility. And their understanding of the mother goddess is that she's kind and she's she's compassionate. Okay. So you don't really have to work that much. You just have to uh respect her and she will provide you with a lot of babies and a lot of good food. Okay. Now we go to the sky god and different societies have different sky gods but they're basically the same concept. So in Egypt they have Rah. In Babylon they have they have Marduk. In Greece they have Zeus. In Rome they have Jupiter. Right? And the sky god demands struggle and toil. Okay. to rape, exploit, control the earth, to take the mother goddess and to control her. Okay? And you do that by building canals, by building farms. So it's a constant process of exploitation. Okay? Not only exploiting nature, the mother goddess, but you're also exploiting each other. You go to war, you conquer other people, you enslave them. Okay? It's a constant process of sacrifice and discipline. Okay? So this is the major transition. All right? So the four major civilizations we talked about, as you can see from this map, they're the same latitude, right? China's over here. Again, because of the Himalayas, they're blocked from the rest of the world. Okay? But these three areas, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Inis Valley, you can see how close they are to each other and how they can easily access each other through the sea, right? And once they are able to access each other, they can then access other parts of the world as well. So right from the beginning guys this is really important. Western society was integrated through trade through communication and so the ideas the people were always in exchange with each other. Okay. So you cannot understand development of Egypt in isolation from Mesopotamia and the Indis Valley. Okay. They were all um influence each other. Unfortunately, because of Western prejudice, you're often taught that these things are separate from each other. Okay? But they existed in dialogue with each other. All right? Um so the critical civilization is the Middle East. Why? Because of the fertile crescent. Okay. So um Samaria Sumer is where we where we can sort the cradle of civilization because as I mentioned to you it is the center of all global trade. It's where all civilizations meet as but as you can also see it's also extremely fertile. Okay. So this this is this has historically been the wealthiest part of the world. Strategically is the most important part of the world and it's still true even today. Okay. That's why you have all these wars in the middle Middle East. That's why America is so supportive of Israel. Okay. So as I mentioned to you um what will happen is that because of trade Uric will become a large city and then as the city becomes larger and larger it will establish colonies elsewhere as well and these will become the major city states of Mesopotamia and for thousands of years they will fight each other until um Sarum Akad unifies this uh region. Okay. [clears throat] Sumer is impressive. Um, they're known for their canals. They're known for their irrigation. And again, scholars are sort of mesmerized by how they're able to do this. But one thing that you learn this class is that when humans come together for religious purposes, they're capable of doing amazing stuff. These are zagurits. They're temples. Okay? And these zagurites were the center of their civilization. Remember that also they start off with a temple that then builds out outwards. Okay? And these zagrates are important because they are literally considered the home of their gods. And these places are sacred. So only priests are allowed to go inside it. People can deliver gifts to the gods through the priest. But the people themselves are not allowed to interact with the priest. That's how the priests are able to keep control over the cities. Okay? And the priests themselves are considered servants of the gods. This is kuneao form, right? This is kuneao form which is the first writing system ever invented. [snorts] Um what's interesting about this is how they did this. So what they did was this. They just took clay from the river beds. Okay? And then before it hardens, you just take a read and you write down some marks in the clay. And then what you do is this. You just put out in the sun and then it hardens, right? And it's it's there forever. That's why we still have them today because rock does not decay. Okay? And that's why we know more about Samaria than we know about other places. Um for most of agricultural history we celebrate the mother gods. Okay. But then as I mentioned over time as society um becomes larger and larger the men start to take control and so they in they inverted [clears throat] the mythology of the mother goddess. Now the sky god who is monarch here kills the mother goddess to create the world. Okay. A process of inversion. Um so to understand this process we will read the most famous epic from Mesopotamia called the enuma allesh and alesh means from up high. So it's a bible basically it's like what god told us and this is a story of the creation of the world. [snorts] Okay. So what's really important to understand is that all the stories are written down in stone. Okay? And again guys, they didn't have to do this because everyone was able to memorize the story line for line and that's what we did historically. So why did they um write this in stone? For propaganda purposes, right? It's the same as in today's world, you go see a film. When you see a film, you're mesmerized. You're hypnotized by the beauty of it. And you must think that this film must be the gods speaking themselves. Okay? You don't think about, okay, how do they put this together? Your mind doesn't think like that. Your mind's like, oh my god, this is an image before me. Therefore, it must be true. Okay? And that's why they wrote stuff down for propaganda purposes. Now, what's interesting is that there's different writing systems around the world. So, in Mesopotenia, they had the these K tablets, right? But in Egypt as you may know they have papyrus. Okay, papyrus are just are these these plants they take out they take out the plants and then uh put them together in the sun. Okay, and then they become like these scrolls that you can write on in China of course have the paper. So what's interesting is that when the need arises for writing we always find find of like creative ways to express ourselves in writing. Okay, papyrus scrolls don't really last that long. That's why we know less about Egypt than we know about Mesopotamia. All right. So the Emirash was written on K tablets. So let's go over um the story the Enimash. So um in the beginning there are two major gods. Absu and Tiiamat. Absu means fresh water. Tiiamat means salt water. Okay. Fresh water of course is the river. Um salt water is the ocean. Okay. When they come together, they create all possible life, including their children, the new gods. Tiiamat and Absu create these new gods, but they're children. So, they're really loud. And Absu is like, "You know what? These children are really annoying. I want to kill them." Tiamat overhears this and Tiamat tells her children who rebel and kill Absu. But then Tmat's like, "You know what? They killed my husband." So now she's pissed. Okay. So she decides she's going to go kill her children too. She has a general and there is this huge army and they start start to attack the their children. These children are um thrown back by Tiiamat. So they elect a new champion called Murdoch, the thunder god, the sky god to lead them into battle against Tiiamat. And in the final battle um um Murdoch who's al also called BL he kills Tiamat. Okay. Now what happens afterwards is really interesting because after he kills Tiamat the mother goddess he takes her body and then from her body he builds an entire world. He builds both the sky and the planet earth. Okay so let's read some lines. be out rested serving the corpse in order to divide the lump by a clever scheme. He split her into two like a dried fish. Okay, so he literally cut her like a fish. One half of her he set up and stretched out as the heavens. He built the sky from her body. He stretched the skin and appointed a watch while the with the instruction not to let her waters escape. He crossed over the heavens, surveyed the celestial parts and adjusted them to match the absu nominates abode. So Absu was the husband who was killed. Be measured the shape of the Absu and set up Ezra a leprecha of Escala and Escala Ezra which he had built in the heavens. He settled in the shrines anu ll and l. Okay. So what's important to understand is this. He's doing this to the mother goddess. Okay. So not only is monarch proclaiming a new order but he's also proclaiming new values. New values of struggle, exploitation, toil. Right? Before the mother gods was a religion of balance and harmony. Don't destroy things. Worship the animals as they're your friends. If you kill them, make sacrifices to them. And now this new religion is no, destroy the world and make it yours. Okay? So, this is a civilization that practice irrigation, right? Because irrigation really is about controlling the earth. All right. Let's continue. All right. So what happens now is that after Marduk um creates the world he has to establish a bureaucratic order okay an order a hierarchal order so he says he fashioned heaven stations for the great gods and set constellations the patterns of the stars he appointed the year marked up divisions and set up three stars each for the 12 months okay so he's bally building a calendar the idea here is that all these were bureaucratic inventions in Samaria in order to better govern the people What this myth is doing, the eminish is doing is proclaiming that the bureaucratic world is divinely ordained. Okay, this didn't come from the priest. It came from the gods. The priests are just the messengers. All right, let's continue. All right, so now that Mark has built this world, he's like, you know what? I'm tired and I want a place to rest. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to build a house which is my temple and then I'm going to make slaves in order to serve me. And these slaves are called humans. Okay? >> That's why we're invented to to serve the gods before we understood that the gods served us helped us or loved us. And now we must become slaves to the gods. Beneath the celestial parts whose floor I made firm, I will build a house to to be my luxurious abode. Within within I will establish a shrine. I will found my chamber and establish my kingship. Okay. All right. So now he's going to turn humans into slaves. He conceived the desire to accomplish clever things. He opened his mouth addressing eel. He counsels that which he had ponder in his heart. I will bring together blood to form bone. I will bring into being Lula whose name shall be man. Okay. All right. The gods, by the way, are called the Anunnaki. Okay. That that that's why there are conspiracy theorists on the internet who say that we're invented by the Anunnaki. All right. So, what Marduk does is that he takes his enemy uh Tingu and then he kills him and then from his blood uh he will create mankind. Okay. They bound him holding him before ale. They inflicted the penalty on him and severed his blood vessels. From his blood he created mankind on whom he imposed the service of the gods and set the gods free. Okay. Now it's really interesting for us to remember is that throughout this poem the monarch has different names be eel. Okay. And the reason why is that what happens in these epics is they take different traditions and they combine together into one composite story. Okay. All right. After the wise eel had created mankind and had imposed the service of the gods upon them, that task is beyond comprehension. For Nima performed the creation with the skill of Mardok. King Mard divided the gods of the Anunnaki. Okay, the gods into upper and lower groups. He assigned 300 in the heavens to guard the decrees of Enu and appointed them as a god. Okay. So now he's going to create this hierarchy. So yes, all humans are slaves but there are some humans who are better slaves than other humans. Okay, that's what explains the hierarchy. So as you can see the lash it was written in order to justify the existing power structure and honestly this is a concept that's still true today. Right? Why do we have schools? Why do we have media? Why do we have entertainment? It's to justify the existing power structure and social order. Okay. All right. Now we get towards the end and this is to establish that Babylon is the divine city. If it's divine, it means you can't leave it. You all want to be here. Even though being in Babylon means your enslavement. Okay. Let us make a shrine of great renown. Your chamber will be our resting place wherein we may repose. Let us erect a shrine to house a pedestal wherein we may repose when we finish the work. When Mark heard this, he beame as brightly as the light of day. Build Babylon the t you have sought. Let bricks for it be molded and raised a shrine. The Anunnaki wield the pig for one year. They made the needed bricks. Okay, so Babylon, the capital is a city made by the gods for the gods and then humans are there to serve the gods. Okay. So this is the divine order. This is the mandate of heaven. Okay. And as you will as you will see this is not just true for Mesopotamia for Babylon but also true for all major civilizations including Egypt. Okay. So this is a tapestry from Egypt. You can as you can see the gods are in control. The gods are the public masters and the kings are just being controlled by the gods and then humans just do what the gods demand of them. Okay. This is just the natural order. This is the minute of heaven. This is the way that it should be. Okay, now let's talk about the epic of Gilgamesh. So there are two major literary achievements of Mesopotania. The first is the emir lash. The second is something called the epic of Gilamash. As you can see, Gilgamash, he is a giant human. He's a king. He's considered the first king of Eric. Okay? And he's so big that he that a lion is his pet. Okay? Um what happens is that Gilgamesh is a king but he's a tyrant. So he takes the men to war and he sleeps with all the women. So the people cry to the gods for relief from Gilgamesh. So the gods create Inkadoo from uh clay. Okay. And this is very similar to the story of Adam in the Bible. And Incadoo is like an animal. But then Giggle Mash sends a prostitute to seduce him and then become civilized. Okay? And now Enkodu and Gamash fight. And when they fight, they realize that they can't beat each other. So they decide to become best friends. They're best friends now. And they embark on all these adventures together. They go kill um these divine beings. Um they go kill the protector of the forest. Um they kill a divine bull. The gods are now kind of pissed at them because they're disrupting the natural order. Okay. So, the gods have a meeting. They decide that one of them must die. So, they kill Ankodu. When Ankodu dies, Gamash is heartbroken. And he's scared because he's afraid that he will die as well. So, he sets on a quest for immortality. Okay, he goes and tries to figure out how to live forever. He ultimately fails. Okay. And it ends with Gil actually returning home and he sees happiness in the walled cities and his people being happy. Okay. So the moral of the story is that immortality is not about living forever. Immortality is about doing great things for your people so that you'll be remembered forever. Celebrate forever. So the irony is that even though Gilgash failed in his quest, he ultimately succeeded in his mission because because we have his epic and so we're able to celebrate him even today. Okay, so it's a story that um is being told. The question now is why is a story being told and one theory is that this is a concept of kingship. Being a king means not doing whatever you want. Being a king means to serve the people so that people will celebrate you and remember you forever and immortalize you in writing. Okay, that's a theory. All right, but ultimately Gilgamesh is a bureaucratic creation and I'm going to explain to you how this creation works. Through this creation process, we can understand how human society develops over time. So in the beginning what happens is that each region has local legends okay and these local heroes are celebrated through stories. So stories of demagogues like Hercules right and the epic heroism um they have these stories because each region has a local king and this local king says well I'm a descendant of Hercules and therefore I should rule over you. Okay. And what will happen is that these stories become a test for the king. If Hercules can fight a lion, then you are his ances uh descendant, right? You are his descendant. Therefore, you shall fight a lion. Okay? And that's how you justify your kingship through these acts of heroism that's relayed to you in stories. Okay? That's the first step. Second step is what happens is that as these different areas become consolidated into a much larger area, these stories themselves become consolidated. So, Google Mash was basically different heroes. um one come one king comes to dominate a region then then what happens afterwards is that as the region becomes larger and larger you need a bureaucracy. So bureaucratic priests come into power. They add in morality and messaging control the people and the king. Okay. The major message is the king must serve the people and then the priests control the king. Um but what will happen is that these different bureaucrac bureaucratic factions will fight each other and they will have different versions of the story. Okay. So bureaucratic priests take power the morality and messaging changes. Okay. As different bureaucratic priests take power. Okay. The must the king must learn humility. So this is a hard thing to understand but it's really important for us to understand otherwise you can't understand the Bible and um other literary equations. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you an example to help you better understand this process of storytelling. All right. So let's imagine three universities Ohio State University, Connecticut and Mberry. And they all have their own local legends. Okay. So in these places something happened that capture the imagination of all the students. know maybe Ohio State University, Michael James gets drunk the night before examination and he still matches passive and the students are like that's a great story. Okay, but what happens over time is that because it's such a great story as story as a story is told more and more becomes exaggerated. Why? Because it becomes exaggerated. It's much more interesting. It's become much more memorable. Okay? And over time people add color to it to make it even more memorable. If you don't do that, the story becomes forgotten. Okay? So only way to keep a story alive is by constantly exaggerating it and bringing color to it. So let's see what happens over time the story becomes Michael James gets drunk before every examination and he scores 100. Okay, that's an exaggeration. And then over time naturally through the oral tradition the story becomes even more exaggerated. Michael James bet his professor that he could get 100 on the exam while drunk. After James finished the exam he bombed on the professor. Okay, flew up on the professor. The professor could not do anything because James had got 100 on the exam. Okay. All right. So, human beings just do this naturally. Something happens. They think it's they think it's interesting. Then it becomes a legend, becomes a story. Okay. And this happens everywhere. So, Connecticut College, a football player scores a winning touchdown. Okay? And then it becomes exaggerated. The guy scores touchdown every game. And then even more exaggerated, the guy hits a home run to help his team win a championship. And then later that that day, he scores a touchdown to win another. Okay, so it becomes more exaggerated. And then let let's look at the last one. At Middle Berry College, Pat Jack drives can take a piss. Okay, he just does that for no reason. Becomes more exaggerated. He goes to a new city every day to take a piss. Okay, and then it becomes even more exaggerated. And now you add color detail to it. Pat Jack drove to Canada and accidentally pissed on a sleeping beer. Okay. He ran up a tree without his pants and forest rangers had to come rescue him. >> Okay. All right. So, this is what happens naturally. The story becomes funnier. The story becomes more colorful, more detailed, more exaggerated so that we're able to remember it. Okay. And then over time, what happens is that these stories become consolidated, combined together to form a new story. Okay? Harvard's most legendary student was Pitbull James. He once rolled an exam that no professor could pass. He once hit a home run with one arm. He once pissed on sleeping bear just so he could knock down the bear with one punch. Okay, so it becomes even more exaggerated becomes consolidated just as the epic of Giggamash. Okay, but then what happens is the bureaucrats take over. Okay, the people in charge take over and they have to change the story in order to better control people. And there are different versions of this process. So, so let's look at three. All right, you're at this one line and you change the story, right? In the first version, when he became a billionaire, he gave it all to Harvard. Okay, so obviously Harvard wrote this story to say, you know what? I don't we don't care what you do as long as you give us money. Okay, that's the first version. Second version is when he wrote he found his true love, he settled down in the woods, right fulltime. Okay, so this is signaling the primacy of writers over athletes. Okay, the the smart over the brave. The third is the bear ate him. Okay, so you punch the bear and the bear decides to eat him, which is like don't be a stupid athlete. Okay, and and so when you add these actually lines, you make the story less interesting, less colorful, but you do so in order to better control how people think. And this is a process that we see throughout human history. So think of these classics of these Chinese classics, right? Sangu Romance of Three Kingdoms. >> Yeah. >> Uh CG, right? >> Journey to the west, right? Banners of the water margin. If you read them, they're not that interesting. But before you can imagine that they were interesting but the bureaucrats took them and changed them into boring stories that they can now teach school children to brainwash them. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. So that's a process of civilization. [snorts] All right. So another example is he assolds theogyny and he's talking about Greek mythology. Okay. Greek religion. So the process goes like this. At first, Gaya, who is like the mother goddess, and Chaos, they give birth to the gods. Ga marries one of these gods, Uranus. Okay? And they give birth together to 12 titans. But um Uranus doesn't really like children, so he beats up his children. So these children with help from the mother decides to rebel against Uranus. The youngest son, Cronis, kills Uranus. Okay, then Uranus marries Ria and now Cronis is king, but he's afraid that his children will eventually rebel against him just like he he rebelled against his father. Therefore, he eats all his children. Ria, the mother is upset about this. So, she decides, I'm going to give birth to Zeus in secret. So, she runs off to an island um and she gives birth to him in secret and he leaves Zeus there to grow up. Okay. Eventually he grows up and then he goes back to Cronis. He becomes cupbearer to Cronis and then poisons him. Okay. And that's how Zeus becomes the ultimate king. What's really interesting for our purposes is that this myth influences the origin story of major historical figures. Okay. So if you look at these major historical figures, you will find that it's a very similar story. So sir of Akid uh who found the Aadian Empire, Ramis and Reheis who founded Rome, King David founded Israel and Genghask Khan of the Mongols. Okay, they all share the similar origin story. So where do we get this origin story from? Okay, so going back, we're seeing three layers, right? So the first layer is the original layer, which the animistic layer. Okay, so different gods come together and they create humans. The second layer is when Cronis rebelss against Uranus and establish the kingship. Okay? Right. The third layer is this. The third is the most interesting. Usually when you're king, you need a general. And what often happens is that the king likes to hire a foreign mercenary to be a general. Why? Because first of all, he's of low birth, right? Therefore, no legitimacy. Second, he's a foreigner and therefore he doesn't have any global factions behind him. But often what happens is that this foreign mercenary is so talented that he's able to build a little faction to overthrow the king and become king himself because he's really talented. This is true for Gangask Khan. This is true for King David of Israel. This is true for Sar of Akit. Okay? So there are lots of historical figures like that. Even in Chinese history, you have quite a few historical figures like this as well. So the founder of the Song dynasty was this sort of person. The problem though is that once you keep him as king, he has a legitimacy problem. He's of low birth. He's a foreigner, right? So what do you do? You create a myth of Zeus, right? That Zeus himself was of low birth and a foreigner, but not really because he's a secret son of the king. Okay? And that's why you have these stories to legitimize the uh the king. All right. So again um this follows the dynastic cycle. Okay. So in the beginning the high priestess who represents the mother goddess she has a consort and so they establish a hereditary elite but this hereditary elite makes people unhappy with the system. So then one um prince or one of the sons decides you know what I'm going to form my own political faction. I'm I'm become a warlord. I'm going to overthrow the queen and the king. Okay. And so he slays the consort and marries the high priestess. Okay, which is following the pattern of the mythology, right? Then what happens is that after warlord dies, his son relies on a mercenary as general. The mercenary is often a foreigner and of low birth. mercenary slays the warlord and makes himself king. Okay. Okay. Does that make sense? This is a pattern that we see over and over in history. This explains why the myths are constructed the way they are. Okay. So another way a metaphor that we can use is think of myths and stories as like house renovation. Okay. So when you renovate a house, you're adding different layers to it. Okay? That that's literally what's happening. Okay. Um, so we we will look at one last story to show you how this writing process works. Remember they met writing in order to basically gaslight the people. So even though um Samaria Mesopotain is developing really quickly as you can see from this map, it's still a very diverse place. Okay, they have different forms of industry and economy. So maybe in the green you have agriculture but in the red it's pastorial meaning it's you're raising animals sheeps goats you're going over the place okay so there are two different types of agriculture the first form is you are sanitary you just stay one place and you grow your food you grow your crops you grow your plants the second is pastoral where you're going around and you are um uh feeding your sheep and your goats okay if you're a king or if you're a priest if you're bureaucrat Do you prefer agricultural people or pastoral people? >> Agriculture. >> Obviously agriculture. Why? Because it's better. It's easier to control them. Okay. So, what they do now is um they're going to create these mythologies to convince people be to give up the free happy lifestyle of a pastoralist and become an enslaved farmer. Okay. All right. And the question is how? Well, this is how this is called the debate between the sheep and the grain. Okay? So, the sheep and the grain have this debate and they appear before the gods for judgment. The sheep says I am I'm the better one. The grain says no, I'm the better one. Okay, so this debate the sheep says this and king of the gods make me descend from the holy place, my most precious place. All the yarns about O2, the splendor of kingship belong to me. Second, king of the mountain embosses the king's emblems and puts his emblem in order. He twists a giant rope against the great peaks of the rebel land. He the sling, the quiver, and the long boughs. The watch over the elite troops is mine. Sustance of the workers in the field is mine. The water skin of cool water and the skinnos are mine. Sweet oil, the fragrance of the gods, mix oil, press oil, aromatic oil, cedar oil for offerings are mine. Okay, so I'm the sheep. Look how great I am. Okay. I provide clothing for people. I provide sandals. I have oil which makes people more fragrant. I also provide food for your soldiers. So, I'm great. In the gown, my clothes are white wool. The king rejoices on his throne. My clothing um is worn by the king himself. Isn't that proof that I'm the greatest? My [snorts] body glistens on the flesh of the great gods. After purification, priests, the incarnation priests and the babe priests have dressed themselves in me for my holy lustration. I walk with them to my holy meal. Okay. So the priests when they make sacrifices, they sacrifice the sheep. Not the sheep. The priests are not going to sacrifice grain. They sacrifice sheep. Okay. But your hero plow shield binding and sharps are tools that can be utterly destroyed. What can you put against me? Answer me what you can reply. Okay. So that's the argument from the sheep. The grain says, "When the beer dough has been carefully prepared in the oven and the mash ended tended in the oven, Nikicoa mixes them for me while your big bully goats and rams are dispatched for my banquet. On the thick legs they are made to stand separate from my produce, your shepherd on the high plain eyes my produce endlessly. When I am standing in the furrow in the field, my farmer chases away your herdsmen with his cudel. Even when they look out for you from the open country to the hidden places, your fears are not removed from you. Fang, snakes and bandits, the creatures of the desert want your life on the high plane. Every night your count is made and your tally stick put into ground so your herdsman can tell people how many eels there are and how many young lambs and how many goats and how many young kids. When gentle winds blow through the city and strong winds scatter, they build a milking pen for you. But when general winds blow through the city and strong winds scatter, I set up as a equal to iskar. I am grain. I am born for the warrior. I do not give up the churn the vat on legs. The endorsements of shephering make up your properties. What can you put against me? Answer me what you can reply. Okay. Well, what Green says is first of all, you don't need to protect me. I can protect myself. There are no animals that want to eat me. Okay? And I'm bountiful. Okay? So, I'm independent. you do less work, you get more of me. Okay, that's the argument. And of course, the gods say that grain is better. Even though people who raise sheep and goats, they're stronger, they're more free, they're more independent, but kings don't want that. So they they create these stories, these mythologies in order to brainwash people out of their freedom, of their independence. Okay? And that's why we have writing. That's why they invented writing. Okay. Does that make sense to you guys? >> Yes. >> All right. Any questions? >> Um, so my first question is like earlier you mentioned that there are three ancient civilizations that are very close to each other like Egyptian and uh >> That's right. So they Yeah, that's right. Yeah. >> Yeah. And so my question is like are there any connections between the the the distance and how they made all of this myth and their their methodologies of creating the gods? Okay, that's a really good question. Um so um it's almost impossible us for to answer how much they influence each other. Okay. um because even if they were not in contact with each other, they would still come up with the myths that they had come up with in order to justify their hierarchy. It doesn't make sense. So mythmaking is just a natural part of the human process. So do they share these stories together? Probably. Okay. But what's important to understand is that these elites are also interested in differentiation. So if I'm in Egypt, I need to prove to my people that I'm superior to the people in Mesopotamia in this valley civilization. And that's why I create the pyramids, right? Okay. If if I'm at Mesopotamia, I need to prove that I'm superior. That's why I create the zero gods and the epic of Gilamash, right? So the actual process it's it's hard to say. Okay. So another way of thinking this is how much are you influenced by American popular culture? probably a lot but how much? Okay, also you whatever whatever influence that you have you still also refract it for your own personal needs as well. Okay, so that's a great question and you know scholars spend a long time decades trying to figure out what the actual influence of each culture is on the on the other culture and from my perspective it's not important. We just have to assume that there is influence that these c cultures aren't caught out of each other. But ultimately at the end of the day, what do they come up with has to be unique to their own culture. They want to prove that their culture is superior and they want to um and they have to address local needs as well. Okay. Does that make sense? >> Yes. Okay. And I have another question is that uh I don't know how familiar you are with the Chinese culture but in our uh Chinese uh culture there is a god who created the earth like is his name is pangu >> like there there is this mythology of of how pangu creates the earth and so my question is like you can notice that in the Chinese culture pangu is a male and he is the one who sacrificed himself to in order to create the earth and in other myths like uh in in Egyptians that the creator is this female character. So so in your opinion like do you think there is like what what is the why is this different between >> Okay. Yeah. So it's hard for us to say what the original myth was. Okay. The process is this. In the very beginning all m all gods should be asexual. >> Okay. So they are almost they're either nonsexual like it's not male or female or they are uh both male and female. Okay. Because in all traditions um the god has to be a balance of forces right? So the male force and the female force. That's why we have ying and yang. But over time what will happen is that they will change certain characteristics to reflect better the hierarchy. So maybe in the beginning when females were in charge um Pangu was a female character but over time they'll change it to a male character. All right. It's almost impossible for us to go back and um rebuild or reimagine what it was like originally. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Okay. Any more questions, guys? Okay. Great. So um I hope this makes sense and uh next class what what we're going to do is we will talk about the steps people okay the people in the steps this is civilization so people who do agriculture but remember that throughout most of um human history the major conquerors were people from the steps okay so gangask con came from the steps so we'll be discussing them next class okay all right thank

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Okay. So today we are going to discuss civilization versus the steps. Okay. Civilization versus the steps. The steps are the grasslands and you people often refer to them as barbarians. Okay. So in China we refer to these people as like barbarians. And in school you're taught that there are major differences between civilization and barbarians. Right? So um the first major difference is that in civilization you are allowed intellectual freedom because only by reading books only by going to school only by learning how to think can you be free to think. Okay. Um and in a step we think of them as emotional slaves. They are unpredictable. They are violent. Okay. Second thing is that we think of civilization as open and curious. We love knowledge. We seek to gain more knowledge. Therefore uh we are innovative. Okay. Whereas the steps people, they are static. Okay. Because they are insular. They're close-minded. Okay. And the last thing is that we think civilization leads to wealth and prosperity. Only can you be only if you are civilized can you be truly be happy okay and wealthy. And we think that the steps people are poor and therefore unhappy. And that is the general understanding of the difference between civilization and the barbarians. Okay. The problem is that this creates a misunderstanding and we can't really explain why is it that throughout human history the steps people have been the greatest conquerors. Okay. Okay. So the classic example is Genghask Khan. How is it that Genghask Khan was able to not only conquer China, okay, which is one consider one of the greatest civilizations in the world, but also um Baghdad, another great civilization. Okay. But what's interesting is that throughout human history, this has been a consist consistent pattern where the barbarians conquered the civilized people. Okay, so this is a problem. How is it that how is it that if in civilization they're so free, they're so smart, they're so open, they're so curious, innovative, and so prosperous, why is it that they keep on losing out the steps people? And the answer is because your traditional understanding is completely wrong. Okay? And I will show you that it's the complete actually the opposite. It is the steps people who are open, curious, and innovative. And it is the slicing people who are close-minded, who are static, and who are unhappy. Okay. So, that's my argument to you today. All right. So, let's go over um some of my uh points before I show you the PPT. Okay. All right. So, let's discuss how civilization starts. So last class we understand that there's a major river and on top of this major river you have a city develop. Okay remember that we come together for religious purposes. We have settlements in order to celebrate nature, celebrate God, um celebrate our religion, our belief system. And over time what happens is that um this system becomes unequal. it becomes hierarchical and therefore we leave. But there are some places that are strategic for trade purposes and therefore people don't want to leave because you can generate a lot of wealth and prosperity in these places and so they become um major cities. Okay. So the first city in world civilization is Euro Eric. Okay. And over time they become more more prosperous. They build canals. Uh they learn farming. They develop their own mythology. Okay. And then what happens is that as the population grows and grows, they go off and colonize other places along the trade route. Okay. Maybe upstream and then downstream as well. And then what happens is that the city these city states are now in competition with each other. And they have a system of competition called open cooperative competition. Okay, this is a very important concept because this concept is what gives us innovation. So if you have these three things in place, open, cooperation, competition, you'll be very innovative. Open just means that you want to learn, you want to grow, you want to learn from others. Cooperation means that you are in contact with others so you that you are learning the best practices from other people. Competition means that you'll be better than they are. Okay? So in this system of city states you have massive innovation and we see this throughout human history. Okay. So think of China. When was China the most innovative? It was during the tun right the spring autumn period. That's where we're getting confusious from Danza. Okay. All the great ideas came from this period of the chunu. Okay, this is also true for Mesopotamia. This is also true for Egypt as well. Okay, and eventually what happens is that these citystates um all merge into an empire because during this process of innovation, one city will be more innovative than the others and therefore they will conquer the others. What's interesting often is that it is a city that is most disadvantaged that conquers the other cities because you're forced to be more innovative. So in China, the classic example is theQing, right? TheQing was in the mountains. They had lower population. They were poorer. They're more isolated. And therefore that they have more innovative than the Jao, the true the way uh dynasties. Okay. Okay. And this is true also in throughout human history. And so now you have an empire. And at first this empire is extremely innovative. Why? For three reasons. Okay. The first thing is that it now has scale. Okay. It has size. Therefore, it's able to draw in more resources. Second is the idea of standardization. St. synization just means that now you're using the same monitor system, you're using the same laws, you're using the same uh communications network. Okay, that allows for better use of resources. The last is the idea of centralization, meaning that you have one place controlling all activities elsewhere. [snorts] And that allows you to build canals that allows you to build temples that allows you to to undertake massive public works projects. Okay. So in the beginning of the empire there's massive consolidation of innovation which leads to tremendous innovation. Okay. But over time what happens is the empire becomes the opposite of an open cooperative competition system. Why? Well first of all it come becomes insular. Okay. Then it becomes secretive and then it becomes a monopoly. That's what a bureaucracy is. Hey, do you guys understand? Okay. >> Yeah. >> All right. So when an empire reaches a certain point of growth, it becomes a bureaucracy and therefore it kills all innovation. So this idea that civilization leads to innovation is wrong. Okay. Civilization leads ultimately to corruption. All right. Now, um what's interesting is that even though this is a general rule of human development, it's not always true. There are exceptions. Okay. So for example, one civilization that we know that did not work out like this is something called the Indis Valley civilization which is modern day Pakistan. And we'll discuss this later on but they were actually even though they had a city-state system they were actually peaceful, egalitarian and artistic. Okay? They didn't go to war with each other. They didn't create a hierarchy. They didn't create a bureaucracy. And we'll discuss later on why this is the case. But this is something that you need to understand. Even though there are patterns to human history, there are always exceptions to the rule. Okay? All right. So, um over time the empire breaks down. Okay. Why? Because you have a hierarchy in place. Okay? Hierarchy, a bureaucracy. the people are at the bottom. And if you are a person in empire, your life sucks. Okay? It really sucks because you're essentially a slave. Why? Well, first of all, the empire goes to war a lot in order to protect its advantages. Okay? So, they can at any time just take you to war and you get killed. Okay. Second is the problem of debt. It's very easy if you um are a peasant to fall in debt. You owe rent to a landlord, then you have to sell your children. Okay, so debt really sucks. Um and the last problem is immob immobility, which just means that you're just stuck where you are. Okay, so the people in the empire, their lives suck, but they're stuck where they are because of war, debt, and immobility. Okay. And as we discussed last class, uh the bureaucracy will develop a methodology in order to just justify why they are like this. Okay. But at the very top, it's it's actually even more problematic because what happens is at the top you'll eventually have a problem of elite over production. Okay, elite over production just means that there are only a few limited spots for the elite and the elite have too many children and therefore they fight. Okay, they break up into different factions and each faction competes against each other for the right to be the elite. And because of this conflict at the very top, you usually have three results. Okay, the first result is revolution where one elite tells the people to overthrow everyone else. Okay, so remember what's really important to understand is the people do not um create the revolution. >> The people themselves do not rebel. It's always one faction of the elite help um working with the people to overall the other factions. Okay, that's what a revolution is. Second possibility is civil war. Okay, where the factions um have different armies and they fight. And the third possibility is just they go to war with the empire. Okay, but uh this is a common pattern in history. Now, what's really interesting is that as the empire falls, the pastoral people come and take over the empire. Okay, the step people or the pastoralists. Pashu just means that they don't farm for a living. They raise sheep, goats, and cows for a living. Okay? They come and they take over the empire. Why is this the case? Because these people are the best fighters in the world. They have horses. They can they have they have they're archers. Okay? So, they're the best fighters in the world. So what often happens is one faction invites them to be mercenaries in the struggle and eventually they re recognize you know what we don't have to fight for the prince we can take over take over over ourselves. Another thing that happens is the faction that invites the mercenaries don't have enough money to pay them off. So the mercenaries are just like screw this we'll just take over the empire ourselves. Okay. Um and what's important to understand is that throughout all this the pastoralists are always in contact of the empire through three things okay through trade through uh pillaging. So the pastors come and steal from the people and through being mercenaries okay so this is a pattern throughout human history. So now the question we have to ask is why are the pastoralists so different from people of civilization and empire and the reason is geography. What I will show you is that people who are passionless grow up in a different environment than the people of civilization empire and therefore they they de a different economy as well as mythology as well as culture. Okay. All right. All right. Let's continue. But we're clear so far, right? Okay. So, um in the beginning, we had agriculture. Why do we have agriculture? Because as we discussed before, uh people came together for religious purposes. They built temples and now you have to maintain the temples. Therefore, you build farms around the temple and develop agriculture. Okay. But because of climate change and overpopulation, people always constantly forced to move to new places. So agriculture was first up in the Middle East and then it went over to Europe and it went over to um other places as well. Okay. So it spread around the world. So when they went to Europe, they could actually maintain their agricultural practices because the climate and the geography and the terrain of Europe was conducive to agriculture. And as a result, Europe maintained the cultural practices of the people of the Middle East. Okay? And so they had egalitarian, artistic [clears throat] and peaceful civilizations. Okay. So why they were peaceful is that first of all women were in control. Okay. Remember it's the most natural thing to have women be part of the political class. Okay. So women were in charge. So if there's any conflict the women would just discuss it among amongst themselves and come to a harmonious conclusion. Okay. they wouldn't have to fight. Second thing is there was no money because there was no property. Okay, the agriculture is something that you work on together and you share. You don't there's no such concept as private property. Okay, so in other words, no war, no conflict. So these are the three distinct characteristics of early human society. In an agricultural society, women are usually in command. There's no sense of private property. Everyone shares everything together and there's no conflict in no war. People just discuss things and trade in order to reach a harmonious conclusion. Okay. So, um what this changes is that the city grows and grows and then you have a large city and so you need a bureaucracy. Okay. But in Europe, what's really important to understand about Europe is that unlike China and Egypt and most of Britannia, it does not have a large river and therefore you cannot grow a big city in Europe. Okay? So that allows them to maintain a pretty good life. Okay? So when they go to Europe, they're able to maintain the same cultural practices, but then they go to the steps. Okay? And the problem with steps is you cannot grow food because it's all grass land. Okay? You cannot farm. So now you have to change your cultural practice. So what was happening is that these people in the steps they started to trade with people of agriculture. Okay. Also you have people in in the agriculture who moved to the steps and they brought with them cows and sheep and this changed everything because you as a person you can't eat grass but cows and sheep can. So now what you can do is you can base your entire economy around animals as opposed to agriculture. Okay. Well, there's certain problems with cows and sheep. Okay. The first problem is that they're expensive. So, now you have a concept of private property money. And this concept didn't really exist before. Okay? And so, if I see someone with a cow, I don't I don't have a cow. What do I do? I want to go steal it. Right? So this leads to conflict now war and conflict. And because you have private property and war and conflict, you can't have a system run by woman. You need a system run by men. This creates a patriarchy. Okay? So this is a very important principle in human history. These three things go together. Okay? Patriarchy, money and war. Okay, these three three things always go together. Patriarchy, money and war. Okay, so um this is changing the economy of the steps and it's d in and it's and it's becoming different from agricultural societies. Okay. And now so now they need innovations in in order to deal with a new economy. Okay. So let's go over some of their major innovations. The first major innovation that's very important is the idea of lactose tolerance. You may not know this, but most humans cannot drink milk naturally. >> Okay? So you need to develop the enzymes to drink milk naturally. And so they were able to do that because they were forced to rely on cows and sheep for their food. They had to learn how to drink milk. But when they learned how to drink milk, when they learned how to eat when when they started eating meat, guess what? They became stronger and taller. Okay? So for most of you in history, the people of the steps were the tallest people in the world. They were the strongest in the world. Okay? That's the first major innovation that changed their history. The second major innovation is horse riding. Why? because the steps are a huge area and it's flat so you can so you need to move around it a lot. Also remember cows and sheep eat grass. So when they eat this in this pasture and they finish all their grass they have to move somewhere else. Okay. So the only way to protect your cows and sheep from other people is to be mobile. And so they learn how to domesticate horses. Okay, which is a major invasion and it took a long time. And you can imagine how hard that is to do because if horses see you, what do they do? They run away. >> So how do you train a horse to not run away and let the horse ride you? Well, it takes a lot and lot of effort. But because they had to do it, they managed to do it. Okay? And so with the horse riding now, you can have another invention which is the wheel and the wagon. Wheel and wagon. Now you can put all your stuff in a wagon and move from camp to camp. Okay, you can cover the entirety of the steps. Okay, does that make sense? >> Yes. >> Okay, and because of these three major innovations, you now have a different culture. Okay, so let's go over what makes their culture distinctive from other places. Okay, the first is the idea of patriarchy. where um men are in control and the reason why they're control is because in the steps war is a constant thing. Okay. So the culture becomes very masculine, very aggressive. It rewards aggression. It rewards courage. Okay. Um the other thing is that when you have a patriarchy in place, you can have more children. Okay. When women are in charge, women tend to practice birth control because they want to make sure that every child is healthy and every every child lives to adulthood. Okay? They want to avoid the risk of dying in child birth. They want they want to avoid the risk of their of their child dying young. Okay? But with men are in charge, they basically get women to have as many kids as possible. Okay? Also remember in this world there's a lot of conflict. So you need as many uh boys to fight as possible. Okay? But then you have a problem then if you have a lot of children what is what what you have a problem of inheritance like when you die your cows go to who >> right now let's assume you have 100 cows you have like 10 boys if you give if you if you are fair and you give 10 cows to one boy well very quickly your family is going to be poor and because in the steps the weather is bad your cows are very likely to die Well then your entire family could be extinct in two or three generations. So they invented a new concept called primogenature. Primogenature. Primogenature just means that the eldest boy inherits everything that ensures that the family can stay can stay wealthy. Okay. All right. Now but now your problem is wait a minute. If the eldest boy inherits everything, what do the other boys do? Well, they have to go and steal other cows. Okay? And to do that, they form secret societies. Okay? Secret societies are just like basically just gangs. Okay? These gangs of young men who get together to do what? Well, they go steal cows and sheep. And what else do they do? They steal woman. Right. Because Right. Right? I mean like what's the most most valuable commodity in the steps? Well, cows and woman. So that's what you steal. Okay. So this creates a culture of war and conflict constantly. All right. And the third innovation is something called the patron client relationship. And this is actually how or patronage. And this is what allows for the construction of society in the steps. So remember in a civilization you have bureaucracy. You have centralization. But in the steps you can't have that because you can't have that many people. So you have a patron client relationship. And all that means is that uh it's like a mafia, right? I'm the big brother, you're the little brother. So maybe I have 100 cows and you need cows. So I lend you 10 cows. But now you're you are loyal to me. Okay? I'm the big brother, you're the little brother. And this creates the idea of tribes. Okay? Does that make sense? What's really important here is that in civilization, um, bureaucracy maintains control over people over debt. And so you become a slave, but in the steps there's no concept of slavery. Okay? You're still a free and independent person, but you just pay, you're just loyal to your big brother. So your big brother needs you to do something, you go do it for him. Okay? So there's still a level of freedom in the steps that you don't have in civilization. And that's why they're such good fighters. Okay? All right. So these three things are major um innovations. But now that you have these innovations, you need a new methodology to justify or explain these innovations. Okay. And so what they had was a they went from the mother goddess. Okay. So mother goddess again is the religion of agriculture people to the sky god. And the mother goddess wants you to be harmonious. Okay. To be kind and compassionate. What does the sky go want you to do? The sky god wants you to conquer and exploit. Okay? It wants you to destroy. It wants you to kill. It wants you to conquer, to steal. Okay? And um also in this religion, horses and cows are very important. But as we discussed last class here, grain and nature are very important. Okay. So you see how this works, right? Now what's important to understand is that because um this system does not allow for the creation of a bureaucracy, the steps always practice open cooperative competition. And it's a system that forces you to be aggressive. It forces you to be independent. Okay? And it forces you to work hard. And that's why people the steps are the greatest warriors in human history. And that's why when the steps people encounter the empire civilization, they usually are able to conquer the empire. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So the steps are like a training ground for fighters and over time the fighters just become more and more fierce and what's ironic is those fighters who are the most fierce can stay in the steps. Those fighters who are forced out the steps they go conquer the empire. Okay. All right. It's a constant pattern in human history. All right. Is that clear? All right. Any questions, guys, before I do the PPT? Great. Okay, guys. [clears throat] >> Yes. >> So, sorry. Can can you speak to the mic, please? So earlier you said that um uh these these people they inherit their uh to their oldest son right? So, so my question is uh like is it like necessary for or um so they must inherit their inheritance to the oldest son or is it like they have some kind of a system to uh determine what which son can have the best of their inheritance. >> Okay. Yeah. So their general principle is always the eldest son. Okay. That's to avoid conflict because if you open up to say okay well who's whoever is most brave whoever is most um noble whoever who is most wise that means that they'll just fight each other okay and this is what happened after the death of Genghask Khan right so the general rule is you always give it to the eldest son >> but what if the eldest son has been manipulated by his uh siblings >> it doesn't matter it does not matter okay all right so legacy of the steps all All right. So, as I discussed, what's happening is that Europe um at first was just hunter gatherer and they were spread out. They did paintings in caves. They had a pretty easy life. Okay? Not an easy life, but it was a free life. And over time, what would happen is that agriculture would develop in the Middle East and it would spread to Europe. Okay? Okay. And you can see the genetic change where the blue is hunter gatherer and the orange is farmers. Okay. But then what happened um in about 2500 B.CE is the steps people who we call the Yamna actually. So there's different names. They're protoindo-uropeans. The Yamnia you can refer to them as any. Okay. Steps, Yamnia, Portal Indo-Uropean, it doesn't really matter. But they go to Europe as well and they start mixing with the um farmers. What's really important for our purpose purpose to understand is this. When the farmers went to Europe, they went as families, husband, wife, children. And so they integrated into Europe pretty peacefully. Okay. But when the pastoralists, the Yamaya went to Europe, they went mostly as young men. Therefore, that they kill the local men in order to marry their wives. Okay? And so basically um from DNA research, we know that it was a genocide. Okay. The uh European farming men were eliminated by the pastoralists. Okay. And we have always remember that the pachlist, they were stronger. Okay. They were taller um and they're more aggressive. Okay. All right. Yeah. So, this is another map that shows the same thing. What you need to understand is this. This movement is global. Okay. So, the farmers went to Europe, but they also went to India and Iran. Okay? They basically went wherever they could go. Same thing with the Yamaya. Okay, so this this is the Yamaya people. They went to Europe, but they also, look at this, they also went to Iran and India. And we know because when we study the languages, uh, Persian, okay, Hindi and European languages, they're basically the same languages. So, we know there had to be one common mother language to them. Okay. So there's another map showing you the Yaya again. Um they went to Europe but they also went to in India. Okay. As well as Iran and by mixing with local uh customs and religion they created new religions that had tremendous impact on world civilization. So in um Iran they will give birth to Zorashianism which we'll discuss later on. Okay. And the these are the Avestas which is the Bible of of Zarastrianism and uh India they uh of course gave birth to Hinduism um and these are the vidas which is a bible of Hinduism we'll discuss this later on in the semester but I want you to be aware of this okay so again we know that this happened at first because of linguistic studies when we looked at different languages we discovered there are common words to them so look let's look at father okay when Latin is patar Greek, patus, Persian, Padar, Hindi, Pitha. Pretty similar. Okay. Similar mother, mother, matar, mitra, madar, mad. So we, so from different lingu linguistic studies, we know they had to be a common language to all of them. And that's why we hypothesize about the protoindo-uropeans. Um, this is even more stark example where the protoindo-uropean 2 is dual. Okay. And you can see how it spreads to other languages in the protoindo-uropean family. So that you go from uh dua to tua to two in English. Okay? So all these languages are interrelated. That's why if you speak one like English, it's pretty easy for you to learn the other languages as well. Whereas if you speak Chinese, it doesn't really help you when you go learn other languages. Okay. All right. Now linguist linguists have done studies of words that are distinct to protoindouropean and these are the words that they discovered. Okay. B cow, ox, ram, eel, dog, grain, cauldron, wrestling, wealth, households, families, clans. These words are unique to their culture. And therefore, we're able to group these words together and discover there are four characteristics. Okay, first of lots of words for wheel. They have words for uh dairy. They don't have farming terms and they have words for horse. Okay? That's why we're able to figure out that these are nomadic pasturalists. Therefore, they must be from the steps. Okay? And then through archaeology and DNA DNA studies, we're able to have a better understanding of who they are. Okay? And as I said, they have to be past. Okay? Because of the way they use words. Um, so let's about old Europe before the Yami come and conquer them. Okay, so this is Maria Gmbhutas who is an American Lutheranian anthropologist and she's the first to hypothesize that old Europe must have been conquered by these people because she did a lot of archa archaeology and discovered that their culture was primarily uh peaceful. It honored women and it exposed egotarinism. Okay, this is exactly what I said previously and the Yama people were completely different. They were a patriarchy, quite a part of property and which was very aggressive. Okay. Um she wrote many books um the language of the goddess and she like her work is amazing. Okay. So if you have a chance please do study her work and um so let's write let's read what she wrote. Okay. So this is a mother god of civilization. Something that we we thought we've discussed a lot in this class. The goddess in our manifestations was a symbol of the unity of all life in nature. Her power was in water and stone in tomb and cave in animals and birds, snakes and fish, hills, trees and flowers. Hence the holistic and mythopoic perception of all the sacredness and mystery of all there is on earth. Okay. So again this is a religion that practice balance and harmony because everything is sacred. Therefore, you cannot destroy life without first getting permission from the mother goddess. Okay. This culture took deep delight in the natural wonders of this world. Its people did not produce lethal weapons or build forts in inacceptable places as her successors did even when they were acquainted with metallurgy. Instead, they built magnificent tombs, shrines, and temples, comfortable house in moderatelysized villages, and created superb pottery and sculptures. This was a long-lasting period of remarkable creativity and stability and age free of strife. Their culture was a culture of art. Okay, so this is a very nice place. They don't fight. They're egalitarian. They practice art. Okay. And what's really important for us to understand is they had writing systems. They had m they had technology. They just chose not to use it for war because it was against their religion. Um so they they also had writing systems and they had symbols. Okay. And this is something that u Mares has done a lot of research in. Okay. I won't go into their writing system. Um so when the came they basically completely invert the culture. So for example the Europeans the old Europeans believed that the snake was symbol of life energy and regeneration. A most benevolent non evil creature. It was a Y who introduced the idea that the snake is a devil. Okay. All right. And that's where we get the B and that's where we get the concept in the Bible from. Um, black to them is a good color. White is a bad color. Why? Because black symblies life. White symbolizes death. Right? Black did not mean death or the underworld. It was a color of fertility. The color of damp caves and rich soil of the womb of the goddess where life begins. White on the other hand was the color of death of bones. Okay. And again when the come they will invert this. Um what's really important to understand is in this society women are in control. They have power and agency. And why? Well it turns out that um this book Sex and Dawn Sex at Dawn. Okay. It turns out that women are just um better at man managing social relationships than men are. Okay. So this is Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan. And um he tries to show us that for most of human history, women had sexual agency. And one piece of evidence is the fact that human men have larger penises. In fact, the largest penises of all primates. Okay? So gorillas are much bigger than we are. We have bigger penises. Why? Because um we have to compete in order to put our semen into women, right? Because women have multiple sexual partners. So that's one major advantage of sexual freedom for women. Men have bigger penises. Okay. All right. Um even when women had long-term intimate partners, husbands, they had se sexual partners. Okay. So the idea is that for most of human history, love and sex were not the same thing. Love is intimacy. Sex is just fun. Okay. Um in some societies, women would have many husbands, usually brothers. Okay? That's a way to maintain peace and harmony in your society. Okay. If a woman is allowed to marry many brothers together. Okay. [snorts] All right. So, um the book looks at the mill million people where they practice um sexual freedom for women and the explanation is that semen was essential to human growth and development. Okay. So, so if a bride got married, then all the men would come and impregnate her because the idea is that semen is sacred and they want to give her as much life as possible. Okay. All right. Now, you may be disgusted by this, okay? But I think there's a very good counter-argument. Okay. So, the argument is that I is that it's not honorable for a woman to love anyone except her husband. and that this evil being among them, he himself was not sure that his son who was there present was his son. Okay, so the system sucks because if you're a guy, how do you know that that person is your son? And the natives respond by saying you French people, okay, so he's talking about the French missionary, you French people love only your own children, but we all love all the children of our tribe. Okay. So that's what what humans can do. We can love each other. There's no limit to our love. So in the system that we have today, a patriarchy, we only love our own children. But in their system, the agent system, everyone loved each other's children. Okay? Everyone loved all children. And quite honestly, in this system, it's better to be a a child, right? And in this system, you would never ever develop depression. Okay? All right. Again, women are just better politicians than men because women are more willing to cooperate. Women have more emotional intelligence and women can use sex and gossip as mechanism of control. Okay? So, this is all pretty common sense, right? All right. But then question then is if this world is so wonderful, why did it collapse? Well, there are three major issues with agriculture societies. Okay. The first major issue is that it's static. It does not innovate. Second major issue is climate change. If the weather changes on you, you're screwed. The third problem is disease, right? Because you're living close to animals. You're living close together. So if a disease hits you, you're all screwed. Okay? And that's very different from the p from the seps people who live far apart from each other. Okay? All right. So we know that in Europe the farmer communities uh the population went collapsed. Okay. So so this is the level of carbon dioxide in the air. We can measure the level of carbon dioxide in the year. We know that in about the year 3000 BCE the population collapsed. Okay. All right. It collapsed everywhere in Europe. Why this happened? The plague guys. Okay. That's a problem with being a farmer. You are always susceptible to the plague. So we know that maybe you know um 4,000 5,000 years ago a plague broke out. Okay. The black death basically by rats. Okay. And remember in this world we trade with each other. So the black death was able to go everywhere and wipe out farming communities. Okay, even spread as far as China. Okay, but but the thing though is the the steps people are not as impacted because they live far apart from each other. So if one got the disease, you're not going to spread it to your entire family or sorry your entire community whereas a farmer community they will. Okay, so there's this huge drop in the population because of black death in Europe. Okay, that's number one. Number two is climate change. So we know that um now and then there's this huge climate change and that destroys our culture forcing people to migrate and this is what we suspect happened in old Europe as well. Okay. And so what's happening now is that because your society is static because of disease because of climate change the population in Europe went all the way down leaving the MI opportunity to come invade. Okay. And they did come invade. So as you can see uh when the agricultural people came they came as families okay so the so the blue is the man the red is the woman okay so uh one to one they go into Europe but when the yama come they come as young men okay so it's mainly blue okay and of course what do young men do they come and they >> steal your woman okay that's what young men guy do do guys all right and over time what they will do is slowly establish new cultures because what's happening is that their culture is blending with other cultures as well and why this is happening is the geography is different right so in the steps they have a certain culture but when they move to our culture they now have to combine their culture with the local ones and this happens in um everywhere producing different cultures and producing different languages as well okay so all of Europe was radically transformed be because of this migration and again this migration it was basically a genocide. So you look at Britain, okay, the people who built Stonehenge are gone. This is a farming agricultural community worship the monoliths, okay? And all this wonderful scientific technology that's now lost to us because what would happen is the Mi would come and kill everyone. Okay? So this the blue is the farmer people, the red is Na total genocide. Okay guys, men and women were all killed. Why? Because maybe they chose the men and women chose to fight together. Okay? Um in Spain it's a different story because um what happened is that all the men will be replaced. Okay. So the white chromosome is the male chromosome. So before the year 2000 BCE uh you had a lot of blue, right? But as you can see if you move further it's all gone. They killed all the men in Spain. Okay. When they went to India it's a different story because India Indians in that time were more peaceful. So they came to a settlement where the new conquerors would be at the top society and the people would be and the locals would be at the bottom. Okay. So there wasn't that much of a genocide but we can we had a cast system created because of that. Okay. And we know because if you look at the upper cast they all spoke Indo-Uropean. If you look at the lower cast people they spoke the local language Dravenian. >> Okay. Does that make sense? So depending on the circumstance uh the result is different. All right. Okay. This is a wonderful book called The Horse, the Will and Language written by David Anthony who's a Harvard anthropologist and he explains to us the Naya culture and why they were so dominant. Okay. So, one thing um that is unique to the Amnia is their mythology. It's a mythology of violence, of struggle, of dominance, of conquest. Okay? And how the mythology works is in the beginning there were two brothers, twins, one named man and the other named twin. They go around by the world and they're accompanied by a great cow. Eventually man and twin decided to create the world we now inhabit. Due to this man had to sacrifice twin. Okay, he had to kill his own brother, the person he loved in order to create the world. And the gods thanked him for that. The gods blessed him for that. Okay, so this is a world that is pretty violent. Okay. Um, [snorts] after world was made, the sky gods gave cattle to third men. But the cattle were stolen by a three-headed six-eyed serpent. Okay. The snake. Third men entreat intreated the storm. Got to help get the cattle back together. They went to the cattle um of the monsters killed it and freed the cattle. Okay. So, this is a mythology of struggle. Okay. And what's really interesting is that this mythology becomes the the mythology of all new uh protoindo European civilizations including the Romans and the Mongolians. Okay. So this is Genghask Khan. His mythology is what he kills his best friend to become the leader of the Mongol people. And what's the Roman mythology? Ramlas kills his twin brother to found Rome. Okay. All right. So that shows you that the Mongols and the Romans, they come from the same culture. Okay? A culture based on violence and exploitation. All right. So now Anthony talks about the economy. Domesticated cattle and sheep started a revolutionary change in how humans exploited the pontiac caspian step environment. Because cattle and sheep were cultured like humans, they were part of everyday work and worry in a way never approached by wild animals. Humans identify with their cattle and sheep, wrote poetry about them, and use them as currency in marriage gifts, debt payments, and the calculation of social status. Okay? Now, we have the beginning of money and property, right? And they were grass processors. They converted plains of grass, useless, and even hostile to humans into wool, fed clothing, tents, milk, yogurt, cheese, meat, marrow, and bone. The foundation of both life and wealth. Cattle and sheep herds can grow rapidly with a little luck. Vulnerable to bad weather and theft. They can also decline rapidly. Hurting was a volatile boom bust economy and required a flexible opportunistic social organization. So they live in a world of tremendous volatility because the entire world was a cattle. If the cattle died because of a bad storm or because of bad luck, they were completely screwed. Okay. Okay. So they they were very aggressive people and they um were opportunistic as well. That's different from farmers who can just afford to sit back and relax because nature will grow the food for them. Okay. The connection between animals, brothers and power was a foundation on which new forms of male-centered ritual and politics developed among Indo-Uropean speaking societies. This is why the cow and brothers occupied such a central place in Indo-Uropean myths relating to how the world began. Okay. So this is a deeply patriarchal society. All right. All right. Participation in long-d distanceance trade give exchange and a new set of cults requiring public sacrifices and feasting became the foundation for a new kind of social power. Stock breeding is by nature a volatile economy. Herders who lose animals always borrow from those who still have them. The social obligations associated with these loans are institutionalized among the world's pastoralists as a basis for a fluid system of status distinctions. Those who loan animals acquired power over those who borrow them and those who sponsored fees obligate their guests. Early protoindouropean include a vocabulary about verbal contracts bound by oath used in later religious rituals to speify the obligations between the weak and the strong. Okay. All right. So the idea here is there's no slavery in the system. Okay. But there is obligation. There is loyalty. If I take you out for a meal, guess what? Now you owe me a meal. If I take you out for a meal, you now I'm now your big brother. Okay? And that's what keeps the society cohesive. And this is important because if no one's a slave and everyone's free, then everyone is a great warrior because you're fighting for yourself. Okay? You're not fighting because someone asked you to. That's why in wars between empires and these people, these people usually win. Okay? Because they're much more motivated. All right? Wealth, military power, and a more productive hurting system probably brought prestige and power to the identities associated with protoindouropean dialects. After 33 BC, the gas host institution extended the protections of old bound obligations to new social groups. An Indo-Uropean speaking patron could accept and integrate outsiders as clients without shaming them or assigning them permanently to submissive roles as long as they conducted the sacrifices properly. Praise posture of public feast encouraged patrons to be generous and validated the language of the songs as a vehicle for communication with the gods who regulated everything. Okay. So another way of saying this is that even though there are wealthy people and poor people, they are still treated with respect. Okay. Okay, it's a very egalitarian society. Okay, and what keeps the system in place is the belief in the gods. Okay, the belief that if I do you a favor, then you owe me the favor. We have a contract now. The gods oversee the contracts. And what's really important is that this is an open-ended system. So, it's easy for me to bring in more people into this system. Okay. Okay. Okay. And that's how and that's why again they were such an innovative, cohesive and open society. Okay. The last thing we'll talk about are these um young men who enter secret societies. Okay. And enter secret societies and become um you know like this mafia gangs. Okay. The institution of the Morabon, the warrior brotherhood of young men bound by oath to one another and to ancestors during a ritually mandated raid has been reconstructed as a central part of protoindouropean initiation rituals. Okay. It's a very important part of society because these young men otherwise have no place to go. Okay. And if you if you want to know who they are, they're basically the Vikings. Okay. So the Vikings are the direct um descendants of these people. Okay. All right. All right. So, let's talk about the the Mongols. The Mongols conquered the world, most of the world. And they and the question is how do they do it? Okay. And I've already told the answer. Okay? Because the steps people have always been good at conquering empires. Um these are the Mongols. Uh the secret weapon of course is a horse archer. This is like the ultimate weapon for most of human history. You could you could [laughter] not defend against a horse archer. They were fast. they were strong um and these were the best warriors in the world. So um this has been considered a pattern in human history. First the Yamaya came and conquered Europe, India and Iran. But then you have the cythians. Okay, same place, same people, same culture. Um guys, this is not a race of people. This is a culture of people. Okay, because remember at this time in human history, genetic exchange is very common. Okay, the cyians were dominant. Then you have the medians who would later on give rise to the Persian Empire. Okay, sorry. Oops. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Then you had So, can can you see this? >> Okay. So, now what's going to happen is is this. You're gonna have you're gonna so the steps people are all around the grassland. Now China emerges as an empire and this is the Han Empire and this is really the last Chinese dynasty. Why? Because they are ethnically Chinese and they're proud of who they are. So what they're going to do is they're going to try to destroy the Sepsible once and for all. Okay? So they move a huge army into the steps to try to limit the threat. And what what happens now is it forces a cascade effect where these people are now forced to go westwards which which forces them with people over here. Okay. And so you have this huge migration all the way to the Roman Empire. Okay. Okay. So this is what the map shows us. Okay. China forces the Huns the Shunu westwards which then forces these other groups to go elsewhere. Okay. So again the strongest people stay in the steps. The weakest people go and conquer empires. Okay this is a process of constant innovation. Um the the Han Empire. Okay Han. Then you have the Turks emerge. Um uh this is the Mongol Empire and as you can see they conquered basically most of the world. Okay. Um and because they conquer most of the world and the world is is unified then you have the black death. Okay, which wipes out most of Europe as well. About a third of Europe is wiped out in the black death. Okay. And the last great conqueror is Timberlane. Okay. Timber the lane. The great last great conqueror of the from the steps um and he conquers most of the world. Okay. So this is really important principle. Remember the steps people are the most innovative, the most open, the most aggressive, the most courageous and that's why they're the greatest conquerors in history. Okay. But eventually what happens is we develop gunpowder. Okay? And now the steps will be conquered by civilization. But this was the turning point in history, the event of gunpowder. And so now what's going to happen is that civilization will now attack the steps people and reduce the step people culture. Okay. And that is it. Right. Okay. Any questions guys? Um so so I was wondering like uh so the bombarians the steps are they're capable of developing uh re religions like because they are all conquering all around the world so it's difficult for them to like build up temples right okay so religions don't require temples religion is just collective belief so as I say as I keep on saying in this class all humans have a religion Okay, a religion is just a worldview, understanding of how the world works. That answers three questions. Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Okay, even today, even though we're atheists, we're still religious. Okay, but we worship money, materialism, science. So these people the steps they worship the horse, the sky god, the cow, they worship war, they worship um courage and bravery. Okay. So every culture, every person has a religion of some sorts because because you because it's impossible for you to understand the world and operate in the world without a religion. Okay? Especially for groups. Okay, any more questions? Okay, great guys. So we'll so we'll continue our discussion of human history next class. Okay.

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Okay, so let's start class. Today we are doing the Bronet collapse. So let's review where we are in history. Okay, so remember the four earlier civilizations are Egypt, Mesop Mesopotamia, uh Inis Valley and of course China. And as we discussed, the reason why the four they are the first four major civilizations is that they have major rivers that allow them to develop agriculture as well as trade overseas. And as we discussed, what will happen is that they will have a major city and this major city will have colonies along the major river. Okay? So in Egypt it's the Nile. In Mesopotamia it is the uh Euphrates and the Tigris and the first city is Eur China it's the yellow river right um so in this valley is in this valley uh is the Indis river and and now these different city states will go to war in order to control trade routes and this leads to a time of major innovation in human history at the same time because of these wars wars. They need better and better equipment and so eventually they will develop bronze. Okay, bronze. Bronze, as you know, is an alloy of tin and copper. So, you need both in order to create bronze, which is the strongest metal. It's ideal for shields, for armor, and for swords. And whoever has more bronze weaponry will win any war. The problem though is that tin it's actually hard to mine and to discover and to ask of it into to manufacture. In fact, tin deposits are scattered all around the world. Okay, so this is tin over here, over here, over here, and over here, over here. Okay, they're everywhere basically, but it's not concentrated. Therefore, you must now build more trade routes in order to access tin. Okay? So, what's going to happen now is that more trade routes will develop in order to access tin and [snorts] the major points the major trade routes will will become cities themselves. Okay. All right. [snorts] And now this world is globalized in order to facilitate warfare. [snorts] Now what's interesting is the Indis Valley itself it's not like Egypt, Mesopotamia and China. It is not engaged in warfare. We've done archaeology in the Indis Valley in modern day Pakistan. We we have not discovered weaponry. Okay, we've we've discovered bronze but we have not discovered weaponry. In fact, we believe that in this valley, it is a peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic civilization. But it's still brought into this global system. Why? Because bronze changes from weaponry into status. Okay? Um meaning people use it for pottery, for jewelry. And then eventually what happens is that bronze itself becomes capital. All right? Now what we also know is that this world is heavily globalized. There's a lot of trading and this and this world is complete meaning it um touches every corner of the world. But starting in about the year 1200 this system collapses. In fact the collapse is sudden and devastating. So remember in if you know Chinese history you will know that this is the Shan dynasty right? Guess what guys about the year 1200 it collapses. All right and we know this because Egypt is under attack during this time by by the sea peoples. [snorts] And what we believe is that the sea peoples are actually refugees who are fleeing the destruction of Europe. What we believe is that there's a perfect storm engulfing this world at this time. Okay. So this perfect storm includes climate change. Climate change leads to drought which leads to famine which leads to a migration crisis. What's going to happen is that the sea peoples are going to come in um from the north and they are going to wipe out existing civilizations including Masonian Greece and the Hitite Empire. Okay, the Highite Empire which is in um Anatolia which is in modern day Turkey. Why Mason Greece and the high tide empire are important is we believe they are the two major antagonists in the Trojan War. You may have heard of the Trojan War. Well, guess where? Guess what? Troy is here. Okay, so Troy is in the center of global trade and that's why people fight over the location of the city. So the Messian Greece is being destroyed. The high tide empire is being destroyed and Egypt is being under attack. Egypt will survive the invasions of the sea peoples but after the um invasions Egypt will be exhausted and will it will lose its um global power status. Okay. Um in this valley will be itself overwhelmed from because of refugees fleeing in from the steps. Okay. Mesopotamia and it's very interesting about Mesopotamia but it's actually the most resilient of all the four major civilizations and the reason why is Mesopotamia throughout its history is constantly at war. Okay. So Egypt is protected by natural geography by the desert the Sarah desert and then by um the Red Sea. Okay. So Egypt has natural boundaries. Uh China also has natural boundaries but Mopinia does not. It's a flat land. So, it's very easy for the mountain people to come invade. Um, and it's very easy for outsiders to come and build new empires. In fact, um, throughout Mesopotamian history, there have been three major empires. The Aadian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, and the Assyrian Empire, and it goes back and forth. And these empires are not um they don't really last that long. Maybe maybe a couple hundred years at most because this area is so competitive. But because it's so competitive, it's actually much more resilient than the other areas. Okay. All right. So again, the big question for us is why would this world collapse like this all of a sudden? And it's really relevant for us to understand because many scholars have compared the bronze age world to our world because our world is also one that is heavily globalized um and it seems like it's on the verge of collapse. So why is it that this sort of like globalized world in which many countries are getting very wealthy, why do they collapse all of a sudden? Okay. And the argument I will make to you today is it has to do with the nature of capital. Okay. So what I will show you is that this is a protoc capitalistic system. And what we know about protocism is that it allows for rapid growth but then it also allows for rapid collapse. Okay. So let's go over the idea of capital. What is capital? [snorts] Okay. So capital has three major characteristics. Okay. The first is that it is universal. Universal just means that everyone wants it. Everyone in the world believes it has value. Okay, that's number one. Number two is that it is a store of value. And what this what this means is that you're able to take wealth and store it inside this commodity. Okay. And the third thing about capital that's very important is it's mobility. Okay. Mobility meaning I can take this thing and then transport to somewhere else at little or no cost. If it has these three characteristics then it is capital. Okay. And throughout human history there have been different types of capital. Um so let's let's look over at some examples. So one example is grain, right? Just food. Um grain is sort of universal because everyone wants to eat but not everyone thinks it's valuable. Okay. Okay. And it's hard to store value in grain because it could uh decompose easily, right? And it's actually hard to transport grain because it's cheap, but it's expensive to transport. Okay? And that's why grain never became capital. Now, let's look at cattle. Cattle, like cows and sheep, um it's a better form of capital because you can store more value. um and it could be universal but it's actually hard to transport and that's why cattle never became capital. Okay. Now if you keep on moving on you get into [clears throat] slaves right human beings and so you can have woman slaves, sex slaves, you can also have man labor. Okay. And this is a better form of capital because it's sort of universal. Okay. um you can store value in it but the value is uncertain or unstable um and it's and it's mobile. Okay. So slaves became an economy but this is a very base um basic economy. Then you develop bronze. Okay. And bronze now is extremely valuable. Okay. Everyone wants it. So it's universal. you can store a lot of value in it because it's it's hard to make and now you can move it around. Okay, so in other words, branch became the first real universal currency in the world and this allowed for rapid globalization in the world. So think of the the equivalent of branch today is of course the US dollar, right? The US dollar is universal. Everyone wants it. Um it's a store of value and it's mobile as well. And so it's a US dollar which allows for the rapid growth of capitalism around the world. Okay. Now let's discuss why how capital works. All right. So what we know is that we humans are actually uh composed of two natures. We are composed of an altruistic nature and we are composed of a utilitarian nature. Okay. [snorts] Ultruistic just means that you care about human relationships. You want to be nice to people because you want to you want to be their friends. They're part of your family. Okay? Unitarian just means that you don't care about others. You just care about the goal, the profit, money, power. Okay? And we're composed of both sides. So think about when you go to a restaurant, right? If the meal is good, you pay a lot of money for it and you give the waitress a tip. When you go home to dinner and your mother is happy to see you, your mother cooks you a really nice meal and then you say thank you, right? You don't want to do the opposite, right? Where you go to a restaurant and you're like, "Thank you." And then you leave and you don't want to go to your mother's houses and like say to your mother, "Hey, this meal was fantastic. Here's $1,000 for you." Okay? It would go up. Okay? We have two different natures and we keep them separate. What capital does that's very interesting is that it moves us from the altruistic state into the utitarian state. And at first that's good. Why? Because when you're altruistic you don't really want to do anything, okay? Because you don't you don't want to offend other people. So there are lots of um villages in the world and they're static. Why? Because for them what matters is not change. What matters is harmony. In this religious it kind of sucks to be an outsider. It kind of sucks to stand out. In fact, there are some traditions in which if you are outspoken, if you are thoughtful, if you like to explore, if you're curious, they will kill you and make you a sacrifice to the gods because they see you as a threat to their social system. Okay? So, an altruistic system, it is um it doesn't like change. So if you don't do anything to it, it just stays the way it is. So when you bring capital, people now are more motivated to work hard. People are more motivated to innovate and to explore. So at first this is good. Okay. Now you're expanding the system. But and then you reach a point of its um maximum growth. But then what happens is the scale sorry the um the scale tips over. Okay. And people become too utarian. And when you become too utitarian, you cheat, you are um you don't care about others and this causes a lot of problems. Okay? You start to exploit other people and so when you become too utilitarian, the system collapses, right? Does that make sense? Capital comes in the system and it makes it grow really fast. Once it hits a certain point then um it has to collapse. Okay. So let's use another example. Let's just say that you are a leader of a group of people and it could be a village. You could be anywhere. Okay. And um if there's no money involved, what do you care about? You care about status. You care about your reputation. You care about how other people see and perceive you, right? So you care about the feelings of others. Once capital enters the equation, then then the way that the leader sees you is different. The leader sees you as a commodity to be exploited. Okay? The leader is not like how much money can I make money off you. Not only that, but the leader, okay, the leader will do what? the leader will align with other leaders and they will become a cartel, okay, or an elite and they will together exploit people, okay? But not only that, but they will expand and look for new areas to conquer. Okay? Because all they care about now is money. How to expand the capital. But once you the capital expends too far then what happens is only a few people have all the capital and the people down below they're enslaved they're exploited and they want to destroy the system they become indifferent. If you force them they will revolt against you. So the system must collapse. Okay. So the argument I'm trying to make to you is this is just the way capital works and there's nothing you can do about it. Okay, that's why the bronze age grew, but that's also why the bronze age collapsed. And that's why our world grew, but this is also why our world will collapse as well. Okay, that's argument I'm making you to you today. Any questions before we go to the PPT? Is this clear to you guys? All right, let's go to the PPT. [clears throat] All right, so um this is a map that shows you the world of the Bronze Age. And as we discussed um these are the four major civilizations right China in this valley uh Mesopotamia and Egypt. Okay. And they now because they're at war they have an insatiable need for bronze and where and bronze needs tin. Where's tin located? Tin is located where the stars are. Okay. And you can see they're scattered over the place. So, what they're going to do now is they're going to build build trade routes into these tin places that that allow them to extract the tin to build to create bronze armor. Okay? But when they do so, they also create new civilizations and new cities until you get a completely globalized world. Um, so this is this is China and as you can see, um, they're always at war and so they need weapons. Okay. Um, this is pottery, bronze pottery from China during the Shang dynasty, during the Bronze Age. All right. So, how do we know that it's a completely globalized world? Because over the past 20 years, we've discovered shipwrecks. Okay? So, we've discovered ships that um were transporting goods during the Bronze Age. And so when you dig up these ships and you analyze where the products are from, you're able to rebuild the trade networks. Okay? And that's why we know about the bronze age. Okay? So what's going to happen is this. The green is the copper sources. Okay? And as you can see, there's a lot of copper sources. The problem is the tin sources are spread out. So in order to create bronze, you need to constantly expand your trade networks outside. Okay? And as you can see, what's happening is that the expansion keeps on going until it encompass the entire world. So the dark brown is the earliest trade routes and then the pink um are the later trade routes. But as you can see, it's always expanding outwards in order to facilitate more and more trade. And what's really important for us to understand is the entire world is encompassed. Okay, so this is Britain, this is Ireland, this is Scandinavia. Okay, this is important because if you study history um it's the the British Isles, Scandinavia are aren't often discussed during um in the Bronze Age, but recent research has has shown us that it's all interconnected. Okay. Okay. So, as I mentioned, these are trade networks. Okay. And what and these um um gray spots are areas that are major nodes in the trade network. They come about because of trade. The red are the major consumption areas. Okay. So the gray are areas that are being created in order to bit better facilitate trade. Um, and eventually you reach a point when it's completely globalized, when every source of copper and tin has been discovered and there's a massive trade network built around each area. Okay. All right. But again, as we know, even though this area is extremely globalized, extremely wealthy, only in about 50 years it completely collapses. Okay. Right? And we know because of the Egyptian records, okay? The Egyptians write about the coming of the sea peoples. And so if you just watch the Eros, okay, this the movement of the sea peoples. These are refugees fleeing famine. And what do they do? Well, they team up with pirates. Okay, and the pirates and the refugees together overwhelm existing civilizations including including the Masonans, okay, present day Greece, including the Hitat Empire, present day uh Turkey. Um and they keep on attacking. Okay, even from the south, people are attacking the major cities. This is a this is a world in complete collapse. Okay. Um this is another map showing the invasions. Okay. These again are the sea people. These are just economic migrants. These are refugees. similar to what's happening today where if you're following the news in Europe, you've got all these Middle Eastern uh refugees coming into Europe overwhelming their economic systems. So this is a trend that we can expect to continue for a very long time. Okay. All right. The sea peoples are just a mix of different people. We've tried to identify where they come come from, who they are. We really don't know. Okay. So the assumption is they come from everywhere and they are being led by pirates who are expert at raiding other nations. Okay. And this this is a painting from Egypt. And again we know because the Egyptians Egyptians left records of the invasions of sea people. There were at least three major invasions of sea people. We're talking like hundred thousands of people attacking Egypt at the same time. And Egypt had to expand tremendous resources to repel these invasions. But it ultimately left Egypt bankrupt. Okay. Um this is Eric Klein. He's anthropologist at the University of Washington. He wrote a book called 17 1177. Okay. And he lists um the reasons why the Bronze Age collapse happened. And he he says it was a perfect storm of crisis including climate change which led to drought which led to famine. There were also earthquakes. We're able to um do analysis and discover that there were major earthquakes during this time. uh um there were revolutions, there were civil wars, there was a migration crisis. Okay, so it's a perfect storm of crisis. But what I want to show show you today is it all has to do with the nature of capital. Okay, this is a protocolistic system. All right. So my argument to you to today is yes, the branches collapsed because of a perfect storm of crisis. That's what we know. But I want to extend this and say it has to do with the fact that it was a protocolistic system. And so capital drives you to prosperity but then it can all but it will also drive you to crisis. Okay, that's the argument I will make you to you today. All right. [snorts] And we've seen this before. So this is the world right before World War I. As you can see, it was heavily heavily globalized. Okay? And people thought that because of trade, because of prosperity, we can't go to war because why would we? And then you know a couple years later World War I where tens of millions of people died for no reason. Okay, tens of millions of people died for no reason. It was it was just a slaughter. And what I'm what I want to argue to you is that this is a very common thing. And if you look at the broad collapse in World War I, we are in a very similar situation where the world is heavily globalized. It's heavily interconnected and but because of the nature of capital we'll probably fall off the edge at some point. Okay. And and people would argue that we're already reaching this point. [snorts] Okay. So again um during the Bronze Age okay the the high bronze age the late bronze age 1400 to 1200 B.CE you can see this entire world is interconnected. And what you will also see is at the center of this world is really the Mediterranean and the J and A GNC. Okay. And which city is the most important strategically in this world? It's called this city Troy, right? Troy, which is why we have the Trojan War. We will discuss actually the Trojan War um next class. Okay, but I I point this out to you. Okay, so why is this why is this happening? Well, think about how in a protocolistic system that depends on tin and copper, how do you make money? Okay, well, there are different ways. The first way you can make money is mining. Guess what? It sucks because it's hard work and you don't make that much money out of it. Okay, it's just labor. Another way is process it into ingots. Ingots are just ways to transport the tin and the copper. Okay, you can also manufacture jewelry, pottery, and weapons. Okay, that makes more money. Transporting, it's hard work, but you make more money. Okay, another way is just piracy. Just steal the stuff. But the best way you can make money actually is by controlling trade routes. Okay, that's what Troy is. Troy Troy is a control of a trade route. And so that's how you make real money during globalization. Okay, that's why even today the Middle East is so important because the Middle East is a center of all global trade. So whoever controls the Middle East controls global trade. Okay. So remember this idea we have empires because empires really are trade routes. Empires are just controlled of trade routes. Empires back then is very different from empires today. Empires today would be like nation states which controls borders uh and have their own language. Back then empires were just a collection of different trading points. Okay. That were aligned with each other. Um, and the children war was just a trade war. That's all it was. We we'll discuss this next class. Okay. Okay. So, um, you you can see why Troy is so important because if you're in Anatolia, it's it's mainly mountains. It's good because you can mine for precious metals and it's easy to defend, but it's hard to access the sea. That's why Troy is so important. Okay. >> [snorts] >> All right. So again, we know about globalization during the branches because of shipwrecks. Okay. So this is a very famous shipwreck that we discovered off the coast of Turkey called uh Elo Bun. Okay. And inside it you can see all this precious pottery and we can actually date the location of where the pottery came from. Okay, so these are major sources of tin and what and what's really important this map tells you is that they're actually in mountains. Okay, so they're hard to reach. That means you have to spend a lot of effort to create trade routes based on tin. [snorts] Okay, these are ingots. Okay, this is how you transport tin and copper. You you you transform it into ingots. Um, and what's going to happen is that because the tin is located in isolated areas and it's high mountains, they have to use every form of transportation. And so in Europe, they mainly use the river system. And that's why all of Europe is brought into this trading network. This is Scandinavia. And as you can see, there's a lot of trade focused on Scandinavia as well. Okay? Okay. And this is something that we've we've not known before. We just assume that Scand didn't actually actually exist back then. It did exist. Okay. Um and it was it's a very important part of the trade network. [snorts] Okay. So, let's talk about the Indis Valley civilization. Um the Indis Valley civilization for the longest time we know was peaceful, egotarian, and religious. And we know because we're able to dig up their cities. And what we discovered is that it's very much similar to Kak Hoyak where the housings are is very similar where irrigation where hygiene it's all very advanced and we have no evidence of warfare because we can't find any weaponry. Okay. So um why is in this valley so peaceful as compared to Egypt, Mesopotamia and China? I think it was because they were able to trade with Mesopotamia, China, and Egypt and discovered we don't want this system. We don't want a system where everyone's killing each other. Okay, that's my guess. But but I I don't know. No one knows. Okay, this is um one of the In Valley's major cities that we've dug up. This is another. As you can see, it's pretty advanced. The houses are pretty equal. It's very similar to Katy Hoyek. Okay, a much bigger version of Kat Hoyek, which which we discussed previously. This is an artist re rendition of what Inis Valley City would look like during that time. Okay. What's amazing is that it's very advanced. It's very hygienic. It's very peaceful. It's very egalitarian and religion was a major part of their lives during this time. Okay. Um so the indic civilization will also give rise to something called the Bmac culture. Okay. And this is in actually North Afghanistan. Um and uh how this developed was because of trade, right? Because as I discussed previously, tin is found in the mountains. And so you need you need to create a community around the the mountain. Um so it's a mining town, but it's also for manufacturing. It's also for transportation. It's also for trade. So this is a pretty um sophisticated, pretty complex area. But o but over time what will happen is that um the mima culture will bring people from the steps. Okay, these are the protoindouropeans we discussed previously and then because of climate change because of the collapse of branches they will come and they will occupy both modern day Iran as well as India giving rise to two religions the zorastan religion as well as the Hindu religion we'll discuss this um at a later date okay this is pottery from that uh in this valley civilization okay uh let's move on to the Mian civilization. Okay, the Mian civilization is really important because it gives us Greek civilization. Okay, which is considered the birthplace of all western civilization. We'll discuss the Greeks next class and specifically but I will I will introduce the Manians now. Okay, Masonia is in the center. Um we believe that the Msian culture it is a warrior aristocracy. So the people in charge are warriors as opposed to a priest aristocracy. Okay. So remember in Sumer it was the priests that were in control. Now it's a warriors who are in control. And we also know that the Msian people are descendants of the protoindo-uropeans. Okay. So the protoinduropeans indoor Europeans swept in into Europe. Uh and then they went all the way down to Greece. Okay. Um, and as you can see, Masania is really important because it's a center of all trade. At this time in history, the easiest way to get around the Mediterranean is by sea. Okay. Land, it's very costly. Um, it's very slow and there's lots of bandits. So, sea is the best way. So, in this system, um, the best way to make money is actually piracy. So, as you can see, there are lots of islands scattered around Greece. And so the Greeks in the beginning were mainly pirates. Okay, so the people who invaded uh Troy during the during the Trojan war were pirates. Okay, the Mians were being famous for being pirates. Okay, so as you can this this is a much um clearer map. Uh Masonian civilization, they had pottery, they had olive oil, they had certain grade goods for trade. uh but mainly it was really about uh transportation, logistics, piracy and controlling trade routes. Okay, that's why Msania was so important at this time. Uh [snorts] this is Troy by the way. Okay, as you can see uh during the Trojan War, what will happen is you have different people of Mia go attack Troy because it's such a strategic location, right? They able to control Troy, they control the entire ANC. Okay. Okay. So this is an artist tradition of what um the um Minian civilization looked like. It is what we call a palace economy meaning all the center of the economy was a palace. What would happen is that all the farmers had to give the palace their food and the palace would then take this food and redistribute it to the um um artisans. Okay. people who made pottery, people who made um clothing for for and textiles for trade purposes. Okay, so it was a control and control and command economy center of the palace. Okay, this is what the palace looks like. This is how what the economy looks like. Okay, so all the food would go to the palace and the palace would redistribute the food and the food palace would then take the food to give to the artisans to make textiles for trade. Okay. And this is what the economy it was a very simple economy but was very effective. It was extremely wealthy place. This is a gold mass. Okay. Gold is very rare as you know and they turn it into a king. Some have speculate this is the mass of Agamanon who is a major character in the Iliad. We'll discuss Iliad next class. We actually don't know who this is. Okay. Um this is a sword with gold with a gold hilt. So it just shows you how extremely wealthy they are. Right. Even the warriors had gold. [snorts] Um, this is something called the lion's gate. So, the entrance into Masonia. This is a very rough time. Lots of wars, lots of piracy. So, there's lots of walls. Okay. Um, the other thing about the Min civilization is their tombs are very, very elaborate. Okay. This is the entrance into one of their tombs. Over time, we see the tombs get become more and more elaborate. So, we know that over time they they were became a much more wealthy civilization. Okay. This is what the tombs look like. They're huge places. Okay. This is what what the outside looks like. Where where do the mian learn this? Well, they learn this from Egypt, right? So, at this time in history, the Minanians and the Egyptians were in close contact with each other. The Egyptians have a habit of uh burying themselves with all their treasure. Okay, so this is their coffin. This is a mustaba which is their tomb. Okay, as you can see it's huge. It's it's almost as big as a house. So the question is why would they do that? Okay, we we've discussed it previously where throughout most of human history we've understood that this is material realm and then once we die we go off to spiritual realm. Guess what guys? You can't take your money with you. So why are you burying your money with you? Right? Okay. This is a mustaba. Okay. As you can see, it's a very elaborate ornate place. And the Egyptians were known for this. But also China, right? The first emperor of China, the terracotta warriors. Why is he buried with an army and such wealth? That makes no sense. If you die, you die. So why is this happening? Um, so the argument I I want to make to you is that this is happening because money, capital, too much of it changes the fundamental chemistry of the brain. It makes you crazy. Okay, so um let's let's let's do a thought experiment. Okay, the thought experiment is this. Let's just say Satan were to come into this room and said, "Hey, I'll give you guys a billion dollars, but and you but you have to live forever and you have to be my slave forever." We' be like, "No, why? Why would we want that?" You know, like to have a billion dollars, but then be a slave for all eternity to like say it. No, but okay, let's assume we are the richest people on earth. We all have a $10 billion right now. then says to us, "You know what? $10 billion is a lot of money. I'm sure you enjoy your life, but you're going to die. And when you die, you can't take that money with you, but hey, I can make you live forever. I will let you keep this money, but you have to be my slave for all eternity." Do you agree? We would agree. That's the difference. You see what? You see what's happened, right? Money makes people crazy. All right. So, bronze. Okay. So remember, brine started off as just a weapon in order to obtain power. But then over time, as powerful people became more stable in their lives, they use um bronze to make jewelry and and pottery to show their status. Okay? And then over time, because rich people wanted it, everyone wanted it. And so bronze became a currency, wealth, and it was just easy to store, universally recognized, and mobile. And this happened over centuries, over 100 years. Okay, that's a that's a pattern here. All right. So, um this is a map, a table that shows you how capital is formed. Okay. So, capital needs to have universality. The more people want it, the more valuable it is. It's it has to be able to be it has to store value. Okay? It has to be permanent. Okay? Does that make sense? Um it has to be mobile. It has to be available. Okay? um it has to be rare enough. So once that it has these different elements then it becomes a currency. So if you just look at history um we've we've used different sources of currency. So we have sea shells, cattle, grain, woman, slaves, drugs, oil, bronze, gold and US dollar. We've always had money as a concept. Okay. But um money for most of human history signified a debt that could not be paid off. Okay. So David Grabber who's an anthropologist he wrote he wrote about this in his book debt. Why do we create money as a concept? Because there are certain transactions in which there was so much debt you couldn't pay it off. Okay. So mo so like most of um human actions it's just reciprocal right. So you help me I help you. Okay. But there are three things in which the debt can't can't be really paid off. Okay? The first the first example is let's let's just say I kill your brother. Well, now you come kill me, right? And you kill me then my family's going to go go kill you. Okay? And it creates a vicious cycle of vengeance, right? So the way to get rid of this problem is if I kill your brother, I acknowledge that it's a debt I cannot be paid off. So I give you something valuable. It could be gold, it could be um jewelry, it could be anything. Okay? All right. Right? So that's what money is. That that's the first example. Second example is if if a woman marries into your family, right? Then that's also a debt that that can be paid off because you've just taken away my a daughter. So you give me a gift, maybe some gold, maybe a cow, a horse, it doesn't matter. Okay. The second example of a debt that can be paid off. The third example, and this this is a really important example, is let's just say that you have a great person in community. he's a great leader or he's a great priest or he's just a great person in general and he's done a lot for you and but he dies. What do you do then? What you do is you bury him with gifts, with gold, with money. Okay? And so it's a monument to his legacy. You know that he can't take the stuff with him to the afterorld, but it doesn't matter. All you're doing is you're acknowledging his contribution to your community. And that's why when we dig up graves in ancient times, you'll see people bearded with gold because the human is acknowledging this person was great. We will forever remember him. And so the money is a way to acknowledge this fact. Okay, does that make sense? Right. So for most of human history, that's what we use money for as to symbolize money that can be not be that cannot be paid off. But then over time, as society became more sophisticated, u we use we use other forms of currency. Okay? And as you can see, all these different forms of currency, okay? Whether it's seashells, cattle, grain, women's, drugs, oil, it doesn't really work in terms of universality, store value, immobility, but bronze does. Okay? And after bronze, gold does. And then after gold, today we have the US dollar. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So once you have an universally accepted currency, you can now have globalization, right? And so bronze was a major discovery which allowed for globalization. Um yeah go ahead. >> Uh I think bronze and the gold is commodities and US dollar is like money stuff but why does browns because it is it because drugs and oil does not count as capital? So it is not. >> Okay look let's you're right. Okay drugs can be a currency. The problem is that it's not universally accepted. Okay. And also the problem with drugs of course is it it causes a lot of problems your society. So think of opium in China and it's it's hard um yeah it creates a lot of problems. So it can't be universally accepted. In fact most countries would ban drugs but at the same time you're right in that it is valuable. It's a store of value. So you guys don't know this, but there are lot lots of governments that have secret supplies of drugs because if the world falls apart and you need to rebuild society, you need wealth, right? So gold, you need gold, but guess what? Drugs is also a form of wealth because people want it. Okay? People crave it. All right? Um so so is this clear? Right? So once you have a universally accepted currency, you have the basis for globalization and global globalization happens naturally as a result. All right. So, capital is just the monetization of power. That's all it is. And you can have any form of capital. Okay. The problem with capital is that it exploits, it alienates, and it consolidates. Okay? So, go back go back example where I'm the leader of a village. If there's no money involved, all I care about is winning the respect of my people. Okay? And so I work hard for them. But once capital is involved, I see each person as a commodity. Okay? And therefore I become alienated from my humanity and from others. And now I want to exploit people in order to generate more capital. And over time what will happen is that um the strongest will have all the capital which leads to massive inequality. So the only result of capitalism is one massive inequality, corruption, immorality, okay, and alienation, anger, indifference. And this is the world we live in today. Does that make sense? It's just the nature of capital. There's no way around it. Okay. So, as we discussed previously, we have two different mindsets, okay? We're composed of two different individuals. We have the altruistic nature. So we care about relationships. We care about empathy. We care about creativity. And there's our utitarian side which is all about material objectives, logic and hard work. Okay? So in school you have the utarian mindset. Okay? Like how do I get good grades? That's all you care about. All right. At home you care about relationships. You care about maintaining good relationships with your mother and your father and your siblings and your relatives. What we also know, and this is really important, is that people who are altruistic, people who work for others tend to be more creative than other people. But people who are obsessed with money tend to work harder than other people. Okay? That's why polarization happens so fast because everyone's in a rush to make as much money as possible. >> Okay? But eventually, you reach a point where a few people have all the money and so everyone's like, "Screw this. I give up because I'm I'm never going to be rich. You lie flat, right? Tping or quite quitting. You just give up. Okay? And this is the world we live in today. Okay? Now, [clears throat] capitalism is a problem because it changes the fundamental nature of your brain. Okay. So, this is a article from the Atletic Monthly, which is a very popular magazine in the United States. Um there are these neuroscientists who have done brain scandals, brain scans and they discovered that power causes brain damage. Okay. In fact, if you look at the brain of a psychopath and the brain of a wealthy person, it's pretty similar. Okay. Yeah. They did brand brain scans and it looks as though people with who have too much money has brain damage. Why? Because a normal person is able to have empathy, is able to understand the feelings of others. Guess what? If you're too powerful, if you're too wealthy, you don't have the capacity to have empathy. You don't you can't appreciate the feelings of others. So, think of like Ellen Musk or Marcus Zuckerberg. They I don't care. They have actually no concept of empathy. Okay? They are completely unable to relate to the feelings of other people. This is Brian Johnson. Okay. Um, Brian Johnson's a millionaire. He spends about $2 million a year on health. Okay. Um, he's done some crazy things. So, for example, he has a father and he has a son and he believes in blood transfusion. So, you know, if you, you know, transfuse the blood, your blood, you become younger. So, he's trying to figure out how to live forever. Okay. So, he'll do things like blood transfusion. But you know, he has he works so hard, man. Cuz he'll get up at like 5:00 in the morning, exercise. The food he eats is the most nutritious food in the world. [snorts] And he'll regulate his sleep. He's always monitoring his heartbeat. He's always exercising. Okay, his life sucks. And the question you have have to ask yourself is, if you have so much money, why don't you just enjoy it? You know, why not why not just enjoy your life? [laughter] [gasps] Why are you focused on living forever? Okay. And that's a problem with wealthy people. They're kind of scooping their head. Okay. Um he looks like a vampire, guys. Okay. This is him when he first, you know, started this project. And you can see he looks like a vampire now. All right. I'm not exaggerating here. Look, look at this guy. The problem is that there are lots of wealthy people in the world and they happen to like this idea of living forever. Okay, so let's just say let's do a thought experiment. You're a billionaire. Okay, you have the you have you have like $100 million, $10 million, sorry, like $10 billion in the bank, $100 billion in the bank, who knows? You have a problem which is how do I keep this, right? Because you're going to die. Okay. And you have all that money so you can do whatever you want. So what you do is you invest in Brian Johnson. You invest in psychic research to live longer. But you also do what? You also build bunkers. Okay? Because you're afraid that the world will end and you want to live forever. So you build bunkers. This is Mark Zuckerberg's bunker in Hawaii. It's kind of stupid because if the world's if the world's going to end, is your bunker going to save you? Probably not. Okay. But he spent like $26 million. No. or $260 million on this stupid thing hoping to live forever. And this is what it looks like in on the on the inside. It's crazy to like go through life thinking about how to live forever and how to survive an apocalypse. Why not just enjoy your life? Okay. They also join secret societies. Why? Because secret societies may have the secret to in reincarnation or the secret to immortality or the secret to longevity. They don't care. They have so much money that they're willing to invest in everything. Okay? So they're willing to um try blood transfusion. They're willing to build bunkers. They're also willing to join secret societies. And that's why you see secret societies growing in power and popularity today. They also worship Satan. Okay? Because again, if you have $10 billion, you're stuck, right? Because you don't want to die. Like you don't want like it's what we call sunk cost fallacy, right? You you you you you're like, I worked so hard for this and I have the best life, but I'm going to die and when I die, all this is gone. I have to start all over again. I don't want to do that. Okay? So, they're willing to do anything, including worship Satan. In fact, what we will learn is that the the religion of Satan became so popular in order to solve this problem where wealthy people, they want to live forever and they want the world to stay the same as it is now. But as you learn in this class, it is impossible for the world to stay the way it is. Change is a constant. Things move in cycles. Capitalism gives rise to wealth, but it also destroys wealth. That's just the nature of life. Okay. All right. So that's a branch age collapse. Any questions? Sorry. Yeah. Go ahead, V. Go ahead. >> Why do they worship Satan? Because you said that those millionaires, they want to keep their money forever. And what does it do with Satan? >> Okay, that's a really good question. Okay. So, um [clears throat] it's really desperation, right? Because what religion tell teaches teaches you is that wealth is bad. And when you go to heaven, you'll be judged by God. And God and God is going to ask you, "Hey, why do you have so much money, man?" And you'll be like, "Well, I stole this money and I hurt a lot of people and I cheated. I lied. I stealed." Yeah. You know, and like, do you really want to say that to God? Yeah. You're kind of stuck, right? Right. So, so first of all, you don't want to die. You don't want to give up all this money that you worked hard to get. But you also don't want to face God and face his judgment. Okay. So, what's your alternative here? Your alternative is you believe in something more powerful than God or at least someone who you can find refuge in from God. Okay? If it means going to hell, you you prefer going to hell than facing judgment from God. Okay? cuz you in your heart know exactly what you did to get that $10 billion. Okay? You know what you did. Maybe other people don't know, but you know what you did and God knows what you did and you really really want to face judgment. All right. Okay. So, yeah. Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions, guys? All right. So, um that's it for the branches. So we will discuss the iliad next class. Okay. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to introduce the um Iliad today and then and then we'll continue the Iliad on Thursday. Okay. All right. So the branches collapse is important because it will give rise to Greek civilization which we we which we believe to be the basis for western civilization. Okay. So the question then is how does this happen? Okay. So if you look at mine in Greece and then we transition into um the dark ages. Okay. The dark ages does not all it means is that the Greeks lost the capacity to write. Okay. And so what will happen is M say in Greece will transform from a past economy into something called the polus. Okay polis city state. Okay that this is where where we get the word politics from. Okay. So this is a major political transition where you went from a centralized economy to now city states competing against each other. That's the first thing. Second thing that's important is the writing system changes. It went from linear B. Linear B become now becomes do you guys know what what's a new writing system called? I'm sure you guys know the name alphabet. >> Okay. All right. And the big the third big change is you go from censorship. Okay. Because remember in a palace economy, in a centralized system, bureaucrats are in control. And bureaucrats control what is talked about, okay, or what is expressed and they censor and centralize content, okay? They they basically create propaganda. So now with censorship, you have a new person emerged named Homer. Okay? And we will discuss Homer next class. And these things these three things together become the basis for Greek civilization. And this is why the Greeks became the greatest civilization ever in human history. So the main lesson I want to leave you today is yes collapse is bad but collapse also gives opportunity for a new civilization to arise for a new humanity to emerge. And we will discuss this next class. Okay. The birth of Greekization. All right. Great. All right.

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Good morning. So today we do Greek civilization. We are focusing on Homer who wrote the Iliad in the Odyssey. A couple years ago I taught the great books. So we read the Bible, uh Dante, um Paradise Lost, the Iliad and the Odyssey. And believe it or not, the students favorite book was the Iliad. And this was written maybe 3,000 years ago by this Greek man living in a different time, different culture. Even today, Chinese teenagers think he's wonderful. Okay. So, Homer is, I believe, the big bang of Greek civilization. All right. So, let us summarize where we are. Okay. Let's review where we are. Okay. So remember that in the beginning you have this city emerge in a major trade route and it occupies a major river and over time what will happen is that as the city expands it will create colonies along the river and this will create warfare among the city states because they're trying to control trade. Okay. And this leads to what we call open cooperative competition. And as I keep on saying this is a system that will lead to tremendous innovation. Okay. And this is what happened in China, in Mesopotamia and in Egypt. But then over time what will happen is that an empire will emerge and this will create a bureaucracy. Okay. Now bureaucracy has three major characteristics. The first is centralization. And because of centralization, you have now have a monopoly and so you have a decrease in competition which means that the society is no longer innovative. Okay. Second is you have censorship meaning that um no people are no longer free to express what they want. All information is centralized. The third is writing as propaganda. So writing is a system of control as opposed to a system of knowledge creation or self-expression. Okay. So these are the three characteristics of an empire and um this is true for all empires. This is true for manian Greece. So remember Minanian Greece is the empire that ruled the AGNC during the Bronze Age. What's interesting though is when the branches collapsed, this system allowed for massive innovation which gave us the Greeks. Okay, so let me explain why. First of all, you now have centralization, but you now have something called the polus. So you basically have a return to the system of open warfare. The polus means citystate in Greek and it gives us the word politics. Why? Because these polices were at war with each other always and because every citizen um had to risk his life in a war. Every citizen had the right to speak. Okay. So before every [clears throat] decision was made, all the citizens could debate. And so as a citizen, you were required to speak in front of others. And as a result, you even though you could be a farmer, you had to educate yourself. You had to gain knowledge. You had to learn the art of speaking, what we call rhetoric. And this allowed for massive education and innovation in Greece. Um the polist because everyone had to learn they had to change the writing system from one of propaganda to one of knowledge seeking. So they changed their writing system. So during the mian age the wring system is called linear B. And line B um is a hard system to learn. But that's the point. They want the writing system to be hard to learn because then only the elite can learn it. And that's what differentiates the elite from the people, right? But now that everyone has to learn, you need you need a more efficient writing system. And so they incorporated they created a new system called the alphabet. which is the same system [clears throat] we use today because it's so effective. Okay, so let me explain what the alphabet is. [clears throat] All right, so in the beginning when we first start to write, we had pictograms. Okay, so this is the sun. This is the moon. Okay, sun and moon. As you can see, these are just pictures of words. Okay, that's the first step. But then people realize, you know what? We we actually don't have to write down. We actually don't have to draw down draw out the pictures. We can just use symbols. Okay. So now you use symbols like maybe an O and this. Okay. This is now becomes a sun moon. And then people realize you know what there actually a lot of words we cannot draw out. But if we make the symbol representing a sound as opposed to an idea, that' be a lot more efficient, right? And so now um you can create new words. This is the word now for monsoon because all you're doing is you're adding two sounds together. Okay? And this is what I call a syllary. Okay? So linear B was a syllary. And um the Chinese system is what I call an idoggram. idiogram. Okay. So it's it's not representing sounds, it's representing ideas. All right? And then people realize, you know what, for it to be most efficient, to be most flexible, to be most versatile, we can just have the symbol represent a part of a sound. Okay? So rather than a complete sound, just a part of a sound. So now this becomes M. This becomes S. Okay. And so you now get the word sum. And this is where we get alphabet from. What the Greeks did was they added vowels to the system. Okay. And this is the most efficient writing system in the world. It's really easy to learn as you know uh from English class as opposed to Chinese which is very hard to learn. Okay. So now you have the alphabet which increases literacy and learning throughout the Greek world for entertainment. What they did was they invited bars, poets to come and give recital to talk about the legends of the past and this gave rise to the most famous poet of that time named Homer and we will discuss Homer today. Okay. And so in a in a centralized system, Homer could not have have arisen because Homer would have would have been a propagandist. But now in this decentralized system where everyone is looking for entertainment for knowledge Homer can arise and Homer will be the greatest poet of Greek civilization and he's considered to be the father of Greek civilization. Okay so we will discuss Homer today and Homer is famous because he wrote two books the Iliad and the Odyssey actually he didn't write the books he recited the the poetry and then his students wrote it down because he himself was illiterate and we also think he was blind. Okay, so the Iliad and the Odyssey are about the Trojan War. Okay, so let me explain to you what the Trojan War is. [snorts] Okay, so um from last class you know that uh Troy was the center of the world. It was the heart and center of global trade and that's why pirates kept on raiding Troy. Okay. Now, as you also know, facts become stories and stories become exaggerated over time and that's what gave us the legend of the Trojan War. Okay. So, let's go over the um basic outline. So, there are uh the gods of Inman Olympus. The king god of course is Zeus. And the three goddesses are Hera, who is the queen god. They are Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and Aphrodite. who is the goddess of love. Okay. Hero is the queen, the mother. Athena and Aphrodite are the daughter of Zeus. So, it's one big family. One day, um they discover a golden apple on Mount Olympus. And the golden apple says to the most beautiful in the world. So, of course, all three believe it must be mine. And so they fight and they fight and they fight. And Zeus is going crazy because they won't stop fighting. So Zeus has an idea. He will have a contest. And on this contest, the golden apple will be awarded to one of the three. Okay. But now he needs to find someone stupid enough to be the judge. And he finds this person named Paris. And Paris is a prince of Troy. And so Paris meets the three goddesses and of course each goddess is trying to bribe Paris. So Paris says Paris if you pick me I will give you a kingdom. I will make you a king. And Paris like that's a really attractive offer. Okay. Then Athena says hey if you pick me I will give you all the wisdom in the world. you will be the wisest man in the world. And Paris like, okay, that sounds cool. Sure. And then Aphrodite says, I'm going to give you the hottest girl in the world. And Paris is like, yes, that's what I want, man. Okay. So, he marries Helen. Um, this this this may sound strange to you. like why would you give up power and wisdom for you know sex and so I was talking to my wife about this cuz I I didn't understand Paris's choice right and she said of course you pick Helen because what matters to guys is status face right [snorts] you're a king but there are lots of other kings you have wisdom but like who knows you have wisdom right but hey if you're walking around the world with like the hottest girl in the you feel good about yourself. Okay, so of course you pick Helen. So there you go. My my wife knows more than I do. All right, but anyway, so now this is a problem because now Hera and Athena are pissed off and they want revenge. In fact, they're so pissed off they decide they're going to destroy not just Paris, but the entire Trojan people. Okay, they're going to wipe out Troy from the face of the earth. They want revenge. Another problem is at this time Helen is married to Menalos who is the king of Sparta and his brother is Agammanon who is the king of Argos and Spartan Argos are the two most powerful places in Greece. So Agamman is the king of kings. He is the king of mine Greece. And so they organize this huge army to attack Troy to retrieve Helen. Okay. Um and this will go on for 10 years, this battle in Troy. And this will give rise to many legends that Homer will use to entertain the Greek people after the fall of the Minian Empire. Two of the most famous heroes of this time and there are like hundreds, okay, are Achilles and and Odysius. Odysius is known for being the wisest of the Greeks, the greatest strategist. Achilles is known for being the bravest warrior. Okay. Um, Odysius will come up with the idea of the Trojan horse, which is what ends the war. Because, as you know, what will happen is the Greeks will sneak inside a horse, a wooden horse, pretend that it's a gift to the Trojans. The Trojans will take the horse inside the city. The Greeks will sneak out at night and kill everyone. Okay. All right. So, that's the um story of the Trojan War. What Homer will do is he will take this epic, okay, this legend and turn it into a great story. He does not tell the whole story. He only tells a part of the story. He tells a story of the battle between Achilles and Eggman. Okay, so let's go over the plot of the Iliad. Okay, the Iliad. All right. So the story begins like this. Egay Menon has arrived in Troy with his entire army. But Troy is a walled city and these guys are pirates. So they cannot uh destroy Troy. So what they what they do is well they're pirates. So they go and they go and raid other islands that are allies of Troy. And what they do is they capture booty which includes beautiful young girls. Okay? And they have these girls as sex slaves. Now the custom of war is that if a girl belongs to a powerful family, that family can choose to ransom her back and you have to give her back. Okay. Now it turns out that Agameanon likes his girl, but she's she's the daughter of a powerful priest. And the priest says, "Give me back my girl and I'll give you a lot of money." And man says, "No, I like her and I'm lonely, so screw off." So this priest gets angry and prays to Apollo and Apollo unleashes a plague on the Greeks and everyone's dying. Okay? And so Achilles discovers what's happened and he confronts Agamenon in a war council and he says, "Ega Manon, you have to give the girl back or else we're all going to die here." And says, "Fine, I will give her back, but only in the condition that I take your girl." And of course, Achilles is pissed off. He's like, "That's not fair." And like, "Too bad. I'm king." And so, Achilles says, "Fine, but I will never fight for you ever again. I'm going to let the Trojans destroy you here. I'm going to I'm the greatest war in the world. I'm going to sit back and I'm let the Trojans destroy you. Okay. So after after that meeting, Achilles goes to his mother who's a goddess. Her name is Fetus and she's a river goddess. And and Achilles says to Fadius, "Listen, mother, could you help me out? Could you tell Zeus to help the Trojans?" The reason why is I want the Greeks to lose so that they beg me to save them. I came to Troy to be a hero. So let the Trojans win and then I'll come and save the Greeks and I'll be a great hero. So that's what Fetus does. And Hector, who is the prince of Troy, okay, he's brother to Paris. He discovers that Achilles is absent from the battlefield. So he leads the Trojans against the Greeks and they're destroying the Greeks. They're at the point where sorry at the point where they've almost reached the Greek ships and they want to burn down the Greek ships because if they do that the Greeks cannot resupply themselves and they will all die in Troy. And so at this point Odysius and the other Greeks say to Eggmanon, "You know what? We need Achilles. Please please get Achilles back into the battlefield." And says, "Fine. Tell him this. Tell him I will give him my daughter in marriage. I will give him all the treasure in the world if he comes and fights for us. So Adysius and the Greeks go to Achilles and says, "Please, please, please help us." And Achilles says, "Nope." Why? Because Agon is not here. Where's Agame, man? I don't need his daughter. I don't need all this money in the world. I'm going to die anyway in battle. So screw off. Okay. So now Achilles and Eggman are stuck because Achilles wants Eggman to apologize, but Eggman doesn't want to lose face. So there's a real threat that the Trojans will destroy the entire Greek army. Okay? And they're about to reach the ships and burn down the ships. And Achilles is watching this and he's like, "Why aren't the Greeks coming and begging me again?" Okay? He wants the Greeks to constantly beg him so he can say no. And the Greeks and the Greeks are like, "We know that. So we're not we're not going to come." So then what happens is Achilles, he's so nervous that he sends Petroles, who is his lieutenant, to go talk to the Greeks and say, "Hey man, what's going on? Do you need Achilles help?" And the Greeks say to him, Petroas, we know Achilles, he's got this terrible temper. He's not going to come save us, but maybe you can save us, Petroles. And chocolate says, "Yes, I can be the hero now." So he runs back to Achilles and says, "Achilles, you We're all going to die here. Let me go fight." And Achilles is like, "Fine, you you can go fight, but only the condition that you just save the ships and you do not push the Trojans back to Troy." Okay, that's my glory. Do not steal my glory. So, of course, what Procus does is he tries to win all the glory for himself. He forces a duel between himself and Hector and Hector kills Petetrois. Now Achilles is pissed off and and Achilles is like screw this. I'm going to go kill Hector. Okay, so now Eggmanon and Achilles are best friends because they both want to kill Hector. Achilles duels Hector, kills him, and he is now the greatest warrior in the world. He's proven himself to be greatest hero in the world. He's saved the Greeks. He's killed Hector. He's adventurous friend Petolis. He should be the happiest man in the world, right? And this is the genius homework. He now falls into a deep depression. He mutilates Hector's body. He ties Hector's body to his chariot and rides around the city of Troy. And all the Trojans are screaming in horror. The gods are like, "This is disgusting, man." The Greeks are like, "No, man. This is a war crime. We don't want to get involved. Okay. Achilles is going crazy. He can't sleep. He can't eat. All he can do is mutilate Hector's body. All right. So now, so now the gods are watching this and saying, "You know what? Um, we shouldn't allow this because this is a war crime and Hector was always um a good subject. So let's broker a piece between Achilles and Pry who is the father of Hector. Okay, because in this world it's important to bury the dead because only by burying the dead can they find eternal peace. Okay, so Prime wants wants a body back. So Prime himself cannot sleep and both Achilles and Prime agree to this deal. The gods send Prime into Achilles tent and Achilles is busy. Okay, Achilles is distracted and Prime is sitting next to him. And at this point, what Prime can do is take a dagger and stab Achilles in the neck and avenge his son, right? What he does instead is he kneels down before Achilles and kisses his hand. He submits himself before Achilles. And Achilles is so aed by this that he recognizes that Pry is the greater hero. That Pry has more courage than he does. And now Achilles submits to Pryam. And the two forgive each other and weep together. And this is how the idiot ends. Okay, this is a story that tells us that the real battlefield is not out there in the shores of Troy. The real battle is inside our human heart. Okay. Why does a Achilles fall into depression? Because he himself knows he's he's the one guilty for killing of Petetrois. Maybe it was Hector who killed Hecles, but it was Achilles who made it possible. Why? Because number one, Achilles didn't have to get in a stupid fight with a mountain. Okay. Number two is when the Greeks came came to beg, Achilles could have could have said yes. Okay. And then number three is Achilles did not have to send Metropolis into battle. So Achilles know in his heart that he was guilty and as such he could not forgive himself and so he fell into depression and so pry by forgiving Achilles allow Achilles to forgive himself. Okay so it's it's a problem of forgiveness and this is the hardest problem in human society. How do you forgive those who've done wrong to you? And how do you forgive yourself for doing wrong unto others? This is the hardest problem in human society. If you if you can solve this problem, you you can now create a great civilization. That's what Homer did. Okay? Homer showed us that this is the greatest problem in the human heart. And when we forgive each other, we make the world a new. We rejuvenate the world. We change the world from one of the destruction into one of vitality. Okay. Pry him by sacrificing himself by having the courage to forgive Achilles. Change the destiny of himself and his son Hector because Achilles gave Hector back and told Pam, "Not only will I give your son back, but I will make sure that you have enough time to ensure a proper funeral for Hector." Achilles himself will ensure the Greeks will not attack Troy during the funeral. Okay. And that's the beauty power of the Iliad. It is the most shocking ending ever. It's the most beautiful, the most poignant, the most tragic ending ever. Even today, we cannot match it. So the question now is how is it that home and the Greeks had such wisdom and today we don't and the answer is their minds were different back then than they are today. Okay. So let me explain why. [snorts] Okay. So you know from psychology that we have two hemispheres in the brain. Okay. A right hemisphere and a left hemisphere. The right hemisphere is a creative, emotional, caring hemisphere. The left is the logical, analytical, utitarian hemisphere. Okay? So, right does art, maybe left does math. Okay? We know this from simple psychology. Now there's an American psychologist psychologist named Julian James and he proposes a really interesting theory. His theory is actually what's happening is the right hemisphere is receiving information from the universe vibrations from the universe and the left hemisphere is interpreting this information into reality. Okay. All right. So remember we we discussed Kant. What what does Emanuel Khan say? Emanuel Kant says that there are two realities. The nomina the world the things in themselves and the phenomena the things to us. Okay. So what happens is that our brain interacts with the nomina and then filters it back into the phenomena. Okay. And it uses a filter time and space in order to perceive things. Okay. Gu Hegel says that this nomenai is the gist. Okay. The universe. And as we discussed the universe are just vibrations. Okay. Vibrations. And so if you apply all this to this theory, what's happening is our right brain is receiving these vibrations and then our left brain is just is transforming these vibrations into everyday reality. Okay. Then the question then is how do we interpret these vibrations? Well, for most of human history, we've interpret them as just gods and spirits. Okay? And even though it's not factual, it is truthful in that it allows us to better understand the universe and it better allows us to understand ourselves. Okay? By embracing this model of the brain, we have access to wisdom. Okay? The wisdom of Homer and the Greeks. And that's why back then the Greeks are much more creative and wise than we are today. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, because what we've done today is we've shut off this part by saying nope, all that matters is science, logic and materialism. Okay, so we've shut down the right brain and we only use left brain today. That's why we are less creative. Right? So that's the argument I will make to you today. All right. Let's continue. All right. The great big bang the beginning of Greek civilization. All right. So this is Julian James. Okay. and he wrote a book called the origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicchimeal brain. Okay, bicyal mind is just the left and right hemisphere and these two work together. The right is the receiver of the universe. The left is the interpreter of the universe. All right. So he gives an example of this. Okay. Why is it that in ancient times when kings died, we buried them with lots and lots of gifts. We bury them as though they were still alive. And the answer is from our perspective they were still alive. Okay. The burial of the important dead as if they still lived is common to almost all these ancient cultures whose architecture we have just looked at. This practice has no clear explanation except that their voices were still being heard by the living and were perhaps demanding such accommodation. These dead kings propped up on stones whose voices were hallucinated by the living were the first gods. Okay, does that make sense to you? We lived in a world where we're using both our left and right hemispheres and as such we saw spirits, dietes, gods all around us. Okay, we interacted with them and they gave us both inspiration as well as motivation. Okay, and so um this is a Viking ship burial where a king is being buried with his ship and his horses as though he was still alive. Okay? Because from their perspective, he's still alive. He's still able to give us his wisdom. This is the cult of the skull, which is what we found in most Neolithic cultures, okay? The most the earliest agricultural societies. Why? because they practice ancestor worship and they believe that these skulls were living and they could help you access the dead in the spirit world and and and draw wisdom and inspiration from them. This is a book the constant serpent by Jurian Narby. Okay. And he tells us that listen, if you just do some basic research, this understanding of the universe where our right brain receives spirits and left brain interprets it in reality, it makes a lot of sense. Okay? Because all the the entire universe is itself consciousness. Okay? It's all mind and matter is just what we perceive. I began my investigation with the ignimma of plant communication. Okay? plants are able to communicate with with each other. We know the scientifically. I went to accept the idea that hallucinations could be a source of verifiable information. Okay? So, if you feel as though a spirit is talking to you, maybe the spirit really is talking to you. And I end up with a hypothesis suggesting that a human mind can communicate and defocalize consciousness with the global network of DNA based life. All this contradicts principles of western knowledge. Okay. So all the entire universe is consciousness. Plants have it, animals have it, we have it. And therefore, if we open our minds, we're able to communicate with the entire universe and draw insight. All right? And he goes on, scientists know this, and our greatest discoveries came from scientists who embraced the consciousness of the universe. Many of science's central ideas seem to come from beyond the limits of rationalism. Renee Deart dreams of an angel who explains the basic principles of materialistic rationalism to him. Albert Einstein daydreams in a tram approaching another and conceives the theory of relativity. James Watson scribbles on a newspaper in a train then rides his bicycle to reach the conviction that DNA has the form of a double helix. Okay, so it's almost as though a spirit is telling the secrets of the universe to the scientists. So, and just ask yourself these questions and you will understand that maybe the universe is consciousness, right? So, these questions are sometimes you think of someone and then boom, that person calls you. Is that strange? Has that ever happened to you? Do you feel as though you're being watched all the time? Do you feel as though you're an actor on a stage? Do you sometimes feel you're compelled to act as though something hasn't control of your body? Okay. Possession. Why do certain ideas pop in your head all of a sudden? Do you sometimes feel as though something planted an idea into you? Why do you have dreams? Where do dreams come from? What do dreams mean? Do you sometimes feel as though you know what someone else is thinking? Okay. Is it possible you're sitting with a friend and you know exactly what your friend is thinking even though you're not talking? Do you think sometimes that you're having a conversation with a friend inside your head? Okay, so your friend is not there but you're having a conversation with your friend. Do you feel as though you have a guardian angel? Okay, I'm sure you know you're too shy to say this, but I'm sure that you feel as though there is a spirit world, right? Okay, these were not mysteries and questions before because everyone assumed we lived alongside spirits, angels, and demons. Okay, today we ask these questions before they didn't ask these questions because everyone just assume that yeah, of course, we live alongside angels and demons and that's why we are who we are. Okay. So, let's go to the Iliad. Okay. And the Iliad, it shows us how the brain worked at that time. A brain that was both materialistic and spiritual. A a brain that understood that we lived in different dimensions. Okay? And the gods had more control over us. And the gods represented our emotions and the workings of nature. Okay? the Iliad. Now this is translation by Robert Fagels. So let's in the very beginning of the Iliad okay Homer says this rage goddess sing rage of Pilious son Achilles murderers doom that caused Aens countless losses hurling down to the house of death so many sturdy souls great fighter souls but made their bodies carrying feast for the dogs and birds and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. begin muse when the two first broke in clash man on lord the man and b achilles okay so the first thing that a homer says is please inspire me muse okay so what he's doing is not creating what he's doing is channeling he's drawing inspiration from the gods okay when he's speaking to people he's saying I am here as a messenger of the gods this information is from the gods themselves All right. So, this is the fatal meeting. Oh, sorry, not the fatal meeting, the clash between Eggman and Achilles. The first meeting that starts off the Iliad. So, Eggman says to Achilles, "Give me your slave girl and get out of here." Okay. And and Achilles is screw you. I'm not going to fight for you again. And but now Achilles is pissed off. He wants to kill Eggman. Okay. Eggman broke off and anguish gripped Achilles. The heart in his rugged chest was pounding, torn. Should he draw the long sharp sword slung at his hip, thrust through the ranks and kill a man on now or check his rage and beat his fury down? Okay, so he can't control himself. Okay, rage has overtaken him. He wants to like step forward and just kill Eggman on as his raging spirit veered back and forth just as he drew his huge blade from his sheath down from the vaulting heaven swept Athena. Athena's here now. Okay. Before Achilles, the white armed goddess Hera sped her down. Hera loved both men and cared for both alike. Wearing behind him pelis sees his fury here. Only Achilles saw her. None of the other fighters. Struck with wonder. He spun around. He knew her at once. Okay. So Achilles is a hallucinating Athena. No one else can see her. Okay. Pal palace Athena. The terrible blazing of those eyes and his winged words went flying. Why? Why now child of Zeus with a shield of thunder? Why come now to witness the outrage Agam Manonan just comm committed? I tell you this and so help me it's the truth. I he'll soon pay for his arrogance with his life. So he really wants to kill a man. Her gray eyes clear. The goddess Athena answered down from the skies I come to check your rage. If only you will yield. The white armed goddess hero spread me down. She loves you both. She cares for you both alike. Stop this fighting now. Don't lay hand to sword. lash him with threats of the price that he will face. And I tell you this, I know it. It is the truth. One day, glittering gifts will lie before you three times over to pay for all his outrage. Hold back now. Obey us both. Okay. So, Achilles wants to kill Amanon, but now he's being possessed by Athena. Okay. And Athena says, "Stop." So, he she urged and a swift runner complied at once. I must. When the two of you had down commands, goddess, a man submits, though his heart breaks with fury. Better for him by far. If a man obeys the gods, they're quick to hear his prayers. And with that, Achilles stayed his burly hand on a silver hilt and slid the huge blade back in his sheath. He would not fight the orders of Athena. Okay, so again, this is not factual. Athena doesn't really exist, but it's truthful in that it gives us insight into how the human brain, the human emotions work. Okay. Now, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to write this again in modern pros to show you the difference. Okay. Okay. So, this is what what I wrote myself. Okay. It's bad writing. It's modern pros, but but you're able to compare and contrast. Okay. I don't need you. Get out of my sight. Roger man on. He spat on the ground. Achilles blood boiled and he reached for the hilt of his sword. He saw all I stare at him and he stayed focused on Eggman. He counted the seconds and the steps it would take for him to sprint forward and strike him down. His feet grew heavy and his legs grew wobbly. He could not move. He felt the thumping of his heart. Achilles snapped around and walked out of the room. He saw all eyes focus on him. Okay, so this is factual but it's not truthful. Do you understand? It doesn't give us insight into why this is happening. So the Iliad is truthful but not factual. modern pros is factual but not truthful. So now as I said Achilles refuses to fight. The Greeks are losing the war and so the Greeks beg Achilles to come fight. Achilles says no. And he sends Petroles to um figure out what's going on. And Petroles comes out and says let me fight Achilles. Okay. And at this point, Achilles should just be like, "We'll fight together or don't go if it's too dangerous." Instead, he says this. [snorts] So he pleaded lost in his own great innocence. Condemned to beg for his own death and brutal doom. Okay, he is Petroas. And move now to his deaths, the famous runner cried, "No, no, my prince Petroles, what are you saying? Prophecies?" None that touch me, none I know of. No doom my noble mother revealed to me from Zeus. Just as terrible pain that wounds me to the quick. When one man attempts to plunder a man his equal to commander a prize exalting so in his own power that's a pain that wounds me suffering such humiliation that girl the sons of Akia picked her as my prize and I sacked the wall city one of my spear but right from my grasp he tears her myon that son of Atrus treated me like some veabond some outcast stripped of all my rights so the Greek army is about to destroy and Achilles is concerned about his own pride okay he's a very selfish person. I man stole his girlfriend and he's pissed. Enough. Let bygones be bygones now. Done is done. How on earth can a man rage on forever? Still by God I said I would not relax my anger. Not till the cries and carnage reach my own ships. So you you shot my my splendid armor on your back. You lead our butterhungry Meridians into action. And now in fact the black cloud of the Trojans blast down on the ships with full gale force. our backs to the breaking surf but cling still to a cramped strip of land the archives lost. The whole city of Troy comes trembling down on us, daring, wild. Why? They cannot see the brown my helmet flash before their eyes. Oh, they soon run for their lives and choke the torn beds of the field with all their corpse. If only the mighty Amanon met with me with respect. Okay, so the children are attacking them because he's not in the battlefield. But if you if you were on the battlefield, the children would just run away. Okay, now as it is, they're fighting around our camp. No spear rages now in the hand of Damedes. Keen to save the Argos from disaster. I can't even hear the battle cry of Eggman on. Break from his hated skull, but his man killing Hector calling his soldiers on his war cries crashing around me. Savage cries of his children sweeping the whole plane. Victors bring the archive armies to their knees. Even so, Protis fight disaster off the ships. Fling yourself as children's full force before they gut our holes with leaping fire and tear away the beloved day of our return. But take this command to heart. Obey to the end. You can win great honor, great glory for me in the eyes of all the Argive ranks. And they they'll send her back, my live and lovely girl, and top it off with troves of glittering gifts. Once you have whipped the enemy from the fleet, you must come back. Even if Zeus, the funding lord of Hera, let you cease your glory. You must not burn for war against these Trojans. Mad men lusting for battle. Now about me. You will only make my glory that much less. Okay. Me, me, me. All cares about is me. Petolis, you you can go a battle, but don't win too much glory. Do not outshine me. Okay. And because he says this, what does Petus do? He tries to win all the glory for himself. He engages in a duel with Hector and he and it cost him his life. Okay? So, it's Achilles fault this is happening and he knows it. All right. So, the psychology here is just so insightful, so deep, so striking. So, let's use an analogy to understand the psychology. Okay, let's pretend John and Jill are boyfriend girlfriend, but they have a fight like boyfriend and girlfriend do and they break up. Okay, but they want they long for each other, but they don't want to apologize to each other. Okay, so Jill tells her best friend Jane to talk to John to try to get him to apologize. All right, and then Jane goes talks to John and John says, "You know what? I've had it with Jill. I'd much rather date you because you're more beautiful and you're more, you know, reasonable. And then Jason is really excited because Jill is prettier than she is, right? So she runs back to Jill and says, "Hey, John asked me to go on a date. Maybe I can use this opportunity to convince him to apologize." And then Jill says, "Okay, go date him, but what if you do? Don't kiss him." So what does Jill do? Right? So this is reverse psychology, right? Okay. So Jill knows that if she says this, Jane's going to kiss John. And Achilles knows that if he tells Petus, "Don't win too much glory." But is going to win a lot of glory, right? And so what happens of course is that Proacles dies now Achilles can now enter the battlefield and win all the glory for himself. And that's what happens. Okay? He kills Hector. He saves the Greeks. But then he goes crazy. What he does is he ties Hector to his chariot and he starts riding around the walls of Troy. It is a It is a war crime. It's disgusting. It's hideous. The children are going crazy. But the Greeks are like, "We don't want this, man." The gods are like, "What the hell's going on?" Okay, so this is just shocking. It's it's it's a mutilation. It's torture. All right. So now we move to the end of the Iliad and at this point Pry the king cannot sleep because his son Hector is being mutilated by Achilles. Achilles can't sleep because he cannot forgive himself for the death of Protalis. And so he takes it out on Hector. Okay. And the gods are watching this and they're kind of disgusted. The games are over now. The gathered army scattered. each meant to his fashion and fighters turned their minds of thoughts of food and the sweet warm grip of sleep. But Achilles kept on grieving for his friend, the memory burning on and all subduing sleep could not take him. But not now he turned and twisted side to side. He lost manhood, his gallant heart. What rough campaigns they fought to an end together. What hardships they had suffered, cleaving their way through wars of men and pounding waves at sea. The memories flooded over him, live tears flowing. And now he lied on his side, now flat on his back, now face down again. At least at last he leapt to his feet, one in anguish, amish along the surf and dawn on dawn. Okay, he cannot sleep. He's depressed. Okay, he is racked with self-guilt. He cannot forgive himself for what has happened. Flaming over the sea and shore would find him pacing. Then he yoke his racing team to the chur harness, lash the corpse of Hector behind the car for dragging and haul him three times round the dead patrica's tomb. And then he rest again in his tents and leave the body sprawled face down in the dust. But a poly pity Hector dead men though he was and warded all corruption off from Hector's corpse and around him head to foot. The great god wrapped the golden shield of storm so his skin would never rip as Achilles dragged him on. And so he kept on raging, shaming noble Hector. But the gods in bliss looked down and pity Prime son. They kept on urging the sharpeyed giant killer Hermes to go and steal the body. A plan that pleased them all. But not Hera, Prooseidon, or the girl with blazing eyes. They clung to their deathless hate of sacred Troy Prime and Prime's people. Just as they had at first when Paris in all his madness launched the war, he offended Athena and Hera, both goddesses. But Zeus who marshes the storm clouds warned his queen. Now Hera, don't fly into such a rage at fellow gods. These two can never attain the same degree of honor. Still the immortals love Prince Hector dearly. Best of all the mortals born in Troy. So I loved him at least. He never sinned with gifts to please my heart. Never once did my altar lack its share of victims. Wine caps tipped and a deep smoky savior. These are the gifts we claim. These are our rights. But as for sealing courageous Hector's body, we must abandon the idea and not a chance in the world behind Achilles back. For fetus is always there, his mother always hovering near him night and day. So would one of you gods call Thetus to my presence so I can declare to her my solemn sound decree. Achilles must receive a ransom from King Pyam. Achilles must give Hector's body back. Okay, does that make sense? So the gods are fighting over what to do. And then Zeus says, "You know what? Let's just poke over a piece between Achilles and Pry." Okay, so Prime agrees to ransom back Hector's body. and Achilles agrees. Okay. So again, we can write this in modern pros and we can eliminate the gods. But what you'll see is that it's not as powerful. It's not as intriguing, not as truthful. Prime cannot sleep and toss in his bed. His wife and his children come one by one to console the weeping king, but to no avail. His servants try different sleeping potions and one by one they fail. In the middle of the night, he screams at the moon and tears at his graying hair. Prime aches for Hector and feels guilt and remorse for failing his son. Children spies watch Achilles drag Hector's body day and night. They take turns spying and they know that Achilles cannot sleep. They report this news to Prime and this gives him hope. He sends an emissary to the Greek camp and Agameanon agrees that is Prime's right to ransom back his son as is a custom of war. Even after the rage of Achilles, Egameon sends a servant to talk of Achilles. Achilles does not hear Prime's offer, but he nods his head anyway. Okay. So, it's less powerful. It's um less truthful. It's less interesting. Okay. All right. Now comes the most powerful part of the iliac. Okay. This is actually when pry and achilles meet for the first time. And so what happens is that prime is snuck into the tent by Hermes and the the majestic king of Troy slip past the rest and kneeling down beside Achilles claps his knees and kiss his hands those terrible menkilling hands that has slaughtered prime's many sons in battle. So the king has opportunity to kill Achilles but chooses instead to kiss his hand and submit before Achilles. And this submission destroys the pride of Achilles. Okay, it's a emotional battle duel between Prime and Achilles. And the Prime has won. Awesome. As when the group of madness seizes one who murders a man in his own fatherland and flees abroad to foreign shores to a wealthy noble host and a sense of marvel runs through all who see him. Soles Marvel beholding majestic Pry. Okay, that's what Prime has done. Prime is like a fugitive who's wanted for murder. He escapes and he should be a slave but somehow he's become wealthy. Okay. So by submitting himself before Achilles, Prime has changed the destiny of the world. His men marveled too, training startled glances, but Prime prayed his heart out to Achilles. Remember your own father, great God like Achilles, as old as I am, pass a threshold of deadly old age. Now doubt the countrymen round about him plague him now with no one there to defend him beat away disaster. No one but at least he hears you're still alive and his old heart rejoices hopes rising day by day to see his beloved son come selling home from Troy. Those words stir within Achilles a deep desire to grieve for his own father. Taking the old man's hand, he gently moved him back and overpowered by memory. Both men gave way to grief. Prime wept freely for man killing Hector probably encroaching before Achilles feet as Achilles wept for himself. This is the first time Achilles can now cry. Okay, he cannot cry before. Now for his father, now for Petraus once again and they're sobbing roles and fell through out the house. They forgiven each other. Why? Because they love their people. Okay, so Prime saw Hector in the face of Achilles. Achilles saw his father in the face of pry and because of their love for others they found love for each other. So love is the unifying force of the universe. Love is what allows us to forgive ourselves and forgive others. Okay. And this is the tremendous insight of the Iliad. Okay. And to demonstrate to you how powerful this insight is, let's run a scenario. Okay. Let's do a thought experiment. Let's just say you're driving a car with your wife and your child home from restaurant, okay? And you've had too much of drink and then you hit a car and your wife and your child died. Okay, that's the first scenario. Second scenario is you're driving home and then a drunk driver hits you, killing your wife and your child. It's not your fault, it's drunk driver's fault. Okay, the third scenario, you're arguing with your wife and you're not really watching the road. Okay, then that drunk driver hits you and kills your wife and your child. Okay, these are three different scenarios, right? Let me ask you a question. In which scenario are you less likely to forgive the drunk driver? One, two, or three? One, it's your fault. Two is it's his fault. Three is it's his fault, but it's also your fault. Which one? It's number three, guys. Okay? Why? Because you cannot forgive yourself first. All right? If you cannot forgive yourself, you can't forgive others. And guess what, guys? In real life, it's always number three. It's almost never number one or number two. So, forgiveness is something that we encounter every day. All right? Every day we make mistakes and because we can't forgive oursel, we can make even more and more mistakes. Okay? That's a problem of forgiveness. And this is the deepest problem in human society. And so, what the tells us is that the real struggle is not for power. The real struggle is within our heart. The real struggle is between ourselves. If we forgive ourselves, we can change the world. Right? If we forgive others, we make the world a better place because prime forgave Achilles. Achilles able to forgive himself and they made the world a better place. Okay, that's the power of the human heart. And this is what gives rise to Greek civilization. Okay, the Greeks engaged in an oral tradition. And in the oral tradition, they were constantly trying to figure out the mysteries of the human heart. All right? So uh this is this is uh Pericles giving his famous funeral oration. So every day people are speaking because that's what a person does speaks before others. All right. Um the Greeks were known for their theater. This is the amphitheater in Athens. You can see it seats about 10,000 people and this is what they do for fun. They stage theater and everyone watches it and the theater plays uh plays byes is sopic or about the human heart the mysteries of the human heart. So every day people are thinking about what it means to be human and that's and that's why they have the greatest civilization in the world. [snorts] This is the agara the marketplace where people come together and just debate they talk. So Sakanish was famous for being in the agara the marketplace and just finding people to debate. [clears throat] This is the symposia. The symposia is a gathering of wealthy people. What they do is they drink wine and they talk about philosophy, love, death, what's meaning of life. Okay. Now, the wine is interesting because they'll water down the wine so it's not as strong, okay? And they'll do this like for like the entire night. This is Socrates engaging in a symposium on love. That's what they do for fun, guys. This is a trial, Socrates. Um, so if there's if if you're charged with a crime, you face a trial and there's 500 people and you have to convince those 500 jurors why you're guilty or why you're not guilty. Okay? All right. So, this is an oral culture where every day people are talking with each other and that's the source of their creativity. And what they're talking about is the Ilia, the Odyssey. They're trying to figure out what Homer meant, what Homer was trying to tell the world in his poetry. Um, this is Heroditus. So even if you write, the first thing you do is when you write, you will recite your writings to everyone. So you understand what the reaction is. Okay? Writing comes from community. It comes from understanding the feelings of others. Okay. Today we just write by ourselves and that's why our writing is crap. All right. So, um this is Anakarina Nina considered the greatest novel of the modern period. It's written by Leo Toy Stoy and um it it's a really fun novel. I highly recommend it. It's a great book. Okay. And it starts off by saying happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion. In the Oblunksky's house, the wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl. Okay. So, it starts over an affair. What happened is that the husband's um um sister Anarina will come from um St. Petersburg to try to um resolve the issue, but then she'll fall in love with another man. Count Ronsky who and they have an affair together. Okay. And this affair destroys their families and it ends with Anna Karina's suicide. Okay. Because what's happening is that she's demanding more and more Krosky and he can't keep up. He's he's exhausted by the demands of Anakarina. So this is what she says before she kills herself. My love keeps growing more passionate and egoistic while his is waning and waning and that's why we're drifting apart. She went on musing and there's no hope for it. He has everything for me and I want him more and more to give himself up to me entirely. He wants more and more to get away from me. We walk to meet each other up to the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions. There's no altering that. He tells me I'm insanely jealous and I've told myself that I am insanely jealous but it's not true. I'm not jealous, but I am unsatisfied. I don't have any meaning in my life, and I want this love to give me meaning. Okay? So, it's almost like she's looking for God. We've killed God, and now she's looking for God in affairs, in sex, in lust, and that's why she can't find it. Okay. All right. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this and translate it into heroic pros. Okay. Let's see how Homer wrote this. I'm not Homer, okay? But like this is how he might have written it. Okay. And Aarina went to the train station and sat on the bench waiting for the train to come. Her thoughts are empty and her head low. Where do you plan to go? Someone asked from the corner. That snapped Anna from her trance and to her horror she saw herself. But it was not herself. She was older with graying hair and drooping eyes. And Anna looked as though she had seen a ghost. Okay, so she's hallucinating herself 20 years from now. All right. Who are you? you Anna shouted in horror. "What do you want?" "Where will you go?" the older Anna asked. "Where's Watsky?" Anna shouted. She looked around. The train station was empty. "Okay, "You know where he is?" the older Anna said with a look of pity on her winkle face. Anna got up and walked away. She was being followed. So, she knows that in time she'll just all be alone. Okay? She sees her own future. "Anna, where are you going?" the older Anna asked. Stop following me, Anna shouted back, picking up the pace. I am going to a place where you can't find me. Don't do anything rash, the older Anna said, chasing after her. Leave me alone, Anna shouted, and she ran and ran, screaming and screaming. She tripped and fell into the tracks right in front of the train. So, and then she died. Okay, so if you do it this way, it gives you more insight into the human mind, the human psyche, right? And that's what what we've forgotten. So what happens when we stop believing in the spiritual? What happens when we disconnect from the right hemisphere of brain? We clutter our brains with insignificant concerns, pursuits and details in search of significance. When we kill God, anything can be God. Okay. So as I said, Anakarina with her fear, she's looking for God. She's looking for meaning. And before when we hallucinated, when we talk with the gods, we had meaning. We had wisdom. We had significance. And now we've lost it. And the result is what we call modern literature which is complete utter crap by the way. Okay. And we know because this is Virginia Wolf to the Lighthouse. Okay. It's considered the greatest one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. It's not very good. All right. So this is um a woman talking to herself. It's what we call stream of consciousness. There were the eternal problems suffering death. the poor. There was always a woman dying of cancer even here. And yet she had said to all these children, "You shall go through it." To eight people, she had said relentlessly that. And the bill for the greenhouse would be 50. For that reason, knowing what was before then, love and ambition, and being wed alone in Jerry places, she had often the feeling, why must they go up and lose it all? Okay, so her mind is wondering, wonder and wondering, and she's concerned about the grocery bills. She's concerned about the future. She's concerned about of the past. There's no discipline. There's no focus to any of her ideas. Okay? And this is what we call stream of consciousness. And it's the way we think today. Okay. The reality is that we live in a world in which God is dead. In which we're not allowed to imagine a spiritual world. Um and in a world in which we're only focused on the here and now. And as such we live meaningless, insufficient lives. And as such, our brains are just focused on things that don't matter. Okay? And our brains become schizophrenic. All right? Okay. Does that make sense, guys? Hey. Yeah. Any questions? All right. Yeah. Hi. >> I I have a question about the the concept about forgiveness that you just mentioned uh that if you can't forgive yourself, you can forgive others. I think the example of this is China and Japan because China hates Japan because of the Japan invasion war. And after hearing this quote, I think China hates Japan so much even until now. It is because that um China cannot forgive himself because he's too weak. And also just like the third third situation that you just showed, Japan base and China is too weak to fight back. So uh China cannot forgive his weakness. So uh he cannot forgive Japan. >> Yeah. Um yeah, that's that that's a great analogy. I I can I completely agree. Yeah. Because if you're really strong and confident, you just focus on improving yourself. You don't think about other people. Yeah. Okay. Any more questions, guys? But but thank you for the comment. Okay. All right. So, last thing I'm going to do is I'm going to read some YouTube comments. Um so, I don't have time to read YouTube comments, but my wife loves reading YouTube comments and she sends me YouTube comments and it's basically my homework. Okay? So, if my wife sends it to me, I I respond, right? So, let's look at some YouTube comments from the last video. Um, Wes andQatara says, "Hey man, what about Africa? What about Egypt and African civilization?" And you know, I'm sure that Africa, Egypt, Sudan are really, really interesting. I don't know enough about it to comment on it. Okay. So, what I want to do is later on I want to focus more on Africa. Okay. Okay, I want to go to Africa and I want to learn more about continent so I can comment um more about Africa. Like for me teaching is a learning journey. Okay, I teach to learn. Okay. Um so this uh YouTuber says bad Bentham says um I underrepresent livestock in the economic system and this is absolutely true. Okay, if you look at the steps the currency is actually livestock. Cattle, sheep are the main currency of the step people and it's what allows the step people to fight great wars because when they go off in wars they can bring the livestock with them and therefore they don't have any logistical issues. Okay. So this comment is absolutely right. Um question. So capital changes ultra signic nature to utarian when hard work and motivation get saturated. Why are we only going in one direction that's getting saturated? Um yeah, so this is interesting. So um we have two natures, an altruistic and utitarian nature. And what we've discovered is that um if you break the balance and you become too utilitarian, it's almost impossible to move it back. Okay? And that's why societies collapse. How similar is this series to civilization series? Okay. So the comment is that I'm using a lot of content that I used before in civilization and yeah that that is that is a fair criticism and the reason why is that um what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to better understand history. So what I'm doing is I'm trying to analyze history from different angles. So last year when I taught civilization, I was trying to just figure out how civilization work. And this year what I'm trying to do is trying to apply the idea of secret societies to the better understanding of civilization. So I know some of the content is repeating itself, but the angle, the slant, the over thesis has changed. Okay? And I'm and I'm going over a lot of this information in order to build a case of why we have secret societies. All right? um how do we manage to produce during these horrible times? Same question I asked myself yesterday. Okay. So, so the question is what if children when things are getting worse and worse and the answer is because children is what gives us hope. Children is what gives us purpose. When you see that the world has collapsed or when you see the world is in chaos, you have children because children give you the energy, the motivation, inspiration to fight for a better world. Okay? So I am probably the most pessimistic person on planet earth. Okay? I think the entire world is going to hell. I have three kids. I have three young kids. And the reason why is well, first of all, I love my kids. I love having children. but also my children fill me with hope and energy and power to fight for a better world. I'm only doing this I'm only teaching this class. I'm only putting this on YouTube to build a legacy for my children. If it were not for my children, I would honestly not be doing this. It's really hard work. Okay. All right. So, that is it for today. Thank you guys. Uh we'll continue next week. Okay.

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Today we do the Bible, the most influential book in human history, and we'll discuss why the Jewish people are so creative. Today, the most creative people in the world are Jews. In the past 200 years, um there have been three extremely influential individuals. Karl Marx, Simon Freud, Albert Einstein. They're all Jews. So why are Jews so creative? And the answer is the Bible. Okay. So um let me provide some background as to how Israel, the nation of Israel was first formed. So remember um the branch age, the Middle East was the center of the world. Okay? So you had Egypt, then you had the Leavant. Up north is Anatolia. Across the Aian is Minanian Greece and this is Mesopotamia. If you look at this map, the center of the world really is the Leavant. And at this time in history, the Lavant is really a colony of Egypt. Okay, this place is called Canine. Now, um the thing about the Egyptians is they didn't like to go outside of Egypt. So, in order to control this colony, the Lavant, which is strategically very important, they use Greek mercenaries. Okay, mercenaries from abroad. Many were Greek but there are some other countries as well also at the time in history there's a lot of religious strife in Egypt and a lot of the priests who lost out in this struggle they were exiled to the lavant okay so you also had some Egyptian priests in the lavant you also had the hill people of canine okay hill people they lived in the hills they farmed. You also had um nomatic pasturalists, nomads because this place was a center of trade. So you had bandits, you had people who traded and you also had people who raise livestock. So another saying this is the lavant it is a multicultural melting pot. lots of different groups of people and at this time in history there's no concept of nation or race or ethnicity. It was very common for people to just intermix together. Okay. But then what happened of course was the bronze age collapse. And what that meant was that now you have this surge of refugees coming through from North Europe and from um uh Western Europe and overwhelm the former empires. Okay. So Minian Greece is destroyed. The high tide empire of Anatolia is destroyed and the sea peoples are attacking Egypt. But Egypt is pretty strong. So it's able to resist the attack. And what the Egyptians say to the sea peoples is listen, don't attack us. We'll set you somewhere else. We'll give you land somewhere else. And so they were put in the Levant. Okay? And these people are called the Philistines and they're in the Bible. The problem is that there's already people in the Levant. And so they are a threat. And so these people now, the mercenaries, the Egyptian priests, the hill people, the nomads, they're forced to come together as a new alliance to fend off against the Philistines. Okay? And this grouping of people will give us a new nation called Israel. And um at first they're they have to elect a king in order to unite them against the Philistines. And they elect a king called Saul. So Saul is the first king of Israel. He has a mercenary named David. And remember what's very common in history is for mercenaries to rebel against their king and become a king himself. That's what David did. But now that David is now king, he has three major problems. The first problem is legitimacy. Why are you king? We elected so as king but you stole the throne from him. So why are you king? So the first big problem that David faces is one of legitimacy. Second is a problem of unity because remember Israel at this time it's a diverse coalition. So how do you unite these people together? Okay. Okay. And the third problem is differentiation. Why are we different from the Egyptians, the Anatolians, uh the Mesopotinians, the Philistines. Okay. So to um solve these problems, what David did was three major innovations that would forever change forever change human history. The first is in introduction of a patron god named Yahweh. Okay. So, what David says like Yahweh is our God and our God is better than the other gods. Okay. So, in the what the Bible's trying to do is trying to explain who Yahweh is and trying to explain to everyone that Yahweh is a better God, a superior god than every other god that came before him. Okay, that's number one. Number two is the centralization of religion for a temple. So what David says is, okay, if Yahweh is our God and he's the best God, we need a house for him. So what we're going to do is we're going to build a temple in Jerusalem and that's where he will live from now on. And by doing this, what David's really doing is centralizing the religion. When you do that, you give jobs to Egyptian priests who will now be your main political ally. Okay? All right. And the third thing that he did that's very important of course is sponsor initiate the Bible. All right. Okay. So that's where the Bible comes from. The Bible comes from the fact that the is Israelite people need to create mythology that explains why they are one family and why they're different from others and why they're actually better than other people. Okay. So what is amazing about the Bible is that it does succeed. It exceeds because of the great storytelling within the Bible. Okay. So this in the beginning we have the origins of Yahweh and the Bible begins with Genesis. The first book of the Bible is called Genesis which is means birth or the beginning. Okay. And in the beginning, God creates the universe. And he discovers that he's he's lonely. There's no one to talk to. It's not very interesting. So, he creates man, um, Adam. But then he thinks that Adam might be lonely as well. So, he creates Eve. Okay? And that's the beginning. So, then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground. Okay? Dust. So man is made of dust and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life and then man became a living being. Okay. So God's essence is in Adam and the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east and there he put the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. So this is garden paradise called Eden and man was created in order to farm it to take care of it. Okay, he's bas he's basically a servant a slave and in the center of the garden are two trees the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree of life as you can imagine grants immortality, right? The tree of the knowledge of good and evil grants the ability to learn. Okay, so let me explain. Let's imagine that there's this wall in front of me. Okay, so I walk I hit the wall. It hurts, right? But I don't know that hurting is bad. So I keep on I keep on hitting the wall and I keep on hurting myself. Okay? because I don't know what's good and what's bad. But now if I know what is good and what is bad, I know okay I should not hit the wall. Okay, I now have the capacity to learn and over a lifetime I will learn a lot. This is the secret of creativity. Right? What's really important about this idea is that you need to make a mistake for you to know what is good and evil. Okay. So that's why school is stupid because school we tell you there's a wall don't touch it because you will hurt yourself and you don't touch it you don't hurt yourself but you never learn for yourself because when you hit the wall you now are able to reflect and understand how the world works. Okay. So the secret to creativity is trying for yourself and learning for yourself what is good and evil. And what this is also saying is that these two things together, creativity plus immortality, allows you to become God. Okay, does that make sense? Because if you can live forever, but you're always learning, eventually you will absorb all the knowledge of the universe, which is what God is. Okay? God knows everything in the universe. And you can also argue that's why he created us because once you are perfection once you learn everything you're no longer capable of making mistakes of learning for yourself. What you so what you do is you teach students or you get students to learn for themselves and that way your knowledge expands. Okay. So it's a really important idea is that men and women were created to be part of the creative process. Okay. That's why God created us. Um, the Lord God took the man and put in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. Okay, so again, the man now is basically a servant or slave. And the Lord God commanded the man, you may freely, okay, you can do whatever you want. Okay, this idea of free choice. So if you want people to be creative, you have to give people free choice. Okay, you have to give people the capacity to make mistakes for themselves. otherwise they'll never learn for themselves. [snorts] Uh but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. For the day that you eat of it, you shall die. Okay. Now, what's amazing about the Bible is that it is poetry. Like all poetry, its meaning is very complicated. Okay? There's multiple layers to the meaning here. So, you shall die could mean, okay, the food is poisonous. Okay, don't eat the apple. Sorry, don't It's not the apple. It's the Don't eat the fruit because you'll eat it. It'll be poisonous and then you'll die. Okay. But it's also could be interpreted as a >> punishment, right? If you eat it, I will have to kill you. Okay. All right. So what so this is a very ambiguous story and that's what makes the story so amazing because it is uncertain to us what the true meaning of the the Bible is and therefore we have to keep on thinking about it discussing it and finding out for ourselves and at different stages of our lives our understanding may be different. Okay. What's also interesting is that God draws attention to one tree but not the other. That's kind of weird, right? There are two trees, the tree of immortality and tree of learning. But God only says, "Hey, there's a tree of learning. Don't touch that." Which means now that now now that our attention is now focused on this one tree, right? So think of a metaphor. Let's just say that we go to the amusement park, okay? You're my kids and I say to you, you can have you can ride any ride you want in this amusement park, but there's a ride called the dragon roller coaster. >> Do not ride that or you will die. What do you do? >> Ride that. >> You ride that stupid thing. Okay. So, it's a really strange setup where God knows everything, but he draws our attention to the one thing that he's afraid of. And it's almost like he's pushing us towards that tree. Okay? Because again, you know, if you talk to children, you'll know that if you if you if you warn them not to do something, they'll go and do it. Okay? So, what's going on here? Well, again the nature of God is up for debate. You can say that a God is uh being truthful and little and says that if you touch that tree you will die. Okay, so he's being dishonest basically. Okay, that's one possibility. Another possibility is that he's just stupid. He doesn't really understand how humans work. He created humans but he doesn't really understand what it means to be a human. and he gave it and he gave us free choice. So he doesn't really appreciate that we would disobey him. Okay, that's another possibility. Now another another possibility, okay, which can also be true is that it's all part of his plan, right? If he truly wants us to understand free choice. He truly wants us to be creative, then he needs to allow us to make our own mistake. And so therefore, he's sort of like setting us up. Okay? He's sort of like sort of like provoking us into making a mistake. All right? Does it make sense? So as you can see how it's only a few words but it's so complex and it's an entire universe onto itself. All right. Okay. All right. Now um this is story of God creating woman. Okay. Eve. [snorts] So Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man. The man is lonely and he wants a female companion. Okay. And he slept. Then he took one of his ribs and closed up his place with flesh. The rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. The man said, "This at last is bone my bones and flesh of my flesh, this one should be called woman. For out of man this one was taken." Okay. Now you can make the argument that um man is superior because man came first. But you can also make the argument that woman is superior because woman is made of higher quality. Woman is made of flesh, right? Man is made out of dust. So this is almost revolutionary the con conception because you would think that in this world men are at the top. But this Bible is telling us no women are made of higher quality material. They're made of actual flesh. Right? And that's why we think that the person who wrote this was actually a woman. And [snorts] as you read the Bible more and more, you will discover like the this genius who wrote the Bible, who first wrote the Bible, was in fact a woman. And that's revolutionary. Okay. All right. So, um, therefore, a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh, and the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Okay. All right. Let's let's let's continue. Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, 'You shall not eat from any tree in the garden?" The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, "You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die." Okay, this is really strange, okay? Because what you will notice is that the serpent chooses to talk to the woman, but not to the man. Okay. And also what's really interesting is that they're having a debate. [snorts] But the first serpent said to the woman, "You will not die for God knows that when you eat eat of it, your eyes will be open, and you'll be like God, knowing good and evil." So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that was a light to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate and she gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate and then the eyes of both were open and they knew that they were naked and they sold fig leaves together and made loans clothes for themselves. Okay, this is really interesting because the woman is making this decision by herself, right? The servant says, "Hey, why don't you judge for yourself whether whether the food is good or not?" The woman looks at the food and says, "I judge for myself it is good." Okay, this is revolutionary where the woman is making the decisions. She like you would think that once she once the serpent said this to her she would she would go to her husband and say hey Adam the servant said this what do you think okay but the woman's like no I can see for myself what is true and then so she eats the fruit by herself and then she tells her husband eat the fruit as well and the husband falls as well so this tells us that the real hero of the story is actually the woman Okay. [snorts] Okay. Then they heard the sound of the Lord God walking the garden at the time of the evening breeze and the man and his wife hid themselves in presence of the God among the trees of the garden. Okay. So they know they're in trouble. They know that God will discover that they ate from a fruit. Uh they ate from a tree and they're they're scared. Okay. The Lord God called the man and said to him, "Where are you?" I He said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden. I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself." So he knows that being naked is wrong. Okay, being naked is bad. Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree which of which I commanded you not to eat? The man said, "The woman whom you gave to me with me, she gave me fruit from the tree and I ate." Okay, so the man is blaming the woman. Okay, the man says, "It's not my fault. I'm just I'm I was just following her. Okay. So again, the woman what's amazing about this is the woman is the hero of the story. Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is it that you have done?" The woman said, "The servant tricked me and I ate." Okay. All right. So at this point in the story, what can we expect? We can expect that God have no choice but to kill Adam and Eve, right? Because God's words were, "If you eat from that fruit, you will surely die." And so even though the food fruit wasn't poisonous, God still has a duty to kill Adam and Eve. And if we were in the Iliad, okay, then surely Adam and Eve would have died because the gods in the Iliad, the Greek gods, most gods are vengeful. They're wrathful, right? But not this God. Okay? Yahweh is different. Okay? Look what happens next is the man named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all living and the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Instead of being angry at Adam and Eve, he offers them a present. Okay, the question then is why? Well, there are different possibilities, right? The first possibility is that God himself recognizes that I made a mistake here. I shouldn't have drawn attention to this fruit, right? Therefore, it's my fault. Therefore, this is a god that's capable of self-reflection and forgiveness. Okay, this is revolutionary, guys. Okay, because again, remember gods at this time are revengeful, wrathful. You must obey them or they will strike you down. But this God is different. This God is like, listen, it's you should not have eaten enough fruit, but it was my fault as well, so I forgive you. He's capable of self-reflection. Okay. Another possibility is again this is what God wanted all along. Okay. And we know this because the man named his wife Eve. So the man honors his wife, okay, with a name and it's the mother of all living. Okay, you are the true goddess. Okay. So, um what happens next is God's like, "Okay, well, you still disobey me, so I will have to punish you now." Okay. So, what he does is he punishes a man [clears throat] by making him now have to toil for food. Okay? He has to be a farmer. He punished a woman by making child birth painful. He punished a serpent by making him slither on the ground. Okay? So, this is all good, right? But now, what God does is this. He actually throws the Adam and Eve out of the garden. Okay. Okay. So why the Lord God said see the man has become like one of us. All right. So Eve did the right thing knowing good and evil and now he might reach out his hand and also take from the tree of life and eat and live forever. Okay. So that's what godhood is. God is a capacity to learn for yourself as well as to live forever. So God's afraid, hey, if Adam and Eve eat that tree of life, he'll they'll become like God as well. >> [snorts] >> Therefore the God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till to the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man and at east of the garden of Eden he placed a sherim, an angel, a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life. And so this is our banishment from the garden of Eden. Now um most people think that this is a bad thing. Okay? But you can also interpret this as a good thing. So God chose us to make us creative without the possibility of living forever. Why? Because if you think about it, creativity is death. Well, the concept of death, [clears throat] you cannot be truly creative. Okay, first of all, if you think I'm going to live forever, you're not actually motivated to do anything, right? You're not motivated to make the most of your life. But actually making the most of your life, you can't be creative. Also, if you live forever, your children cannot be creative. Your grandchildren cannot be creative. So for humans to be creative as a species, death must be an inevitability. Okay, does that make sense? So you can you can say that okay, God doesn't really know what he's doing. It's his first time having children. He's making a lot of mistakes. Okay. But you can also say that um it's all part of his plan. His plan is to make us creative because that is what's divine. Creativity is what's truly divine. Okay. [snorts] All right. So we continue. Now that Adam and Eve are outside the Garden of Eden, they have children named uh Cain and Abel. Okay. Now the man knew his wife Eve and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I produced a man with the help of the Lord." Next she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel is a keeper of sheep and Cain a tiller of the ground. Okay? So Cain is a farmer and Abel uh a shepherd. In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering but for Cain's offering he had no regard. Okay, this is a very common thing in this world where you have to make sacrifices to the gods. The gods will favor you if the if the offerings are good. Okay, and so you're god, Cain comes with some plants and then uh Abel comes with some meat. Okay, so you're like Abel, you're a better person. Okay, and this is a very common thing in this world. But Cain gets very angry. His face fell. The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is looking at the door. It's desires for you, but you must master." Okay. A very common thing in this world where the gods are like, "This person sucks. Do better next time." Okay. All right. But Cain gets really angry and what he does is he kills his brother. And then um the Lord gets angry and says, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground, and now you're cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you with strength. You'll be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth. Okay? So, at this time, what God will could should do is just kill Cain, right? An eye for an eye. Um, but God doesn't do that. All right? God says that I banish you. And then Cain says, "If you do that, my punishment is greater than I can bear. I today you have driven me from the soil and I shall be hidden from your face. I should be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth and anyone who meets me may kill me." Okay? So people will know that I've left my community. I must have done something wrong and therefore they may kill me. And God says, "Okay, I'm going to put a mark on you and this will protect you so that no one who came upon him would kill him." Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Non east of Eden. Okay. So again, this is a god of forgiveness, of reconciliation, of compromise, of debate. Cain says, "Your punishment is unfair." And then most gods be like, "Screw you, man. I'm I can do whatever you want." But this God is like, "You know what? You make a good point. Look, I have reflected. I recognize that I shouldn't have said that your brother's better than you. Okay? I recognize that this is partly my fault. So as a compromise, I protect you." Okay, this is again a revolutionary idea. This was written 3,000 years ago. Okay, today we think okay this is a very common concept but remember in the Iliad the major problem is one of forgiveness and in the Bible this is a god of forgiveness. Okay, he's kind of silly but he's not perfect and what he's telling us that perfection is not a possibility. What is a possibility? What we should all try to do is try to reflect and improve ourselves. Okay? And this is a theme throughout the Bible. So as humanity continues to develop, God looks down and says, "You know what? These humans, I designed them to be creative, to do wonderful things, but they're killing themselves. They're enslaving each other, explaining each other. This is stupid. I need to start over." Okay? So he creates a flood. But there's one person on the earth that he thinks is a noble person, Noah. Right? So he says, "Noah, build build an ark and save yourself." So Noah builds an ark and he saves himself. And then after the flood recedes, Noah comes and rebuilds humanity. And then God looks down to Noah and says, "You know what? I will never again curse the ground because of humankind. For the inclination of the human heart is evil from you, nor will I ever destroy every living creature as I've done. As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease. This is God saying, "Oops, I made a mistake again." Okay, I didn't like the evil that humans were creating on this earth and therefore I want I want to wipe evil from this earth. But you know what? If I give them free will, if they have that fruit of from the tree knowledge from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, then yeah, some of them are going to make mistakes. Okay? Okay? And this something that I'm have have to put up with. So he promised no one in humanity, I will never do this again. If you guys do evil, well, you're going to have to solve this problem yourself. I'm not going to come and suffer for you. All right? It it was a mist it was my mistake to to make everyone suffer like this. I will never do this again. All right? So humanity is rebuilt. And of course, humans go back to being evil, starting wars, enslaving each other, explaining each other. So then God's like, you know what? What I need to do is this. I need to build a nation that is the best nation and which will be a great example to everyone. And this nation I will call Israel. Okay. So he looks around the earth and he he discovers a name named Abraham. And Abraham is the patriarch of the nation of Israel. But these are also the patri patriarch of the religions of Christianity and uh Islam. Okay. So, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are considered the Abrahamic faiths because they all think Abraham is their patriarch or their uh forefather. And so, um Yahweh says to Abraham, I will make a covenant with you. I will make a contract with you where I will favor you, but you must swear loyalty to me. You must you must promise me that your people will be uh loyal to me. They will worship me only. Okay? And and that's a covenant, the Abrahamic covenant. Now, what's interesting is the relationship between Abraham and Yahweh. Okay? You would think that Abraham would just be a slave and a servant to Yahweh, but that's not actually what happens. Okay? So, let's read the story. So, what happens is this. God promised to not destroy the earth, but then he's like, "Yeah, but then there's some places that are so evil, I need to destroy them to teach everyone a lesson." Okay? So, this place is called Sodom and Gomorrah. And Son Gomarra is known for its wickedness. So um God sends men, okay, angels to summon Gomorrah to destroy it. Abraham is shocked by this. So Abraham's like, "Yeah, but you can't destroy everyone." Okay, so what happens and this is really interesting is that Abraham and Yahweh start having a debate and Abraham pleads with Yahweh to change his mind. Okay? So yeah, Abraham says to Yahweh, "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are 50 righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not forgive it for the 50 righteous who are in it? Far be it from you to do such a thing to say the righteous with the wicked so the righteous fear as the wicked." Okay, he's saying, "Yahweh, you're making a mistake." Think about that. Okay, a mortal is telling a god, you're making a mistake. But not only that, but Yahweh is like, "Yeah, I think you're right." Okay, so they agre so Abraham says, "Um, if there's 50 people who are righteous, you cannot destroy Sodom and Gomorrah." And God says, "You're right. If I find 50 righteous, I will forgive everyone." Okay, so Yahweh agrees with Abraham. At this point, you would think that Abraham's like, "Yes." Okay? And then he would run away. But he doesn't do that. He keeps on arguing. He says, "Yeah, but let's just say there's 45. Okay, 45. Suppose five of the 50 are lacking. There's only 45. We can't find 50. Don't you think we should still forgive Zam Gomorra?" And God's like, you know, that's a good point. Yeah. So, you know, 45 is good as well. Okay. And he keeps on going on and on until they get to 10. For the sake of 10, I will not destroy it. Okay. This is what Yahweh promises Abraham. So in other words, it's not that Yahweh and Abraham, it's not like master servant. It's more like friend friend because what a friend does is a friend is honest with you. A friend tries you to be to tell you the truth. A friend tries to get to get you to be better. Okay? So what Abraham's saying to Yahweh is like I know you're a virtuous god, but sometimes you make mistakes. So it's important for for me to argue with you. Okay? And that's why Judaism is such a powerful religion because the basis of Judaism is debate and argument and questions. Okay, debate and questions. Why are you so creative? It's this simple, guys. Jews are encouraged to debate each other to figure out what is truly right. There is no absolute truth. It's always a process of asking questions, open debate, and self-reflection. Yeah. >> Okay. All right. So eventually what happens is that um what will happen is that Abraham will give birth will have a son named Isaac. And Isaac will have two sons Esso and uh Jacob. Jacob's name will eventually become Israel. So Israel is founded by Jacob. What would happen is that um Jacob is the younger son. Esso is the older son. So you would think that Esso would inherit everything from Isaac. But Jacob Jacob and his mother Rebecca schemes and steals from Esso. Okay, they trick Isaac and they steal the birthright from Esso. So now the Esso is pissed off at Jacob. So Jacob has no choice but to run away. Okay, he runs away and he meets a relative. Okay. And what follows next is the greatest love story in the Bible. You can also argue it's the greatest love story ever in human history. Okay. And what's amazing about the story is how simple it is. But once we start analyzing, you will discover that it's actually a very complex story. All right? It's a beautiful, complex, and sophisticated story. All right? Laban, who's a relative, says to Jacob, "You're my kinsman. um should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me what shall your wages be? Okay. So, Jacob's um running away from his brother and he's [music] and he finds um safety with Laban and he offers to work for Laban. But Laban said, "Listen, I can't just um enslave you. So, you work for me and I'll give you whatever you want." Okay? And then you take what says Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah. The younger was Rachel. Leah's eyes were lovely and Rachel was graceful and beautiful. Jacob loved Rachel. So he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel." Lean said, "It is better that I give her to you than I should give her to anyone else." So yeah, I agree to this deal. Okay. It's a contract now. All right. Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seem to him but a few days because of the love he had for her. Okay. So he loves her so much that seven years is nothing to him. Okay. Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife so I may go into her, for my time is completed." So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast. But in the evening, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went into her. Um when morning came, it was Leah. And Jacob said to Leah, "What is it that you have done to me? Did I not serve you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?" Lean said, "This is not done in our country. You the younger before the firstborn. Complete the week of this one and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years." Jacob did so and complete her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as a wife. So Jacob went into Rachel and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He served Laban for another seven years. Okay, this again is a beautiful love story and it doesn't sound like it. Okay, but let's go into the complexity complexity of it. Okay, first of all, clearly Laban deceived Jacob, right? But did he did he mean to in the beginning? The answer is no. Okay, the question is why did he do so? And the answer is Rachel and Leah are sisters, right? And therefore, they probably hate each other. They're in competition with each other. So when Jacob says to Laban, "I love Rachel, but not Leah." Leah now is pissed, right? So what do you think he did? She did for seven years. For seven years, she just pester her father and says, "Hey, am I not your daughter? Am I not your first born? Will you let me be insulted and humiliate this? If Jacob were to marry Rachel, who will ever want to marry me?" And Leon's a father, okay? And he doesn't want to deal with this crap. So he's like, "How do how do I get out of this mess?" Well, what I'll do is I'll trick um Jacob and first give him Leah and then I'll give him Rachel. And how does he know this? Because he knows that Jacob loves Rachel, right? Laban's able to like stand far away and look at how Jacob and looks at Rachel. So he knows that Jacob will have to endure. Okay, he'll put he'll he'll do this. But then the question is, does Rachel love Jacob? And the answer is yes, of course. Right? Because once um Jacob married Leah, then Rachel could have just said, "Screw this. I'm going to marry someone else." But she didn't. She had to wait seven years. And you can imagine those seven years were the longest seven years for both Jacob and Rachel. In fact, every day Leah probably said to Rachel, "Haha, okay, she was laughing at Rachel, just saying, you see, Jacob doesn't really love you." And um Rachel had to endure. Okay, so that's this the power of love. The way that Jacob and Rachel were able to endure all the humiliation in order to just be together. Okay, it's a beautiful love story. And this is the great thing about the Bible. The Bible written by this person, okay, who's who's clearly a woman, right? Only a woman would write stories like this. It has both economy and irony. Economy just means that she's able to with very few words convey deep meaning. She's able to in the story just a couple paragraphs create an entire universe. We can see actually the movie play out. Okay, it's 14 years where in the first seven years, Jacob is really happy. But in the last seven years, everybody he's agonizing because he doesn't want to be with Leah. He wants to be with Rachel, but they can't be together and he has to wait all these seven years. Okay, so economy, but also irony. Irony just means it's funny, guys. Okay, I know that you're taught the Bible is a religious text, but when it was first conceived, it was meant to be a funny story. Okay, this is a story of two sisters who hate each other and they're competing for the same guy. All right, and this competition continues. When Rachel saw that she bought Jacob no children, she envyed her sister and she said to Jacob, "Give me children or I shall die. Okay, you have to get me pregnant because Lee is having a lot of kids." Jacob became very angry with Rachel and said, "Am I the place of God who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?" Then she said, "Here is my maid. Go into her that she may bear upon my knees and that I may have children through her." So she gave him near. She gave him her maid as a wife. And Jacob went to her and Ba conceived and bore Jacob a son. Then Rachel said, "God has judgment. She has heard my voice and given me a son." Okay, this is a comedy where she's in competition with Leah. Leah has a lot of kids. So Rachel is going to cheat and give her maid to Jacob. And whenever um the a baby comes up, Rachel's like, "It's mine. It's mine." And she's going to go around and and cheer to to like um try to out compete Leah. Okay, this is a comedy. [snorts] Then Jacob said, "God has judged me and has heard my voice and give me a son. Uh Rachel's conceited again and bore Jacob a second a second son." Then Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings, I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed." So she knew him not to leave. Okay. All right. Okay. So, does that make sense? And now what is going to do is give her mate to Jacob as well in order to continue the competition. All right. To try to out compete uh Rachel. Okay. So, this is all just a comedy. Okay. It's meant to be beautiful stories that force you that provoke you into deep reflection. Right? And this is why the Jews are so creative. If you look at the media, if you look at Hollywood, if you look at academia, the Jews dominate, okay? Because from the moment they're born, they're born with these stories that force them to think deeply deep deeply about who they are, what it means to be human, and what life is about. Okay? And as you can understand, you can just have multiple interpretations of what's going on, but they force you to think very deeply about life to have an inner debate with yourself. Okay. All right. Okay. So, now we go on to David. Okay. The story of David, it's very very um complicated. Okay. And so in the Bible, what it tells us is that um God needs a king for the nation of Israel. And he sends a prophet named Sam Samuel to find a a king. And he goes to the house of Jesse. [snorts] And in the house of Jesse, he finds David who's the young youngest boy. He says, "You not you in the future be the favored king of Israel." Okay? And David in in his early age does wonderful things. For example, he defeats Goliath. Okay? So you've heard the story of David and Goliath, right? But after he kills Goliath, the king Saul becomes envious, jealous of David and that forces David to run away. Eventually Saul is killed and David comes back and becomes king. Okay, that's that story in the Bible. Guys, as you learn in this class, this is all propaganda. Okay. What really happened is that Saul is king. David is the mercenary and he's a very good and popular mercenary. He has a lot of soldiers who follow him and therefore he kill heals Saul and becomes king himself. Okay. But now what the Bible needs to do is legit legitimize David. Okay. Try to tell us that oh no no no David is not ambitious. He was not ruthless. God willed him to be king. Okay. And that's why the babel Bible was written the way it was. So this is written um by the court historian. Okay. The person who wrote Genesis is is a person we call the Yahweh. Okay. Because for her the God is Yahweh. The Yahweh or J. This person is a court historian. So his job is to clean up the image of David to tell the story of David again but in a much more clean way that absolves him of any crimes. Okay. So, so um where we are in the story is that Saul is dead. But Saul's family is still around and Saul's family has a g general named Abner. Okay. But after Saul is dead, Abner feels slighted by the family. So Amnner's like, "Screw this. I'm going to go and support David." And David of course is very happy. Okay. All right. [sighs] Amnner came with 20 men to David at Hebr. David made a feast for Amnner and the men who were with him. Amnner said to David, "Let me go and rally all Israel to you in order that you may take a covenant with me and you may reign over all that your heart desires." Okay. So what Ammer is saying is make me your general and I will give you Israel. David dismissed Abner and went away in peace. Then the servants of David arrived with Job from a raid. Okay, so Job is David's general bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not was not with David at Hebrron for David had dismissed him and he had gone away in peace. When Job and all the army that was with him came, it was told Job Abner came to the king and he has dismissed him and has gone away in peace. Now Job and Abnner have a conflict because Abnner killed one of Job's brothers. So Job wants to kill Abnner. Okay. What have you done? Abnner came to you. Why did you dismiss him so that he got away? You know that Abner came to deceive you and to learn your comingings and goings and to learn all that you are doing. Job came out from David's presence. He sent messengers after Abnner. They brought him back from the christition of Sarah, but David doesn't know about this. Okay, so Job goes and kills Abner. Okay, now so if you read the story, you think that David did nothing wrong. Okay, but if you think about it, there are lots of problems with this story. The first problem is that Job the general is rebelling against David, right? If you're David, who who are you more afraid of? Are you afraid of Atner or you afraid of Job? You're afraid of Job, right? Because Job has your army. >> Okay. So there's no way that David would allow Job to rebel against him. So the only conclusion is that Job acted with the permission of David. So David knew about this. Okay? All right. This is a lie. David knew all about this. In fact, David probably ordered Job to kill Abner. Then the [snorts] question is why? Well, if you're a king, you're most concerned about loyalty, right? If Admiral betrayed Saul's family, there's a possibility Adna will come and betray you as well. Okay? So, this guy needs to be eliminated because he's dangerous. Okay? And it makes sense because remember David betrayed Saul, so he's afraid that others will betray him as well. All right? So this story even though it's a lie it gives it gives us enough clues to construct the truth for ourselves. That's what makes the Bible different from other religious texts. Other religious texts are sayings or truisms but these are stories and stories are living things that we can reconstruct in our heads. Okay. And again this explain helps us explain why the Jews are so creative people because they grew up in a tradition of stories as opposed to truths or sayings. Okay. So they can constantly reimagine these stories for themselves. All right. So now we get to the most famous story of David. All right. So in the spring of the year when the t when kings go out to battle, David sent Job with his officers and all Israel with him. Okay. So what's really important to know is that even though Job disobeyed David and killed Amnner, Job was never punished. Okay, which tells us that Job was probably acting on the orders of David. [snorts] Uh they reverenc the Ammonites and besieged Rabbi, but David remained at Jerusalem. Okay, so David's in Jerusalem while the army is fighting elsewhere. It happened late one afternoon when David roasted from the couch and was walking about on the roof of the king's house that he saw from the roof a woman bathing. And the woman was very beautiful. David sent someone to inquire about her. It was reported this is Bash Sheba. Okay. Daughter of Iliam, the wife of Uriah the Hitite. So David sent messengers to get her and she came to him and he laid with her. Um then she got pregnant. Okay. Again, this is a very um problematic story because first of all, a woman doesn't sleep with you just because you ask her to. Okay? >> And Bashibba, remember, is married to Uria the Height. Okay? So, who is Uria? Yuria is the best soldier in David's army. He's very popular with the man. So, if you're David, who are you afraid of? You're afraid of your Ria. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Yuria is the person you're most afraid of. [snorts] All right. So now he has a problem because Bashiba is pregnant. And David's like, I need to fix a problem because if you comes back and discovers that his wife got pregnant while he's away, he's going to know that I slept with her. Okay? So he has to he has to solve this problem. So David sent word to Job. Send me Yuria the Hitite. And Job sent Uria to David. when you came to him, David asks how it's going and uh David says to Uria, "Okay, you know what? You you're a great warrior. Why don't you go and see your wife?" But then Uriah doesn't go see his wife. Because Uriah says to says to David, "Listen, your army is fighting for you. I cannot go sit with my wife and feel good about myself while your men are dying. I refuse to uh uh be with my wife if the men are outside. Okay. So now David has a huge problem. So what David does is he writes a letter to Job and tells Job, "Hey, go do this. Okay, set Lura in the forefront of the hardest fighting and then draw back from him so that he may struck down and die." So David orders the assassination of Uriah and Job tells David, "Your servant Uriah is dead." Okay. So I I've done what you've asked me to do. Okay. So in the Bible, what it tells us is that David fell in love with Basheba and his heart took over him and that led him to go kill Uriah. Okay, but if you think about it, what probably happened was reverse where David becomes jealous of Uria and he becomes fearful of Uria because he's so popular with the soldiers. Okay? Because that's how David got the throne by betraying Saul. So he's afraid that Yura will betray him as well. Okay. So he probably ordered the assassination of Yuria to prevent this threat from arising. And then what do you do with what do you do to show that you're better than your worst enemy? If you have an enemy, how do you prove that you are better than he is? >> You go marry his wife. Okay. So that's the real story. Okay. The real story is that David felt that Uria was being better than him. He got very jealous and so he killed Ura and married his wife to show ha I'm better than Uria. [snorts] Okay, that's the real story. But you and you can see how the Bible framed the story in a different way. So So in other words, the Bible was written as an apology for David to disguise his crimes. And the story of Genesis was written to show that God favors David. Okay? Because if David is fallible, but what David does that's really important is that he omits his mistakes and he reflects and he improves. That's what God does as well. Okay? So David and God are the same people. And that's why Yahweh favors David above everyone else. Yahweh is looking for a friend. David is his best friend because David is most like him. Okay. All right. Let's continue. Okay. So the wife of Uria Bashibba he she hears that her husband is dead and she cries and then when after after her morning is over David and Bashibba marry and have a son together. Okay. Then Nathan the prophet goes David and says tells him a story. There are two men in a city and one is rich and the other is poor. Okay. So there's two men, one rich, one poor. The rich had many sheep and the poor had just one. Okay. Um then a traveler comes to the rich man and um the rich man has has to have a feast for the traveler but he doesn't want to use his sheep. So he steals the poor man's sheep. Okay. Then David gets angry and says, "Hey man, that's wrong." Okay. I will find this man and I will kill him. Okay? And I will um give the poor four lamb instead of one. And then Nathan says to David, David, you are that rich man. Okay. So what Nathan is saying to David is your crime is he stole of Bashibba. Guys, that's not David's crime. Okay. David's crime is he killed Uriah. Right? So this is what we call gaslighting. You see how clever this is where the Bible set up so that you forget that David's crime is killing Yora. Okay, you think that the real crime is David stealing Bashiba. No, that's not the real crime. The real crime is murder. Okay, not adultery. All right, so in other words, the Bible is an apology for David. But because of the nature of Israel society. Okay. So what's what's special about Israel at this point in history is that it's a very small community of people. So David can't be like I'm king. If you disobey me I'll kill you. Okay? He has to get everyone to support him. So they have to make up these stories to justify why David is a good person. Okay? David cannot say he didn't do this because everyone know knows he did this. So instead they change the story. And what they say instead is that the pro what makes David special is not that he is infallible. What makes him special is that he's a poet and he is capable of reflection and forgiveness which is what Yahweh is. Okay. So Yahweh is a poor king and so is David. All right. And this is why again the Jews are so literally so so literary and so creative. They're not great warriors, but they are tremendous intellectuals. This has been true throughout their history. They're capable of deep reflection, open debate, and argumentation. Okay? And this is and this is why the Jews are so creative. Okay? Any questions, guys? Okay. All right. Um I don't know much about Bible. So Bible is a collection of different stories and poem, right? >> Yeah. >> And so the common feature of these stories are uh are are I like I I can't really tell the common feature between this story and uh the previous story about uh Rachel and uh Leah. >> Okay. All right. Okay. So that's a good question. Okay. So let's go over some basic introduction to the Bible. Okay. Okay. So the Bible it's a library. Okay. Bible means sorry. Okay. Bible means books in Greek. So it's a library and it's composed of um three major parts. The first is what's called the Tanakat. Sorry it's it's a Torah. Okay. So it's the first five books of the um Bible. Okay. Second is the historical books, history and then you have the writings. Okay. Which include poetry. Okay. So the problem of Bible is that it was actually constructed much later than the time of David. Okay. So David was David was about 1,000 BC around this time. Okay. And the Bible we think was construed about 400 um uh BC around this time. Okay. So there's a 600 year difference. So the Bible that we have was very different from the Bible that uh was first conceived. Okay. So the what what's the structure of the Bible? The structure of the Bible is this. It's a history of the people of Israel. Okay. Remember Israel is a fake nation. It's it's a collection of different tribes, different peoples, and they they need to make it as so it's one people. So they create a fake history. All right? So the fake history is um Adam and Eve, then uh Noah, then Abraham, then Isaac, then um uh Jacob, then Moses, then you get all the way to David. Okay? All right. So this is a cosmology, an ordering of events or a fake history. All right? And what this is doing is this. It's combining all the different tribes and groups of Israel together into one family history. Okay? So remember, you have the Egyptian priests, you have the missionaries, you have the nomads, you have the heal people. Okay? So Egyptian priests get explained away by Moses. That's why the Israelites go into Egypt because um they have the Egyptian influence. Okay. Then you have the hill people and the hill people come from different families. And what you do is you make them into one big family. So Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are all different part family. And when you combine the nation together, you make it as though it's one nation together. Okay? So now rather than Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are different families. It's like no, Isaac is the son of Jacob and Jacob is the son of Isaac. Okay. All right. So this is the original Bible. And then what happened later on was then they added other stuff as well. Okay. Poetry and rituals and all that. Okay. Over time. Does that make sense? >> All right. Good. Great. Any more questions, guys? Um I I don't understand like why does the Bible kind of trying to embolish like kind of trying to make people believe that David is a very successful figure figure or something? >> Oh sorry what is the question? Uh so like um so the intention of the story about David is to use these stories to let uh the readers uh the the Israel people to understand um their their culture or or is this just uh okay um listen okay okay so the Bible will change over time okay this is really important to understand what the Bible is changes over time because Israel becomes different over time. And we'll go over this next class. Oh, sorry, not next week. Okay, not next class, next week. Okay, so what's happening now is okay. Um, you're David and you're Solomon. Okay, so Solomon is the son of David who becomes king. All right, and there are people around you. Okay, and they're gossiping. Okay, gossiping. They know what happened with Bashiba. They know what happened with Abner. They're all gossiping and that causes problems for the king. Okay? It's like being in a village and everyone's talking behind your back. So, what you do is you need to spin this. Okay? Or what we call uh public relations or media, you need to tell the story in a different way that makes the gossiping less bad. Okay? So, the gossiping right now is that David, he is ruthless. He killed Yuria because Yuria was a threat. Okay. Now, the problem with this with the story is that if people believe the story to be true, one, it's possible that Uria's friends will want revenge for what happened. Okay. It's also possible that a soldier tries to kill David. Okay? Because David is clearly ambitious. So you change the gossip to like, oh no, no, no, no. David was not ambitious. David is just a poet who fell in love with Bashiba. Okay. Now people think that David is just irresponsible. Okay. Infallible. But this is a lot better than people thinking that he's a ruthless killer. Because if you if people think that he's a ruthless killer, then I should be a ruthless killer as well. Okay. Now people are like, "Well, you know, David, he's king, but he's not perfect and he made a mistake and we should forgive him because Yahweh, remember the story of Yahweh is that he makes mistakes too and we should forgive Yahweh as well." All right, do you understand what's happening? Okay, this is what we call spin. Before it was like he killed Yuria and therefore uh we should avenge Yora or it's okay to be violent. Now you switch a story to say no it was really about Bashiba and this is just really about okay you know what people make mistakes we should forgive him. Okay and that and that's why the Bible was created in the way it was to change the gossip around so that it would it would be less harmful. They both suck. Okay, but everyone knows you killed Jaria. Now the question is why did you do so? Okay, you don't want people thinking that hey David killed Yuria because he saw you as a threat because then people will think okay then we know that David had to kill Saul as well. Okay, that' be a huge problem on your hands. So you switch like no no it was just Bashiba. >> Okay, does that make sense? >> So Bible is used like a to Israel people uh to to like kind of manipulate their value. >> Okay. All right. Listen. All right. Very simple. We remember this. Writing. What if writing? Writing does three things. First is legitimacy. Okay. To explain that this guy should be the king because that's the will of God. Second is unity. We are one family, guys. We have the same values. The third is differentiation. We're different from other people. Okay. All right. differentiation is Yahweh is a god of forgiveness, a god of of fallibility, but a god of reflection and debate and openness. Okay? So, our god is different from other gods. The Greek gods is pure vengeance. Our god is one of forgiveness. Okay? He's he's good. Unity is we're just one family with one history. Okay? And legitimacy is that David is a poet king which is just like Yahweh. Okay? That's why Yahweh favors him. Does that make sense? >> Makes sense. >> Okay. That's what the Bible was constructed or in initially to do. But over time, its nature will change. It's something we'll discuss as we go along. But when the Bible was first constructed, it was constructed as propaganda. But Yahweh is, okay, the Yahweh or the Jay, she uses opportunity to create beautiful stories that become living entities, living memories onto themselves and they ignite the imagination of the Jewish people. And that's why the Jewish people are so creative. All right. >> All right. So, okay. And do you have any more questions? Okay. Great. Okay, so we've done the Greeks, we've done the Jews. Next class we'll do the Persians. Okay, and these are the three most creative peoples of this period. The Jews, the Greeks, and the Persians. And you can argue that it's these three people, the Jews, the Greeks, and the Persians that have that are the pillars of Western civilization. Okay. So we will continue this next class.

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So um we've done the Greeks and we've done the Israelites and today we discuss the Persians and today I introduce to you the most influential person who who has ever lived and his name is Zorathustra. Okay. And Zorustra will create the world's first uh great religion world religion called Zorashinism. And this will lead to the rise of the world's first great empire called the Persian Aid Empire. Okay. So to understand uh Zorusta, let's go back and understand how we humans have traditionally understood the world. Okay. So intuitively we've understood that the world is one of consciousness. Okay. The universe is conscious. It's constantly vibrating. Okay. These vibrations are infinite. And the lower that the vibrations go, the slower they are and therefore they give rise to matter. Okay? And that gives rise to uh humans. So we both inhabit the material universe but our minds inhabit the spiritual universe. And um as a result when we vibrate as well our consciousness returns to to the universe. Okay. So we're in constant dialogue with the universe. Now this is hard to understand. So we've used metaphors or stories to explain this uh system. All right. So let's go over how uh we've we've explained the system using metaphors. So this is God. Okay. The god is called the monad or the one or noose. But there are different names for this God. And this God is perfect. The problem with perfection is that you lack imagination. You lack creativity. And that's why when God emanates, he created us. Okay? Humans. Why? Because we are material. We have bodies and therefore we are imperfect. What this means is that when we hit a wall, we feel pain. We can fall down. We can die. Um we can suffer. We can make mistakes. At the same time, it is through constantly making mistakes, disobedience, fallibility that we are able to be creative. Okay? And as a result both God and we are in the process of becoming okay we are becoming into perfection we are be we are becoming into eternity and infinity and so we are co-creators with God. [snorts] Now there are certain characteristics about the system um that you have to remember. Okay, first of all in the system we need to have free will because only by having complete freedom can we be truly creative. The monatic is controlling us then um there can't be any creativity. It's it's all intentional. It's all planned. Okay. So free will is very important. Another very very important idea is the individual. Okay. So what so how the system works is what matters is what happens inside of us. Okay? Because only us individually can give rise to creativity. And so it is our interactions with the monad that's important. Okay. Another way of saying this is that use a metaphor. Okay. The metaphor is a candle. A candle. Sorry, this is a bad drawing. Okay. Candle. And we are all mirrors surrounding this candle and we are all candle is reflected in us. Okay. So the monad is in us and um we are all part of together. So what happens is what happens to us individually. Okay. [snorts] Another very important part of this is it's eternity. Okay. Reincarnation. The idea here is that when you die, you just don't disappear. Your consciousness returns to the spirit world. Why? Because maybe in this world, you made a lot of mistakes. And because you made a lot of mistakes, you can't really appreciate all the pain you've caused. So when you return to spirit world, then it's a time for you to reflect and understand your significance on this world. Okay? And so the idea is that if you done a lot of good in this world, if you've been virtuous, you ascend to a higher plane. And if you did a lot of bad things, then you stay in the lower realm. Okay? And this idea of heaven and hell. Why? Because if you did a lot of good, first of all, you can appreciate all that all that you've done. You can be closer to the moon at okay. If you've done a lot of bad, then you will see for yourself all that that the hurt you've caused in the world. Okay. And you be you'll be further down from the monad. So this is how intuitively we've understood the universe to work. Okay. When we're born, we're b we're born almost with an intuitive understanding of this. Okay. The problem is that as our populations continue to grow and grow, eventually we have war. Okay. And war gives rise to uh patriarchy and property. Why? Because how do you incentivize people to go fight? Well, you promise them this wife will be yours. Okay? You'll be the master of the household and whatever you win, whether it's gold or whatever, it will be yours forever. Okay? And so these three things, war, patriarchy, and property are all interlin together. Okay? And this you can argue gives rise to the idea of capital. [snorts] Remember when we last discussed the bronze age, the bronze age was the height of capital and therefore it was the height of war, slavery, corruption, okay, violence, evil in this world. And in this time there will emerge prophets, the port prophets who come and tell us that what we're doing is wrong. And we must remember who we came from originally. Okay? We must remember that we are part of the monad and that we're here to celebrate life, not to destroy life, to be creative, not to be destructive, to love, not to make war. Okay? And so um during the bronze age emerges a man named Zorathustra and he is a port prophet just like Homer and the Yahweh is um and he's dealing with a situation. Okay, we've enter a system where war, patriarch and property are prevalent and we can't imagine a world without these things. So now he has to create a new system. He has he has to present for his poetry new ideas that help us return to the monad. Okay. And so he creates the beginnings of a new world religion called uh zurashinism. Okay. So let's go over the basic ideas. So remember that this is a polytheistic world where you fight for your god. And the gods don't really care about what's good and what's evil. All they care about is themselves. So you celebrate them. you make sacrifices to them. If you give them enough money, if you bought them well enough, then you win wars. Okay? So that's a system that is that we call polytheism. So what um Azora Master does is that he reimagines system and creates a new hierarchy where a haram master is the top god. Okay? And you can call him a monad as well. And for for Zor Zor Thusra, Aurora Master is the lord of wisdom. Okay, it literally translate into lord of wisdom and he's represented by the idea of fire. Okay. So what is astronism in Chinese? It's right. Okay. The religion of white fire. It's a religion of wisdom. And what then he also says is that the war of heaven and hell is within us. Okay. And there are two forces that tear at us that divide us. Okay. The first is a force of asha. The second is the force of okay these ideas are hard to translate but asha just means truth and douch means the lie. Okay. So, the Greeks um really admire the Persians. And what and what they said about the Persians is the Persians are good at three things. They're good at um horse riding. They're good at archery. They're good at telling the truth. The Persians find it abhorrent, hateful to lie. So, they're always telling the truth. Okay. Uh but that's a very simplistic understanding of the system. Telling the truth is not what Asha is, right? Um what Asha really is is a system of virtue. By being virtuous, by doing good in the world, you become closer to a master. You become his representative on earth. So um to better understand this idea, all right, I'm going to introduce to you um another concept called the categorical imperative. Okay. So, Emanuel Kant, so we don't know when Zor Zoro uh Zorathusa lived, okay, but he lived about 3,000 years ago. Emil Kant um is the 18th century. Okay, so he's closer to our time. And he introduces a concept called the categorical imperative. [snorts] For him, the categorical imperative is the highest moral law, the highest moral good, what we all should strive to. And what I will show you is that it's very similar to the concept of asha. [snorts] So there are three um principles of the category imperative. The first the most important is the law of universality. And what this idea states is that what is good? Well to know what is good imagine this. Imagine that whatever you do, whatever you say, everyone in the world will immediately do as well. Okay? So if you get angry, everyone gets angry at the same time. If you are violent, everyone everyone's violent at the same time. Okay? If you curse God, everyone curses God. Do you want to live in a world like that? Obviously not. Okay? So that is what the categorical imperative is. act and do and think as though everything you do will be reflected throughout the universe and you are the universe itself. Okay. Now um this idea has been misunderstood as uh the golden law right or do onto others as others would do unto you. But actually no it's it's a much higher concept. The higher concept is that imagine that you are God yourself. Okay? And you everything you do will be reflected throughout the universe. Then how would you behave? Well, you would behave with the highest virtue. Okay? Because you want to make the world a better place because if you do bad things, people are going to do bad things to you. Okay? So that's the first idea. It's very important idea. Second idea um is free will. So whatever you do cannot be coerced. Okay? Whatever you do must be out of your own desire, your own will, your own valition, your own choice. Otherwise, it's wrong. Okay? So I cannot make you do good. You only want to do good by yourself. If you want to do evil, you should do evil because it's your choice. Okay? Even though it leads to a worse world, it's important to maintain the principle of free will and free choice. Okay. Now, last is the idea of humans as the end. Now, you have heard maybe heard the phrase the means to an end, right? So, um maybe I'm a king and I need to build a better world. So, I need to start wars, conquer the world. So, I need to sacrifice a billion human beings in order to create a perfect world. Right? That may sound good in theory, but what Kant and Zorustra would say is that's wrong because humans are the end onto themselves. Every life, every human life is as valuable as all human life together. Okay? You cannot sacrifice one person for the sake of the others. That is fundamentally wrong. Do never do that. That can only lead you into hell. Okay? So these three things together gives us a concept of Asha. You can see or you can see immediately how complicated it is. But at the same time you can also understand how revolutionary it is. Okay. Because now Asha presents to us three new concepts that will revolutionize human history. They are the individual. What matters is what matters inside of you. Okay? Everyone's doing bad. That's their problem. Don't worry about them. Just do what is good to you. Okay? What is good for you. The second is free choice. Don't ever feel as though you're being forced to do something. Do something because you will it. So, okay. And then last is truth. Why do you do this? Because the monad will know. Okay? Because a horiz master will know. Because you will know. Okay? So what your family says, what your community says, what your nation says does not matter. Only what you feel in your heart matters. Okay? And let's introduce a new concept in human history called montheism. And guess what guys? Zoroism will give birth to three new religions. Okay? Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Right? And this together is two to three point billion people on earth. And that's why I say Zorra Thusra is the most important individual who's ever lived because he will create the structure for montheism. Okay. These three concepts that will give rise to three world religions. All right. Okay. So something else I want you to understand is that Zor thus had a major impact on the Greeks um especially Greek philosophy. In fact, the Greeks didn't consider him just a poet. They considered him the first scientist, the first uh astronomer, the first um um philosopher, the first magician. Okay, the Greek is reverence for him. Um and Plato will take a lot of his ideas and create a very powerful metaphor that helps us understand Asher better. Okay, it calls it the allegory of the cave. >> [snorts] >> So imagine this. Imagine that we are in a cave. Okay? We're all prisoners inside a cave. We are chained to the ground. Okay? So we can't ever get up. We can't even move our necks. We only stare at the wall in front of us. Now behind us is a fire. And this fire is projecting shadows onto the wall. Okay? And we give names to these shadows. And this is what we call reality. Okay? But it's a shadow reality. It's all fake. It's all false. It's all what we imagine it to be. One day, for whatever reason, one of us, the chains disappear. And so we stumble upwards out of the cave. Okay? And now we're suddenly in the light, right? We see the sun. The sun of course is Asha truth. Okay? or a haram master and we're blinded because our eyes are used to seeing the dark, right? We can't see. We feel nothing but pain for a long long time. But over time, we start to see more clearly and we see the world is beautiful. Okay? We see the birds flying in the sky. We see the trees around us. We see the animals and we're like, "This is beautiful." Okay? I found heaven. I found the truth. I found Asha. I have found a haram master. This is what life is really about. Okay. But over so but after some time you're like but this is not enough. Okay. I have found the truth but the truth is not complete because I know there are my friends my family that are stuck inside the cave. Therefore for me to fully achieve Asha I must go down and tell them the truth. Tell them there is an asha and we can all break through our chains, escape into the light and see the truth for ourselves and then we will be truly happy and free and wise. Okay, that's what ashra is. Asha is not just breaking through your chains and seeing the truth for yourself but it's a responsibility to go and spread this virtue to everyone around you. If you see injustice, speak out. M >> okay another way of saying this is let's use a metaphor a choir okay singing choir how's a choir work well our master the monad he's singing a song we have to sing along with him okay if we do that the world is harmonized the world is perfect the world is per is beautiful but if most of us are out of tune then we need to get into tune right >> okay So that's what Asha is. Asha is not just selfindalization, self-truth. It is helping others see the truth for themselves. Okay. So if you yourself see the truth, you now have responsibility to teach this truth to others. But the problem is of course if you go down and tell everyone, hey man, this world we're living in is a shadow world. >> It's a prison. We need to break our chains and escape into the real world. Everyone's like, "You're crazy, man." [snorts] Right? Get out of here, man. You're crazy. And they're like, "No, no, no, no. We have to go." And they're like, "Okay, well then describe this world to us." And you're like, "Um, it's hard. It's kind of hard to describe." >> Well, you're crazy then. Okay. All right. So, that's Plato's allego the cave. All right. And this gives you a better understanding of um the idea of Asha. Okay. So if you move towards the truth, you're moving towards Asha. But if you're moving away from Asha, you're moving towards the Drew. Okay. [snorts] All right. So that's a basic premise of um Zorashinism. This is the idea that uh Zorus brought to the world and will forever change the world. Okay, we'll go into the specific history next week, but first what I want to do this week is just go into his ideas. Okay. All right. All right. So, Zorathusa, we don't know when he lived, okay? But we estimate anywhere between the year 2000 B.CE to about a th000 BC. That's a bronze age, right? I suspect he he lived towards the end of the bronze age. Why? Because when the bronze age is coming into the form, people are in love with capitalism. People want to get rich, right? But after the system matures, there's slavery, there's debt, there's corruption, there's misery, there's suffering and so people want to hear another voice. Zor Thusa himself was a priest and it was disgusted by the corruption of priest because remember being a priest means being a teacher leading people into the light leading people into Asha. But once uh the branches becomes more mature then priests are corrupt. They uh want a lot of money for helping you achieve immortality. Um they sort of spread false teachings. Okay. become very corrupt and so uh Zorusta becomes disgusted and he wanders around spreading his new message of Asha. Okay. Now um what's important to understand is that we don't know where Zorusa worked specifically but we suspect northern Iran. Okay. Why is this important? Because during the branch age um the main centers of wealth were Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Levant. So this is more like a colony where there's a lot of mining going on. Okay. So what's going on here is basically the most human suffering in the world. Okay. So imagine maybe Congo where they're using they're using um child slaves to dig for rare earths. Okay. It's it it's a margin empire where war is a very common thing. Violence is very common thing. People are being kidnapped and forced to work in the minds in order to get tin for the branch age economy. Okay. All right. So as you can see um Zorusa is about here. Okay. Either northeast Iran or northwest uh Iran. Okay. And as and as I mentioned the global economy is around here. Okay. This is where most most of the wealth is. These people are poor. They're enslaved and they're extremely violent. Okay. All right. So Zorusa comes and he's a poet prophet. Okay. He's a priest and he's singing songs to help people better understand the world around them. He's trying to remind them of who they are really. Okay, they really are parts of God. All right, so he says, "Listen with your own ears, with a bright mind. Choose truth from false creed. Each person for his own self before the final judgment comes." Okay. So the idea of in the individual, what matters is yourself. What you do, what your family does, what your clan does, what your tribe does not matter. What you do because when you die, you will face a masta, the final judgment. Okay? Not your family but you yourself. And so what you must do is choose asha the truth. Okay. What is the truth? Being virtuous because you yourself are virtue. Okay. Um so um he wrote in a language called Avasten and it's a beautiful language and if you are a Zoroastrian priest you can memorize all this okay but I am not and I don't want to butcher the language okay but it's poetry it's beautiful right so ash is the best of all that is good and ash is happiness happiness belongs to the one who follows the righteous path for the sake of the best righteousness so how do you know you're doing asha because you are happy. Okay, do you understand? So the metaphor is imagine that you live in a world of like fat people who don't exercise and all they do is watch TV, right? And but you decide to go and work out and you become more fit. How do you know you're on the right path? Because you feel happier about yourself. Okay, but the problem of course is that you lose all your friends. You lose all your family. Okay, that's why people don't do this. Not because um they don't know the truth. is because they fear the truth. >> All right. So, so this is some trusted poetry called agathas that we know that Jorah thus wrote. Okay. Or he didn't write it. They were all illiterate at this point, but he sang it. Okay. Now, the two primal spirits who reveal themselves in vision as twins are the better and the bad in thought and word and action. And between these two, the wise ones choose all right. The foolish one not so. Okay. So we in our nature always um divide into into two halves. Okay. The good and the bad. The asha and the douch. And to be truly virtuous, it has to be good thoughts, um good words and good actions. Okay? You have to be unified as a person. You can't speak the truth but then do bad things. Okay? You have to think good thoughts, speak good thoughts, and do good works. And that's what um Zarashinism. Okay? And when these twain spirits came together in the beginning, they created life and not life. And that at the last worst existence shall be the followers of the lie, but the best existence to him that follows right. Of these two twin spirits, he that followed the life, the lie choose doing the worst things, the holiest spirit choose right. He that clothe him with a massy heavens as a garment. So likewise, they that are fain to please aaram master by beautiful actions. Between these twin, the Davas, okay, those that lead you to the Drewge also chose not a right for infatuation came upon them as they took counsel together. So that they chose the worst thought. Then they rushed together to violence that they might infeas by demons who choose violence to control us. Okay? And and what do you do? And to him came dominion and good mind and right and piety gave continued life to their bodies and indestructibility so that by they retributions through metal he may gain the prize over the others. Even in a world of evil you can choose and you must choose to be good. All right? If people are lying you tell the truth because what matters is your individual action not what others are doing. >> [snorts] >> So when there cometh their punishment for their sins, then oh master at thy command shall good thought establish the dominion in a consump consummation for those who deliver the lie or harara into the hands of right. Okay. So God will know what what good you did, what evil you did. Okay. When you die, it'll be the final judgment. You will have to face God. So we may be those that make this world advance. Oh master Master and you order come hither thou shaving a mission into your company and Asha in order that our thought may gather together while reason is still shaky. Okay so even though the world has turned evil even though the people the elite are evil you can still do good and God will know you do good and God will reward you for doing good. Okay. So again, this is the beginning of monotheism. And as you can see, this idea will echo in Christianity and Islam as well. Then truly on the world of lie shall come the destruction of the light. But they who get themselves good name shall be partakers in the promised reward in the fair abol of good thought of master and of right. Oh, if, oh ye mortals, ye mark those commandments which master have ordained of happiness and pain, the long punishment for the follower of the drew, and blessings for the followers of the right, then hereafter shall it be well. Okay? So you should do what is virtuous, not only because God uh will reward you for doing so, but because you will feel eternal happiness in doing so. When though amass in the beginning did create the individual and individuality through thy spirit and powers of understanding when though did make life clothed with a body when actions and teachings whereby one may exercise one's convictions at once free. Okay. So you see individual free will these are the core concepts here. Okay. Never say you're being coerced. You always have the choice. You always have the choice to resist. Then lifts up his voice the false speaker or the true speaker. He that knows or he that knows not each according to his own heart and mind passing from one to another. Ar matei confers with a spirit in whom there is wavering. Okay. Clear it is to the man of understanding as one who has realized it with thought. He upholds Asha together with good dominion by his word and deed. He will be oh master the most helpful helper to thee. Okay. So when we choose to follow Asha, we are doing God's work. When we in our hearts choose Asha, we at the at that moment change the world for the better. Okay. All right. So this sounds a bit complicated, a bit abstract and honestly he was speaking to people at that time. Okay. So what does he really really mean and how can we understand what he's really saying? Well, the argument I want I I I want to make you today is that all part prophets are the same. They're all divinely inspired. They're all speaking a certain truth. So by understanding other part prophets of that region of that culture, we gain insight into the true thinking of Zoro. Okay. So this is Roomie who is considered the greatest Persian poet who has ever lived. He lived in the 13th century which is about 2,000 years 3,000 years after Zorathustra. In many ways if you actually read his poetry he is the reincarnation of Zorathustra. Okay. So we're going to read a bit of his poetry and then once you read his poetry they'll give you insight into the cosmology of Zorashinism. All right. I see so deeply with myself. I so see deeply with myself not needing my eyes. I can see everything clearly. Why would I want to bother my eyes again now that I see the world through his eyes? His eyes. Okay. Through the eyes of Asha, through the eyes of the Monad, through our master. Okay. That's what how you should be seeing. Okay? In other words, you should be seeing the world through your imagination. You can imagine a better world. If you imagine a better world, you can create a better world. So don't be fooled by the material world around us. It's all fake. It's all an illusion. Not Christian or Jew or Muslim. Not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I'm not from the east or the west. Not out of the ocean or up from the ground. Not natural or ether. Not compulsive elements at all. I do not exist. I'm not an an entity in this world or in the next. Do not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless. A trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved. have seen the two worlds as one and that one called and no first last outer inner only that breath breathing human being. Okay, does that make sense to you? We're all part of God. That's our true nature. There's a divine spark in us. Don't be fooled by the material world. Okay? And don't be fooled by labels. Christians, Buddhists, Jews, there's no difference. We're all the God children of God, okay? We're all the same. So don't be fooled by labels. Okay? So there's a joke. Okay? The joke is this. God and Satan are fighting over humanity. And God says to Satan, "Ha, humans have discovered religion. Therefore, I have won." And then Satan says, "Yeah, but then I'll just organize it." Okay. So the idea is that religion is great. Okay? Okay, I'm a big supporter of religion, but organized religion is problematic because organized religion serves the interests of the priests who control the religion. Okay? And that's why there are the differences in these religions in Buddhism, in Judaism, and Islam and Christianity because the people in charge need to differentiate the religion in order to um exploit you, okay? In order to justify their existence. But at the end of the day, we're all connected to the vine and all that matters is our connection. Okay? So all these uh differences is something that is artificially created to fool us. All right. All that I think about it then I say it where did I come from and what am I supposed to be doing? Okay. I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere. I'm sure of that and I intend to end up there. Okay. I don't remember where I came from but I know that I must have come from somewhere. Okay. This began in some other realm, some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile, I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in his Avery. The day is coming when I fly off. But who is it now in my ear who hears my voice? Who says word words within my mouth? Who looks out with my eyes? What is a soul I cannot stop asking? If I could taste one of for an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. I didn't come here on my own accord. I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home. Okay, this is beautiful. And it's also a rewriting of the Plato of Plato's allegory of the cave. Right? This is a prison for drunks. Here we're all drunk. We're all blind from our true reality. This is just a prison. When we return to the Monad to Master, then we'll see the truth for ourselves. Okay. All right. So, here's another poor prophet, Federick Nichi. Okay. Fred Nichi is one of the three great German philosophers of the past um 500 years. Um Emanuel Kant, Frederick Hegel and Ferdick Nishi and Ferdick Nichi wrote does spoke Zorah and he wrote in a very interesting way. He likes to take these long walks. He can walk walk for like hours and hours in the mountains and then now and then he feels as though he's being seized. Okay, a force has seized him and compels him to speak and he believes this person is Zoro. Okay. So he wrote a book and it just is a recollection of all the moments when he was seized by Zorusta and forced to speak his words. All right. And we actually read what Nichi writes, you will see that it's actually pretty similar to what Zorusa himself um promoted during his time. Of course, Nichi is uh promoting it in a more modern contemporary lens. Okay. So, if Zoroa were to come back, uh he would be he'll basically be Nichi. Okay. So, in many in many ways, Nichi and Roomi are reincarnations of Zorustra. They're all trying to speak a divine truth to humanity. All right. So, this is the prologue, the first page of the spec zorra. Okay. And what you will notice, okay, look for this. What you will notice is that this exactly like the atta was 30 years old, he left his home in the lake of his home and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit in a solitude and for 10 years did not wear of it. But at last his heart changed, and rising one morning of the rosy dawn, he went before the sun and inspect thus onto it. Though great star, what would thy happiness if thou had not those for whom thou shineest? For 10 years hast thou climbed hither unto my cave, though would have weather of thy light and of the journey, had it not been for me mine eagle and my serpent. But we awaited thee every morning, took from thee thine overflow, and bless thee for it. Lo, I'mware of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey. I need hands outstretched to take it. I would fain bestow and distribute until the wise have once more become joyous in the folly and the poor happy in their riches. Therefore my I I descend into the deep as though does in the evening when though go behind the sea and give light also to the neither world though exuberant star like thee must I go down as men say to whom I shall descend. Okay so Zorusta has hid himself in a cave and in inside the cave in solitude he has discovered Asha. He has discovered the secrets of the universe. And he's discovered that this is not enough. I must now go shine the light on everyone. Otherwise, I can never achieve a fully. Okay? So, it's exactly like the other girl in the cave where the prisoner, he escapes into the light and he's happy until he realizes that you can't be happy alone. You have to share this happiness with everyone else. Okay? So, it's exactly like the algorith. [snorts] All right, let's continue. Though in Plantus thy highest aim to the heart of those passions, then became thy virtues and joys. And though were of the race of the hot-tempered or the volutuous or the fanatical or the vindictive, all thy passions in the end become virtues, and all thy devils angels. Once had those while dogs in thy cellar, but they change at last into birds and charming songstresses. Out of thy poisons breed though balsom for them for thyself. Thy cow affliction milk so th though drinkkeeth though the sweet milk of her other. And nothing evil grow in thee any longer unless it be the evil that grow out of the conflict of thy virtues. My brother, if thou be fortunate, then will thou have one virtue and no more. Thus goes no easier over the bridge. Illustrious is to have many virtues but a hard lodge. And many of one have gone into the wilderness and killed himself because he wasware of being the battle and battlefield of virtues. Okay. Question then is if our master is wisdom why do we live in a world of hate of evil of sin and the answer is because virtue must come from vice good can only come from evil okay to live in good forever is to live in ignorance okay we are born in the drew so that we we may discover Asha from our struggles we will discover what truly good is and that's a gift that God has given us to grow to live in a time of evil so that we may ourselves may create good for humanity. Okay, that's the central message of of this without vice there can be no virtue and to have one virtue itself is not enough. You must be constantly in a battle to create more and more virtue. Okay. So if you are a man of sin or a woman of evil, be thankful because now is your opportunity to be a star, a a son that through transformation of oneself can can brighten the world. Okay? And when you do that, you transform the world. And then when you after you do that, your next battle is to go and transform someone else or to look deeper and discover the evil in you. Okay? So don't worry about the world itself. Just worry about you yourself because within yourself is a universe of evil that can be transformed into a universe of good. So um one really important thing I I I have to say is that this is not Buddhism. Okay. The the structure and the framework are very similar. But what Zoro Zor ainism fundamentally says is that compassion is not enough. Okay. You have to act because justice is about action. If you see injustice, you must speak out. You can't be like, "Oh, um inde I'm indifferent because I'm compassionate." Okay, that's not enough. You have to act out. And that's why uh people who believed in this religion were so creative, okay? Because they believe in action. Being indifferent is simply being is basically being complicit in the system, right? All right. Ye tell me life is hard to bear, but for what purpose shall you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening? Life is hard to bear, but not affect to be so delicate. We are all of us find some asses and she assasses. Okay. What we have in common with a rose bud which trembleth because a drop of dew have formed upon it. It is true that we love life not because we are want to live but because we are want to love. Love is Asha, right? Um we want always want to achieve asha. There's always some madness in love, but there's always also some method in madness. And to me also who appreciate life, the butterflies and soap bubbles and whatever is like them amongst us seem most to enjoy happiness. To see those light, foolish, pretty, liely little sprites flit about that move Zasa through tears and songs. I should only believe in a god that would know how to dance. [snorts] And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn. He was a spirit of gravity. Through him, all things fell. Okay. So, what Nishi hates is organized religion because organized religion it is very serious, very somber. He basically wants to enslave us, right? It's like don't do anything bad. Don't drink, don't smoke, don't have sex or you'll burn in hell. Okay, that's very serious. And what Zurusta and what Nisha is saying is that that's not what Asha is, man. Ashes recognized that the world is beautiful, that our master is all merciful, all forgiving, all love, all compassion and you must delight in the world because that's why he created us. Okay? So the only way to survive this world of evil is to recognize that beauty is everywhere around us and there's our responsibility to discover this beauty and celebrate this beauty. Okay? Dance, sing, make love, laugh, smile. That's what life is about. Okay? If a priest is telling you, hey, uh, meditate for your life because only through that will you avoid sin. He's a devil, man. Okay? Because he's denying you your free will. He's denying you your capacity to love, to seek action yourself. Okay? [snorts] But one day will the solitude worry thee. One day will thy pride yield and thy courage quail. Though one day cry, I'm alone. One day will thou see no longer thy loftiness and see too closely thy loneliness. Thus eliminate itself or frighten thee as a phantom. Thou will one day cry all false. So life is a constant struggle, okay, between hope and tragedy. Um there are some days when you will be very hopeful, but there are some days when you'll be very depressed. That's just the process of life and that's the process of wisdom. Okay? To seek wisdom, you always have to constantly destroy yourself. You have to destroy the world around you and and it's a never- ending process of pain and suffering and tragedy. But it will gradually lead you to enlightenment. What's really important is to act okay to seek self-destruction. So another way of saying this is always assume that whatever you know no matter how truthful is probably wrong and to go and negate yourself. Okay. It also means leaving your family leaving your comfort zone. All right. A heretic will thou be to thyself. Okay. A heretic is someone who doubts yourself. Right? Saying everything I've known is wrong. Okay. So, another way of saying this and I I know it's hard to understand is you come to my class for a semester and everything I teach you, you're like, "Wow, this makes a lot of sense." Okay? And every day you're excited. You learn a lot. But at the end of semester, what you want to say is everything I've learned this semester is wrong. So, I'm going to learn for myself. I'm going to get I'm I'm going to negate everything I've learned and believe everything I've learned is deceitful so that I can rebuild my own knowledge. And through that process will you actually achieve enlightenment. Okay. The truth is it has to be to you. There can be no truth for everyone. The truth has to be for you and you must fight for it every day. Okay. Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thy own flame. Okay? You must destroy yourself. How could thou become new if thou have not first become ashes? Do you understand? To live is to die. If you really want to understand, you must first destroy every everything that that you think you understand in order to build a new understanding. Though lonesome one, though go the way of the creating one. A god will thou create for thyself out of the seven de devils. Though lonesome one, though goes the way of the loving one. Though loves thyself, and on account despise thyself as only the loving one despise. To create desire the loving one become because he despised. What know he of love who have not been obliged to despise just what he loved. Okay, this is a really hard con to understand but like you know in the Buddhist tradition it's like avoid anger. No, no, no. Embrace your anger. Embrace your hate because hate and love go together. Anger and calm go together. Okay. So by going to one extreme, you can now embrace the other extreme and your life is a constant struggle between these two different extremes. When you negate yourself, when you move into nothingness, you can only move into ignorance and slavery. >> Okay? Does that make sense? You are born of two natures. You must let these two natures fight. Okay? [snorts] All right. When Zorusa had spoken these words, he paused like one who had not said his last word, and long balance the staff undouily in his hand. At least he spoke thus, and his voice had changed. I now go alone, my my disciples. Ye also now go away, and alone so will I have it. Verily, I advise you, depart from me, and guard yourselves against Zorustra, and better still be ashamed of him. Perhaps he have deceived you. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also hate his friends. Okay, you want true knowledge, you can learn from me, but at the end we must leave each other and you must say he's now my enemy. I must now destroy him. If I really want to be myself, I need to destroy my teachers in order to discover my true self. Okay? And as you can imagine, most people don't want to do this. Most people just want to cling to their mother, want to cling to the teacher. But you can never achieve true asha if you do this. Okay. Ye love your virtue as a mother love her child. But when did one hear of a mother want to be paid for her love? It is your dearest self your virtue. The ring's thirst is in you to reach itself again. Struggle every ring and turn itself. And like the star that go out, so is every work of your virtue. ever is is its light on its way and traveling? And when will it cease to be on its way? Thus is the light of your virtue still on its way even when its work is done. Be forgotten and dead still its ray of light live and travel. Okay, so when we die, our bodies decompose. What's still left is our virtue. Okay, that's who we are. Our virtue, all that good we've done in the world, all the knowledge, all the enlightenment, all the emotions that we've generated, okay, that will be eternal. And so we must embrace this nature and become virtue itself. Okay? Being human is to be first and foremost virtuous to seek Asha. For this is the truth. I've departed from the house of the scholars and the door have I also slammed behind me. Too long did my soul sit hungry at their table. Not like them have I got the knack of investigating as a knack of nutcracking. Freedom do I love in the air over fresh soil. Rather would I sleep on oxkins than on their honors indignities. I am too hot and scorched with thine own thought. Often is it ready to take away my breath. Then have I go then I then I have I to go into the open air and away from all dusty rooms. But they sit cool in the cool shade. They want everything to be merely spectators. And they avoid sitting where the sun burn on the steps. Like those who stand in the street and gape at the passers by. Thus do they also wait and gape at the thoughts which others have thought. Okay. So this is a radical idea but it's very true. You go to university not to learn how to think but to fall into ignorance. Okay. Why? Because the professors there the priests there they have departed from reality and they've chosen to live a life of comfort of ease of pleasure. And as a result they can't know anything. True knowledge is can only be found in the everyday in the mundane with ordinary people. That's where God is. Okay. Universe are constructed to be away from God. They are temples for the comfort of priest. So if you want true knowledge, go out into the world and talk to another people. Suffer. Okay. All right. So that's it. Okay. So now you you can understand the beauty and power of Zorusta and and I I really do believe this. I really believe that Nishi was channeling Zorusta, but he was channeling in a way for the common mind. Okay? Because the thing about Asha is that it's always changing. All right? The Asha that was true 3,000 years ago is not the Asha that's true for us today. All right? And what's really important to understand is that Asha is constantly coming. So you have to constantly work towards it. There's no there's no end point to Asha. >> All right? And Asha is going to be different for everyone. But if everyone's moving towards Asha, then the world becomes a more virtuous, a better place, and a more just place. Okay? So um any questions guys? All right. So um last class I gave a lecture on um the Bible and I made a mistake in my lecture. So um in my my discussion about the story of the patriarchs um between the love story of Rachel and Jacob, I said that uh Jacob had had to work seven years for Rachel after his marriage to uh Leah. But as uh this substscriber um Cole tells me, actually that's not what the Bible says. The Bible says that um Laban, the father, gave Rachel to Jacob right away, but then he had to work seven years to pay off that debt. Okay. So, uh thank you to Cole for correcting the error. In fact, I probably made a lot of small errors um in my uh talk last class and and I obviously made make a lot of mistakes every class. Okay? So, I apologize for that. But the thing about this class and it's really important for us to remember is that this is a class not about answers. It's about questions. Okay. So what makes this class interesting and special is that we're always asking the hard questions. What does it mean to be human? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Okay. We're always asking these questions because these are questions that actually matter for us. Okay, that's the first thing. Second thing is that I'm constantly in the process of becoming. I'm constantly um trying to discover the answers and so for for me this is a journey. So for example um Zorustra is a revelation to me before I didn't know about Zorusra and I made a lot of mistakes. So for example I said that Christianity was the first monistic religion last um semester and now I recognize that's wrong. It's actually zorashinism. Okay. So I'm constantly in the process of discovery of becoming um and what's really important is that we continue to speculate. We continue to explore together. All right? And if so if you don't like what I say this class or you don't like my opinion, just wait a year or two and I'll probably change my opinion. Okay? Because that that's what true knowledge is about. If you really want to pursue knowledge, you must be willing to as Nichi as Zorusa says, you constantly need to destroy yourself to burn yourself into ashes so that you may build yourself a new. Okay? And that's what the process of um real education should be about. Okay? So in this class, I'm not here to give you a easy answers. I'm not I'm not here to give you facts that you must memorize. I'm here to ask you questions that help you better understand yourself and better understand the world around you to help. This class is about conversation, dialogue, and debate. >> Okay. All right. So, any questions, guys? Yeah. Sorry, give you the mic. >> Um, so as to say, uh, ash is different for for different individuals. Um, so I was thinking about an example is, um, so Hitler as a racist. Um he he he not only himself but he also making uh um some like a lot a lot a lot of people to hate jewels and let's assume that he um think jewels are evil in his heart and trying to destroy them. So if he think that this is uh real justice, does this still count for Ash? >> Okay, look um look, it's a very sensitive topic, you know, Hitler and the Holocaust. I don't want to spend too much time on, okay? But if you truly understand Asha um if you truly understand Zoroa what it would say is that Ara Masta is complete forgiveness, compassion and love. Okay. So whatever we do on this in this world will be forgiven in the end. I I I know I I I understand this is hard for a lot of people to accept. Um, I I know that we grew up knowing that there must be evil in this world because of the Holocaust and there must be Satan and all that, but um, if you really want to discover Asha, you have to let go of these ideas and understand that [snorts] in the end all will be forgiven. Okay, I'm sure that there are people you hate in this world and you think that they're they must burn in hell because of all the evil they they've done they've done in this world. But if we want to appreciate Asha, if we really want to discover the the truth, okay, we need to let go of this hatred. We need to let go of um of of this judgment. Okay. Um I mean I mean the the very point of Asha is don't worry about other people. Just worry about yourself. Don't compare yourself to other people. Compare yourself to yourself. Okay. And and so how do you know you're moving towards Asha because you can feel it. All right. The problem is what keeps us from Asha are two things. Our ego and our fear. We want to be liked by everyone. Our ego. Okay. Our fear of rejection. people of saying something that offends other people being politically correct. Okay? Like I know that in my class I offend a lot of people and I get shot at all the time on YouTube and I know that. Okay. But if I want to achieve asha I need to take this risk. >> Okay? Because at the end of the day what matters is my own individual pursuit of the truth. What others think of me does not matter. Okay? So the problem our society is we're brainwashed into thinking that the opinions of others matter. Okay? What what what your teacher says about you matters because the teachation will decide whether or not you get into good university. How much money you make matters because that will give you status in society. Okay? And what Zoro thusta, what Nichi, what room, what Plato, they're all saying is this. It doesn't matter man. What matters if you want true happiness, if you want true enlightenment, if you want uh asha, you have to embark on a personal journey that requires solitude that requires rejecting everything that you know in the past so that you can rebuild yourself. Once you make that once you make that that decision action will come to you naturally. Okay. But first and foremost, what you need to do is let go of these prejudices. Let go of these ideas that have been put into you. Okay, I know. Yes, I I know I will get shouted out. I I I I know get cursed online for saying, you know, Hitler will be forgiven, but Hitler will be forgiven because everyone will be forgiven. Okay. Everyone will be forgiven. >> Okay. >> Okay. There is no [snorts] there is no hell. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to say this. Okay. I'm sorry to say, but there is no hell. Hell is what we create in our hearts. >> Okay. Everyone will be forgiven. All right. But but thank you for the question. Any any more questions? Okay. >> Uh my question would be um I know that Asha for everyone will have different but like will it change in a different period like when I was being as a child or when I grow up would that change? Um okay so like I I'm not a Zorashian priest and I I don't want to insult the religion okay because what they will tell you is that um at the end of the day Asher is virtue and God is virtue okay so so when you do asha you're moving towards God which is perfection okay but um I think that what Nichi would say and maybe thus but I think Nichi would definitely say this is that God is creativity okay So God, so what you really want to do is when you move towards Asha is to constantly reinvent yourself to discover new ideas about yourself. And this is a never- ending process. >> Okay? There's no finale finale to it. If there's no there's no finale to it, that means that each of us uh will live our own individual lives that's different from from others. Okay? And and so what this means is that Asha will become different for each of us. But what's important is and Roomie would say this, Evan would say this is follow your heart. Okay? Ignore what others think dissipate your fears. Okay? Kill your fears and just believe in yourself. Follow your heart and action will come naturally to you. Okay? And when that happens also, God will come naturally to you and you'll discover new truths, uh new powers, new understandings that will bring you greater happiness in life. Okay. Does that make sense? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Great. Any more questions, guys? All right. >> Mean that we'll never >> Yeah. >> So, does that mean we'll never be like like uh not physically, but like with Asha, but like we're always trying to get closer with them. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, again, there's no end point. Okay. There's no destination here. Okay. It's becoming. Okay. It's a pos constant process of becoming. And it's not possible to seek Asha in one lifetime, right? That's why we are reincarnated because we come back and we do it over again and we move closer towards Asha each time. But there can never be an end point. Okay? Because let's just say you reach that end point. Guess what? Everyone else hasn't. So you have a duty now to help other people. >> Okay? >> Does that make sense? So if you move closer to Asha, you also want to move others closer to Asha. So it's a constant, it's a constant struggle, but that's what gives meaning and purpose to the universe. The fact that we're all striving to be better. Okay? Virtue, truth, asha, these are all we strive for. Okay? There can be no perfection. There can just be only a process of becoming. >> Right? Does that make sense? >> Yes. >> Okay. So look, I mean, I know people want simple answers. I know that oh there'll be there'll be a final judgment we're going to go to heaven and we'll live every happy happ happy happ happy happ happy happ happy happ happy happ happy happ happy happ happy happ happy happ happy happily ever after okay that's not what that's not what the truth is the truth is that the universe is a constant process of becoming of struggle of pain of tragedy but from that we can build hope and virtue and good okay all right so thank you so I've done I've gone over into the three major civilizations Okay, the Greeks, uh, the Israelites and the Persians that that have come after the collapse of the Bronze Age. Okay, what what I'm going to do next week is I'm going to put I'm going to show you how these three civilizations interact with each other. Okay, we're going to go into the history of these civilizations. Okay. All right. So, I'll see you guys next

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So, we have 10 more classes left in the lecture series. Um, and in these 10 classes, what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you how the American Empire will fall. And I will show you that what will replace the American Empire is Israel, uh, what we call Pax Judeica. Um, so for these next 10 classes, I will we will do an overview of history and show you why history will lead ultimately to the uh Pax Judeica. Okay. All right. So, let's do some questions from YouTube that my wife has picked out. Um, she reads all the comments. She loves reading the comments and she sends comments to me to reply to. Okay. So the first comment is um how do we restore our right hemisphere or how do we become more creative and the answer is that you have to reject materialism that that's the only way okay you have to reject money you have to reject power you have to reject materialism in order to embrace your creativity and your right hemisphere um as a society what will have to happen is a major crisis that threatens our very existence for us to come together and for us to be uh more altruistic and more creative. Um a possibility is that if you really want to activate your right atmosphere, then you fall in love and you have children or you could also choose to volunteer, help other people, uh be kind and generous to other people. Okay, so that's how you activate your right hemisphere. The second question is um do you only give lessons to one class? How's your journey to find some LSD? Okay. So, um I have I'm only teaching one lecture series but three different sections. Okay. Um LSD psychedelics, you know, I'm very interested in psychedelics. I myself do not want to partake in psychedelics because I don't really understand why I need to. I read a lot of books. Um, I I practice a very altruistic lifestyle and therefore I don't feel as though I need psychedelics to break out of this materialistic world. Okay, I'm already connected to the divine. So, um, yeah. Okay, let's move on. All right, some more questions. Um, could you make a video on how to understand history without bias? And a response is, first of all, it's impossible to be unbiased. Okay. And that's and that is correct. We're all subjective. Um so um he suggests that you have to look at documents and try to be really critical when you analyze documents and that's correct as well. Okay. Uh the problem is that often we don't have documentation or we have documentation from only one source. So it's very hard to do. So what I'm trying to do um with this class is try to propose a new theory of how to understand history and if you adopt this model I guarantee you that your understanding of history will improve and also your understanding of how the world works will improve as well. So there are three components to this new history model which I call predictive history. Okay. The first is to understand historical patterns. And so when you try to look at history and the event there, you ask yourself, does this fit into a larger pattern or model of history? If it does, it's probably correct. If it doesn't, then there's something wrong here. Okay. Second uh tool is idea of game theory. And the idea of game theory is to understand that all historical actors are motivated by their interests or worldview. And so are you looking at all different historics and are you trying to figure out what their best strategy is? Okay. And the third uh facet is the idea of religious esquetological. What this means is that all cultures, all individuals have a certain religious outlook, a religious worldview. You can often find this worldview within their sacred text. For example, the Bible or um the Quran. Okay? And these texts will give you insight as to how they perceive history but also how they want history to eventually develop. So you you can understand the strategies moving forward. Okay. All right. Um and we will look at these three strategies and we will adop we will adapt them for um our historical understanding. Okay. All right. Uh another question is um this is really interesting. What the question is most of the greats across history were not Jewish. The domination by Jews of various industries is a relatively new phenomenon. Is it possible that their creativity and power is a result of political shifts in education in the Bible? Okay, this is a really good criticism of my previous lecture. Um, and yeah, I mean the idea is that maybe there's certain aspects of the Jewish culture that makes them dominant in an industrial capitalistic globalized world. Um, and there is some truth to that, but I often think about um, Chinese people uh, because Chinese people are extremely materialistic. Like ch Chinese love money um, but we're not as creative as Jewish people. So I think that being materialistic, being capitalistic, it's not enough. You also need to have an element of creativity within your culture. And that's why I think that um the Bible helps us better understand the success of Jews better. Okay. So so this is a really good point and and also what's really important to understand is that this is a class on intellectual speculation. Okay. We're trying to figure out theories. We're trying to play with ideas. There's no truth there. Okay? So um take take everything I say with a grain of salt. Doubt whatever I say. Um this class is really meant to be a platform or jumping board for you to undertake your own intellectual journey. Okay? All right. So please keep that in mind. But um we're going to look more closely at this question today. Okay. Why is it that Jews are so dominant? Um, so we will look at the beginning of the Jewish people and I'm going to the argument to you that Israel and the Jewish identity are constructs of the imperial imagination. Okay. Um, and this is hard to understand. So I'm going to explain it to you slowly, but the idea is that because of its ge geographic location, Israel has always been historically imported. And as a result, different empires have tried to manipulate the identity of Israel to best um uh promote their own agenda or policies. Okay. So, um I know this is a hard concept to understand, but but we'll we'll go for it slowly. And again, we're spending like the rest of semester on this major thesis of ours. [snorts] Okay. So, let's talk about history. Okay. So what we did last week um is look at the cultures that have emerged out of the project collapse and which are now going to dominate history. Okay. They are the Greeks, the Persians and the Israelites. Okay. Now we're going to look at how these ideas um play out in history. But for us to do that, we first need to understand how history works. Now I've identified three different patterns of geopolitics. Okay? And I want you guys to remember these patterns. The first pattern is this. This is really important. I didn't understand. Competition within nation states are what matter. Okay? Competition between nation stones don't really matter or they're not as significant as competition within nation states. And the idea we have here is elite of production. So what drives a lot of conflict is the fact that domestically you have these different competing factions and they're all competing for uh power. Okay? So you have too many elites, too few status uh positions and so they're competing against each other and this drives a lot of conflict. Okay, so that's the first idea. Second idea is that the elite have shifting loyalties. Okay, think of Game of Thrones. I'm not sure if you guys have seen the TV series or read the books Game of Thrones, but everyone wants to be king, right? And they're going to kill their brother. They're going to kill their father. They're they're going to kill their mother to be king. Okay? And so the elite don't really have loyalties except to themselves. The world is just a game of thrones. Okay. The third thing is that war can be a mechanism to protect the status quo. All right. The idea of equilibrium in that sometimes the conflict is really bad. So what you do? You start a war so you can turn off people to get killed. Okay? And that way you can maintain equilibrium within your system. We'll see this we'll see this pattern throughout human history. Okay? So these are the three ideas I want you guys to remember as we move on and discuss world history. All right. So I want to give us an example for us to understand. Okay. Think of the war in states period of China before the emergence of the first empire, theQing empire. Okay. And as you can see from this map, uh China is divided into different waring states that are all powerful. And at this time in history, um theQing Empire, sorry, theQing state is the poorest. is most isolated and it is the least advanced. Okay, you can see that Chu Xiao they are more powerful and you can argue that eventually one one of them would emerge to unite all of China but they did not. It was theqing the isolated marginalized backward state that came to conquer. And so the question is why this happened. And so if we use our three principles right we can understand why these three states these different states are not competing against each other. It's the elites within these states are competing against each other. Okay el lead over production. So the way they manage this is for them to use warfare in order to maintain a status quo to create equilibrium. Okay. And how we know is from this time emerges the idea of Chinese chess. Right? What is Chinese chess? Chinese chess is the idea of warfare that is regulated that is ritualized. [cough] Okay? So when we go to war, when we battle each other, we have to respect each other's um uh the rules of the warfare. That's stupid. War should be about killing the other guy. It shouldn't be about following the rules. Okay. Also another piece of evidence is at this time in history wrote the book The Art of War. This is one of the stupidest books ever written. Okay, I guarantee you if you follow this book, you're going to lose the war badly because this is this is really about how to cheat in a heavily regulated game. Okay, so uh things like using spies, oh uh uh maintain a high guard. Okay, you have they have all these rules. And guess what? In actual war, none of these things actually work. Okay? So, if you look at history, I'm going to tell you exactly how to win a war. [cough and clears throat] Okay? And the way you win a war is first of all, you have to be completely committed to winning this war. Okay? Total warfare. Second is that if you want to win this war, you have to make sure that talent arises. So, you have to be open and meritocratic. Okay? If a if a officer of a general is winning this war, you promote him. That sounds easy, right? But not if your status quo power because what's important to you is to maintain that your family is always on top. So if a general arises who is very uh innovative, who's really talented, you kill him because he's a threat to you. Okay. So the third principle is make sure your soldiers are happy. I know it sounds really simple, but again, if you're at school power, you don't really care. Okay. Um, destroy enemy civil centers, siege warfare. Okay. Go and destroy the city because that's how they produce their uh uh war capacity, right? The food, the um soldiers, right? Kill civilians. The supply lines, overstretch your enemy, divide and conquer, strike fear in your enemy, kill their gods. Okay? If you really want a war, if you really want to win a war, this is what you have to do. And we know because this is what the Romans did. This is what the Persians did. This is what um the Aztecs did. This is what conquests did. Okay? This is what the Mongols did. Every single power that has conquered everyone else has done all these things. Okay? So, when they don't do these things, it's because these different waring states aren't actually at war with each other. They're actually friends. Okay? They're all intermarried with each other. They're all trying to maintain a status quo. They use war as a game in order to maintain the status quo to create equilibrium. Okay. So this is true for Mesopotamia. Okay. Mesopotamia is important because remember this is the cradle of civilization. This is where the first empires will emerge. This is where most technological innovation happens. This was for the longest time the wealthiest part of the world. Okay. So remember the idea of Mesopotamia is that the first citystate is Uric and then they will develop colonies throughout the Tigers and Euphrates and then these colonies will come into war with each other and they're all friends of each other. They're all intermarried and the elite create these highly ritualized um warfare. Okay. And one really important rule is that you don't kill each other's god. Okay? Because in their religion, the god lives in their temple. So you don't attack their temple. But guess what? All their money, all their gold is in a temple. Okay? So you're not allowed to steal each other's gold. That's stupid. Okay? Because now um you don't really accomplish that much with warfare. So for the longest time, this was the status quo. Then what happened is a u man named Luga Luga Zagazi. Okay. And you can think of him as lower nobility. So what we'll see in history is that within a city state there's always be a conflict between the upper nobility and the lower low nobility. Okay, the upper nobility is in charge. They want to maintain the status quo. The lower nobility want to steal that power. Okay, this will happen in Rome where Julius Caesar is of the lower nobility and he will steal the power from the upper nobility. Okay, the people call the ultimates. And so Lucas like Leazi is from Uma and he's like, you know what, screw this. These rules are stupid. I want to conquer everyone. I want to be the top dog. Okay. So what he's doing that's very different from previous times is he's now going and ransacking each of each each city's temple. So now he has the capacity to be able to build an empire. Okay. But by doing that, what happens is that the other city states recognize him as a threat. And so they invite mercenaries from place called Akad to come and help them. Okay. And this leads us to the first world empire called the Aadian Empire um named by Sargon of Akid. Now his name is interesting. His name means legitimate ruler which probably tells us he's not a legitimate ruler. He's probably a mercenary like David who stole the throne. Okay? He saw an opportunity and he stole the throne. But this is a pattern in history where if there's if there's competition among different city states, the competition is not resolved amongst themselves because they have an equilibrium. So what happens is that an outsider, a mercenary usually comes in who doesn't respect the rules and he's able to unite everyone. Okay, through innovations. So this this is why theQing dynasty and not the Jao or the Chu or the Wei were able to unite all of China because theQ dynasty was committed to total warfare. They didn't care about your rules. They wanted to win. Okay. All right. So, as you can see, the Canadian Empire stretches throughout the fertile crescent. Okay. Um, conquers Mesopotamia, modern Iraq, extends over to Anatolia and captures a lot of the Leavant. Okay. But this area, the Leavant is historically the most strategic location in the world. Why? because it gives you access to Egypt, Mesopotamia and Anatolia. Historically the three wealthiest parts of the world. So whoever controls the Levant is able to always threaten Egypt. Okay? And for most of history this part the Levant was a Egyptian colony. But remember that after the Bronze Age collapsed Egypt was not was able to project power in the Levant. And so uh the different empires fought for the Levant in order to threaten Egypt. Okay. So, Jerusalem is literally the center of the world and we will see that throughout history people have considered Jerusalem the center of the world both for religious reasons but also mainly for geopolitical and trade uh reasons. Okay. Uh now the other thing to remember about this area is that it's highly competitive because it's hard to protect Mesopotamia. Okay. is very very wealthy but as you can see um there are these mountain tribes over here that can always threaten Mesopotamia. Okay. So this is a pattern in history where whoever established an empire in Mesopenia is always being threatened by the mountains the regions sorry the the borderlands okay this is a this is a pattern throughout um uh meian history and that's why these empires change all the time. Okay. So this is the Babylonian Empire. Uh this this gives us uh hemorrhabi. Okay. Then you have the uh Assyrian Empire. The Assyrian Empire is famous for their brutality. They'll come if you rebel against them, they will kill everyone. Okay? They're they're notorious for their brutality. Now remember at this time in history, an empire is not the empire of today where you can exert authority everywhere. empire at this time is you're mainly controlling certain choke points of trade and everyone else just sort of like goes along because it benefits them. Okay, so an empire is more more like a loose confederation as opposed to um a nation state. Okay, so this is the Assyrian Empire. Um and this is the uh Neoablonian Empire. Okay, so you have these empires that constantly change over time. History changes when a man emerges called Cyrus the great. Okay. Um [clears throat] Cyrus the great is the founder of something called the Persian Academic Empire. So last class we discussed Zoroastronism and Zoroastronism is really the first great world religion uh because it provides a simple but powerful model of how the world works and um rationalism is powerful because it encourages everyone to be their best right to seek Asha. Now, for most people, what Asha means is don't ever lie. Okay? And it is actually um a really useful thing if you're trying to run an empire because when you run an empire, you need soldiers, you need generals, you need administrators, right? And if people don't lie, if people are honest and moral, well, you can expand really quickly, right? And so that's what Cyrus the Great did. S the great is also known for his mercy and his generosity. So when he conquers a place what he will do he will identify the best people maybe the king himself and make them advisers to his regime. Okay he's known for his tolerance he's own he's he's known for his um openness and so what happens is that the Babylonian Empire basically surrender to him without a fight. Why? because of elite overproduction, right? You have this war going on between the upper nobility and the lower nobility and they're like, you know what? Let's just invite Syus the Great and then we don't have to fight each other anymore. Okay? And and that's how Cyus the Great was able to build the first world empire. Okay? This is um uh Babylon, the fall of Babylon. And Cyrus the Great um there are different stories, but one story is that they basically invited him in in order to resolve their inner conflicts with with each other. Okay. Um, this is a tomb of Cyrus the Great. It's still in Iran today. There's a story that when Action the Great, you know, who who was Macedonian, when he went to conquer the Persian Empire, he discovered that the Cyrus the Great, his tomb uh was in um bad repair. They didn't really maintain or upkeep it. So, he ordered for it to be properly maintained. Okay, that's probably the story is is by the way probably false. But it shows you that at this time in history about the year 300 400 um everyone uh uh 300 400 BC everyone was respectful of sus. Okay. Sus great is considered the world's greatest king or emperor. Okay. So as you can see the persian empire is huge. Okay. It encompasses most of uh West Asia. Okay. So, it goes from Iran all the way to Mesopotamia to Anatolia to parts of um Greece and all basically all of Egypt and Libya. Okay. It's a huge area and they were able to do this because of their innovations in religion as well as administration. Okay. All right. So, let me explain how do you rule empires usually. Okay. Well, the traditional way is you control trade routes and access. Okay. So, people have to pay you a tax to go through your trade routes. That that's a tra traditional way. You can also use fear and conquest. Then that's what the Assyrians were known for. They would come and they would kill everyone if you disobey them. Uh you took hostage hostages. That's that's a very common thing where you conquer people and you take uh the children of the king as hostages. Okay. uh in a marriage, religion, but what the Persians did really well that allow for the Persian empire to be so huge as well as to be really well managed are four four things. Okay, effective administration. Again, when you have a religion zism where people can't lie, that's really good because these bureaucrats will now report real facts to the emperor and that allows him to make better decisions. Okay, elite cultation meritocracy. And the idea here is that if you have a very effective administration that allows for local elites to focus your energies on trying to join this administration as opposed to rebelling against you uh communication uh networks, okay? So things like roads, things like uh uh uh postal networks. Okay. So, the Persians create the first uh global postage system and it was really effective where uh you want to send mail from Egypt over to uh Mesopotamia, what would happen is you would have these royal roads where uh people would ride on horses and they could stop at a basically a hostile rest and then keep on going. Okay. And that way you can you can um very quickly move information from one core of the empire to the other. Okay. And the last is to divide and rule. Divide and rule is really important. So what they did was they basically had different power centers within a within a region. Okay. So you had the sat traps which were the local governors but then you also had the local you also had the bureaucrats. Okay. You also had uh the royal representatives. So these are different factions within a re within a region. Okay. So dividing rule is probably the most effective way to control an empire. Okay. So now let's move on to Israel. Okay. We know we now know about the Persian Empire, how they managed their system and why they are so effective. Okay. Now let's talk about Israel. So remember that we read the Bible. Um and the Bible um came about because David needed to justify legitimize his rule. And after branches collapsed, David created a devic kingdom um in the Levant because Egypt, Anatolia, Mesopania were preoccupied, right? But because Lavant is so important, this limited kingdom doesn't really last that long. It lasts for like 80 200 years. Okay. Um after Solomon, David's son, dies, Israel is divided into two parts. The northern kingdom, which gets conquered by Assyria as well as Judah. Okay. Jerusalem where which tries to maintain the the kingdom but doesn't last very long. At this time in history um uh the Israelites are being pulled in different directions. Okay. The Anatolians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Egyptians because they are strategically very important. And so what's really hard for these empires is how do we maintain control over Jerusalem? Okay. And they try different techniques. They try um burning down their city centers. Okay, so the northern kingdom was destroyed. Uh you might have heard of the 10 lost tribes of Israel. Um they tried taking hostages. Okay, but because this region is so volatile, nothing really works. And so the Jew Jerusalem, the Israelites keep on rebelling. Okay. Um so this is king of Judah and [snorts] what happens is for the longest time the Babylonians are trying to deal with the Israelites. Okay? So they take hostages. Okay? They take hostages like thousands of them and move them to Babylon where they become scribes where they become farmers where they become merchants. Okay. Um but again the region is so strategically important that Jerusalem uh the Israelites they switch loyalties all the time. Eventually the Babylonians are so pissed off that they decided to burn down their temple. Okay. And so at this point in history the Israelites are now gone. Okay. Does that make sense? The Israelites are gone now. [snorts] [clears throat] Um 587 to 6. We don't know when, but Babylon's destroyed Jerusalem because they cannot they they they tried many techniques to try to control Jerusalem. They can't do it. The Israelites are too rebellious. Uh but it's too strategically important. So they destroy. So so they decide, you know what, screw this. We'll just destroy the city. Okay. So when this happens, okay, that's really important for you to understand. The Israelites are gone. Okay, the people are still around. The identity of the Israelites are now gone. >> [sighs] >> 539 Cyrus the Great conquers Babylon. Okay. And he says, "I want the Israelites to return to Jerusalem." It's called the Edict of Cyrus. All right? And this is celebrated in the Bible. What is controversial is why would he do such a thing? Okay? Because again, the Israelites are now gone. um the Israelites who go who went to Babylonia, they may still keep their religion a bit, but they no longer have their land. They no longer they're they have changed as a people. Okay? So, as an Israelite, you pray in the temple, but the temple is now destroyed. So, now you um pray in a synagogue. Okay? So, the people have changed a great deal. So, the question now is why would Cas the Great go to Babylon and said, "You know what? I want you Israelites to return to Jerusalem. I want you to reconstitute the nation of Israel. Why would he do that? Okay. So, this is going to this is a going to be a debate that will never ever end. Okay. So, the Bible tells us that Cyrus the Great did this because God told him to do that. Really simple. God says, "I love my people. The Israelites send them home." Okay? And Cy, yes, of course, you're the great God. I'll do so. Okay, guys. That's how it happened. Okay. All right. So, there are different explanations. Um, maybe the idea is that Cyrus wants to show all the Persian Empire, I'm religiously tolerant. You can practice your religion. You can set up your religion. That's what the Persian Empire is, an open, tolerant, generous empire. Okay, that's true. What's also true is that Cyrus thought himself as a righteous and merciful king uh who wanted to be generous to everyone. Okay, so he saw the Israelites uh want home. He says, "Well, can go home." Okay. Um he it's also possible that there's a faction within the Israelites who supported his Babylon takeover. Okay, I don't know if this is true. It's probably not true, but we consider that consider that as as a possibility that the Israelites in Babylon supported his takeover. And so to thank them, Cyrus said, "Fine, I'll give you back Jerusalem." Um, another possibility is that uh when Cyrus the great conquered Babylon, he discovered that you know what these Israelites are really good administrators and this is true found history because remember the Israelites have their Bible and the religion requires them to study the Bible and as we discussed the Bible is one of debate, openness, asking questions and so these are very literate intellectuals and they rise up very high in the Babylon administration. But this is true throughout history where where Jewish people will rise very high in all empires including including the Islamic empire including u the American empire. Okay. Um I think the best reason for what happened is divide and rule. Okay. So the idea is that you need to control the Levant because Levant gives you access to Egypt which is historically the wealthiest part of the world. Okay. Whoever controls Egypt controls the world. So what you do is you set up a group of people in the Levant that are only loyal to you. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. You set up people in the Levant that only exist because you, the empire, allow them to exist. If you the empire did not support them, then the locals, the everyone in that region would would get rid of them right away. Okay? And that's why we have the Jews. So the Jews were invented by the Persians to control the Leavant. The Jews is actually a Persian term. Okay. So before the Jews were of course the Israelites. Now we have the Jews. All right. So um this is Jerusalem. And as you can see what's really important to understand is that this is actually only a really small part of the Lat. But this part is specifically for the Jews. Um, and it's part of this Persian province called Beyond the River. Okay? >> And they call it the province of Yahoo. That's that's why we have the term Jews. Okay? Because they are part of the province of Yahoo. And and what's really important to understand is they're surrounded by enemies. The Samrians are Israelites who have stayed in the Levant. Okay? Do you understand? So most people around them are in fact Israelites who uh adapted to local circumstances and that means that they practice different religions. That also means that they married foreign women as well but they still consume as Israelites. Okay? Right? Does that make sense guys? [snorts] So what but what happens is that these exiles from Babylon, they come back and they say, "No, we're the true Israelites. You guys are the false Israelites. The reason why we're true is we have stayed loyal to um our religion." Okay? So what's going to happen over the next few decades is almost a civil war between Israelites who've stayed and Israelites who left but come back. All right? All right. And this is what the Persian Empire wants in order to maintain stability in the Levant. Right? Because you have this small minority um of exiles from Avalon who've come back and they're in conflict with everyone else. All right. This is divine rule. Okay. So um um could you sorry let let me >> Okay. Let me Okay. Okay. So could you help me read the Bible? Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. So we're going to read two books of the Bible. They're called Ezra and Nhema. Okay. And these two books are really important and they're not really discuss that often um by scholars. But Ezri Namya shows us how Persia helped the Jews to reconstitute their nation, the process. And by studying these two books, it will give us insight into how current people in the nation of Israel think. And then we can analyze how they will behave moving forward. Okay. All right. So, so can you read this? This this is the beginning of the book of Ezra. Okay. >> In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia in order that the world of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished. The Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he sent a herald throughout all his kingdom and also in a written edict declared. >> Okay. So, this is really important for us to understand. Okay. the Bible. Cyrus is doing this because God told him to do this. Okay? Not because of imperial ambitions or imperial strategy. It's just God told him to do this. Okay? Keep on going. >> Thus says King Cyrus of Persia, "The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah. >> [snorts] >> any of those among you who are of his people, may their God be with them, are now be are now permitted to go up to Jerusalem in Judah and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel. He is the God who is in Jerusalem, and let all survivors in whatever place they reside be assisted by the people of their place with silver and gold, with goods, and with animals, besides free will offsprings for the house of God in Jerusalem. Okay. So, Cyrus the Great is considered the Messiah by the Jews. Um, the Jews are extremely thankful for Cyrus because not only do they does he allow them to go back to uh Jerusalem, but he also finances the rebuilding of the temple. Okay? But when this happens, when they go back and try to rebuild a temple, the locals get pissed off. Okay? Because like, who are you people? you you're still our religion like like what's going on here? Okay. And this creates a lot of conflict. That's good for the Persian Empire because they want this conflict, right? As part of their divide and rule strategy. Okay. All right. Uh >> when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments were stationed to praise the Lord with trumpets. And the Levites, the son of >> the Levites are important. Levites are actually the priest class of of the Israelites. Okay, keep on going. >> The sons of Asaf with symbols according to the direction of King David of Israel. And they sang responsibly, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever towards Israel. And all the people responded with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. But many of the priests and Levites and heads of families, old people who had seen the first house on its foundations, wept with a loud voice when they saw this house, though many shouted aloud for joy, so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people sweeping. For the people shouted so loudly that the sound was heard far away. >> This is the happiest moment in Jewish history when they rebuild the temple. Okay. What they call second temple. And this is important because the second temple was destroyed. [clears throat] And what they want to do now in Israel is build the third temple. And this is important because the third temple sits on the alacic mosque which is the third holiest site in the Arabic world. So what this Bible is telling us that eventually the Israelis will destroy the Alic mosque so that they can build the third temple or what they call the temple of Solomon. Okay. All right. Can you can you can you continue? Um >> uh from when >> Yeah. When the adversaries >> When the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel, they approached Zeru Babel and the heads of families and said to them, "Let us build with you, for we worship your gods as you do." >> Okay, so they're saying, "We're Israelites just as you guys. Okay, we stayed, but you guys left. So actually we're better than you are. Okay. Because we stayed where you left. Okay. Keep on going. >> And we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of King Srar haden of Assyri Assyria who brought us here. But Zir, Zerubbabel, Jerushia, Josh, Joshua, and the rest of the heads of families. And Israel said to them, "You shall have no part with us in building a house to our God. But we alone will build to the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus of Persia had commanded us." >> This is really weird, right? You're all you're all Israelites. Why? Why is it that No, we are the true Israelites. You guys are You guys are the false Israelites, and so you can't help us. Okay? Why is there this conflict going on, right? That's strange. And so the only way to understand this is the conflict is part of the imperial strategy. Okay? Divide and rule. Keep on going. >> Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build and they bribed officials to frustrate the plan throughout the re reign of King Cyrus of Persia and until the reign of King Darius of Persia. >> Okay. So they try to build the temple, but it doesn't really work out because there's so much opposition, right? The the the Jews who come back from Babylon, it's like, "We're the real Israelites, so only we can touch the temple. No, no one else can participate." And the others are like, "This is not this is this is wrong. We should all participate in the building of the temple. This is this is one religion." Okay. So it seems as though these Jews in Babylon, they're actually imperial agents who are trying to show discontent within the region. Okay. Uh sorry this is a bit long. Okay. But um c can can you try to read? >> Okay. This is a copy of the letter that king and can you help me? >> Uh art artoxes. Okay. >> Artex. >> Artexis is this great warrior in Persian. Okay. Great warrior. Keep on going. gave to the priest Ezra, the scribe, a scholar of the text of the commandments of the Lord and his status for Israel. >> Okay, so Ezra is one of these Israelites who was who comes from a family that was exiled to Babylon. Okay, but he's a priest and he's an intellectual. So he is considered actually the uh creator of the Bible that we have today. Okay, keep on going. Artisex says, "King of kings to the priest Zarah, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, peace. And now I decree that any of the people of Israel of their priests or Levites in my kingdom who freely offers to go to Jerusalem may go with you. For you are you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God which is in your hand. and also to convey the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel who whose dwelling is in Jerusalem with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia and with the free will offerings of the people and the priests given willingly to the house of their God in Jerusalem. With this money then you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams and lambs and their grain offering and their drink offerings and you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God and to raise. >> Okay, stop. Okay, this is really important. Okay, this is a letter um by King Ardis authorizing is Ezra to build the second temple. Okay, why is this important? because this is called the Balfford declaration 1917. What's going to happen is that the British government um Lord Balfford he writes to Lord Rothst who is a Jewish finance and he says we uh actually just just read this. Okay. >> Okay. I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of his majesty's government the following declaration of empath sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to and approved by the cabinet. His majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a n national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object. It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. >> Okay, this is almost like the artist segregation, right? You see how in the Bible artists writes a letter to Ash says, "Hey, I authorize you to go back to Jerusalem and build the second temple." Right? So, what's happening is that they're using the Bible as a script in order to um facilitate their geopolitical ambitions. Okay? Okay, this is why reading the Bible is important because once you read the Bible, you understand the Bible, you compare it to historical development, you're able to see the connections and you're able to see connections, you can also see predict how they will develop over time. Okay, so this battle of declaration creates the current nation of Israel, okay, which was found in 1948. So like before the nation of Israel was created by the British as part of their geopolitical strategy of dividing and conquering the Middle East and I and we'll discuss this later on. Okay. But it's really important for you guys to keep in mind as we move forward. All right. Uh c can you um read the highlighted part? Okay. >> Okay. Oh my god. I'm too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you. My God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads. >> Okay, so this is a speech by Ezra. Okay, he returns to Jerusalem and now he has to reflect on on what God wants. Okay, so he's he's he's going to discuss why God exiled in Babylon, why God has allowed him return, and what God wants him to do. Okay, keep on going. >> And our guilt has mounted up to the heavens. From the days of our ancestors to this day, we have been deep in guilt. And for in iniquities, we our kings and our priests have been handed over to the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame as it now the case. >> Okay. So why did the Israelites get exiled to Babylon? Because they refused to obey and worship Yahweh. Yahweh sent prophets. Yahweh warned them, but they kept on uh worshiping false gods. They kept on uh sinning. And so Yahweh is like, "You know what? I really needed to teach these guys a lesson." And that's why they exiled him. They exiled them to Babylon so they can reflect and learn and grow as a people. Okay, keep on going. No, this case. But now, for a brief moment, favor has been shown by the Lord of Lord our God, who has left us a remnant and given us a stake in his holy place, in order that he may brighten our eyes and grant us a little sustenance sustenance in our slavery. For we are slaves, yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to give us new life, to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah >> and Jerusalem >> and in Jerusalem. >> Okay, so Ezra is saying, "Okay, yeah, we screwed up, but God is forgiving, and now we have a second chance to prove ourselves to God." How do we prove ourselves to God? by making sure that we only worship him. Okay. So this beginning of um uh Jewish monotheism. Okay. Which was heavily influenced by Zorashianism. So in other words um the religion that the Jews will practice from now on is not the religion of the Israelites which is polytheistic. They they're will now practice a new religion that's heavily influenced by Zorashianism. Okay. Which is the Persian religion. Come on. >> And now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, which you are commanded by your servants, the prophet, saying, the land that you are entering to possess is a land unclean with the pollutions of the people of the lands with their abominations. They have they have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness. >> Okay. So, this is really important idea to understand. What what Ashra is saying is this these Israelites who've stayed are traitors. They are now unclean. Why? Because now they worship foreign gods. They're they're polytheistic. And as a result, we have to clean the land. Okay, this is a fanatical understanding of Judaism. Okay, keep on going. Therefore, do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters from your sons, and never seek their peace or propriety, so that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever. >> Okay, keep on going. After all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved, and have given us such a remnant at this, shall we break your commandment again, and intermar with the people who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you destroy us with without remnant or survivor? Oh Lord, God of Israel, you are just, but we have escaped as a remnant, as is now the case. Here we are before you in our guilt, though no one can face you because of this. >> Okay, so now God has forgiven us. We've returned to uh Jerusalem. We can't screw this up again. Okay, and how do we prove our loyalty to God? By making sure that we are pure. Okay, we're not going to marry other uh religions. We're not going to marry other people. we're going to be there within ourselves. So, Heroditus in his histories when he talks about the Jewish people, okay, he says the Jewish people are known for two things. The first thing they're known for is giving Sabbath on Saturday. So, they don't work, they don't work on Saturday because that's their law. The second thing that they're known for, really known for is they don't marry outside their religion. Jewish women will not will refuse to marry foreign men. Okay? And so, now we have the concept of blood purity. That is new. So remember it's really important for us to understand but the Jews and the Israelites are not the same people. Okay. In fact what Israel is doing is rejecting the Israelite heritage and establishing a new heritage based on blood purity and a monopistic devotion to Yahweh. And this is new. Okay. That's why I keep on saying this. The Jews of Persia are not the same as the Israelites of David. All right. So, um, as you can see from this map, um, the Jews are in this area and it's a very small part of the Levant, but it's a part of the Levant that's completely loyal to Persia, okay? Because they see everyone else as unclean, as the enemy. And if you're an empire, having the Jews around are really um good for you, right? All right. And so the Jews are an invention of the Persians, but guess what? The nation of Israel is also an invention of the British Empire. And we'll discuss this later on. All right. Um so we move on to the second book called Nhema. So Ezra is the priest who will create the Bible. Uh Nehemiah is the uh governor sent by the Persians to reestablish uh the Jewish nation. Okay. So okay, can you read the the highlighted part? >> At the time I was cupbearer to the king. >> Okay. Cup bearer to the king is like a really powerful position, right? Because you can poison the king. So the king loves you. The king sees you as um as someone who is very competent and you could possibly be one day be um uh prime minister or the first minister. Okay, keep on going. >> In the month of Nissan in the 12th 20th >> 20th year of King Artist >> Artisexes >> Artisexes my bad. when wine has when wine was served him. I carried the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in this presence before. So the king said to me, "Why is your face sad since you are not s not sick? This can only be sadness of the heart." Then I was very much afraid. I said to the king, "May the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my ancestors graves, lies waste and its gate have been destroyed by fire? Then the king said to me, "What do you request?" So I prayed to the God of heaven. Then I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and you your servant has found favor with you, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my ancestors grave so that I may rebuild it." The king said to me, the queen also was sitting beside him. How long will you be gone and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me. And I set him a date. Then I said to the king, "If I pleases the king, let letters be given to given me to the governors of the province beyond the river, that they may grant me passage until I arrived in Judah." and a letter to Asaf, the keeper of the king's forest, directing him to give me timber to make beams for the gates of the temple fortress and for the wall of the city and for the house that I shall occupy. And the king granted me what I asked for the gracious hand of my God was upon me. Okay. So the Bible says that Nehemiah one day feels tremendous regret that uh the city of his ancestors is not has not been rebuilt. Okay? And he begs the king for permission to go back. Guys, this is not how empires work. Okay? This is not how empires work. You do not ask the king or the emperor for anything because he will just cut your head off. Okay? How empires work is that you have to read the king's intentions, right? You have to figure out what does he really want? And then you have to say please please I want to do this not because you asked me to do this but because I want to do this myself. Okay. And I will work hard to achieve this ambition. That's how empires work. All right. The king does not tell you what he wants. You have to guess what he wants. If you can guess what he wants, then you get promoted. If you can't guess what he wants, then you get then you get your head cut off. All right. That's how empires work. This is important because um when we move on to the nation of Israel, most people believe that the nation of Israel started with the Zionist movement which came with u the writing of a book called uh Judand um fatherland written by this German Jewish journalist called Theodore Herszel. And so people say Zionism started 100 years ago. Guys, when we do the next state of Israel, we will discover that it's actually part of the British imperial policy. Okay? But the British themselves cannot be seen as the one as the ones who are promoting the creation of the state of Israel because it makes them look bad. Okay? Um because then because everyone else would be like why are you doing this? So what they have to do is create a situation in which the Jews themselves are trying to are want to create their own nation. The problem though is this is really important. We'll discuss this later is that 100 years ago, guess what? Jews did not want to go to Jerusalem because they were happy where they were. Okay? There were a lot of Jews who were pretty happy in Babylon, but they were sent back in order to create this um uh to create this uh province Judah um and to create all this conflict with with the locals. Okay? That's how empires work. Okay. All right. So, when Nehemiah goes back, what what he's going to do is he's going to build the temple and he's going to build the walls. This is going to piss everyone off, right? Because like why would you do that? [clears throat] We're all living happily together. We're all big one big family. Um and now you're building these walls which means that you're better than us or you or you're afraid you're you're afraid of us or you want to conquer us. Okay? So this creates all these conflicts with the locals which is again what the Persian Empire wants to happen. This is how empires work. [cough] All right. Okay. C can you can you read? >> Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish kin. For there were those who said with our sons and our daughters we are many. We must get grain so that we may eat and stay alive. There were also those who said, "We are having to pledge our fields, our vineyards, and our houses in order to get grain during the famine." And there were those who said, "We are having to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay the king's tax." Now, our flesh is the same as that of our kindred. Our children are the same as their children, and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished. we are powerless and our fields and vineyards now belong to others. >> Okay. So what what's happening is that Nehemiah has gone back to create this new province um of Jews. What he's discovering is that there's massive corruption inequality among these Jews and this is a problem because they're minority in a very hostile region. Right. Keep on going. >> I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints. After thinking it over, I brought charges against the nobles, the nobles and the officials. I said to them, "You are all taking interest from your own people." And I called a great embassy to deal assembly to deal with them. And said to them, "As far as we were able, we have brought back our Jewish kindred who had been sold to other nations, but now you are selling your own kin who must then be brought back by us." They were silent and could not find a word to say. So I said, "The thing you the thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not should you not walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies? Moreover, I moreover I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us stop this taking of interest. Restore to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive work or orchards and their houses and their interests on money, grain, wine and oil that you have been exact exa exacting from [snorts] them. Then they said, "We will restore everything and demand nothing more from them. We will do as you say." And I called the priests and made them take an oath to do as they had promised. I also shook out the folds of my garment and said, "So many God shakes out everyone from house and from property who does not perform this promise. Thus may they be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen." And praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised. >> Okay, so this is a really important aspect of the Jews that people don't really understand how unified they are. Okay, an example is that if you're a Jewish person, you can always get an interest free interest free loan if you want to buy a house or start a business. Okay, that's pretty amazing, right? If you want to buy a house or want to start a business, we go to bank, they're like, um, okay, we're going to charge you 10% interest and maybe you can't afford that, right? But if you're a Jewish person, doesn't matter [snorts] how poor you are, there will always be Jewish organizations that can offer you interest free loans. If you want to start a business or if you want to buy a house, you want to do anything because Jews are not allowed to collect interest from each other. That's how unified they are as a people. Okay. Uh okay. So, uh, just read the top and they highlight it and and and that's it. Okay. >> Okay. When the seventh month came, the people of Israel being settled in their own in their towns, all the people gathered together into the square before the Watergate, they told the scribe Ezra to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had had given to Israel. Accordingly, the priest Ezra brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear hear with understanding. This was on the first day of the seventh month. He read from it facing the square before the water gate from early morning until midday in the presence in the presence of the men and women and those who could understand. and the ears of all of all the people were were attentive to the book of the law. >> Okay. So this is the last step of creating the Jewish identity. Okay. So the idea of the Jewish identity is that um they follow the laws of God. They do not marry outside their religion. They not charge each other interest. They don't exploit each other. Okay. And the last thing is this. The last thing is that their historical memory is the Bible. Okay. Who are we as Jewish people? H what are our memories? It's whatever is written in the Bible. Okay. So Ezra is taking all these historical documents and he's combined them together in what today we call the Bible. Okay. And this is this makes the Jewish people extremely resilient because no matter uh where they are, no matter um how low the publishing um um how low the publishing goes, their memory, their historical identity is always stored in one Bible. That makes them the the world's most resilient, flexible, and open people. Okay. So this begins the uh uh Bible. Okay. Uh keep on going. >> In those days I saw in Judah people treating wine pre wine presses on the Sabbath. And >> Sabbath is a Saturday, the day of rest. Okay. >> And bring in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them at the time against selling food. >> Ty tyrans >> Tyrions also who lived in the city brought in fish and all kinds of merchandise and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah and in Jerusalem. Then Ire remmonstrated with the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this evil thing that you are doing profaining the Sabbath day? Did not your ancestors act in this way? And did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on the city? Yet you bring more worth and on Israel by profaining the Sabbath. In those days also I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. And half of their children spoke the language of Ashod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke the language of various people. And I contended with them, and cursed them, and beat some of them, and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters from your sons, or for yourselves." Did not King Solomon of Israel sin on account of such women. Among the many nations there were there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women? >> Okay. So, Nehemiah uh enforces two major laws. The first law is that you shall not work on the Sabbath because that is God's rest day. Okay. Second major law is that if you marry a foreign woman, you must divorce her. He's bringing up families. Why? because he believes that um religious purity requires blood purity. If you marry a foreign woman, she's she's going to make you believe in their foreign god. Remember, it is by worshiping false idols. Um it's because of this that Yahweh decided to punish the Jews. Okay? So, the Jews must only worship Yahweh. All right? So, this is their interpretation of monotheism. So as you can see um there are certain traditions uh about the Jews that was created during the Persian Empire in order to facilitate Persian's control of the Lavant. But these traditions because they are encoded in the Bible they stay with us even today. But not only that, but by reading the Bible carefully and understand how to connect the Bible to historical development, you can now figure out how Israel will develop over the next 10, 20 years. Okay? And these are my sorry, see these are my three predictions. First of all, they're going to rebuild the temple of Solomon. Okay? They're going to build the third temple by destroying the Alex mos. They're going to do that sooner or later. Okay? That's the first thing they're going to do. And and you can you know why? Because when we when we read the Bible, you can see how how happy they were. Okay? Because they felt completed. They felt as though God is with us. God has forgiven us. God loves us. Okay? So building the third temple is crucial to the identity of Israel today. Okay? Okay. So, they're going to do this and it's going to cause a lot of problems because again the mosque is the third holiest site in the Islamic world and it's going to create a lot of conflict between Israel and the Islamic world. Okay. Do they care? Not really. Okay. Number two, you can see how um when the Jews returned, they were convinced that they were forced out of Jerusalem because they offended God. Okay? So in other words, if Jews want to maintain control over Israel, they need to obey the laws of God, which means that they have become a theocracy. Okay? Now, now I'm not sure if you've been to Israel. I've been to Israel. And if you go to place like Tel Aviv, it's a very open, liberal, cosmopolitan, forwardlooking place. Okay? I think that um Tel Aviv has um one of the world's highest concentrations of gays in the world. Okay. >> [snorts] >> Guess what? That's that's gone. Okay. As Israel develops over time, it's become more and more of a theocracy where the Bible is the law. Okay? And the third thing is that we we can expect that as the past past Judea expands, more and more Jews will return to Israel. Look, the reality is this. If you look at the Middle East, [clears throat] Israel is the greatest power in the Middle East. There's no force in the Middle East that can prevent Israel from expanding and expanding including the pacts Judea which is their ambition. Okay. So um this is just an introduction but the thing I want you guys to remember is that first of all the Jewish identity it is uh fluid. It's flexible. It's open. It was created by empire for the purpose of maintaining empire. Okay. And we're going to see this throughout history as well. All right. So, um, is was this clear to you guys? Are there any questions about today? Okay. Yeah. So, how does the the Persian state control like Persian control of uh of Jerusalem transfer to modern day society? Like, how does it still work? because I think we're seeing like a a trend that is Israel's going kind of more back to to like depending on the Bible and everything. So, how does it like transfer to modern day society and all the conflicts that's happening? >> Okay, so Persia wanted to divide and conquer the Leavant. Okay. They're afraid that if one if the vant becomes too stable, the lavant might settle with Egypt or another power and they lose control of the lavant um which directly impacts your capacity to trade and control um the world. Okay. So the way you control the lavant is you create this entity um that has conflict with everyone else. And now what happens is that both this entity um um Jerusalem and the its enemies rely on you Persia to manage a conflict. Okay? And this what's happening today in Israel because who's the empire? America's the empire, right? Israel has all these conflicts with nations in the Middle East, right? They have conflicts with Turkey. They have conflicts with Egypt. They have conflicts with uh the Gulf nations. They have conflicts with basically everyone. Okay. So, who does everyone require need to manage this conflict? America, right? Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, they all require the United States to come in and say, "Hey guys, let's just get along. We're just one big family." Okay? This is all intentional in order for America to maintain dominance over the Middle East. Who's very unhappy about this? Which nation is very unhappy about this? Israel. Okay. Right. Israel is going to piss about this. So we can expect that over time what's going to happen is a major major conflict between America and Israel. There's going to be a divorce basically. And my argument to you is that um Israel will win this conflict and as a result Israel will become the dominant power in the Middle East because the Jews know their own history. The Jews read the Bible every day. They know what the Persians did. They know what the British did. They know what the Americans are doing today. They don't like they don't they don't want this. They don't they don't want to become a servant a slave to empire. >> They are ser servant and slave to their god but they don't become a servant and slave to the empire. So they need to get rid of the empire and establish a sovereignty. >> Okay? And that's why there's so much conflict in the Middle East today because Israel needs to figure out how to get rid of the American Empire so that they can be independent and um fully achieve their sovereignty. Okay. That does that make sense? >> Yeah. I think one question I have is about like I think currently the Jews stop attacking Palestines. Okay guys, okay, this is really important. Okay, don't say the Jews. Okay, there are different groups. There's the Israelites. The Israelites are the time of King David. They're gone. Okay, let's forget the Israelites. There are the Jews and the Jews are people who practice Judaism. Okay, then there are the Israelis. Israelis are citizens of the nation of Israel. It's the Israelis that are doing this, not the Jews. There's a difference, okay? The because the Jews are spread out throughout the world, okay? What we call the Jewish diaspora. And there are a lot of Jews in the world who oppose the nation of Israel because well, what nation nation of Israel is is doing they believe goes against the will of God. Okay. So, Israelis not Jews. Okay. >> Okay. So the Israelis is I think like the news just disappears about how Israelis attacks Palestine. It's just because previously is it was like all on those host searches but recently we can just it's just just gone the newses. >> Okay. Um look the reality is that if you read the Bible it's clear what's going to happen. Uh, Israel is going to clear the West Bank and Gaza of Palestinians to re to establish their theocratic state. Okay? They can't have Palestinians and Arabs around. It has to be completely Jewish. Um, and these Palestinians can be moved elsewhere to Jordan, to Egypt. They don't really care. Okay. But but this process process will take time. Okay. Okay. All right. Any more questions, guys? Okay, great. So, um was this clear? The the ideas in this class were are clear. Okay, so next class what we will do is we will do the Greek Empire. Okay, and then after that we'll do the Roman Empire and after that we will do Christianity. Okay, so we're going through history fairly quickly. But um I want I need you to keep these ideas in mind because they will build on top of each other. Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you.

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Good morning class. Welcome to our first class. And today what I want to do is provide the framework for how we will learn the semester. What are we learning? How are we learning? Why are we learning? All right. So this is a class of ideas. So, it's really important for you to pay attention and understand how these ideas connect with each other. If I'm not being clear, ask me a question. In fact, make it a habit to ask as many questions as possible because that way you will learn more. Learning will be more fun for you and learning will be much more clearer to you. Okay? So, let's get in the habit of asking questions. So wherever I am confusing, wherever I'm speaking too fast, wherever you don't understand, interrupt me. Okay, let's get that happen. All right, so um I first want to talk about Emmanuel Kant. We will we will be discussing a lot this semester because he is the greatest philosopher in western history and he teaches us he taught us how the world works and this is what he told us. He told us that we can never know the objective reality. There is an updated reality what he calls the nomina. Okay? Or the things in themselves that is not knowable to us. That is a world we can never access. Why? Because we perceive the world through our senses. Our senses, our perception warps the world and changes it into a structure that we can process called the phenomena which are the things that appear to us. Okay. So the example is time and space. Time and space do not exist outside of us. Time and space do not exist in reality. But for us to understand reality, we need to add in time and space. Okay, that's the example. All right. So how the world works is we perceive the world, we perceive the nomena and turn it into the phenomena for us to process. In other words, and this is really important, reality is what we imagine it to be. There is no objective reality. Reality is what we imagine it to be. Life is a constant process, a constant act of imagination. All right, that's that's Emanuel K. That's the first idea I want you to understand. So what I want I want to do in this class this semester is train you or teach you or inspire you to augment your imagination so that you see the world much more clearly. This class is not about what to think. It's about how to think. All right. All right. So, let me explain the structure of the course. So, there's past, there's present, and there's future. We'll be looking at all three this semester. the past, the present and the future. We were analyzing all three in order to construct a more object of reality for ourselves. We will not succeed. We will fail. But the process of trying will train our minds to think much more critically about the world. So let me explain how. In the present we have geopolitics. We'll be studying geopolitics. For example, why is there war in Ukraine? Why is there war in the Middle East? What happened? We'll be studying geopolitics and we will try to understand why this is happening. We'll try to formulate an analyical model of geopolitics. Okay, an analyical model. We will then use this analytical model to make predictions about the future. Why do we do this? Because these predictions will tell us if our analy model is correct or not. Okay, does that make sense? It's no different from artificial intelligence. How do you know if your artificial intelligence the model is correct or not? Well, you test it against reality. Okay, there's no difference between that artificial intelligence system and what we're trying to do here. And why are we doing this? Because if we're able to have an ethical model that makes correct predictions, then we take all this and go back and analyze the past to un to reveal the secret history of the world. That is a project we are undertaking this semester to discover for ourselves the secret history of humanity. Because you may not know this but all the history that you learn in school or that history that you think you know it is false. Okay. The history that you know you the history that you believe it is a system implanted into your brains by powerful people. Okay. So the real question that we're looking at this semester is really how does power work? Because if you if we can figure this out, then you will achieve liberation. You will achieve freedom. You understand how you're being manipulated by others. And therefore, you'll be free. You'll be empowered to live the way you want to live to see the world that is true to you. So, let me give you three cover examples of how power works. Okay, the first example is money. Let us do a thought experiment. I'm a bank. Okay, I decide I want to open a bank. And now you're allowed to put money in the bank. Okay. So, all of you get together and you put $5 million in the bank, not $5 million. Now, why do you put $5 million into my bank? Because I promise you 1% interest, right? 1% interest. That's a really good deal. But now, because I owe you some money, right? I owe you 1% interest. I now need to go make money for myself. So, I have a friend who's building a restaurant and he says, "I need $5 million to build the restaurant and after a year I will pay you back 10% interest." Okay, 10% interest. And so I make a 9% profit and I can use that to pay my employees, to pay myself a salary, to build a new building. Okay? So now I want you to think about this. I'm the bank. I got $5 million in deposit money. Then I gave out a $5 million 5 million loan. Today, how much money is in the bank? >> Countless. >> H >> countless. >> How much money now do I have? I got $5 million from you guys. Then I gave it out to someone else, right? So, how much money is in the bank right now? >> Zero. >> Zero is zero, right? It should be zero. Logically, the answer is zero. In fact, zero is the answer that you are taught in economics. It's what you are taught. Yeah. Zero is not an answer to all you cannot loan all the money that you you have like for for example if they will have a limit like 25 uh% I don't know okay maybe 10% so you can only loan like 4 million,000 >> okay okay yeah okay really good point okay yes okay so that's really good so in economics you learn about the idea of the fractional reserve system okay what's fractional reserve Perfect. As you say, you must leave behind a certain amount of money. It could be 7%, it could be 10%, it depends on on the country. Okay, let's say 10%. So, theoretically, I can I can actually lend out $5 million. I can only lend out $4.5 million. Okay, you're right. Okay, that's that's that's law as well. Okay. Um actually um okay let's say I land on four $4.5 million. Okay. Now how much money do I have in the bank? >> Yeah half a million. Right. Okay. So again this is what you're taught in economics. This is what makes logical sense. Right. The correct answer. What actually happens in real life is you have you now have $9.5 million. Okay, that is the correct answer. This makes no sense, right? But it happens in reality. And how do we know? Because over the past 20 years, Chinese banks like the Bank of China, uh the Bank of Industry and Commerce, Agriculture Bank of China, if you Google these banks, what you will see is these past 20 years, these banks have become the largest in the world. How did that happen? Was it because Chinese people got rich and put all the money in the bank? No, that's not what happened. What happened, guys? supported by the government. >> Okay. What happened was these banks start to lend money out to corporations, to government, to people to build skyscrapers, to build roads. In other words, the banks started to create money out of nothing in order to finance China's infrastructure projects. And that's what banks are allowed to do. They're allowed to print money, create money out of nothing. Okay, does that make sense? Now the question then is wait a minute here that's kind of absurd. How this system come into being? How is it created? Okay. Well, actually there's a very easy explanation for where we got the system from. All right. So, let me explain the history and the origin of the system. So in the beginning it was merchants who engaged um in finance because merchants needed money in order to facilitate trade. Okay. And some merchants became extremely wealthy and when they became very wealthy they started banks in order to support trade and other merchants. Okay. So um these banks traded in gold because that was the primary source and supply of money back then. Okay. So um what happened is you would come and you would put your money your gold in the bank for safekeeping and the bank would give you a contract. Right? A contract is just saying, "Thank you for giving your gold. I promise to give back your gold at any time that you want it." And that's what we call a receipt, right? And this would allow for better and easier trade because now I can take this contract and I can go to England. Okay, maybe I'm based in Italy, but now I can go to England and said, "Listen, I need to buy cotton or bananas from you." And the person is like, "Well, what are you going to give me?" I'm going to give you gold, right? So, I take the receipt, I give it to you, right? And why do we and why do we do this? Because it's a lot easier than giving gold to other people. And so, this system would facilitate trade throughout the world. doesn't make sense. Now I'm the bank. I have all this gold and I want to make money with it. So I want to give it to other people. So other merchants would come come to me and say, "Listen, I need gold. Can you lend me out gold?" Right? But I say to him, "Yeah, but if I give you out the gold, you have a security issue. It's inconvenient for you. So why don't I give you a receipt, a contract instead? Does that make sense? Because all I need is a contract. All I need is a receipt in order to go and do trade elsewhere. Right? So, so by doing this, what I've done is I've doubled the gold in my bank, right? I've created money out of nothing. So the gold is still 5 million. That hasn't changed. But the receipt is now 5 million plus 5 million. So theoretically, I now have 10 million in the bank. All right? So that's how money and finance works. Now there's a problem with the system. What's the problem with the system? What do you mean? >> Um, why would I why would the other people say as gold? >> Okay, that's a great question. Okay, why is it that people believe in me? Okay, the answer is very simple. The answer is because for most of of human history, people didn't need money. If you if you were just a normal person, what were you doing? Were you in a village growing crops? If you wanted to to like get new stuff, what would you do? You would trade with someone else, right? May maybe you have a goal that I want. Well, then I I would trade you cow for it. So, we didn't actually need money. So, for most of human history, no one had any need for money. It was only in certain circumstances that you would want money. So, for example, marriage, right? Okay. So throughout most of human history, money represented debt that could be unpaid. Oh sorry, debt that could never be repaid. So for example, a very common thing is um maybe you and I fight and I kill you. Well, in theory, your family should not come and kill me. But obviously, that would create a lot of problems, right? So, the way to settle the dispute is I would give your family money because money was symbolically meant to say, "I'm sorry I killed you. This is a debt that can never be repaid." Right? That's what money was used for in most circumstances throughout human history. There was no actually real use for money. It was symbolic. But with the rise of trade with merchants, they needed money in order to facilitate the trade. But these merchants all knew each other. So they trusted each other anyway. So money was a mechanism for them to um trade easier. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. Okay. So let's go back to the question. This system looks great. I can print money out nothing. But there's a problem with the system. What is the problem? There's a problem here. >> H >> you can forge the receipts the money. >> Okay, that's actually a great question. Okay, so yeah, is it possible to forge the contract? Okay, so um that's a really good point. The problem is so the the the answer is that they all knew each other anyway. Okay, because it's a very small circle. Again, we have not reached the modern period where um it's a lot of people using money. If that's the case, then fortune becomes a problem. We'll discuss this in future classes, okay? Counterfeiting. But at this point in history, forgery is actually not a big issue. There's actually a bigger issue and it's a huge issue. What's the issue? I have $5 million of gold, right? There's about $10 million of gold out there in receipts. What's the problem with that? The problem is that if everyone wants to go at the same time, I go bankrupt, right? Because I lose my reputation. The contract says that at any time you want the gold, I must give it to you. But if I have like if there's $100 million in gold contracts, but I only have $10 million in gold. Only if 15 million wants the gold back, then I'm screwed. This is what we call a bank run. Okay, a bank run. And this is a huge problem for merchants. Okay, there's also another problem with the system. The problem is this. Who do I usually lend my money to? Do you guys know? If I'm a bank, if I'm a merchant, who do I usually lend my money to? >> Okay, guys. Um, today we lend the money to entrepreneurs. But back then, there really weren't entrepreneurs. There were kings >> and noble people. And what do they do all the time? Why do they need money? >> To fight wars. Okay, that's why that's why there's a demand for gold. Because if I'm a king, I need to fight a war, usually against my brother or someone else to control this territory. Right now, the problem with this is I could get killed, in which case, oops. But also, what's much more common is the king would be like, screw you bank, I don't need to pay you back. Okay? So, there's actually a lot of risks with this system. So over time develop a system to mitigate or reduce this risk. Okay. What would they do? What what they would do is they would create cartels. Cartels are just partnerships. So maybe this bank works with another bank works with another bank throughout Europe. They and the way they establish these cartels is usually through inner marriage, right? They would marry each other. um they would combine together and that way let's say this say 15 million uh of receipts wants back the gold but there's only 10 million well guess what you just go another bank okay and let's just say a king decides I'm not going to pay you back bank well your bank works with other banks to establish a new enemy to kill the king to get the money back you understand And this system is what we call today central banking. And what you will learn in this class is central banking controls the world today. Okay. Now, what's really important about this system is that it's based on power, right? And what power is, it can turn nothing, money, the contract, into everything. Okay? That's what money is. Okay? So we live in a world in which banks can print out money, right? So now let's ask ourselves a question. Wait a minute here. If the banks can print as much money as possible, why do we have poverty? Right? Because we can just give money to poor people and they wouldn't be poor anymore. Why do we have poverty? If there's all the food in the world that we want, why are people starving still? Why? >> Because we don't have resources. >> Okay? So, we don't have limited resources. We have scarcity. Okay? Right? So, that is the common answer. Scarcity. We have poverty because of scarcity. But I already told you this. They can print money out of nothing. So money is infinite. Money is infinite resource. So why are we why do we have poor people then? That's kind of strange. >> But money aren't money just you know useful trade. they still have limited resources and you know the actual the like the the actual main >> okay you you see what's happening is this you all believe money is scarce okay but I just spent the past 10 20 minutes explaining to you it's not scarce it's infinite okay it's just a number we can at any time print out as much money as we need okay so that's how power works power has brainwashed you into thinking something that is not True. You've been taught from the first day that money is scarce. But it's not scarce. It's infinite. And no matter what I say to you, you still believe this. Okay? So, you have to get that out of your head. Money is not scarce. It is infinite. So, let's go back to the question. Why is there poverty in this world? Why do people starve? Why is there inequality in this world? Why are there poor people? Why are there rich people? What's the answer? >> Because they don't print infinite money. >> Okay, because it's scarce. I So guys, this is amazing. Okay, you guys can't get out of your head. You think money is scarce. You think it is not possible to print infinite money when I already told you it is possible to print infinite money because they do this all the time. Yeah. uh the one who has the power don't want everyone to share the same um >> because we don't want people to all have money. The powerful people don't want that. That's exactly the answer. And why? Because otherwise no one would work. Do you understand? The point of putting money is not to give you money. The point of putting money is to create the illusion that money is valuable and therefore you work hard in order to obtain it. But in order for me to make you want to get money, I need to create artificial misery. Do you understand? Right? If there weren't poor people, you wouldn't want to be rich. It's only by because you see people suffer that you would want to go make money for yourself. Your what do your parents tell you? Your parents tell you work hard in school, make a lot of money. Otherwise, you're going to end up like a poor person, right? Well, guess what? If there's no poor people, your parents couldn't say that to you and you wouldn't want to work hard in school, right? That's why we have poverty because poverty creates the illusion that money is valuable. In other words, poverty isn't what you do to yourself, it is what the powerful do to you. Now, let me ask you another question. You guys have studied some economics. Why do you have like crisis? Crisis For example, there's a stock market crash or for example, the economy goes down and people lose their jobs. Why do we have crisis? >> Exactly. You're not taught this in economics class. That's kind of weird, right? The point of crisis is destroy money. Why do we need to destroy money? Because if there's too much money in the system, people don't have to work. So you have to destroy this money in order to make people feel money is scarce. Okay, does that make sense? So why do you have wars? Right? Why are there wars in the world then? Because they're fighting over scarce resources, right? I already told you scarcity is a lie. The real reason is war is meant to destroy wealth. In order to make you think money is valuable. Do you understand? You you guys play World of Warcraft or these games, right? Guess what, guys? World of Warcraft in our world, there's actually no difference. You just run around pointlessly working hard to obtain credits in order to buy stuff. If credits just flew out of the sky, because they could do that, right? they can actually program the engine to just put money out of nothing. You wouldn't do nothing every day. You wouldn't play the game. Okay? It's only because you believe that there's scarcity in the world and that you must work hard to obtain wealth that you do any work. Do you understand this? Okay. So this world that we live in, it's a complete illusion created by central banking in order to make us work as hard as possible because the real value is not money. The real value is the work we do. Okay. Does that make sense, guys? All right. Yeah. >> You said scarcity is an illusion, right? But uh I understand that money can be printed infinitely but resources such as food and land you know they aren't technically unlimited. So uh scarcity does scarcity still exist in other resources? >> Okay that that's a great question. Okay so question is isn't food scarce because food is a finite resource right? Do yourself a favor. Okay, go to the garbage dump somewhere anywhere in Beijing and see the amount of food that is wasted every single day. If food was scarce, why do we have food waste? Okay, so if you just do the mathematics, what you will discover is there's enough food to feed everyone. Okay, there doesn't have to be hunger and starvation. It's an artificial crisis. Okay. Does that make sense? So, you're right in that. Yeah. Food's not infinite, but it's abundant. There's a lot of it, enough to feed people. Okay. >> On the land, uh, oil resources, you know, the reason they go to war. >> Okay. All right. Um, so again, you guys are stuck in the scarcity mindset. Um, and it's very convincing. So let's move on. Okay. So this is this is something that we'll go back to later on. Okay. Because I cannot convince you today this morning that everything you believed about the world and about yourself is wrong. Okay. You're still stuck there like okay there's scarcity. Uh and you're right there's scarcity. But we also live in a world of abundance. And a lot of things that you believe are just misconceptions about the world. Okay. So, so we'll go back there, okay? Later on. All right. So, let's move on. Okay. So, we've done money now, right? Now, let's do another question. Let's do a question of happiness. The question for us today is what makes us happy? Come on. What makes you happy? How can you live a happy life? Well, obviously money, right? If you have a lot of money, that's going to make you happy. What else? >> Power. >> Exactly. Power. Right. Sure. Power. >> Excuse me. >> Freedom. >> Okay. Good. Freedom. Yeah. What else? >> Relationships. >> Relationships. Yep. Sure. If you have good friends, right? Like lots and lots of friends. What else? Romantic relations. >> Okay. Love, right? Love. Sure. What else? Like video games, I guess. Vacations. Okay. Lots and lots of things. Okay. What you will discover about this list is this. You are think about individual happiness. And this is actually unique in human history. If you look if you go back in time to five five years ago and you ask people how can you be happy? They would focus more on collective happiness. In other words, if your community were not happy, you cannot be happy. So the very idea of the individual is new in human history. Before we understood that if you want to live a happy life, you need to take care of your family. You need to take care of your community. For them, for us, throughout most of of human history, happiness meant helping others, being generous to others. So, for example, let's just say that I go off and I wonder and then I find a lot of gold, right? I come back and what what's the first thing I do with all this gold? Do you guys know? And this is like the ancient past. >> Dig a hole and put them inside. >> Okay. Yeah. Good. Right. We're going to dig a hole and put that money inside because we want to give it to our children. That's a modern mindset. But what did they do before you? And this happened throughout every society. If I became rich one day, what's the first thing I would do? >> Show up. >> H >> show off. >> No. Okay. So, so we'll learn this. Okay. But the first thing that people did was they had a big feast for everyone. >> They spent all the money on a big feast because what mattered was your reputation within the community. What mattered was your generosity. If you got rich one day, you made sure that everyone in community benefited from your wealth, usually by holding a big feast. And guess what guys, this was true in China for most of Chinese history, right? If you are, if you come from a Chinese village, come you come to Beijing, you open a restaurant, you make a lot of money, you go, you go out to your village, what's the first thing you do? Come on, guys. >> You have a big feast for everyone. Okay. So this is in ingrained in us. Okay. But as you say today what we believe is if you have a lot of money put it underground or put in the bank. Okay. But back then for for most of human history we would just spend it all on a big feast. We want everyone to share in happiness and that's what made us happy. Okay. Are are any questions? >> Yeah. I I was wondering you mentioned that uh it was for reputation on some levels that would that count into as you know your individual happiness because after you get rich you care about your reputation. >> Yeah. So, so you're you're asking, isn't this about individual reputation? And again, I mean, this is hard. Okay. But the individual, the concept of individual did not exist before. We just we just created it. The idea that I'm a person independent of my family, independent of my community, independent of the world around me, makes no sense. What was the worst punishment that could be inflicted on you in the past? Let's just say that we're going to fight, I kill you, right? Like you're they said you're no longer belong to this. >> Exactly. Banishment, exile, not death. Right. And today if I killed you, the police would come catch me and then kill me. But before we didn't do that because the worst thing that we could do was exile you. Says you're no longer part of us. Do you understand? So the concept of the individual did not exist. Right? Okay. So let's move on. All right. So now I'm going to present two understandings of the world and you're going to tell me which understanding you think is correct. And the first understanding we humans don't have agency. We don't have really control. Why? Because there are powerful gods out there. Okay? There are these powerful gods like Apollo, Dianesis. Oh, the problem though is that they are also controlled by other gods that are more powerful like for example fate, fortune. And then there are these really ancient gods that control the structure of the universe. For example, maybe anger and pride. So you absolutely have no individual agency because there's always a god screwing with you. Okay? You might get rich, but then the god of pride looks at you and says, "No, no, no. I need I need to teach this more a lesson." So the god comes into me, makes me too arrogant, and I screw up. Okay? So we're always being controlled by these forces beyond our understanding. Okay? So that's a first world view. Second rule of view is this. We are synapses that generate memories. Okay, we are memories. Our understand the world comes from our experience that is controlled by synapses. Synapses come from a combination of DNA and environment. our genes and our interaction with the environment, our experiences. And what this means is that we can now have control over our own individual fate. If you're angry, it's because some experience or some genes made you angry. And this anger becomes reinforced in your memories. And therefore if you do proper therapy, if you do proper reflection, if you do some exercises, you can better control your anger and therefore control your fate. Okay. So in the first world view, there are lots and lots of gods. They're evil and they're random and we have absolutely no control over our fate. We can only hope to get lucky in life and not piss off the gods. In the second world view, we are only a collection of our memories and of and we are only synapses. So, we're able to manipulate the memories and the synapses in a proper way. We can be free of all problems. We can be free of anger. We can be free of h of of depression. We can be free of misery. All right. Let me let me ask you this question. Which world view is a more accurate reflection of reality? >> Second one. >> Obviously second one, right? Because this is um neuroscience, science or psychology or psychiatry. This is what you've been taught in school. This is what you all believe. Our entire society structured around this very idea. And what you will learn in this class is it is completely wrong. It is the sec it is the first one that is more accurate reflection of reality. The first one gives you more information gives you gives you a more accurate assessment of how the world really works. Okay. So now let me ask you this question. If the first worldview and this this call we call polytheism and polytheism for most of human history was the dominant religion. Okay. Now we live in a world where the religion is science. Science is basically religion. So why did we make the transition? What's the benefit? If you're a powerful person, why would you prefer the second one as opposed to the first one? >> Second one. Why? What's the benefits to powerful people? What why does power want to believe the second one but not the first one? >> Yeah. Okay. Um so the idea of individual responsibility. Okay. So then there's more control. Okay. It's easier to control people in the system, right? That's the first benefit. What what's the second benefit? The second benefit is you will work harder, right? Because in the first system, you're like, you know what? I don't need to go make a lot of money because if I make a lot of money, the gods will punish me and make me pr proud. So I'm just going to like enjoy life and take it easy, right? So in the first in the second system, no, no, I have control over my own life. So I need to work hard. Okay? So and again the entire point of of the system is to make you work as hard as possible because when you work hard that generates well real wealth for the powerful people. Money doesn't does nothing. Okay? Money just incentivizes you to work hard. So this exists in order to make you work harder. There's one more benefit or there's more benefits but but but what's what's another benefit? Okay. The other benefit is this powerlessness. It makes you powerless. Why? This system is designed to make you absolutely powerless. Why? You can't control anything. >> Why? >> Uh everything is controlled by gods and faith. >> No, no, no, no, no, no, no. See, see again again this is how you're brainwashed. >> You believe one makes you powerless but not that's a correct two makes you powerless. Why? What's the difference between one and two? Why is it in number two you are powerless? >> You're playing the in the game that the uh who had the power wanted. >> Okay. So the problem with number two is you are incapable of collective action because you think all the source of your problems is the individual in you and not society but number one you are capable of collective action and the only way to change the world is through collective action. Does it make sense? This is a really important point. Two is designed to make you think the source of all your problems is within you. So you should ignore what other people do and think. Doesn't matter to you. [Music] And therefore, you're incapable of identifying with other people. You're not capable of collective action. If you're not capable of collective action and you feel really miserable, what you will do is play video games or watch porn all day. Okay? And that's what's happening in society today. Yeah. >> But number two, like from experience, we would know that you should listen to the others advice or you know, you should take others perspect perspectives and not just So in number two, who has authority? Who do you listen to? You listen to scientists, right? scientists because this system was created by scientists to trick you. Okay, this system you think, oh, it's science, therefore it must be real. Guys, let me give you a piece of advice. Okay, if you're ever feeling sad and you are depressed, what should you do? What should you do? What have you been taught to do? You feel sad, you're depressed, what should you do? >> Go to the nature. >> H walk around. >> Okay. Yeah, the correct answer is walk around. But that's not what you've been taught, right? What have you been taught to do? >> Tell your friend. >> Okay. Telling your friend, tell your parent, that's that's actually really good, right? So, walking around, exercising, resting, talking to a friend about your problems. That's all really good. But what have you been taught to do in school? Really, if you if you are feeling really really sad, what should you do? You should go talk to a psychiatrist, right? >> You should talk to a psychologist. And what will he do? What will he or she do? >> Okay. Well, let me give you a piece of advice, okay? And you can test it out for yourself. But if you're feeling sad and you are feeling depressed and you feel you have to talk to a psychiatrist and you do so, I will make you bet that the psych psychiatrist will make it a lot worse. You will feel worse after talking to psychiatrist. Okay. And the reason why is the system is not designed to cure you of any problems. The system is to make you dependent on authority. You know that if you feel sad, well, you know what? Just go for a walk, talk to a friend. You'll feel better over time. But this system teaches you, no, you feel sad, go talk to a psychiatrist who'll give you drugs. It's designed to make you dependent on authority. Yeah. >> Um I want to ask like in scenario one uh involve number one wouldn't go also be an authority like God would also be authority. >> That's actually a great question. Okay. God is authority. Okay. That's actually a great question. Thank you so much. Um so I have to spend time to explain to you both systems and I will do so. But what's really important about number one is the gods are really bad people. Okay, the gods in number one the polyphasic system they fight all the time. They're vengeful. They're angry. They're proud. But because they're gods, they they can they can get away with it. And that's the difference between humans and gods. We're all the same. We're all angry. We're all uh jealous. We all fight. Okay. But the gods can get away with it. The humans cannot. Gods can do hubris. We cannot do hubris. Okay? Do you understand? So the idea that oh the people in power are benevolent, the people in power are authority figures who are after our best interest. That is a new modern concept. Before it was assumed that the king is a king. Why? Because he's favored by the gods. It's not because he's a good person. It's not because he's a just ruler. It's just because the gods like him for whatever reason. But guess what? The gods give and the gods take. Maybe today the king will uh rule us, but maybe five years from now he gets unlucky and the gods kill him. Too bad. If you read Greek mythology, and we will do so in this class, okay? We'll go over into Greek civilization. We'll look at Edypus. We'll look at Homer, the Iliad. Okay, they talk about this all the time. Fate is something that you cannot control. It's something that happens to you. And therefore, you must live life to your best. All right. So, the difference is this. The difference is in number one, they have a concept called udeimmonia. If you have no control over your fate, if things can happen to you tomorrow that kill you, then live your life to the best of your ability today. Seize the day. Be the best that you can be today. And that's how you win favor from the gods. youmonia what we call flourishing the point of life is to live it to the best of your ability and that's why guess what guys the ancients the Greeks they were superior to us if you read Greek literature if you read Greek philosophy Plato Homerish Uites they were the best today we suck why because instead of ulimmonia we have pleasure rather than flourish as creative people, we're like, "How do I enjoy my life today? How do I not feel sad?" Okay, so in the first system, even though it sounds like we have no control, we have no agency, but it it inspires us to live to the best of our ability. In the second system, we're like, "Oh, you have control, complete control over your life. It enslaves us. Okay. All right. Now, let's move on to the third and final example. Okay. And I know this is shocking. I know this is surprising, but over the course of the semester, I will give you enough evidence to convince you that this is all true. Okay? I'm just set up the structure and the framework today. All right? Let's let's let's do now do school, guys. Why do we have school? Why are we in school? Why? >> Why are you here? What? >> Some place learn and teach. >> Exactly. Right. Learn. What else? >> H Yeah. To get to get the degree. Okay. To get the degree. Okay. To graduate. What else? knowledge. Yes. >> Yeah. >> The power a chance to brainwash the students. >> Excuse me. >> I feel like give the power a chance to brainwash. >> Brainwashing. Okay. Guess what, guys? The correct answer is brainwashing. Everything else is a lie. Okay. All right. What do you do in school? You come to class, you listen to a lecture, you read books, right? And then you and then you have to do a test and you have to write a paper and then and then the teacher gives you a grade. That's how you learn, right? Let me ask you this question then. Throughout most of human history, how did we learn? If you want to become a doctor, what did you do? >> Uh to be a good the best I want. >> The answer is experience. Do it right. Let me ask you this question. Let's say you're 12 years old. You're going to be a doctor. Okay, there are two paths ahead of you. The first path is you know what? I'm going to put you in a hospital and you're going to learn there for like 10 years. Someone's going to mentor you. Someone's you're you're going to be that person's apprentice. Maybe the first year all you do is like wash the floor, okay? But you're going to observe the doctor and then eventually the doctor is going to tell you how to um treat patients. Okay, that's the first system. Second system is you go to the best school in the world. Then you go to Harvard for undergraduate. Then you go to Harvard Medical School, the best medical school in the world. Okay. At age 30, who's the better doctor? Number one or number two? >> First one. Obviously the first one, right? Because the second person, the person who went to Harvard and Harvard Medical School did not ever work in a hospital. You understand? Now, let me ask you another question. In the first system, do you have to be really, really smart to be a good doctor? >> No, >> you don't. Actually, >> anyone can be a doctor in the first system. anyone. We human beings are all born with the capacity to learn anything if you wanted to learn it. Right? You want to be an engineer, you be a lawyer, if you want to be a doctor, if you want to be a scientist, you'll be anything. Okay? Just go find a mentor who can teach you how to do so. And I I guarantee you that you will learn how to do it well. And anyone can do this. But instead we have a system in which we tell students you're smart you're stupid. Smart students go to good schools and good universities and they get good jobs. Stupid students go wash dishes. Okay. And that was not true for most of human history. It's true today. But throughout most of of human history you want to go learn something. All you had to do was go find a teacher and that teacher would teach you and then you would learn it. Right? So school is not is not a place to teach you how to learn. A school doesn't teach you knowledge. It doesn't do that. A school is a place that brainwashes you. Okay. Now the question then is what does it brainwash you in? Why would it brainwash you? Okay. All right. To answer that, I'm going to give you some history. Okay. We we will do a lot of history in this class. But I'm going to tell you the three societies that first introduced mandatory free public schooling in the world. Okay. The first is called Sparta. Okay. Sparta was a small city state in Greece like 3 4 thousand years ago, 3,000 years ago. And they had a new system in which children as early as 5 or 6 years old, they were put into a school. And in the school, they were beaten up by older kids who were like nine or 10. Okay. That's Sparta. The second society was called the Azteex. Aztecs and they also provided free compulsory education to all its children. Really good, right? And the third society is called Prussia. And actually Prussia is a system that everyone uses today. Do you guys know any history? Okay. What is common about all three society? Sparta, Aztecs and Prussia. >> H >> it's called >> what is common to all three? >> Okay. War. All three societies are fundamentally war societies dedicated to defeating their neighbors. Sparta was one of thousands of citystates in Greece. The only society all these thousands that had compulsory education. Why? Because Sparta was first and foremost engaged in war making. Sparta, you've heard of Spartans, right? It's the Spartan warrior. Okay? The Aztecs were the greatest war society in Central America before they rivaled the Europeans. They defeated everyone. They were engaged in war. They also did a lot of human sacrifices. Well, okay, we learn about aspects later on. Prussia, the Prussians, the greatest military in Europe for centuries, they were engaged in war making as well. Okay, do you understand this? Why we have schools is because schools are really good at preparing people for war. Why? >> Because they have people, >> excuse me, >> they have people and they have they teach some kids how to do with the world. >> Um, what is what is why why let me ask you this question. Why did not they not they did not have schools before? Why is it that people like we don't want schools? Why? Again, the Sparta, Aztecs, and Prussia were the few societies that had free public schooling. Why didn't other societies just copy them? Why? >> Knowledge should be trade with >> Okay, let me ask you this question. Let's just say you're a mother or father. What's the And you have a ch child, right? What's the worst thing that could happen in your life? >> Hm. >> Your parents? >> No. No. Your mother or your father. >> You You have a child, right? What's the worst thing that can happen to you in your life? >> Your child is taken away from you, right? >> Oh, >> what does school do? School is designed to take your child away from you. Okay? >> Let me ask you this question. If school was about learning, why don't parents and children go to school together? >> Yeah. Why not? Why? >> Because they have to work to make money survive. >> Because parents have to work to survive, right? There's actually a better reason why. >> School is compromise is the social. They must have two people to do something. >> Yeah. It's about brainwashing, right? Because how do you brainwash someone? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Right. If you're with your parent, are you going to be brainwashed? >> No. >> No. Cuz you feel loved. You feel secure. Your parents going to protect you. You're going to ask your parent, "Hey, is this teacher is is he or she lying to me?" And the parents like, "Yeah, she's he's lying to you." Okay? It's only because you've been taken away from your from your parent >> that you are now willing to be brainwashed. Why? Because what happens if you if you leave your parents? How do you feel? How do you feel? >> Hurse. >> Yeah. Exactly right. Insecure. You're anxious. You're afraid. Do you understand? You've lost your parent. You're four. You're five. You're six years old. You've lost your parent. You feel really insecure. So who do you trust? >> Teacher. >> Your teacher. Whatever your teacher says is now correct. >> One of our parents are also brainwashed like because they they went to school before when they're >> Yeah. Okay. That's a great point. Okay. Aren't our brain parents brainwashed as well? Um that's correct. Your parents are brainwashed. But what I'm saying is when a parent is with a child, the child feels secure. And and if you're secure, you're much more willing to disobey authority. You're much willing to ask questions. You're much willing to think for yourself because you feel secure because your parent is there to protect you. But if you take a parent away, you can't do that. You must be now rely on the teacher who can now brainwash you. >> Okay. >> So are you brainwashing us? Am I brainwashing you? >> It's a dark tool. >> Okay. All right. Okay. So, the question is, am I brainwashing you? Okay. That's a good question and it's a fair question. And again, that's why I tell you this. Okay. You have the capacity to ask me questions. You have the capacity to challenge me. You have the capacity to think for yourself. Okay? So, so all I'm saying is hear me out. ask me questions and then think for yourself whether or not I make sense because the difference between my class and other classes is like I don't test you, right? I don't give you grades. It's a past fail class. You can actually choose to say, you know what, this is nonsense. I don't want to listen anymore. I can't I can't stop you. Okay? But in school, guess what happens if you don't go come to school? Your parents get arrested. All right? Do you understand? That's the difference. It's your choice whether or not to pay attention or not. All right. So now the question is, okay, if schools are designed to brainwash you, what are they brainwashing you in? Well, they've designed to brainwash you to believe a concept called the nation state. the nation state. The schools are designed to brainwash you to think the nation state exists. It is a person, mother China. You must love this person. You must be willing to sacrifice yourself for this person. You must will be willing to dedicate yourself to this person because it is mother China. And how do we brainwash you? We teach you language, right? We teach you history. We teach you geography. We teach you all this to make you believe that the nation state, mother China, the United States, France, they all exist. But guess what? Throughout most of human history, it was absurd to think the nation state existed. Okay? Before you didn't say, "I'm Chinese." Before you say, "I'm a Beijinger or I'm from Haiden or I'm from Chaang." Right? because that makes more sense. You're from a place where you know the people but now because of the nation state you are forced to believe that you are the same person as someone from Yunan Tibet Guangi even though guess what guys you have absolutely nothing in common okay but you're all Chinese and that's what school is designed to do school is designed to implant in you a false memory of a nation state okay that's what history is history is the false memory of a nation state and it hap and that's why you're all forced to go to school. Okay. >> Okay. Maybe like they also want you to just think about degrees and work as a normal person not to create a new business or >> Yeah. So, so yeah. So the point of school is to serve the nation state. Do you understand? >> Oh >> right. Does that make sense? If you believe in the nation state, if you believe in mother China, then you must serve her. You must obey her. You must fight for her. You must die for her. Okay. So that the idea of the nation state was created in order to make you obedient to authority and it works very effectively. Yeah. I'm just wondering if this context only works out in Chinese context like >> all countries >> all countries all countries are nation states okay so I I mean like I'm not saying China is different from other places China's exactly the same as other places okay what you will learn in this class is how do we get to this place because again the three things that we learn okay money the individual the nation These are all ideas and concepts beyond the human experience. If you try to work this out from first principles, you try to figure this out by yourself, you couldn't do it. You have to be brainwashed into believing these three things. If someone from the past, maybe a thousand years ago were to come today and you you would explain the concept of money, individual nation state, the person would be like, "Wait a minute here. This means that you're all slaves. Okay. So now the question then is where do we get these three concepts from? What you will learn in this class is these three concepts come from a revolution in human thought called monotheism. the one true God. This idea montheism forever changed the course of human history. It gave us these concepts of money, individual and nation state. Montheism is such a powerful idea that it turned nothing into everything. Okay, that's what you will learn in this class. We will learn about monetism and we will discover how it created money, individual and the nation state and it basically create the world that we live in today. Okay. All right. Any questions? Excuse me. >> Christianity is like >> okay. Yeah. So there are three great monotheistic religions, right? Judaism, Christianity and Islam. What I will show you later on is it's basically the same religion. Yep. All right. Okay. So I I I don't want to give you too much information, okay? Because it was a lot to process. But I want you guys to remember the concepts money, individual initial state are all powerful concepts that are embedded into everyday life. You cannot escape it. Okay? You've been brainwashed into thinking that they all exist when in fact they actually they actually don't exist. And that's how power works. What power is, okay? What power truly is is what call alchemy. Alchemy throughout human history was the pursuit of turning lead into gold. Okay? Lead into gold. Okay? Nothing into everything. That's what alchemy was. And maybe in science class, you're taught that alchemy is this fake science. It's a pseudocience and it did not work. What what what you will learn this class is we achieve alchemy. Okay? We turn nothing into everything. We turn lead into gold or that's what power is. Power is the capacity to turn nothing into everything. Power is the capacity to make you believe that money is valuable. That the individual can lead to happiness. That the nation state exists. That's what power is. Okay? And as a result, today we live extremely miserable lives. Okay. So, so you've been taught to think that, oh, life just gets better and better. What you will learn in this class is actually um nope. Okay. And what's what's really important is you will also learn in this class that this was an accident. Okay? This is an accident. It's an accident of the human imagination. It's because we didn't know what we were doing that we created this system. So you what you also learn is that you're able to control the human imagination. You can use it to create a new system that allows for udeimmonia or the flourishing of the human intellect. Okay. All right. Any questions? Okay. So, um that's it for uh today. Okay, I'll see you guys next class.

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Good morning class. Welcome to our first class. And today what I want to do is provide the framework for how we will learn the semester. What are we learning? How are we learning? Why are we learning? All right. So this is a class of ideas. So, it's really important for you to pay attention and understand how these ideas connect with each other. If I'm not being clear, ask me a question. In fact, make it a habit to ask as many questions as possible because that way you will learn more. Learning will be more fun for you and learning will be much more clearer to you. Okay? So, let's get in the habit of asking questions. So wherever I am confusing, wherever I'm speaking too fast, wherever you don't understand, interrupt me. Okay, let's get that happen. All right, so um I first want to talk about Emmanuel Kant. We will we will be discussing a lot this semester because he is the greatest philosopher in western history and he teaches us he taught us how the world works and this is what he told us. He told us that we can never know the objective reality. There is an update reality what he calls the nomina. Okay? Or the things in themselves that is not knowable to us. That is a world we can never access. Why? Because we perceive the world through our senses. Our senses, our perception warps the world and changes it into a structure that we can process called the phenomena which are the things that appear to us. Okay. So the example is time and space. Time and space do not exist outside of us. Time and space do not exist in reality. But for us to understand reality, we need to add in time and space. Okay, that's the example. All right. So how the world works is we perceive the world, we perceive the nomena and turn it into the phenomena for us to process. In other words, and this is really important, reality is what we imagine it to be. There is no objective reality. Reality is what we imagine it to be. Life is a constant process, a constant act of imagination. All right, that's that's Emanuel K. That's the first idea I want you to understand. So what I want I want to do in this class this semester is train you or teach you or inspire you to augment your imagination so that you see the world much more clearly. This class is not about what to think. It's about how to think. All right. All right. So, let me explain the structure of the course. So, there's past, there's present, and there's future. We'll be looking at all three this semester. The past, the present, and the future. We were analyzing all three in order to construct a more object of reality for ourselves. We will not succeed. We will fail. But the process of trying will train our minds to think much more critically about the world. So let me explain how. In the present we have geopolitics. We'll be studying geopolitics. For example, why is there war in Ukraine? Why is there war in the Middle East? What happened? We'll be studying geopolitics and we will try to understand why this is happening. We'll try to formulate an analyical model of geopolitics. Okay, an analyical model. We will then use this analytical model to make predictions about the future. Why do we do this? Because these predictions will tell us if our analy model is correct or not. Okay, does that make sense? It's no different from artificial intelligence. How do you know if your artificial intelligence the model is correct or not? Well, you test it against reality. Okay, there's no difference between that artificial intelligence system and what we're trying to do here. And why are we doing this? Because if we're able to have an ethical model that makes correct predictions, then we take all this and go back and analyze the past to un to reveal the secret history of the world. That is a project we are undertaking this semester to discover for ourselves the secret history of humanity. Because you may not know this but all the history that you learn in school or that history that you think you know it is false. Okay. The history that you know you the history that you believe it is a system implanted into your brains by powerful people. Okay. So the real question that we're looking at this semester is really how does power work? Because if you if we can figure this out, then you will achieve liberation. You will achieve freedom. You understand how you're being manipulated by others. And therefore, you'll be free. You'll be empowered to live the way you want to live to see the world that is true to you. So, let me give you three cover examples of how power works. Okay, the first example is money. Let us do a thought experiment. I'm a bank. Okay, I decide I want to open a bank. And now you're allowed to put money in the bank. Okay. So, all of you get together and you put $5 million in the bank, not $5 million. Now, why do you put $5 million into my bank? Because I promise you 1% interest, right? 1% interest. That's a really good deal. But now, because I owe you some money, right? I owe you 1% interest. I now need to go make money for myself. So, I have a friend who's building a restaurant and he says, "I need $5 million to build a restaurant and after a year I will pay you back 10% interest." Okay, 10% interest. And so I make a 9% profit and I can use that to pay my employees, to pay myself a salary, to build a new building. Okay? So now I want you to think about this. I'm the bank. I got $5 million in deposit money. Then I gave out a $5 million 5 million loan. Today, how much money is in the bank? >> Countless. >> H countless. >> How much money now do I have? I got $5 million from you guys. Then I gave it out to someone else, right? So how much money is in the bank right now? >> Zero. >> Zero is zero, right? It should be zero. Logically the answer is zero. In fact, zero is the answer that you are taught in economics. It's what you are taught. Yeah. Zero is not an answer to economics. >> Okay. >> You cannot loan all the money that you you have like for for example if they will have a limit like like 25 uh% I don't know okay maybe 10% so you can only loan like 4 million,000. >> Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Really good point. Okay. Oh yes. Okay. So that's really good. So in economics you learn about the idea of the fractional reserve system. Okay. What's fraction reserve? As you say, you must leave behind a certain amount of money. It could be 7%, it could be 10%. It depends on on the country. Okay, let's say 10%. So, theoretically, I can I can actually lend out $5 million. I can only lend out $4.5 million. Okay, you're right. Okay, that's that's that's law as well. Okay. Um actually um okay let's say I land for $4.5 million. Okay. Now how much money do I have in the bank? >> Yeah half a million. Right. Okay. So again this is what you're taught in economics. This is what makes logical sense. Right. The correct answer. What actually happens in real life is you have you now have $9.5 million. Okay, that is the correct answer. This makes no sense, right? But it happens in reality. And how do we know? Because over the past 20 years, Chinese banks like the Bank of China, uh the Bank of Industry and Commerce, Agriculture Bank of China, if you Google these banks, what you will see is these past 20 years, these banks have become the largest in the world. How did that happen? Was it because Chinese people got rich and put all the money in the bank? No, that's not what happened. What happened, guys? supported by the government. >> Okay. What happened was these banks start to lend money out to corporations, to government, to people to build skyscrapers, to build roads. In other words, the banks started to create money out of nothing in order to finance China's infrastructure projects. And that's what banks are allowed to do. They're allowed to print money, create money out of nothing. Okay, does that make sense? Now the question then is wait a minute here that's kind of absurd. How this system come into being? How is it created? Okay. Well, actually there's a very easy explanation for where we got the system from. All right. So, let me explain the history and the origin of the system. So in the beginning it was merchants who engaged um in finance because merchants needed money in order to facilitate trade. Okay. And some merchants became extremely wealthy and when they became very wealthy they started banks in order to support trade and other merchants. Okay. So um these banks traded in gold because that was the primary source and supply of money back then. Okay. So um what happened is you would come and you would put your money your gold in the bank for safekeeping and the bank would give you a contract. Right? A contract is just saying, "Thank you for giving your gold. I promise to give back your gold at any time that you want it." And that's what we call a receipt, right? And this would allow for better and easier trade because now I can take this contract and I can go to England. Okay, maybe I'm based in Italy, but now I can go to England and said, "Listen, I need to buy cotton or bananas from you." And the person is like, "Well, what are you going to give me?" I'm going to give you gold, right? So, I take the receipt, I give it to you, right? And why do we and why do we do this? Because it's a lot easier than giving gold to other people. And so, this system would facilitate trade throughout the world. doesn't make sense. Now I'm the bank. I have all this gold and I want to make money with it. So I want to give it to other people. So other merchants would come to me and say, "Listen, I need gold. Can you lend me out gold?" Right? But I say to him, "Yeah, but if I give you out the gold, you have a security issue. It's inconvenient for you. So why don't I give you a receipt, a contract instead? Does that make sense? Because all I need is a contract. All I need is a receipt in order to go and do trade elsewhere. Right? So, so by doing this, what I've done is I've doubled the gold in my bank, right? I've created money out of nothing. So the gold is still 5 million. That hasn't changed. But the receipt is now 5 million plus 5 million. So theoretically I now have 10 million in the bank. All right. So that's how money and finance works. Now there's a problem with the system. What's the problem with the system? What do you mean? >> Um, why would I why would the other people say we see as gold as >> Okay, that's a great question. Okay, why is it that people believe in me? Okay, the answer is very simple. The answer is because for most of of human history, people didn't need money. If you if you were just a normal person, what were you doing? Were you in a village growing crops? If you wanted to to like get new stuff, what would you do? You would trade with someone else, right? May maybe you have a goal that I want. Well, then I I would trade you cow for it. So, we didn't actually need money. So, for most of human history, no one had any need for money. It was only in certain circumstances that you would want money. So, for example, marriage, right? Okay. So throughout most of human history, money represented debt that could be unpaid. Oh sorry, debt that could never be repaid. So for example, a very common thing is um maybe you and I fight and I kill you. Well, in theory, your family should not come and kill me. But obviously, that would create a lot of problems, right? So, the way to settle the dispute is I would give your family money because money was symbolically meant to say, "I'm sorry I killed you. This is a debt that can never be repaid." Right? That's what money was used for in most circumstances throughout human history. There was no actually real use for money. It was symbolic. But with the rise of trade with merchants, they needed money in order to facilitate the trade. But these merchants all knew each other. So they trusted each other anyway. So money was a mechanism for them to um trade easier. Okay, does that make sense? >> All right. Okay. So let's go back to the question. This system looks great. I can print money out nothing. But there's a problem with the system. What is the problem? >> There's a problem here. >> H >> like you can forge the receipts. >> Okay, that's actually a great question. Okay, so yeah, is it possible to forge the contract? Okay, so um that's a really good point. The problem is so the the the answer is that they all knew each other anyway. Okay, because it's a very small circle. Again, we have not reached the modern period where um it's a lot of people using money. If that's the case, then fortune becomes a problem. We'll discuss this in future classes, okay? Counterfeiting. But at this point in history, forgery is actually not a big issue. There's actually a bigger issue and it's a huge issue. What's the issue? I have $5 million of gold, right? There's about $10 million of gold out there in receipts. What's the problem with that? The problem is that if everyone wants to go at the same time, I go bankrupt, right? Because I lose my reputation. The contract says that at any time you want the gold, I must give it to you. But if I have like if there's $100 million in gold contracts, but I only have $10 million in gold. Only if 15 million wants the gold back, then I'm screwed. And this is what we call a bank run. Okay, a bank run. And this is a huge problem for merchants. Okay, there's also another problem with the system. The problem is this. Who do I usually lend my money to? Do you guys know? If I'm a bank, if I'm a merchant, who do I usually lend my money to? >> Okay, guys. Um, today we lend the money to entrepreneurs. But back then, there really weren't entrepreneurs. There were kings >> and noble people. And what do they do all the time? Why do they need money? >> To fight wars. Okay, that's why that's why there's a demand for gold. Because if I'm a king, I need to fight a war, usually against my brother or someone else to control this territory. Right now, the problem with this is I could get killed, in which case, oops. But also, what's much more common is the king would be like, screw you bank, I don't need to pay you back. Okay? So, there's actually a lot of risks with this system. So over time develop a system to mitigate or reduce this risk. Okay. What would they do? What what they would do is they would create cartels. Cartels are just partnerships. So maybe this bank works with another bank works with another bank throughout Europe. They and the way they establish these cartels is usually through inner marriage, right? They would marry each other. um they would combine together and that way let's say this say 15 million uh of receipts wants back the gold but there's only 10 million well guess what you just go another bank okay and let's just say a king decides I'm not going to pay you back bank well your bank works with other banks to establish a new enemy to kill the king to get the money back you understand And this system is what we call today central banking. And what you will learn in this class is central banking controls the world today. Okay. Now what's really important about this system is that it's based on power. Right? And what power is, it can turn nothing, money, the contract, into everything. Okay? That's what money is. Okay? So, we live in a world in which banks can print out money, right? So, now let's ask ourselves a question. Wait a minute here. If the banks can print as much money as possible, why do we have poverty, right? Because we can just give money to poor people and they wouldn't be poor anymore. Why do we have poverty? If there's all the food in the world that we want, why are people starving still? Why? >> Because we don't have limited resources. >> Okay? So we don't have limited resources. We have scarcity. Okay? Right? So that is the common answer. Scarcity. We have poverty because of scarcity. But I already told you this. They can print money out of nothing. So money is infinite. Money is infinite resource. So why are we why do we have poor people then? That's kind of strange. >> Money aren't money just, you know, use for trade. They still have limited resources and you know the actual the like the the actual >> Okay, you you you see what's happening is this. You all believe money is scarce. Okay, but I just spent the past 10 20 minutes explaining to you it's not scarce. It's infinite. It's just a number. We can at any time print out as much money as we need. Okay? So that's how power works. Power has brainwashed you into thinking something that is not true. You've been taught from the first day. That money is scarce. But it's not scarce. It's infinite. And no matter what I say to you, you still believe this. Okay? So you have to get that out of your head. Money is not scarce. It is infinite. So let's go back to the question. Why is there poverty in this world? Why do people starve? Why is there inequality in this world? Why are there poor people? Why are there rich people? What's the answer? >> Because they don't print infinite money. >> Okay? Because it's scarce. I So guys, this is amazing. Okay? You guys can't get out of your head. You think money is scarce. You think it is not possible to print infinite money when I already told you it is possible to print infinite money because they do this all the time. Yeah. >> Uh the one who has the power don't want everyone to share the same uh >> because we don't want people to all have money. The powerful people don't want that. That's exactly the answer. And why? Because otherwise no one would work. Do you understand? The point of putting money is not to give you money. The point of putting money is to create the illusion that money is valuable and therefore you work hard in order to obtain it. But in order for me to make you want to get money, I need to create artificial misery. Do you understand? Right? If there weren't poor people, you wouldn't want to be rich. It's only by because you see people suffer that you would want to go make money for yourself. Your what do your parents tell you? Your parents tell you work hard in school, make a lot of money. Otherwise, you're going to end up like a poor person, right? Well, guess what? If there no poor people, your parents couldn't say that to you, and you wouldn't want to work hard in school, right? That's why we have poverty because poverty creates the illusion that money is valuable. In other words, poverty isn't what you do to yourself. It is what the powerful do to you. Now, let me ask you another question. You guys have studied some economics. Why do you have like crisis? Crisis. For example, there's a stock market crash or for example, the economy goes down and people lose their jobs. Why do you have crisis? Exactly. You're not taught this in economics class. That's kind of weird, right? The point of crisis is destroy money. Why do we need to destroy money? Because if there's too much money in the system, people don't have to work. So you have to destroy this money in order to make people feel money is scarce. Okay? Does that make sense? So why do you have wars, right? Why are there wars in the world then? because they're fighting over scarce resources, right? I already told you scarcity is a lie. The real reason is war is meant to destroy wealth in order to make you think money is valuable. Do you understand? You you guys play World of Warcraft or these games, right? Guess what, guys? World of Warcraft in our world, there's actually no difference. you just went around pointlessly working hard to obtain credits in order to buy stuff. If credits just flew out of the sky because they could do that, right? They could actually program the engine to just put money out of nothing. You wouldn't do nothing every day. You wouldn't play the game. Okay? It's only because you believe that there's scarcity in the world and that you must work hard to obtain wealth that you do any work. Do you understand this? Okay, so this world that we live in, it's a complete illusion created by central banking in order to make us work as hard as possible because the real value is not money. The real value is the work we do. Okay, does that make sense, guys? All right. Yeah. >> You said scarcity is an illusion, right? But uh I understand that money can be printed infinitely but resources such as food and land you know they aren't technically unlimited. So uh scarcity does scarcity still exist in other resources? >> Okay that that's a great question. Okay so question is isn't food scarce because food is a finite resource right? Do yourself a favor. Okay, go to the garbage dump somewhere anywhere in Beijing and see the amount of food that is wasted every single day. If food was scarce, why do we have food waste? Okay, so if you just do the mathematics, what you will discover is there's enough food to feed everyone. Okay, there doesn't have to be hunger and starvation. It's an artificial crisis. Okay. Does that make sense? So, you're right in that, yeah, food's not infinite, but it's abundant. There's a lot of it, enough to feed people. Okay. >> On the land, uh, oil resources, you know, the reason they go to war. >> Okay. All right. Um, so again, you guys are stuck in the scarcity mindset. Um, and it's very convincing. So let's move on. Okay. So this is this is something that we'll go back to later on. Okay. Because I cannot convince you today this morning that everything you believed about the world and about yourself is wrong. Okay. You're still stuck there like okay there's scarcity. Uh and you're right there's scarcity. But we also live in a world of abundance. And a lot of things that you believe are just misconceptions about the world. Okay. So, so we'll go back there, okay? Later on. All right. So, let's move on. Okay. So, we've done money now, right? Now, let's do another question. Let's do a question of happiness. The question for us today is what makes us happy? Come on. What makes you happy? How can you live a happy life? Well, obviously money, right? If you have a lot of money, that's going to make you happy. What else? >> Power. >> Exactly. Power, right? Sure. Power. >> Excuse me. >> Freedom. >> Okay, good. Freedom. Yeah. What else? >> Relationships. >> Relationships. Yep. Sure. You have good friends, right? Like lots and lots of friends. What else? Romantic relations. >> Okay. Love, right? Love. Sure. What else? Like video games, I guess. Vacations. Okay. Lots and lots of things. Okay. What you will discover about this list is this. You are think about individual happiness. And this is actually unique in human history. If you look if you go back in time to five five years ago and you ask people how can you be happy? They would focus more on collective happiness. In other words, if your community were not happy, you cannot be happy. So the very idea of the individual is new in human history. Before we understood that if you want to live a happy life, you need to take care of your family. You need to take care of your community. For them, for us, throughout most of of human history, happiness meant helping others, being generous to others. So, for example, let's just say that I go off and I wonder and then I find a lot of gold, right? I come back and what what's the first thing I do with all this gold? Do you guys know? And this is like the ancient past. >> Dig a hole and put them inside. >> Okay. Yeah. Good. Right. We're going to dig a hole and put that money inside because we want to give it to our children. That's a modern mindset. But what did they do before you? And this happened throughout every society. If I became rich one day, what's the first thing I would do? >> Show up. >> Hm. >> Show off. >> No. Okay. So, so we'll learn this. Okay. But the first thing that people did was they had a big feast for everyone. >> They spent all the money on a big feast because what mattered was your reputation within the community. What mattered was your generosity. If you got rich one day, you made sure that everyone in community benefited from your wealth, usually by holding a big feast. And guess what guys, this was true in China for most of Chinese history, right? If you are, if you come from a Chinese village, come you come to Beijing, you open a restaurant, you make a lot of money, you go, you go out to your village, what's the first thing you do? >> Come on, guys. >> You have a big feast for everyone. Okay. So this is in ingrained in us. Okay. But as you say today what we believe is if you have a lot of money put it underground or put in the bank. Okay. But back then for for most of human history we would just spend it all on a big feast. We want everyone to share in happiness and that's what made us happy. Okay. Are are any questions? Yeah. I I was wondering you mentioned that uh it was all reputation on some levels that would that count into as you know your individual happiness because after you get rich you care about your reputation. >> Yeah. So, so you're you're asking, isn't this about individual reputation? And again, I mean, this is hard. Okay. But the individual, the concept of individual did not exist before. We just we just created it. The idea that I'm a person independent of my family, independent of my community, independent of the world around me, makes no sense. What was the worst punishment that could be inflicted on you in the past? Let's just say that we're going to fight, I kill you, right? Like you're they said you're no longer belong to this. >> Exactly. Banishment, exile, not death. Right. And today if I killed you, the police would come catch me and then kill me. But before we didn't do that because the worst thing that we could do was exile you. Says you're no longer part of us. Do you understand? So the concept of the individual did not exist. Right? Okay. So let's move on. All right. So now I'm going to present two understandings of the world and you're going to tell me which understanding you think is correct. And the first understanding we humans don't have agency. We don't have really control. Why? Because there are powerful gods out there. Okay? There are these powerful gods like Apollo, Dianesis. Oh, the problem though is that they are also controlled by other gods that are more powerful like for example fate, fortune, and then there are these really ancient gods that control the structure of the universe. For example, maybe anger and pride. So you absolutely have no individual agency because there's always a god screwing with you. Okay? You might get rich, but then the god of pride looks at you and says, "No, no, no. I need I need to teach this more a lesson." So the god comes into me, makes me too arrogant, and I screw up. Okay? So we're always being controlled by these forces beyond our understanding. Okay? So that's a first world view. Second rule of view is this. We are synapses that generate memories. Okay, we are memories. Our understand the world comes from our experience that is controlled by synapses. Synapses come from a combination of DNA and environment. our genes and our interaction with the environment, our experiences. And what this means is that we can now have control over our own individual fate. If you're angry, it's because some experience or some genes made you angry. And this anger becomes reinforced in your memories. And therefore if you do proper therapy, if you do proper reflection, if you do some exercises, you can better control your anger and therefore control your fate. Okay. So in the first world view, there are lots and lots of gods. They're evil and they're random and we have absolutely no control over our fate. We can only hope to get lucky in life and not piss off the gods. In the second world view, we are only a collection of our memories and of and we are only synapses. So, we're able to manipulate the memories and the synapses in a proper way. We can be free of all problems. We can be free of anger. We can be free of h of of depression. We can be free of misery. All right. Let me let me ask you this question. Which world view is a more accurate reflection of reality? >> Second one. >> Obviously second one, right? Because this is um neuroscience, science or psychology or psychiatry. This is what you've been taught in school. This is what you all believe. Our entire society is structured around this very idea. And what you will learn in this class is it is completely wrong. It is a sec. It is the first one that is more accurate reflection of reality. The first one gives you more information, gives you gives you a more accurate assessment of how the world really works. Okay. So now let me ask you this question. If the first worldview and this this call what we call polytheism and polytheism for most of human history was the dominant religion. Okay. Now we live in a world where the religion is science. Science is basically religion. So why did we make the transition? What's the benefit? If you're a powerful person, why would you prefer the second one as opposed to the first one? Second one. >> Why? What's the benefits to powerful people? What why does power want to believe the second one but not the first one? >> Yeah. Okay. Um so the idea of individual responsibility. Okay. So then there's more control. Okay. It's easier to control people in the system, right? That's the first benefit. What what's the second benefit? The second benefit is you will work harder, right? Because in the first system, you're like, you know what? I don't need to go make a lot of money because if I make a lot of money, the gods will punish me and make me pr proud. So I'm just going to like enjoy life and take it easy, right? So in the first in the second system, no, no, I have control over my own life. So I need to work hard. Okay? So and again the entire point of of the system is to make you work as hard as possible because when you work hard that generates wealth, real wealth for the powerful people. Money doesn't does nothing. Okay? Money just incentivizes you to work hard. So this exists in order to make you work harder. There's one more benefit or there's more benefits but but but what's what's another benefit? Okay. The other benefit is this powerlessness. It makes you powerless. Why? This system is designed to make you absolutely powerless. Why? You can't control anything. >> Why? >> Uh everything is controlled by gods and faith. >> No, no, no, no, no, no, no. See, see again again this is how you're brainwashed. >> You believe one makes you powerless but not that's a correct two makes you powerless. Why? What's the difference between one and two? Why is it in number two you are powerless? >> You're playing the in the game that the uh who had the power wanted. >> Okay. So the problem with number two is you are incapable of collective action because you think all the source of your problems is the individual in you and not society but number one you are capable of collective action and the only way to change the world is through collective action. Does it make sense? This is a really important point. Two is designed to make you think the source of all your problems is within you. So you should ignore what other people do and think. Doesn't matter to you. [Music] And therefore, you're incapable of identifying with other people. You're not capable of collective action. If you're not capable of collective action and you feel really miserable, what you will do is play video games or watch porn all day. Okay? And that's what's happening in society today. Yeah. >> But number two, like from experience, we would know that you should listen to the others advice or you know, you should take others perspect perspectives and not just so number two, who has authority? Who do you listen to? You listen to scientists, right? scientists because this system was created by scientists to trick you. Okay, this system you think, oh, it's science, therefore it must be real. Guys, let me give you a piece of advice. Okay, if you're ever feeling sad and you are depressed, what should you do? What should you do? What have you been taught to do? You feel sad, you're depressed. What should you do? >> Go to the answer. >> H walk around. >> Okay. Yeah, the correct answer is walk around. But that's not what you've been taught, right? What have you been taught to do? >> Tell your friend. >> Okay. Telling your friend, tell your parent, that's that's actually really good, right? So, walking around, exercising, resting, talking to a friend about your problems. That's all really good. But what have you been taught to do in school? Really, if you if you are feeling really really sad, what should you do? You should go talk to a psychiatrist, right? >> You should talk to a psychologist. And what will he do? What will he or she do? >> Okay. Well, let me give you a piece of advice, okay? And you can test it out for yourself. But if you're feeling sad and you are feeling depressed and you feel you have to talk to a psychiatrist and you do so, I will make you bet that the psych psychiatrist will make it a lot worse. You will feel worse after talking to psychiatrist. Okay. And the reason why is the system is not designed to cure you of any problems. The system is to make you dependent on authority. You know that if you feel sad, well, you know what? Just go for a walk, talk to a friend. You'll feel better over time. But this system teaches you, no, you feel sad, go talk to a psychiatrist who'll give you drugs. It's designed to make you dependent on authority. Yeah. >> Um I won't tell us like in scenario one uh in scenario number one wouldn't go also be an authority like God would also be authority. >> That's actually a great question. Okay. God is authority. Okay. That's actually a great question. Thank you so much. Um so I have to spend time to explain to you both systems and I will do so. But what's really important about number one is the gods are really bad people. Okay, the gods in number one the polyphasic system they fight all the time. They're vengeful. They're angry. They're proud. But because they're gods, they think they can they can get away with it. And that's the difference between humans and gods. We're all the same. We're all angry. We're all uh jealous. We all fight. Okay. But the gods can get away with it. The humans cannot. Gods can do hubris. We cannot do hubris. Okay? Do you understand? So the idea that oh the people in power are benevolent, the people in power are authority figures who are after our best interest. That is a new modern concept. Before it was assumed that the king is a king. Why? Because he's favored by the gods. It's not because he's a good person. It's not because he's a just ruler. It's just because the gods like him for whatever reason. But guess what? The gods give and the gods take. Maybe today the king will uh rule us, but maybe five years from now he gets unlucky and the gods kill him. Too bad. If you read Greek mythology, and we will do so in this class, okay? We'll go over into Greek civilization. We'll look at Edypus. We'll look at Homer, the Iliad. Okay, they talk about this all the time. Fate is something that you cannot control. It's something that happens to you. And therefore, you must live life to your best. All right. So, the difference is this. The difference is in number one, they have a concept called udeimmonia. If you have no control over your fate, if things can happen to you tomorrow that kill you, then live your life to the best of your ability today. Seize the day. Be the best that you can be today. And that's how you win favor from the gods. Youmonia. what we call flourishing. The point of life is to live it to the best of your ability. And that's why guess what guys, the ancients, the Greeks, they were superior to us. If you read Greek literature, if you read Greek philosophy, Plato, Homer, Uides, they were the best. Today we suck. Why? Because instead of ulmonia, we have pleasure. rather than flourish as creative people, we're like, "How do I enjoy my life today? How do I not feel sad?" Okay, so in the first system, even though it sounds like we have no control, we have no agency, but it it inspires us to live to the best of our ability. In the second system, we're like, "Oh, you have control complete control over your life. It enslaves us. Okay. All right. Now, let's move on to the third and final example. Okay. And I know this is shocking. I know this is surprising, but over the course of the semester, I will give you enough evidence to convince you that this is all true. Okay? I'm just set up the structure and the framework today. All right? Let's let's let's do now do school, guys. Why do we have school? Why are we in school? Why? >> Why are you here? >> What? >> Some place. Learn and teach. >> Exactly. Right. Learn. What else? >> Certificate. >> H. Yeah. To get to get the degree. Okay. To get the degree. Okay. To graduate. What else? >> Knowledge. Yes. >> Yeah. >> The power to brainwash the students. >> Excuse me. >> I feel like give the power uh a chance to brainwash. >> Brainwashing. Okay. Guess what, guys? The correct answer is brainwashing. Everything else is a lie. Okay. All right. What did you do in school? You come to class, you listen to a lecture, you read books, right? And then you and then you have to do a test and you have to write a paper and then and then the teacher gives you a grade. That's how you learn, right? Let me ask you this question then. Throughout most of human of human history, how did we learn? If you want to become a doctor, what did you do? uh to be a good uh best I want. >> The answer is experience. Do it right. Let me ask you this question. Let's say you're 12 years old. You're going to be a doctor. Okay, there are two paths ahead of you. The first path is you know what? I'm going to put you in a hospital and you're going to learn there for like 10 years. Someone's going to mentor you. Someone's you're you're be that person's apprentice. Maybe in the first year all you do is like wash the floor, okay? But you're going to observe the doctor and then eventually the doctor is going to tell you how to um treat patients. Okay? That's the first system. Second system is you go to the best school in the world. Then you go to Harvard for undergraduate. Then you go to Harvard Medical School, the best medical school in the world. Okay. At age 30, who's the better doctor? Number one or number two? first one >> obviously the first one right because the second person the person who went to Harvard and Harvard medical school did not ever work in a hospital you understand now let me ask you another question in the first system do you have to be really really smart to be a good doctor >> no >> you don't actually anyone can be a doctor in the first system. Anyone, we human beings are all born with the capacity to learn anything if you wanted to learn it. Right? You'll be an engineer, you be a lawyer, if you want to be a doctor, if you want to be a scientist, you'll be anything. Okay? Just go find a mentor who can teach you how to do so. And I I guarantee you that you will learn how to do it well. And anyone can do this. But instead we have a system in which we tell students, you're smart, you're stupid. Smart students go to good schools and good universities and they get good jobs. Stupid students go wash dishes. Okay? And that was not true for most of human history. It's true today, but throughout most of of human history, you had to go learn something. All you had to do was go find a teacher and that teacher would teach you and then you would learn it. Right? So school is not is not a place to teach you how to learn. A school doesn't teach you knowledge. It doesn't do that. A school is a place that brainwashes you. Okay. Now the question then is what does it brainwash you in? Why would it brainwash you? Okay. All right. To answer that, I'm going to give you some history. Okay. We we will do a lot of history in this class. But I'm going to tell you the three societies that first introduced mandatory free public schooling in the world. Okay. The first is called Sparta. Okay. Sparta was a small city state in Greece like 3 4 thousand years ago. 3,000 years ago. And they had a new system in which children as early as 5 or 6 years old they were put into a school. And in the school they were beaten up by older kids who were like nine or 10. Okay, that's Sparta. The second society was called the Azteex. Aztecs and they also provided free compulsory education to all its children. Really good, right? And the third society is called Prussia. And actually Prussia is a system that everyone uses today. Do you guys know any history? Okay. What is common about all three society? Sparta, Aztecs, and Prussia. H >> what is common to all three? >> War. All three societies are fundamentally war societies dedicated to defeating their neighbors. Sparta was one of thousands of citystates in Greece. The only society of these thousands that had compulsory education. Why? Because Sparta was first and foremost engaged in war making. Sparta, you've heard of Spartans, right? It's the Spartan warrior. Okay. The Aztecs were the greatest war society in Central America before they rivaled the Europeans. They defeated everyone. They were engaged in war. They also did a lot of human sacrifices. Well, okay, we learn about the aspects later on. Prussia, the Prussians, the greatest military in Europe for centuries, they were engaged in war making as well. Okay, do you understand this? Why we have schools is because schools are really good at preparing people for war. Why? >> Because they have >> Excuse me. >> They have people and they have they teach some kids how to do with the world. >> Um what is what is why why let me ask you this question. Why did not they not they did not have schools before? Why is it that people like we don't want schools? Why? Again, the Sparta, Aztecs, and Prussia were the few societies that had free public schooling. Why didn't other societies just copy them? Why? >> Knowledge should be trade with >> Okay, let me ask you this question. Let's just say you're a mother or father. What's the And you have a ch child, right? What's the worst thing that could happen in your life? >> H >> no parents. >> No. No. Your mother or your father. >> You you have a child, right? What's the worst thing that can happen to you in your life? >> Your child is taken away from you, right? >> Oh. >> What does school do? School is designed to take your child away from you. Okay? >> Let me ask you this question. If school was about learning, why don't parents and children go to school together? >> Yeah. Why not? Why? >> Because they have to work to make money survive. >> Because parents have to work to survive, right? There's actually a better reason why. school is promise is the social they must have two people to do something. >> Yeah. It's about brainwashing, right? Because how do you brainwash someone? >> Yeah. >> Right. If you're with your parent, are you going to be brainwashed? >> No. >> No. Cuz you feel loved. You feel secure. Your parents going to protect you. You're going to ask your parent, "Hey, is this teacher is is he or she lying to me?" And the parents like, "Yeah, he's he's lying to you." Okay? It's only because you've been taken away from your from your parent >> that you are now willing to be brainwashed. Why? Because what happens if you if you leave your parents? How do you feel? How do you feel? >> No. >> Hure. Insecure. >> Yeah. Exactly right. Insecure. You're anxious. You're afraid. Do you understand? You've lost your parent. You're four. You're five. You're six years old. You've lost your parent. You feel really insecure. So who do you trust? >> Teacher. >> Your teacher. What your teacher says is now correct. >> One of our parents is also brainwashed, right? Because they they went to school before when they're >> Yeah. Okay. That's a great point. Okay. Aren't our brain parents brainwashed as well? Um that's correct. Your parents are brainwashed. But what I'm saying is when a parent is with a child, the child feels secure. And and if you're secure, you're much more willing to disobey authority. You're much willing to ask questions. You're much willing to think for yourself because you feel secure because your parent is there to protect you. But if you take a parent away, you can't do that. You must now rely on the teacher who can now brainwash you. >> Okay. >> So are you brainwashing us? Am I brainwashing you? >> It's a dark tool. >> Okay. All right. Okay. So, the question is, am I brainwashing you? Okay. That's a good question and it's a fair question. And again, that's why I tell you this. Okay. You have the capacity to ask me questions. You have the capacity to challenge me. You have the capacity to think for yourself. Okay? So, so all I'm saying is hear me out. ask me questions and then think for yourself whether or not I make sense because the difference between my class and other classes is like I don't test you, right? I don't give you grades. It's a past fail class. You can actually choose to say, you know what, this is nonsense. I don't want to listen anymore. I can't I can't stop you. Okay? But in school, guess what happens if you don't go come to school? Your parents get arrested. All right? Do you understand? That's the difference. It's your choice whether or not to pay attention or not. All right. So now the question is, okay, if schools are designed to brainwash you, what are they brainwashing you in? Well, they've designed to brainwash you to believe a concept called the nation state. the nation state. The schools are designed to brainwash you to think the nation state exists. It is a person, mother China. You must love this person. You must be willing to sacrifice yourself for this person. You must will be willing to dedicate yourself to this person because it is mother China. And how do we brainwash you? We teach you language, right? We teach you history. We teach you geography. We teach you all this to make you believe that the nation state, mother China, the United States, France, they all exist. But guess what? Throughout most of human history, it was absurd to think the nation state existed. Okay? Before you didn't say, "I'm Chinese." Before you say, "I'm a Beijinger or I'm from Haiden or I'm from Chaang." Right? because that makes more sense. You're from a place where you know the people but now because of the nation state you are forced to believe that you are the same person as someone from Yunan Tibet Guangi even though guess what guys you have absolutely nothing in common but you're all Chinese and that's what school is designed to do school is designed to implant in you a false memory of a nation state okay that's what history is history is the false memory of a nation state and it hap and that's why you're all forced to go to school. Okay, >> maybe like they also want you to just think about degrees and work as a normal person not to create a new business or >> Yeah. So, so yeah. So the point of school is to serve the nation state. Do you understand? Oh >> right. Does that make sense? If you believe in the nation state, if you believe in mother China, then you must serve her. You must obey her. You must fight for her. You must die for her. Okay. So that the idea of the nation state was created in order to make you obedient to authority and it works very effectively. >> Yeah. I'm just wondering if this context only works out in Chinese context like >> all countries >> all countries all countries are nation states okay so I I mean like I'm not saying China is different from other places China's exactly the same as other places okay what you will learn in this class is how do we get to this place because again the three things that we learn okay money the individual the nation These are all ideas and concepts beyond the human experience. If you try to work this out from first principles, you try to figure this out by yourself, you couldn't do it. You have to be brainwashed into believing these three things. If someone from the past, maybe a thousand years ago were to come today and you you would explain the concept of money, individual nation state, the person would be like, "Wait a minute here. This means that you're all slaves. Okay. So now the question then is where do we get these three concepts from? What you will learn in this class is these three concepts come from a revolution in human thought called monotheism. the one true God. This idea montheism forever changed the course of human history. It gave us these concepts of money, individual and nation state. Montheism is such a powerful idea that it turned nothing into everything. Okay, that's what you will learn in this class. We will learn about monetism and we will discover how it created money, individual and the nation state and it basically create the world that we live in today. Okay. All right. Any questions? like >> excuse me >> Christianity is like >> okay yeah so there are three great monophasic religions right Judaism Christianity and Islam what I will show you later on is it's basically the same religion yeah all right okay so I I I don't want to give you too much information okay because it was a lot to process but I want you guys to remember concepts, money, individual initial state are all powerful concepts that are embedded into everyday life. You cannot escape it. Okay? You've been brainwashed into thinking that they all exist when in fact they actually they actually don't exist. And that's how power works. What power is, okay? What power truly is is what call alchemy. Alchemy throughout human history was the pursuit of turning lead into gold. Okay? Lead into gold. Okay? Nothing into everything. That's what alchemy was. And maybe in science class, you're taught that alchemy is this fake science. It's a pseudo science. And it did not work. What what what you will learn in this class is we achieve alchemy. Okay? We turn nothing into everything. We turn lead into gold or that's what power is. Power is the capacity to turn nothing into everything. Power is the capacity to make you believe that money is valuable that the individual can lead to happiness that the nation state exists. That's what power is. Okay? And as a result, today we live extremely miserable lives. Okay. So, so you've been taught to think that, oh, life just gets better and better. What you will learn in this class is actually um nope. Okay. And what's what's really important is you will also learn in this class that this was an accident. Okay? This is an accident. It's an accident of the human imagination. It's because we didn't know what we were doing that we created this system. So you what you also learn is that you're able to control the human imagination. You can use it to create a new system that allows for udeimmonia or the flourishing of the human intellect. Okay. All right. Any questions? Okay. So, um that's it for uh today. Okay. Okay, I'll see you guys next class.

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Good morning. So um let us review what we learned last class and then we will discuss the Greeks today. So um as I discussed last class, there are three major principles to geopolitics and once you master an understanding of these three principles then um you will see the world much more clearly. Okay. The first idea is that the competition uh within states is greater than the competition um between or among states. Okay. And this is the idea of elite overp production. So the historian uh Peter Turchin he looked at the fall of the Roman Republic, the French Revolution. He looked at many similar events in human history and he discovered that what drives crisis is the fact that you have too many elite competing for limited position of status and power. Okay. And that's what drives a lot of conflict uh within the nation state. Another way of framing this is that um the conflict in states is not between rich and poor but between the have a lot and have some but what more. Okay. So usually between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. We see this throughout human history. So next class we we will discuss the Rome. Okay. We'll discuss that and we we understand that a lot of conflict was between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. So Julius Caesar did what he did because he was all the lower nobility and was trying to reach the upper nobility. Okay. So this is the first principle that you need to understand that what drives a lot of conflict is elite overproduction. Okay, that's number one. Number two is the elite um has no loyalty. Okay, this is really important principle to understand. The elite don't have loyalty to their people or to their state or even to the families. They will do whatever is necessary for them to accumulate power. Okay. Um and this idea of Game of Thrones, right? So, I'm not sure if you've seen the television show or read the book series Game of Thrones, but um the world is Game of Thrones and these people who love power, they will kill their parents, they will kill their brothers, they will kill their own children in order to amass power from themselves. Okay, so the game of thrones is a very nasty affair. The third thing is that war is often about maintaining that status quo. Okay? Or the idea of equilibrium. [snorts] If you look at World War I, tens of millions of people died, okay? And you cannot possibly understand what happened or you have problems explaining what happened because the military strategy in World War I was so idiotic, right? You just threw millions of people at each other. But if you understood that war is really about maintaining the status quo that maybe you have access population of males and if you don't get rid of them then they will engage you in the revolution. Okay, you understand that war is really about maintain the status quo then war one makes a lot more sense. Okay. So these are three major ideas that I want you to understand and once you understand these three ideas it's a lot easier for you to understand the movement of history. Okay. So we're so we will use an example from Chinese history so you have you have a clear understanding of how this works. Okay. So let's talk about the waring states period. This is something that hopefully you all know really well. Okay. So during the waring states period you had lots of really powerful states. Okay. You had the jou, you had the way, you had the chew. Okay. And um at this point in history, you could believe that any one of the three would become the empire. They would unite the entire um middle kingdom because they had access to rivers. So it's easy for them to transport soldiers and do goods. They had a large population. They were on fertile ground. Okay. And then over here is this poor backward and isolated people called theQing. And these were barbarians. Okay. So how was it possible for theQing who are these barbarians not very advanced very poor limited population to eventually cover all of China? Okay. Well, once you understand these three principles, we can now explain it because what what's happening is that the jao the way and the true are pretty stable states. Okay? And so the major problem is lead over production. The conflict between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. And the way that we resolve the issue is by waging war against each each other. but waging war against each other not to conquer each other but in order to reduce the domestic conflict within their nation states and as such war became a ritual in which it was like a chess game. Okay, the point was not to destroy each other. The point was just to maintain equilibrium, maintain a status quo and as a result these states became stable. But another word for stable is stagnant. And now what's happening is first of all theQing is being recruited into the wars because theQing is poor. Therefore they can provide mercenaries. Okay. Once they do that what happens is that these mercenaries learn all the innovations of the jou way and in terms of military strategy. Okay. So you have this massive infusion of innovation into theqing. All right? So the ching is being energized. We call this energy, right? Innovation energy and ideas. [snorts] But not only that, but you have talented people of the low nobility, right? They want to become officials. They they want to become generals. But there's opportunities for them. So where do they go, guys? They go to the chain. Okay? Now you have people coming in as well. And now what's happening is that theQing has this massive infusion of energy, innovation, talent. And so now they can just bulldoze everyone. Okay. And now you're like, wait a minute here. Surely the ja the way the two recognize the danger of the ching and they will respond by uniting together and then destroy the ching. Okay, that never happens. Why? The reason why is that um once you enter an equilibrium, you understand the world through this equilibrium. So in their perspective, the chain becomes stronger. But that's okay because all we'll do is we'll just bribe them or we will have them become part of the system. Why would they want to take us over? Why can't we just live happily ever after? Okay. So it is impossible for the jao the way of the chu to imagine that theqing would one day overtake them. Okay. Another another way of saying this is that once become once you reach an equilibrium the people inside the equilibrium become lazy, stupid and arrogant. Okay. And that's and that's why theqing is easily able to destroy all three together. In fact, the lower nobility in all three states probably supported the takeover, right? Because now they have opportunities to rise within their societies. Okay? And that's the pattern of human history. And we see this over and over. All right. So now let's move on to the west. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So the equilibrium means that the war made the com like the status competition between within the countries more stable. >> Yeah. Equilibrium just means they've reach a balance point. Okay. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. And things are just staying the same. >> Oh, okay. >> And so people think that things will stay the same forever. So they can't imagine change happening. >> But the thing about human society is that things always change. Okay. So remember the pattern of the warning states. Well, guess what? This repeats over and over. So let's look at Mesopotamia. So as we discussed about Mesopotamia, you have the first city Uric. And what they will do is that as they expand as a city, they will develop colonies along the Tigris and Euphrates. And then these become a waring states as well. And as we discussed, what will happen is over time they will reach an equilibrium. Basically a status quo or rules to make sure that the elite stay in power. Okay. And one important rule that they have is we can we can go to war against each other but we cannot destroy each other's temple. Why? Because the temple is the house of your patron god. If you kill the patron god then the god will be very angry and will kill all of you. Okay? So this creates an equilibrium because where do they put all their gold and wealth? The temple. So you can go and conquer people but you can't touch their gold and their wealth and therefore you cannot expand. Okay. So this creates the idea of equilibrium. But as I discussed what happen is that um because of the equilibrium energy will flow into a poor exit area called uma and from uma where a merch named Lucazagi who's like you know what screw this system I'm going to go for it all okay so he dares destroy a temple and before this was unimaginable because if you destroy a temple the god's going to come in from heavens and destroy you right that didn't happen. But now Lucas Aagi has destroyed the equilibrium and now he has access to wealth. And so he's very quickly able to overwhelm the other city states. At this time the other city states call for help from mercenaries, the Aadians who will come and conquer the entire region, okay, and establish an empire called the Aadian Empire led by Sara. But now that they are an empire, they will now also reach an equilibrium. And this talent will flow somewhere else to energize another region. Okay. So now what will happen is that the Babylonians will come. The the Assyrians will come eventually from the Zagos mountains a new people called the Persians. Remember the Persians have a religion called Zerass will come and conquer all this area and then they will expand outwards and conquer both Anatolia and Egypt. Okay? And at this point in history, now there's a new border area called the Greeks. Okay, the Athenians, Athens and Sparta. And Athens and Sparta, the Greeks encounter Persia because they will send in mercenaries to help Persia. And these mercenaries will learn Persian war tactics and bring them back to Greece. But not only that, but with an empire, the Greeks have an opportunity to get wealthy. How? Through piracy, right? Piracy. And then this will force the Persians now to invade the Greek mainland to stop this piracy. Okay? Again, this is a pattern throughout history. The margins will get wealthy by committing piracy because why not, right? Okay. And so now the empire is forced to go invade um Greece. And guess what? They lose. This is unimaginable. How is that possible that some barbarians, the Greeks, are able to defeat a vast empire, the world's largest empire, the first great world empire called the Persians. Well, this happens all the time. Okay, why? Well, the pattern is this. Okay, so let's look at empire. Let's look at borderlands. Okay, borderlands are just, you know, the barbarians. All right, the empire has three major advantages. mass organization and death. Okay. And what this means is that empire just is has a lot of people. It has a centralized bureaucracy. So the centraliz bureaucracy is is able to conscript these individuals and it doesn't matter if they lose a lot of battles. They uh can keep on throwing soldiers at the enemy. Okay. But the borderlands have three advantages that counteract these three other advantage. Okay. and they are uh energy uh openness and cohesion. Okay? Meaning that the people work really hard. They're not afraid to die. They're open so they want to learn from other people and they are united as a people. And this defeats an empire because the empire the people are not that energetic. Most of them are slaves actually. Um the empire is a bureaucracy. So it's very stagnant. It's very insular. is close-minded and it's not and the empire is not united. It's often divided. Okay, that's why throughout human history the Borans are able to conquer the um empire. Okay, so um okay so the Persians invade uh Greece they get c they get defeated and now Greece becomes the center of the world or part or major power. Okay. So let's now discuss Greece. Okay. So in Greece, remember that we discussed Greece before and we we said that Greece becomes the center of innovation in the world because of three factors. The first is Homer who is probably the greatest prophet puppet poet prophet in human history. Okay. We read the Iliad together. Pet also wrote the Odyssey. And these are the two founding texts of Greek civilization. Um the alphabet, right? They're now able to using alphabet write down all their thoughts and quickly transmit their thoughts throughout time and space. The last of course is the polus. Okay, the polus is their um system of government where all the citizens are involved in politics and the polist there's like thousands of them and they're often small like maybe a thousand 10,000 people but the two major polices are Athens and Sparta. >> [snorts] >> And Athens and Sparta are both Greek, but they're different societies. In fact, they're nothing alike. Okay, so let's go over why. Well, first of all, Sparta is on flat land. The Pelpines. And if as if you're on flat land, you can you can use agriculture, but to use agriculture, you need slaves. Okay? So Sparta became a war society that conquered the surrounding people and turned them into slaves called helotss. So these helotss were um yeah surfs slaves who farmed. And so the Sparta became a war society based on military dominance. The entire society was centered around how to take young boys turn them into great warriors so that they could they could defend their land. Okay. The Spartans were also very conservative. Why? Because your concern is to maintain control over the helotss. If you went over to conquer other places, the helots could ever could rebel against you. Okay? And so if you want to know what this place is like, think China. Okay? So this is very similar to China. Uh and as a result of this system, Sparta was an oligarchy, meaning ruled by the few. So only Spartans who were born to both a Spartan father and a mother were citizens. Everyone else was not a citizen. So even your father was Spartan, but your mother was not Spartan, you were not a citizen. Okay? So there's a massive class hierarchy in Sparta. And the reason why is for them the priority was to maintain the status quo. Okay? The Athenians are a different people. The Athenians don't have good farmland, but they have a good harbor. Okay. So, and the territory around them, it's mountainous, so they can't really grow crops, but they do, but they are able to grow a crop called olives. Okay? So, they have a lot of olive trees. [snorts] And so, what happens is the Athenians have no choice but to be expansionist. Okay? So they built a really strong navy [clears throat] and they focus on trade and piracy and that's how they sustain themselves over time. So whereas the Spartans are conservative, the Athenians are both open and expansionist. And also what's really important to understand is that if you're a navy, you have to be a democracy. The rule in um Greece is that you fight for us, you can vote, you can speak in public, you can participate in politics. Now um Sparta was a land army with hoplets. Hobblelets are elite soldiers and as a result they were an oligarchy. Okay, because only a few of them fought. But Athens was a uh democracy because it had a navy. In a navy, everyone could roll. Okay? To be h you to buy weaponry, you have to train for like decades. But the Athenians had a navy where anyone can just roll. Okay? And so they were a democracy. All right? And so over time, because Athens is democracy that's expanding, Sparta is um a land power. Um Athens will start to increase in power. Sparta will decrease in power and eventually these two will come in conflict with each other. Okay. In something called the Pelpedian war. Eventually this gives rise to thieves and eventually over time these three states Athens thieves and Sparta will reach a equilibrium. Okay. So similar to the waring states where they inter each other and they use war as a way to resolve their domestic tensions as opposed to try to conquer each other. And this gives opportunity for a new power to arise that was previously thought of off as backward, poor and isolated. And this power is called Macedonia. So what Macedonia is going to do is they're going to take all the major military innovations of Sparta, thieves, and Athens to create the world's most powerful army. Okay? And what else they're going to do is they're going to recruit a lot of talent from these places. And then what's going to happen is that Macedonia is going to come and conquer the entire Greek mainland. The Macedonians will be the first to unite Greece. Okay. Now, who who's doing all this? His name is Philin. Okay. Philip Sen is probably the greatest military genius, one of the greatest military geniuses in human history. But we don't remember him because he has a son who's actually more famous than he is. And his name is who? Axen the Great. Why is Axen the Great more famous? Because Aon the Great will take everything that Phil built and he will use it to conquer Persia. Okay. And um then what will happen is that as this system reaches another equilibrium a new power rise that will overflow this entire system and this power is called >> Rome okay which we will discuss next class okay so you see how this pattern works right it's a consistent pattern throughout human history all right okay so what happened is that action the will conquer the Persian Empire. All right. Uh where's the Persian Empire? Egypt, Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, this is Persia. Um okay. So this is like the entire world and like this small army. Okay, it's not even the entire Greek army. It's basically it's Macedonians only. This small army, the Macedonians, they're able to come and they're able to conquer all of it. Okay. And the question then is how? Well, the same reason why uh theQing was able to conquer the Jou the way in the Chu, right? because of elite competition, elite overp production within these areas because um these elites have no loyalty. So so a lot of these leads were switching sides over time. So what probably happened was that these certain elites invited Alexander to come over and then he switched sides. So he was very quickly able to bulldoze. Also remember that when you reach an equilibrium you become lazy, stupid and arrogant. Right? So this guy Darius, he is now the um king of kings. Okay? He's leading the Persians and he always believed that at some point Alexander would stop. Okay? He'd be like, "You know what? You have Egypt, you have the Levant, you have Anatolia, you have parts of Mesopotamia. You know what I'll do? I'll give you all this territory plus I'll give you half my treasury." So Darius thought he could just bribe Alexander and his father Phil would have been like, "That's a great deal. I'm happy." Sure. But Alexander was not like that. Okay. Alexander is considered himself the son of God. And you will discover that all these great conquerors believe that they are divinity that they are a son of God and they came on earth in order to unify the world. Okay. Genghask Con was like this. Julius Caesar was like was like this. Napoleon was like this. All these great conquerors are unlimited. Like their appetite for conquest is insatiable. So, and this was unimaginable for these people. Like we're giving you like all the money in the world. And I said that's not enough. Okay. we'll give the entire world. That's not enough, man. I want it all. So, he kept on going and he killed D. Sorry. And then Darius died and he conquered the entire um Persian Empire. The problem though is that Alexander was being co-opted by the Persian elite. Remember, it was part of the Persian elite that invited Alexander to come over and a lot of the Persian elite were switching sides. So Alexander was incorporating more and more of the Persian elite into his army as well as into his administration and so his Macedonian army is not happy about this. So they get they get together and they assassinate him. Okay. And now the world is divided among his generals. Okay. And this creates what we call the Henistic age. Okay. The world of the Greeks. And what is special about this world is now all three major cultures that came after the collapse of the bronze age. The Jews, the uh Greeks and the Persians come together in what we call synretatism. Synatism just means a combining of religions to create the basis for western civilization. Okay. The secretism will also give birth to a new religion that forever changes the world and it is called Christianity. Okay. So Christianity is comes from a merger of these three major worldviews. Okay. Now once the Greeks talk of the world, they have a problem which is there's not that many of them. Okay. So how do they control the world? Well, they control the world through religion, through culture. So the what they will do is um a man named Aristotle who is um Macedonian and and like this is something that you do not learn in history class and it is such an important fact. Okay, but the important fact is this. Philip the second the man who conquered Greece and Aristotle consider one of the most famous philosophers in human history. They were childhood best friends. Okay, they grew up together and it's something that you will never ever learn in school. Okay, but it's a very important fact that you you you need to understand. So, so way of saying this is that um the Macedonians had a plan of the world for a long long time. So, what would happen is that Phili would go to Greece to learn all the military innovations but Aristotle would go to learn all the intellectual innovations of Greece. So his teacher was Plato. Okay. So he learned from Plato and the academy. And what will do is he will take Greek knowledge, he will systemize it into a knowledge of empire. Okay. So what do I mean by that? All right. So we discussed Plato. We discussed how for Plato what matters is the spirit, the mind. create the soul, the immaterial. So this is the good or the god, the good and the good emanates and creates the shadow world which is the world that we live in. But our goal in life is to return to the good by seeking knowledge, by learning truth, um by learning something called sacred geometry. So for Plato, secret geometry are these shapes that underpin reality. Okay? So once you're able to master sacred geometry, you're able to master the fabric of the universe. And so that's what Plato taught. Now, if you're an empire, you don't want this crap. Okay? Why? Because as an empire, you want to maximize the energy of each individual. You want the person to work as hard as possible to make as much money as possible because that energy then can be sucked up by the empire. Okay? If you're just sitting around reading books, that's we don't want that crap. Okay? So now what Aristotle has to do is create a new philosophy that counter counters Plato. Actually, Aristotle probably didn't create this. He probably stole it from someone else. Okay? But the philosophy is very simple. For Aristotle, he doesn't talk about the spirit world. He only talks about the material world. Okay? For for Aristotle, what makes the world move is cause and effect. So I push you, you move forward, you move forward, you bump someone else, and that person bumps into someone else. Okay? Cause and effect. Now this this theory implies that there must have been a god called a prime mover. Okay? Because someone must have been the first to move things. That person must have been God. Okay? But what's important about the in this idea is the prime move doesn't matter because the prime move is the first move. We don't have to worry about him anymore. Okay? All we have to worry about is the goal. The end. Okay? We don't have to worry about the beginning. We have to worry about the end. What is the end? The end is something called tilos. Telos. Okay? Purpose. Okay? When what this means is that we're all here to achieve our purpose in life. Okay? So you are students. What's your purpose? To learn. So if you learn if you learn, you become a good student because you're fulfilling your purpose. I'm a teacher. My purpose is to teach as well as I can. Okay? So work hard and produce energy for the empire. Okay? So that this is the Aristotle um idea. This is important. uh because this conflict between Plato and Aristotle is really the underlying conflict in all of Western philosophy. Okay, we'll see this all the time. We will see this emerge in um Europe with um and so Plato becomes what we call the rationalist. So Decart and becomes what we call the empiricist. Okay. So please remember this conflict empiricis. All right. Plato believes in mind over matter. Aristotle says mind doesn't matter. Let's focus on matter. Okay. That's all that matters. I don't know mind mine. Let's just focus on matter. Okay. And the British Empire will adopt this idea. In fact, all empires will adopt this idea, including the American Empire. All right. Okay. Any questions before um we go to the PowerPoint? This is all clear. All right. So, let's go to the PowerPoint. The Greek legacy. Okay. All right. So, as I discussed, the geography of Greece is really important. So, Greece is a very poor place that is mountainous and hilly. So it's almost impossible for an empire to develop in Greece because there's not enough wealth, there's not enough um resources to support an empire. So so during this time there are thousands of polices that are in conflict with each other and this allows for massive innovation. What's also important about Greece is that it is by the sea which allows Greece to access different parts of the world. Okay. If you cross the Aian, you get into Persia, which is the wealthiest part of the world. The Mediterranean gives you access to Egypt as well as to northern Africa as well. Okay, so Greece really benefited from this geography. That's why uh Greece was so innovative because you can actually steal knowledge from Egypt. It steal a lot of knowledge from Egypt. Okay, that's something that is not really knowledge, but you can see how close Egypt is. Okay. So, uh the Greeks sold a lot of knowledge from Egypt and from Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Persia. But they also steal knowledge from uh northern Europe as well. Okay. Um so remember that the two major city states are Sparta and Athens. Um thieves is the third major city state. Macedonia is up here somewhere. So where's Macedonia? Around here somewhere. Okay. And uh the thing about Macedonia is that throughout most of this history it doesn't really matter and throughout this mo most of this history is actually a subject of Persia. It's a very mountainous area and so it was poor backwards for the longest time. Okay. Okay. So this is a map of Sparta. Now, Sparta becomes the military power of the Greeks because um as you can see the Pelpine it's pretty flat which allows for agriculture. With agriculture you need slaves. So the Spartans had to go conquer the people and turn them into slaves called the helotss. And their main concern in life became how do we keep the helotss under control because they're outnumbered 10 to one. Okay. So the helotss were both the major resource of Sparta, but they also the major danger to Sparta. And Sparta didn't really care about anyone else. So the Spartans were concerned first and foremost about how to turn their boys into warriors. And so the first thing they did that's most important is they took the children away at age six or seven or five. Okay? Because remember we discussed this previously. If you want people to be great warriors, you have to create anxiety in them. Okay? If they are loving people, they don't want to kill other people. But if they are divorced from their parents, they have conflict with their parents, they don't really like life, they really got killing. Okay? So these boys were take was were taken away from parents at age uh five or six. And then they were put with other boys where they were beat up every day. They were beat up every single day. when they were 14 15 they um had a mentor who was like maybe 30 years old and they became lovers okay and that's how you build commie um fraternity in the army and then when 1819 they had initiation um ceremony where at night they would hide in the fields and wait for a helot a slave to break curfew. Okay. If if you stay up outside, if you stay outside um beyond sun um set, then you broke the law. And so what these soldiers would do is they would hide, wait for a hella to break curfew, and then go and slit the guy's throat. Okay? And that was basically the graduation ceremony for the spawn. This this is a brutal, brutal people. But guess what guys? The the Romans were the same thing. The Aztecs were the same thing. The Americans are the same thing. Okay. All right. So, um, what's important to understand is that at this time in history, the Greeks are developing massive innovation in military warfare because they're always at war with each other. And the major innovation is called the hoplights. Okay, the hoplights is basically to create a wall together so you can bulldo over your enemy. Also in this time in history, the Persians are developing horse archers and this is a major military innovation for them. What's really important for us to understand is like the these two innovations happen because of their distinct geography. You couldn't have horse archers in Greece because the land is too hilly. The land is too poor to support horse archery. Okay? You couldn't have hoplights in Persia because the land is too wide. Okay? So what this means is that yes, Persia is the dominant empire in the world, but when they go to Greece to attack the Greeks, they cannot use their horse archers, which is their major military innovation. And as a result, the Greeks are able to use hoplights and bulldo over the Persians. All right. So this is the battle of Marathon, which is the first great military engagement between the Greeks and the Persians. The Greeks again, the Athenians, especially Athenians, they're going and causing a lot of problems for Persians. They are they're committing piracy. They're also going around and encouraging Greeks under uh the Persian rule to not pay taxes. Greeks do not like to pay taxes. It's still true in today. Okay? Uh Greeks hate paying taxes. And so this is the first major mil confrontation between the Athenians and the the Persians called the Battle of Marathon. And this is 490 BCE. and the Athenians won because as I told you, the Persians use horse archers. They can't use horse archers in Greece. They're forced to use um infantry. But when it comes to infantry versus infantry, the Greeks are are the best at that. So avoid head-on collisions with the Greeks. Okay? All right. So um this will lead to a series of wars between Persia and Greece and what will happen is that there will be two major in invasions and they will both fail. Okay, the the one that I'm most uh interested in is the purple. Okay, this is the last major invasion of the Persians into Greece. What will happen is that they will create this land bridge. Okay. Uh on the Bosphorus they basically have ships. It's a land bridge and they will cross over and this leads to the famous battle of Ferupi. Okay. You may have seen the movie 300 where 300 Spartans stood stood against like you know a lot of Persians. Well uh the Persians eventually crush the uh Spartans and what they will do is they will take Leonitis who's the king of Spartans and they will cut off his head and put him on the pike. Okay. And that this is considered a major insult to the Greeks. Then what they will do is they will go to Athens uh which is here and they will burn down Athens. And at this point the war should be over, right? But what happens is the Athenians are like you know what we're a polless. A polus is not a place. It's a people. So what we'll do is we'll get on our ships and sell off. And the Persians are like you can't do that man. Athenian is like yeah we can man. So Athenians are sell off and the war continues. Okay, Athena should have been destroyed but it's not destroyed and [snorts] at this point the Persian have won the war and all the Persians have to do is stay where they are and land their navy. Okay, they have a massive navy into Sparta because Sparta has a weakness, right? Sparta has helots. So all they do is land in Sparta and the helots will rise up against Sparta and the war is over. Game over. Okay. The problem with empires is they're lazy, stupid, and arrogant. Okay. So, um, Xerxes, who's leading this invasion, he thinks that, you know what, this strategy of winning the war for attrition is not honorable because I want to go back and build a monument to myself. Okay? So, I want to face the Greeks in a major confrontation. And this confrontation is called the battle of Salamus. Okay? the battle of Salamus. And as I where's Salamus? Um yeah, right here. Okay. And this is considered the greatest naval battle in human history because it forever changed the course of human history. Now, at this point, I I keep on saying this, the war is over. You don't have to do anything. Just let troops into Sparta uh the Pelpineese and the Hellet will rise up and destroy the Spartans and the war is over. You've conquered all of Greece. Okay? do not risk your navy in a military confrontation. So of course the the Persians decide we're going to risk our navy and so this leads to the battle of Salamus which ever again forever changed the course of human history. All right. Um so this this is another map showing you what what happens. Okay. And now we are in the battle of Salamus. Um and we know about the battle cylus because of a name named Herodotus uh uh Heroditus who wrote a book called histories and he's considered a father of history because he wrote the first historical work. What he did is he basically went around Greece and he collected memories of the Persian wars um a few decades after the fact and he wrote it all down. Okay. Um if you read the histories it's really funny. It's really interesting but we have to take it with a grain of salt. Okay. Okay. So he writes about the battle of uh ferupi. Okay. And again at this point in his history the war is over. You don't have to do anything. [sighs] But again Xerxes says I want a monument. Okay. I want to witness a great climic battle between my navy and the Greek navy. Okay. So he sends his navy into battle and of course they get destroyed because again it's really important you don't fight the Greeks face on. Okay, you don't do that because the Greeks are heavily armored and you're not. Okay, so um this is a Greek uh tri. Okay, so Greek tri the thing to to recognize about is it's mainly soldiers. So they're really fast. They have some uh soldiers on top, marines on top. Okay. So, they're really good at ramming you and destroying your ship. The leader of the Athenian Navy, his name is Fezicles. And Fzles is one of the greatest generals in Athenian history. He's actually the guy who proposed that Athens build a navy. Um, Athens discovered a silver mine and they use all the silver to build their navy to prepare for the Persian invasion. Okay? And it was Fezicles who led the Athenians against the Persians. Okay? And this is what the battle looks like. Okay? So you have you still have this massive Persian army converging against the Athenians. But again guys, don't fight the Greeks head on. Okay? So they're like, you know, we're going to fight them head on. So you see this massive army converging against the Athenians. And now they're they're they're converging against each other. Okay. And the Athenians destroy them. Okay. Yeah. Don't fight the Greeks head on. All right. And now the entire Persian Navy is scattered. The war is over now because now the Persians have lost their navy, which means that they cannot resupply. They have no more no mobility. And so what will happen next is that the uh so yeah the Athenians destroy the Persian navy. What happened next is um the Spartans will not want to destroy the remaining Persian forces in Greece. Okay, this is why you don't do I can't I'm sorry. It's just the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Okay, they won the war and they screwed it up. Okay. Um once you lose a Navy, you can't resupply. Once you re once you can't resupply you've lost the war. All right. So this is from Heroditus. All right. Um so what's going to happen is the war the battle of Salamas is lost and but you know the Persian still have this huge army in Greece and so the Athenian g sorry the Persian king Xerxes he's he's like I'm out of here man. You know I came here to burn down Athens. I've done that. I'm gonna go home now and I'm gonna let my general Monius take care of the Greeks. Okay, so Mononius is like, you know, I don't really want to fight these guys anymore. So Monius sends an envoy to the Athenians and said, "You know what? The king of kings, York, says this, we're really sorry we burned down your city. Really sorry we burned down your temple, but we'll give you a lot of money, so please stop fighting us." Okay. Um, and this is what the envoy says to the Athenians. Okay, can you read, please? Why are you so mad as to love your war against the king? For neither can you get the better off him, nor can you resist him forever. You are acquainted with the multitude of Xerxes army and their achievements. You have heard of the force that is even now with me. So that even if you should get the better of us and conquer of which however you can't have no hope if you think soberly another much more numerous will come against you. >> Okay. So this is idea of empire, right? Just mass organization and death. We are infinite in our resources. We are infinite in our wealth. We can just throw army after army after army against you. Athenians, you're like this small little city. Okay, give up already. And the Athenians respond with this. Okay. >> We ourselves are aware of this that the power of the Medis >> mess. Meets me is Persian. Okay. Oh, mess is far greater than ours, so that there was no need to insult us with that. But nevertheless, being ardent for liberty, we will defend ourselves in such manner as we are able. But do not you attempt to persuade us to come to terms with the barbarian, for we will not be persuaded. Go then, and tell Mardonius that the Athenians say, "So long as the sun shall continue in the same course as now, we will never make terms with Xerxes. But we will go out to oppose him trusting in the gods who fight for us and in the heroes whose temples and images he holding them in no reverence has burned. >> Okay. So these two passes show you the difference between empire and the borderlands. Right? The empire is about mass organization death. The borderlands the Greeks are about openness energy and cohesion. Okay. The Athenian say to the persons we know you're bigger than us. We know you're stronger than us, but we believe in liberty. We believe in each other. We believe in our gods. And therefore, we'll fight you to the end. Okay. All right. So, what will happen is that now that Xerxes is gone, now that the navy is scattered, Mardonis is kind of screwed. Okay. And so, what will happen is the Spartans face off against Mardonis in the battle of Palia and they they will destroy uh Mardonis. Mardonis is killed. And so one of the soldiers says to the king of the Spartans, "Uh, Passenius, Pacenius, your uncle Leonitis was killed by the Persians and they put his head on a spike. Why don't you return the favor and put the head of Mardonius on a on a sp on on a pike and show it to the world and show how great the Greeks are?" This is Pson's response to this. Okay, can you read? Posonius answered, "I admired your good intentions and your foresight, but you have failed to form a right judgment for having highly extolled extolled me, my country, and my achievement. You have thrown all down against me uh to nothing by advising me to insult a dead body, and saying that if I do, so I shall increase my fame, which is more fit for barbarians to do than Greeks, and which we uphore even in them. I cannot therefore in this matter please the uh >> ajini >> ajini nor those who nor those to whom such things should be pleasing. It is sufficient for me to please the Spartans by doing and speaking what is right. As Leonitis >> Leonitis whose death you exhort me to avenge, I affirm that he has been amply avenged. Both he and all the others who fell at their mob play have been avenged by the countlessness of these men. However, do not you hereafter come to me with such a proposal, nor give such advice, and be thankful that you escaped unpunished. >> Okay, so what he's saying is that we won because the gods favor us. Why do the gods favor us? Because we are virtuous. Because we are loyal to the gods. We're loyal to ourselves. We are not the barbarians. We are not the Persians. We are the Spartans. Okay. So you can see at this time in history how um for the Greeks what matters is their virtue, their faith and their loyalty. Okay? But guess what? This all changes when they become an empire. Okay? So I I want you guys to remember this. And what we're going to do now is we're going to compare and contrast this when what happens when they become an empire. Okay? Um Okay. All right. So, the Persians are scattered and they're never they're never going to come back and now it's the Athenian Empire. And so, what um the Athenians propose is, you know what, it's always possible that the Persians will want to return. So, we need to set up a alliance to defend ourselves against the Persians. Okay? And they call it the Dillian League. Why? because they agree that they will pull the resources together as a defense fund against the uh person. So think of like NATO, okay, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. They agree that they will put all their gold in a place called Delos, okay? An island in Delos somewhere. Um yeah, it's somewhere. Yeah, it's right here. It's a small island in Del right here. Okay, you guys see it? [clears throat] And so no one no one's allowed to touch this. So what happens is that the Athenians are like you know what it's probably safer with us. So the Athenians steal all this gold and now the Dian league is no long is no longer a alliance but a empire the Athenian empire where everyone now has to pay tribute to Athens. Okay. So all that's happened is before these Greek city states have to pay tribute to the Persians and now they have to pay tribute to the Athenians. Okay. It's probably a worst deal for everyone. And what do the Athenians do with all this gold? They spend it on this. Okay, it's called the Parthonon. It's still there in Athens if you you want to go visit it. It's it's lost its former glory. Okay, but this is what the Parthonon looked like during the age of Pericles, during the age of the Athenian Empire. Okay, this is a statue of uh Athena. It's pure gold. They didn't have to do this, but they were like, you know what? we're going to enjoy our empire. They built uh the the Athenian statue. Okay. And so at this time in history, the Athens is beautiful. It's wealthy. And what that does is it makes you lazy, arrogant, and stupid. Okay. All right. So this is fusidities and he wrote um the pelpina war um and he discusses why Athens went to war with Sparta. Okay. And what he says is well it's because Sparta is the hegeimon and Athens is the rising power and therefore they were bound to clash. Okay. That's not what happened. Athens was the hedgeimon. happens with the empire and his allies were rebelling against it and it would it drag Sparta into the war. Okay, that's what that's what what what really happened. All right, so this is what the war looks like. The Athenians have their empire, the Spartans have their alliances, and what's going to happen is the allies are going to try to break out of the Athenian empire. Okay? And they're going to drag Sparta into the war. Sparta does not want to fight Athens. But Athens forces Sparta to fight it because Athens is very expansionist. Okay. So you can see how this red is now encroaching on the Pelpineese which is historically uh Spartan uh territory. Right now the problem is that remember Sparta has a weakness. The helotss if the Athenas ever choose to land forces on its coast the Helotss would all rise up together and overwhelm the Spartans. Okay. So Sparta must protect its periphery from uh Athenian encroachment. So this is what leads to the war. Okay, this doesn't make sense. Okay, Sparta does not want this war. The Athenians are extremely aggressive. They're expanding everywhere and Sparta is forced into this war. The allies use this opportunity in order to try to break out of the Athenian uh empire. And so most of Palinian war is actually between Athens and its former colonies and allies. Okay? because Athens is a mafia state. Now what's important for us to understand is that because of the nature of this war, the way they fought the war was strange. Okay, so Sparta is not trying to destroy Athens and Athens is not is not trying to destroy Sparta. It's really easy for Athens to destroy Sparta, right? All Athens has to do is land forces in Sparta and let the Hella to rise up. But Athens doesn't want to do that because they will destroy the equilibrium. Okay? You don't know what would happen if the allot helots were to take control of Sparta. They might come after you Athens. Okay, so Athens is status quo power. Therefore, it wants to maintain the equilibrium. Now, let me ask you this question. How could Sparta defeat Athens very easily, right? They could just free the hell out. Right now, their army rises 10 times. They can now overwhelm Athens. But doesn't want to do that because it would destroy their equilibrium. Okay? It would destroy their social order. It would destroy their oligarchy. It would create a democracy. basically and they don't they don't want that. Okay, so they're trying to they're trying to fight the war in a way that allows to maintain equilibrium and that's why the war is fought in a very strange way. Okay, they're not trying to destroy each other. They're trying to maintain a balance of power. What will happen is that Sparta will eventually defeat Athens. But choose not to destroy Athens because if destroy Athens then thieves and other powers could arise which could challenge Sparta. Okay. Right. >> [snorts] >> All right. So the leader of um Athens at this time is Pericles and Pericles is famous for the funeral which is considered like the most famous speech in um western civilization. And I I I'm sorry uh but in university they will teach you that the funeral is a speech about democracy. It's not a speech about democracy. If you actually read it, it's a speech about empire. Okay. Um, for whatever reason, the British and Americans believe that Athens was the greatest democracy in the world and they can do no wrong. No, no, no. It's an empire and it's concerned only with maintaining its empire. Okay. So, we're going to read from the funeralation. And the thing remember about funeralation is that Athens is not at war. Lots of Athenians are getting killed in this war and the custom is for uh there to be a massive state funeral to celebrate the war dead and they give a a a speech to commemorate the war dead. Okay. So we can't read all the speech but I want to show you a very important paragraph in the speech. Okay. All right. [clears throat] Comfort therefore not condolence non >> condolence is what I have to offer to the parents of the dead who may be here. Numberless are the chances to which as they know the life of man is subject but fortunate indeed are they who draw for their lot of lot of death so glorious that which has caused your mourning. Yet who you yet you who are still of an age to beget children must spare up in the hope of having others in their steedstead. Not only will they help you to forget those whom you have lost but will be to the state at once a reinforcement and a security. >> Okay. So he's talking to these uh parents whose sons are now dead. Okay. And remember like during the Persian wars the Athenians are like we're a virtuous people. We believe in liberty. We believe in our gods. We believe in each other. And that's why we'll win this war. Okay. Now, what Pericles is saying to these parents is, you know what? Your sons were useless anyway. But now they died for empire, which is good, right? Now, you can be proud of your sons who are worthless. But now that they died for empire, we can't celebrate them. So, what should you guys do? You should have more children so that you can protect the empire. Okay. All right, that's what he's saying. He's also saying to um the Athenians, listen, I know these men are dead and they have children, but don't worry because what we're going to do is we will put these children into an into an orphanage and raise up to be soldiers so that so that they can go and fight for the empire and die like their fathers. Okay, this is now empire, guys. [snorts] All right. So, um, this is the plague of Athens. So, again, what Perules should be doing is embarking on a massive war of expansion against the Sparta and Sparta would lose very quickly. Perles doesn't do that because he doesn't want to fight the Spartans. If he defeats the Spartans, it creates an imbalance of power in the Greek mainland. Okay? So what he does is he forces everyone to seek shelter within Athens because remember Sparta is a land power. He doesn't want to face Sparta on land. So he forces everyone to go into Athens and hide behind the city walls. Guess what happens if you put a lot of people in one place? You get the play, guys. Okay, this kills a third of the Athenian population, including Pericles and his two sons. All right, so uh can you read can you read this? So what's happening is that you have the these different islands who are either rebelling against Athenians or who say to the Athenians, we don't want to be part of the stupid war. Okay? And Athenians go to them and says, "Too bad, guys." Okay, keep on going. Athenians, for ourselves, we shall not trouble you with spaces >> specious species pretenses either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the meat or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us and make a long speech which would not be which not be believed. And in return, we hope that you instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the list as a >> these are the Spartans. Okay. >> Sedonians although they're colonists or that you have done us no wrong, we'll aim at what is feasible holding in view that holding view the real sentiments of us both. Since you know as well as we do that right as the world goes is only in question between equals in power while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. >> Okay. So you know the Persians when they went to the Athenians basically said we are a vast empire. You can't defeat us and let's just be friends. And and and now now that the Athenians have defeated the Persians now they're the empire. Basically, what they say to everyone else is, "We're not even going to bother trying to be your friends. We're not even going to bother trying to convince you that we're right and you're wrong. We're just stronger than you to shut up and obey." Okay? This is the entire point of the Athenians. The Athenians are even worse than the Persians. Okay? Remember the the Athenians fought the Persians for liberty. Once they become an empire and others want liberty, too bad because Athenians are stronger. Might makes right. Okay. All right. Um, so this war will drag on and because as an empire you become lazy, stupid and arrogant, the Athenians will do stupid things like go invade a uh [clears throat] people that don't even that even not part of this war. Okay, Sicily. So remember um the Athenians, it's a mafia state. What they do is they collect tribute from the allies. But as this war is stragging on, they need more and more money. So they decide to go conquer conquer more and more people. So they decide let's go conquer Sicily because it's very wealthy. They send a massive expedition against Sicily. They get they lose and they drag Syracuse which has a navy into the war. Now Sparta, Syracuse combined against the Athenians and the Persians come in as well. Okay. The allies go turn against spar f Athens and what they will do is they will blockade athens from uh fric which is where Athens gets most of its wheat. Okay. So now Athens is going to starve. So Athens surrenders and this ends the pelpian war and this time as remember that Spartans could choose to destroy Athens. They don't choose to because they're not interested in winning the war. They're only interested in maintain the status quo equilibrium. Okay. And of course this gives rise to Macedonia. Okay. Now remember this is really important for the second what he will do is he will go into the Greek mainland and learn all the major innovations of the theans the Athenians and the Spartans. He will create something called the master fallank which becomes the most dominant military force in history at this point. He has a child best friend Aristotle who will go to Athens and learn from Plato and he will systemize all Greek knowledge so that so that he can take this knowledge and turn it into a um tool of empire. Okay. Okay. So um Phil the second will focus on military conquest of the world but will focus on cultural imperialism. Okay. All right. So what makes Philip such a genius is to understand listen Persians have their horse archers, the Athenians and the Spartans have their hopes. Okay. So but what I can do is I I can take all these major innovations together and combine them into one military package and that allows me for coordination. Okay? So I can have flexibility and mobility in my army. The problem though is like for that to happen you need to make sure that every soldier is highly motivated that every soldier wants to fight. Now traditionally um if you have an army different section of your army get special privileges. Okay usually the cavalry because these are aristocrats they get all the privileges and everyone else their life sucks. But what Philip the second understood is like no no no I need to make sure that everyone is happy. So he focused on increasing the morale of his soldiers. And it's very easy guys, okay? All you do is be metocratic. If a soldier is doing a good job, you promote him. If a soldier is doing a bad job, you demote him. And you think that's easy, but it's not because what it what it means is you have to overturn the social hierarchy. Okay? Because the aristocrats are just used to like doing whatever they want. But Phil was insistent. No, no, no. Every soldier will be treated fairly. This is going to be a meritocracy and this is what allowed him to create the world's greatest army. Okay. Now once you have these different forces in place you can now have major military innovation and what is major military innovation was something called the anvil and hammer. Okay. Basically what would happen is like your infantry will lock with the other infantry in place. Okay. This called the anvil. And then what will happen is your cavalry will sweep in from behind to smash the enemy cavalry. This called the hammer. And this is what allowed Alexandra to conquer all of Persia because no other army had witnessed such a powerful force and you can't really possibly respond to it. Okay, once the army once the infantry locks you in place, you can't escape. Then the cavalry comes in and smashes you in apart. Okay, the anvil and the hammer. So what will happen is that um Phil the second will go conquer Greece because remember at this time Greece are dividing into city states. They're all fighting each other and they're not interested in actually conquering each other. They're just interested in maintaining equilibrium. So, Philip the second is like, you know what, screw the system. I'm going to come break all the rules and I'm going to conquer everyone. So, this is the battle of Sherania, which is where he defeats a combined force of Athenians and Athenians. And now he controls all of uh mainland Greece. And now he's ready to do what is what he really wants, which is to conquer Persia. Why? Because Persia is where the money is, right? Greece is poor. Persia is wealthy. Therefore, I'm I'm gonna take this army and go conquer Persia. Um, so this is the year 336 when Philip II has conquered all mainland Greece and he's now ready to invade Persia. In fact, he has also spies throughout Persia. He also has diplomats throughout Persia negotiating with the local elites. Okay? So, he's now ready to go and conquer uh Persia. Uh, unfortunately, he gets killed. Okay. So, he goes to the wedding of his daughter and his bodyguard kills him. And there's historical debate as to who killed this, but the answer is pretty simple. Okay. His wife, uh, his wife, Olympias. Why would Olympia, who is the mother Alexander the Great, kill her husband? It's really, really simple. Um, if you're a king, you marry a lot of foreign women for alliances. Olympias is not Macedonian. And um so there's a lot of people in the Macedonian court who who dislike her. Abel the great is here to the throne but as a young man he was notorious for being a thug. Okay he's not like Phil is very deliberate. He's very strategic. A the great is basically a thug. So Philin was worried about about the great. So later in his life he married a Macedonian woman and they had a son together. Okay. What this means now is that this son is now here to the throat and not the great Olympias taught Alexander the Great from day one that you are special Alexander. You are not the son of Philip the second. You're the son of God. Son of God. Okay. And so Olympias when she felt that Philip second was about to steal the throne from Alexander she had him killed and we know because after the Philip second was killed who else did she kill the wife the the new Macedonian wife as well as the son right okay so this is a nasty person Philip the Asen the great will take Philip's great army and he will go conquer Persia with it okay and this is what his conquest path looks like he will do this in like 10 years time. He'll conquer like the entire world basically in 10 years time. What's important is the way that he moves. Okay, he moves really quickly with small army which tells us that he needed cooperation from local elites. Okay, remember at this time in history uh Persia has reached an equilibrium. It's stagnant. There's no innovation going on. There's a lot of competition between the upper nobility and low lower nobility. Okay, so the low ability plot was probably helping Alexander um um conquer Persia. Two things I wanted to keep keep you to understand about this map. First of all is like the moment that um Axer reaches Persia, he goes to Troy. Why does he go to Troy? Because Achilles went to Troy. So Axander saw himself as the new Achilles. Okay. In fact, um he had memorized the Iliad and he took the Iliad with him wherever he went. Okay, so that's the first thing I I want you to um appreciate. Also, what he did during the war was he took one of his enemies, tied his enemy to the back of his chariot and rolled the guy around, okay? Just like Achilles did to Hector. The other thing that's really important, even more important is like you see what happened when he visits Egypt. Okay? He conquers Egypt and then he decides to go all the way over here to Ammon. Okay. Why does he do that? Because there's a oracle at Ammon and he spent a few days with his oracle and his oracle told him his secret. The secret is this. You are not the son of Philen. You're the son of God, which who is Zeus Aman. Okay? So Zeus is the king of king of the gods in the Greek tradition. Aman is king of the gods in the Egyptian tradition. So in other words, Alexander was born to rule the world. who was destined to conquer the world. And this explains why when he conquered most of Persia and Darius said to him, "You know what? Here's a billion dollars. Go away." As like, "No, screw you. I want all of this." Okay, not only that, but even after he conquered Piperilus, which the capital of Persian Empire, he kept on going to India. Okay. The only reason why he stopped is his soldiers got sick of fighting. Um the other thing about Alexander that's really important is he was known for his atrocities. So he burned down the city of thieves and he burned down the city of Piperilus. Why would he do that? Well um if you understood that he saw himself a son of god then it's possible we we'll never know. Okay it's possible that burning down thieves and burning down pipulus were ritual sacrifices necessary to prove that he was a son of God. Okay. So yeah, he did a lot of like bad things, but there's really nothing um random about what he did. He thinks he the things he did were for diplomatic military purposes. Okay. [snorts] All right. So um this is a map of his conquest. Okay. Um this is a burning of Pipulus. You can actually still visit Pipilus uh today in Iran. Okay. um what he was doing while his conquest was that he was slowly killing off his father's most loyal man. So Parmmen who was um Phil's top general Alexander killed and then Cletus who was also not top general he killed as well. Okay now his historically we remember these events as um random acts of violence but they're not. Okay. Alexander slowly need to kill off his father's men so that he could create his own empire. Okay. Um and so what happened was that eventually the other generals were like you know eventually Axen is going to come going to kill us as well. So they conspired and poison him. And now what they will do is they will fight amongst themselves and create the Greek world. Okay. It's divided into um four major parts. And the four major parts are Tommy takes Egypt which is the wealthiest part of the empire. Um then you have Macedon then you have Anatolia and then you have the Seucian Empire. Okay. All right. So the problem though is like once you conquer most of the world um you have to rule over the world and there are that many Greeks. So what they will do is they will build Greek cities to settle their veterans, invite more Greeks to come, help them govern um um the empire, but they also need need to recruit bureaucrats. Okay? So um they recruit these Persian bureaucrats because they're very effective, but they also recruit Jews as well into the empire. Okay? Because Jews are a foreign people. Okay? Because remember the because these people the Greeks need to omit to control and manage their empire. Okay. All right. So what I want you to focus now is on Egypt. Okay. Because historically Egypt was the center of the world. It was the cultural capital of the world and Egypt helped to help give science and math to uh Greece. Okay. Now the Greeks are like controlling Egypt and the Egypt is like wait a minute here. You guys were barbarians. Now you're controlling us. Why is this happening? So now the Greeks need to explain what's happening. And so what they do is they create cultural imperialism. All right. Okay. Uh this is um the Greek world. So they're building Greek cities all around um the world. And these cities are very similar. There's an epitheater. Sorry. Uh this is a better map. Okay. This is per pamont. Okay. So you can see what it looks like. You have an epithe stage Greek theater. You have a gyasium. You have um an agora. Like they're like if you go to these cities, they're all very similar to each other. Okay. And this is Greek art which takes over the world as well. All right. Let's just tell them in a second. and he and his father taught him the first they will create something called the library of Alexandria. Okay. [snorts] The library of Alexandria what what what it will do is it will take all the Greek knowledge in the world and it it will systemize it and synize it as textbooks to be taught throughout the world. Okay. So this is really a university. um to show you how wealthy the Egyptians are, the uh when they built the library of of Alexandria, they um needed original manuscripts. And so they said to a Athenians, "Hey, can we borrow some original plays?" And the Greeks are like, "No, you can't. Uh because we really love our upidities and our iss you can't just take this stuff. This this stuff is priceless." And the Egyptians said, "You know what we'll do? we'll give you like a billion dollars as a deposit. And the Athenians, well, that's a lot of money. Oh, sure. Okay. All right. So, the Athenians lend these scrolls to the Egyptians um in Alexandria to copy. And then after some time, the Athenians said said to Tommy, "Hey man, give give us back the scrolls." And the Tommy is like, "Keep the money." That's how wful they were. They had all the money in the world. They didn't care. Keep the money. $10 million. Keep the money, man. And the Athenians were pissed. Okay, they were really really pissed about this. Don't ever trust. Uh yeah. Anyway, this is Library of Alexander. It's part of something called the Musead. Okay, so what's really important for us to understand is that a university is not really about education. It's not really about literacy, culture. It's really about a tool of empire to um create a cultural understanding of the world that allows the empire to rule over people. Okay. So the library of of sorry [clears throat] the library of Exanua is an example of this because remember the Greeks are ruling over the Egyptians. The Egyptians are like why are you ruling over us and the um Greeks are like because we're culturally superior to you. And how do you prove it? by uh censoring Egyptian culture, okay? By by um downplaying Egyptian culture and by uh upplaying by promoting Greek culture. Okay, this is cultural imperialism. Now this is really important as part of the cultural imperialist project. Um the Egyptians under Tommy, they also started to work with the Jews. Okay? Why? Because Egypt Egypt needed to control the Levant as as well. Okay, who's in the Leavant? The Jews. The Jews are problematic because they were loyal to the Persian Empire. Okay, so how do you make them loyal to you? Well, you bribe them. How do you bribe them? By getting their priests, by saying the priest, you know what? We love your tradition. We love your culture. Let us translate your Bible into Greek so that we can celebrate your Bible and spread it around the world. And this is what we call the Septuagent. The Septuagent. Okay, it's really important uh in our history. Um and so the Jews were like, "Yeah, that's a great great thing." But not only that, but because um of the library of Alexandria, a lot of Jews were going to Alexandria to help contribute to the scholarship there. Okay? So eventually a third of the people in of Alexandria will become Jews. Okay? But Jews are spreading throughout the Greek world. And so now what you're seeing is a massive secretism between all three major religions. Okay? The Greeks, the Jews, and the Persians. Because the Persians are are administrators in this empire. Uh the Greeks are ruling this empire and the Jews are helping build this empire. Okay. So this will merge all three major worldviews and this will give us Christianity. Okay. All right. So that is the Greek world. All right. Um any questions? Was was this clear? >> Okay. So what will happen is like next class we'll discuss Rome. Okay. because Rome will now conquer this um empire and then this will allow for the rise of Christianity and we will do this next week. Okay. So everything was clear today, right? Come

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Today we do Rome and um so before we've done Persia um the Jews and the Greeks and these are the three um main civilizations after Brontage collapse and now we will emerge Rome to eclipse all three and build a world empire. Okay. And what I will argue to you today is that Rome is the great anti-ivilization. Um or you can call it just the evil empire. Okay. All right. So what do we know about Rome? Well, like most great empires, they emerge initially at the borderlands of another cultural empire. Okay. know these are the atruskians and the atruskians are very similar to the marinian Greeks and as you can see um they are expanding throughout the uh Italian peninsula. Now the thing about empires is that eventually the people become lazy, arrogant and stupid and so what they do is they get people to fight for them. So the Romans are here and as you can see um this is the borderlands and the entire area is surrounded by great warriors. This is a poor region and so they're always fighting for resources. So the Romans get recruited as mercenaries and over time what will happen is that they will start to emerge as the great power in the Italian peninsula. And at this point in history, this is really important. They're surrounded by lots of different people that are like them and they're warlike. So they triumph because they become the most warlike of everyone. Okay. [snorts] Their entire society is based on war. This is a truskin civilization and um as you can see it is very advanced. The Atrusian civilization is heavily in contact with the Egyptians um and the Greeks and as well as people around them because they are ser fairing people and this is the civilization that will most heavily influence uh the Romans. As you can see the atricians are always at war as well and then as become wealthier they will recruit the uh Romans to fight for them. This is not a great map, but this what this map shows you is the gradual expansion of Rome. So, at first, as you can see, it is actually at the most disadvantaged location because it's always it's surrounded by enemies. Um, it is on flat land and so it's not easily defensible and it's not really by the coast and therefore it's hard for it to trade. But because it is in such a disbanded position, it is forced to be the most marshall, the most violent, the most militaristic, the most aggressive. And the culture evolves around that. And slowly over time, they're able to conquer the entire um Italian peninsula and then expand uh to the Mediterranean. Okay. So, this is another map that shows you uh Rome and how it's going to expand over time. The way it expands is through military conquest and then by building roads. And this is very impressive because if you ever been to Italy, it is very hilly. So there's a tremendous effort to build roads. But once they build the roads, they're able to consolidate and navigate their empire. [snorts] Um this is this is a map that shows you the geography of um Italy. As you can see, it's very mountainous. um and there are that many rivers which tells us it's very poor and because it's very poor the people tend to be very unified uh very aggressive and they have a deep egotarianism because only by working together can you ultimately triumph over the other people okay so there's a main characteristic about Rome in the early days that you must remember it is poor it is small okay and it is uh unified so everyone knows each other and so because of its geographic characteristics we emerge it concept of liberty. All right? And it's concept of liberty is obedience to the fathers to history to culture because only by doing so can you uh survive as a people. Now what's interesting about this is it's a different concept from the Greeks. The Greeks believe that what liberty is is the right to speak your mind in front of others. Um and as such the major difference between the Greeks and the Romans is in in Greece citizenship is passed on from family to family but in Rome citizenship can be earned. Okay? It's an open citizenship system. Why? Because if you just obey the fathers, the laws, the customs, then you can be a Roman citizen. And as such, what's going to happen is that as Rome expands, it's going to incorporate different people into its culture. And as a result, Rome has advantage that Athens and Sparta doesn't have. Rome can always replenish its soldiers. And as such, it can afford to lose war after war after war. But as it does so, it gets stronger and stronger because it's learning with each defeat. Okay? And that is the secret to Rome's ultimate victory. The heart and center of Roman society is the Senate. This is where the um leading families come together to dis to discuss the fate of Rome. And at this time in history when Rome is poor, this is not a problem because everyone knows each other and there's no real inequality. Therefore, there can be no corruption. And so these fathers, the senators are representing the representing the best interests of all Romans. But over time as Rome becomes wealthier and wealthier this becomes a huge problem because as Rome develops more wealth guess who gets all the wealth these guys. Okay. So we we'll we'll we'll see this later as as that as Rome gets wealthier Rome also becomes much more corrupt. All right. So the Greeks the fighting system is the hoplets. The Romans use something called the legions. Now there are some major differences between these two fighting techniques. Even though for their time they are the most advanced. As you can see uh the Greek hoplights are heavily armored. Okay. And as such each hoplet needs to buy his own armor which means that hoplights tend to be um small land owners. Okay. They have a bit of wealth. The legioners can be poor because it doesn't actually require that much armor to be a legionnaire. Okay. That's the first thing. Second thing is that it actually takes a lot of training to be a hoplight. You basically have to spend years and years honing your skills because you fight information. Uh the legionnaire you don't you you don't need that much training. Okay, you can actually go straight into battle. The third major difference is that as you can see the hoplights they are using heavy armor shields um and helmets. The legionnaires are much lighter. The reason why is the legionnaires were developed in a developed to fight in a mountainous region. So they need to be able to climb to hike up mountains in in formation whereas the Greeks are fighting more on flat land. Okay. So over time what will happen is the legionnaers will overwhelm the hoplets. [snorts] Um this is a typical Roman peasant. He's spending most of his time farming and when it's required of him, he goes to war. Okay? He's not a full-time soldier. Um so um the Greeks and the Romans will fight a series of wars. So as the Romans are expanding, they go they go closer and closer to the coast. And here are a lot of Greek colonies. and the Greeks are losing to the Romans. So they call for help from the compatriots um across the sea and a king named Pyrus of Eperis he decides to take advantage of this opportunity to go conquer Italy. Okay. So he and Hoplights sail over to Greece and they are destroying the Romans. Battle after battle, uh, Pyrus is defeating the Romans. And then he finally says, "You know what? If I win one more battle, I'm going to have no more soldiers." Okay? And that shows you the difference between Greek fighting versus Roman fighting. Greek fighting uses specialized forces that uh can win over time, whereas the Romans can just keep on replenishing their forces. Okay? So the Romans don't actually win that many battles, but they win most of their wars. >> [snorts] >> Okay. Now, as the Romans are expanding, they eventually reach the Mediterranean. And so, now they start developing a navy in order to trade with um other uh nations like Egypt and Greece. This comes in conflict with the Carthaginians. And at this time, the main power in the Mediterranean are the Carthaginians. now and they will fight a war that lasts decades, 100 years and ultimately Rome will triumph and the main reason why that Rome triumphs and this really important for you guys to understand is the main difference between Carthage and Rome is Carthage is rich, Rome is poor. Okay, why why what does this matter? Because if you're rich, what you can do is hire mercenaries to fight the war for you. And that's what Carthage does. But Rome is poor. Therefore, they must use their own citizens to fight the war. Okay? And so over time, the citizens become much tougher, much more unified. Whereas the Carthaginians, they become more corrupt. They be become much more decadent. And because the Romans are more invested in the war, they will fight to the end. Whereas the Carthaginians are business people. They're traders. Okay? They're very known for um their sharp business skills. And so they do they do a costbenefit analysis be like you know what this war is going to cost us more than if we just surrender. Okay. So the carters surrender the first Punic war they s the second Punic war and the third Punic war. Guess what happens? They're going to be wed up by the Romans. Okay. So that's what the Roman mentality is. We fight you, we'll fight you to the death and if we beat you, we will kill every one of you. Okay? That's just the Roman uh war mentality. And that's why they ultimately triumph in the end. Okay, so this is another map that shows you the conflict between the Carthaginians and the Romans. This is a second Punic War. Okay, so um Carthage over here, it's expanded to Spain and there are lots of silver mines in Spain. Um Rome right now it's still pretty small, okay? But again, because the Romans are dedicated towards war, that's that's the only thing they know. That's the only thing they're good at. Okay, they will eventually triumph over the Carthageians. We actually don't know that much about the history of Rome. Okay, but the most famous episode during the Second Punic War is when a Carthaginian general named Hannibal Barka, okay, he's in Spain and he decides he's going to go destroy Rome. The way he does it is by crossing the Alps. Okay, so these are out mountains. And for the longest time, Bman thought that this was a natural barrier. And what what what Hammer Barker will do is he will cross the Alps with his war elephants and his army, land in um Italy and start attacking Rome. And in three decisive battles, Hannibal will destroy the entire Roman army. Okay? he will wipe out the entire Roman army. And at this point in history, Rome needs to surrender. Okay? So Hannibal sends an envoy to the Senate and tells them, "I destroyed every single one of your soldiers. You have no more army. Therefore, I am willing to talk peace terms." And the Senate is like, "Screw you. Come get us." Okay? And this marks a turning point in Roman history. So let's look over some of the major events. This is Hannibal crossing the Alps. Okay? one of the most famous military feats in human history. Um, this is the battle of Trivia, one of the first major battles where even though Hannibal is um under man and he's in enemy territory, what he will do is he will use a series of brilliant military maneuvers to ambush uh his enemies. Okay, so these are the Romans. As you can see, what's going to happen is the the um Carthaginians, their horsemen lies in the marsh and then they will sneak up and destroy the Romans from the rear. Okay, that's the first major battle. This is the battle of Lake Tresamine. And the same thing basically happens where the Romans are crossing then the then Hannibal ambushes them from the uh hills. Okay, the second major battle and this is [snorts] the most famous battle. This is about called the battle of Kaine. Okay, and this what we call a double involvement strategy where what will happen is that the two armies meet and then uh Hannibal will send his cavalry on the wings and then they will envelop the Roman army and then they will slaughter everyone. Okay, so Romans lose between 50,000 to 100,000 men. Their entire army is wiped out because of this battle. Okay. So, uh this is the first phase. Second phase is when the uh cavalry starts to uh flank the uh Romans and in the third phase um the soldiers come in from behind and trap the Romans and kill everyone. Okay. So, this is the most famous battle in military history. Now, there's a problem with this battle which is this has never happened before in human history. Remember before we discussed the idea that in China, one of the most um common military strategies is behind the river strategy. Okay? So you force your men to go to a river and now the enemy is approaching them and have no choice but to fight to the end because otherwise they'll drown. Okay? But if you can see this situation, it's very similar. The Romans are in a very similar situation where they where they're being surrounded by enemies on all sides, right? So at this time what what should happen theoretically is they become energized and the entire Roman army goes and fights the Carthaginians and defeats the Carthaginians. Okay, we have we have examples of that. We don't we don't have an example of in fact an entire army in ancient times being surrounded and being slaughtered by the enemy. This is a very strange battle. In fact, if you ask chat GBT which battles have used double envelopment strategy, basically you have battle canine. Okay, we have that. But the next one is 1940. 1940 in World War II. Now, the difference of course is is that by the time you hit the 1940s, you have machine guns, you have tanks. So, if you start an enemy, you can destroy your enemy. But not in ancient times. Okay? In in fact, the closest parallel that we have is a battle of Marathon. But even his but some historians suggest. Okay, so we're not very so even historians disagree whether or not the battle marathon was actually double in strategy. This makes no sense. This battle strategy makes no sense from a military p perspective. Also, we can't find the damn place. You would think this is a huge battle. 50,000 100,000 women are dead. There'd be a lot of bodies. We can't find a damn place. Okay, look. There's no archeological evidence to prove the battle took place. We we don't have any evidence. That's kind of strange. Okay. Um yeah, but maybe it's because of the weather or, you know, we don't know. Okay. All right, guys. So, um what's going on here? Okay. So, on YouTube, someone asked me, "How do we know what history is true or not?" Okay. Now, you would think the answer is you just ask historians whether it's true or not. You know the answer. The problem is that every historian that you talk to tells you the battle canal must be historical fact. It must be even though we don't have any evidence for it. So given that, how can we um understand or figure out if it's true or not? Well, in this class, what I teach you is a new historical framework to understand history. Okay, so this is predictive of history and we look we ask ourselves does the battle of cannot fit into a larger historical pattern. Okay, second question we ask is does it make sense according to game theory? And the third question is does religion explain the battle? Okay, and when we do this, we use this framework to understand the back canal our conclusion must be it didn't happen. It was completely made up. Okay, the back canal did not happen. So why? Well, first of all, when we have these great military generals like Kavar Barka, they tend to become a king. Okay, so think of Napoleon U or think of Julius Caesar. Hannah Barker is the first general that we have that conquered all of Rome and decided I'm sit back and like retire for the next 50 years. Okay, never happened before. Why didn't he go back to Carthage and rec and claim the kingship? Right? Okay, that's the first problem. Second problem is game theory. Okay. So if you read Roman history, what they would tell you is that Hannibal after the battle of Canal, he was stuck in Italy without resources. Then the question is when he go to Carthage, conquer the place and demand the resource he needs to win against Rome. Why is he sitting back? Okay. Also remember this is a guy who crossed the Alps on his own initiative. The cockian told him, "Don't start a war with Rome, Hannibal." And Hannibal's like, "Nah, I'm going to go across our Alps. Thank you very much." Okay. So this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. And then from a religious perspective, how can we explain what h why Hannibal did what he did? And Roman historians will tell you, "Oh, it's because his father lost against Rome. He wanted revenge for on behalf of his father." That makes no sense, guys. Okay? Usually when a Napoleon emerges, it's because he thinks he's a son of God. Think think of Napoleon. Think of Alexander the Great. Think of Julius Caesar. Okay? They all have a mess calling, a divine mission. All right. So from this only conclusion can be first of all battle did not happen. There's no way it could have happened. And second thing is you can also say that Hannibal Bark Hannibal Barka did not exist as per as a person. All right. But then this leads us to a really huge problem which is why would the Romans just make this stuff up? Why? Why would they say we fought this battle and 100,000 of our men got killed by this Carthage General Hannibal who was smarter than us? Okay. Well, the reason why is this Carthage. Okay, that Carthage is at this time in history about 200 BC the most beautiful, the most prosperous, the most culturous city in the world. And what did Romans do? They burned it to the ground and killed everyone. Okay, that's the Roman way. Now um this is a siege of Carthage that lasted many many years in the third punic war. The Romans if they don't like you they will come and kill every one of you. Okay and that's what they did in Carthage. Now during this war a Greek named Palibius okay Palibius uh was a hostage of Rome and he became the official historian of the Roman Empire. So this is a guy who invented the battle of Canaan. Why? To justify the burning of Carthage, right? Because the Romans are like, "Why did we kill the Carthaginians?" Because that's what we do, man. Okay? But Palibius is Greek and he understands that, you know, if Rome you're going to be an empire, you need people on your side. You can't go around just killing people. You need you need to explain your actions. So, in other words, Palibius in order to justify the Roman Empire create this entire history of the psychopunic war that didn't really happen. Okay? Because now it's like okay well the Romans felt threatened by Hannibal right Hannibal was going to destroy them and so they all saw Carthage as a threat and therefore they had to destroy Carthage. Now it's much more reasonable. Okay so Palibus basically made the entire history of Rome. The thing to remember about history is that if you're a military power you don't write history. Why? Because you you're not capable of reflection. You're not capable of deep cultural production. Okay. So the Romans won all these battles and got the Greeks to write their history for them to just justify why they did what they did. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. So again, I hate to say this, but basically um all Roman history is complete nonsense. All right? Um if you read Roman history, just don't believe anything you you read. Okay? All right. So um let's look at the Roman war machine because after the war against Carthage, after Rome destroys Carthage, Rome is the undisputed leader of the Mediterranean. It's an empire now, but it still keeps on fighting these wars overseas for no particular reason. Why? Because it has no choice in the matter. This is the entire Roman war machine. Okay? So um because Rome is a poor poor place, the only way that it can generate wealth is by conquering other people. Okay? So the nobility wants to go fight these wars overseas so that they can capture slaves. Why? Because they can get these slaves then to work their estates. Okay? So at this time in history, slaves are the main resource that people are fighting over. Okay? Now to fight these wars, peasants are conscripted into the military. But once they leave the land, they need to feed the families, right? So what do they do? They borrow money with their land as collateral. Okay? But over time, what happens is they can't pay back the interest, right? They default on the loan and then land owners, nobility, seize the land. Then what they do is they get the slaves that they conquer to come work this land. Right? Now the peasants have no choice but to go to Rome to look for work because they've lost their land. And the Roman state gives them food. It's called a grain do. Okay? And so now the nobility wants to go fight more wars. What they do is they bribe the peasants to vote for more wars and then the peasant can go and maybe win some booty. Okay, because they have no land. [snorts] And um so what what's happening is that what the R woman war machine is doing is creating slavery, debt, corruption and inequality. Okay. And over time what happens is that wealth becomes more consolidated in fewer hands which creates conflict between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. The optimates are are called the upper nobility and the popular are called the low nobility. Okay. So what's the difference? Optimates just means the best of the best. Okay. Why do I have so much money? Because I'm better than you are. In fact, my entire family is better than you are. Popular is where where we get the word populist from. So this is lower nobility people like Julius Caesar who take advantage of the discontent in order to launch their political careers and what they do is they promise the peasants the people u more opportunities okay to take the wealth of the rich and give it more to the poor. Okay so this is a conflict that will arise in Rome after the end of Carthage and this will last for centuries until the very end of the Roman Empire. Okay. The in other words, the Roman war machine doesn't know how to stop. Even even when it becomes an empire, all this aggressive military energy then translate translate into civil war. Okay. So, the Romans aren't killing other people, they're killing each other. All right. Um this is a question from a YouTube um a viewer and uh Ford asks why are wars good at maintaining equilibrium. Okay, why is it that uh wars help reduce a problem of elite over production? Okay, and the reason why is and and I I I know I know it's hard for you guys to understand this but wars are beneficial. All right. So, let's go over the the the benefits of war. Well, first of all, you create social co cohesion, right? You're fighting against another person. You have to stand together. So, it creates a dialectic, a hatred of the other, which gives meaning and purpose to life. Okay? Uh it creates social mobility. If you're poor, you go fight a war, you get lucky, you can become pretty wealthy. Uh wolf destruction and generation. Okay? So, you're destroying wealth, which allows for more opportunities. uh survive the fittest. So population control. So basically the stronger survive in war, the weak die off. Uh high fertility rate because so many people are dying. Mothers are forced to have more and more children. Okay? They don't have a choice in the matter. Um innovate release of social tension. So people don't like each other. They go fight a war together and now they're best friends. Um innovation, creativity, entertainment for nobility. Okay. Competition. Um, war is often just the the nobility just enjoys wars because it's like playing a chess game. Okay, they're not the ones dying. Worst case scenario, they become hostages, right? All right. So again, what happens is that after Carthage is destroyed, the Romans turn against each other. Okay. The first one that happens is something called the social wars. Basically, it's the um Roman allies who were told to fight a war and return. They regret citizenship. they were not grant grant citizenship. So they rebelled against the Roman state and this led to civil war. Okay. But the problem is you're now fighting the Roman army. So you're not going to win. So eventually the Roman state had to give in and give citizenship to these uh people. Okay. This is uh one of the most radical turning points in Roman history. So um right now there's massive inequality in Rome. The nobility have all the land. They have slaves to work the land. the peasants are uh having problems feeding themselves in the cities. Okay, so now what do you do? So u this man is named Tyberus Graas and he's a reformer and he says basically here hey guys here's what we're going to do. The rich have all this land. We're not going to touch that because we have to respect private property but there's all this public land that's not being used. It belongs to women state. We have all these poor people that want to work the land but they have no land. So what we'll do is this. We'll take public land that no one's touching. Okay? No one's using this stuff. Give it to the people to work to generate more wealth for our society. We have more tax revenue. The people are happier. And yeah, and no one gets hurt. Okay. Perfect. Perfect solution, right? Because he proposed a solution. The nobility beat him to death. Okay. Not only did they beat him to death, they beat his brother to death as well. Okay. Oh my god. >> Why do they do this? Because nobility is how dare you steal OUR PUBLIC LAND FROM US. OKAY. So nobility was like this public land belongs to us man because we are the state. Screw the people. Okay. All right. So of course this leads to the rise of dictators. So there have been different dictators who've um come to power and they've tried to solve the social conflict within Rome. The first is Marius who promised reform but really didn't deliver. Then you have Solo. Okay. And Solo's solution was really simple. Let's just kill all the reformers. Pretty simple guys. Okay. Our problem isn't the inequality. The problem is you got too many people uh who proposed reform. So he just killed all the reformers. Okay. What? And then after he killed the reformers retired. One of these reformers who got away was Julius Caesar. Okay. So Julius Caesar because his family was very wealthy was able to escape Solah and but he's a very ambitious man. So now he's going to build his political career based on the discontent of the people. And what he's going to do is that he's going to um bribe his way into office so that he can get a general ship to go invade Gaul. Okay. So he goes to Gaul which is in modern day France. He spends many years there. Um what's he doing there? Okay. Okay. Well, if you look at official Roman history, what he's doing there is he's trying to pacify the people of Gaul. Okay. So he has these like these series of mil military campaigns in Gaul and it culminates in uh so he's leading his soldiers into war in Gaul and it culminates in something called the battle of Alicia which one of the most famous battles in history. Basically what hap what's happening is that um this is the very last battle of um Caesar's G campaign. What he's done is he's surrounded a village where his enemies are. Okay? But his enemies send word to all the gic tribes to come and converge against the Romans. So what the Romans do is they build fortifications to block out the invaders. Okay? So they're fighting wars on both fronts. They're fighting in the inside against the enemies trapped here. They're also fighting against the enemies coming from outside as well. And u Alicia is one of the greatest battles in human history. And again we have reason to think that this didn't happen. Okay. So what was Caesar doing in Gaul and why was he starting all these wars? The answer is really simple. Okay. There are three reasons. The first is remember slaves are the most valuable commodity at this time. So what he's doing is he's basically capturing slaves. He's going and he's starting these wars in order to capture slaves. Caesar said famously um I killed a third of people go. I enslaved a third of them and I left a third alone. Okay, so he basically committed genocide against the the people of Gaul. And um what's important to understand is he probably exaggerated. He probably didn't kill a third. Why? Because if he captures slaves, a lot of this money has to go to the Roman state. But if he kill if he pretends to kill the GS but actually enslaves them, then all the money goes to him. Okay? So by enslaving people, he became filthy rich. In fact, he became the wealthiest man in Rome and he used this money to bribe his his um friends into office. Okay, so he became also the most politically powerful individual in Rome. That's the reason number one he went why he went to go. Second is that Caesar um was trying to build a loyal army, a private army that was loyal to him. And so just because he was able to give money to these soldiers, these soldiers not only were loyal to him, but they also develop a lot of fun experience while in Gaul, right? So now Caesar has the world's most powerful army. The third reason why he went to go and this most important is to create a myth of himself as a great conqueror. Um all these great politicians understand people don't really understand the difference between reality and fantasy. In fact, they don't care what about the difference. Okay, people will believe what they want to believe. So, what what Cu was doing was he was going to go and then um he was getting people to go back to Rome and announce all his victories. Okay, we have reason to believe that a lot of these victories were made up, but it gave the impression among the Romans that Caesar was this great conqueror. Okay, so think of this guy, right? What's he doing? He's trying to create an image of himself as energetic, dynamic, verile. Right. Right. Does that make sense? Oh, and a better example, of course, is this guy. Okay. Right. Donald Trump. He spent a lot of years in the World Wrestling um Federation trying to portray himself as macho, as energetic, as strong, right? And then for over 10 years, he had the most popular television show on TV called The Apprentice, where he pretended to be this savvy genius of a business person, right? The Apprentice and this is what really launched his political career. All right? So, this is all these great politicians understand. If you really want to have a great political career, you have to create a myth of yourself as an entrepreneurial military genius. Okay. So, um after Gaul, the Roman Senate basically gets really annoyed at Caesar because they understand what he's trying to do. He's trying to become king of Rome. So, they basically try to impeach him. Okay? They they want to put him on trial. So Caesar basically rebelss against them and this starts a civil war and what's going to happen is that Caesar is going to go conquer the entire Roman Empire. Now um it's one man and his army against the entire empire. So he should have lost. The problem is that the Ottomates are really stupid, arrogant and lazy. Okay, there's so um Pompei, General Pompei is fighting for the Ottomans and he's going against Caesar and Pompe strategy it's really simple. Okay, Caesar has control over Italy. There's a problem though. Italy is poor. It does not have produce enough food. So all we have to do is lay siege to Italy and if we start war is over. That's all we have to do, right? We don't have to fight Caesar. Just lay siege to Italy. Um the people starve, the people rebel against Caesar and then Caesar loses the war. [snorts] The problem though is the optimist afraid that if Pompei won the war, then they would make Pompei king, right? So what the optimist wanted to do was force Pompei and Juju Caesar into a battle and have and kill both. Okay? They wanted to destroy both. And this led to something called a battle of Farcus. Remember at this time Caesar needs to go fight Pompei. But Pompei doesn't have actually to fight Caesar but the ultimates force him to fight in a battle called farceless. Okay. And in this battle because Caesar has a loyal army they defeat Pompei even though Pompe has more soldiers. Okay. And then what um Caesar will do is then go conquer the entire Roman Empire and he makes himself dictator of Rome. And this of course leads to his assassination. Why is he assassinated? because the Romans are afraid that he'll make himself king and he will abolish a debt of the people and he will reappropriate the land and give it to the people. Okay? He'll basically make himself king by making Rome a much more equal and egalitarian place. And so they killed him. And this led to more civil war um in which Octavius Caesar, Augustus Caesar will will be triumphant because he will inherit Julius Caesar's army. And at the battle of Actium in 31 BC, he would destroy Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, making himself the supreme ruler of the Roman Empire. Okay? And he's really considered the first Roman emperor. But what's really important for us to understand is at this point in history um the problems of Rome don't really go away. He is emperor and during his time things are stable. But after he dies, the Roman Empire goes back into civil war and he keeps and it does not stop fighting civil war until its very collapse. Okay. What makes him um emperor is the fact that he will take Egypt and turn into his private property and he will use the wealth of Egypt to fund the army. So all the soldiers are now loyal to him individually as opposed to the Roman state. Okay. Now, August Augustus Caesar, he was not a military genius, but he he appreciated that if the Roman people were to survive, they needed a culture as distinct and as powerful as Greek culture. At this time in history, the Greeks um were culturally dominant. And he's he was afraid that over time, all Romans would just become Greeks. So he needed to create a culture that was distinct from the Greeks but also considered much more powerful than the Greeks. Okay. So that was his main major contribution to the Roman Empire. So what he does is he takes the work of Po Palibius. Remember Pibius is the main uh architect of the history of Roman Empire and he tells Libby to basically rewrite the history but from a Roman lens as opposed to a Greek lens. Okay. So this is a very really famous book written by Libby uh sponsored by Octavius Caesar. Okay. So we're we're going to read a bit of it to understand the Roman mentality. Okay. All right. All right. So um what's happening is this. The book starts with the founding of Rome. And in the Roman tradition, what's going to happen is um the Romans are descendants of Troy. Remember Troy and Aliad was destroyed by the Greeks. How did the Greeks destroy Troy? Through trickery, through deception, right? The Trojan horse. And then what will happen is the Greeks flood into the city and kill everyone. But there's a Trojan general named Inas and his wife Kisha. What he will what they will do is they will escape. Okay. Um, Troy, sorry. In order to found Rome. Now, Kishia is the wife and what she what she will do is as they leaving Troy, she will kill herself in order to allow Inas to escape fully. Okay. So, in the Roman tradition, all that matters is the father. Okay. So, you can see the father can't walk. So, Inas has to um shoulder him to the ship. And woman don't matter at all. Okay? That's the Roman tradition. All right. Um, so what happens next is Rome is founded by twins, uh, Ramlas and Remis, and they will, um, fight for the kingship of Rome. Okay. So, can you read the story of Ramis and Remis? >> Remis is said to have been the first to receive an omen. Six vultures appeared to him. The augury had just been announced to Rmulus when double the number appeared to him. Each was saluted as king by his own party. The one side based their claim on the priority of the appearance, the other on the number of the birds, then followed an angry altercation. Heated passions led to bloodshed. In their turmoil, Rez was killed. The more common report is that Remis contemptuously jumped over the newly raised walls and was forth killed by the enraged Romulus who exclaimed, "So shall it be henceforth with everyone who leaves over my walls." Romulus thus became sole ruler and the city was called after him its founder. >> So Ramos and Remis are twins. Okay, they love each other and um Rome was founded on violence. Okay, that's the very nature of Rome, a city based on violence. This story, if you remember, um, sorry. Okay, so so now Rome founds a city called Rome and he invites anyone to join him and over time they become much more powerful and they threaten their neighboring states and they cannot and these states cannot defeat Rome in war. So what they decide is, you know what, we can't beat the Romans in battle, but if our daughters don't marry into them, they'll be dead after one generation. They they won't have any children. Okay? So there's this compact among the nations of Italy not to marry into Rome. So Romans discover this and they hatch this plan. What they're going to do is they're going to have this major festival and they're going to invite all the families to come to this festival and then um they will kidnap a woman and rape them. Okay, that's the plan. Okay. They were invited to accept hospitality at the different houses. And after examining the situation of [clears throat] the city, its walls, and the large number of dwelling houses included, they were astonished at the rapidity with which the Roman state had grown. When the hour for the games had come and their eyes and minds were alike raveted on the spectacle before them, the preconert the preconer signal was [clears throat] given and the Roman youth dashed in all directions to carry off the maidens who were present. The larger part were carried off indiscrim indiscriminately. But some particular beautiful girls who had been marked out of the leading patricians were carried to their houses by plebeians told off the tad off for the task. Alarm and concernation broke up the games and the parents of the maidens fled, distracted with grief, uttering bitter reproaches on the violators of the laws of hospitality and appealing to the god who to whose solemn games they had come only to be the victims of impious perity. Okay. So, this is actually a very serious crime because when you invite people into your house, there are these laws that um you must show uh hospitality to your guests otherwise you will offend the gods themselves because it's possible the person you invite into your house is a god himself. Okay. So, what the Romans did was outrageous. [snorts] Okay. The abduct maidens were quite as despondent and indignant. Rmulus, however, went round in person and pointed out to them that it was all owing to the pride of their parents in denying rights of inner marriage to their neighbors. They would live in honorable wedlock and share all their property and civil rights and dearest of all to human nature would be the mothers of free men. He begged them to lay aside their feelings of resentment and give their affections to whose to those whom fortune had made masters of their persons and injury had often led to reconcilation and love. They would find their husbands all the more affectionate because each would do his utmost so far as in him lay to make up for the loss of parents and country. These arguments were reinforced by endearments of the h other husbands who excused their conduct by pleading the irresistible force of their passion. A plea effective beyond all other and appealing to a woman's nature. >> Okay. So the are pretty disgusting. Okay. They rape a woman said it's your fault or it's your parents' fault. And I really couldn't control myself. So sorry man, but I'll be nice to you. Okay. [clears throat] Yep. All right. So this this is um a pretty um memorable event in Roman history. It's called the rape of the Sabian woman. Okay. And these are different artworks deping depicting the event. Okay. Um so the fathers are obviously pissed about about this. Okay. So a huge army is created to rescue the woman back. And now these these Roman soldiers are now facing this huge army. And when this happens as about the the clash, these women who are raped, they come screaming forward in the middle and say, "Stop. Stop. Stop. You're you're my husband. You're my father. We don't want you to fight." Okay. Uh can you read, please? Then it was that the Sabian women, whose wrongs had led to the war, throwing off all womenish fears in their distress, went boldly into the midst of the flying missiles with de >> deceived >> deceived hair and red [snorts] garment, running across the space between the two armies. They tried to stop any further fighting and calm the excited passions by appealing to their fathers in the one army and their husbands in the other not to bring upon themselves a curse by staining their hands with the blood of a father-in-law or son-in-law nor upon their posterity the taint of paris parasid >> parasite >> parasite if they cried you are wary of these ties of kindred these marriage bonds then turn your anger upon us it It is we who are the cause of the war. It is we It was we who had wounded and slain our husbands and fathers. Better for us to perish rather than live without one or the other of few as widows or as orphans. The armies and their leaders were alike moved by this appeal. There was a sudden hush and silence. Then the generals advanced to arrange the terms of a treaty. It was not only peace that was made. The two nations were united into one state. the royal powers was shared between them and the seat of government for both nations was Rome. >> Okay, so this could possibly happen, right? So these women are abducted, the fathers try to rescue them and then the women say, "Hey, it was our fault. Like let's just all be one big family." Okay, so this this is one of the founding myths of Rome. And I and I keep on saying this, but like just take all Roman history and just like throw it in the garbage, okay? Because it's it's basically all made up. All right. So, um Rome built becomes more and more powerful and now they have a king. Okay. But over time, their king becomes very corrupt. Uh their king is superbut. Superb bus just means arrogant. And his son falls in love with a noble woman named Lucricia. But Lucricia is already married to a man named uh Kentinius. And so this the prince decides to go, you know, rape her. [laughter] Okay. And yeah. Okay. >> They found Lucriccia sitting in her room prostrate with grief. As they entered, she burst into tears and to her husband's inquiry whether all was well, replied, "No, what can be well with a woman when her honor is lost? The marks of a stranger collad colinus caladeness are in your bed. But it is only the body that have been violated. The soul is pure. Death shall bear witness to that. But pledge me your solemn word that the adulter shall not go unpunished. It is sexist harquin who coming as an enemy instead of a guest. Forced from me last night by brutal violence a pleasure fatal to me and if you're a man fatal to him. They all successively pledged their word and tried to console the distracted women by turning the guilt from the victim of the outrage to the perpetrator and urging that it is the mind that sins, not the body. And where there has been no consent, there is no guilt. It is for you, she said, to see that he gets in deserts. [snorts] Although I equip myself to the sin, I do not free myself from the penalty. No untasted woman shall henceforth live and plead Lucricia's example. She had a knife concealed in her dress which she plunged into her heart and fell dying on the floor. Her father and husband raised the death cry. >> Okay, so she is raped by the prince and um her husband and best friend uh the best friend is Lucius Brhus. Okay, they try to console her and they know she's distraught. Okay, but but Lucia is like, "No, I don't be consoled. I want I want revenge." We're Romans, man. We fight to the bitter end. If you hit me, I go kill you. If you kill me, I go kill the entire family. Okay? And that's just a Roman way. So what happens is like Brutus, Lucius Brhes, he leads a revolt against the king and the king is forced out of Rome and um now Rome is a republic. It's it's now run by the nobility. And a lot of people aren't happy with this system because before if you're good friends with a king, you can do whatever you want. But now you have to follow the laws of Rome. And so people conspire against the new um republic. And a couple of the conspirators include two of Lucius Buddhist sons. Okay, his two sons. and the conspirators is found out and all the conspirators are arrested and they're condemned to death. Lucius Buddhist decides he's going to put his own sons to death. So he orders and organizes the assa the execution of his two sons. Okay. Their punishment created a great sensation owing to the fact that the cons c consular office imposed upon a father the duty of inflicting punishment on his own children. He who ought not to have witnessed it was destined to be the one to see it do duly carried out. Youths belonging to the noblest families were standing tied to the post but all eyes were turned to the consil's children. The others were unnoticed. Men did not grieve more for their punishment than for their crime which had incurred it. That they should have conceived the idea in that in that in that year above all of betraying to one who had been a ruthless tyrant and was now an exile and an enemy. a newly liberated country. Their father who had liberated it. The consil ship which had originated in the junian hoon junian house, the senate, the plebs, all the Rome possessed of human or divine. The consils took their seats. The listenitor uh victors were told off to inflict the penalty. They scourged their bearbacks with rods and then beheaded them. During the whole time, the father's countenance betrayed his feelings, but the father's stern resolution was still more apparent as he superintended the public execution. >> So, you're a father, right? And these are your two sons. You love your two sons more than anything else in the world. You are forced by the law to execute your two sons. Okay. Now, most fathers would be like, you know what? I'm going to call in sick. I'm I'm going to go home and sleep until my sons are are dead. Lucas Buddhist is like, "No, I'm going to actually watch my two sons get killed." Not only that, but I'm going to organize their execution. Okay? And we can imagine, okay, this is Lucas Buddhist, and he has to watch as his sons are being beheaded right before him, and he's the one ordering their their um execution. As you can see, people are disgusted. They have to look away. And people are looking at his expression and you can see the emotional turmoil in his face, right? There's hatred, there's disgust, there's contempt, there's guilt. He hates himself, right? He hates his son, but he hates himself even more. There's all this um crazy energy, hateful energy that's being unleashed. The Roman way is take all this energy and turn it against your enemy. Okay, that's a secret of the Roman military to create a society so hateful, so angry, so vicious that people have all this demonic energy in them that they can now use against your enemy. Okay, so let's see what happens. What's going to happen now is the king decides to attack Rome because this conspira conspiracy has failed, right? What Lucius Buddhist is going to do is ride out and meet the army head on. Okay, can you read please? >> So two armies from these cities followed Tarun to recover his crown and cha chastised the Romans. When they had entered the Roman territory, the consoles advanced against them. Val Valyrias with the infant infantry and Fallon's information uh formation. Brutus recon >> reconing >> reconetrying in advance with the cavalry. Similarly, the enemy's calvary was in front of his main body, Areronus Tarkin, the king's son in command. The king himself followed with the legionnaires. Whilst still at a distance, Aaron distinguished the console by his escort of list licers as they drew nearer. He clearly recognized Brutes by his features and in a transport of rage exclaimed, "That is the man who drove us from our country. See him proudly advancing adorned with our insignia. Ye God, Avengers of kings, aid me." With these words he dug spurs into his horse and rode straight at the console. Brutus saw that he was making for him. It was a point of honor in those days for the leaders to engage in single combat. So he eagerly accepted the challenge and they charged with such fury, neither of them thinking of protecting himself. If only he could wound his foe that each drove his spear at the same moment through the other's shield and they fell dying from their horses with their spears sticking in them. >> Okay, so you see what happened. Okay, so Prudence is traumatized by the execution of his two sons. There is now a void in his heart. There is now a tear in his heart. Right? But this tear is unleashing all this energy that he can now use against his enemy. Okay, that is a secret. Trauma is a drug. The Roman ways use trauma as as a drug to empower you against your enemies. Okay. [snorts] All right. So um the problem though is that um the Roman army is much smaller than the king's army. So Romans are forced back into their city. They have to hide behind their walls and they're under siege. And there's a Roman noble man named Mousius. And Mousius decides to offer a proposal to the Senate. He says to the Senate, "Listen, we're never going to beat this king's army. what what I can do is I can sneak into his camp and assassinate the king. And so the Senate is like, "Sure." So Mushi swims across the Tyber and he sneaks in into an enemy camp and he sees it's payday. Okay. So So there's two men uh the king and secretary giving out cash, giving out money to the soldiers, and they they look the same, they dress the same, and Musas doesn't know which is which. And at this point, he should be like, "You know what? I'll come back another day and figure out who's the king." But now he's like, "You know what? It's 50/50. You know, it's a coin flip." So he takes his dagger and he stabs the guy and it turns out to be the secretary. And he's arrested, okay? And he appears before the king and he and the king says to him, "You tell me the truth or I will burn you in this fire." And then Mushia says, "Okay, the truth is this. I am one of hundreds of young Roman men who have sworn to come and kill you. One of us will succeed. I failed today, but tomorrow someone else will come. And if you fail, someone else will come as well. And [snorts] then um the king says, "Are you telling the truth? If you are not telling the truth, I will burn you alive." And then Mushius is you know what? He takes his hand. Okay, he takes his hand and he puts in a fire and his hand is being burned. Okay. He's just like the king is freaked out. He's like, "You Romans are the craziest bastards. You guys are demonic. I'm out of here." Okay. Though the war is over. All right. All right. Can you read, please? >> Here alone and help us and the utmost peril. He was still able to inspire more fear than he felt. I am a citizen of Rome, he said. Men call me se >> mucous >> mucus. As an enemy I wish to kill an enemy and I have as much courage to meet death as I had to inflict it. It is the Roman nature to act bravely and to suffer bravely. I'm not alone in having made this resolve against you. Behind me there is a long list of those who aspire to the same distinction. If then it is your pleasure make make up your mind for a struggle in which you will every hour have to fight for your life and find an armed foe on the threshold of your royal tent. This is the war which we the youth of Rome declared against you. We have you have no sir ranks, no pitch battle to fear. the matter will be settled between you alone and each one of us singly the king furious with anger and at the same time terrified at the unknown danger threatened that if he did not promptly explain the nature of the plot which he was darkly hinting at he should be roasted alive oo mucus cried and learned how lightly those regards their bodies who have some great glory in view then he plunged his right hand into a fire burning on the altar. Whilst he kept it roasting there as if he were devoid of all sensation, the king astounded at his pre >> international conduct sprang from his seat and ordered the youth to be removed from the altar. Go, he said, you have been a worse enemy to yourself than to me. I would invoke blessings on your courage if it were displayed on behalf of my country as it is. I send you away exempt from all rights of war unheers and safe. The amuseiest reciprocating as it were this generous treatment said since you honor courage know that what you could not gain by threats you have obtained by kindness. 300 of us the foremost amongst the Roman youth have sworn to attack you in this way. The lot felt to me first. The rest in the order of their lot will come each in his turn till fortune shall give us a favorable chance against you. >> Okay. So the Romans are crazy. Okay. They are demonic. All right. So um none of this is true. Okay. It can't possibly be true. You can't put your hand in a fire and like not feel anything. Okay. But where this is coming from is from the uh protoindo-uropean myth. Remember when we discussed the steps people they had of mythology. Okay. So what what the Romans are doing is they're taking this mythology and they are adapting it to their own history. Okay? So everything that we've read is not true but the Romans thought it was true. Okay? And remember people don't can cannot differentiate between fantasy and reality. So as long as you think as long as you believe it is true then um it's true. Okay. And this is how Romans behave. So um um yeah. So the story of Lucius Buddhist kicking out uh the Tarkkins um is the story of the third man stealing the cattle. Okay. So basically stealing a throne from Tarquin and the story of the man sacrificing his twin is story of Romulus and Remis. Okay. All right. [snorts] All right. So now we get to the most famous of all um Roman ethics called the Iniad. And so at this time again um Augustus Caesar has a problem in that everyone acknowledges the Greek culture be superior. Why? Because of Homer. Okay, because of the Iliad. Remember we read the Iliad and we remember how uh the Iliad ends with an act of love and forgiveness and compassion, right? Um, Achilles feels guilt for for what he's done for killing Petetro. He takes out this rage on Hector, right? Which is a very which is a Roman way. And then Prime comes and forgives Achilles by kissing his hand. And this um allows Achilles to escape his guilt and they uh forgive each other. And in the face of Pryam, Achilles sees his father. In the face of Achilles, Pry sees Hector. And so they hug and they uh weep together. Okay. And this idea of love as a unifying force of the universe becomes the basis of Greek culture and and of Greek civilization. The Romans don't like this for them. If you're a culture based on hate, love is the greatest enemy. Okay. So what is going to happen is Augusta Caesar is going to ask a poet named Virgil to rewrite this story in a way that puts hate at the center of the universe and not love. Okay. All right. All right. So this is the Iniad by Virgil. Considered one of the greatest books in human history. It is a complete piece of crap. Okay. It's propaganda. All right. When you read it, you you see how terrible it is. And uh basically Virgil who was the most famous poet in the Roman Empire at this time he's being ordered by Augustus Caesar to write the INAD and they write it together basically basically with each draft Virgil has to read it to August of Caesar and then August Caesar tells him how to rework it so it captures the Roman spirit. When Virgil was um about to die he asked for the for the book to be burned. Okay. because he as a poet understands that if you are using the gift of God, poet use the gift of God to promote hatred, then you're going to burn in hell, man. Okay. Um, so he asked to for this book to be burned, but August Caesar, no, no, I like it the way it is. Okay. So, this is a rewriting of the Iliad. What's going to happen is this. The Greeks have broken into Troy and they're killing everyone. Okay? And the son of Achilles uh named Pyrus is killing the sons of Pryam. And Pry faces uh Pyrus and he tells Pyrus, "You're the son of Achilles. Achilles was a noble person. Have you no mercy?" And then like no. And then he kills pirate. Pry. Okay. All right. So can you read please? >> Suddenly look a son a son of Pry >> Pry. My bad. Pry polites just escaped from slaughters as pyrus hands comes racing in through spears through enemy fighters fleeing down the long arcades and deserted hallways badly wounded pirates hot on his heels. A weapon poised for the kill about to seize him about to run him through and pressing pressing home as polites reaches his parents and collapses vomiting out his life bloodl before their eyes. Okay, so this is very similar to the death of Hector, right? So remember Achilles kills Hector and Prime witnesses it, right? [snorts] And um something is happening here where Polites is being killed in front of Prime. So again, it's a rewriting of the Iliad. Keep on going >> at that Prime trapped in the grip of death, not holding back, not checking his words, his rage, you he cries, and you and your vicious crimes. If any power on high recoils at such an outrage, let the gods repay you for all your reckless work. Grant you the thanks, the rich reward you've earned. You've made me see my son's death with my own eyes. Def def defiled a father's sight with a son's lifeblood. You say you're Achilles son. You lie. Achilles never treated enemy pri so. No, he honored he honored as suppliance right. He blushed to betray my trust. He restored my Hector's bloodless corpse for burial. Sent me safely home to the land I rule. >> Okay, so this is the end of the Iliad. Okay, so he's reminding everyone the Iliad is a story about love, forgiveness, compassion. Okay. >> With that and with all his might, the old man fling his spear, but too important how to pierce. It merely graced Fire's brazen shield that blocks its way and clings there, dangling limp from the boss, all for nothing. Pyrus shouts back, "Well, then down you go. A messenger to my father, Pelia's son. Tell him about my vicious work. How neo Neoptoamus. >> Neopalamus degrades his father's name. Don't you forget now die. That said, he dragged the old man straight to the altar, quaking, slithering on through slicks of his son's blood, and twisting Pry's hair in his left hand. His right hand sweeping forth his sword, a flash of steel, he buries it hill deep in the king's flank. Such was the fate of Piriam. His death, his slot on earth with Choi blazing before his eyes, her ramparts down. The monarch who once had ruled in all his glory the many land of Asia, Asia's many tribes. A powerful trunk is lying on the shore, the head wrenched from the shoulders, a corpse without a name. >> Okay, so all Roman school children have to memorize this poetry. And obviously if you are a Roman school child and you know that pry is from your ancestors you have a deep hatred of the Greeks. Okay. So the entire purpose of the Iniad is to create hatred of the Greeks in order to create a Roman identity. All [snorts] right. So again the Greeks were the greatest civilization we ever had. Why? Because they were a civilization based on reflection on debate on openness. This is um a modern reenactment of the play the Trojan woman. Okay, this is a play by Eupites that discusses what happens to the children woman after Troy falls. They become enslaved. The children are killed. And so the Greeks when they watch this play, they have to watch their own darkness. They have to see for themselves their own heart of darkness. It causes tremendous empathy for their enemies. Okay, this is the very idea of civilization. And what do the Romans do? They do this. Okay, gladiators. They watch lions eat people. They watch men kill each other. Okay, that's the Roman way. The Greeks want to understand and feel empathy for other people. The Romans just want to kill other people. All right. [snorts] Um and in America today we have a very similar Roman culture as well. This is American football of course and um it is pretty violent. Okay. It is pretty barbaric. All right. The Greeks for fun what the elite do is they organize dinner parties called symposia. Symposium. Um and in the symposium what happens is that people come together [snorts] and they have conversations about love about poetry about life. They will drink wine but the wine is watered down. Okay. So they can keep on drinking for a long long time. The entire argument is just to have a conversation. All right. >> All right. And so this is the idea of the symposium. Okay. This is a famous painting of Alabades coming in and having discussion with everyone. So in Athenian culture, what's important is to be a great speaker to be intelligent to engage people in debate and conversation and philosophy. Okay. And what do the Romans do instead? Um they get drunk and they throw up and they have orgies. Okay. So the R woman what women super fun is they have these huge feasts these huge banquetss and what they will do is they will go on the food in the first course they go outside and throw up. Okay they will throw up the food so they can they can join the second course they will w down the food and then go and throw up again. Okay and guys this is while people on the streets starving to death. Okay. >> Okay. This is u the Roman way. Okay. So this is um the feast. This is almost a reenactment of the rape of Sabian woman, right? So they take um these myths. So uh the death of Lucricia uh Mus burning his hand, the rape of the Sabbian woman and they use it as entertainment for the societies. Okay. So this this is really the beginning of secret societies, right? All right. So what secret societies do is they will take these myths and reenact them out in order to build sol um solidarity and trust and cohesion among the secret members. Um this is a picture of Nero just getting drunk having a lot of sex. Okay. So it's pretty it's it's pretty pointless existence. And of course in America you have this um I don't understand why is it that people think it's fun to do drugs get get drunk and then go party all night. Okay. But u apparently it's it's supposed to be a lot of fun. Okay. All right. So that is Roman culture. So Rome becomes the dominant empire at this time and it is an empire based on hatred and it seems life is hopeless and so what will happen is the universe will send a messenger to remind people there's still hope because there's God in you and this person's name is >> Jesus right so we'll discuss Jesus next class okay so Jesus's response to the Roman Empire so I'll I'll take some quick questions um from YouTube and then and then we'll end the class. Okay. All right. So, what does it mean to be a great man? Okay. So, I say that love is unifying force of the universe. But then you have these great men who come and conquer people. So, which is which? Okay. Um so um in my in my understanding of things port prophets are the greatest men. Okay. People like Zorustra, uh Homer, Jesus, uh these are the the Yahweh in the Bible. These are the great individuals of human history issue because they represent the truth. Okay? They are messengers of the Monad. And then you have people like Julius Caesar, Alexand the Great, Napoleon who do a lot of conquering. Okay. Um, and they have been identified as great men of history. But I think it's really Homer and Dante and Plato who are the greatest people because they create civilizations based on their ideas. They actually change the course of human history based on on their ideas. Whereas people like Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Exen the Great, they're more like a culmination of the trajectory of human history. Okay? If that makes any sense. All right. Uh let's move on. All right. Um yeah, so the great head. So what did the Iliad mean to the great? Okay. So um to understand this idea, think of a play. Okay, we all want to put on a play. We all know a script, but we need an actor to play a certain character and then we're like, you know what, Azen the Great plays Achilles. Okay, so it's expected that a great will behave the way of Achilles in the Iliad. How did Achilles behave? Achilles saw himself as a young romantic hero. He was going to die in the beaches of Troy in order to achieve eternal glory. Okay, that's why Ezin the Great could not stop fighting the war. In every battle, he was leading the charge because he wanted to die in battle. He wanted to be Achilles. Only by dying in battle could he achieve the fame of Achilles. Okay. So, um he was acting out the play. What's what's important is that he himself saw himself as the reincarnation of Achilles and everyone else saw him as also the uh personification of Achilles as well. Okay. So that's how this works. [snorts] All right. Um this person asks why is it that Denmark, Norway, these Scandinavian countries are so different from other countries? Okay. Well, first of all, they're small. Okay. They're really small countries, millions of people. Everyone knows each other. If you go to Denmark, everyone knows the prime minister of Denmark. Maybe she was their neighbor or their friend. If they don't know the prime minister, then they know a friend who know who knows the prime minister. So, it's a really small place. Okay, that builds cohesion. That's number one. Number two is guys, Denmark, Norway are really cold places. That means that people spend a lot of time indoors together talking and becoming friends. Okay? And also because it's so cold, they have to work together. The third factor is these countries are surrounded by lots of dangerous enemies. Germany, Russia, um Sweden. Okay. And as such, they learn that it's really important to stick together and to work together. Now what's interesting is that if you go to a place like Holland, you go and you think it's very egalitarian. But what's really interesting is that it's actually one of the most unequal places on earth because the aristocrats have a lot of money. But the but the problem is the difference is like the aristocrats understand like if the people are happy they're more safe. Okay. So the aristocrats will actually uh u promote and support the welfare state because of social cohesion. Okay. All right. Um, a couple questions. Um, so we are moving to the age of digital technology, artificial intelligence. Does it mean that empires will change over time? Um, okay. This is something that I will discuss towards the end of the semester to the end of this course. And it's a really interesting idea where okay, you're an empire. you're lazy, arrogant, and stupid. But maybe with artificial intelligence, you have more control over people. And in theory, that's true. Okay? Once you have the AI system, more you you'll be able to control people better. But f but you have to first build the AI system. And that takes a lot of effort and energy. And if you're in d empire like America, you don't have the energy to build this AI system. Okay. What you do have is a lot of um desire and motivation to create an AI scam. Okay, so chatbt is a scam guys. It's not really doing anything. But you can actually take this technology and create like a matrix to enslave people psychologically, mentally. Okay, we'll discuss discuss this towards the end of the semester. We call this transhumanism. All right. All right. Um Okay. Okay, so Athenians and Spartans were didn't want to destroy each other, but that led to the rise of Macedonia. How did that happen? The answer is because they didn't care. Okay, do you understand? They're the empire. So they think they're invincible. If an empire believed that a challenge challenge could could arise, they would never ever fall, guys. If an empire recognized that it could fall one day, it would never ever fall. It's because of hubris. Because it's so arrogant, lazy, and stupid that it falls. Okay? So it's impossible for either Athens or or Sparta to imagine that Macedonia would one day overtake them. All right. Um last question is about secret societies. Um how do secret societies work? All right. So this is something that we will discuss towards the end of the course. Okay. But why is it that secret societies are so powerful? All right. To understand this, let's just do a thought experiment. All right. So imagine this. There's four groups of 100 people each, okay? And there's this huge mountain, the Himalayas. And the task is to get get everyone to the top as soon as possible. Okay? As quickly as possible. There are four teams. Okay? Team one is like you guys can do whatever you want. Okay? We don't care. Team two is like if everyone gets to the top, you get a million dollars each, right? Team three is one of the team members has a child who's going to die unless you get to the top because at the top is this magic doctor who can save your son. Okay, that's team three. Team four is there are these demons that are chasing you and they will you won't be able to sleep. You won't be able to live in peace if you don't stop running from these demons. Okay, so guess what? Team one, team two, team three, team four. Who wins? Team four, obviously, right? Not secret societies. Secret societies create so much trauma. They create so much guilt and hatred and contempt that they're forced to keep on moving and running. Okay, that's the Roman way, guys. Okay, remember loses Brutus. He killed his own two sons. What do you do after that? Well, you have to go kill someone else. Okay, and then after you kill him, what do you do? You go kill someone else. And you keep on going because the guilt of killing your own two sons, it's too much to bear. If you just stop and you rest, your sons will appear before you as ghost and like they'll be like, "Dad, why did you kill us? What did we do? What did you kill us?" You cannot bear that guilt. So you have to keep on moving forward. You rush forward. Okay? Even if it kills you. All right? So, so at this time we have so much guilt. You either conquer the world or you kill yourself. Your choice. And that's why secret sites are so powerful, guys. Okay? Not because they have secrets. Okay? I I actually don't know if they have secrets or not. All right? But I imagine they don't have secrets, but I imagine like they do so much evil in the world that they can only do more evil in order to escape the evil that they've already done. Okay? It's as though demons are chasing them. Does that make sense, guys? >> Yes. >> All right. So, questions. [snorts] So I think I did not fully understand the part which the romance rape of those womens and women's blame the sins on themselves think that part I think it's a bit confusing I think >> okay so um first of all you need to understand all this woman history is nonsense okay none of it is true these all just mythologies to create the woman character Okay. So the rape of the sab woman um didn't really happen but what the custom is if I go kill you I kill you and I steal your wife. Okay. So so so it is a metaphor for war. That does that make sense? Okay. [snorts] Okay. And um but what what this is saying is like if you go and kill your enemy and you steal his wife, the wife will thank you. All right. So it's creating this mythology. All [clears throat] right. >> But why would the wife thank you? Like you >> the wife won't thank you. The wife will hate you. But do you care? Not. You don't care. Okay. The winners write the history. Do you understand? >> When you become a slave, you are not allowed to speak. You're not allowed to think for yourself. You have to do whatever the man tells you to do. Right? Does that make sense? Mhm. >> So even though you feel hate for the man who's killed your family, you're now a slave. So if you lost your soul and if you lost your soul, it means I can do whatever I want to your mind as well as your body. Okay? So this is the Roman way. And guys, um it's no different from any empire that emerged after the Romans. Okay? The British Empire is the same way. The American Empire is the same way as well in that if we conquer you, we can now implant anything into your soul because your soul is now ours. Okay? So if you go to Germany and you see what's you talk to Germans, the Germans will tell you, "Oh, we are the worst people in the world. We're the most evil people in the world. We did the Holocaust. We started World War I. We started World War II. If you give us any like opportunity, we'll start wars for no reason." Okay? You go to Japan, same thing. Okay. So, the winners write the history and the losers have to accept this history. [snorts] Okay. Does that make sense? Any more questions, guys? Um, I remember when you were talking about Julius Caesar, you said the the only reason why he survived was because or like [clears throat] survived the Holocaust. Uh, not the Holocaust, but like um uh people in Rome were being killed, I think. and he was able to survive because his father had a lot of money, had a lot of wealth. But you also mentioned that he was a part of the populace. So how does that add up? >> Okay. Yeah, that's a good question. Okay. So to remind you, okay, the conflict arises between upper nobility and lower nobility. So upper nobility are just the optimist people like I have all the power. Lower nobility are the children who are like I want the status. Okay. So, so yes, Julius Caesar did come from a very wealthy family, but he didn't have status. >> Okay. >> Okay. So, money and status are not the same thing. And that that's why there's a civil wars because the people who were part of elite aren't able to access power. So, they scheme on how to access power. So, look at Donald Trump. Okay? Donald Trump has money but he doesn't have power. That's why he ran for the for presidency. Okay? Does it does it make sense? Okay. So remember all these conflicts that happen in the world are always between upper nobility and low nobility. Between the have a lot and the have some but want some more. Okay? It's never between rich and poor. The poor don't do anything. Okay? The the poor just like I'm poor. I'm useless. I'll just sit and die. Okay? That's that's what poor people are like. Middle class people, rich people are like, you know, I want more. Okay? >> They're aspirational. Is that clear? Okay. But I think if the middle class like if they want more the more higher class they will not allow the middle class to they won't allow them to have more like they will suppress them. >> Yeah. And that's what creates a French revolution. Okay. >> Oh. >> All right. All right. Any any more questions, guys? Okay. Great. So, remember this is the Roman Empire. We've done the Roman Empire and it's an empire based on hate and people's lives under the Roman Empire. It's just terrible. There's massive slavery. There's massive debt. There's massive corruption. And so now we'll emerge um another poet prophet named Jesus to try to redeem people. Okay. So we'll discuss Jesus next class.

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Today we uh discuss the most famous person who has ever lived. There are about two billion people in the world today who believe that Jesus is God. And so a question then is there have been many famous individuals in history. Alexand the great, Julius Caesar, Socrates, Zorahustra, Homer, but it is Jesus that most people worship. And the question we will look at today is why? Okay. So, what I want to do first is discuss the religion of Christianity. And as you know, I grew up in Canada and I studied United States. And so my entire life, um, Jesus was part of the culture. It was part of the society. [clears throat] And growing up in Canada, not being Christian, I really didn't understand Christianity. I really didn't understand the ideas. Um so let's go over some of the major ideas of Christianity. Uh first of all it's important to remember that there are many denominations in Christianity. So there's a lot of disagreements. Okay. But these are the major ideas that most Christians agree on. First thing is that Jesus is the son of God and God himself. Okay. And he's king. Okay. [snorts] This this already is very confusing. Um second thing is they believe that Jesus died for our sins. So remember that we got kicked out of the garden of Eden because we disobeyed God and we ate from the tree of um knowledge. Okay. So Jesus died for our sins and so Jesus redeemed us. Okay. Um the third thing that they believe is that eventually Jesus will return something called the second coming. He died, then he was resurrected, then went to heaven. But eventually he will return and this will result in the last judgment in which all individuals are judged whether they will reign in heaven or burn in hell. Okay? He will bring heaven to earth. And this is where Christianity is most controversial. What this says is that if you believe in Jesus, if you're a Christian, you will go to heaven. But if you do not believe in Jesus, you will burn in hell. And this is and this goes against all other religious traditions. Every religious tradition is basically like be a good person and that's all you have to do. But Christianity demands that you must believe in Jesus or you will burn in hell. Okay? So in other words, Christianity is a missionary religion in which if you're a Christian, not only do you believe not only do you must believe in Jesus, but you must go out and try to convert other people because if they don't convert to Christianity during the last judgment, they will burn in hell. And that is why Christianity is one of the most aggressive religions that we have today. So this is all very strange and there are a lot of questions in Christianity and that's why Christianity also proposes the idea of miracles. Okay. How did Jesus die for our sins? Why is there a second coming? It's all a miracle. Okay? Meaning don't question it. Just believe in it. Right? So Christianity is a very problematic uh religion. It raises a lot of questions. Okay. So then the question then is given all the confusion around Christianity, why do so many people believe in Jesus? All right. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to explain to you what we know for sure about Jesus. This is not um religious people. It's scholars who spent decades researching the evidence, looking the Bible, looking at the archeological evidence, looking at all the writings of that period. And this is what we know for sure about Jesus. Okay. All right. So, the life of Jesus. Okay. So, the first thing that we know is he was born maybe about 4 BCE. Okay. In a place called Galilee. I know in the Bible it says he was born the year zero, but he's actually um born four years before then. All right, that's the first thing that we know for sure. Most people agree on. I'm talking about like mainstream academics. Second thing that we agree on is that his teacher was John the Baptist. And John the Baptist is what we call an apocalyptic preacher. Okay? An apocalyptic preacher basically says, "I will reveal the future to you." And the future is that God is coming and God will destroy the evil people in the world. So right now is your opportunity to redeem yourself from your sins to start a new life because God is coming and we must prepare for the return of God. That is the message of John the Baptist and Jesus was one of his students, one of his disciples. But at some point Jesus started to create his own following. So Jesus was preaching a message that is different from John the Baptist. Okay. So that's the second thing we know. The third thing that we know is the crucification the crucifixion. Okay. So we know that the Romans crucified Jesus. We don't know why. We know that the Romans killed Jesus. And crucification is when the Romans nail you onto a wooden cross. Okay? And it's an awful way to die because how you're dying is actually not through the bleeding. Okay? You got nails uh hammered to the cross. You're dying because you have no energy. So your your your head hangs low, which means you're suffocating slowly. And it takes about 3 days for you to suffocate to death. And so this is like one of the worst punishments that the Romans could ever inflict on you. And really there's only two sets of people that the Romans will use crucification as punishment. Okay? The first type are thieves and bandits. All right? These are considered like the lowest type of people. The second type of people are rebels. People who are trying to overthrow the Roman state. Okay. Um, so Jesus, in other words, was probably a rebel or the Romans considered him a rebel. Okay, so that's the third thing that we know for sure. Now, the last thing that we know for sure is that a brother called James the Just. And James the Just would inherit Jesus' movement after the death of Jesus. And this movement was called the poor or another word for this is Ibionites. Okay, don't worry about the name. Just remember the idea. Okay, so these are only the four things that we know for sure about Jesus. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to explain to you what the Bible says about Jesus, what the official story of Jesus is in the Bible, and you can see how different it is from what we know for sure. Okay, so this is what the Bible says. Something to keep keep in mind is that there are at least four different biographies of Jesus in the Bible. Uh Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. And they say different things, but these but we'll talk about the main story of Jesus. Okay. So the main story of Jesus is that um Jesus is the son of God. And at this point in history, we have disobeyed God. And God is angry at us. And Jesus being the son of God wants to redeem us in the eyes of God. Remember, we try to become God. We try to kill God by eating from the fruit, eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Okay? And so now God's angry at us and we can't forgive ourselves. So God so Jesus decides he must come to the planet earth and and take a human form and then sacrifice himself as a scapegoat in order to redeem us in the eyes of God. Okay, that's the plan. So what he does is he comes and then he starts a ministry. All right? And what the ministry is is it basically is healing people. Okay? So he goes around healing people. If you touch him, you're cure of cancer, you're cure of all your diseases. Okay? He also dispels demons. So there are some demons inside of us. And what Jesus will do is get rid of these demons and cleanse us. Okay? And then he preaches the gospel, the good news. So he teaches how to be good people basically. The problem though is that a lot of his teachings go against Judeaic authority. Okay? So at this time remember he is in um Judea, the Roman province of Judea and Jewish priests are in charge and Jewish priests teach people to follow the law to follow the Sabbath. Okay, do not work on Saturdays, obey the law of Moses, obey the customs and traditions of the Jewish tradition. And what Jesus says is no, what's important is to um follow the spirit of God. So there's a conflict here, okay? Where Jesus is rebelling against the authority of the Jewish priest, okay? And so what happens is the Jewish priests uh start to plot against Jesus and eventually Jesus is betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas Escariat. And Jesus is um detained by the Jewish priests who then give him over to the Roman authorities. Okay. At this point, Pontius Pilate is um the governor of Judea. And so he asked Jesus, "What did you do wrong? Why do the Jewish priests want uh you to be executed? And Jesus refuses to answer. Pontious Pilot doesn't really want to kill him, but there's anger from the Jewish people who demand his head. So, um Pontious Pilate orders Jesus to be crucified and then and then he dies. Okay. Jewish Jesus dies and then he's resurrected after 3 days and then and then he returns and appears before his disciples and tells them, "I will come back. I need to go to heaven, but I will come back when I am most needed. Before I come back, tell them the gospel. Tell them the good news that I will one day return and that I've redeemed people from their sins." And therefore, it doesn't matter if you're Jewish or not Jewish. You can all celebrate God. Okay? I brought God to you because I've redeemed you from your sins. So tell everyone the good news. All right? And so this begins the very idea of Christianity. All right? Okay. So this is the official story that you see in the Bible and this is what most Christians believe. But again, the problem of course is there are lots of issues with this story. Okay, so let's go over some of the major issues. The first major issue is [snorts] what does God have a son? How does how does God produce a son? Aren't we all God's children? Why is Jesus different from everyone else? Okay. So, in Greek mythology, the gods come down and impregnate a woman, but that's not what happened here. It's just the Bible says that God had a son and we don't know where he came from. Okay, so this is very confusing. But not only that, but but the Bible also says that Jesus is God. And so this is like really confusing. Is he a son of God or is he God? Okay, so this this is the first major problem. Second major problem is um why is he choosing to sacrifice himself? How does that resolve the issue? Right? We disobey God and now Jesus will um redeem us by sacrificing himself. But how does that work? Okay, the logic is is kind of confusing. The third problem and this actually very problem problematic is the Bible is explicit. It says that the Jewish priests plotted against Jesus and the Jewish priests were responsible for the death of Jesus. And it's problematic because for 2,000 years, Christians have used this as a reason to persecute Jews because you killed our Lord, our Savior. Okay? You Jews are evil. Okay? Um but if you look at Jewish history, I will argue that this could not have happened. Okay, it could have it could have happened for like three reasons. The first reason is okay, let's just say that Jesus was rebelling against the Jewish priest. Jesus was in disagreement with the Jewish priest. That's not enough reason for the priest to want to kill Jesus. The reason why is within the Jewish tradition it is okay to argue. Okay. So at this time in history there are at least three different Jewish groups. Okay. They are called the seduces. Who are the seduces? The seduces are the royalty of the religion. These are priests that go back generations. Okay. So this is like the Jewish nobility. They call the seduces. Then you have the Pharisees. The Pharisees are believe themselves to be reformers. The seduces they maintain ritual. Okay? So if you are to sacrifice an animal in the temple, you have to go through them. The Pharisees says sacrifice is not what's important. What's important is obeying the law. Okay? So there's a major disagreement between the the Pharisees and the seduces. Okay? But then you also have the Essenes. who the scenes these scenes are people who become monks and they believe like John the Baptist we believe that John the Baptist was in a scene that God is coming and there'll be a final war and we must prepare for that so we must abandon all materialistic belongings okay guess what guys there are also other groups within these different groups and all three groups hate each other okay so just because you disagree with the Jewish authority is doesn't mean they kill you. They just it's it's in the Jewish tradition to argue all the time. In fact, if you go to Israel today, even though that they're at war, they're still arguing with each other. Okay, that's the first thing. Disagreement, rebellion, uh debate is just part of Jewish tradition. That's the first thing. Second thing is like there are certain customs and laws of the Jewish people. Okay? The Jewish people see themselves as distinct and separate from everyone else because they are the chosen people. And as we discussed before, they're the Jewish people um they must rest on Saturdays and they do not marry foreign men or woman. They don't marry outside their tribe. Okay. So these are two uh major customs. But they also as we discussed before they also don't charge interest when they give loans to each other. Okay. Another thing that that is not written down but which is commonly commonly accepted is you do not betray other Jews to the Roman authorities. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. We can argue amongst ourselves but we will not betray each other to non-Jews. Okay. we will not fight among um the Romans. That's just is an unwritten law at this time. So um I don't think ever in history have we had a case where the Jewish people betrayed a Jew to the authorities that was non-Jewish. Okay. The Jewish people again see themselves as separate and distinct from other people. So they would not do this. The third thing, the third piece of evidence that that this didn't happen is remember James the just is a brother of Jesus. And after Jesus died, James the just stayed in Jerusalem protected by the Jewish authorities. That makes no sense, right? If Jesus, if his teachings went against Jewish law and that's why the Jewish priest had him killed, then why did why was James the just who was teaching the same thing as Jesus allowed to stay in Jerusalem? And not only allowed to stay in Jerusalem, but protected by the Jews. Okay. So, I'm not convinced that the Jews betrayed him. Also remember we discussed this last class but the Romans are just brutal people. They killed people for no particular reason. So um they killed Jesus. They didn't care. Okay. All right. So I think it's much more likely the Romans killed Jesus for their own reasons as opposed to the um Jew Jews killed Jesus. Yes. Uh, so the real group that killed Jesus is the Jews or the Roman. >> So yeah, I'm saying it's the Romans who killed Jesus. And we all agree it was the Romans who killed Jesus. What the Bible says is that it was the Jews who conspired against Jesus and the Jews encouraged the Romans to to kill Jesus. Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. All right. So that's another question. Why did the Jews conspire against uh Jesus? And again, I think the story is not true. Then you have the the idea of like Jesus dies. So the question then is if you're a son of God, you're divine, how do you die? And does death have any meaning? Okay. And then of course you have the resurrection. Like why would you resurrect yourself? And the second coming, okay, why would you want to come back? Why do you need to come back? You've already redeemed humanity. Why do you have to come back? And then uh why do you have why do you have to let people know who you are? You're going to redeem humanity. Why do people have to worship you? Why do people have to celebrate you? Okay. So this this raised a lot of questions and again no other religion has this many questions. And so what the explanation is is uh miracle, mystery, magic. Okay, this is the standard explanation if you talk to Christians. Why is this all happening? Don't question it. Just believe it. Just embrace it. Okay? But in our class, we don't really do that. We ask questions. We speculate. So, um, I know there are two billion Christians in the world and I'm sure they love Jesus, but in our class, we're really trying to figure out who he is. Okay? So, what I'm what we want to figure out today is first of all, what did Jesus believe? Okay, what did he teach? Because it's not it's not really clear. Okay? I'm sure Jesus did not preach, did not teach, believe in me and you, you'll be saved. Okay? He probably did not do that. Christians tell you that but Jesus himself probably did not teach that. Okay, that's the first thing. Second question is why did he become so popular? What was it about his belief that made him popular? Okay. And the third thing is why did the Romans kill him? Right. So these are the three big questions we're looking at today. First of all, what did Jesus really believe? Second is why was he so popular? And the third question is whether Romans have to kill him. And so um the argument I want to make you today is what Jesus taught is what every poet prophet we studied this semester taught as well. Okay. So you look at Homer, you look at the Yahweh, you you look at Zorathustra, Plato. What do they all teach? They all teach that there is a source. Okay. The source is the vine, the good, God, the universe, the monac, whatever name you have for it. Okay. And this the source emanates and it creates the entire universe and we come from the source. Now our bodies are material. Okay. So our our bodies come from a process of evolution but our consciousness our soul is a divine spark and it comes from the source. So after our experience here on earth, after we die, our source, our spark goes back to the source. Okay? And there's a constant cycle until we at at the end merge to the source. Okay? This is what Buddhism teaches. This is what Hinduism teaches. This is what uh Zoroastrianism, this is what all major religions teach. Okay? So Jesus was just teaching it for his times. So the question then is if he is teaching what every person every port prophet taught why is he special? He's special because the Roman Empire was particularly evil. Okay so remember before the Roman Empire um remember the problem of the Iliad. Okay remember the Iliad where Achilles cannot forgive himself and his prime who forgave him. Right? And we discussed how uh during the Iliad uh during that time we all did good and we all did evil. And so what's important is for forgive ourselves, right? As long as we find the power to forgive ourselves, we will save the world. But by the time of the Romans, okay, the Romans are just pure evil. They're demonic. And so you don't forgive yourself, right? And so the question then is how do you explain the fact that the Romans are able to conquer the world for pure evil and you a person they're all good but you're a slave. How do you explain that? How do you find comfort? How do you find source on the fact that you've done good in your life but at the same time evil triumphs? Okay. And the message that Jesus came is to help people understand why the Romans triumph. Okay. And what Jesus will say is this. The Romans triumph because the world that we live in is a false world. It is a corpse. It's a dead world. This is not the true world. So those who most embrace death and evil and hatred will win in this world. But this is a false world. What matters is up there. Okay? So and so what you need to understand is this. The Romans have won by being evil. So in the grand scheme of things, they've lost. Okay, so think about Achilles. How did Achilles get what he wanted? He betrayed Petroles, right? He sacrificed Petroas. But because he knows he did evil, he can't sleep. He can't eat. He He cannot rest. All he has all he can do is mutilate Hector's body. And that's just the Roman way. What Jesus is telling us is this. I know the world is evil. I know that the rich, the powerful oppress us and we hate them. But use our imagination, use our heart, use our empathy and look into their minds and you can see how tormented they are. how every day they live with demons that haunt them, how they can't sleep, how how they hate themselves, and how they hate hate the world around them. And then when you see that for yourself, what you will see is they're more pitiful than you are. You may be poor, but you're at least you're not haunted by demons. Okay? And so if you really want to do good in the world, you have to forgive your enemy. You have to love your enemy because only by loving your enemy can you release your enemy from his demons and that will save the world. Okay? So what Jesus is telling us is this. The enemies, the people who oppress us, the rich, the powerful, they are Achilles. Okay? They are Achilles after they've killed Hector and they have absolutely no purpose in life. They're haunted by demons. And we have to be ply. We have to kiss Achilles hand, submit before him so that he can be released from his demons. And this will make the world a better place. Okay, that is the message of Jesus. And that is our mission in our in this world in a time of evil in a place of evil to look at our hearts to look in the hearts of other people to forgive our enemies to let go of our hatred and to forgive our enemies and then that will save the world. Okay, that is the central message of Jesus. All right, any questions before we look at the evidence? Okay. So, I present to you the argument. Okay. The argument is this. Jesus taught a message of love and forgiveness. And that's what made him popular because it reminds people of who they are. Right? You may be a slave. You may think you're worthless. But Jesus is telling you there's still a spark inside of you that connects you to the monad. And as long as you use love, forgiveness, compassion, this spark will activate and it will release you from your slavery. Okay, this is a false world. Once that spark is activated, you will see the world as false and that will free you. Okay, and why the Romans kill him? The Romans killed him because Jesus was a rebel. He was trying to subvert the natural order, right? The natural order is the Romans at the top, the slaves at the very bottom. And Jesus is saying, "No, it's the opposite. Slaves at the top, Romans at the bottom." Okay? Because the Romans are trapped and cursed by the evil in their hearts. Whereas the slaves are free and they can liberate everyone through their compassion, through their love, through their forgiveness. Okay? And that's why the Roman psalm is a threat. Does that make sense, guys? Okay? And that's why they had to kill him. All right? Right? And then they made up the sto the the Bible in order to um um justify what they did. Okay? Because as we discussed last class, that's what Romans do. Okay? They do evil and then they get get the Greeks or the Jews to write the history to explain why it was good. Okay? So in other words, and this this is something that I will discuss next class is all right. And I I I know this is hard to understand, but I'll explain it next class. Is this story guys, it was the Romans who wrote this story. Okay? Because as you can see, this story convened conveniently excuse the Romans from all blame even though it was the Romans who killed Jesus. And it puts all the blames on Jews. Okay, that's the intention of the Bible, right? So Christianity is not an invention of Jesus. Christianity is invention of the romance. Okay. And that's something I will show you next class. Okay. [clears throat] All right. But are we clear before I go into the evidence? Okay. All right. All right. So the line spark of Jesus. Okay. So the idea here is this. Um if you read Homer, the Iliad, the Odyssey, if you read Dante, Divine Comedy, if you read any of the great books, you will you will see the divine spark reflected in you. Okay. The these great books are a portal into the divine. The problem though is most people cannot read the Iliad or the Divine Comedy. Okay. So the question then is what do the common people do and the answer is Jesus is a portal into the vine right so if you just remember the life of Jesus if you just recite his sayings that will give you access to the vine that will remind you of who you are so yes Homer and Dante are great I love Homer and Dante but you have to be very educated in order to read Homer and Dante well whereas Jesus anyone can know the story of Jesus anyone can um um say what he says and then that will give you access to the vine. Okay. So Jesus is really about the democratization of the divine. Okay. Jesus allows anyone to access the divine whereas before um you have to access the vine through poetry. Okay. All right. So um the life of Jesus. Okay. So again Jesus is Jewish. So the center of Jewish life is uh Jerusalem. Okay. Right here. Jerusalem. And in the center of Jerusalem is a temple which was rebuilt uh under the Persians. Right. Uh and Herod will will will rebuild this. We renate this. Okay. Um so we know that Jesus was born in this area Galilee. As you can see, Galilee is by the coast, which makes this region extremely cosmopolitan. So from an early age, Jesus is experiencing different religions, different cultures, Hinduism, Zorashinism, um, Judaism. Okay. All right. So, uh, this is an AI depiction of the crucification, crucifixion of Jesus. Jesus is in the middle and as you can see it is a brutal event. Okay. Um so we don't know much about Jesus. We only know um um Jesus from the Bible. Then in 1945 in a place called N Hamadi. Okay this is in Egypt. We discovered lots of books with sayings of Jesus that we didn't know existed before. So what's important to understand is that after Jesus died, there were many different sects of Christianity that believed different things and they argued with each other and ultimately it was the Catholic Church who won. Why? Because the Catholic Church is run by the Roman Empire. Okay. Um so one major book that was discovered in in the uh in 1945 in Hamatti that was lost to us is called the gospel of Thomas. And what I believe is the gospel of Thomas uh records the true teachings of Jesus. Okay. So let's first let's first look at the true teachings of Jesus and then we I'll explain to you why I think this is actually his true teachings. All right. So um can you read the highlighted part? Okay. >> And he said whoever finds interpretation of these saying will not experience death. >> Okay. All right. So okay listen this already makes sense right because in the universe death doesn't exist because after you die your soul goes up to the astral plane to the vine. Okay? So you your soul can never die. But you have to recognize that you are the divine spark. Okay? You first need to recognize that. Once you recognize that, you'll be immortal. But if you don't recognize that, then you fear death. Okay? Jesus said, "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he become troubled, he will be astonished and he will rule over the all." Okay, so this goes back to the Plato's allegory of the cave, right? Right. Plato's algo of the cave is this prisoner who escapes his chains, he goes up into the real world where there's sunlight and he sees the truth, right? And now he's able to see whereas everyone else is still chained as prisoners in the cave. And now he rules overall because he knows the truth. Whereas everyone else is still in prison in darkness. But remember that this is a painful process. When you go in the light, you're blinded by it. You feel absolute pain. You feel uh confusion. But over time, if you persist, you will see the truth. Okay. So this is the cave. Okay. Keep on going. Jesus said, "If those who lead you say to you, see the kingdom is in the sky, then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, it is in the sea," then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you and it is outside of you. When you comes to know yourself, then you will become known and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty. And is it is you who are that poverty. >> Okay. So this is really important idea. Okay. Going back to the cave. When you escape the the cave and you see the real world and you come back, it doesn't matter if you tell them what the real real world is. Okay? It doesn't matter if they believe you. They themselves have to go out and see the world for themselves. Okay? They have to break the chains themselves and then venture out into the light and experience pain and torment for themselves before they recognize the truth. Okay? That's what Jesus is saying. They people [clears throat] who tell you this stuff don't listen to them. Okay? They can only guide you. But you can't trust them. You can't believe in them. You have to believe in yourself. You have to look into yourself because the truth divine spark is inside of you. Okay? So what Jesus is saying is this organized religion does not work guys. So there's no way Jesus would say follow me and you're good. Believe in me and you're good. He would never ever say that because he knows you can't follow someone else. You have to believe in yourself. The divine spark is in you. Okay? Doesn't make sense. So they are lying to you. When they say the kingdom is in heaven, don't believe them. Okay? Another thing that you will notice is we're all sons of the living father. You understand? Jesus is not like I'm the son of God and you're not. I'm superior to you. They're saying we're all sons of the living father. Okay. Also, and this is really important, he actually doesn't throughout the gospel of humus, he actually doesn't refer to the Bible. Okay? He doesn't talk about Adam and Eve. He doesn't talk about Yahweh. He doesn't talk about David. doesn't talk about Moses because for him it's all fake. Okay. The Bible is fake. What's true is divine spark in you. Okay. All right. So again, all this is contradictory modern day Christianity because Jesus was not a Christian. Okay. Keep on going. Oh, sorry. Uh let's let's keep on going. And again guys, what what what you're seeing is this the similar between the go of Thomas and Plato's algorith of the cave and the Iliad and Zorustra his teachings as well as Niti. Okay, you see how all these poor prophets, they all think alike. They're expressing things differently. They're talking to a different age and a different audience, but basically saying the same thing. Okay, this is really important. All right, continue reading, please. >> Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, "These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom." They said to him, "Shall we then as children enter the kingdom?" Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside, and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male, nor the female. And when you f when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye and a hands in place of a hand and a foot in place of a foot and a likeness in place of a likeness then will enter the kingdom. >> Okay. So um again this is similar to what we've learned before right what he's saying is this we are born into this world and as we grow older we believe in the falseeness that we see around us. Okay. But once we develop our imagination and once we recognize that this world that we live in is our hallucination, it is just a projection of our imagination. Then we can take control over this world and then that will allow us to access the vibe. Okay? It is through the imagination which allows us to access the vine and it will allow us to create this world in a new place. We're able to see fashion eyes in the place of an eye, a hand in the place of a hand. We're able to be our true selves. Okay? And what we will understand is that we're all connected by the vine. The separation of like male, female, okay? Chinese, American, black, white, it's all made up. It's not true. Once we able to see reality as it is, we'll all be one and the same. When you make the two one, we make the inside like the outside and the outside the inside and the above like the below. We're all interconnected together. Okay? We're all part of the same source. We we have to train ourselves to see the truth from this falsehood. Okay. So again the idea of asha and douch right this is asha moving towards the interconnectedness of all things the harmony of all things. The is the division of all things. Okay. [snorts] [clears throat] All right. His disciples said to him, "Show us a place where you are since it is necessary for you to si for us to seek it sack seek it." He said to them, "Whoever has ears, let him hear. There is light within the man of light and he lights up the whole world. If he does not shine, he is darkness." >> Okay. So the disciple says to Jesus, "Tell us how to be like you." And Jesus says, "Be yourself. There's a light inside of you." Okay? look for the light and and like shine the world. Okay. All right. Keep on going. Jesus said, "I took my place in the midst of the world, and I appeared to them in flesh. I found all of them intoxicated. I found none of them thirsty. And my soul become afflict afflicted for the sons of men because they are blind in their hearts and do not have sight. For empty they came into the world and empty too they seek to live the world but for the moment they are intoxicated. When they shake off their wine then they will re repeat repent. Jesus said if the flesh came into being because of spirit it is a wonder. But if spirit came into being because of the body it is a wonder of wonders. Indeed, I am amazed at how this great wealth have made its home in its poverty. >> Wait, so he's talking about the materialistic world. Okay, we came into this world with nothing. And guess what? When we die, we're going to go back with nothing. Okay, so this pursuit of materialism, this pursuit of wealth, this pursuit of power makes no sense. Why are you here pursuing all this stuff, this gold, this wealth, this money that you can't take with you? it it seems as though you're drunk. Okay, so this line, the flesh came into being because of spirit is a wonder. Okay, so the idea is that it is the consciousness, the mind that creates the the material world, the body, right? That makes sense. And what Jesus is saying is this. If you think that the body creates the spirit, you're crazy. It's impossible. It's a wonder of wonders. That's impossible, guys. Why? Because the spirit is full of wealth. The body is impoverished. How is it possible that that an impoverished body is able to create so much wealth? Okay. And this makes sense, right? Our mind, our consciousness is so vast, so abundant, but our bodies are so limited. So how is it possible that our smaller brains is able to create a universe of ideas and experiences? Okay. All right. So the idea of intoxicated, we're here and we're just drunk, but we are not thirsty for the truth. We're happy for the way it is. Okay. All right. And this idea is mirrored in a poem that we read before by Roomie, right? So you may remember uh Roomie, the Persian poet. He also says this, the world that we live in is a prison for drunks. Okay. So, I'm pretty sure roommate did not read Jesus Gospel of Thomas. But they're able to think the same thoughts because they're all being inspired by the same source. Does that make sense? All right. Continue, please. >> Yeah. Jesus said, "The phrases and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge." Uh, this is >> Nostis. Nostis means knowledge. Okay. and hidden them. They themselves have not entered, nor have they allowed to enter those who wish to. You, however, be as wise as serpents and as innocent as dogs. Okay, so Jesus hates organized religion. Okay, the Pharisees remember are Jewish priests, Jewish leaders, and they create a hierarchy of religion where they say to people, only I know the truth, only I have knowledge, so listen to me. And what Jesus is saying is they themselves are ignorant because you cannot access knowledge through hierarchy. Okay, through oppressing other people. You can only access knowledge by looking into yourself. So you have to become like the serpent and pretend you don't know anything in order to access knowledge yourself because otherwise if you are capable accessing knowledge then the priest will see as a threat and they will kill you. All right. And what he's the serpent remember it was a serpent who told Eve to eat from the fruit. And so what Jesus is saying is it is good and natural to seek knowledge even if it means those disobeying God. Okay? That's what we're meant to do here. To seek knowledge, to seek the truth, to seek love. If the the gods, if the priests stop you from doing so, it's because you're evil. All right? Because remember the true God, the monad is pure love, pure compassion, pure forgiveness. He can do no wrong. He's perfection. And if you have the desire to seek knowledge and you believe that knowledge makes you a happier, more fulfilled person, then you should seek knowledge. Even if God tells you don't do so, because if that God tells you don't do so, it means he's a false god. Okay, keep on going. Jesus said, "Whoever has come to understand the world as found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." Okay, so this is this is what's going to get Jesus in trouble, right? He's saying the Roman Empire, this great empire that you've built that ranges across the Mediterranean, it's a corpse. It's dying. It's dead. It's nothing. All right? Right? And once you recognize this, once you refuse to comply, once you refuse to obey, they have no power over you. Right? And so that's a threat to power. That's a threat to the Roman Empire. Keep on going. Jesus said, "The kingdom is like a shafir who had shepherd who had a hund sheep. One of them, the largest went astray. He left the 99 sheep and looked for that one until he found it. When he had gone to such trouble, he said to the ship, I care for you more than the 99. >> Okay? So God, the true God, does not want obedience. He wants us to be creative. He wants us to seek knowledge. He wants us to discover. He wants us to explore. He wants to try new things. And if we do this, he cares for us than those who obey him. Because those who obey him, those who do nothing, contribute nothing to the universe. Okay. When we love, when we imagine, we are making the universe a brighter place. We are shining our light. We just sit back and just do what we're told. We're doing nothing. Okay. We're We're like NPCs. Do you guys know NPCs? Non-playable characters in in video game. Okay. We don't we don't exist. All right. Keep on going. Jesus said, "A man had received visitors, and when he had prepared the dinner, he sent his servant to invite the guys. He went to the first one and said to him, "My master invites you." He said, "I have claimed again some merchants. They are coming to me this evening. I must go and give them my orders. I asked to be excused from the dinner." He went to another and said to him, "My master have has invited you." He said to him, "I have just bought a house and and am required for the day. I shall not have any spare time." He went to another and said to him, "My master invites you." He said to him, "My friends is going to get married and I am to prepare the banquet. I shall not be able to come. I ask to be excused from the dinner." He went to another and said to him, "My master in advised you." He said to him, "I have just bought a farm and I'm on my way to collect the rent. I should not be able to come. I asked to be excused." The servant returned and said to his master, "Those whom you invited to the dinner have asked to be excused." The master said to his servant, "Go outside to the streets and bring back those whom you happen to meet so that they may dine." businessmen and merchants will not enter the places of my father. >> Okay? So again, this goes against the empire. What Jesus is saying is the worst people in this world are the rich people. Okay? Think think about today how we're supposed to worship Elas, right? Because he's he's he's rich. What Jesus is saying is no, Elmas is the worst person in the world. Why? Because the divine, the monad has prepared a great feast for us. When we die, when we go with to to a monad, we will experience the greatest happiness, the greatest joy. Okay? The monad's inviting us, but the business people are saying, "No, I'm too busy. I'm too busy making money. I'm too busy doing evil in this world. So, I don't want to go to the stupid feast." So, they're the ones who will lose out in the end, even though today we think they've won out. Okay? So, that's what Jesus is saying. Jesus is like, "Don't worry about the rich and the powerful. They may look happy, but they're not." At the end of days, when we all go back to the Monad, we all go back to the vine, they're the ones who will not be invited to the grand feast. Yeah. >> Uh I have a question that God let us to be creative and like do our thing that we want to do like seek for the spark. But since we are born, how can we really know the things that what we want to do? Uh like I think that requires socialization between other people. But if you socialize, they will brainwash you and affect to let you to seek for materialism. >> Yeah. Okay. That's a great question and and it's a problem, right? Because as you say, your parents, the school, society brainwashes you to believe that only money matters, only grades matter. Okay. And the answer is you have to be brave. You have to be true to yourself because you yourself know what is true. Right? If we didn't know then Jesus would not matter. Why do two billion people believe in Jesus? Because they know that Jesus spoke the truth. Okay? So listen to your heart. I know it's hard and most of us cannot do it. Okay? And that's why um in many traditions like like Buddhism and Hinduism reincarnation is important because maybe in this lifetime we don't figure it out. Maybe in the next lifetime but maybe then you know 50 lifetimes away but eventually you'll figure it out. Eventually you'll figure out that what other people say does not matter because this world we live in is a false world. Eventually you'll figure that out and then you're like you know what I should do? I should do what I believe to be true. And then and then what you recognize is, oh, when I actually do what I like, what I enjoy, it makes me a more fulfilled person. And guess what? It connects me to the vine. Okay? I am a much more spiritual person now. And you can know because look at people's faces, right? When you meet a rich person, his face is kind of, I don't know, evil. When you when you meet a person who's generous, who volunteers his time, who is a good teacher, his face is different. Okay? So remember Achilles, when you do evil, evil comes into you and it corrupts your soul. When you do good, good comes to you and it brightens your soul and you brighten the world with it. Okay? But without like education and socialization like if we are an infant how do we know what is right or wrong and what should we seek for? Because of the spark in you right because of the spark in you. You know and it glows. When you love someone and that person loves you back your spark glows. When you become a teacher and you teach students, your teach your students learn well, your spark glows. >> So like you try different things until the you find the things that make your spark glow. >> Yeah. And and say the important idea is that our lives are infinite. Okay. So we will die and die is like a game reset. Okay. It's just like you suck at this game, you die, you come back and you try again. Okay. But it's your choice. The a really important idea here is free will. It's your choice to do whatever you want with your life. No one's going to force you. Okay? So, the idea of when you die is you go back uh to the astral plane and then you're able to reflect on your own life and then you come back and you start over. Eventually, you'll figure it out. It may take a million years. It may take a thousand years. Who knows? But eventually, you'll figure it out. Okay? Because because the world is infinite. Does does that make sense? Okay. What's really important to understand is you have to figure out it by yourself. No one can teach you. I can give you the idea. Jesus can tell you what he thinks, but you have to figure out by yourself. Okay? And that's why this is so hard for people to accept because people don't want to accept individual responsibility. Okay? [snorts] All right. Okay. So this this gives us um um so so the problem is this. The problem is that Jesus says that you there's a spark inside of you and it's your responsibility. You don't have to but it's your responsibility to let it grow. If you let it grow you will bring happiness to the world. You'll bring happiness to yourself and then you will able to feast with a mon with a vine um in heaven. Okay. And as I said um as we discussed it's hard man it's really hard you think individual responsibility you have to ignore people around you. You have to uh learn for yourself. So you know this idea maybe a few people thousands tens of thousands will love this idea but what about the millions of other people who just want to like live normal lives? what can we do about them? Okay, so this is uh the book the brothers Kara Mazoff by Theodor Dossi. He's talking about the problem left by Jesus. Jesus comes to the world. He tells us the truth. He tells us freedom is what will enable us to seek the vine. But this creates this anxiety in people because like oh my god now I have to like think for myself. Now I have to like go out into the light and feel all this pain. But I don't want to. I just want to live a happy life. I just want to watch TV every day, man. And then so um and and so then the church is like, okay, we need to create an organized religion and we need to fool people. Okay, how do we fool people? By teaching them that Jesus didn't actually say these things. And we're going to not we will we will not worship Jesus. We worship Satan instead. Why? Because Satan encourages us to enforce our will on people. Okay? We need to be evil in order to do good in the world. Okay? Think about this. These children are naughty, right? Now, we can say to them like Jesus, hey man, you'll grow up one day and then you won't be naughty. So, okay. But in this process, you're going to hurt each other. You're going to do stupid things. So, we have to be the strict father. We have to create this church in order to enforce the law on people to make sure the children don't hurt themselves so that children can just be children. Okay? And quite honestly, most of you guys, 99% of you guys will never ever grow up. So, we have to be Satan. Okay? So, the church, the Catholic Church, will pretend to worship Jesus, but actually we're going to worship Satan. And so, we're going to enforce the law on people. We will now be the evil empire. The Roman Empire is dead. Okay? But now the Catholic Church will be the evil empire and we're going to go around and we're going to persecute people who disobey the law so that everyone can live in peace. People want to be sheep. And you know what? People have the right to be sheep. And so we're going to be the shepherd. We will be Satan. And we will enforce goodness on people whether they like it or not. And this is good for people because now they don't have to accept individual responsibility. Right? If my life sucks, it's not because of me. It's because of the devil. It's because of the Catholic Church. is because of Satan and that's what's good. Okay, so Dasc is saying this is how the Catholic Church came into being and we'll discuss this next class in more detail. Okay, because Jesus left a huge problem a void in the hearts of people. People want to obey. People want to be told what to do. People don't want to think for themselves. If you make people think for themselves, they'll feel nothing but fear and anxiety. Okay? Right? So we need to impose order. So in this story what happens is the Catholic church is being is being the evil empire. It is oppressing people. And so one day Jesus comes from heaven and he walks among the people and people will know oh my god he's Jesus he's come back and he's curing people and they're all happy and but because the Catholic church worships Satan they need to arrest this guy. Okay. And the grand inquisitor the leader appears before Jesus. They have a conversation that Jesus is called a prisoner in the story and he says to the prisoner, "We know who you are. You are Jesus and we're supposed to worship you, but we're going to have to kill you because you are a threat to the people. You're a threat to the happiness of the people." Okay? And what the grandchild will say to Jesus is, "We create good in this world by being evil and your presence will destroy this and therefore we must destroy you." Okay. So this is from the brothers K maz. Okay. Thou this. Okay. Thou does not love them at all. Thou who does come to give thy life for them. Instead of taking possession of man's freedom, thou does increase it and burden the spiritual kingdom of mankind with its suffering forever. >> Okay. So what he's saying is is you came to this world to free people to tell them that the not exists that there's a spark inside them that they don't have to be slaves they can they can go wherever they want but that just confuses people that traps people in their own fear and anxiety. Life now becomes complicated. Okay, keep on going. Thou did desire man's free love that he should follow thee freely enticed and taken captive by thee. In place of the rigid Asian law, men must uh hereafter with free heart decide for himself what is good and what is evil. Having only thy image before him as his guide. >> Okay, this is okay. Sorry. This is like really annoying, okay, for people because before your teacher would tell you what is good and what is evil. Now the teacher is saying you guys decide now it's complete chaos. Okay. And again it creates anxiety in people. People just want to be told what to do. Okay. People were like, you know, at 5:00 we're going to have dinner um at Pizza Hut. Okay. People don't want to be like, "Uh, what what should I what should I have for dinner?" Okay. People don't want to think, man. Okay. Keep on going. But this thou dot know that he would at last reject even thy image and thy truth if he is w uh weigh down with a fearful burden of free choice. They will cry aloud at last that the truth is not in thee. For they could not have been left in greater confusion and suffering than thou has caused laying upon them so many cars cares and unanswerable problems. >> Okay. Right. You're creating all this anxiety in people for no particular reason. People were happy just being slaves and now you free them and they're completely confused as what to do next. >> All right, keep on reading. >> Only some thousands. >> Okay. So, so what he's saying again is your freedom is only good for the minority of people who can think for themselves who aspire uh to the divine. What about everyone else? And what of the rest? And how are the other weak ones to blame? Because they cannot endure what the strong have endured. How is the weak soul to blame that it is unable to receive such terrible gifts? Can thou have simply came come to the elect and for the elect? But if so, it is a mystery and we cannot understand it. And if it is a mystery, we too have a right to preach a mystery and to teach them that it's not the free judgment of their hearts, not love that mattered, but a mystery which they must follow blindly even against their conscience. So we have John. >> Okay. All right. So what he's saying is this. Okay. I understand Christianity is complete complete chaos. Okay. But this complete chaos means people will never understand what your true teachings are. And if people don't understand what your true teachings are, they don't have to follow it. They don't have to think for themselves. Okay? So we created complete chaos so that people will not be forced to obey us. Okay? That's why we corrupted your teachings. Keep on going. We have corrected thy work and have funded it upon miracle, mystery, and authority. And manly joy that they were again led like sheep, and that the terrible gift that had brought them such suffering was at last lifted from their hearts. Were we right teaching them this? Speak. Do we not love mankind so might meekly acknowledging their feelessness, lovingly enlightening their burden and permitting their weak nature even sing or sanction? Why has thou come now to ponder us? >> Okay, do you understand this idea? They understand is why is there evil in the world? Because people don't want to think for themselves. So you need evil people to command people to enslave people to force them against their will. Now people are like, "Well, I don't have a choice in the matter. I can't think for myself. Sorry, man." Okay. If you actually give people complete freedom, it'd be complete chaos in the world. That's why there's Satan. That's why there's Satan in this world. This is why Satan must rule this world. Okay, I meant to end it like this. When the inquisitor ceased speaking, he waited some time for his prisoner to answer him. His silence weighed down upon him. He saw that the president had listened intently all the time, licking gently in his face and evidently not wishing to reply. The old man longed for him to say something, however bitter and terrible, but he suddenly approached an old man in silence and softly kissed him on his bloodness age lips. That was all his answer. The old man shuddered. His lips moved. He went to the door, opened it, and said to him, "Go and come no more. Come not all, not at all. Never, never." And he led him out into the dark alleys of the town. The prisoner went away. And the old man, the keys close in his heart, but the old man adheres to his idea. >> Okay, so the prison of course is Jesus, right? And so the inquisitor has these great arguments and the inquisitor is right. And what he's saying is, "Okay, Jesus, what's your response to this?" And Jesus' response is basically, "I forgive you. I love you and I forgive you." Same thing as what Prime did to Achilles, right? And as you can see, by kissing the the Inquisitor rather than fighting him, the Inquisitor loses. He knows he's lost. He knows he's been humbled. So he lets Jesus go. Says, "Just get out of here. Please don't bother us again." Okay? This is not your world. This is Satan's world. And the kiss glows in his heart, but the old man aderes to his ideas. Okay? So Jesus did not change the old man's mind. Okay? But there's a spark in him that now glows. Okay? the spark that he killed that he tried all this time to kill with reason with evil is still able to grow glow. Okay? And that's the power of forgiveness. Even though the person seems to be the most evil person in the world and this guy really is the most evil person in the world, as long as you're able to show him the possibility of love, the spark will glow. Okay. Now what's the So the Inquisitor poses this problem like okay people uh don't want to think for themselves. People lack free will. People don't want free will. What's the solution? The solution is the soul is eternal. Okay? And you have to give people time. We're talking about like millions of years. Maybe not in 50 years people will figure it out, but in about a million years people will figure it out for themselves. Okay? And Jesus, God is patient. He's loving. He's forgiving. He's generous. He's compassionate. So, take your time. Okay. What's important is that people learn for themselves. Eventually, you'll figure out being a slave sucks. You know what? It may seem as though watching Netflix, playing video games, being online all the time is fun. But if you go outside and play, that's a lot more fun, guys. Eventually, you'll figure it out. All right? and you have fear by yourself. So God is forever patient. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, so next class we'll talk about the Catholic Church and how it came into being and why it is it really is the church of Satan. All right, why it's going to go go against this teaching of Jesus. But do actually point this out how the Catholic Church and Jesus are com are competing forces. Okay. All right. Now, let's go on to Divine Comedy by Dante. And again, Dante is trying to answer the question, why did Jesus have to kill himself? What's the logic of that? That makes no sense. Okay? And traditionally, what the Catholic Church teaches people is it's because when we do evil, we become slaves of Satan. So Jesus made a deal with Satan. Basically Jesus says, "I will die and then I will and then you can take my body, okay? And then you will have to free my people." And Satan is like, "That's a really good deal, man. God for exchange in exchange for the slaves. Sure, I'll make that deal." But the thing is that Jesus when he died and he freed us, he cannot ever truly die. Okay, does that make sense? So this is called a ransom theory. And this is how during Tan's time most people understood why uh Jesus had to die. Jesus died so that we would stop being slaves of Satan and now we are slaves to Jesus and that's why we must worship Jesus. And Dian's like no no no that can't possibly be right. Okay. God did not come to free us so that we become slaves to God. God came to free us so that we could be free. Okay. All right. So this is Dante. And what's what's going to happen here is in heaven there's going to be a conversation between Dante and Beatrice who he loves. Okay? And they're going to discuss the nature of the universe. And this is Beatric talking to Dante. The greatest gift the magna magnanimity of God as he created gave the gift most suited to his goodness. Gift that he most prices was a freedom of the world. >> Okay. So the underlying principle of the universe is freedom of will. If God is love, okay? And he loves people, then he must trust people. Therefore, freedom freedom of will is the most important principle. Okay? Same thing if you're a parent. If you truly love your child, you will let your child go and make his own mistakes. You will not protect your child. Okay? Even if it means that your child goes to the park and might get kidnapped or whatever, okay? You have to let him go. You have to let him or her go because true love means trusting other people. Okay, keep on going. You say what I have heard is clear to me but this is hidden from me. Why God weld precisely this pathway for redemption? >> Okay. So again the Catholic Church teaches you that Jesus redeemed us from our for redeemed us from our sins. Okay. But then the question is why did you have to kill himself again? That makes no sense. Keep on going >> brother. This ordinance is buried from the eyes of everyone whose intellect has not ma matured within the flame of love. >> So Peter is saying to Dante, yes I know this makes makes no sense because you're thinking with your mind but the mind is not where the spark is. Okay. The divine spark is in the heart. So stop thinking with your mind and feel with your heart and let the spark the divine spark glow in you and then you will see the truth for yourself. >> Sorry. Okay. >> The godly godness that has banished every envy from its own self burn in itself and sparkling soul. It shows eternal beauties. All that derives directly from this godness is everlasting. Since the sale of godness impressed an imprint that ever alters. >> Okay. So God is perfect. He's forever good. He's forever love. He's forever compassion, forever forgiveness. Okay. And there's there's a spark of God in us, right? The divine spark which is our hearts. So there's always a this perfection in us. Okay. Keep on going. Only man sing annoys man's liberty makes him unlike the highest good. So that in him the brightness of its light is dimin. >> Okay this is important. Okay. Even though the spark is forever in us we can cover it up with mud. We can cover it up with dirt. We can forget about it. Okay. Why? How? By doing evil. By disobeying. All right. If we do more and more evil, we forget the spark more and more and it it dims in us. So the spark can glow or it can dim depending on our actions but the spark will ever always be there. >> So if like [snorts] you said that parents the true love is to trust right? So if parents trust their kid they will let their kids to make mistakes. But what if kids are for example being kidnapped and they're being killed? Is that still count as the love of trust? Okay, obviously if your child is in danger, you go save your child. Okay, but you cannot let your fear and anxiety of your child being kidnapped destroy the child's freedom. Does that make sense? You cannot impose your fear on your child. >> Like you need to let your child to feel the anxieties. >> No, no, no, no, no. You have to let your child do what your child wants to do. your child wants to go play in the go play in the playground, you let the child go play in the playground. Okay? And if you feel like there's a danger, then you go and make sure that your child is safe. You understand? >> But still doing but still letting him to do what they want. >> Yeah. Okay. Look, when you when you're actually a parent, you know what is safe and what is not safe. Okay? Sending your child to the playground where there are other children, there are adults around is safe. Do you understand? Sending your child outside at midnight to one of the streets is not safe. Do you understand? >> Okay. You know, you don't have to think about this. All right. All right. Okay. Keep on reading. >> And man cannot regain his dignity unless within left emptiness man fills a void with just a mans for evil pleasure. >> Okay. So the problem is this. We do all this evil and now we can't forgive ourselves. So we're stuck where we are. Okay? We cannot compensate for the evil that that we do. So what we do is do more evil to ignore the fact that we cannot forgive ourselves. Does that make sense? So evil creates more evil. Evil compounds on evil. So now we're just stuck. Okay. So the first so by disobeying God by eating that that fruit by trying to be like God we created evil and this evil forces us to be more evil now we're just stuck. Okay for when your nature sings so totally within its seed then from these dignities just as from paradise that nature parted. >> Okay. So we left the garden of Eden not because we broke the law. We left the garden of Eden because we cannot forgive ourselves from the evil that we've committed and so we keep on doing more and more evil. Okay. So the garden of Eden is metaphorical. Keep on going. And they can never be regained if you consider carefully. By any way that did not pass across one of these fs either through nothing other than his mercy. God has to pardon man or of himself. Man has to prefer payment for his folly. Okay. So now that we've broken the law, now that we've disobeyed God, now that we've there's evil in our hearts, how what can we do? Okay. And what Beatric says is there's two possibilities. The first possibility is that we compensate for the first evil for the first act of disobedience. And what Petric says is you can't do that because you try to be God. You try to kill God. So you cannot ever compensate God for the evil that you've done. Okay? And then she says, "Well, the other possibility is that God forgives you." The problem though is that if God just forgives you, you won't learn anything. Okay, you want to go. Man in his limits could not recmp recompense for no obedience, no humility he offered later could have been so deep that it could match the heights he made to reach through disobedience. Man lacked the power to offer satisfaction by himself. >> Okay. Good. Okay. So, do you understand this idea? Okay. You try to be God. So, you can't ever ask for forgiveness for that. Keep on going. >> For God show greater generosity in giving his own self that man might be able to rise than if he simply pardoned. For every other means fell short of justice except the way whereby the son of God humbled himself where he became incar incarnate. >> Okay. Incarnate just means human. Okay. So this is why Jesus had to kill himself. All right. So the problem is that God has to forgive us. But he has to forgive forgive us in a way that allows us to learn from our mistakes and be better people. Okay? And so let's let's use an analogy. The analogy is this. Um I'm a father and I have a daughter named Eve. And I have a dog. And I say to Eve, "I love you, Eve, so much." And then Eve says to me, "Do you love me or do you love the dog more?" I said, "I love you both equally. Love is infinite." Of course, I love you, but I also love the dog. And Eve goes and says to herself, "Yeah, but how do I know he truly loves me?" So what Eve does is she kills the dog. Okay. And then Eve, Eve says to me, "Hey, do you love me or do you love the dog more?" And now I'm kind of stuck the father, right? Because if I punish her, that shows her I love the dog more, right? But if I don't punish her, she's going to do this again. Okay? She's going to kill kill another animal. So I'm stuck. So what do I do? So what God decides to do is this. The only way out of this conundrum, the only way out of this paradox is if I punish myself. Okay? Because I should have said to her, I love you as much as the dog. All right? So what I do is I take a whip and I hit myself. All right? And Eve watches this. And now Eve knows, first of all, I do love her because I'm punishing myself for her sake. And second of all, she won't do it again because she doesn't want to see me punished. And that's why Jesus had to kill himself. Do you understand? That's the logic here. Now it makes sense, right? God had to punish himself so that we would be humbled by a sacrifice. We would feel so much reg remorse and regret for making God die that we would never ever disobey him again. We would never ever try to become God ourselves. And that's why this had to happen. Okay? And because of this, Jesus freed us from the evil in us and led us to the path of good. Because now all we have to do is remember Jesus, remember what he said, remember what he taught and we ever forever will forever be on the path towards the light. Yes. >> Uh do we like for example if I had done a extreme mistakes in previously do I can I completely make it up or just uh forgive myself because I think I can't. >> Okay, that that that's a great point. Okay, so yeah, so the problem is this. The problem is that there are people who do real evil in this world. Okay, it's possible like a man kills your daughter uh and then he's put in prison for the longest time and it's he does all this evil and so can he be forgiven? And the answer is yes. Because the only way for this world to work is if people are allowed to be forgiven. If people are not allowed to be forgiven, this entire world, this entire universe breaks down. That's why God is a God of forgiveness. Okay? Because if you think about it, if you think, okay, if we don't have forgiveness, what world do we live in? We live in a world of vengeance, right? If you kill my daughter, then I have to have to go kill your daughter and then you're going to have to go kill my family and I have to go kill your family. Okay? So, the only way for this world to work, the only way for just to prevail is if we're allowed to forgive each other. And previously we don't have a tool to forgive each other because we ourselves don't have the wisdom. And now with the arrival of Jesus, we remember that if Jesus forgive us, Jesus will forgive me always. And so if I turn towards Jesus, then I will be forgiven. But like currently I think I still could not forgive myself for making that mistake. Like I think whatever things that I do to make make up the mistake I think I could not forgive me at that time making that mistake >> right but at the same time you went to prison right you you've been punished already so justice hasn't served so you can now forgive yourself okay just because you've you uh believe in Jesus doesn't mean you won't go to prison for killing someone you're still going to go to prison but now you can forgive yourself because you've done your time And also because you remember that Jesus Jesus forgives you. Okay? But the only way for you to move on in your life, the only way for society to move on is if you're able to forgive yourself. Okay? That doesn't make sense. If in a world there's no forgiveness, this world would break down really quickly because everyone would just kill each other. Okay? So, and again, what what's happening is this, and this is what Dante teaches us. You're thinking of your head. Okay? because you're still young. When you grow older and your heart matures and you have more life experience, then you'll be able to feel your heart. Once you feel your heart, all this will make sense to you. Okay? But but but I completely understand where you're coming from because at your age, if someone told me this, I'd be like, you're crazy. This makes no sense because if you do evil, then you should be then your entire life should be one of evil. If you do evil, evil should come to you. Okay. But what Jesus is saying is is like no no in that world no one can be happy. Okay. Because the people whose evil has been done to them are so focused on vengeance, on hatred, on anger that you can never ever be a happy person. Okay? You leave the monad. You leave the divine. Okay? So when you hate someone, you're actually hitting yourself as opposed to that person. Okay. All right. So now that we understand the uh this idea, now what Don is gonna explain is why are we here? Okay. What's the purpose of the universe? Okay. Can you read uh Alan? You say, I see that water, see the fire and air and earth and all that they compose harm to the corruption and endure so briefly. And yet these two were things created. If what has been said above is true, then these things never should be subject to corruption. >> Okay? So the idea is like God is perfect. Everything he creates is perfect. So if that's the case, then why do we die? And so what Peter says is this. God is perfect. He creates perfection. But he creates the laws of the universe. He creates the game. Okay? That's perfect. The things within the game enter a cycle of destruction and life. Life and death. Okay, because that's the only way for the game for the universe to work properly. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, keep on reading. >> Brother, the angels and the pure country where you are now, these may be said to be created and they are in all their being. Whereas the elements that you have mentioned, as well as those things that are made from them, receive their form from a created power. The matter they contain has been created just as within the stars that well about them. The power to give form had been created. The race and motion of the holy light draw forth the soul of every animal and plant from matter able to take form. >> Okay. So understand the world the laws of the universe are created. Okay. But your life is breathed forth immediately by the chief god good who so enormous enamemers it of his own self that it desires him always. So reasoning you also can deduce your resurrection. You need but remember the way in which your human flesh was fashioned when both of the first parents were created. >> Okay. So the world that we live in is a world in which we can make mistakes in which we can learn, we can grow. Okay. And we don't have to worry about making mistakes because when we die, all that will happen is we'll just return to the good and we will be reincarnated. Okay. We'll come back. Jesus was resurrected. But so but we will be resurrected as well. We have infinite opportunity to grow as souls and that's the purpose of life to learn to make mistakes to be creative to imagine new possibilities. That's why we were created. Okay? And to ensure that we can continue to grow, there's death. Okay? Death allows for a reset. Death allows us to rejuvenate ourselves and learn from mistakes. So don't think about this lifetime. Think about all possible lifetimes and live your life accordingly to that. Okay? Make the most of your life here by making as many mistakes as possible because only by making mistakes can you actually grow as a soul. Okay? All right. So, this is uh Leon Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, the last supper. Now, this depicts Jesus before his uh betrayal, before he is crucified by the Romans. Okay. What's really interesting about this painting is you can see there's there's a number here, right? 33 1 33. When you go to the Bible and you look for the passage 33133 in Lamentations, you have this quotation. For no one is cast off by the Lord forever through he brings grief, he will show compassion. So great is his unfolding love. for it does not willing willingly bring affle affliction or grief to anyone. >> Okay, that's who Jesus is. Okay, Jesus came to remind us that we will all be forgiven in the end. So, forgive other people. Okay, love your enemy. All right. Okay. So, um let's look at what actually the Bible says. Okay. So, this is what Jesus taught. And again um I believe this is what Jesus taught because one gospel of Thomas is a unique voice. Remember the thing about poetry is that it is unique. It is divine spark itself. So it cannot be replicated. Okay. So when we read the gospel Thomas you can see this is poetic. This is beautiful and it touches you. It's a divine spark. That's number one. Number two is what he teaches aligns with every other poor prophet that that that we've studied so far, right? Number three is these other poor prophets like Dante, Dashki, they they go back and they're able to see exactly what Jesus was teaching us. Okay? So that's why I'm convinced that the gospel of Thomas um is the true teachings of Jesus. There are also other teachings of Jesus that we find in the Bible that also conforms to our theory. Okay. So this is from the gospel of Matthew and this is called the uh sermon on the mount where Jesus stands on a hill and he's preaching the secrets of the universe to people. Okay. So can you read please Alan? >> Yeah. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger this and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the mer merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are those who are pre persecuted because of righteousness. of theirs is the kingdom of heaven. >> So this is his message to people, right? What matters is the spark inside of you. It doesn't matter how wealthy you are. It doesn't matter how powerful you are. In fact, it is probably those who are slaves that will benefit who who are more virtuous and as such they will inherit the kingdom. Okay, keep on reading. >> You are the salt of earth. But if the salt loses its saintness, saintness, how can can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and tramped underfoot. You are the light of the world. A tongue built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand. And it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let light shine before others. that they may see you good deeds and glorify you father in heaven. >> Okay. So be the light. Okay. Every one of you has a light [clears throat] in you. Every one of you has a power to change the universe. Every one of you has a power to do good in this world. Okay. Keep on going. You have heard that it was said, "Love your neighbor and hate your enemy." But I tell you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you that you may be children of your father in heaven. He causes his son to rise on the evil and the goods and sends rain on the righteous and unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you great only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even p pack pagans do that. Be perfect therefore as your heavenly father is perfect. >> Okay, we are in this world to do as much good as possible. Thank evil people because it opp gives you opportunity to do good. Okay, there's no evil in the world. How do you possibly do good? Right? Keep on going. Do not store up for yourself treasures on earth where mouth moth and vermin destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but store up for yourself treasures in heaven where moth and vermin do not destroy. And where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Okay? So focus on your own spiritual enlightenment. Focus on making your heart pure, good, and virtuous. Don't worry about other people. Don't worry about money and these things because when you die, you can't take these things with you. But your heart will always follow you wherever you are. Okay, keep on going. >> The eye is a lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness? >> Okay, so this is really important idea. Okay. But we imagine reality. So what matters is how you imagine this reality. What matters is how you see the world. Okay. And how you see the world is a reflection of the spark inside of you. If you see goodness, if you do goodness, the then goodness will come. Okay. This also called um the law of attraction. Okay. Keep on going. No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other or you will be devoted to the one and dis despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. >> Okay, this this is a really important idea. What is Satan? Satan is money. It's power. Okay, so this world belongs to Satan. This rule, this world is ruled by Satan. There's nothing you can do about it. When you leave that world is the world of God. Okay, so it's your choice. Okay, your choice is to triumph in this world or to triumph in the spiritual world. It's your choice. But you cannot have both, guys. Okay, you can either you can be Alan Musk. You can you can have all this wealth in this world, but we'll see what happens to Ellen Musk, you know, after he dies. So, he won't die. Okay. So, his plan is I won't die, then I'm good. Okay. All right. Um, keep keep on going. >> Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy in your name, and in your name drive out demons, and in your name perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away from me, your evadors. Okay, so this is a really important idea. The Christian religion tells us that you must believe in Jesus to be saved by Jesus. All that matters is believe in Jesus. Doesn't matter what you do. Doesn't matter what you say. What matters is your belief in Jesus. And what Jesus himself is telling us, no, no, no. Don't use my name. Okay? Don't follow me. Follow your heart. In fact, if you use my name, it's because you mean to do evil in this world. So the question then is how do we get from this to the Catholic Church, which is no, you must obey us otherwise you'll be condemned to hell. Okay? And that's the topic we'll discuss next class. How the Catholic Church was created. And the argument I will make to you is it was created by the Roman Empire. Okay. And not Jesus himself. Okay. So any questions guys? Yeah. >> I think like you said that people have infinite lives and like death is a reset of your life and you can learn many times but I think death will just clear a person's memory and they won't remember the mistakes and the things that they learn. >> Yeah that's a great point. Okay. Yes. Exactly. So the idea is the divine spark right so the divine spark either glows brightly or it dims. So when you die, what goes is not the brain. You won't remember anything, the memories, but what goes is the is the spark. Do you understand? The spark if it glows really brightly, it goes up to a higher plane. You're closer to the monad. You're closer to God. And therefore, you feel more pleasure, right? But if your spark has been dim, it goes to a lower place. And so what you want to do is obviously glow that um spark as much as possible. All right? And and so again, um I know this is hard to understand, but most people will not figure this out. Okay? You understand? It may it may take take like 50 lifetimes before you figure out, you know what, I should really try to glow my my spark. It may take a thousand lifetimes, a million lifetimes, who knows? But it's your choice. Do you understand? some will figure out quick more quicker than others. Okay, so this this this is the thing that you must remember. Every religion teaches teaches teaches us like when you die, you won't you won't remember how much money you have. You won't remember anything. Okay, but what will what you what you but what you will uh remember what you will leave behind is the amount of goodness you did or the amount of evil you did. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, any more questions, guys? Okay, great. So, next class we do the rise of the Catholic Church.

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So let's review. Last class we discussed the mission of Jesus. Who is Jesus? Jesus was a messenger from the monad who reminded us that there's a divine spark in us. And how you activate the divine spark is by focusing on Jesus and repeating his words. Jesus was like Zorusta, like Plato, like Homer, like the Yahweh, a poor prophet. And so if you just repeated his sayings, if you repeat his poetry, then you could activate that spark within you and you could glow. Okay? And this explains why it became so popular. It also explains to us why the Romans had to kill him. Because at this time the Roman empire the main currency the main economy is based on slavery. Most people were slaves. If they're not slaves they were poor. And here is Jesus who's come to remind you that you don't have to be a slave. You are free to do whatever you want. There's a higher power than the Roman Empire and it is the divine. It is the universe. And so people start to defy their masters and they were no longer afraid of death. And this is why the Romans had to kill Jesus because Jesus was stealing from them. Right? Slaves are property. If you let slaves run away, if you free slaves, that destroys the wealth of the Romans. Remember that Jesus when he was killed, he was killed along with two thieves. He was crucified and so Jesus was killed because he was a thief. He was stealing from the Romans. Now the question then is okay um how do we Jesus to the Catholic Church? Jesus teaches us that we are free to believe whatever we want. That we just listen to our hearts. We will be in touch with the monad again and we have nothing to fear. The Catholic Church, the church teaches us that you believe in Jesus and that's all you have to do in order to achieve redemption and salvation. Jesus came to die for our sins. So therefore, we are now slaves to Jesus. These are two opposite ideas. Okay. The reason why is the idea of the divine spark is the greatest threat to Roman Empire. So the Romans had to somehow imprison the spark and make it an economic commodity. Okay? And so that's why they created the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is a prison in order to control that divine spark to hide it from you. And the main architect of the Catholic Church is his name is Paul. Okay? And most people agree that Paul and not Jesus is the real founder of Christianity. So let's discuss Paul. So Paul has a very interesting background. He is a Jew, but he grew up in Greek culture. He was very well educated. He was very wealthy. And this and so we say he's a helanized helanized Jew and is probably working for the Roman Empire as a spy or an agent. Now in that time your education was mainly in rhetoric. Okay. The word we use for this is sophistry. So let me explain to you who the sophists were because they're very important. So back in classical Athens there's a major debate between Socrates a philosopher as well as a sophist philosophy. So what's interesting is that they both come from the same word which is sophia which is Greek for knowledge. The philosophers are people who love knowledge. What they believe is that there's an eternal truth and that we must try to achieve this eternal truth. Right? Remember Plato's allegory of the cave? How you escape from the cave and into the light. Okay? That's what philosophy is trying to do. Trying to help you uh liberate yourself into the light. Sophist believe something else. Sus believe that eternal truth does not exist. Why? Because words are reality. Philosophers believe that words are an illusion. But sisters believe that words are a reality unto themselves. And so what's important is to learn how to master language in order to construct reality. Okay. So um surface gives us the word surface which is basically trickery. Okay. So in order to defeat the threat of the divine spark, what Paul does is he pulls a trick and it's the greatest trick ever. The trick is this. Jesus says, "Listen to my words and you will find divine spark in you." What Paul says is, "Believe in Jesus and you'll be saved." Okay. So he changes the focus from the words of Jesus to the person of Jesus himself. All right? And so what Paul's going to do is he's going to construct a new new religion called Christianity by synchronizing synthesizing the three major cultures of that time. The Roman culture, the Greek culture and the Jewish culture. Okay. So remember the Jewish culture is the Bible and what Paul tells us is that Jesus is the promised Messiah. At this time in history uh the Bible is heavily influ influenced by the Persians, right? Remember the Persians were montheists. They believed in good and evil, the Asher and the Jews. Okay? And so the Bible began to reflect the Persian belief especially in the idea of esquetology the end of the world. And what Jews believed is they're not afraid of the Romans because eventually the Messiah will return or sorry not return the Messiah will come to lead them to war against the Romans and because the Messiah is anointed by God they will triumph. Okay. So the Jews are waiting for the Messiah of war in order for them to reclaim the dev the Davidic kingdom. Okay, the kingdom of David. What Paul does that's very clever is that he uses this esquetology, but he says that Jesus is not the Messiah of war. He's the Messiah of peace. Okay? And therefore, we Jews should not resist the Romans. Okay. So that's the first major culture that Paul uses. The second major culture that Paul uses is the Greek culture. So um the Greeks have something called the mystery schools. And these are just cults. And it's important you know these mystery schools because they will become the basis of secret societies today. And in these mystery schools, there's lots of different ones, but Paul chooses a mystery school that worships Dionis. Okay, Dianis is the Greek god of creativity, wine. Um, and the story of Dianius is he is born of a virgin mother. His father is Zeus. And then Dianus is killed by the enemies of Zeus and Zeus finds him and resurrects him. Okay, it's important because this becomes the story of Jesus and the pe how the how that how the people uh worship Dianis is they have a ritual meal where they actually believe they're eating the body of Dianis and they're absorbing his energy and they're becoming one with Dianis. They're they're coming communion with dynasties and the Christians have the same ritual. Okay. And this is what what's called the eukarist uh thanksgiving or communion. Okay. And all Christians practice this today. Okay. So that's the second major culture. The third major culture that is the most important of course is the Roman culture. So the Roman social structure is called the patter familias. Okay. And how the system works is at the very top there's one patriarch. This where where we get the word patriarchy, right? And then he has lots of children, right? sons and also has slaves as well. So it's a very topdown system, right? The patriarch patriarch's at the very top. In the system, the patriarch is always right. He is God. Here you have slaves. Now what the patriarch will do is he will identify very promising slaves, slaves with talent and will turn them into clients. So clients are just business people. So he frees the slaves and they become his clients. So now they're able to conduct business on his behalf and in this way he will create a business empire. Okay. So this is the idea of the Roman Empire. So rather than one system, the Roman Empire is actually a system, a platform where dozens of families control the empire together. And what happens is these families control a particular province. Okay? So it's more like a franchise model rather than than a strict hierarchy. This is important because Paul will take the system and from the system he will copy it to create the church. All right. So the church is exactly the same as a paraphras where at the very top you have a person a bishop and every and then he might have some um cardinals but then everyone else is just followers okay or disciples. So it mirrors the system. This is important because now what you can do is you can easily switch from the current system to the new system devised by Paul. Now why would the Romans want to do this? Because if you think about it, this is the perfect solution to the problem of Jesus. As a patriarch, your main concern is getting your slaves to work hard, right? You want to suck the energy out of them. But now with Jesus, slaves are like, "Why? Why should I work for you?" Paul solves this problem by saying, "Oh, follow Jesus and you'll be saved." Okay? So in this way, what happens is Paul's formulation of Jesus causes slaves to work even harder, right? Because idea is before you have to work in order to stay alive. Now they work in order to go to heaven for all of eternity, right? So the deal now is work as a slave for a few decades, but then you can enjoy an eternity of joy and paradise. Pretty good deal, right? And so this causes the slaves to be more obedient and to work harder. Okay. Also, what's more important is now the patriarch switches from a king to a god, right? His private wealth now now becomes spiritual authority. Not only that, but because he has spiritual authority, he can expand more rapidly outwards. Okay? So, before to get slaves, you have to buy slaves. Now you you just have to convert people into your religion. So it's a much faster way to create wealth. And this is important because what you learn next class is this is a system that the Romans will use to um take over the barbarians. Okay. So next class you'll learn about the barbarian invasions basically the Goffs and how because of the system they were now able to assimilate these barbarians into the culture and maintain a social hierarchy. Okay? And so in other words Jesus was talking to slaves but Paul was talking to patriarchs. And so these patriarchs would convert and when they convert they took the entire system with them. That explains the rapid growth of [snorts] Christianity. Okay. Also what's important is the religion that the patriarchs practice is not the one that the slaves practice. The slaves practice Christianity but the patriarchs practice the mystery cults. Okay? Why? because this is the way that the patriarchs work together and this becomes a basis for secret societies. So while the ordinary person worships a new religion called Christianity, the patriarchs themselves in secret still practice their Greek mystery cults. This is a system that we still have even today. All right. Okay. So um this system now is able to spread really quickly because as you can see from the system those who convert are more advantage than those who do not convert. At this time in history most do not convert but those who convert are able to see more rapid wealth generation. They're able to see more power generation and they're able to expand much faster. And so this is a secret of Christianity. Okay? And that's my main argument to you today. Any questions before I go into the specifics? Is this clear to you guys? All right. Let's do the PowerPoint. Okay. Okay. Today we do the rise of the Catholic Church. Okay. So again, what Paul's going to do is he's going to negate the power of Jesus. He's going to imprison, sorry, he's going to imprison the divine spark in the church. All right? So this is Paul and there's a lot of mythology around Paul, how he's a martyr who went around the world in order to spread Christianity. Okay? We don't know if it's true or not. If you're Catholic, you believe it's true. Um the other thing about Paul that's really important is that if you read the New Testament, a third is either written by Paul or about Paul. Okay, there's more about Paul and the New Testament than there's about Jesus. That's why that's why we say that Paul is a true founder of Christianity. Christianity is a religion about Jesus, but not by Jesus. It's by Paul. And what's really important for you to appreciate is what Jesus taught and what Paul taught are very different. In fact, they're opposite. Jesus taught that the divine spark is within you. So if you want to save yourself, if you want to go to the kingdom, you must do so yourself. But Paul says, "No, Jesus came to us in order to redeem us from our sins, the original sin um of disobedience to God way back in the Garden of Eden. If you believe in Jesus, you'll be saved. Doesn't matter what you do, but you you you can do as much good as you want, but if you do not believe in Jesus, you will burn in hell." Okay? That's why you must believe in Jesus. And that's also why we must get everyone to believe in Jesus because by getting everyone to believe in Jesus, we are literally saving them from eternal damnation. As you can see, this is a really good business uh model because now you can expand really quickly. Okay. Second thing that Jesus taught is he cannot save you. You can only save yourself. He can guide you. We can give you some poetry that you can decipher, but you must seek truth yourself. And what Paul taught is don't think for yourself, just do what everyone else does. He believed the most important thing is for the church to be cohesive. Okay? For everyone to obey the word of Jesus, which is really the word of Paul. And the third thing is, and this is the most, this is really important. Jesus teaches us the rich cannot enter heaven. Why? Because to enter heaven, you must focus on your own spiritual rejuvenation. But the rich only care about the here and now. They only care about the material acquisition and as such they become blind to the spiritual needs and so they do not they cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. Remember Jesus tells the story of how the God has prepared a great feast for us, but the rich won't go because they're too busy making money. Paul teaches us, "No, no, no guys, it's the rich which will lead us to the kingdom." Why? Because the rich can finance the spreading of Christianity. What matters is metrics that help us spread Christianity. How many souls are we saving by measuring how many how many people we're converting? Okay, how cohesive is our church? That's all care Paul cares about. Paul is a business person. [clears throat] Okay, Jesus is a prophet, but Paul is a business person. And so it is Paul really that um is the spiritual god of Christianity, okay? Not Jesus. Another thing that you need to appreciate is at this time in history maybe the year 40 50 there are lots of different Christianities because Jesus taught us that the kingdom of heaven is within you right so it's all very diverse it's all very democratic and what's really important is a lot of the early leaders are woman okay uh people like Mary Meline um they tend to be wealthy and they tend to be very um charismatic as But by the time you hit Paul Christianity, it's anti-woman. It's a strict hierarchy and it's orthodoxy. Okay? So, in other words, you may you may have heard that early Christians were persecuted. Guess what, guys? They're being persecuted by Paul. Okay? They're being Christian being persecuted by the Romans. They're being persecuted by Paul. And at this time in history, the Catholic Church, okay, Paul, Paul and Christianity, it's only a very small minority for because for most people um the Christian of Jesus is much more appealing than the Christianity of Paul. Jesus taught freedom, empowerment, liberation. Paul taught obedience, discipline, sacrifice. Okay? So Jesus is far more appealing. But because Paul is being supported by the Roman Empire, he wins. Okay. What Paul will do is not only persecute other Christianities, but he will quickly spread his Christianity with the help of the Roman Empire. All right. So, as you can see, what's going to happen is in the year 30 when when Jesus dies, it's a very small group of people, but it spreads really quickly. Okay. and um built the foundations for this great empire that in about the year 300 reaches its peak. Okay. In about the year 300, what will happen is Christianity becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire. And this is the beginning of the Catholic Church. But it's Paul that built the foundation for this growth. [snorts] Okay. Um so as you can see um Jesus he's spreading his poetry and it's because his poetry is easy to memorize this his poetry spreading really quickly throughout the empire. Okay. But uh what will happen is that once Paul builds the structure of Christianity, the church system based on the pattern pattern system of the Romans, it will spread even quicker and eventually these two Christianities will come into conflict and eventually Paul's system will win out until it conquers the entire Roman Empire. Okay. All right. So um scholars agree that Paul is the founder of Christianity. But there are three mysteries to Paul that scholars can't really answer. Okay. The first question is why would someone like Paul who is a literate and wealthy Jew, why would he join a movement of illiterate Jewish peasants? Okay. No. No. The scholars don't really have an answer for this. Second question is we know that Paul was a fanatical Pharisee. Okay, he he was hunting Christians but then he converts to become a fanatical follow of Jesus. Why would he do that? Okay. The third mystery is this the most important is he spends his entire life promoting Christianity around the Roman Empire. Where did he get the money to do this? Because not only did he go, but he he also had secretaries who went with him to take notes. Where's where does the money come from? Okay, so if you just do some basic game fair analysis, he's clearly a spy. Okay, clearly a spy. He's an agent of of a power. The question for us though is who is he working for? The easy answer seems to be the Roman Empire. But in fact, you could also make the argument he's working for the Jewish leaders. Okay, the Jewish priests as well. Okay, so we we'll go over this. All right, so what we're going to do is we're going to read the Bible now. Okay. Now, one thing about the Bible that um is very confusing is the Bible says that the Jews killed Jesus. And as we discussed last class, the Jews would not kill Jesus for a variety of reasons. Okay. Um, but the main reason is Jews don't kill each other. Well, I'm sorry. Jews do not turn each other over to the Roman authorities. If you commit blasphemy, if you insult their god, they kill you by stoning you. Okay? They don't have a habit of turning people over to the Roman authorities. So, we know the Romans killed him. And it's most likely the Romans killed him because Jesus Jesus was a threat to their social structure. But the Bible says that nope, it was the Jews who killed um Jesus. So Emmer, could you read please? >> Okay, so this is from John the Gospel of John. >> Then Pott took Jesus. >> Palad Pontius Pilot is a Roman governor who who orders Jesus' execution. Okay. >> Pilot. >> Yeah. Pontius Pilate. >> Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flocked. And the soldiers wo a crown of thorns and put it on his head. And they dressed him in a purple robe. They kept coming up to him saying, "Hail, king of the Jews." And striking him on the face. Pilot went out again and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I can find no case against him." >> Okay, so what's happening is Jesus is arrested by the Jewish priest and they accuse him of blasphemy, of pretending to be God. And they bring him to Pontious Pilot, the governor, and says, "You must execute this man because he has insulted our religion." And so Pontius Pilate interrogates Jesus and he doesn't really think he did anything wrong. Okay? But to to appease the priest, he beats he whips Jesus. And now he's like, "You know what? I whipped this guy. I punish him. Now, could you please go away?" Okay? Keep on going. >> Pilate went out again and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I can final case against him." So Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Plet said to them, "Here is the man." When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilot said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him. I find no case against him." The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to the law, he ought to die because he had claimed to be the son of uh son of God." >> Okay, so do you understand what's going on? Okay, the Bible claims that Jews killed Jesus. All right. So, um, this teach this shows us that the Bible is not that reliable. All right. Okay. So, let's go into the story of Paul. Um, Allan C, can you please Okay. So, so, so let let me show give you the context. Okay. This is from the acts of the apostles and it's mainly about Paul and how he became a follower of Jesus. And at this time, Paul is persecuting Christians. We don't know why he's persecuting Christians. We don't know what why the Jews hate the Christians, but uh Paul is going around persecuting the Christians as a Pharisee. And then on the way to persecuting more Christians on the road to Damascus, he a light seizes him and it's Jesus telling him, "Paul, why are you persecuting me and my followers?" And then that converts Paul. It makes no sense as a story. Okay, but this is what Christians believe. Okay, can can you read Alan? Meanwhile, Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogue synagogue synagogues. >> The the synagogue is a place of worship for diaspora Jews because Jews worship the the temple, right? >> But the temple's in Jerusalem. So if there if you're outside Jerusalem, then you go to synagogue, okay? Which basically a Jewish church >> synagogues and Damascus. so that if he found any who belonged to the way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now, as he was going along and approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "So, so why do you persecute me?" He asked, "Who are you, Lord?" The reply came, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But get up and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do." The men who were traveling with him stood speechless because they heard the voice but saw no one. Saul got up from the ground and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. For three days he was without sight and neither ate nor drink. >> Okay, so this is a miracle, right? This guy hated Christians and now because he was blinded, he loves Christians. What what you will notice is um this is very similar to Plato's allegory of the cave because remember uh Paul's trained in Greek culture. So he knows about Plato and this is model of the allegory of the cave where you're in darkness and suddenly you go out and you're blinded by the light and then you see the truth. Okay. Another thing that's important is that clearly Jesus favors Paul. What's interesting is that if you read Paul's letters, and we all read his letters, if you read Paul's story, he doesn't really talk about Jesus that much. He doesn't even quote Jesus. Okay? So, that's kind of weird. If you know, you're a father of Jesus, but you really don't quote Jesus. And Jesus has a lot of quotations. He really don't talk about Jesus that much. And he doesn't really refer to the story that much in um uh in in his letters. The other thing that that I will note is that if you read Jesus, okay, Jesus doesn't really talk about good and evil, doesn't really talk about the Bible, um doesn't really talk himself as a son of God, but Paul will talk about this a lot. Okay? All right. So again, Paul's amazing because he'll go on three different voyages, miss missionary journeys around the Roman Empire in order to spread the gospel of Jesus. This is very, very hard work. It's also expensive work, okay? Because you can see how he's going from different cities, he's going to synagogues, and he's preaching the gospel. Okay? Um what's what's important to us to understand is that as Paul is doing this he's winning a lot of converts because he's but he's come in contact with James the just remember James the just is the brother of Jesus who inherits the movement. James the just is in Jerusalem and Paul is going around and spreading the gospel of Jesus. And so James James the just hears about this and people are saying to him Paul's saying Jesus is God. Is Jesus God? And James does is like, of course, he's not God. He's my brother, man. And so there so there's all this conflict and eventually what will happen is it forces Paul to confront James and just in Jerusalem. According to the Bible, the main conflict is one of ideology. Okay? So the Bible says that James the Jud and Paul both agree that Jesus is God, the son of God who's come to our planet to redeem us. But James the Just believes what's important is to maintain the faith within the Jewish tradition. Whereas Paul wants to expand this tradition outside the Jewish tradition to encompass the Greeks as well and the Romans as well. Okay, the G the Gentiles. And that's where the conflict arises. And so the main point of conflict is one of circumcision because remember Jews circumcise themselves but the Greeks and Romans do not circumcise themselves. Uh this is important because in this time most of these cities are Greek cities. Greek cities have a place called gymnasium where men go to play sports but you play sports naked. So if you're a Jewish man they know automatically you're Jewish. So superstition is a huge point of division between the Gentiles and the Jews. And Paul's point is that if you want to convert, you don't have to circumcise. And so the Jews are complaining to James says, "Hey, Paul is subverting our tradition. He's saying that Jewish men uh he's saying that Greek men can come and and follow religion religion without being without being circumcised." Okay? And so there's a lot of conflict between James the just and Paul. So Paul actually goes to Jerusalem and he confronts um uh James the judge and they and they have they come to an agreement with each other. Okay. So um but when Paul goes to Jerusalem people recognize him and so the Amal wants to kill him. Okay. Can you read Amber? Up to this point they listened to him, but then [clears throat] they shouted, "Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he shall not be allowed to live." And while they were shouting, throwing off their cloaks, and tossing dust into the air, the tribune directed that he was to be brought into the barracks and ordered him to be examined by flogging to find out the reason for this outcry against him. But when they had tied him up with with [clears throat] songs, sorry, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, "Is it illegal? Is it legal for you to fogg a Roman citizen who is unconddemned?" When the centriion heard that, he went to the tribune and said to him, "What are you about to do? This man is a Roman citizen." The tribune came to ask Paul, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" And he said, "Yes." The tribune answered, "It cost me a large sum of money to get my citizenship." Paul said, "But I was born a citizen." Immediately those who were about to examine him drew back from him. And the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was Roman citizen and that he had bound him. >> Okay, so certain things to notice about about this writing. First of all, you can see it's very anti-Jewish. The Jews just want to kill Paul for no particular reason. Okay, Paul speaking the truth and the Jews want to kill him. Okay, it's a Jewish mob. That's first thing. Second thing is that it's very pro-woman, right? It's the Roman soldier come and save Paul from the mob. And this story is very similar in fact the story of Jesus. So Jesus was um arrested and the mob wants to kill him, right? And the Romans want to save Jesus but they can't they cannot stop the mob. But Paul, it's the same situation with Paul. But what saves Paul is this. He is a Roman citizen. Okay? So that's what saves him. Rome saves Paul. God can't save Jesus but Rome saves saves Paul. Okay. So this is propaganda and this propaganda written of course for hen Jews like Paul who are waving between uh loyalty to Rome or loyalty to uh the Jewish tradition. And what Paul says is the solution is to become a Christian because now you can become become both. You can now become like me loyal to the Jewish tradition but also loyal to Rome. Okay. All right. Alan, can you read please? >> When we came into Roman, Paul was allowed >> Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Um I I I I need to set this up. Okay. So the Romans say to Paul, um why do the Jews want to kill you? And Paul says because they think think I'm insulting their religion. And Paul says, I'm a Roman citizen. So I want an audience with the emperor. Only emperor can decide my fate. So the Romans sent him with an with a soldier escort back to Rome. Okay. And this is how the acts of the apostles end. Okay. Can you read um >> when we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldiers who was guarding him. Three day later he called together the local leaders of the Jews. When they had assembled, he said to them, "Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, yet I was arrested in Jerusalem and handled over to the Romans." When they had exempt me, the Romans wanted to release me because there were no reasons for the death penalty in my case. But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to the emperor even though I had no charge to bring against my nation. Okay, this is really interesting. Okay, this is a change in the story. Before Paul said that he wants to return to Rome in order to face judgment from the emperor. And what Paul's saying now is you Jews attacked me and if I wanted to, I could complain to the emperor and bring charges against you Jews. Okay, so he's showing you the story. He's showing how powerful he is. Okay, keep on going. For this reason, therefore, I had asked to see you and speak with you since it is for the sake of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain. >> Okay? So, he's saying, listen, those guys in Jerusalem harass me and so I've come back to Rome and I I want to speak to you Jewish leaders and let's see let's see if if we can work together because you piss me off in Rome, I can unleash the empire on you. Okay? So he's now threatening these Jewish elders. Come on, go. >> They replied, we have received no letter from Judah from about you and none of the brothers coming here has reported or spoken anything evil about you, but we would like to hear from you what you think. For with regard to this sect, we know that everywhere it is spoken against. >> Okay. So what they're saying is it's all misunderstanding, Paul. Okay. We don't know what's going on. Why don't you tell us what's going on? Keep on going. >> After they had set a date to meet with him, they came to him at his longings in great numbers. >> Okay, so basically all the Jewish leaders have to come because they they understand that Paul represents the empire. Okay, keep on going. >> From morning until evening, he explained the matter to them testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both for from the law of Moses and from the prophets. So again what Paul's saying is that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Bible. He's fulfillment of prophecy. He is the Messiah. Keep on going. >> Some were convinced by what he had just what he had said while other refuse to believe. >> Okay. So now some of these Jewish leaders are being converted by Paul. They are now moving towards the Christian faith. That's how powerful Paul is. Okay. Keep on going. >> So they disagree with each other and as they were leaving Paul made one further statement. The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your ancestor through the prophet Isaiah >> Isaiah, "Go to this people and say, you will indeed listen but never understand and you will indeed look but never perceive. For this people heart has grown dor and their ears are hard of hearing. and they have shut their eyes and they might not look with their eyes and listen with their ears and understand with their heart and turn and I would hear them. Let it be known to you then that is salvation of God have been sent to the Gentiles they will listen. >> Okay, so he's saying so he's convincing some Jewish leaders to convert, right? But not all convert. And so Paul gets pissed off and says you Jews are so stubborn. You don't get it, man. Okay, but don't worry if you don't get it. The Gentiles, the Greeks and Romans will get it. We will win eventually. Okay, keep on going. And live there two whole years at his own expense and welcome all who come came to him proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hires. >> Okay. So, something I will point out is this. It looks like Paul is an agent of Rome. Okay, it looks like he repres represents the empire. But why would he write in such a way as to be so blatant? And so you can also argue that Paul could be a double agent. Okay, he pretends to be the an agent, a spy for Rome, but he's actually working for the Jewish leadership. Why would why would the Jewish leader support Paul? Because by spreading Christianity, he's spreading the Bible and he and the Bible says that Jews are God's chosen people. So he's elevating the status of Jews in Rome. Okay? So it's not as simple as it looks. From this, if you just read it, it seems like Paul is a spy for Rome. But you think much more deeply about what he's doing. Why would he be so blatant and tell people, "Ha, I represent the empire." Well, maybe because he's being a real Maybe because he's he's being a double agent, right? The thing that you have to remember about spies is they have no loyalties. They are double agents are triple agents. Okay? They're always switching loy loyalties back and forth. [snorts] Okay. So now what what I want to do is I want to go into the actual thinking and writing of Paul. This is Romans which is one of his major letters. And in these letters, what he's going to do is he's going to articulate to you this new philosophy of Christianity. Okay? These these letters become the basis for the Catholic Church. Okay? So, can you read Amber, please? >> Circumcision indeed is a value is a value if you obey the law. But if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. So if those who are uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? >> Okay, so stop. So this is Paul and what you can see is he's a master of rhetoric. Okay, the Jews are very clear. If you are Jewish, you must be circumcised because circumcision is a is the sign of a covenant between our people and God. If you're not circumcised, you're not Jewish. And what Paul says, no, what matters is your heart. What matters is your spirit. If you have faith in God, that's what matters. Okay, keep on going. >> Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you that that have the written code and circumcision but break the law. For a [clears throat] person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision is something external and physical. Rather a person is a Jew who is one inwardly and real circumcision is a matter of the heart. It is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but from God. Then what advantage has Jews? >> Okay. So do you guys understand this is rhetoric right? This is sophistry where he's changing the definition of the word where changing the idea of the word. Circumcision is a covenant between the Jews and God. What Paul says, what matters is not the physical act. What matters is the faith in God. Okay? That's a covenant. All right? [snorts] And as such, you do not have to be uh um circumcised. Okay? Uh c can you read, Alan? >> But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God had been disclosed and is attested by the law and the prophets. the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction. Since all have sins and fall short of the glory of God, they are now justified by his grace as a gift. Though the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God put for forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood effective through faith. He did this to show his righteousness because in his divine forbear forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed. It was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that that he justifies the one who has faith in Jesus. >> Okay. So, Jews believe what's important is to follow the laws, okay? To be circumcised, to um rest on the Sabbath, to only marry within the tribe. And what Paul says is what's important is your belief in Jesus, your belief that Jesus came in order to redeem us from our sins, the original sin. Okay? That's what matters now. Before it was these laws. Before it was these actions. And now what matters is what you truly believe. Okay? It is only believe in Jesus that can save you. You can do as many good works as you want. You can follow as many laws as you want. Does not matter. The key is faith in Jesus. Okay. All right. Okay. Can can you read? >> Yes. [clears throat] And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now, you are still not ready, for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are you not of the flesh and behaving in courtly according to human inclinations. For when one says I belong to Paul and another I belong to Apollos, are you not merely human? >> Okay. So what Paul is doing is he's going around and corrupting the teachings of Jesus. And other people are calling calling around and says Paul this is not what Jesus taught. Okay? And so what Paul's saying is guys guys we shouldn't argue. Okay? Because who's right? Jesus is right. Okay? It's not what you say. It's not what I say. It's what Jesus says. So this again is sustry. It's rhetoric. He's positioning himself above the debate rather than engaging debate directly and saying like what did I Jesus actually teach and what are the true teachings? Paul's saying what's important is to obey Jesus. Okay. What's important is obedience not debate. Keep on going. >> What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe as the Lord assigned to each. I planted Apollos watered but God gave the growth. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose. And each will receive wage according to the labor of each. For we are God's servants working together. You are God's field, God's building. >> Okay? So Paul is evil. Okay? Everyone's saying to Paul, "Paul, you're corrupting the teachings of Jesus." is and Paul's saying no what matters is we spread the message of Jesus and everyone's saying but what's the message of Jesus Paul SAYING IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT MATTERS IS THE GROWTH of Jesus okay this is sustry keep on going >> according to the grace of God given to me like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation and someone else is building on it each builder must choose with care how to build on it for no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid that foundation is Jesus Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, [snorts] hay, straw, the work of each builder will become visible. For the day will disclose it because it will be revealed with fire and the fire will test what sort of work it has done. If what has been built onto the foundation survives, the builder will receive a reward. If the work is burned up, the builder will suffer uh suffer loss. The builder would be saved, but only as through fire. >> Okay, so what Paul's saying is this. We're all going to work together to spread the message of Jesus. You may believe Jesus says one thing, I believe another thing, but let's not argue, okay? Let's just keep on spreading the word of Jesus and we'll see which person has the biggest church and we'll know who's right. Okay? So, he's using the metric of business success, of wealth, of material acquisition to justify his faith in Jesus. Okay? And this is the opposite of what Jesus taught. And people are saying, Paul, this is not what Jesus taught us. Paul's like, "No, no, no. We're going to see who wins out in the end." Okay, keep on going. >> Do not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells in you. If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person. For God's temple is holy and you are the temple. Do not deceive yourself. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, he catches the wise in their craftiness. And again, the Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are feudal. So let no one boast about human leaders. For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cphas or the world of life or death or the present or the future, all belong to you and you belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God. >> Okay? So he's very clever, right? He's saying yes. Jesus taught us that God's spirit dwells in you. What this means isn't that you have free will. What it means is you don't have free will because you must do the work of God which is to spread the message of God which is to extend the power of God in this world. Okay. So you see how this is sustry right? He's tricking people. He's deceiving people. Jesus taught you the light is within you and therefore you are you know God. You just trust yourself and that's good. And then what Paul says, no, you are a tool of God. Okay. Uh, keep on going. >> Think of us in this way as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. But with me, it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. I do not even judge myself. >> Okay. Okay. All right. So, let's keep on going. Uh, Alan, can you read, please? >> [gasps and sighs] >> When you're a slave when caught, do not be concerned about it. Even if you can gain your freedom, make use of your present condition now more than ever. For whoever was caught in the Lord as a slave is a freed person belonging to the Lord. Just as whoever was freed when caught as a slave of Christ, you were bought with a price. Do not become slave of human masters. In whatever condition you were called, brothers and sisters, there remain with God. >> Okay, so Paul's being very clever again, okay? Because this message is appealing to slaves. Jesus taught these slaves, you're free. And these slaves say to Paul, "We're free, right?" And Paul says, "You are free, but you are a slave to God." Do you understand? Okay. Therefore, no human can be a master of you because you're all slaves to God. He's confusing people. Okay. Uh can you keep on reading? For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all so that I might wing more of them. To the Jews, I become as a Jew in order to wing Jews. To those under the law, I become as one under the law. Uh under the law, though I myself am not under the law, so that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law, I became at one outside the law. Though I am not free from God's law, but I'm under Christ's law, so that I might wing those outside the law. To the weak, I become weak, so that I might wing the weak. I'm become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessing. Do not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize. run in such a way that you may wing it. Athletes exercise self-control in all things. They do not they do it to receive a parish perishable wealth, but we and we and imperishable one. So I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air, but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others, I myself should not be disqualified. >> Okay. So, it's almost like a pep rally, right? He's a business person. He's telling his workers, "Go out and sell those damn hamburgers, man. I don't care what you do. I don't care how many lies you tell. Go sell those hamburgers. Pretend they're healthy. Okay? Pretend you love hamburgers. Just pretend. What matters is you go sell those hamburgers. And guess what, man? Whoever sells those hamburgers gets a car." Okay? But this is better than car because this is the the reward is heaven, eternal paradise, guys. SO GO AND SELL THOSE HAMBURGERS. All right. All right. Um can can you read can you read the highlighted part, Amber? >> Uh now in the following instructions, I do not commend you because when you come together, it is not for the better but for the worse. For to begin with, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and to some extent, I believe it. Indeed, there have to be faction among you, for only so will it become clear who among you are genuine. When you when you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord's supper. For when the time comes comes to eat, each of you goes ahead with your your own supper, and one goes hungry and another become drunk. What do you not have a homes to eat and drink in? Or do you show contempt for the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I commend you in this matter? I do not commend you. >> Okay. So, what he's saying is this. When you come to when you come to a church, it's very important that you obey the ritual. Okay? The ritual is communion, the Eucharist. And you we must remember this is a ritual where you must follow the exact protocols. If you do not then there's no point in coming to church. So the church is not a place to discuss Jesus, not to debate Jesus, but to worship Jesus. Okay, keep on going. >> For I receive received from the Lord what I also handed on to you. And the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body that is for for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, he took the cup also after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Whoever therefore eats the bread of drink uh uh eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. Examine yourselves and only then eat the bread and drink from of the cup. For all who eat and drink with discerning uh without discerning the body eat and drink judgment against themselves. For this reason, may a few are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. So then, my brother and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. If you are hungry, eat at home so that when you come together, it will not be for your condemnation. about uh about the other things I will give instruction when when I come. >> Okay. So this is a really important ritual. It's the most important ritual in Christianity called the Eucharist thanksgiving. Okay. And in this it's basically they eat some bread and they drink some wine and they believe it is the flesh and blood of Jesus. So Jesus is entering them. Okay. And as you can imagine what they're doing really is negating divine spark in you. Divine spark is free. It's individual. It's independent. When you part partake in the body of Jesus, you become one with everyone else. Okay? That negates your individuality that it negates a spark within you and you become just the church itself. Okay? And that's the idea of the Eucharist to destroy your individuality. All right? And so when Christians do this, they literally believe the bread they're eating is the body of Christ, of Jesus. So Jesus is entering into you and taking you over. Okay? Okay. It's possession by Jesus. Uh yes. >> Can we see this as a way that they abuse or exploit Jesus because they are just eating their body although the body of Jesus is hollow? >> Uh no. No. The idea here is that Jesus is your master. Okay. And when you partake in Jesus, you become a part of Jesus and therefore you must obey exactly what he wants. Okay? All right. So this is confusing because it's cannibalism. Okay. But um as I told you before, this is actually a very common thing among the Greek mystery cults where they come together and they believe that when they eat food, they're actually eating the body of Dianesis and Dionis his energy is is being consumed into you. Okay. What's important for us to appreciate is like these mystery cults are demonic. Okay. So, what else they do is they will have ritual sacrifices where they will tear people apart and consume the flesh. Okay. So, this is from a painting from the Ubides play describing one of these mystery codes. Um, okay. So, they will actually tear a person's body apart to replicate the death of Dianis and they consume the body part. All right. And guess what guys, the secret society still do the slay. Okay. So but but what's important to understand is this actually has a long tradition. So if you go back to 15,000 years to Europe in the m Magdalinian age um cannibalism was actually very common. It was common for religious purposes. So maybe there was someone that you loved and he died. What you would do is you consume his body when he died in order to remember him forever. Okay? so that you would have an eternal communion with him because his soul would go into the spirit world. But if you had his body, right, he would always communicate with you. And that's the idea of commemorating Jesus like in such a way when you consume Jesus, Jesus is always with you. He is now taking possession over your body. You are now just a body for Jesus. Okay? Does that make sense? You've lost your individuality. You've lost your freedom. You are now completely possessed by Jesus. when you um are when you engage in the Eucharist. Okay. Yes. >> So the so during that time nobody founds that like this is disobeying the the original the original belief of Jesus like Paul is just using of peoples to obey. >> Yeah, that's a really good question. Okay, most people at this time think Paul is just evil. Okay, it's like this is not what Jesus taught us. Jesus taught us to believe in ourselves. Jesus would never teach us this demonic thing of sacrifice. Okay? Jesus came to teach us that animal sacrifice, human sacrifice, it's all evil. Okay? He got rid of that. [snorts] But again, so at this time in history, Paul's church, Paul's followers are only limited amount. Okay? Very few people. But he doesn't care because he's building the found the blueprint for an empire. Does that make sense? Okay. So when the Romans force this religion on everyone now everyone has to obey this you understand if you actually from first principles try to convince people the Catholic church is right you can't really convince that many people but guess what guys doesn't matter because most most people are born into the Catholic church so they are born believing this stuff okay so so they can't really think for themselves [snorts] all right but also remember cannibalism is very common throughout history so these are the Aztecs who will engage in cannonism in order to uh prepare for war in order to sacrifice um others for for for the gods. Okay. Uh again, this is the Magnolian culture and we found um lots of places where they engage in cannibalism during funerals. Okay? And as you can see, it's very common. It's very common throughout the world at this time. And it makes sense if you think about it, right? If this person is someone you love and he was very special to you and you want him to still help you in life to guide you in life and you consume his body, a part of his body, then he'll stay with you forever. Okay? And this is a way to build group cohesion in this time. Remember this is the ice age. So it's very hard to survive [snorts] and um but of course not everyone practices this as well. Okay. Uh the red are those who practice cannibalism during funerals. The blue are just those who just bury the body and and don't practice cannibalism. Um so what you're not taught is among the elite this sort of stuff goes on a lot. So this is 19th century in Victorian Britain and this is you know the the British Empire. And guess what guys? What they like to do is they like to uh steal mummies from Egypt and eat these mummies because they believe that these mummies had some magic qualities. Okay, so this goes back to the 19th century. And you think to yourself, oh, you know what? In the 12th century, we are so much more advanced. We don't do this crap anymore. Right? Unfortunately, this is Albert Einstein's brain. Albert Einstein before he died said, "Please, please, whatever you do, do not dissect my brain." Okay, I know I know you think I'm I'm the greatest genius in the world and you want to know how my brain works, but I'm telling you right now, my brain is so different from your brain. Please, whatever you do, do not dissect my brain. So, of course, a doctor steals his brain and cuts it into different pieces. Okay? Now, let me ask you this question. Let's just say this doctor were to take his brain and makes a medicine out of it. Okay? He takes his brain, cuts up into like 100 different parts. And then he takes this medicine and he sells it to rich people for a million dollars. Could he find 100 rich people who would pay a million dollars to eat ice brain? Yes. Okay. So, as I'm telling you, the rich are insane. All right. My my wife tells me that when I die, it's possible they might want to dissect my brain as well. So, um please don't do so, okay? Because my brain's no different from anyone else's brain. Okay. You won't find the secret of my creativity with my brain. All right. All right. So, um, Yep. Alan, can you read, please? >> Yeah. Indeed, the body does not consist of one member, but of many. If the foot would say because I am not a band, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the air would say because I'm not an eye, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it it is God arranging the member of the body, each one of them as he choose, if all were a single members, where would the body be? As it is, there are many members yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you. Nor against the hat to the fa feet, I have no need of you. On the contrary, the members of the body that seems to be weaker are indispensable. And those members of the body that we think less uh let me see honorable we close with greater order. And our less respectable members are treated with greater respects. Whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body giving the greater honor to the inferior member that there that the there may be no >> dension >> dissension within the body. But the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffers together with it. If one member is honored, all rejoice together with it. >> Okay? So what he's saying is this. Okay? When you consume the body of Christ, you've all consume a part of him, right? And so we we need to come together as a people, as a church to form the whole body of Jesus. And that means that you must do what others tell you to do. Okay? This requires complete obedience if we are to resurrect Jesus in our church. Does that make sense guys? Okay, keep on going. >> Now you are the body of Christ and individually member of it and God has appointed in the church first a postlets second prophets. Third teachers, then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, form of assistance, form of leadership, various kind of tongues. Are all all are allost apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all inter interpret? But strive for the greater gift as I will show you a still more excellent way. >> Okay. So, do you understand what's going on? Okay. No matter who you are, no what you do, what's important is your sacrifice to Jesus to obey him completely. Okay. So, this is all ordained by Jesus. All right. Uh Emer, can you read the yellow, please? >> Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist of on its own way. It is not >> irritable, >> irritable and resentful. It does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoice in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endearest all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end. As for tongues, they will cease. As for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we all know only [snorts] in part, and we prophecy only in part. But when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child. I thought like a child. I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now, we see in a mirror dimly, but then we will cease face to face. Now I know only in part. Then I will know fully even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three. And the greatest of these is love. >> Okay. So you understand Paul does susty. So you think the word is love. Great love. We love Jesus. The word actually means obedience, right? If you join the church, what is required for you is complete obedience to Jesus. Do you understand that you and I are slave to Jesus? Remember when we commit the original sin, when we did evil, we became slaves to the devil. When Jesus killed us, it's because he sorry when Jesus died, it was to ransom us from the devil. So now we are slaves to Jesus and therefore we must obey him completely. Okay? No argument, no opinion, no individual individuality, just complete obedience to Jesus. So you can see the power of this, right? He he switches these words. He's saying that slavery is now love. Okay? When a human master enslaves you, that's evil. But when Jesus enslaves you, it's good because now it's love. It's because Jesus loves you. That's why he enslaves you. But now, because he loves you, you must obey him completely. And that means never ever question the authority of the church. Never ever do that because that's evil. Okay. All right. Uh can you read Alan? What I'm saying, brothers and sisters, is this. Flesh and blood blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Nor does a perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I will tell you a mystery. We will not all die, but we will all be changed in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump trumper trumpet. For the trumpeter went sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishably, and this mortal body must put on immort immortality. When this perishable body puts on imperishable uh imperish ability and this mortal body mortal body puts an immortal immortality then the saying that is written will be fulfilled. Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where oh death is your victory where O death is your sting. The sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, inmovable, always exceeding in the works of the Lord because you know that in the Lord your labor is not too vain. >> So this is why you must obey him completely because now you are guaranteed access to heaven, eternal paradise. Okay, pretty good deal, right? be a slave for 40 years, 50 years. Be the be the best hardworking slave for the for the next 40 50 years and then you have eternal paradise because that is Jesus promise to you. Okay. The the defeat of death. >> I think according to the original belief of Jesus which Jesus led us to pursue our uh divine spark, right? That's the real way to heaven. But but doing this I think like after people die they will find out that they cannot really go to heaven because they are slaves. >> Yeah. No one cares. >> Yeah. >> Right. It doesn't matter because you're dead. Right. Because the entire point of the system is to extract as much energy out of you as possible while you're alive. Right. Because Paul's real [clears throat] um customers are the patriarchs. It's the patriarchs who are paying for this and the patriarchs who will force their slaves to convert to this religion. Okay? So maybe the slaves don't um buy this but their children will because their children will be brainwashed into this. Okay? And this explains why the Catholic Church is the most powerful organization today. All right. So um now that we've gone into how he actually thinks, let's go over to his psychology. Okay. So what motivated Paul to do what he did? Because he worked really hard. And so there are three possible explanations. The first explanation is he was a Roman agent and his mission was to destroy me Judaism from within. What we'll learn next class is that Judaism is a huge problem for the Romans. And so um while the Jews are praying for me of war, Paul says, "No, no, no. Jesus was a messiah of peace." Okay? So he's trying to subvert the Jews from within. But you could also argue that Paul was actually a Jewish spy who sub who's trying to subvert the Roman Empire by spreading the Jewish faith. Okay, you could also argue that. I would argue it's both. Both are true, right? The real So I think that what really happened is Paul had a calling to create his own religious empire. Okay? He wanted to become God himself. So there's a famous joke. The joke goes like this. God and Satan are having an argument. God says, "My people, the humans, have found religion. Therefore, you've lost." And Satan says, "Well, I'll just organize it, okay? I'll create churches out of it." And that's what Paul did. Jesus came to tell us the truth. And Paul says, "I'll use this truth and I'll make an empire out of it." Okay? All right. So, there's an analogy here. This is his name is Ray Croc, and he created the Mc Empire McDonald's. Okay. How did he do? So he took an idea McDonald's and he went around America and he created McDonald's. Okay, so McDonald's is like it's like the church. If you go to McDonald's anywhere in the world, it's the same it's almost the same building, same menu. Okay, so it so it follows a very similar pattern to Paul's building of the church. Paul was able to succeed because he because he spread a religion. Ray Croc succeeded because he also spread a religion as well. All right. So what he did was not convince people to buy h to to eat hamburgers. He didn't need to do that. What he needed what he needed to do was convince small business owners to invest McDonald's to buy the franchise of McDonald's by spreading the idea of of the gospel of wealth. If you invest in me, if you build, if you open McDonald's, you'll become wealthy and that is paradise. Okay. So, basically, Ray Croc and Paul were doing the same thing. All right. So, Paul has this business idea. Let's just take Jesus and turn him empire. And so, he's going to make different sales pitches to different people. Okay? So, we're going to imagine, okay, and this is just a thought experiment. It didn't really happen. We're going to imagine Paul making a pitch to the Roman patriarchs, right? He's saying, "Why should you invest in me?" Because one, we will cause debate and division within the Jewish diaspora. Okay? So, some will convert, but some will not. But who cares? Because now they're fighting each other, not fighting us. Okay? That's number one. Number two is we will make their messiah of war into a messiah of peace. Okay? And that will weaken their resolve. And the third is we can now spiritually enslave the the people. Okay? and they'll work harder for us. So that's a sales pitch of Paul to the Romans. But there's also a sales pitch he can make to the Jewish leaders as well. Let us spread our faith to the Gentiles and eleate our status as a chosen people. Okay? Let us make our Torah in Jerusalem divine in the eyes of the world. And guess what? It worked. Right? Even today, everyone thinks that Jerusalem is the holy city in the world. Let us make ourselves a service of the empire and ally with a Roman patriarchy so that we can subvert them from within. All right. And it worked. Now, not all Jews did this, but a lot did follow uh Paul into Christianity. Christianity is a platform for the Jews and the Romans work together. [snorts] All right. But now what's what Paul is going to make a sales pitch to the Greeks and the Jews. Okay. And this is what he says. A few decades of obedience for turning to join paradise. Right? That's number one. Number two is it's you to join. You don't you don't have to get circumcised. Okay. And and the third is Jesus will return any day now. So hurry up before it's too late, guys. 50% off today. All right. DO IT NOW. 50% OFF. All right. That was that's literally his message. All right. And that's why he's so successful. 50% off. All right. So, what this is Augustine, okay? And this is after the Catholic Church becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire. And what um Austin will do is he will write a book called city of God and he will put the Catholic church above Rome. Okay? Because Rome is just a temporal earthly city but Jerusalem is divine city. He's saying that the Catholic Church is now Jerusalem. We don't need the Roman Empire anymore because now we have the Catholic Church. Okay? The Catholic Church is a community of believers. As long as you believe in Jesus, you'll be saved. So obviously it's going to take Paul's ideas and systemize it to create the Catholic Church. Okay? So Emma, can you read please? >> It was in secret that the first human beings began to be evil and the result was that they slipped into open disobedience. >> Okay, so this is really important. Jesus said there's divine spark in us, right? Sense, yes, there's divine spark, but it's from Satan, guys. It's not from God. It's from Satan. That's why we cannot trust the divine spark because we're evil. Keep on going. for they would not have arrived at the evil act if an evil would have not preceded it. Now could anything but pride have been the start of the evil will for pride is the start of every kind of sin. >> So you know Jesus says to to follow your own heart right and oxy says no no no that leads to pride and pride is evil. Pride means you want to be better than God. Pride means you want to kill God. Therefore it is inherently evil. Therefore, the heart inside you comes from Satan. Okay, keep on going. >> And what is pride except a longing for a preserved kind of exultation? >> For it is a preserved kind of exaltation to abandon the basis on which the mind should be firmly fixed and to become as it were based on oneself and so remain. This happens when a man is too pleased with himself and a man is self-complacent when he deserts that changeless good in which rather than in himself he ought to have found it his satisfaction. This desertion is voluntary. For if the will had remained unshaken in its love of the higher changes good which shed on it light to see and kindled in its fire to love, it would not have been diverted from this love to follow its own pleasure. and the will would not have been so darkened and chilled in consequence as to let the woman believe that the serpent had spoken to the truth and a man to put his wife's will above God's commandment and to suppose that his was a v >> venial >> venial transgression when he refused to desert his life's companion uh companion even though the refusal entailed companionship is insin we exist to obey God. All right. Jesus taught us that we exist in order to be creative, in order to seek truth for ourselves. But obviously Paul teaches us that we exist in order to obey God. Why? Because we cannot trust ourselves. Okay. >> Yeah. >> I have a question. So does that mean um the believers of the Catholic Church should not take pride in their identity as a part of the uh like a part of the church or does that also mean that they cannot be will in a way they can't find satisfaction in partaking in the great mission of the Catholic church. >> Okay. So the Catholic church uh has certain teachings. Okay. The first teaching is the idea of original sin which is we are born evil and it's Christ that redeems us. That's number one. Number two is we cannot think for ourselves because we will be led astray by the devil. We must listen to the priest. We should not read the Bible for ourselves because we'll get confused by it. Okay. All right. Then and and that's what leads to reformation. >> Okay. So >> and the the and the priests are the represent representative of God on earth. The pope has supreme authority. >> Oh, >> okay. Yes. >> So if the pope tells you to take pride in being a part of the church, you can't be like you are allowed >> the pope is the word of God. What whatever the pope says is the word of God. Okay. >> Okay. Okay. >> Okay. It's that simple. >> So uh I have a question. >> Go ahead. Yeah. Go ahead. uh like if we if we really like try to pursue the original Jesus to believe that is to pursue our uh divine spark but pride is a thing that we cannot avoid right >> yes you will make mistakes right yeah >> so Jesus says it's okay it's okay to make mistakes it's okay to screw up you'll be forgiven whereas Catholic church says it's not okay to screw up >> oh >> yeah do you understand all right >> okay can you read can you Thus the evil act, the transgression of eating the forbidden fruit was committed only when those who did it were already evil. That bad fruit could only have come from a bad tree. >> Okay, so we're born evil. Okay, it's that simple. Keep on going. >> Further, the badness of the tree came about contrary to nature because without the fault in the will which is against nature, it certainly could not have happened. But only a nature created out of nothing could have been distorted by a thought. Consequently, although the well drives its existence as nature from its creation by God, it's failing away from its true being is due to its creation out of nothing. >> Okay? So why are we evil? Why can't we trust ourselves? Why can we be easily swayed by s by Satan? The reason why is the Bible tells us that we are created out of dust. We're created out of nothing. Okay? In other words, we are a failed science experiment. Okay? That's why we suck. >> That's why we must believe in the church. All right? So, this is the Augustine. All right. Um C can you read? >> Yet man did not fall away to the extent of losing all being. But when he had turned towards himself, his being was less real than when he adhered to him who exist in a supreme degree. And so to abandon God and to exist in oneself that is to please oneself is not immediately to lose all being but it is to come near to nothingness. That is why the proud are given another name in holy scripture. They are called self-pleasers. Now it is good to lift up your heart and to exalt your thoughts yet not in the self- worship of pride but in the worship of God. This is a sign of obedience and obedience can belong only to the humble. So you must obey the church completely. Okay? Because divine spark in you, it's out of nothingness. It can only lead you to evil. Okay? So only way the only solution now is to is to obey the church completely. >> And I think that kind of answered my question too. >> Yep. >> So like for because I think I believe in the original. >> No, no, it doesn't matter what you believe. >> I don't care what you believe. I only care about what the Catholic Church is teaching you. Okay. Can can we also see >> we're not having an argument about what who's right, who's wrong. Yeah. >> I don't want that. Okay. >> I I want you to understand what the Catholic Church is teaching you. >> Like can we can we also see the like people eat eat the fruit from that tree also as a mistake that we can just like the original Jesus believe that we can be forgiven. >> Jesus thought that what Eve did was correct. >> Oh. >> All right. Okay. All right. So Alan you read please [snorts] >> this is why humility humility is highly priced in the city of god and especially enjoyed on the city of gods during the time of its pilgrimage in this world and it receives particular emphasis in the character of Christ the king of the that city. We are also taught by the sacred scriptures that the thought of exaltation the contrary of humility exercise supreme dominion in Christ's adversary the devil this is assuredly the greatest different that thunders the two cities in which we are speaking the one is a community of devout men the other a company of the in rel in religious and each has its own angle angels attached to it. In one city, love of God has been given first place. In the other, love of self. >> Okay. So, it's it's that simple. Okay. If you obey, you are doing the work of God. If you disobey, you're doing the work of the devil. It's that simple. Okay. All right. Uh can you keep on reading? And and and this this will end the uh Yeah. >> In the heavenly city, then there will be freedom of well. It will be one and the same freedom in all and invis individ indivisible in the separate individuals. It will be freed from all evil and filled with all good enjoying unfailingly the delight of internal joys, forgetting all offenses, forgetting all punishments. >> So when when we have freedom, okay, we we're slaves now, but when when we have freedom, when we have when we're with God, because only when we're with God, can we know what is good, okay? And then we have complete freedom. But what he means by freedom of course is complete obedience. Now we want even think about disobeying God. Okay? That's what freedom is. All right? So uh the Catholic Church grows the the Roman Empire makes it the official religion because it does three things. Okay? And we discussed this. The first is that now you're better to exploit your slaves. They're now more hardworking because before if they were lazy, they might get whipped, right? But they're lazy now, they will burn in hell for all for all of eternity. That's number one. Number two is this is really important. You have all this gold, right? The problem with all this gold is people can can steal it. People can kill you for it, right? But now you have spiritual authority. Now you represent God. Now you're head of a church, right? And therefore people can't kill you because if they kill you, God will come and kill them. Okay, it's a pretty good deal, right? Before you were a king, but now you're a god. What a great deal. And the last thing of course is now what you can do is you can now expand and expand and expand your empire. Okay. Um, so let me explain why this is relevant today. Okay? Because now that the Catholic Church is around, these dynasties of Rome can continue on to today through the Catholic Church, right? Does that make sense to you guys? Because now they can store their power in the Catholic Church. If you put your gold in the Catholic Church, no one's going to come and steal it, right? Because they don't want to incur the wrath of God. That's that's why the Catholic Church will give rise to something to to some to people called the black nobility. Okay, these are 13 families from Rome that still run the world today. >> Okay, we'll discuss this later on. >> All right, we'll discuss how the Catholic Church and the black nobility work together. Second something you need to understand is what allowed the Catholic Church to dominate is this alliance between the black nobility and Jews. Guess what guys? It still happens today. Okay. The third thing is what allows for the system to work are these secret societies where through rituals these powerful people are bound together. Okay. And so these three ideas the black nobility the alliance between black nobility and the Jews and the third are secret societies is the power structure we have today. All right. That's the power of the Catholic church. That is the genius of Paul to create a system that continues even today because it is so powerful and um so strategic. Okay, does that make sense? All right, we'll discuss this later on as well, but I present the idea to you today. All right, some questions. Okay, um my wife sends send sends me more questions. Okay. Um, this person wants to know what's the difference between the Catholic Church, the Protestants, and the Eastern Orthodox. Um, so the Eastern Orthodox is the church of Augustine. It doesn't it didn't really change. The Protestants are those who rebel against the teachings of Paul and Augustine. And the Catholic Church is sort of in between. Okay? But we'll discuss this more um as we go along. All right. Uh the Greek mystery schools, are they still around today? And the answer is yes. Of course, they're still around today because they allow the elite to work together. Okay? They they allow the elite to trust each other. Okay? And again, um they come from the Greek mystery schools. All right? Psychopaths. What do we do with these people? Right? You have these psychopaths who run the world. They can't they don't feel regret. They don't forgive each other. So how do we perceive these people? Okay. And there are different solutions. Um the first solution is to appreciate the idea of karma. So yes, they are powerful to like like in this lifetime but maybe next lifetime they become slaves. So they can feel for themselves the evil that they've done onto other people. Okay. Um, another idea is in the world of today, psychopaths will always war. Only evil will war because that's just the structure of this universe. In this universe that we live in, the devil is always king. Okay? And there's no way around it. So, we're here not to um fight these people. We're here to learn wisdom in a world of evil. So, don't worry about them. Just worry about yourself. Okay. The third thing to think about is if you really understood how these people live their lives, you would feel sorry for them. All right? So remember the Iliad where Achilles triumphs over Hector, but rather than feeling joy and happiness, he feels only sadness and he can't even cry. Okay? He he becomes a zombie. And you can make the argument that the wealthy people are like that today. Yeah, they look like as though they're happy. They have billions of dollars but they're not happy. Okay? If you actually live their lives, if you see the world through their eyes, you would see that they're very unhappy people. So don't hate them. Feel pity for them. Okay. So there are different ways of understanding this. All right. Okay. This is a great question. Okay. I love this question. If the Romans are the ones who killed Jesus, why don't the Jews don't speak up? Why don't the Jews say, "We didn't do it, man." Okay, so this is really complicated. Uh, but the simple answer is there's an agreement between the Catholic Church and the Jews. Okay, the agreement is this. The Catholic Church needed scapegoats, needed people for other people to hate. Okay? And the Jews agreed in order to practice their religion. Does that make sense? All right? I know this sounds terrible, but the only way for the Jews to survive as a people is if they agree to be scapegoats for Christians. All right? And we'll discuss this later on. And and that's why um if you look at [clears throat] Europe for these 2,000 years, what the Christians did to the Jews was just horrific. Okay? And the Jews could not speak up because if they did, the Catholic Church might get rid of them. Okay? Um, this person says, "James the just, Jesus' brother, he was killed by the Jews, right?" No, no, no. Ask yourself this question. Who is most threatened by James the Just? The answer, of course, is Paul. It was Paul who had him killed. Okay. In in 70, the Romans destroyed the temple. And that time would would have been the perfect time to kill James the Just. James was probably protected by the Jews. Okay? But Paul saw as a threat because as long as James just was alive, he's the ultimate authority on Jesus. Right. Paul cannot steal the legacy from uh James the Just. Therefore, he had to had to had get this guy killed. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. How do you know if you see the truth and reject a lie? The answer is really simple, guys. How do you know if you love someone? You just do, guys. Okay. I'm sorry. If you don't know you love someone, you probably don't love that person. All right. When you love someone, your heart glows. You feel stronger. You are more energetic. All right? If you don't if you are in a relationship, but you become weaker, you feel tired, you lose hope, you probably don't love that person. That that person probably doesn't love you. Okay? It's that simple, guys. If you How do you know you're in love? You just do. How do you know you see the truth? You just do. All right. [snorts] Um, you cannot trust a human. The Bible clearly states the one who bring evil to this world stands above all humankind. Therefore, you will find truth. No, no, no, no. This is what Paul says. This is what Oxin said. Oxen says, "You do know. You know in your heart." Okay. All right. That's that's it. Any questions, guys? Before we conclude. Okay. Great. So, uh we'll continue this next class. Okay.

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Okay, good morning class. Um, so we have five more classes in the semester and the four last classes are the most important. So what what I will do this class is set up the uh background and context for the last four classes. So um what I want to do first is review what what we've learned so far. Okay, so we discussed the um Roman Republic. the Roman Republic and it was essentially an oligarchy. Okay, so oligarchy just means rule by the few. So it's very much like Sparta. It is a war society. And at this point in history, the fact that the Roman Republic was an oligarchy, basically it had about 100 families that commanded it. Okay? And these were called the Petricians. It was actually to the advantage of um Rome because at this time Rome was small um it was poor. It was at war. Okay. So in other words, even though there was nobility, they were not that much better off than other people and everyone knew each other. So they were very um open, energetic and cohesive society. And so over time they became the most dominant society in the Mediterranean. They defeated um Carthage, they defeated the Greeks. But now that they're an empire, the fact that Rome is an oligarchy is a huge problem because now they are corrupt, um unequal and stagnant. And one way that we know is um Roman women just start to refuse to have children. Okay, so they were dying as a society. And at this point in history, what should happen is that they should build an imperial bureaucracy, a centralized centralized um system in order to better manage the empire. Well, they couldn't really do that because the oligarchy, the families, which now are about 50, okay? They refused to give up power. So rather than a centralized um bureaucracy, the Roman Empire was in many ways um a system in which different families have different territories. And what this led to was constant civil war. Okay, civil war. And remember um it started with Sula and then it went on to Julius Caesar and after Julius Caesar August of Caesar became the first among equals but he still failed to set up the bureaucracy. Okay. And so it kept on leading to war. Eventually what happened was that Constantine decided this system doesn't work. So what what I need to do is I need to reinvent the Roman people. And you do that by moving the capital from Rome to a new place he calls Conanopole. Okay? Which now becomes the Basantine Empire. Okay? And the Russian Empire now because it's a new culture, it can now become a bureaucracy. In fact, their official language becomes Greek. It's a Greek bureaucracy. Okay? And this this is what we call the second Rome. At the same time, while this is happening, you have a massive migration of the steps people. Okay, they're coming into Europe from many different locations. Why is this happening? Because in China, the Han dynasty is waging a war against the steps demonatic people. Okay, the people who call the Shongu then so they're forced westwards which forces the other steps people to migrate into Europe and into Central Asia. Okay. So these people are called the Goffs and this is a huge problem for Rome because their people are not having children and they have all these massive migration coming in from the steps. And so what the Romans decided to do is divide and rule. And so what this means is that a lot of them are absorbed into the army as mercenaries and as soldiers in order to defend the border in order to fight these civil wars. Now remember last class we talked about the rise of the Catholic Church. Okay. And we discussed how the Catholic Church was in many ways being supported by these noble families. Not all of them supported the Catholic Church, but some of them did. And those that did had a huge advantage because now what they can do is absorb these new migrants into the society where they're at the top and the uh migrants are at the bottom. Okay. Then the question then is why would the migrants agree to this? The reason why is in the society it is very egalitarian. And for war purposes they would they would elect a war leader. Okay. But with this system with the Catholic church system there this war leader can now become a nobility. Okay. They can now join the 50 families to form a new nobility. Okay. Does that make sense guys? All right. All right. So at this point in history when Constantine sets up the Bison Empire now the Roman Empire is going to divide into two a western part a western part [snorts] and an eastern part. And these two parts are going to have very different fates. The eastern part is still part of the Middle East. Okay, the Lavant, Anatolia, Egypt and so it is the wealthiest part of um the empire and as such it engages in wars with the um Persian Empire. Okay. And this will define most of its history. Its capital Consenopol was designed to be invincible. You could not lay siege to it. You could not conquer it. And as such, the Bison Empire was stable. In fact, it lasted for about a thousand years, which is very very impressive. Okay. And as I said, it's very wealthy. And so therefore it's really able to dominate um the world through mainly trade and diplomacy. Okay. So it became an imperial bureaucracy. It fought wars but it usually used a lot of mercenaries because it had a lot of wealth. All right. So that's the Eastern Empire. And guess what guys? This is very similar to China. Okay. So, think about China. When you think about the Bison Empire, they're not the same, but they're very similar in how they organize the society. The Western Empire is very different because it's the poorest part of Europe. The other thing about this region is that there are lots of natural barriers. [snorts] And so, you have like these competing societies emerging, okay? different cultures, different societies, and they're protected by mountains, by forests, by rivers. So, there's a lot of diversity. There's a lot of diversity within the western uh empire. And so, the power that emerges is actually the Catholic Church. And as Western Europe increases in power and Eastern Europe uh in decreases in power, the Catholic Church will increase in power as well. Okay. How the Catholic Church come dominate Western Europe? Because the west because Catholic Church believes it is out of history. Okay. So you kings, you compete for who rules the earth. But we, the Catholic Church, we decide who goes to heaven. Okay? So the Catholic Church becomes the dominant power in Western Europe. In fact, you can say that they are the empire now. But they are a spiritual empire, a divine empire that is out of history and which speaks for God. And as such they become a very powerful empire as well. Okay. And this leads to tremendous conflicts throughout Western Europe. Okay. But there's a problem with the Catholic church and we discussed this last class with the Catholic Church. It's trying to control the divine spark. Remember Jesus came to tell us that there's a divine spark in us. And as long as we try to glow this divine spark, we can be with God. And the c the Catholic Church says, "No, no, no. This divine spark, it is that of the devil and we must imprison it." Okay? And this works most of the time. But now and then you have religious leaders who arise and said, "No, no, no. The divine spark is within us." And so this leads to a lot of conflict. And ultimately the solution the Catholic Church proposes is the idea of crusades where warriors go and um kill those who believe in the divine spark. And then they set up a secret police called the acquisition in order to search for those who oppose the Catholic Church. Okay. the inquisition. Um the the the major idea is if you believe in the divine spark, you're not an evil person, you're a stupid person because you don't know better. So the idea of acquisition is to educate you in the truth which is divine spark is that of Satan, that of the devil and therefore you must obey the Catholic Church. But if you insist on defying the Catholic Church, then you are a heretic and therefore you must burn at the stake before you can pollute other people. Okay? Now eventually what will happen is that as a conflict in Western Europe gets worse and worse certain states will break away from the control of the Catholic Church and they will embrace a new religion called Protest Protestantism. Okay. And this something we'll discuss next class. Okay. So that's a history of Western Europe. Okay. So now I want to talk about Constantine and the rise of the Bentim Empire. So Constantine is what he does that's very important is that he makes Christianity the official religion of Rome. So before Constantine you had Christian emperors but they did not make Christian the official religion but he made Christian the official religion. Okay. The problem though we discussed this last class is that Christian it's a franchise model. So different churches teach different things and so Constantine was like no we can't have this debate if we if we'll make this the official religion what we need to do is have one orthodoxy a unified ideology. Okay. All right. So at this time in history there are two major debates or two major source source of confusion. The first is what we call christologology. What this is is the question of like what's the nature of Jesus. Okay remember the story is that Jesus is in heaven then he comes to earth. Mary gives birth to Jesus. Then Jesus preaches his message, the gospel. Then he is killed and he is resurrected and then he returns to heaven. Okay, that's the official story of Christianity. But there are lots of problems with the story as you can imagine. If Jesus is the vine, how did Mary give birth to Jesus? Right? If you're a human woman and you give birth to a god, that means that you're God yourself. Okay? Right? So, who is Mary and what is her power? Second question then is, is Jesus divine or is he human? Okay? Because if he's human, he dies. That's a sacrifice, right? But if you're divine, you can't die. So, his death and his resurrection doesn't make any sense. Okay. So, so this is a problem Christologology. Is Jesus human or is he divine? And there are different interpretations. Okay. The first interpretation is Jesus is divine in heaven, but he's human in the world. Okay, does that make sense? So, yes, Mary gave birth to Jesus, but she gave birth to the human Jesus and not the divine Jesus because you cannot give birth to divine God. Okay? And that's why his death makes sense because the because the Jesus who died was the human Jesus but once he died and he was resurrected then he went to heaven. Okay, that's that's one explanation that Jesus is really human. Another explanation is no Jesus is divine. So Mary the death doesn't really matter. Okay, he's just divine. Okay, so both are possibilities. What the church says officially is Jesus is human and divine at the same time. Okay, this is the official ideology of the church. This makes no sense, guys. All right, but that's what um you're taught. And so there are a lot of course people who are like this is a stupid idea. Okay. And these people are called the Neestorans. And they were persecuted by the Catholic Church. And so they went to Persia. Okay? They went to the Middle East. They went to Persia. They went to Arabia where they spread the message of Jesus. They taught Jesus as a human as opposed to a God. They taught that Jesus was a messenger. Okay? Which is what I taught you, right? that he's really a messenger of the monad. All right. So, does that make sense? Okay. Now, now the second debate is actually more confusing than the first debate. Okay. And it has to do with the nature of the three powerful forces, right? The three gods. You have God, the ultimate God, and you have Jesus and you have the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God expressed in the world. Okay? So, when you have a when someone speaks to you, you think it's God. It's actually not God. It's the Holy Spirit. All right. So now the question is what's the relationship between these three God, Jesus and Holy Spirit? And again there are different explanations and they kind of make sense. Okay. So the first is the idea of modalism. Modalism is the is the idea that Jesus and God and Holy Spirit are just different modes of the same thing. They just change. So when Jesus is is in heaven, he's God. When Jesus comes to earth as a human, he's just Jesus. And then when Jesus wants to communicate with us, he's the Holy Spirit. Okay? So remember, but Paul talked to Jesus, but Paul didn't really talk to Jesus. Paul talked to the Holy Spirit. Okay? So it's the same force but expressed differently. Okay, that makes sense, right? Second is the idea of partialism. Partialism is just the idea that God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit all part of the same divine force. Okay? something of an ocean, right? The Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean is huge, but there are different parts to it, right? So that's the idea of partial that makes sense too, right? Okay. The third idea is the idea of Arinism. Aryanism [snorts] and Aryanism is just the idea that God came first and therefore and then afterwards he created Jesus. So in other words, Jesus is God, but he's second to the real God. Okay, that makes sense as well, right? Now, there are problems with all three. Okay, the first problem is if you read the Bible, Jesus talks to God. Jesus talks to the Holy Spirit. That's kind of confusing because why would Jesus talk to himself? Okay, so there's a lot of inconsistencies in the Bible. Okay, so this doesn't really work. Partialism doesn't work either because if you think about it, if God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit are part of a divine aspect, then that divine aspect should be God, right? Not these three. Okay, that doesn't this doesn't really make sense. And arenism doesn't really make sense because the entire point of Christianity is to say that Jesus is God, right? We worship Jesus, not God. So if you're saying that God's superior, why shouldn't we worship God instead of Jesus? Okay. So this is problemat problematic as well. So what Constantine did was he organized all the bishops of the different churches to come to Nikia. It's called the council of Nikia. Okay. In order to come up with a solution to this problem. And their solution is actually even more problematic than these three. Okay? And it's called the Holy Trinity. So, let's go over the Holy Trinity. What the Holy Trinity says is this. God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, they are separate. Okay? But they are equal. They are separate, but they're part of the same thing. Okay? They're both separate and they are equal to each other. Okay? Now, if you think about it, it makes actually no sense whatsoever. The only solution this problem is that this holy trinity is both nothing and everything at the same time. It becomes reality on to itself. Okay. And the only way to understand this is to accept this as a reality. All right? So I know there's confusion confusion but think of the idea of money. Right? Okay. So the idea of money is both nothing and everything. Okay? Money is nothing but it can be everything at the same time as well because it symbolizes wealth. Okay? Does that make sense? Right? So none of this actually makes any sense. And the only way that it makes sense is if you force it to make sense. If you just memorize it. So think of math class. Okay guys, I'm not sure if you appreciate this, but the entire point of math class is to make you stupid. Okay? Why? Because it is impossible for you to reason using mathematics. Because mathematics doesn't really apply to the world. So only thing that you can do is just memorize the formulas and apply the formulas to each other. Okay? And that just requires massive memorization and regurgitation. That's why if you think about it, the best ma ma mathematicians are always in their 20s or 30s because you because your brain has to be like really energetic in order to process this information. But the older you get, the less capable you are in mathematics. Okay? Does it make sense? This is really important guys. The more math you learn, the stupid you become. Okay? But this goes against say um philosophy or teaching, right? The older you get, the worse you become. Why? Because the information that you're learning, you can apply to reality and then figure out what information makes sense as you as you test this information against reality. Okay. All right. Okay. So then the question then is why would they do this? And the answer is very simple. To make you stupid. Okay. So, so let's let let's just use a an analogy. Let's do a thought experiment. The sky is blue, right? So, we know the sky is blue. And now we're like, okay, why is the sky blue? And is it always blue? And why are certain things blue? Okay, from this I from this verb principle, the sky is blue. You can now start to ask more questions. You can based on this idea start to reason out more things. Okay, does that make sense? But let's just say I change. I say the sky is red. You're like, "No, the sky is blue." I'm say, "No, no, the sky is red." If you do not say the sky is red, you are a heretic. I will burn you at the steak. You're like, "Okay, all right. So, what you're saying is this. You're saying that blue is red. Red is blue." And I'm and I'm like, "No, no, no. Blue is blue. Red is red. the sky is is red and you're like that makes no sense and it's like okay well then I don't care because if you do not say the sky is red I will burn you to sick okay I will fail you in school okay you understand so another way of saying this is your brain uh the way it process information is by using logic right okay so think think about building think about building Okay, think of a building. Okay, well, this makes sense, right? You're just stacking build like blocks on top of each other to build a building, right? But let's just say I make you I say, "No, no, this is what the building looks like. Okay, this is empty." You're like, "Well, that makes no sense." Okay. So, what I've done by forcing the idea of the holy trinity onto you is I've basically taken a part of your logical system of of your brain and emptied it out. So, it's impossible for you to connect things. Okay? Because from this, what you can do is say, well, now I can just keep on building more things, right? But if the principle is there's a layer that's that is unseen or unobable, you can't build on top of it. Okay. So your brain ceases to be able to process and be creative. Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah. And I saw like people who learn math well and also like they have strong ability in computer science. They all like work in Silicon Valley and they are wealthy. But I think that also aligns our concept that they are pursuing the materialistic and they are you know the world is ruled by Satan. Is that true? >> Yeah. Okay. Um we'll talk about this later. Okay. But but yeah, if you work in Silicon Valley, uh you are a materialistic person who is incapable of of thinking spiritually. Yes, that that is correct. Also like also remember like people who do computer computer engineering and do mathematics like they're at the best in their 20s and 30s by the time they reach over 40 they kind of burn out. Okay? Because you know for for your brain to process all this um eventually burns out. Okay? Does that make sense? So again, I hate to say this, but math makes you stupid. All right. All right. Um, is is that clear, guys? Any questions? Okay. But as you can see, what's happening is that because people are forced to learn this, they don't want to learn this. And this starts a series of wars within the Roman Empire because Constantine and the Bison Empire is going to enforce this orthodoxy onto every Christian church and it starts a series of wars. Okay. At the same time the Bisantines they are fighting the Sassin Persia. Assassin Persia. Okay. Egypt, the Levant, and this is Arabia. Okay, so guys, this is really important. This is a time in history, this this about 500 to 600 where there's a lot of conflict going on. Okay, remember the first major conflict is between Bisantine and Sassin Persians. Okay. The second major conflict is the church orthodoxy against um the independent church franchises. Okay. So the B empire is trying to enforce the orthodoxy on all different churches who refuse to who refuse the Holy Trinity because it's such a silly idea. Okay. What this is going to do is it's going to force Christians over to the Sassin as well as Arabia, the desert. Okay? And these these are called Nestorians. Now, and again, they believe that Jesus is a divine messenger as opposed to um God on earth. Okay? Also, we have the Jews as well. Okay? because the Jews keep on resisting against the Romans because the the Romans forced the Jews to obey Christianity and so the Jews escape into Arabia. Okay. And at the same time the Jews want to return to Jerusalem. Right now, what's interesting is that most people don't know this, but Arabia is at this point in history the most energetic, open, and cohesive society um in the Middle East. Okay. So, first of all, it's open because Arabia has always been a point of trade between uh the Levant Egypt and uh the inner valley civilization. Okay. India. Okay. So Arabia they uh do a lot of trading but they also uh great are great fighters because they're great mercenaries. Why? Because as the Sassin and the Romans fight more and more the Arabians are recruited in as mercenaries for their armies and as such they learn the most innovative warfare and they're poor as well. So they're really good fighters. Okay. And now what's happening is that the Arabians, the Arabs are be are are being exposed to new religions, the netoring Christianity as well as Judaism. Okay. And both preach the coming of the Messiah. Okay. So Arabia is rising in energy but the bison empire and the assassinated Persians are decreasing in energy. Okay. The bison are fighting too many wars and they're imposing too much orthodoxy which is turning people into slaves. And because the sass are fighting the the bisonantines in war and as the bison become more orthodox and become more bureaucratic the sass are forced to become much more bureaucratic as well. Much more orthodox as well. And so the Neestorans are also being persecuted by the Sass the Sassin. So the Jews want Jerusalem to return and assassin says to the Jews, "Hey, if you fight for us, we'll return Jerusalem to you." Okay? And so the Bisantines, so the Jews went back to Jerusalem and that piss off the Bisantine. So they come and they kill a lot of Jews. Now the thing about the Jewish tradition is they believe that when they're most persecuted, when all hope is lost, their Messiah will come to save them. Okay? So the Jews are like, "Oh my god, the Messiah is coming. The Messiah is coming." Okay. The historians also believe the Messiah is coming as well. They believe that Jesus is going to return. And all it will take is for one charismatic leader to emerge in the Arabian desert to say, "I'm Messiah. Follow me. What I will promise you is this. I promise you that you will have the right to believe in whatever religion you want because the divine spark is in you and you know how to best celebrate God by yourself. I promise religious tolerance for the Jews, for the Christians, for the Arabs, for everyone. Okay? And so what will happen is this leader will emerge and his name is Muhammad. And Muhammad will unite Arabia and then he will unite the Netorians. He will unite the Jews and they will together fight to get Jerusalem back. They will fight to get to against Persia. And guess what happens? They basically win without much resistance because there's so much anger, so much opposition towards the Sassin Empire as well as the Bison Empire. Plus, both empires are exhausted. And so this gives us the Islamic revolution, right? Okay. The Arabs are able to sweep through and conquer most of the world very very quickly. But when they do so, what happens is that Muhammad dies. And now what's going to happen is they have lots of different factions, right? The Nisorans, the Jews, the Arabs as well. And they're going to fight a civil war amongst themselves as well. And then from the civil war will emerge a new religion that we call Islam. Okay, but remember this is really important. Mohamad himself did not preach Islam. All he preached was I'm Messiah. I'm the messenger of God like Jesus and I will promote religious tolerance. We'll have a community of believers and followers in Jesus. But it doesn't matter if you're Jew. It doesn't matter if you're Christian. It doesn't matter what type Christianity you are. You're free to believe whatever you want because that's what God wants. >> I think it work on the although like Muhammad said that you have the right to believe in your divine spark but I think they all walk on the same road as Paul because they all formed an religion because they follow Muhammad but not follow themselves. >> Okay. So this is really important idea you guys need to understand the messenger of God. Okay, the leader the messiah he's never like I'm God follow me. He's always like, "I'm a messenger of God." And the me message of God is, "You are divine children." That's divine spark is in you. You should not be slaves. I will free you from slavery. I will free you from tyranny. I will free you from poverty. Okay? That's always the messenger. That that's always the message. What will happen later on after some time is you have a figure like polymer emerge who needs I can turn this into my own empire and then organiz religion becomes organized okay that's always the process so think of zor thusa when he first came he was preaching a message he was he was a poet prophet so was Jesus so is homer so was Muhammad but later on people will turn his words into to an empire. Okay, that's always the process. All right. Okay. Clear. All right. Okay. So, let's do the PPT. Okay. So, so, so we can um better understand what happened. Okay. So as we discussed before at this point at this point in history the Roman Empire it's huge but please remember that it's on a bureaucracy and therefore each re region is controlled by a certain noble family okay the patricians and as a result what happened is as okay and and these are like the 50 top families in Rome and there there aren't that many Okay. And then what will happen is there are certain families that will adapt well to the change in the Roman Empire mainly by by embracing ca Catholic religion. Okay. By being early investors in the Catholic Church and as such they will continue on to today. We call these people the black nobility. Okay. All right. So as I mentioned the there are different migrants coming in from the steps. The Huns, the Germanics, the Slavs, they're basically all the steps people. Okay, but they will come into different regions and they will absorb and they will absorb into Europe differently. Okay, in the north they're much more independent and this is where the Vikings are. Okay, these are where the Germans are. They're very independent independent people. But as they approach the Roman Empire, they are assimilated and absorbed by the Roman nobility using the Catholic religion. Okay? And so the people at the very bottom here, they become uh Christians. Okay? But they become different types of Christians and eventually they'll fight fight the Bisantines because the Bisonines want to enforce an Orthodox Christianity onto them. Okay? And uh this is what Europe looks like when the Western Empire falls. Okay, as you can see, there are different societies as well. And again, what makes this possible is the fact that Western Europe, it has a lot of mountains. So it's pretty easy to defend your territory. Okay, so this is Constantine and he is going to make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire when he becomes emperor. Okay. So, so again even even though even even after Julius Caesar the Romans cannot stop cannot help but keep on fighting civil wars and Constantine wins one of them becomes emperor and he moves the capital from Rome all the way to Constantinople. Okay, this is really important because now he can establish a new culture called the Bisantine Empire. Okay, they call themselves Romans but they're not really Romans and more like Greeks. Another major difference is this. Rome is over in Western Europe. Consenapole is off in Eastern Europe. And so now it's and now Rome is now able to defend its wealthy provinces of Anatolia and Egypt much more effectively. Okay. The other thing about Kipole that's really important is it's pretty easy to defend. Okay? Because it's by the sea and if you build high walls, it's almost impossible for people to invade uh Kanole. This is the Hag Sophia which is the official church of the new religion. Okay. Today we call it Eastern Orthodox but back then it was just the Catholic church. Okay. And this is the Haga Sophia. Um this is what Kimple looks like at its peak. And what's really important to understand is it's very wealthy but as you can see it's surrounded by these seaw walls which makes it impossible to defend. And that's why it was able to stand for about a thousand years. Okay. Uh the council nikia is where they make the holy trinity the official doctrine of the Catholic church. Even today, guys, if you're a Christian, you still recite it. All right. It's called the Nasin Creed. So, can can you read it? Um Alec, we believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only begotten, begotten of the Father before all ages, light of light, true God of true God, forgotten not made, of one essence with the Father, by whom all things were made, whom for us men and for all salvation, come down from heaven, and was inc incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man, and he was crucified for us under Pontius Pate. died and suffered and was buried. And the third day he rose again according to the scriptures and ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the father and he shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead whose kingdom shall have no end and in the holy spirit. >> Right? So this what this does is establish the idea that Jesus, God, holy spirit are separate but they are one and the same. They are different but they are co-equal. Right? If you actually study this next scene creed, you'll find a lot of inconsistencies. Okay? So Jesus Christ is a son of God, but um he is um one with God as well. Okay? So if you think about it, um it doesn't really make much sense. Okay? But again, the nin creed is something that you don't argue over because you argue over it, you're a heretic. You'll be burned at the stake. is something that you just you must memorize. It's like a math formula basically. Okay. In in math class, you're not allowed to question a formula. You're just forced to memorize the formula. Okay. [clears throat] Okay. So, as you can see, what's happening is that the migrants are being settled throughout Europe. Okay. But uh but but once they're being settled through Europe, the conflict between these noble families in in in Rome then become a conflict amongst these different groups. Okay. All right. So after the council of Nikia announced the holy trinity, there's still a lot of resistance to it. In fact, you know, even by the year 500, which which is about 180 years after the council of Nikia, most of Europe is actually they don't really believe in the Holy Trinity. Okay? So, Iran just means you don't believe in the Holy Trinity. Catholic means you do. And as you can see, this part which is controlled by the Bison Empire, it's it is it's able to enforce the Holy Trinity, but most other parts are not able to enforce the Holy Trinity. Okay, this is really important idea to understand. The idea of the Holy Trinity only takes force a few hundred years after it is announced. But in the beginning, there's a lot of resistance to the idea of the Holy Trinity. The Ban Empire must fight these wars to enforce it. Okay? And it will because as Banan Empire becomes stronger and stronger, you can see these [clears throat] green arrows. It's going to fight all these wars in order to expand the idea of the Holy Trinity. Okay? And Kasambo can do this because it's very wealthy and it doesn't really fear any enemies because of high walls. Okay. Okay. As you can see, it's almost impossible to attack Constanible from by sea. All right. And the Bing Empire under Justinian will expand and expand and enforce the Holy Trinity on all churches. Okay. And by 565 it is at the peak of its power. But as we discussed when the empire become reaches its peak it's usually it's probably going to fall really quickly and that's what happens. All right. So because of resistance holy trinity Christians are forced into the Persian Empire and into the Arabian desert. Okay. At first they're welcome by the Persians because these tend to be very well educated Christians who contribute a lot to the empire. [music] But over time uh the Zoroastrians see the Christians as a threat and conflict arises between Christians and the Zoroastrians. The Christians will also go into the uh Arabian desert as well to promote Christianity. Okay. As you can see how many how Christianity spreads the story in Christianity also spreads to China and Japan. Okay. All right. Um one thing that you need to understand is that even though we don't we don't really discuss Arabia a lot, it's a very important part of the world throughout of history because it's a trade center. Okay. So if you're India and you want to bring goods into Egypt, the best thing to do is to uh sell into Muscat and then uh have Arabian nomads carry the goods all the way to Mecca and then go into Egypt. Okay. So the Arabian desert, we don't talk much about it, but it is a crossroads of empire and it's a crossroads of culture as well. And there are Jews in the Arabian desert because um as the Romans persecute the Jews, the the Jews go escape into Arabia because the um Romans don't like sand. Okay, the Romans what they're really good at is besieging cities, but they hate fighting sand. That's why the Romans cannot can never conquer Persia. All right. So, uh this is another map that shows the extent of the trade as well. Okay. Um so, as you can see the Arabian desert, it's connecting the world, right? Because like you look at India and and India is now able to connect the world through the Arabian desert. Okay? Okay. It backs as Europe, the Mediterranean and Egypt through the Arabian desert. Okay. [snorts] Okay. So, what's going to happen is that once Muhammad comes into place and he unites the Arabian desert into a new community of followers, okay, they they will spread really quickly throughout the world. And as you can see, there are now um over a billion Muslims in the world. And you can see how many Muslims there are in the world. Okay. Um so there's a lot of conflict between the Roman Empire, the Bisantines and the Assassin as well. Okay. There are lots of lots of major battles. These wars are exhausting both empires. And this is this is going to enable the Arabs to um rise in power because as these two empires fight and their energy decreases, this energy is being transferred to to the Arabs. Okay? Because a lot of wealth is being transferred to the Arabs. But also a lot of mercenaries are learning how to fight uh from the Bantine from the Bison as well as the Persians. Okay. All right. So um the major event that sparks the uh Arab revolution is the persecution of the Jews. Okay. So um Alan, can you read please? >> The Persian army reinforced by Jewish force led by Nihama Ben Hasher and Benjamin of Turbaris would capture Jerusalem without resistance. >> Okay. So the Jews want to return to Jerusalem. Remember the Romans kicked the Jews out of Jerusalem. So they make a deal with the Persians, okay? They basically say to the Persians, if you support us, we'll support you in the fight against the Romans. And that's what happened. But once that happens, there are lots of Christians within Jerusalem and they call the Bisantines for help. And um so the Bisonines come and they take they went back to the city because the Christians help them. and they start masking masking a lot of Jews. Okay. >> The capture of Jerusalem was interpreted by Jewish writer in the Masonic context. Sacrifices may even have been renewed on the temple mount. Control of the city was handled to Nihama Ben Hashiel and Benjaming of Turbus. Nahama was then appointed the ruler of Jerus Jerus Jerusalem. She began making arrangement for the building of the third temple and sorting out genealologies of established new high priesthood. >> Okay. So this is almost the Bible where the Jews were kicked out of Jerusalem by the Babylonians um and the temple was burned down. And so what so what the Jews believe is like now the new Messiah will return. We have to rebuild the third temple because in their religion the Messiah will return all Jews to Jerusalem and build the third temple. Okay. >> All right. Keep on going. >> Yeah. After only a few months, a Christian revolt occurred. Nahama Ben Hash and his council of 16 righteous were killed along with many other Jews. Some throwing themselves off the city walls. Following the outburst of violence in Jerus Jerusalem, the surviving Jews fled to Shambara's encampment encampment at >> Cesyia. >> Ciceria Christians were able to briefly retake the city before the walls were breached by Sahabas forces who lay siege to the city. Sources vary on how long the siege lasted. Depending on the source, it lasted 19, 20 or 21 days. >> Okay. Right. So the Jews take reach take over Jerusalem and they want to build rebuild their temple and the Christians are angry because they think this is my city. The Christians rebel and the Protestants help them and the Jews are massacred and a lot and a lot escape. Where they go? They go to the Arabian desert. Why do they go to the Arabian desert? Because they they believe the Messiah is going to come. And so they preach that hey the Messiah is coming. Okay? And in the Arabian desert, there's a man who believes he's the Messiah. His name is Muhammad. Okay. All right. Keep on reading. >> Jews were expelled from Jer Jerusalem and were not allowed to settle within the three mile radius. A general mass massacre of the Jewish population ensued. The massacre devastated the Jewish communities of the Gal Galilea and Jer Jer Jerusalem. Only those Jews who could flee to the mountains of Egypt are said to have been spared. >> Okay. So this is Wikipedia. Okay. All right. So the first thing that Muhammad's going to do is announce the constitution of Medina, which is say that I'm the prophet. I am the Messiah. But what I promise you is religious openness and tolerance. It doesn't matter if you're Jew. It doesn't matter if you're Christian. It doesn't matter if you're Arab. You can practice whatever religion you want. It's and it's called the constitution of Medina. Okay? That's a promise that Muhammad makes to all his followers. Okay? And we know this from the Quran. So, we're going to read the Quran together, which the holy book of the Muslims. And what we'll see is that Muhammad is clearly promising tolerance for all religious uh factions. Doesn't matter what religion you are, you're you're allowed to practice whatever you want. Okay. So, Alan, can you read please? >> Oh, people of the book, why do you argue about Abraham when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him? Why you not reason? Here you are. You argue about things you know. But why do you argue about things you know, do you do not know? A knows, Allah knows, and you do not know. Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian but he was a monotheist a Muslim and he was not of the polytheist. The people mo most deserving of Abraham are those who follow him and these prophet and those who believe Allah is the guardian of the believers. >> Okay. So the legend is that Muhammad when he was 40 he went into the desert and in the desert he was meditating and he had a revelation an angel Gabriel visited him and spoke the truth of the universe. The Quran is just a writing down of all these revelations. Okay. And one major revelation is Gabriel Gabriel tells to tells Muhammad you're all children of God. You're all descendants of Abraham. Therefore, why are you guys fighting? You guys should be working together. Okay? All these differences don't matter. What's important is for you all to remember that you all believe in the one true God. That's what matters. And um these differences don't really matter. Okay. Okay. Keep on reading. >> Yeah. They dis disbelieve with who those who say Allah is the Messiah, the son of Mary. But the Messiah himself said, "Oh children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. Whoever has as sides others with Allah. Allah has forbidden him paradise and his dwelling is the fire. The rondors have no saviors." >> Okay, so this is really important. What the Quran is saying is this Jesus is not God. God is God. God is Allah. Jesus is a messenger. Okay. And the messenger himself Jesus himself said worship God. Don't worship me. Okay. So this is a netorian decision, right? Okay. Jesus is human. In heaven he's divine but on earth he's human. Okay. Keep on going. They disbelieve those who say Allah is a third of three. But there is no dainty act except the one God. If they do not refrain from what they say, a painful torment will be before those among them who disbelieve. >> Okay, so this is saying that the Holy Trinity is sacrilege. It's blessing. It makes no sense, man. God is God. God isn't one of three. Okay. God is just God. Keep on going. Why they not repent to Allah as ask forgiveness? Allah is forgiving and merciful. The Messiah son of Mary was only a m messenger before whom other messengers had passed away and his mother was a woman of truth. They both used to eat food. Note how we make clear the re revelation to them that note how delude they are. Okay. To say that Mary is divine. You say that Jesus is divine. It's all superstitious. They're all just messengers of the one true God like Moses and like uh like Moses before him. Okay. And now like Muhammad today. Okay, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad are all messages of God. Jesus was the penultimate and Muhammad is the last. Okay, the final messenger of God. All right, keep on keep with him are the keys of the unseen. None knows them except he and he knows everything on land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls, but he knows it. And there is not a single grain in the darkness of earth, nor is there anything wet or dry, but is in a clear record. It is he who takes you by night, and he knows what you earn by day. Then he raises you up in it until a fixed them term is fulfilled. Then to him is your return. Then he will inform you of what you used to do. He is a conqueror over his servant and he send guardians over you until when death overtakes one of you our envoys take him away and they never fail. Then they are brought back to Allah the true master. Unquestionably he is the judgment and he is the swift swift test of reck reckers. >> This is establishing the monad right as god. The monad is the universe. The monad is everything. It's divine. Okay, stop saying Jesus is God. That makes no sense. All right. Okay. So, as we discussed, now the Iranian desert, it's energized. People are energetic [clears throat] because people's thirst for religious liberation. Okay. The Christians, the Jews all unite behind Muhammad. And very quickly, they're able to once he's able to unite the Arabs. Okay. They're now really quickly able to expand outwards. They retake Jerusalem. and they conquer the Persian Empire very very quickly because both of these empires the bisonines and the assassins are exhausted. The main advantage of the bisines is they have still have console which is impossible to conquer. Okay. So consoles like um is safe but every falls to the Arabs. Okay. And as you can see how fast their conquest is and this is only about 100 years. Okay. They're able to basically conquer most of the Roman Empire. They take Spain, they take Northern Africa, they conquer Persia. Okay, it's a really rapid conquest because at this point in history, people are just sick of empires and they're looking for religious liberation. Okay? And over time, but over time as Muhammad dies, the Muslims will fight amongst themselves and they will establish different um empires called caliphats and they will break up as well. Okay? And this will give time for the basicines to um reestablish themselves and then Western Europe will become more and more powerful. Now the Arabs will establish something called the Islamic Golden Age. And this marks a time of tremendous peace and prosperity for the world because the Muslims are able to establish trade networks throughout the world. Okay? Why? Well, because when you do trade, the biggest problem is one of trust, right? How can I trust you to take my money to somewhere else? But if you're a Muslim, you are you must swear to Allah. Okay? So religion requires you to be trustworthy and that allows Muslims to work together and establish trade routes throughout the world. But you can't really trust someone who's not Muslim, but you trust someone who is Muslim. Okay? So these Muslims go all around the world and including into China and as such um the Islamic Empire is able to establish trade throughout the world which brings tremendous prosperity to most of the world. Okay. Um as and as you can I'm not sure you don't understand Islam but Islam is a beautiful simple religion that builds trust and community. Uh this is Mecca and this is the Haj where Muslims come from all the world and they circle around the kebab the the cube. Okay. Um so Islam consider itself as the ultimate religion because it improves on both Judaism and Christianity. Okay. Christians believe they are improving on Judaism. Islams Muslims believe they're an improvement on Christians and Jews as well. Okay. Now let's talk about the Western Empire. Okay. Because that's where our focus will be for the next um for for the rest of semester. 476 the GS destroy Rome. Why? Because because the power now is being shifted from the empire to Catholic Church. Okay. So the empire doesn't really have have that much power. So what happens is that it recruits mercenaries to fight for them but it can't really pay the mercenaries. So the mercenaries in response go and sack Rome. Okay. By this time in history Rome is no longer a power. It doesn't it doesn't really matter anymore. [snorts] Augustine who is the main architect of the Catholic Church. Okay. He takes Paul's ideas and systemize it. He teaches us in the city of God that Catholic Church is out of history. It is beyond history. It is divine. Okay? So the kings can fight over the land, but it's the church who will decide who goes to heaven and who burns in hell. And that's the power of the church. One thing to remember about um Europe is like there are lots of geographic barriers which allows for diversity within Europe. Okay, that's why Europe has so many countries because it historically it's been very hard to unify Europe because of the geography and this allows for tremendous diversity and it creates a lot of conflict as well which drives innovation. Okay, so this is when the when the Roman Empire falls in in the west uh there are lots of different groups fighting for remains. Now what's really important to understand about history is when we say the Roman Empire rises and it falls. This is our understanding of them. Okay. But from their perspective, the empire never fell because these warlords think that I'm the empire now. Okay? And so what's going to happen is that they're going to be compete for the legacy of Rome. And eventually this leads to the rise of a new power um the Franks. Okay, so the Franks are expanding throughout Europe and they see themselves as the here to the Roman Empire. But how do you prove that you are here to Roman Empire? How do you legitimize yourself? Well, you need to get the Catholic Church on your side. Right? So in about 800 Charlemagne who is the king of Franks, he is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope. Okay. And from now on it is the Catholic Church, the Pope who decides who will be the Holy Roman Emperor. There's a negoti negotiating going on but on public for the public the Holy Roman Empire is always anointed by God. Okay, this is Charlemagne and uh today he is buried in the Aken Cathedral. Okay, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. His body is still there. Okay, the king cathedral and this this is what it looks like inside. Okay, now the Catholic Church because of this power is now able to anoint the Holy Roman Empire. it becomes wealthy. Okay. Okay. So, can you read this Ellen from the Bible? >> Yeah. Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Assuredly I said to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again, I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." So, as I keep on telling you, Jesus himself was very anti-rich. Okay? He believed that the rich people because they were too focused on material acquisitions could never go into heaven. Okay. But the paradox is that the Catholic Church becomes extremely wealthy. Okay. If you go to the Vatican, you can still go go back and you visit St. Pet Basilica. It is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. It's extremely wealthy. Inside, guys, it's all gold. Okay. All right. Right. So the Vatican is has been historically the wealthiest organization in the world and it was able to do this because um Western Europe started to become very wealthy over time. Okay. So from about a,000 to about 1300 the population of Europe doubles because of technology innovation because the climate is warming allowing for agriculture um because of the rise of cities and because Europe is trading with everyone. Okay. So at this time uh Europe is becoming more more wealthy which makes the Catholic Church really really wealthy. Okay. These are different urban centers of um Europe at this time and they engage mainly in trade. Okay. So, the church becomes a much more powerful idea than the empire. Okay. Why? Well, with an empire, it's the emperor who's in charge, right? But the emperor is still a human being and therefore he can change his mind and he doesn't really know what what he's doing. But in the church, the person in charge is God who is perfect, immunable, and eternal. Okay? So, this is the ultimate authority, the church. Second is what is the mandate? Well, an empire demands that you work hard, your labor, but the church demands your soul, your obedience. Okay? Therefore, the church is able to extract more wealth from you. The last thing is, okay, let's say you don't obey the empire. What's the wor worst thing that can happen to you? Well, the empire puts you to death. Okay, not a big deal. But the church, what it can do is send you in hell for all of eternity. Okay, that's why the the Catholic Church becomes the most powerful organization ever in human history and it's still true today. [snorts] All right. So, what makes the um Catholic Church so powerful? What becomes a divine bureaucracy? Okay. Um and what it does is establish a very strict hierarchy. So the idea of the church is that God is distant and God demands your obedience. Right? So remember Augustine, city of God, remember Paul, right? So um one thing is that when you go to church, the priest doesn't speak in your language, the vernacular, it speaks in Latin. And you don't really understand the language. Okay? You're not allowed to read the Bible because at this time most people are illiterate. Um the Holy Trinity makes no sense. But again, you're not asked to debate it. You're not asked to question it. You're just you just have to memorize it. Um there are lots of rituals to the Catholic Church. Some of these rituals are just really weird. So for the example of the Eucharist where you believe that you're actually eating the body and blood of Jesus through the idea of sub transubst trans substitation okay um the church is powerful because it can determine who goes to heaven and hell and for how how long and ultimately if you don't if you are a king you don't obey the church the pope can excommunicate you which which is say I remove I remove you from the Christian community and therefore any other king can come and kill you and it'll be good in the eyes of God. Okay, does that make sense? So this is how why the church is so powerful but also explain helps us explain why the church is so corrupt as well. They have too much power and ultimately they will use this power in order to enrich themselves. Okay, remember the Catholic church people who control the Catholic Church are descendants of the Roman nobility. Okay. They will use Catholic Church to en enrich themselves. They say something called indulgences. And the idea is let's say you're a rich person and you did a lot of bad things and now you're afraid you you'll burn in hell, right? Well, Jesus will say, "Too bad." But the Catholic Church says, "Give us a lot of money and we'll give you an indulgence." Okay? Basically, you know, a uh ticket to purgatory. All right? And so, as you can see, there's a lot of corruption going on. something called simony where you can buy and sell positions in Catholic church very similar to the imperial bureaucracy of China right uh they're selling holy relics priests are not really divine they get married uh they sell their positions to nobles um and the kings are the ones who can appoint leaders of the church as well okay so there's this negotiation going on between the Catholic church and the kings as well um the parish the parishioners no matter how poor they are they're forced to pay a tax. They they pay a tax to the Catholic Church and not to the king. Okay? As you can imagine, the king is not really happy about about this because a third of his land, most of his tax revenue, it's being taken over by the Catholic Church. So that's why a lot of kings will eventually start to rebel against the Catholic Church. Okay? Um the church controls one-third of all land in Europe tax-free. Okay? And this leads to feudalism. All right. Um, so at the same time though, even though the Catholic Church is so powerful in Europe, it still has a legitimacy problem. Okay? Meaning like how does it prove that it is truly divine? Well, you have some certain problems. The first problem is the Muslims occupy the Holy Land. Okay? If you are truly if you truly represent God, why is Jerusalem in the hands of the Muslims? Okay. Also, Spain is part of Europe, but Muslim Spain is actually much more wealthy and innovative than the rest of Europe. Um, 1054, the Eastern Orthodox Church led by the Byzantines break with the Catholic Church. Okay? Because both want want to be the ultimate center of the world. But the Bison says that we're the center and the Romans say, "No, we're the center." Okay? Um and there's corruption going on. Okay, everyone says corruption, but there's also lots of religious leaders who are rebelling against Catholic Church because they want to unleash a divine spark. Okay, so there's all this legitim legitimacy problems going on. And so there are different solutions. Okay, one solution the Catholic Church does is that it persecutes Jews. Okay. So the Catholic Church allows Jews to exist just so that the Catholic Church can scapegoat the Jews. And throughout this time, as you can see, Jews are being persecuted mainly by being forced out of their homes where they lived for hundreds of years. Okay? And a lot of them are forced to go east into the Muslim Empire and to go to Spain. Okay? But over time there's being expelled from these regions. Um this is another map that shows the persecution of the Jews. As as you can see they're forced to go uh east. Okay. And often there are lots of massacres as well. Okay. So the black spots, okay, the skull spots are areas in which they were massacred. they were blamed for certain crimes. Okay. All right. Um so this is a map that shows the pil the pilgrimages of Christians into the holy land. Okay. And again, it's a source of embarrassment for the Christians that their holy land is occupied by Muslims and they have to pay a tax with Muslims and they go into the holy land. Um, right now the Holy Land, Jerusalem is being controlled by the Sojic Turks, okay? The Ottoman Empire. All right? And that's why Pope Orin the second will eventually call for the crusades to liberate the holy land from the Muslims. Okay. So can you read please? All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against a penguins, shall have immediate remission of sins. Or what a disgrace if such a despise and base raised, which worship demons should conquer a people which has the face of only potent god and is made glorious with the name of Christ. >> Okay. Let those who have been accustomed unjustly to wage private warfare against the faithful now go against the infidels and end with victory this war which should have been begun long ago. Let those who for a long time have been robbers now become knights. Let those who have been fighting against the brothers and relevates now fight in a proper way against the barbarians. that those who have been serving as mercenaries for small pay now obtain the eternal reward. >> Okay, so this is this is Pope Orb saying the crusades. It's to go and fight the demons. And if you fight a demon, it doesn't matter who you are. You could be poor, you could be rich, you could be a sinful person, you could be a nobody, but now it's just your opportunity to go to heaven. Okay? The like when you go to fight the demons, you will all be guaranteed access to heaven. no matter who you are, no matter what you did. And so, uh, a lot of people go and join the crusades for lots of different reasons, especially those who've committed crimes before. Okay? So, guess what? A lot of people join the crusades are criminals because here's your opportunity to uh get good with the church. Okay? That's why we see a lot of abuse during the crusades. Okay? So, as you can see, lots of people are now joining the crusades in order to liberate the Holy Land and eventually they succeed. Okay? Even though a lot of criminals, um they're still very good fighters because they have religious devotion. Okay? They're very energetic. And unfortunately, um they're too energetic. So they have tendency to massacre people when they succeed because they literally see the Muslims and the Jews as demons. That's what the pope taught them. Um one organization that developed during the crusades is called the Knights Templars. Okay, this is very important. We'll be discussing Knights Templars later on. Okay, but the Knights Templars is really the first multinational bank because these pilgrims are going to holy land and they need to bring money with them to fund the journey. But if they take a lot of money with them, then they'll get robbed, right? So what they'll do is they'll give the money to nice templars and then when they get to Jerusalem, the nice templars will give the money back to them. Okay? So they're a bank basically and then they can use this money to start investing throughout of Europe and so they become a very wealthy organization. The problem is that because in Jerusalem and away from the authority of Catholic Church, they start to embrace new ideas. They start to discover the true nature of Jesus from the Muslims and from other Christians in that area. And so the church thinks that they become more corrupt over time. And that's why their leader Jack De Mole, he is burnt at the stake. And in 1307, the organization is banned by the Catholic Church. But a lot of the survivors they will go over to other places and they will and they will form the basis of a secret society we call the Freemasons. Okay. So we'll discuss the Freemasons later on. Okay. There's also something called the albborene crusade. So there are still individuals who believe in the divine spark. Okay. And these people call are called cathars. And the church sees him as a threat and that's why they launch a crusade against these caththers. Okay. So can you can you read Alan? Seaman and many of his soldiers made determined effort to convert the Cather perfect but failed. >> Okay. So again the Catholic Church is if you disagree with us it doesn't mean you're a heretic. It just means you're stupid. So our so we first want to educate you in what is right. Okay. The Cathers believed that no, the divine spark is in me. I know the truth for myself. You can never convince me. Okay, keep keep on going. Ultimately, only three women recented. The 140 who refused were burned at the stake. Some entered the flames voluntarily, not awaiting their executioners. >> So if you believe in the divine spark, okay, you believe you've discovered truth. You're not afraid of death. So you so the the Catholics are saying like if you don't we can't we'll burn you at the stake. The Catholics are like good keep on going. >> In August the crusade proceeded to besiege the stronghold of Teras despite sales sies from period rocker de decap decaparate. The siege wears solid. The occupants of Terminal suffered from a shortage of water and ro Roman Real Duris agreed to a temporary truce. The Cathers were briefly relieved by an intense rainstorm and so Reman refused to surrender. Ultimately, the defenders were not able to break the siege and on 22 November the Cathers managed to abandon the city and escape. By the time operations resumes in uh 1002 1,211, the actions of honored armory and seaman de Montford had alignate alienated several important lords including Raymond D. Tollos who has been excommunicated again. >> Okay. So as you can see what's really important to understand is the crusade against cathars is not just a religious crusade. It's also one of geopolitics where the local lords resent the power of the Catholic church and so they support the caththers. Okay. All right. So, and this is going to happen throughout Europe. So, um um the response of the church is to establish a new society led by Francis of Aisi called the Dominicans. Okay. The Dominicans which goes which goes and and basically tries to figure out who the Caththers are. Okay. by interrogating everyone. All right? And this leads to of course the equition. Okay? Um and so the idea is that if you disagree with church orthodoxy, they will figure it out. And if you refuse to recant, if you refuse to obey, they will burn you at the stake. Okay? So at this time in history because of the inquisition, because of the power of the Catholic Church, Western Europe is one of the least innovative places in the world. Okay? All right. And at first this is fine, but eventually um bad things start to happen in Europe. Okay? So the little the little ice age begins, then you have the great famine, then you have more wars, then you have benetry. Okay? And then of course you have the black death. So if the Catholic Church represents the will of God and all this is happening then is God really happy with the Catholic Church, right? So this is a black death which kills about a third of the European population. And people because they're religious, they think that this is the will of God. It's because the Catholic Church, it's corrupt. It's evil. It's stagnant. That's why God is punishing us. Okay. Um and this will lead to conflict within Europe where the Catholic Church is actually broken into different parts as well. Okay. So there are some who believe that uh Rome is the true center center of the Catholic Church and there are other people who believe that Ammon okay is the true center of the Catholic church and this creates even more legitimacy problems with the Catholic Church. All right and then you have individuals who will emerge to challenge the orthodoxy of the Catholic Church. Okay. So this is this is Freight Dosina. We don't read [snorts] uh John White is a British person who was um he didn't he was not punished when he was alive but afterwards after he died they decided he was a heretic. So what they did was they dug up his body and then burned him up the stake to make sure he he burned in hell. Okay. Uh Jen Hus will lead a revolution. Okay. And this is called the Husk wars. And none none succeed. But then another man will emerge called Martin Luther who will eventually lead a successful revolution against Catholic Church. And this is called Protestantism. Protestatismism. Okay. And we'll discuss Martin Luther next class. Next class. Next class we will discuss the rise of capitalism. All right. Any questions guys? Yes. Like there's a case of my mother friend telling me that she uh her her her husband has a uh severe cancer and they tr they try to pray to the Catholic church and like later the cancer just disappears and they said it is miracle by the c Catholic church and they all believe in the cath catholic church. Can it explain the miracle like is there really really miracle there? >> Okay. Yeah. Okay, back to your question. Okay, so this is what we call the placebo effect. Okay, the placebo effect is basically um you feel really sick and you're like, "Doctor, doctor, I'm really sick. I'm going to die. Is there any medicine that that can save me?" And I'm a doctor and I I don't want to say there is no medicine. Uh, so I say, "Okay, well here here's some here here's here's a medicine. Okay, it might help you, but this but this medicine does nothing. You take this medicine and then you feel better. You you get better." And this happens a lot. Okay, it's called it's called the placebo effect. So why does this happen? It happens because if you if you understand that mind leads to matter then your reality is shaped by your perception your belief. Okay. So if you believe that this medicine can improve your body then it will have effects. Okay. The question though is how much do you really believe in this medicine? Okay. So you can argue that cancer it's really a question of loss of faith. What is cancer? Cancer is a splitting of cells, right? So why is your body literally falling apart? It's because you've stopped believing in yourself. You've stopped believing in the purpose of life. You've stopped believing that you have relevance in the world. Okay. So, when you say, "I want to cure my cancer. I want to cure my cancer." What you're really saying is, "I want to find a new faith. I want to believe in myself again. I want to reestablish my relevance in the world." Okay? Does that make sense? So, you have the desire. Once you have the desire, then the cure makes sense. Okay? So, >> so, so, so another way of saying this is, okay, let's just say that you don't feel well, right? Well, if your parents make you go see a psychiatrist, you probably won't feel better. But if you yourself want to get better and you go see a psychiatrist, you'll probably get better. Okay? So why this person why he or she improved his or her cancer is because um of faith. Okay? She won't get better. So if you're able to orientate your mind in a certain way, you're capable of tremendous miracles. Another another idea is that idea of meditation, right? If you're able to control your thoughts, if you're able to calm yourself down, your body will heal a lot faster. Okay? Does that make sense? >> Right. Okay. Any more questions? Okay. Great. So next class we will we'll discuss capitalism.

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Today we discuss the idea of capital. Now you may have learned in economics class that a capital means money or wealth. What I want to argue to you today is that capital is really a mechanism to extract energy from you. Okay. And what's important to understand is that in a universe where consciousness is the universe, then what energy is ultimately is attention and focus. Okay? So it's not enough for you to work at something. You also have to concentrate on it in order for capital to extract energy from you. Okay. All right. So with this in mind, um let's discuss an example. All right. Okay. So most basic example is you have a landlord class and they're trying to extract energy from the peasant class. Okay. Now before traditionally we've understood energy as maybe grain okay grain [snorts] capital but uh the problem with this is you're actually not that not that extracting that much energy from the peasant because it's not that hard to grow grain also grain can be stored. Okay. So in other words, as a landlord, your priority is not necessarily just to um extract rent from the peasant. Your priority is somehow to get the peasant to focus entirely on the task at hand. And to do that over the centuries, uh landlords have figured out certain ways or certain mechanisms in order to extract the most value from the peasant class. Okay. So let's discuss the mechanisms. The first is that we've transitioned from slavery to freedom. [snorts] Okay. If you really want to extract value, if you really want to extract energy and attention and focus, it's much better to give peasants the illusion of freedom rather than just enslave them. Okay? So give peasants the belief that they have control over their lives. Another thing freedom is equity, right? Equity. So think of a company where I might give you some equity and then you work a lot harder because you think you can more make more money. So this is a first trick that we've learned over the centuries. The second trick is to make capital more abstract. Okay. So, the abstraction of capital. So, let's use an example. Okay. Grain was uh initially capital. Uh the problem with grain is that you only need so much. So, as a peasant, you only want to work as much as necessary in order to grow grain to feed your family and maybe a little bit more to save. But most of the time, you just want to enjoy your life. But then we transition to gold, right? [clears throat] And gold, yeah, people are more greedy. The bottom of gold is there only a finite amount of it. All right? It's hard to locate. So only a minority would expend all their energy trying to locate gold. And now what we've done is we've transitioned to the idea of money. Okay, as I will show you, the great innovation of the past 100 years is to convince people that money is God. Money is both nothing and everything. And so you can spend your entire life dedicated to achieving money. Okay, so that's the second great innovation. And the third great um technique that's changed e economics is to understand that if you really want people to focus their energies, you need to create anxiety in them. Okay, anxiety. And how do you create anxiety? Well, the um best way is to create the idea of debt, right? So, I'll lend you a million dollars today and you enjoy it, but then you have to spend the rest of time paying it back. The problem with this, of course, is that there's interest and so you can never really pay it back, which causes anxiety. And so the idea of debt I can extract much more value than from you than if you were not in debt. Okay, that's the first tool. Second is the idea of inequality and poverty where a certain class of people are poor and they'll always be poor and that incentivizes encourages the middle class to work even harder. All right. Um the third mechanism of anxiety is wealth destruction. What is wealth destruction? Simple war or depression, right? When the economy collapses, when all your wealth vanishes. The idea here is listen, if the peasants work really hard and they store up a lot of grain, they have a huge grainery, they really don't have to work anymore, right? So as a landlord, what do you do? we go burn down the greenery. All right. So, war is not just a mechanism to expand capitalism, but it's also a way to make people more anxious uh because you destroy their wealth and therefore they have to work a lot harder. Okay? So, again, um in in economics class, you may taught that [clears throat] the point of capitalism is to accumulate more capital. No, no, no, guys. The point of capitalism is to focus the energies of the peasants. Okay? Because the attention, the focus is what makes society much more energetic. And that's the end goal. All right? So, so if society is wealthy, that's necessarily a good thing because it makes people lazy and complacent. And so the way to resolve this issue is by constantly engaging in wars and by having the boom buzz cycle that you might learn in economics class, right? So I can actually might learn that the boom bus cycle is natural to capitalism. It is not natural to capitalism. It is artificial. The people in charge um artificially destroy economies to destroy wealth to make the peasants work a lot harder. Okay. So are you guys following along? Okay. So that's the strategy that we've learned um these past few centuries. And that's why in today's society, we are the wealthiest society ever in human history. And yet at the same time, we are the most miserable. We are the most anxious and we are the most in debt. Okay? Because the landlord class, the capitalist, the elite, what they figured out are three mechanisms in which to extract as much energy from us as possible. First is to give give us the illusion that we have freedom in our lives. We have the freedom of choice. That we have equity in society. We can vote for our leaders when in reality it's all just an illusion. Okay. Second is to make money God the end all and be all both nothing and everything. The very focus of your life. And because money is so abstract, you can spend your entire life trying to achieve more and more of it yet at the same time achieve nothing and nothing. Okay? So think of like someone like Jack Ma who has like more money than can he possibly spend. And what does he want? wants more money. Okay. And the third is to create anxiety in society. So that people's entire existence is one of stress and as a result people are much more focused on work and wealth creation. Okay? And you do that by a constant process of wealth destruction. All right? So, but the problem of course is that when you push people too hard, when it becomes so obvious you explain people, then people will eventually revolt against you. So, the solution that we figured out is what we can do is we can actually move. Okay, the landlord class can actually move somewhere else. And so when the anxiety becomes overwhelming, what will happen is the peasants will destroy each other where and the landlord moves somewhere else to the capital and they'll come back when the peasant class have completely exhausted themselves and they're willing they're willing to rebuild society. Okay. And this process is what rules the world today. It is what we call transnational capital. In other words, the wealthy people of the world, they have actually no loyalty to nation or to people or to place. They only have loyalty to their capital. And they're willing to move to wherever they can, wherever they have to in order to keep their capital safe and to grow it. And that's why a lot of people today are moving to Dubai or Hong Kong or Singapore. They don't care. They may not be all that place, but they'll go wherever uh they need to in order to pay less taxes, in order to avoid the social conflict created by their policies, okay? In order to find better investment opportunities and that's the system is what rules the world today. But then the question is okay in concrete terms what really is transnational capital what allows transnational capital to function to be able to move from place to place because remember when you move from place to place there are a lot of costs involved for example you don't really know anyone there and so how can you trust the people right and the solution that we've developed over the centuries is the idea of secret societies [snorts] so What you will learn is that secret societies and transnational capital are essentially the same thing. Okay. And this is the force that rules the world today. All right. So now that I've discussed transial capital, let's look at secret societies like where they come from and how they work. Okay. Well, secret societies exist because the lender class and the present class are fundamentally different. Therefore, um the motivations, the beliefs, the worldview of these two classes must be different. Okay? So, the peasants, what do peasants want? They want to live a simple life. They want to make some money. They want to have a family. They want to have some fun. They want to believe in God. Okay? And so, for the peasant class, we have organized religion, whether it's Islam or Christianity. Okay? Christianity. Jesus, right? Jesus tells you to be a good person. Confucious tells you to be good to be a good person. Right? But the land of class, they're different. They have a responsibility. They have an obligation to control the peasant class and extract as much energy as possible in order to maintain their society. Okay? So their religious practices must be very different. So whereas the peasants can pray to God, the Lenor class must fundamentally pray to Satan. Okay. So now let's look at why the Lenor class must pray to Satan. And this is true for all societies throughout human history. Before the Lenor class was blatant about it. Okay? Now they have to be more hypocritical, more secretive about it. Right? So let's look at the Leno class. All right. So to be a learner class, to be the lead, you have to do terrible things. But it's actually hard to do terrible things. All right. So let me give an example. Let's just say I would say to you, all right, I'm going to give you $10 million US. What you need to do is this. What you need to do is take a gun and late at night go kill a random stranger. You think, "Wow, that's a really good deal. If I kill a random stranger at late at night, no one's going to know I did it and I walk away with $10 million and you think that I can do it. But guess what? When I actually make you and go make you go do it, you actually can't do it because there are lots of um con restrictions on your behavior. Okay? So, think of suicide. If if I gave you $100 million and promised you um a path to heaven, would you kill yourself? Probably not. Okay? So suicide, killing yourself, in many ways it's so different from killing someone else. We can't do it. Okay. But there actually hacks around this. We figured out ways to make you go kill someone in a way that doesn't make you feel that guilty about it. Okay. So to understand why, I will introduce you two social science experiments that they conducted in America at the end of the 20th century. Okay. The first is something called the um Mgrim experiment. Um and this was done at Yale by a psychologist named Stanley Mgrim. And and the experiment was very simple. What he would do is he would set up an actor. Okay, this is an actor. Okay, what we call confederate. And the person will be hooked up to an electric chair, right? And there'll be a buzzer, a buzzer, which increases the voltage on that electric chair. Okay? And there's there's like a max and there's a min. Okay? And suddenly Mgrim would be here in his lab code and he would invite a participant, okay, who's essentially a student to come and be an assistant. Okay. And the assistant's job was to press the button. And Sly Mgram wanted to know first of all, would this volunteer, this assistant agree to shock another human being even though he seen the human being in pain. And second of all, S want to see how much pain the volunteer was willing to inflict. And it turned out that with the idea of authority, okay, people are much more willing to let go of their inhibitions because what you're doing is you are removing responsibility from yourself to someone else. I didn't do it. I was ordered to do it. And surprisingly people are willing to inflict a lot of pain on other people because they are able to remove responsibility for their individual actions. Okay? Does that make sense? So the point of secret society is to for people to come together >> and avoid taking responsibility for their actions. How? By praying to another god. Right? By saying we didn't do this. We didn't go start this war. We didn't destroy the economy. It was Satan that told us to do it. We had a meeting with Satan. We did the rituals. We summon Satan. And Satan says, "For the good of the world, you must be evil. You must go and start this war so that we can create paradise on earth." It wasn't us. It was not us. It was Satan who did this. Okay? That's the point of a secret society to um force yourself to believe that you have no agency in this world and you are controlled by Satan. Okay? Or another god Saturn. Right? So it's very common for the secret side to believe in a god called Saturn. Who is Saturn? Saturn uh the Greek is Cronis and Cronis is a god of time. God. Cronis is a god of time and order and structure. And Cronis would do things that were unconscionable that were inhumane in order to maintain control over the world including in his own children because then his children could not rebel against him. Okay. So they pray to Saturn to look for that divine energy in order to maintain order and control in the world for the good of others. Okay? not for the good of me but for the good of others. It doesn't make sense. Okay, that's the first idea I need to understand about these societies. They always pray to a higher god. They believe in inter interdimensional religion people or they believe in Satan or they believe in sat who cares? Okay, but it's they don't feel as though they're in control. They feel as if they're possessed by demons or by extra extraterrestrials. Okay? And why? in order to do what they must to maintain their power and their wealth. Okay, that's number one. Number two is this another experiment that you guys might have heard of, something called the Solomon Ash experiment, right? [snorts] And here the experiment is 10 people in a room. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Okay. And all sit together and they're just asked to tell me if this is a straight line or a circle. Okay. It's that simple. Then what happens is a volunteer is asked to come into the room. Okay. And this volunteer goes last and everyone around the room goes and tells the answer. Okay. And from 1 to 10, and these are all confederates, okay? These are all part of conspiracy. From 1 to 10, they all say this is a circle. And so by the time you get to the volunteer who's number 11, he's like, [snorts] h, what should I what should I say? And often a lot of times is he'll say it's a circle because he's trying to conform to the group. But not only that, afterwards when he's told that, oh, there's actually a line he's actually convinced he saw a circle. Okay, that's the power of group conformity. Okay. So two ideas authority and conformity is what underlies the power of ci societies and as such you are now because you are part of the society you have the power to take a gun go kill someone late at night and collect your $10 million. Okay? Does that make sense guys? All right. And again, every society does this because often when you're part of the landlord class, the elite, the transnational capitalist, you have to do things against your own hard wire wiring, okay? Your own psychology. And that's why secret societies exist. All right? [clears throat] Now, sometimes secret societies are forced to do really bad things because they're often in competition with each other. And in this competition, it's always question like who's more evil. Okay. So what they figured out is this. They figure out how to structure this the secret societies. Okay. This hierarchy sorry hierarchy. Okay. So these are the people at the top the landlords and these are basically the initiates. Okay. the people who want to join but they are ignorant about the two true purpose of this society. So the question then is how do you maintain this hierarchy and what they figure out is something really really simple. All right, it's really simple human psychology. Throughout human history, what was very common was for groups of young men, okay, they've been discarded by the families because the families don't have enough to eat. So, they get together and they form like wolf packs. They go around and they're and what they really want is a wife, okay? That's what they really want more than food. They want a wife. So, what they're forced to do is go as a group, as a gang, go to a village and kidnap a woman and kill the family. Okay? And this is a very common thing in human history. And let's try to figure out the psychology of what's going on. Okay? So you have like five guys. I this is this is just this is just a fox. Okay? Five guys, young guys. And they're going to go and they're going to go to a village where there's a family, okay? A husband, a wife, and two kids. What they're going to do, of course, is they're obviously going to kill the husband, and they're also going to kill the two children. Okay. And they're going to kidnap the wife. Now, let me ask you this question. Let's understand the psychology of this woman when her entire life is destroyed. Okay? Does she A want vengeance? B become depressed. C um fall in love with one of the guys. A, B or C, guys. A, B, or C. Yeah. What? What? What? What is that? >> A. >> Okay. You would you guys would think she would want vengeance for what has happened, but that's not what happens. Okay. It's more likely that she becomes depressed or she falls in love. It's often it's often a time that she falls in love. We call this a Stockholm syndrome. All right. It's a very basic human psychology that is consistent throughout human history, throughout all societies. When a woman sees her entire life collapse like that, she now she has no longer any stability. Her reality is destroyed and therefore she clings to anyone who is willing to support her even though that person is the same person who destroyed her life in the first place. It's really weird psychology but it's very very true. That's also why arranged marriages work. Okay. Throughout society, a man a man older man is often paired with a younger wife. She might be like 14 or 13. But you know after a few years they do fall in love with each other because the woman is completely dependent on the man. Okay. And also that physical intimacy. All right. So um it sounds really depressing but this is a very basic principle of human psychology when because at at this at this point in history when her reality has collapsed her soul has left her okay and now she's basically a slave and what a slave does is someone who clings to life right does that make sense okay now what happens to these five guys okay A, do they feel guilty for what they do? B, do they fight over the woman? Or C, are they brothers forever? The obvious answer is C, right? They're brothers forever. Okay, so even though they commit this terrible, terrible act, right? Um, it's made them more unified. Okay. And this is a structure of secret societies. The search of secret societies is for the people at the very top to commit these rituals of torture in order to turn the initiates into slaves. And those who are most willing to participate in these rituals, those who are most willing to become slaves become um the middle people. Okay? The people that are most trusted because now they're slaves. And that's how secret societies work. And that's why there are so many different degrees societies. That's why at the very top, no one knows what they're really doing. What they're really doing is praying to Satan. Okay? Because Satan is giving the strength or Saturn who who knows. Okay? Or whatever. Um Saturn Saturn or Satan is given the strength in order to torture these uh initiates. So these initi become their slaves for life. And then these nations are given limitless wealth and power because they are now completely loyal and dependent on uh the master. All right. All right. All right. This sounds confusing but let's but let's use another example. All right. So Spartans Sparta. So Sparta remember Sparta is a war society, a militaristic society that is intent on maintaining control over its slaves. Okay. and the helotss and the helotss outnumber the sparts 10 to one. So these spars need to be really cohesive as a society. They need to fight and die for each other. So their education system is like this. At five or six the child the spartan child is taken away from the parents. Okay. And this obviously creates fear and anxiety. All right. Also, what happens is the child is in school beat up by the older kids and this creates trauma. All right. Another word we use for this is intergenerational trauma because the sponsors do this to every child in intergenerational trauma. [snorts] All right. So, the kid at this point is unsafe, insecure, his mind is really screwed up. And then when he's most voting ball, maybe when he's 11 or 12, what happens now is he's piered with an older man who's like 29 or 30, okay? An older man. And this older man, they become lovers. Basically what happens is the man first of course con commits you know sexual abuse but again because the child is traumatized because the child has no bearings no reality doesn't believe anyone in this world loves him even even though the man is being abusive to him he falls in love with the man and as a result the boy will do anything that the man orders to him to do. Okay. So what happens is this man becomes his general and he becomes a soldier or an officer and that's why the Spartans are so fearless. Okay? Because the soldiers are completely loyal to the generals because they were once lovers. The soldier feels as though this general who I must obey, he saved my life when I most needed it. When my parents abandoned me. when I was being beat up every day, when I felt complete insecurity, when I was traumatized, he came and he gave me a home and therefore I must die for him. Okay? And guys, guys, look, listen. This sounds weird, but if you go to the inner city gangs, inner city gangs in America or anywhere in the world, okay, these drug cartels in Mexico, they use the same principles as the Spartans, okay? these young boys 13, 14, they have no father. They put in a gang, they're abused, and then the gang leader treats them well. Uh they might have some, you know, you know, sex. And then these boys are loyal to the gang leaders. Same thing if you go to these these um child armies in Africa. Okay, very basic principle that every every human understands. If you abuse a child and then be nice to that child, that child is obedient to you forever. This how secret societies behave. Okay. One last example. Okay. So in history there was a very famous secret society called the assassins. You may have played the video game Assassin's Creed. Okay. Why are they called assassins? Because of the word hashes. Hashes is a drug like marijuana, right? It's a hallucin. Okay. So the way these societies would work is if you're a new member, I would make you have hashes, okay? Hashes. And and your mind would become blurry. You feel as though you're in a dream. And then what would happen is I put you in a room and you're basically like drunk, okay? And then these young would come and pleasure you and then you would wake up in your home and you would think this was a dream. Okay? And your match would tell you this is what paradise is like. All right. This is what heaven is like. If you do what I tell you, I guarantee you, you will go to heaven where 10,000 virgins will pleasure you for eternity. Okay? And this turns these assassins into the most dedicated killers. Again, I keep on saying this. It's really hard to convince someone to go kill another person. But these assassins are willing to do whatever it takes in order to enter paradise. Okay, so guys, this combination sex plus trauma plus um hallucins or uh hallucin psychedelics. Okay, these three things psychedelics drugs, sex, trauma. They create the perfect slaves, okay? Slaves. Because now what you can do is you can take these slaves and then have them infiltrate other secret societies. They become the perfect spies because they are forever loyal to you. Okay? They're completely emotionally dependent on you and they will do what it takes in order to please you. But you have to you have to like train them from an early age. Okay. And this is and this is how these secret societies they fight each other. They recruit an army of young kids. They traumatize, brutalize these kids to train them to be spies, to be killers and then they will unleash these um kids on other secret societies and their enemies as well like the assassins did. Okay, does that make sense? Um okay, you have a question. So like for the woman like her families are being killed like won't he won't she remember like who has done like who has killed all her families but just have relied on that murder because he does he he's you know >> I understand the question okay it's a good question okay the answer is this in psychology what you learn is that when you're traumatized what happens to you What happens to you? You're not there. You're it's the word is disassociation. Okay? You don't you're not there. You don't remember anything because your mind will explode or your system would collapse if you actually remember in detail what happened. So your mind disassociates. You're not there. You don't remember anything. Okay? That's why trauma is so effective because not only do you become obedient and dependent on the person traumatizing you but at the same time you actually don't remember this association. Okay. So the person who really controls you forget your handler. Okay. Your handler is someone that is at the back of your mind. But even if you don't know that person what happens if that person comes before you tells you what to do you obey. Okay, it's almost as though the handler has programmed you and only he knows the password. So this is what we call programming [snorts] and this is what they did with MK Ultra. Okay, MK Ultra, MK Monarch. Okay, but it's a very common thing. We've been doing this for thousands of years in every single society because it works and it's easy and it's effective. Okay, right? Does that make sense? All right. All right. So, let's talk about the development of transnational capital. All right. So, there have been four distinct stages. Let's look at them. These four to six stages are Venice, Dutch Republic, England, and what's the last one, guys? Come on. America, right? Okay. So these four places are special because they are all merchant oligarchies. Okay, merchant oligarchies meaning that they are controlled by private interests. Private interests. Now I understand that in school you're taught that America's democracy and English democracy and all that. No guys, it's all nonsense. These are olarchies. They're controlled by private interests. They've always been controlled by priv private interests. They're still controlled by private interests today. Okay? And the way that these private interests, what they do to maintain control over their people and the world is through three mechanisms. Okay? The first is banking. Banking just means that these oligarchs are pulling their resource together in order to extract energy from the world. Now the thing about banking that's very important is that if you're able to bank in a certain way you're able to extract energy across time and space right you're able to borrow money from the future and spend it today does that make sense okay and this will happen with the um abstraction of capital right so banking is basically um extract time and space you're extracting energy from across time and space Okay, I'll explain more as we go along. Okay, second is the idea of a navy where you where you're controlling trade. And the third is diplomacy. The idea of diplomacy is you don't want to fight wars because your population is very limited. What you want to do is trick other people into fighting wars for you. Okay? You want to have these trade negotiations. So it's like spying intelligence. All right? And in all four, what's really important is that if you're a merchant oligarchy, you're actually controlled by a secret society. Okay? Not a king, but by a secret society. Because otherwise, how else can these merchants get along with each other? Okay? So secret societies is what allows them to work together to plan and control their populations. Now [snorts] what's going to happen is this um Venice is one of the early um oligarchies but with each iteration it's going to improve in power. Why? Because by the time we get from Venice to England and sorry to England and the Dutch Republic we have something called the Protestant Reformation. Okay. So what I what I will do is explain to you what the prostate reformation is. But the pro reformation radically changes how we see ourselves and relationship with God which makes transnational capital much more powerful. And then what's going to happen is by then we hit England we go from England to America we have the enlightenment. Okay. And when we hit enlightenment, what's going to happen is by getting rid of God, we turn money into God. And when this happens, transnational capital becomes all powerful. All right? So um remember what's happening is we have Venice then then the Dutch Republic was more powerful than Venice because it adopts the ideas of Pro Reformation and then America becomes more powerful than England because it adopts the ideas of the enlightenment. What's happening throughout this process is transnational capitalist is much more abstract and therefore much more powerful. Okay. And therefore much more capable extracting energy from the population. All right. So let's go over the the procformation. All right. [clears throat] The Catholics and the Protestants. So there are three major difference between the Catholics and the Protestants. Okay. The fir so the Cath Catholics have three basic ideas, right? There's orthodoxy, there's hierarchy, and there's just justification by works. All right? So the idea is, hey, if you want to go to heaven, just obey the Catholic Church, what the priest tells you. Don't think just do what the priest tells you to do. Really simple, right? Okay. But there are three problems with all this. Okay. The first problem is God becomes distant from you. Okay? You're not allowed to communicate with God. And as I keep on saying in this class, we humans are first and foremost religious. We want to be spiritual. We want to have communion with God. But the Catholic Church says no, you have to obey us. Okay? You you have to obey our dogma. Even though our dogma doesn't really make much sense, okay? that if hierarchy of course leads to corruption where the priest can do whatever they want because they're in power okay and they become extremely wealthy and powerful and the third problem justification by works is it leads to hypocrisy you you can be the worst person in the world but hey as long as you give enough money to the Catholic church you go to heaven guys okay all right so that's why the protestants hated the Catholic church and so they proposed a new system. All right. The new system is first of all direct access. You don't have to go through the priest anymore. You don't have to listen to the dogma of the church. You can just actually communicate with the God directly through the Bible. Okay. Second idea is egalitarian where there is no longer any hierarchy. You can communicate with God directly. Okay. And the third idea is justification by faith. Okay. The problem though of course is that these three solutions to the Catholic problem will create more problems. Okay. The first is that you have direct access. So you can access God directly. The problem is that Christians believe in the Holy Trinity. Okay. The Holy Trinity, right? God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are different but the same. Okay? Separate but co-equal. It makes no sense whatsoever. And as such, if you're trying to access yourself, you can't do it because this force this precludes you. Okay? It is impossible for you to insert yourself into the story of the Holy Trinity. If it's just Jesus, you could talk to Jesus. But how do you talk to Jesus, God and Holy Spirit at the same time? You can't do it. Okay. So this causes confusion. Okay. Second problem is a idea of egalitarian. This causes just just so much chaos, debate and chaos, right? Because now hey, if I want to, I can start my own religion. I don't need to get people to agree with me. I need to start my own religion and have followers follow me. Okay? So this causes a lot of debate within the Protestant religion. And it still happens today where among the Protestants there are like thousands and thousands of different branches. Okay. The last problem is most problematic justification by faith. This creates anxiety. Right? Because if you don't really know God because of the Holy Trinity, how do you know you really believe in God? Right? The Catholics believe that all you do is give some money, do some good work, don't sin, and you go to heaven. But the Protestant believe that no, you have to really believe in God in order to go to heaven. Okay. What's even worse is that another reformer named John Calvin um he prop proposed the idea of double predestination because the Catholic Church says you know what only we can decide who goes to heaven. So if you disobey us you'll burn in hell. And John Covenant to respond to this says, "No, no, no. The Catholic Church has no power over anyone because God at the beginning of time has already decided who will go to heaven and who go to hell." Okay, double predestination. It's already been decided, guys. And how do you know if well the solution is through energy, right? If you work hard and you make a lot of money, you become very wealthy, then you know that God favors you. But after you become very wealthy, what's really important is for you to understand you can't spend any of this money because you can't sin. Okay? So you can only invest the money, right? And as you can understand, the merchant oligarchies love this because now they're taking people's money and they're able to invest it in any way they want. It's all going to the bank. Okay? And this is the Dutch Republic. This creates the Dutch Republic which becomes the wealthy society in Europe at this time in the 17th century. Okay. All right. Any questions so far? Okay. So, what's going to happen though is by the time you go from England to America, okay, England is also Protestant. The pro reformation is going to change to the enlightenment. The enlightenment is there may be a god but god doesn't really interfere in the universe. God lets us do whatever we want. Okay? So it's up to us to create our own world. So now that god has left what happens is you need something to replace the god. Right? This becomes the holy this becomes money. Okay? money as God. And this works because if you insert money into the Protestant faith, it solves a lot of problems. It solves a problem of anxiety because how do you know you go to heaven? If you become very wealthy, okay? And everyone, how do you know you're fed by God? Whoever is becomes the wealthiest. Okay? So money becomes the new religion of America. And this is what ultimately leads to a triumph of transnational capitalism. Okay. All right. Okay. So, how do we get from the Dutch Republic to England? Okay. The answer is very simple. The problem is that the Dutch Republic, it is on the continent of Europe. Therefore, it's very easy to invade. Now, you have a problem like how do you keep your money safe from invaders? Okay? Because they have a lot of gold. And so what they will do is they will trans they will take this money and in 1688 they will transfer most of this money to England. Okay. So how does England convince the Dutch to invest in England? Well first thing is they make a Dutch aristocrat William of Orange the king of England. Okay. All right. 1688 England invites William of Orange to become the king of England. That's number one. Number two is the Bank of England is set up in 1694. What makes the Bank of England special is that it is a private bank that's guaranteed by Parliament. Okay? Doesn't make sense, guys. What this means is this. What what this means is that if I make a lot of money, I keep it. But I lose my money, the people will ensure that I get it back. Okay? Now, what's going to happen is the Bank of England will lend money to to England to fight wars. Remember, the Bank of England, what it is, it's transnational capital. So, it's private interest, but anyone can invest it, including the Dutch Republic, including guess what? The Catholic Church. Okay. The third thing um is secret societies. So what's going to happen is that secret societies are going to create these linkages among these different transnational capital groups in order allow allow them to work together. Okay. Right. So does it make sense? And what's really important is this system will transfer over to America creating a system that we have today. The Bank of England becomes Federal Reserve. Secret societies transfer over. These are the Freemasons. Okay. Um All right. Doesn't make sense, guys. And this is why we have the system that we have today. The thing that you you need to understand about the Federal Reserve is the Federal Reserve was set up in like 1913 or 14, I can't remember. Okay? But the Federal Reserve, what they can do is print money. It's a private bank. It's a private interest. They print money and the government how how's it going to spend money? It borrows from the Federal Reserve at interest. Okay? So the people are borrowing from the bankers and so that's why America is controlled by private interests. Right? Clear? And that's why transational capital controls America and the world. Any questions? All right. So let's go over the PPT. Okay. All right. So, Venice, what makes Venice special is after Rome collapses, Roman Roman Empire collapses, right? These noble families, they're now impoverished. They go to different places. The city that becomes dominant in the entire peninsula is actually Venice. Why? Because they're surrounded by Marses. So, it's hard to invade. And you don't actually want to invade it because it has no resources. Its only advantage is that it's by the coast which allows it to engage in piracy as well as trade and diplomacy. Okay. All right. So this is Vanish today and as [snorts] you can see um it would be very hard to invade. Also remember at this time it's very poor so no no one wants to invade it. All right, another picture. Pretty beautiful, right? You guys should go before um it sinks. Okay, [laughter] if you want to go visit Venice, do it now before it sinks. All right, so again, a Venice, it's a merchant oligarchy just like the Dutch Republic, just like England, just like America. Okay, it seems like a democracy. They call themselves a republic, but essentially controlled by private interests. Okay. All right. So, because Venice has no resources, it has to engage in trade and it's going to help set up a lot of trade networks throughout the Middle Ages. And it's what it's going to do that's very profitable is that it's going to import spices from from East Asia back to Europe. Okay? And this is going to make Venice very very wealthy. So, the two big cities are Genua and Venice. Okay? Okay. And as you can see, they are extremely energetic. They're going to set up trade networks throughout the world. Um, this is a spice trade and the center of course is in Venice and this makes Venice the most uh um wealthy city in Europe at some point. Okay. Also remember what these um small city states do that's that's very effective is that they become parasites on the empire. Okay. So Venice can take its wealth and bribe imperial bureaucrats in carinapole to give it trade preferences. Okay. And Venice will also set up alliances with also the Islamic Empire as well as the Mongols as well. Guess who is from Venice? Marco Polo is from Venice. Okay. Why is Marco Polo traveling around the world? To set up new linkages for Venice. Okay. So, you got all these Venetians going around the world to be spies and to explore in order to set up new networks for Venice because they don't have really a choice in matter. They are a trading power. They don't have any resource resource on their own. So, the people have to be very energetic. Okay. And um while this is happening, they're set up like these banks where the wealthy merchants can pull their resources to take more risks. Okay. [snorts] Um eventually what will happen is that Venice will decline and the Dutch Republic will emerge. What makes the Dutch Republic so powerful is that it's ruled by merchants who have now adopted Calvinism. Okay, remember Calvinism is the faith that wealth is signals that you will go to heaven. So everyone in the Dutch Republic works really really hard. It's a very energetic society and they can now feed off the Spanish Empire. Okay, the Austrian Hungary Empire, the Hasbirds. Why? Because the Spanish Empire, what they've done is they've gone to South America and captured a lot of gold and it makes their people very lazy. Okay. So there are three ways in which you can take advantage of that. The first of course is piracy where your ships just steal the gold uh as this gold is heading back to Spain. Another is just by providing industry for these people. These people don't want to work so you just sell them clothes. Okay. And this builds up the uh industry of France, Britain and the Dutch Republic. The last way of course is probably luxury goods especially spices to the market. So because the Spanish Empire is so wealthy, this wealth transfers to the energy and industry of the Dutch Republic. [snorts] Okay. Um and as you can see, this is what the trade looks like. The Dutch will set up a power company called the Dutch East India's Company, which is almost like a nation onto itself. It becomes the the world's wealthiest corporation even today. Okay. Um and the reason why it has is a monopoly over the spice trade from the East Indies. It has its own army. It has it own currency. It has it has it own government. Okay. It can act enact its own laws in the regions it controls. All right. Um and as you can see the Dutch are very energetic. So as a comparison let's compare it to the Spanish Empire. Okay. So at this point in history, the Spanish Empire is the wealthiest, most largest empire in the world. But as you can see, the Dutch are much more energetic. Okay, the Dutch are much more industrious and the British are actually much more industrious as well. Okay, the reason why is the Spanish are still Catholic whereas Dutch Republic have turned into Protestants. Okay, and this allows for the growth of the middle class because as long as you're willing to work hard, you you can become wealthy. Whereas the Spanish, it's very much a society based on nobility and clerical privilege. Okay. All right. So as we discussed the two leaders of the pro reformation are Martin Luther who proposed justification by si by faith. Okay. Justification by faith. You have to actually believe in God if you want to access heaven. and John Kelvin who proposed the idea of double predestination which means that God has already decided who's gone who's who's going to hell who's going to heaven and therefore you have to prove it to yourself by working really hard making a lot of money and not spending it okay and then all this money goes to the bank which allows for the growth of the Dutch Republic [snorts] all right um the process reformation will have many major effects on the world it will lead to something called 30 years war and the Protestants will fight the Catholics and this will lead to the death of millions and millions of people. In fact, this is the deadliest war in Europe right before World War I. Okay. Um yeah, the war is deadly. It lasts for a long time, 30 years. It will kill millions of people. Um because of the P reformation, the Catholic Church is under attack. So what they decided to do is they set up they decided to set up a secret society basically an intelligence agency called the Jesuits. This is Laoya uh you may have heard of Loyal University. So they just go around the world except a lot of universities and schools but their main mission is to infiltrate um Protestant societies and try to overthrow the government and try to make them more Catholic. Okay. In response the so this is the um system of the Jesuits. Okay. In response the protest system called the Freemasons. Okay. We'll discuss this later on. Right. But so so throughout history at this time there's a battle a secret battle going on between the Jesuits and the Freemasons. They're using all sorts of really nefarious evil techniques, including, as we discussed, traumatizing young children so they could be spies to infiltrate other groups. Okay? Because remember, um, at this point in history, people believe in God. So, they're going to ask you, do you swear to God? And you have to, okay? And so, you have to have secret identities if you are to pass their test. Okay? So one of the crucial battlegrounds between the Jesuits and the Freemasons, the Protestants is England. Okay. Uh Henry VII what he will do is he will split off from the pope because the Henry VII like most monarchs in in Europe, they want to maintain their independence, their autonomy. [snorts] When he dies, um Queen Elizabeth the first will inherit the throne. And at this point in history, there are a lot of Catholics who want to see overthrown. So she launches this mass campaign to persecute Catholics. Um this will lead to many many battles crisis between the Catholics and the Protestants. Um James II is a Catholic king and the Protestant nobility don't don't want that. So what they will do is they will conspire against him in 1688. they would invite the Dutch uh aristocrat William Orange into England to become the king and they and this will lead to something called the glorious revolution where now authority passes to parliament what parliament will do is charge something called bank of England which is again it's a private bank with a power of state they can print money okay and this solves a huge problem uh because Before what happened is these private bankers would lend money to to monarchs. The problem with that is the monarch could die. The monarch could be overthrown. The monarch could lose a war. The monarch could just decide not to pay you back. Okay? But now if it's parliament that's boring the money, the people always have to pay you back. Okay? Unless England is destroyed as a nation, your uh loan to the nation will always be guaranteed. And this is uh what will allow England to become an empire. So the great conflict uh um between England and France of course is the Napoleonic wars where Napoleon is about to conquer Europe and Britain cannot have that. Okay. Britain is is a naval power and if Napoleon is able to establish an empire in Europe then England won't be able to trade with Europe. So what England will do is finance seven wars against Napoleon and they can do that because they have the Bank of England which is able to borrow unlimited amount of money from the future as well as across space. Okay, across time and space that's how they're able to defeat Napoleon. Napoleon defeated England six times. But England didn't really care because first of all England wasn't fighting the war. It was just financing the wars and England could not stop fighting the wars because otherwise it would go bankrupt. Okay, does that make sense? [snorts] All right, the political wars and this establishes of course uh the British Empire and they can do whatever they want now. So they take over um India and they have something called the East India Company. Okay. And the East India Company is also a nation onto itself. It it is at this time as a company maybe the third or fourth richest nation in the world. And of course what they do that's very important is they extract wealth from India. They basically steal a lot of wealth from India. There people estimate that they've stolen like $45 trillion of wealth from India. Okay. So you can see how in 1700 before they arrival the East India Company India might have like a quarter of the world GDP but over the next 200 300 years their wealth will plummet. Okay. The reason why is what's going to happen is that England will turn India into a resource colony. They will destroy the man manufacturing base of India, turn into an agricultural economy and then force India to buy British manufactured goods. Okay. So what they will do is use India to uh drive their industrial revolution. Okay. And as you can see, they're also forcing the Indians to pay a lot more money than their own people. [snorts] And so in 1913 um to 1950, the average income of Indians don't really change that much. Okay. But what's really important for you to understand is this. The British could not have done this without help from the Indian people themselves. Okay? So what's happening is the British for the Bank of England, they're able to co-op the Indian elite. Why? Because now you're able to take your wealth and then store it in England. Okay? Does that make sense? Before um you couldn't really take your wealth anywhere. So So your interests were aligned with the people. But now that you're able to take this wealth and then put it in England to be safe, your interests are now aligned with the British. And guess what guys, the same strategy happened in China as well where the Chinese local elites were helping the British established opium trade networks throughout the country. That's why opium was able to spread so fast. Okay? And guys, the system this system is still around today. Okay? So the British Empire may be gone but the British system of money laundering of um stealing a nation's resources by coping their elite it still exists today. Okay. So these are all places where England has these offshore private banks so that the elite of Africa of Asia can take can steal from the nation and store it in these banks. Okay. All right. So, England has some of the world's worst tax havens. [snorts] All right. So, what did England do with this money? Well, what England did was invested in America. At this time, America is industrializing. And what's interesting about America is only a few individuals were able to monopolize entire industries. This is Cornelius Vanderbilt and he monopolized the rail industry. How did he do that? This is Andrew Carnegie who was born poor, but then he monopolized America's steel industry. How did how did one person do that? That's really strange, guys. Oh, Rockefeller. He monopolized America's oil industry. In fact, over 6 weeks, he was able to buy out all his competitors. Where did he get all this money to buy out his competitors? How did he become a monopouist? How is this happening, guys? JB Morgan, he monopolizes um America's financial industry and he creat something called the Federal Reserve, which is which is system they still have today where America is ruled by private banks. Okay, how's this happening? All right. So these questions, how is it possible for these individuals to monopolize industries? Why are these monopolies national rather than regional? Okay. And why didn't government make public these critical infrastructure and region like like we do in China, right? Oil should belong to people. Why is belong to one person? The reason why is it is England that is using its wealth from India and China to finance these individuals. allow these individuals to develop entire industries. Why is it doing that? Because the Br Americans at this history at this time in history, they hate the British, right? The Americans like in 1776, we found a revolution with the British. Why would we allow the British come back and buy our land and our oil and our steel and our rails, right? Therefore, they needed people like Johnny Rockerfeller, Andrew Carnegie to act as your agents. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So in America, you're taught that these people, Andrew Carnegie, John Rockerfeller, they were just racks to riches. It's because of the American dream. It's a land of opportunity. If you work hard, you can become a billionaire. No, guys, that's not true. Okay? If you bounce to society, if you are financed by the British Empire, you could become a billionaire. And guess what, guys? We have the same system today. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg. Really strange. This 19-year-old guy drops out from Harvard and founds Facebook. Okay. And now he's a billionaire. How does that happen, guys? Well, it must be the American dream. Oh, Chacht, guys. Really strange. If you have a dream and you just follow it, you can be a billionaire in America. Yeah, yeah, >> yeah. >> It's all just a scam, right? Google, it's all just a scam. Okay, what you need to understand about these companies is they were all founded with US military technology that is public. Okay, the internet, it's a US military technology. Google, these search engines, it's all US military technology. And they were given to these guys for free. Why would they do that? Okay, again, if you think that we're ruled by secret societies and it's really secret societies that control the world and they want this technology out there to better to better surveil people, it makes a lot more sense, right? Because if the Pentagon said, "Hey, we have this free computer that you can use." You'd be like, "I'm going to use this computer because you'll spy on me, right?" But if Mark Zuckerberg says, "Hey, free Facebook guys. Want to use it?" Yeah, sure. Facebook. Yeah. He's a dork from Harvard. Of course, he can be trusted, right? Same same strategy. Okay, guys. [snorts] All right. So, 1913, these bankers met together to set up the Federal Reserve system and this led to something called the Bren and Wood system. In 1945, America won the war and America promised the world that the US currency backed by gold will become the reserve currency of the world. But the US currency will always be backed by gold. Therefore, you have nothing to worry about. Right? Well, in 1971, Richard Nixon says, "Screw that." Okay? We're not backed by by going anymore. By we're not backed by gold anymore. You can use it. You don't you don't have to use it, though. Okay? But guess what? Oil will now be sold in go in US dollars. Okay? This called a petro dollar. If you want to buy oil, you have to use dollars. Okay? And then he did something else that was very important actually more important uh than uh linking the solver to oil. Can you guys guess what? Oh this. >> Okay. Guess what? Um millions of Chinese working really hard. It's all for useless US dollars, guys. Okay. All right. Okay, so America was founded by Ben Franklin and George Washington among others. They were both members of the Freemasons. They're both members of secret societies. Okay, so America is really a Freemason um country. And how do we know? Look at Washington DC. Okay, guess what guys? The architecture, the city design, it's all secret society stuff. Okay, this is a pentagram and this is the White House, right? This is the White House and you can see how it's designed. This is a cult symbolism. [snorts] This is another picture showing you that this is a Freemason symbol backed by the Pentagon. I'm sorry, the Pentagram. Okay. Okay. If you want to see more of the society's occult symbolism, just look look at the US money. All right. This is the allseeing eye, the pyramid. It all all the symbolism comes from Egypt, Greece, Babylon. Okay, it's all part of the Freemason um system. This is seal of the United States, the new world order. Okay, the new world order. We'll be discussing this next week. Okay, but now you reach a point in history where you got too much wealth. People become lazy and complacent. So what do you do with these peasants? We know exactly what they're going to do. They're going to destroy the economy like they did in 1929 and then they're going to start World War II. Okay, that's the that's the goal because how the system works is you're transational capital. You need people to constantly focus and working. Okay. And you do that by creating anxiety, by destroying wealth, by creating a cycle of constant death and destruction. All right. Any questions? Clear guys? All right. So, um, great. So, next class we will discuss, um, the Frankus. Okay. All right.

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Okay. So, um, today we will look at Jewish history. So, let's review what we learned about Jewish history so far. Now, remember that for most of human history, the um, Middle East um, has been the wealthiest part of the world. And as we discussed before, the Levant especially Jerusalem is the center of the world because it it connects all the major civilizations. Okay, you have Egypt, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and over here you have the Persians and over here is the Mediterranean. Okay, as you can see, basically all roads lead to Jerusalem. So, whoever controls Jerusalem controls the major trade access point, which is the most profitable part of an empire. And so for these empires, it's always been a problem of how to keep Jerusalem under control because Jerusalem, whoever controls Jerusalem, can always choose to switch sides, right? So if Mesopotamia controls Jerusalem, what the Egyptians will do is bribe uh Jerusalem to switch sides. And this keeps on going over and over. And they tried many different techniques on how to control Jerusalem. The Babylonians tried to take captives hostage and that didn't really work as well. So the Babylonians decided to destroy Jerusalem. Okay. And with it uh the Israeli identity became splintered and scattered. Um and this is the Babylonian Empire. But eventually what will happen is that the Babylons will be conquered by the Persians and the Persians will adopt a new technique to control Jerusalem which is divide and rule. They will create the Jewish identity implanted in Jerusalem and that will create conflict the locals and the Jews will not be forever loyal to Persia because they are a foreign entity within the Levant and only uh by swearing loyalty to Persia can they maintain control over the Levant and in return the Persians will give the Jews financing to build their second temple. So at this point in history, a Jewish identity emerges and there are three pillars to the identity that continues even today. Okay. So the first pillar is they become a monotheistic religion which believes that Yahweh is the only God and they're the chosen people of Yahweh because Yahweh had a covenant with Abraham. Yahweh promised Abraham that your people will control the promised land. Okay? And the promised land extends from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates in Mesopotamia. Okay? That is a promised land. That's the first pillar. The second pillar is the Jews must follow the law of Moses because the law of Moses is the law of God, the ten commandments, right? The law of Moses over time um will be divided into the Torah which is the written law and the atonement which is the oral law. And the Torah is basically the five books of the Bible. The first five books of the Bible. The third pillar is to use the Bible as the collective memory of the people. Okay. So they um Jews believe the Bible what happened to the Bible is literal. It is actually what happened and by believing that the Bible is literal and true then you become a Jew. Okay. And that's why the Jewish identity um is very flexible. Okay. So um at this point in history uh when the Jews swear loyalty to Persia there are some characteristics that will change over time. The first major characteristic is that the center of worship is in Jerusalem and the second temple. Okay. So if you're a Jewish person, you must make animal sacrifices to uh Yahweh and therefore the uh seducies. These are hereditary priests. They are the ones who control the religion. Then there's very strict laws that govern how people behave. So for example, you must rest on Sabbath. You also cannot marry outside your religion. You must be circumcised. Okay. So the there are all these um restrictions on how people behave. Over time what will happen is that the Jews will expand across the world. Um a lot of Jews will work as mercenaries in a great army as he conquers Persia. And as um the helenic world comes into being, Jews will move around for economic opportunities, right? They'll work as officials, they'll work as artisans, they work as traders, merchants. And so they're scattered around [snorts] uh the helic world. And as we discussed at this point in history, the three major cultures that we've looked at, the Jewish culture, the Greek culture, and the Persian culture will merge together in a process we call synchronization. And that gives birth basically to western civilization. Um unfortunately what happens is that over time because the Jerusalem is so important and because the Jews believe they are special people who only worship the one true god that will cause conflict with the Greeks. Okay. The Greeks also are very chauvinist chauvinistic, very uh proud people who believe their culture is superior and quite honestly a lot of Jews will convert to the Hellenistic uh lifestyle. Okay. But this causes conflict and ultimately this will culminate in something called the Makabian revolt where a certain group of Jews decide to rebel against the Greeks. And even though they're minority, even though most Jews actually do not support them, because of their religious conviction, because of the will of God, they will triumph and they will establish uh the Makabian kingdom. And this victory is celebrated today in something called the Hanukkah festival. Okay, Hanukkah. And that's a celebration of the Makabes revolt against the Greeks. And the reason why is the Greeks wanted uh the Jews to celebrate their religion as well. They wanted to turn the second temple um into a a site to worship Greek gods. And so so the fanatical Jews rebelled against that. Okay. All right. Um but this kingdom of the Mcabes will not last very long. Um again the problem is that Jerusalem it is the nexus of empires and so what will happen is the Romans will come and take control over this area and the Romans actually worse than the Greeks. The Romans are even more chauvinistic uh more discriminatory towards the Jews and this will launch three major wars between the Romans and the Jews. the entire Jewish diaspora revolt against the Romans and this will lead to many many Jews being massacred because the Romans are a vicious people. In 70, the year 70 they burn down the second temple to destroy the morale of the Jews. And because they destroy the second temple, this causes a shift in the Jewish religion. Because remember at this point in history, the second temple is a site of Jewish worship. This is the house of God. This is where Yahweh lives. Okay? So when when the second temple is destroyed, what happened is that the Jews or many Jews will choose to convert to Christianity. Okay? Because remember we discussed how Paul created Christianity as a mechanism for Jews to still be Jews but at the same time be Roman as well. Okay, that's the idea of the Christian religion. But those who stay become much more fanatical. In fact, they develop a very messianic esquetological attitude meaning the end of the world is coming. God is coming to destroy the Romans and we must show our loyalty to God. And so they keep on the fight even though they've lost the war against the Romans. They will go into the Arabian desert where they will incubate a new religion called Islam and they will prophesize the coming of the Messiah who turn out to be Muhammad. Right? Um so at this point in history the Jews must leave Jerusalem because the Romans basically kicked them out and their uh religion will splinter into into many different factions. But the major characteristic is that they've gone from temple worship to the worship of uh their law. Okay, the law of Moses. And so the rabbis come into power. Before it was the seduces, the priests who control the temple who are in charge. Now it's the rabbis. The rabbis are basically the Pharisees, those who teach the oral law of Moses. Okay? So they become the new elite in the Jewish diaspora. And um um so as we discussed a lot of Jews at this time convert to Christians. All the early Christians were Jews. Okay. Um and as we discussed what will happen is those Jews who are almost they will escape into the desert and they will incubate Islam and eventually Islam will conquer the world. Now this at this point they feel as though they've achieved the messianic age and they have returned to the uh to Jerusalem. Now the Jews believe that in the mezanic age the Messiah will come lead them to victory uh bring all the Jews back to Jerusalem and build the third temple and usher in the mezzanic age. Okay. And that's what they believe happened. And so this is the alastic mosque in Jerusalem and this is meant to be the third temple. Over time what happened is they would change it to become a center of Islamic worship. But in the beginning it was really the third temple. And so at this point a lot of Jews convert to Islam as well because they think that Muhammad is the Messiah. Okay. So a lot of Jews are converted to Christianity and Islam but there are a lot of Jews who do not and they settle throughout the world. Okay, let's look at Europe at this point. So what's happening in Europe is that Europe becoming more and more Christian but the Jews are allowed to stay and what will happen over time is that they will be persecuted, massacred and expelled from many different places um in Europe. I'm not sure if you can see this map clearly, but um the uh circles, okay, are places where there was at least one Jewish expulsion. So, this is a terrible time for the Jews because they settle in on a place, they're trying to practice religion, and then um after they've settled in, they're expelled by the people. So, why does it happen? Okay. Well, what's happening is that the Jews come to an arrangement with the European nobility. Okay. And there's a deal. There's a contract. That's not written down, but it's understood. Basically, what the Jews agree to is they become slaves to nobility. Okay? Because in the Christian religion, you are not allowed to charge interest. You're not allowed to make bank loans to peasants and charge interest. But that's the most profitable business you can get into, right? So you as as no can't do it. What do you do? Well, you get the Jews to do it for you. But not only that, but you get the Jews to also manage your property. Jews are actually very good at industry and trade. There's a Jewish diaspora, right? So the Jews make very good merchants because they're able to access different networks around the world. That's very important if you're if you're the elite. Also the Jews can make loans to you for wars and stuff. Okay. And Jews are very good at finance. They're very good at medicine. Okay. So the Jews become very indep independent. They become a very important part of the European economy. Okay. And the last reason which is the most problematic is that the Jews are kept around as a scapegoat. Okay. So you know in our society we have poor people. Why? to put fear into people, right? If you don't work hard in school, if you don't make a lot of money, you end up like poor and homeless, right? Well, in Catholic Europe, remember the Catholic Church is in charge at this point. The Catholic Church wanted to keep Jews around to scare the Christians and say, "Hey, if you don't believe in Jesus, you're you end up like the Jews." Okay? And so what happens is that this arrangement is fine when the economy is good. But what happens when the economy is bad? What happens when people are angry? The Jews get blamed, right? Because the Jews are the ones who are lone sharks. The Jews are the ones who killed Jesus. The Jews are the ones who are causing all the spiritual pollution, right? And so this is the implicit contract made between the Jews and the European nobility. you're allowed to stay and make a lot of money, but when we need a scapegoat, you get blamed and you have to leave, okay? Or possibly get massacred as well. So, it's a terrible, terrible deal for the Jews, but they keep it because they want to practice their religion, okay? All right. So um there's one place in Europe that is very friendly towards the Jews and this is actually the wealthiest part of Europe. It's Spain. Okay. At this point it's controlled by the Muslims. And remember the difference between the Muslims and the Catholics is the Catholics persecute the Jews because they think that the Jews killed Jesus. But the Muslims don't believe that. The Muslims believe that the Jews, the Christians, uh the Muslims are all one big family. Okay? and they are all descendants of Abraham. So the Jews and the Christians are treated very well in Spain and Jews rise up very high within the Alanderus system. Okay? Because they're um very literate. They know the Bible very well. The Bible is a holy book. They have they have connections to the Jewish diaspora around the world. Um and they are um um extremely good at finance. Okay. So the Jews prosper in this region. The problem is that over time this region will be be reconquered by the Christians and now the Christians will continue to persecute the Jews and force Jews to convert. Okay, so this is when the Jews, Christians and Islams get very get along very well in Spain. Okay. But in 1492 um the spa the spa uh the Spanish will expel the Jews from Spain. You either convert or you leave. Okay. And a lot um convert and a lot go off to the Ottoman Empire. Okay. And this was a traumatic event in Jewish history because they were extremely well established in Spain. They felt they were Spanish and now suddenly they lost everything. Okay. Now a lot did convert um and this caused this shism a divide sism within the Jewish religion. Um those who converted and those who refused to convert now became bitter enemies. Okay. [snorts] Okay. So what will happen now is a lot of Jews choose to settle in the Polish Lutheran Commonwealth which is a new uh nation and because it's a new nation they need a lot of people. So uh what they will do is they will have extremely tolerant policy policies towards the Jews. You're allowed to practice your own religion. So a lot of Jews around the world settle in the Polish Lutheran Commonwealth and again they thrive. They do extremely well. But the problem is that this area can be easy easily invaded and because it becomes more wealthy more people start to invade it from Sweden, from Russia and so war breaks out and a lot of Jews get killed. So it just gets worse and worse for the Jews. When they think they finally found a home, they have to suffer this persecution. So all these all this history creates a major crisis of faith among Jewish people. Okay. And the three big questions is the first law in the Jewish religion is do not worship false idols. That's the first law of the ten commandments. So why is it that Jews can convert to Christianity and Islam and not suffer any consequences? Okay. And why are so many Jews converting? If Yahweh is a true God and Yahweh demands complete obedience to him, why is it okay to convert? Okay, that's that that's a problem. Second problem is what did you what did Jews do wrong exactly to be persecuted and massacred like this? Yeah. Okay. Jew some Jews convert to Christianity and Islam but go punish them man. Why are the Jews who are loyal to Yahweh punished? That makes no sense. Okay. And the third big question is if Yahweh promised the Jews a homeland called a promised land, why don't they have it? Why are they kicked out? For hundreds of years, despite all the persecution, despite all the trauma, they've stayed loyal to Yahweh. So why is this happening? This creates a crisis of faith. Okay? And so whenever there's a crisis of faith, Jews believe it is the end times. The world is coming to the end and the Messiah is coming. Okay? So at this point in history about the year 1600 there's this is heavy anticipation of the coming of Messiah and so when will happen is that one man named Zai Zevi who is born in Ottoman the Ottoman Empire he will declare himself the Messiah okay and Zai Zevi is the equivalent of Jesus in the Jewish religion now we don't actually know much about him and the reason why is that um what we know about him. A lot of information was written by his enemies uh the rabbis, his followers are pretty secretive. Okay. But um one thing happened is this. Whenever you have a messiah come, what the messiah does is he's essentially a revolutionary. He's trying to overthrow the social order. Okay? And his major concern is why are Jews being persecuted like this? And his answer is because we're not practicing the true faith. What we have are all these laws created by the rabbis. But who are the rabbis? The rabbis are just a corrupt elite like all every like every priest class before. They're like the Catholic Church, right? The Catholic church is a hierarchy and so over time they become extremely corrupt. The rabbis don't really suffer that much persecution, right? So when Jews are massacred and persecuted, guess what guys? It's usually not the Jewish elite that's massacred and persecuted, right? And also the rabbis are the ones who are helping the European elite persecute the Jews, right? Because it is the rabbis that control the Jews and to maintain control of the Jews, they come into these unfair agreements within Jew with the European nobility. So for Zevi, the real problem is a hierarchy within the religion. The real problem are these laws that don't make any sense. Don't eat pork. So the Sabbath, right? Rest on um Saturday, you're not going to convert to other religions. Doesn't make any sense. What should matter is your faith in God. If we are a people, if we are a family born of Abraham and we share one blood, then who cares what you dress like, what you look like? We're all one blood. The faith in your heart should is what matters. And also there should be no hierarchy. [snorts] People should be free to choose their religion. People should be free to choose their own lifestyle. People should be free to choose their own laws. If God loves us, if there's a divine spark in us, then we should know what is right and what is wrong. Okay? So there are three things that he does that's really important. The first and most important thing is he proposes an egalitarian society where men and women are all equal where there's no more hierarchy where the rabbis are not above you because um the law doesn't exist anymore. Okay. What matters is your relationship to God. So in many ways he's a proto liberal and a protocommunist. Okay. He believes that the system designed as it is where um you must obey the rabbi and we must await for the coming of Messiah who will take us back to Jerusalem. It's meant to defend the status quo. It's meant to make the Jews slaves to the nobility. Okay? So he's very much a proberal and procommunist and we'll discuss his influence on modernity next class. Okay? That's the first thing I want you guys to remember. Second thing I want you guys to remember is that he ultimately converts to Islam. Okay? So when he announced himself as Messiah, a million Jews follow him because he's preaching a message of liberation, of equality, of freedom. And so a million Jews follow him. But then he does something that's really weird which confuses people which is he's supposed to as a Messiah take them to war against the Ottoman Empire and restore Jerusalem to the Jewish nation. But when he's confronted by the Sultan, the Sultan basically says to him the turban or your head. The turban means you convert to Islam or I will cut your head off. Si converts to Islam. And I was like why did he do that? And the reason why he did that is you you need to understand his Messiah who's come to redeem the Jews, right? You got millions of Jews who in the centuries have converted to Christianity to Islam. According to the rabbis, these people will burn in hell. But if they're all part of one family, if they all have the divine spark, then they must be redeemed as well before we can have heaven on earth. So, Zabia Zevi what he does is by converting he sacrificing himself just like Jesus sacrificing himself on the cross to redeem us from the original sin. He is now redeeming the Jews all Jews from the original sin of conversion. Okay? And so by doing this he's saying it's okay to convert guys. In fact I've absolved you of the original sin with God. So now you can now be close with God and therefore you don't have to follow the laws anymore. Okay, the messianic age has come because you are the messianic age now. So last thing he suggests is the idea of justification by sin. Okay, and again the mis there's been a lot of misinterpretation that this just means that oh it's okay to uh break the laws now. Okay. In fact, um, Zevi, you know, he converts to Islam. He eats pork and he's he has a lot of wallet sex. Okay. And so he breaks a lot of these laws. And but what Zevi is really saying is that in the meant age laws don't apply because we all have the wisdom in ourselves to follow our own laws. And by breaking the laws, what you're showing is your true faith in the Messiah, your true faith in God, your true faith in yourself. Okay? because you're no longer constrained by rebetic authority. Are we clear? Okay. So, um this is the idea of Zab Zi. What happens when he converts is most choose not to follow him. Most choose to go back to the rabbis who who are his enemies. But there are 300 families who choose to convert with him. And these families are called the Doma. And guess what happens? The Domai will eventually come to control Turkey. Okay, this is Mustafa Anatkurk who was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and he's a Domai guys. Okay, so you can argue that today the Domai control Turkey. All right. So the Jews believe in reincarnation and 50 years after Zeb's death, okay, a new person named Jacob Frank will emerge and consider himself the reincarnation of Zabati Zebi. Okay, so he's born into a Sabatian family. He's born into a family that follows the teachings of um Zab Zebi. Even though Zab Zebi is considered a heresy even though he's considered an enemy of the rabbis um he's born into his family and he and he will start to extend and systemize the teachings of Sabbu successful okay he will have a lot of followers but much more importantly he will become friends with European nobility the royal families of Austria and Russia his followers will become product members of the European uh nobility. Uh they will become very important intellectuals and they will become very important bankers. And what I will show you is they've really gone on to conquer the world. And so the question for us is how did he do that? How did he uh inspire his followers to go conquer the world? And um he did so by presenting a new philosophy, a new religion, okay, that goes against the Jewish religion. It's not Jewish uh Judaism, okay? He doesn't considers himself a Jew. In fact, he hates Jews. So his new religion called Sabatian Frankism goes against the Jewish faith. Okay? And it is a faith based on success. And his argument is this. Jesus came to our world to teach us that the world is a corpse, right? The material world doesn't matter. What matters is the divine spark in you because the divine spark will set you free. Divine spark will allow you to return to the moon. That's what matters. Okay? We're here just to learn spirituality. We're here to learn wisdom through pain and suffering. Then Jacob Frank, okay? Then look, thinks about this and says, "Well, you know what? If God is forgiving, if God wants here wants us to come here to learn wisdom, why do we have to suffer? Why can't we become kings ourselves? Why can't we break the rules of this world, cheat, hack the system, and become kings ourselves?" Because isn't that a much more better way to enjoy our time here? Okay. And so what he will do is he will teach this philosophy, this religion to his followers and he will also train and teach his followers on how to master this world, how to conquer this world. Okay. So we will look at his teachings. All right. So um we know um what he says because a lot of things he said were written down down by his followers in Polish. And we are now now going to read a translation by Harris Lowitz from the univers of UDO. Okay, these are his words. But what's important to keep in mind is that these are words just for the public. Okay, so we don't actually have access to his secret mystical magical teachings, the the the cabala. Okay. Um and think of what his teachings almost like the prince. It's a guide on how to conquer the world. And in fact, the fragrance will go on to conquer the world. Okay. So we're going to study his mentality, okay? his teachings and I'm telling you right now that he is a brilliant teacher and the reason why is that he's going to tell teach religion teach ideas through telling stories. He's a storyteller. The power of stories is that they're like seeds that embed in your mind. They grow over time. They become like oak trees, these massive um trees that shape the way you see reality and the way you see yourself. Okay. So the so stories are the most powerful mechanisms of education in the world. Okay. So um Alan can you read the story please? >> Yeah. >> One Saturday I went outside the city and there brought myself some orange and having a pang knife on me peeled them a learned Jewish scholar came along with his purpose. Why are you doing this by God? Don't you know that today is a knife on you? You are right. I answered. You speak the truth, but why are you such a learned man carrying a knife with you? How can that be? [clears throat]  shouted the Jew. It is my habit to bath on Friday and put on different clothing for the Sabbath. Well, since I said so, reach into your pocket, and you will find a knife there for sure. The Jew was stricken by fear when he, having put his hand into the pocket, brought out his own pen knife. He cried out in amazement, "You cannot be a man, for if you are a man, then I am an ass." And he began to beg me to come to him, promising all kinds of good things, but I did not want to do it. And in this way, I did similar things whenever I could. Okay. So certain things that you will notice about the story is first of all, he has contempt for Jews. Okay. A learned Jewish scholar. And what he shows is that it's very easy to trick these people. Why? Because they're learning their laws have made them stupid. Okay? They're very strict about following the laws. And so they become very ignorant. And what he also shows you is how to control people. You control people by using their own laws against them. Okay? So this man has a very rigid sense of the world. He just said to uh Jacob Frank, hey, you can't use a knife. And then Jacob Frank is like, well then why is there a knife in your pocket? And so it's just a simple magic trick, right? While he isn't looking, Jacob Frank just puts a knife into his pocket. It's a slight of hand. Very simple trick. But these slight of hands, because people are stupid and ignorant, you can use them. You can use these tricks to control and manip manipulate them. Okay. So, just because he's able to do this, the learn Jewish scholar well is now saying, "Oh, you must be the Messiah. You must be divine. Let me follow you." And J was like, "No, you're too stupid to follow me. Goodbye." Okay. All right. So, it's a simple story. It's very amusing. It's memorable. So, if I would tell you this story, I remember when you were 6 years old, even when you turned 80 years old, you would still remember it. And the story will grow over time. It will shape the way that you see the world. And what you understand is that people are fundamentally stupid and and superstitious. And you must take advantage of that. Okay. Take advantage of that because why not? All right. Okay. Uh Emma, can you read please? >> Traveling with Zakuboski from Salon Nika to Poland. There prevailed at that time a pes >> pestilence >> pestilence in po podia. We came to one township where the plague was feeling the people and we lacked food, wine, bread, cheese etc. Then remembering that from those containment >> contaminated >> contaminated with plague one does not take money I told him the opposite. You go there purchase everything but don't give them money. He did just that. He came to the baker, bargained for bread, put it in his sack. But when he had to pay, the baker fell down and died. He went to the shopkeeper where he bargained for cheese. He put the cheese away and the shopkeeper died. He went on to the store to buy vodka. The same happened with the owner. In a word, just wherever he went, he bought everything without money because the plague was sweeping the sellers away. coming back then to me where I was waiting for him. A rider on horseback knocked him down with his with with his horse. "What are you doing?" shouted Jaguoski. "Are you going to ride right over me?" He didn't even finish saying it when the riders toppled over and fell to the ground. "This is how it is. I did I did all this because it was promised to me that no plague, nothing at all, could get at me. Therefore, all my orders were carried out successfully by the hand of the one whom I signed and so should you be. >> Okay. So, your stories can be interpreted both literally and metaphorically. Literally is when people are are afraid, you take advantage of their fear. Okay? When people are afraid to buy things, you go buy things. If people see the plague, you see as opportunity to make money for yourself. Okay? That's a literal. But then the spiritual is remember Jesus saying that how the world is a corpse and if you see it as a corpse you can stand above people. Okay. And what J is saying if you see the world as a corpse you can do whatever you want. You can take advantage of people. Okay. As long as you believe that I'm above you okay you're a dead body. I can take every I can take everything from you. You will always triumph. So this is the idea of justification by sin. How do you know you truly believe in God? By breaking the laws of man. By breaking the convention of man. Because these convention of man, there's morality, laws that keep you back. Okay? What matters is your relationship with God. You have true faith. You can do whatever you want. You can conquer the world and God will let you because you have faith in God. All right. All right. Um, can you read out? I asked Rabbi Isahar and Rabbi Mandach that if the second belonged to the divine why did he die. Rabbi Isahar replied to me. I stand in our book that he came to this world to experience everything there is. Therefore he had to come to experience the bitterness of death as well. That's fine. And I replied, "The answer is good. But if he came to experience everything, why then did he not taste how it would be to be pasha viza or sultan? Why did he not experience rulership? I don't believe it. They cannot give me any answer to this." And so this is a great point he makes. Okay, you have these divine beings like Jesus. They come to experience the world, to learn wisdom. And so why do they suffer? Because suffering is part of wisdom. And then J Frank's like, "Yeah, but then isn't being a king also an experience? Why didn't he become king?" Okay. So what Jacob Frank is telling you is that these laws, this morality, religion in place, it's all a mechanism to control you, to subjugate you, to enslave you. Okay? So his is a religion of liberation from oppression. Okay. Uh keep on reading Alan. >> Yeah. That place to where I go all have knocked so that the door be open to them. The patriarchs, the Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, and all the pillars of the world. None have been able to open it. But I will labor and with the strength of my God will open it. No one knew but only Balam who knew a little but he too not well. That which I mentioned to the company must be understood concerning those pillars of the world as was mentioned above. Yeah. So he's saying the Jewish religion you worship Moses and David and Solomon. But you know what at the same time they were all slaves because they could not see the truth of this world. They could not see the true structure of this world. They couldn't really conquer it. But I can and I will show you the way as long as you follow me. Okay. the company um is his followers and the people who follow him are called the brothers and the sisters. So it's very egalitarian flat hierarchy where there's no it's not a triangle like most secret societies. It's just they all obey um Jacob Frank and Jacob Frank will lead them to promised land. [music] Okay. All right. Uh can you read uh Ember? >> Should I ri this? Maybe not. Um, in a dream I saw Jesus having priests around him sitting at a spring of living and clean clear water. I noticed that the spring went away from them and came to me. >> Okay, so this is very simple, right? You think Jesus is the Messiah? Wrong. I'm the true Messiah. Okay, because the water flows to me. Life flows to me. Am I going? >> I tell you as Christ as you know said that he came to free the world from the hands of Satan. But I came to free it from all loss and status which have been till now for all that was the work of the hands of Satan. And by that all fell into his hands. I must destroy all that and only make that which is black look utterly white. At that time the good God will reveal himself. >> Okay. So why is it important to sin to break the laws? Because the truth of the matter is this world that we live in is controlled by the false god by Satan. And therefore a responsibility to resin to show the world that his laws can be defied to defy sin himself to show the world that these laws are idiotic. They don't make any sense. They're stupid. Okay? And by doing that we accelerate the end of this world. That is an age. When this world ends we will have a new world when we'll see the truth for ourselves. When we will awaken to the falseness of this world and then we have defeated evil then we we will have defeated sinner. Okay this is the idea of accelerationism right you by sinning you accelerate the end of the world by sinning you reveal the truth of the world by sinning you empower yourself. Okay. Okay. Any questions so far? But you can see how seductive this is, right? Okay. Um, okay. So, this story is a bit long. So, so I I'll simp simplify it. Okay. Again, it is a parable. So, there's a merchant. He has the world's most valuable pearl. And he wants to uh puncture a hole through it because he wants to create a necklace. And he goes to all these specialists, artisans, and they all say, "No, no, no. This pearl is too valuable. I might break it or I might damage it. You won't be happy." Okay? So, they all refuse. the merchant really wants a hole. So, he offers more money and everyone's like, "No, I can't do it." Then this apprentice, okay, and Jacob Frank's like, "I'm an apprentice. I don't know anything." He's like, "Sure, I'll do it." And he does it. And the merchant IS LIKE, "OH, WOW. THANK YOU." AND AND the merchant, the apprentice becomes very wealthy. So, in this world, what matters is not obeying conventions, not what matters is not listening to other people, conforming to other people. What matters is your fearlessness. Okay? Just go do it, man. Seize it and you'll become wealthy. That's what this world is about. Okay? We are constrained by these taboss, by all this morality, by all all this nonsense. Okay? You you must break through it and just seize it for yourself and you'll become powerful. All right? Okay. This is another story which is too long, but the story goes like this. The king has four sons and he dies. They're all born of the same age. So he doesn't know. They don't know who who inherits a throne. Okay. So a great mystic comes and says, "Okay, here's a king. This is his body. Shoot an arrow at his heart and whoever hits the heart will become king." All three sons try and miss. The fourth son says, "I can't do it because he's he is the king. He's my father. He may be dead, but he's still my father." And then the wizard, the mystic says he is your king because he understands what matters is family. Okay? So what Jacob F is saying is this. Everyone else we treat like animals. They are animals because they're stupid. They're governed by these idiotic laws. But we the company, the brothers and sisters, the family, we have to love each other. We have to respect each other even um in depth. Okay? And our love for each other is what will allow us to conquer the world. [snorts] All right. Um Allan, can you read me please? Yeah. There was once a bear. During its absence, its children were taken from the lair. Out of the great pain of not finding the children. When he came back, the the bear fell upon the village and wounded animals and people. The elders of the village sent to it the following order. If you will not leave us, then we'll bring two the streaks together and destroy you. The bear laughed and sneered at it. They sent the same message again with a memor memorandum that will gather four or more districts. The bear made fun of it again. Finally, it was sent to the bear with these words, saying, [music] "In our village, there are four brothers. We shall send them against you." When the bear heard this, it collected itself and went off on its way. after having withdrawn from the will right away. So it is with you I >> Okay, you understand this? So his fathers can say to Jacob Frank, "Master, there's only a thousand of us, but there's a million of them." And Jacob Frank is like, "Look, four brothers are more powerful than 10,000 men." That's the power of love, right? Jesus taught us the power of love. D taught us about the power of love. If we can use it, we can conquer the world. Okay? We need we need to harness the power of divine spark to come together to conquer the world. It is love that will conquer the world. >> All right. Um Emma, can you read please? >> Holy holy smokes. >> Okay. No. Um um you know what? This is too long. Okay. So So I'll just tell tell you the story. The story is very simple. There's an elephant. he's running loose and he's killing people. So the king um says whoever can kill the elephant uh will marry my daughter. So a prince decides to do this. He disguises himself as a normal person. And he says to the king, I will go kill the elephant but only the condition that you first let me see your daughter. And the king says sure why not cuz you're going to die anyway. And when the prince sees the princess, the princess recognize her her right him right away and says, "You must be a prince. Please don't go out there and get yourself killed. Marry me." And the king hears this and says, "If you are truly a prince, you you don't have to go go kill the elephant." And the prince says, "No, no, no. I already promised you what I will do. Out of my love for your daughter, I will go and kill the elephant." And he does. That's the power of love. Okay? That's what J Frank is telling you. That's the power of love. Do things not for money. Do things not for power, but because of your love for each other. Okay. That's a secret to conquering the world. [snorts] >> All right. Um can can you read uh Amber? >> Once while the Sultan was visiting a slave gallery with his visor, he asked each slave about his crime. all said they were innocent of the judgment. Only one, having revealed his crime, did not hide anything from the sultan. Why should this criminal stay stay here with all these honest people? Shouted the sultan. Away with him off this gallery galley. And so the criminal was released. The visor asked the sultan about it. "Why do you set him free when he himself admits to his crimes?" The king then asked the robber, "What do you intend to do now?" The robber fell at the sultan's feet and said, "Oh Lord, if you will take me into your service, then surely I will lack nothing, neither clothing nor robes, and you will see how devotly I serve you. You will surely be content with me." >> Okay, so again, he's teaching his followers how to conquer the world. And one thing that you need to understand is yes, humans are animals, but there's still good animals and bad animals, and you [clears throat] need to differentiate, okay? Animals want to be loyal. So if you treat a good animal well, that animal will be loyal to you forever. Okay. [snorts] All right. Um can can you read um Alan? It is a custom during a Jewish wedding that a distinguished person sit by the groom. I wanted to beat everyone up so that this place would be given to me, but they all spoke up. It is not proper to try to attain that by fighting, but by disputation. If you win over them in a dispute, then it will be proper for you to sit next to to the groom. I ask them a few questions and they give me the answers. This is not a great deal that you give me the answers because the SC school teachers taught you that. But answer me a single questions and that will be the end. And I ask it stand with you that the father should circum circumise >> circumcise circumcise his child. and another place it stand that the mother should circumcise to that they cannot answers. So I sat down beside the groom. >> Okay. So the problem with people is that they're stupid. Okay. And there are lots of these laws in in the Bible. And if you just look at the Bible, just read the Bible, it there's contradictions and but the Jews believe, oh no, the Bible is the word of God. But if it's a word of God, why are there so many contradictions in the Bible? Okay. And all you need to do is reveal the contradictions to the Jews and they'll just shut up and obey you. Right? So what he's telling his followers is if you want to win the world, you you cannot win the world through violence and power because there's too many enemies. Well, if you want to win the world, you do so through argument, through learning, by showing the stupidity of people. And this is very effective. Okay? So he's telling his followers, go become lawyers, man. Go become scholars. And um at some point in the 19th century in Warsaw, all the top lawyers in Warsaw are Frank. Okay? Because Franken teach you how to think for yourself, how to think critically. All right. Um can you can you read? Uh Elohim said that >> Adam is a god. Okay, keep on going. >> Noise is Adam. Let us make a man. They wanted to make man higher than his now. But it was from God himself that Adam should sing. And so in all ages they fall until it reached the lowest low lowness and from among the lowest of the low as we are our bracement down to the very bottom. It will be so that our rise may go on forever upwards and shortly out of deep darkness the light will appear us as was said above. That is exactly what you have yet from signal sento we shall s thank Adam. Okay. So the Elohim are gods. Okay. So what he's saying is that there's hierarchy of gods. The true god had argument with the okay. The b is basically saying let's make men as servants to us. So the man should be imbued with both spirit and a bit of flesh. And God says, "No, I want man to be all flesh, to be all pleasure." Okay? Why? Because that will allow men to sin. And the more they sin, what they will do is learn wisdom and knowledge. That's a secret to mortals. Because we can sin, we can learn knowledge in a way that the gods cannot. And so the more we sin, the more knowledge we have. That's why it's important to sin. If you do not sin and just follow the laws of men, you'll just stay stupid. Okay? But if you really want to understand the world, break the rules. The law says don't go and steal from the storm. Why not try it? See what happens to you. The worst is that you'll be fine, right? Or you go to jail for a day or 10 days, whatever. Okay? But it's it's knowledge. It's true knowledge that God cannot give you. That's why God created us to do things that he cannot do. Right. All right. Uh can you read uh Amber? If you would have held on to her by that golden thread, as was indicated before, that with her is the power of leading you before that big brother who is the king of kings, or to lead him down to you together with his brothers and his whole household, so that the whole company could see him as I promised to show you God so that everyone individually would have the power of asking him for three things. Then we would be united with him and at the time we would go out in freedom from everything that is from death, subjugation etc etc as we said above. >> Okay. So something to understand about the religion is the messiah is actually Jacob Frank's daughter Eva. Okay. So the messiah is a woman. That's the first thing. Second thing is that there's an esquetology in this religion. At the end of days when all the world ends we have eternal life. Okay. So um in most religions it's when we die we become spirit. But Jacob Frank is like why would we want that? Why would we want to be like a floating spirit in space? We can't feel any pleasure. True pleasure is to enjoy life to have as much sex as you want man. Eat as much food as you want. Get drunk as much as you want. That's true pleasure. And that's what the end of days will be like. So when we have achieved the end of days the big brother will come. Okay. Big brother is like this in inter interdimensional higher god who will come and give us all the wealth. We'll be free from death. Okay. So that's what they believe. We'll talk about this next week as well. But keep this in mind. Okay. All right. Um okay. So this is too long but but let let me tell the story. So a prince marries a goddess and they have two kids and the goddess kills both kids and the prince gets angry and leaves leaves leaves her but then they meet again and the prince gets angry and says why did you kill our kids and the goddess says here are your kids and the kids come back what's happened is that by killing them they've gone on to other dimensions to learn wisdom to become strong and beautiful and so what Jacob Frank is saying is don't question me Okay, I know things you cannot possibly know. I can access different dimensions. I can access the truth of the world. So when I do things, it's for the greater good. But never ever question me. >> All right. Um, this is actually an important story. Okay. So, Emma, can you can you read it, please? >> When I was little, I was at the place of an old lord and he had peers of extraordinarily flavor and smell in his garden. He gave me some to taste and some for eating. I asked him, "Do you have many trees in your garden like this that give this fruit?" He answered, "I have a lot of big old trees and a few young ones." I said to him, "I will steal fruit from your garden and cut branches so I can plant them myself in my own garden." The Lord said, "If you manage to steal them, then they will be yours. I won't do anything bad to you for it. But if I catch you in the garden, then I will do with you as I please." That garden was surrounded by a strong high wall. Taking a long pole, I measured the height of the wall and having gathered some lads in the woods, I had them make a ladder for that height. Having immediately concluded that there must be some kind of trick here trick here. When I got there, I first climbed up the ladder and I noticed a long cord lying along the wall. I concluded immediately uh that there was some kind of trap, not threading on the cord at all. I looked uh I looked for the place where it ended. And I noticed that at the end of the cord there hung a pistol attached so that whoever moved the cord immediately the weapon would fire and the report would give a sign. Immediately I caught hold of the hammer unwounded and have having emptied the pen, cut the pistol off the cord and took it for myself. Then thereafter I ordered my lads to climb the wall and we stole whatever we wanted. I cut three branches off his tree too and carried them off to my garden. In the morning, the court see uh the Lord seized and recognized the theft. Thereafter, he posted a lot of guards to stand watch in the garden at night. What did I do? I went with my boys and we all stood around stood around the wall and fired guns so that we did not allow the guards to sleep. I did I did this for three nights, night after night, the guards being worn out. I didn't I didn't go to the fourth night. The guards settled down to sleep. Thereafter, I returned with my peasants and began to steal. That lord sent for me, but I would go only with one who had been there at the conversation. When I got there with him, the noble man began to get mad at me. Then that uh then that other said, "But you have such an agreement and so there was peace between us." >> Okay, so this is a really important story. Okay, so let me explain why. First of all, it's a rewriting of two different stories. It's a rewriting of the story of the Garden of Eden, right? When God told Adam and Eve, don't eat the fruit. And what the story is telling you is telling uh you is that it's not their fault, it's God's fault. Okay, that's number one. Number two is it's also rewriting of the story in um Augustine's um confessions. So Augustine is one of the main architects of Catholic Church. He writes a story of how when he was young, he and his friends went to steal peers from a tree and they stole the they stole the pierce and then and then he recognized that oh he did this not because he was hungry or because the peers were tasty. It's because he's an evil person. Okay. And what JF Frank is saying is that's a stupid story. What God wants us to do is to break the rules of man so we can be more wealthy. Okay? And this is a story that's also metaphorical. He's telling his followers that God will not punish us if we break the laws. Okay? Because God cares about our creativity. God cares about our willingness to try new things, to explore, to test the boundaries. That's what God wants. So, as long as we do so and we don't break fundamental laws like killing other people or hurting other people that angers God, we'll be fine always. And I will show you how to do so. I will show you how to get power and not quit the laws of man. Don't worry about morality. Don't about convention taboos. These are all idiotic things that doesn't matter. We just made them up. Okay? What matters is that we gain more and more power. And I will show you how to do so through trickery and through deception. Yes. >> Do we have a specific time that we can really do such things so freely and we are not restrained by laws and such stuff? >> Okay look Jacob Frank first of all he's a cabalist. Okay so he's a mystic and if you go into the mystical Jewish tradition they teach you that um the universe is consciousness. It's vibrations. So in other words reality is just a a hallucination. It's what we imagine it to be. And so these laws, these taboos, these uh transgressions, they're all things we made up. They have absolutely no relevance to reality. Okay? And so the reality is that if everyone thinks these laws exist, but you know they don't exist, that makes you king. Okay? So that if you can see this for yourself, become a king, become a prince. In fact, you'd be stupid and weak and ignorant if you did not do so. If you know for a fact that these laws are stupid, then break them. Take advantage of this. Okay? If there's a gold bar sitting in front of you and you refuse to take it, it doesn't mean you're virtuous. It just means you're stupid. Right. Okay. Okay. Can you read uh please, Alan? Yeah. >> There is no people like the Jews. They are like snakes and crocodiles, for there is no loves at all among them, but only jealousy, hatred, and concentrate contention one against another. But it is by far the worst in Poland. Therefore, as it stand, the evil will open from the north. Everything else will be revealed from there as well. >> Okay. Okay. Can you can you read this as well? >> Yeah. There is one thing that neither 1,000 or two nor 3,000 men could lift that thing up and you were and you would be able to lift it very easily with one hand. Okay. So what is this thing where a thousand 10,000 men can't live up? It's convention. It's social convention, right? It's laws that we agree on. It's morality. But you see the truth for yourself because I've taught you the truth and therefore it's easy for you to lift it up. Okay? So it's the laws of man that we have problems defying. But once you see the truth for yourself, once you've trained your mind to see that everything around us is false, then you become God. You become king. Okay. Um also what this line tells us um he's complaining about the Jews, right? Frank hates the Jews because he thinks that the Jews have done this upon themselves, right? Why is it that the Jews get persecuted everywhere? Why is it that Jews get masquerade everywhere? It's because of their silly little mind where they think that that the law says we can never convert. Who says so? Because of these rabbis. These rabbis are human as well. Think for yourself. Okay. See the truth for yourself. And that's what he's teaching his followers. All right. Um Okay. This is actually a really important story. So, can you read it? Uh, Amber, >> there was a certain rich Jew who loved all men powerfully and received guests graciously, not uh >> begrudging them, >> begrudging them food or drink. >> So, this guy is rich, the richest Jew in the world, and he's generous and so we should all worship him, right? We all we should all be grateful to him. We should all honor him, right? But let's see what happens. Keep on going. >> Those he treated said to him that they greatly loved him. mut mutually. What does he do? He takes a fat roast goose and having having dressed in having dressed it in a shirt and having put it in a little coffer went in the morning to his friends who had eaten with him and asked them for advice saying, "The peasants have planted a dead child on me and want me to make an attack uh want to make an attack on me. What shall I do?" All of them answered him, "We don't want to know about it, neither about you nor that child." He went away from them as if he were very worried at all. >> Okay, so he's very rich. He's very generous to people. And he and he's asking himself, are they really my friends or are they being nice to me just because I'm nice to them, because I'm wealthy. So he designs a test, okay? And he's asking for help. And when he asked for help, he realized that these friends are going to help him even though he even though he was very generous to them. Okay, keep on going. >> He went to his neighbor who had who was also wealthy, but they had never had close relations. He asked him what his advice might be. He replied to him, "Dear neighbor, let's go and dig a hole at the edge of your estate and bury the ch bury the chest there and put some boards and other stuff on top of it." But those who had eaten with him themselves went and spied out the place where they buried the chest, and they themselves went to the to the squire of that town, reporting to him that terrible deed. That lord together with his whole household took himself off and went to the house of that Jew. Having arrived there, he ordered the householder immediately thrown in irons and ordered the place dug up to find the child. But to the great surprise of everyone, when the chest was opened, the roast goose was seen in the shirt. The Lord asked what that might be. Thereafter that Jew replied that it was to test those who really loved him that he did it and that I wanted to see if they were really as kindly disposed to me as they had said. But I have concluded the reverse. So if you're very wealthy, you're nice to people, they'll think you're stupid and naive and they'll plot against you. Okay? That's the reality that you live in. If you want to become rich, you have to break the laws of man. You want to stay rich, you have to be mean to people. You have to recognize that people are inherently evil. Okay? They're animals. Okay. Um Alan, can you read please? Yeah. It is written that silver answers everything. It is not even possible to draw near God without money. Okay. So, how do you know you're successful? How do you know you're happy? Money, right? Um this story down below, he tells a story of how he has these followers and he's well respected. So, now these normal men are trying to broaden says, "Hey, why don't we join forces? I'll give you a million dollars." And he says, "No, I'll give you a billion dollars." No. I'll give you a trillion dollars. No, no, no. Okay? Because what matters is believe in our mission. Okay? Our mission is create a new world. Our mission is is the messianic age. That's what matters. Okay. Not the money. All right. Um so c can you read um Alan? >> Yeah. >> Two maidens. Two maiders from Poland daughters were leaving and wanted to lie down on the bed. I wanted to have intercourse with them. At that one non numa nun came undressed and also lay on the bed. I lay on the bed. The nun says to me, Lord Franic, what are you doing? Indeed I am married. I replied, what of it? Exposition. That thing was that thing with the nums was prepared for you and you do that with them in squares, tons and streets and that would have been in an internal praise for you also that the priest would become you servant but you did not want it. Okay. So this is a really important idea. The the idea is that the reality is constructed through um a hallucination. Okay, through our own imagination. And so everyone is living in someone else's imagination. These laws were created by someone else. But what what this means is that what you can do is create your own reality. And then when you create your own reality, then people will obey your laws. Okay? So think of the story. This is a nun and she sworn to uphold uh the the church rules, right? But all Frank did was undress, lie to bed and just lay there and imagine her coming. And she does. She comes. She undresses and she's lying beside him and now she's like h I'm afraid that if I do this I have sex with this man I will be punished by God and he's like don't worry about it. Okay. So the world is what you make of it. The world is what you imagine of it. If you train your mind to see the world a certain way then everyone else will see the way see the world your way. Okay? That's what controls the world. The imagination. Does that make sense guys? Okay. But you can see why he's so powerful, right? Yeah. Yes. >> But like if I create my own world inside my head, but I did not tell others or I did not influence others uh by my actions, how could I like let others to follow my world. Okay. So this is something that a no person cannot do. Okay. This is someone who has an imagination can do, right? So think of an writer. The writer is imagining the world and writing it down. Okay? And when you read the book, what happens? You come into this world. Think of a television show, right? Television show is just a reality that someone made up. When you watch television show, you think it's real. You come into this world. Okay? And this is what you can do as well. If you train your mind a certain way, but you have to train your mind a certain way, okay? And you and how do you train your mind? Through constant education, through reading, through dialogue, through debate. And that's why the frames are so powerful. Okay? because they're not like a bunch of robbers. They're people who are deeply engaged in learning and exercising their imagination. Right? Does that make sense? All right. So, this is really important. So, what's going to happen is that most of Frank's followers are Jews. And what they're going to do is they're going to convert together to the Catholic religion because when when they do so, they will be given more opportunities to grow in power. Okay? to be patronized by Catholic uh royalty. Okay. So they decide to convert together and but before they do they have a ceremony to mark their conversion. Okay. Can can you read Amber? On a night >> on the night of that day the following deed took place. The Lord set up a garden in the courtyard made up of our people so that no one might dare even to look through the window. And he himself went in with the brothers and sisters undressed nude and also her highness OBM and ordered all those sc all those scathered to do so. And after having taken a little bench, he drove a nail into the center and set two burning candles on the bench and hung his cross from the nail. And so after having knelt before it mim him knelt before it himself, he took the cross and bowed, bowed to the four sides and kissed it. >> [snorts] >> then her highness and then everyone he ordered to do so. After that the sexual relations uh relations took place thereafter according to his determination. At that one of the women women laughed. Then at the moment the Lord ordered the candles p put out saying if they would let the candles burn they would see what would happen. And at the time he said with this deed we go to the naked things. Therefore it is necessary to go naked. Okay, this deed is conversion. Okay, so what they're doing is this. They're converting to a new religion and they're supposed to swear loyalty to a new faith, a new god. But what they're doing in the ceremony is swearing loyalty to each other. Okay? Through a ritual. And this ritual is not sex. It's a ritual of love where Jacob Frank is instructing each other on how to behave in a sexual manner. Okay? And this is a way to cement a covenant with each other. And what and what this does is it empowers everyone to go far and wide. But no matter how far and wide you go, remember that we are we still love each other. And because our love for each other, we will find each other. Okay? So he tells a lot of stories of how these prince goes around the world in disguise because you have no choice. Because this world is run by idiots. this this this w this world it's governed by idiotic laws and therefore you must disguise yourself. You must hide yourself. But remember that we will always find each other because we know each other for who we are. Okay? Because we're bounded by this covenant with each other. So the thing about the Frankus that's very annoying or which makes people hate them is they're always engaging in this sort of sexual rituals. They have incest with their children. They have incest with their daughters. They do a lot of wife swapping. Okay? And you may think to yourself, this is degrading. But if you think about it, wife swapping, who has a power in the relationship? It's it's actually the wife, right? Because before the wife had to stay at home and she had to like and she couldn't use her body. But now with wife wife swapping, she can now meet other powerful men and control them, manipulate them. Okay. So the Franks are an extremely egalitarian people where there's also women empowerment. Okay. Does it make sense? All right. Can you read um uh Amber? >> August 28th, 1762. Her highness OBM traveled from [laughter] >> this place to the Lord. >> Okay. So they're in Poland. Her highness is is a daughter, right? Eva. Okay. The Messiah. She arrived there the 8th of September, stayed and on the day of judgment had sexual relations with the Lord for the first time. The 18th of October, the Lord said to her, "Now you have beca be you be become pregnant pregnant by me with a son." When she came to the Lord for the first time, the Lord began with her that ceremony that King Asworth did with Esther at which she was mightily frightened. Okay, so this is incest and the goal of this incest is um for Jacob Frank to create another body to reincarnate. Okay, so they believe in reincarnation. So even though Jacob Frank, he's really um the last iteration of S Zebi, it's he's the last one we know about. Okay, there must be there must be someone else as well. Okay. Um so what do you think Frank and S Zevi represent is a more powerful understanding of faith. Okay so remember there are there have been three different understandings of faith. The Catholics believe in the idea of justification by works. If you just do what the church tells you to do. If you avoid sin you go to heaven. Martin Luther says that's stupid. Um the church doesn't have authority to decide who goes to heaven. So he used the idea of justification by faith. It's only if you truly believe in God that you can go to heaven. But the question is like how do you really believe show you believe in God? And what Zevi and Jacob Frank says like by sinning by going into laws of men by being shunned by your community by being hated by your community. That is true faith in God. And when you do this when you sin not only do you learn knowledge but your faith grows more powerful. And those who understand this, we are a forever community. We are the true prince of the world. We are the true leaders of the world. And together we will rule the world together. And guess what guys? They succeeded. All right? Why? Well, because look, at the end of the day, the Frankus, they're a secret organization and they figured out how to create the most resilient, the strongest organization in the world. Okay. So these are are the characteristics of a really strong organization. You know hierarchy. So everyone's loyal to Frank. Okay. Uh unit of purpose. They're all loyal to Frank. Selflessness. They all love each other. Relentless pursuit of material victory. They love money. Secrecy, discipline, energy, and motivation. Okay. Self-hatred, fear, anger, jealousy. Okay. And selfhatred, fear, anger, and jealousy is is is um created by sinning, right? Because when you have sex with your own daughter, when you do this sort of stuff, you feel tremendous guilt. But this guilt can be channeled to make you more energetic, to make to make you more focused on success, to make you want to achieve the end of days. Does that make sense? [snorts] All right. So again guys, pregnant is not Judaism. These are two different things. In fact, pregnant is a rejection of Judaism. Okay? Because in Judaism, they teach you about the spirit. Well, for Frank, the spirit doesn't matter. What matters is is the material because the spirit doesn't allow you to access wisdom. It's the material that allows you to access wisdom. Sinning allows you to access wisdom. Um, Jews tell you to obey Yahweh. And Frank says, "No, no. What matters is we defeat Satan here on earth." Okay, that's the true mission. Defeat Satan. Um, Jew says, "Trust God." All right, so the idea is don't worry about the Messiah coming. uh eventually he'll come and he'll lead us back to Jerusalem and he'll bring us all back and he'll build a third temple. And Frank says, "No, no, no. Let's not wait. God doesn't want us to wait. God wants us to seize the day. God wants us to make our own world. That's why God created us because we have the capacity to create our own world, our own paradise. So let's do it. Let's not wait." Okay? So he's an accelerationist. Okay? And you do that by sinning a lot, by showing the fakeness of this world, that this world is ultimately an illusion. Okay. So, does this make sense to you guys? >> Mhm. >> All right. All right. So, um, one thing that you guys need to know is that it is rumored that Frank, he's actually the true founder of the Illuminati, which is an alliance societies that control the world today. Okay. So the Frank is what they will do is when they convert to Catholicism they will have access to both uh the Jewish faith Islamic faith as well as the Jesuit faith the Catholic faith okay they will combine all three together because they have spies everywhere that allow these different secret societies to coordinate. Okay so there's a rumor that um Frank thought the Ilamati but I suspect he did. Why? Because one of the most famous members of the Illumin Illuminati is Gerta. Okay. And Gerta wrote a very famous uh play called Foust. And let's think about the plot of Foust. The plot is this. You have FA scholar. He's looking for wisdom. So he makes a deal with Messets the devil and says and Methus says I will give you eternal wisdom in return for your eternal life, your soul. And Paul says sure okay. And false does a lot of things. He sins. He has sex with a young child. She dies. He does a lot. He does a lot of really bad things. But he learns a lot of wisdom. And when he dies, he's supposed to go to heaven. That's right. When he dies, he's supposed to go to hell. Okay. But at the very last minute, when the has come to claim his soul, God sends angels to rescue fouls and take him away. Okay? That's a very frankest attitude towards life. Sin as much as you want in order to gain wisdom. If you do so, if you gain a lot of wisdom, then God will reward you with eternal life. Okay? All right. Um, again, the Franks infiltrate the Jesuits. And so, a lot of people believe that the Franks now control the Catholic Church or have a lot of say over the Catholic Church. Okay. Um, okay. They also infiltrate the Freemasons. I'll show you this next class. Okay. They also um they're also a major influence on development of Mormonism. Okay, if you look at the structure of the Mormon church and you look at Frankenism, it's very similar Scientology guys. Okay, if you just look at Scientology, it's very similar to the Frankus belief as well. All right, some very famous uh Frankus in history. Look, there's lots of them, okay? Um but it's all secret because they work in silent. The big thing is their secrecy among their secrecy. Okay, they go in silence. But we know for a fact that Louis Bandis who is the first Jewish Supreme Court justice in America he was a Frankus and there's a very famous university Brendai University found it after him. Okay. So if you think that so if you know that this guy is a Frankus think about how many other very powerful Americans are also Frank. Okay. I'm not allowed to name their names because well they would deny it and I I I would get in a lot of trouble if I if I mentioned their names but they are very powerful people and you know who they are. Okay you you will know their names but you may not know their frankus. Um this is William Butler Yates who is a very famous Irish poet. He himself also is me member of secret society. Okay. And we're going to read a poem together by Yates to show you the influence of Cracker's philosophy on modernity. In fact, what I will show you next class is you can make the argument that Jacob Frank and sometime Zebie together they created modernity in the west. All right. So, we're going to read a poem by this very famous Irish poet who was also a Nobel Prize winner, also a member of a secret society called the Order of the Golden Dawn. Okay. >> [snorts] >> All right. So, it's called Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop. Okay. So, uh Emma, can you read please? Very simple. >> I met the bishop on the road. Emma said he and I. >> Okay. So, this is a woman and he's she's talking to a bishop, right? A high religious authority. Keep on going. >> Those breasts are flat and fallen now. And fall fallen now. Those veins must soon be dry. live in a heavenly mansion, not in some foul sty. >> Okay? So, you're fallen, right? So, you've sinned a lot in life. You've lived a terrible life. But don't worry, God is forgiving. If you convert, if you um change your life now, God will forgive you. All right? And all be good. Keep on going, Amber. >> Fear and foul are near of kin, and fear needs foul, I cried. My friends are gone, but that's a truth. nor grave nor bed denied. Learned in bodily loneliness and in the heart's pride. >> You cannot have [clears throat] sin. Sorry. You cannot have good without evil. You cannot have ugliness. Uh you cannot have beauty without ugliness. Okay. So, and this is something that I've learned because I've sinned because I've gone low. Okay. Keep on going. A woman can be proud and stiff, one on love intent. But love has pitched his mansion in the place of excre excrement excrement. For nothing can be soul or whole that has not been rent. >> Where is God? Where is love? God is in garbage. Okay? So you have to sink low to truly find God. You have to sink low to truly find yourself. you have to destroy yourself in order to truly create yourself. Okay? And that is a very practice attitude. So in many ways, Frank's belief has conquered um modern western culture. And I will show you why next class. Okay, any questions? Like [clears throat] I think Frank said that you can have all pleasures that you want of sins but I think that is a kind of low vibration so we need to have that low vibration and sins to learn our mistakes so we can find the success right okay um look sin is taboo okay it's barriers it's the is walls in front of But if you really want knowledge, you have to break through these walls so that reality can re reveal itself more clearly to you. Do you understand? Sin are all these invisible walls that you put in front of you for no particular reason. It's all part of your imagination. Okay. So if you want to see the world as it truly is, if you really want to see yourself for who you truly are, then you must sin. Because sin will also cause a process of guilt and reflection and wisdom. Okay? It will cause another process of pain and suffering. And we avoid sinning because we're afraid of social condemnation. We're afraid of being laughed at. We're being afraid. We're afraid of being mocked by other people. But if you really want true knowledge, you have to go against social conformity. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So, sin, don't sin just for the sake of sinning. Sin because it allows you to access greater knowledge, a deeper knowledge. Okay. Does that make sense, guys? >> All right. Any more questions? Yeah. >> Do you think that the that the Francis ideology has an impact on the uh the Palestine uh Israel conflict? Cuz I think I see a lot of um similar narratives coming in. Yeah. [clears throat] So at the very end of the course I will teach you like the sub between Frankus they're the founders of Israel. >> Oh okay. >> Yeah. So what's happening in Palestine in Israel today it's driven by the Frank philosophy. Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. Okay. >> Any more questions? Okay. Great. So, I'll see you guys next

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We've discussed transnational capital, the British Empire. We've also discussed the Sabatine Frankets. Today we will put the two ideas together and show how the alliance between these two different forces have created modernity or the ideas that underpin our society today including Marxism, Darwinism, individualism, liberalism and Freudian psychology. All right. So, we will talk a lot about Jews today, but just as a caveat, it's important for us to remember that it's easy to see a Jewish conspiracy everywhere. But things are actually much more complicated than that. The argument I want to make you to you today is that the Jews are construct and tool of empire. In other words, they're really the middle managers. to the ones who helped manage the empire. And if the Jews weren't around, then it would be the Indians or some other group. An empire needs scapegoats. It needs middle managers. And for the past few years, the Jews have served the purpose. Something else I will show you today is that the empire, which is transnational capital, they all the profit. They hide behind the scenes. They're the shadows and they make all the money. And it's really the Jews get all the blame. And what we'll discuss next class is that this is the same thing that will happen today. Okay. So that's the argument I will make to you today. All right. So let's discuss the British Empire. The British Empire is unique in human history in that it controls the entire world. Um and it's just a small island, right? It's a small island with very little resources and it's able to control the entire world because it controls global trade. It has the world's greatest navy. It also it also has a bank of England which is really transnational capital and English becomes the uh lingua frana of the world and has colonies throughout the world as well. So for the British Empire the way they control the world it's a very simple concept. As long as the British Empire is able to control the seaways, then it controls the world. The great crisis, the great problem, great threat is that a empire will emerge within the Eurasian continent. It's called the heartland. Okay? And this could be Germany, it could be Russia, it could be China. But if it's able to emerge eventually like the mong like the Mongol Empire, it's able to conquer the entire Eurasian continent and through railways it's able to link up Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia all together into one trading block and then you don't need the seaways anymore. If that were to happen then the British Empire would go bankrupt because remember the British Empire with the Bank of England transational capital it's really a Ponzi scheme. It be it needs people to keep on buying into the empire for it to continue to succeed. So the greatest threat is a great power emerging the heartland and throughout history that was either the French, the Ottoman Empire, the Germans or the Russians. So the grand strategy of the British is to create as much chaos and conflict in Europe as much as possible. You always want your enemies fight each other. Okay. And that's just the core strategy of the British. Not very hard. Okay. Um so again as we discussed there are four major enemies that the British have faced throughout their uh uh history as an empire. The French they able to defeat because of the French Revolution as well as the Nepolic wars. Uh then they had to face the Russians and the Russians were the greatest threat because the Russians had the largest land empire and they were the most likely to unify the Asian continent. uh they also face the Ottomans and they also face the Germans. Now the British could not um seem as though they were interfering in European politics because that all that would do is anger the Europeans and youite the Europeans against the British. They had to do it using sub foods secretly using intelligence operatives, right? And so of course what happened was that um they develop different strategies in order to divide and conquer Europe. Uh what they would do is promote revolutionary movements um using transnational capital and we'll discuss these revolution movements later on. They also industrialize Japan because they saw Japan as a natural ally in u in the world. Okay. So you know that in Japan they underwent the Maji restoration and in only a few decades they were able to industrialize so much so that they defeated Russia in the RussoJapanese war in 1905 and you may not know this but capital the British and Americans finance a great deal of Japan's industrialization because Anglo-American Empire wanted Japan as an ally. Okay, it was a natural ally. Um what they would also do is establish resource colonies. So Australia, New Zealand, Canada, these South Africa, these are all resource colonies. The idea is that you can now use manpower to fund your armies. Okay. And uh the last strategy is to wherever you can steal as much resources as possible as fast as you can. And this was true in India and China and Africa as well. Okay. So this is the grand strategy of the British. and they needed agents to help them in these endeavors. And the 17 Frankas made the most sense, right? Um so the advantages that 17 fra empire were four-fold. The first is that they already had a diaspora, right? And so and they were also um crypto Jews. They also disguise identity as Jews as well. So they were able as a network to conduct intelligence, do blackmail and subvert governments. Okay. They also had access to a lot of transnational capital. They themselves were extremely wealthy. The last uh major advantage and the most important is that they had revolutionary cells and networks. Okay. So remember Frankus they believe that they were saving the world. They believed they had to destroy the world in order to save it. And these made perfect revolutionaries. And I'll show you this as we move on. Okay. Now, the last reason that we won't discuss much today, but we'll focus a lot on in our last class is the idea of esquetology where the rich empire they are um Christians and they believe that they must use Jews as as a pawn in order to force the return of Jesus. This we'll discuss a great deal next class, but I want I want to focus on these three reasons first. Okay. All right. Um, so and it made sense for the British to align themselves with the 17 Frankus because the way they saw the world was the same. Okay. As an empire, as transnational capital, remember, you're focused on extracting as much energy as possible from your workers. So, you're very materialistic. Well, the Franks were also very materialistic as well, right? They believe that the body was more important than the spirit. Second is that the both the Frankus and the British they wanted to obtain power through chaos, instability and regime change and both were very focused on the pursuit of wealth and power. So these were natural allies. Sorry. All right. So let's use an example of how the Art Empire sorry. Let's use an example of how the British Empire worked this afternoon. And the most obvious example is the Ottoman Empire. So for the longest time the Ottoman Empire was the most powerful force in in Eurasia. And [snorts] this was the Ottoman Empire at its height in 1683. Remember 1666 is when somebody Zevi declared himself the Messiah. And remember that Zeb Zevi have to convert to Islam and the people who follow him into Islam are called the Dome. Okay, the Dome are very important people. Um, but over time empires will decay. In 1853, Russia attacked the Art Oman Empire and this led to the Crimean War. The British and the French feared Russian expansionism and so they support the Ottomans and uh the Ottomans were able to defend themselves against the Russians. But this alliance came at a cost to the Ottomans. The British and the French made the Ottomans seek out loans in order to finance the war. And over time because of interest they loan these loans start to overwhelm the Ottoman financial system. And so what happened was the British and the French bankers came and established their own tax administration. And so from now on, a third of all revenue, tax revenue that the Ottoman Empire generated would go directly to the French and British bankers. Okay? And so this caused the Ottoman Empire to decline rapidly over time. And uh the French and the British, they set a central bank controlled by foreigners. And not only that, but they set their own tax administration. So they they had their own tax agents and that's why these bankers became very wealthy. Guess what? These bankers had a natural ally in a domain, right? The Sabine Frankus. Um, and so these Sabine Franks also became very wealthy. Now, what happened is that the Ottoman Sultan didn't really like this relationship. He didn't like being bossed around by these bankers. And so, he went to the Germans. And so, now the Germans were now financing Ottoman Empire. And they were now allies. And so, the British and the French didn't like this. And so what the do was start to finance a revolutionary group called the young Turks. The young Turks believed in three things. They believed in secularism, no religion. They believed in liberalism and they believed in individualism. Okay, just basically basic ideas of modernity. [snorts] And eventually the young Turks were able to overwhelm the Ottoman Empire and establish something called the Republic of Turkey which is still around today. So guys, the the we talk with Turkey. If you go to Turkey, it's a do that control Turkey. Okay. All right. Um, so remember the do come from Zabai Zevi. They are cryptojews. They pretend to be Muslim, but they're in fact Jews. And these three do uh will help to found the Republic of Turkey. And they still control Turkey. Together. Okay, so that's an example of an alliance between the 17 something fraus and the British Empire. Another example of an alliance is of course the Rothschild banking dynasty. This is Jacob Rothschild with King Charles of England. And this alliance goes back hundreds of years. And um the Rothschild family um is of course one of the most powerful banking families in the world. So there's a story of how they got rich. In um 1815 Napoleon and the British fought the battle of Waterloo and this would determine who controlled Europe. the in the battle, the British and the Germans together were able to defeat the French. When this news happened, an agent of the Rothschild got into a Corvette, which is a fast boat, and they sailed all the way back to London to tell the Rothschild the news. The Rothschild controlled the media at that point. And so the the media told everyone, "Oh my god, we lost the battle of Wateroo." So, as you can imagine, people start to panic. There was a stock market crash. and then the Rothschild bought up all the assets. That's how they became extremely wealthy. And this is a strategy that they continue to use throughout their history. Okay. So, um where the 17 Frank is and where the British Empire clamped the most was in philosophy, developing a understanding the world that allowed them to amass more power. Okay. So, let's go over quickly over some basic British philosophy. So British philosophy at this time was controlled by Freemasons. We'll discuss the Freemasons more next class. Okay. But the main purpose was to really deny God and truth and there were three major strands of this philosophy. Okay. The first major strand is what called empirism and the most famous proponent of this is John Lock. John argue that we are born with a tablo rasa a blank mind okay a blank slate and so whatever information comes into us is through experience only through experience okay not through reasoning not not because of god not because of imagination or inspiration not because of divine spark in us but through just experience and only experience okay David Hume proposed a new idea called skepticism and he goes even further than John lock John lock says that We experience the world and that's how we know the world. Now the entire basis of science is the idea called induction. If I see a white swan a thousand times, I can then infer that all swans are white. Okay, this idea of induction, this is what underlies process. Well, the idea of induction, you can never access truth. And what David Hume says is induction does not work. You cannot prove that just because you've never seen a black swan, black swans don't exist. Okay? You could have seen 10 million white swans does not prove that all swans are white and can only be white. And he's right because there are black swans. Okay? So what what he's saying is the very project of truth seeeking, the very project of epistemmonology of philosophy, it's all nonsense. Not only that, but we don't really know things. All we do is remember things. Okay? So when we say that Rome is a capital of Italy, we think we know it, but we don't we don't know it. It's all just convention. It's all just we agree to call a place in Italy Rome. We agree that that's a capital. Okay, it's all disagreement. But there's no basis for truth here. All right. So now this this raises the problem of okay, if God doesn't exist, if truth doesn't exist, if there's no way for us to reach truth, if there's if there's no way for us to discover truth, then what can we do? And so uh Jerry Bentham proposed the idea of utilitarianism. The way we understand the world is just through utility. If it is good for the majority of people, then it must be good. If it causes pleasure for the majority of people, then that policy must be good. If people want to eat candy all the time and makes them feel happy, then we should allow them to eat candy and that is inherently good. Okay? And then what his disciple John Su Mill will do is he'll take the basis of this idea of utility as a as a basis of good and evil to create liberalism. Okay. So the very idea of liberalism today is based on utilitarianism. So for example homosexuality. Why is homosexually homosexuality good? Because first of all homosexuals want to be homosexuals. Okay? You force them not to be homosexuals they'll feel bad. But also what's more important is they're not doing any harm to anyone, right? So if you just do the mathematics and you recognize that allowing homosexuality is a is a positive and that positive and brings more pleasure to the world, then you should allow it. Okay? And this religious talk of it goes against the will of God, it's against the Bible, it's just it's just nonsense. We should just focus on first principles and just focus on utility. Does it bring benefit to people? And this is the very basis of um British British British philosophy. And as you can as you can appreciate this align very much with the 17 Frank's idea of the world, right? All right. So this is John Mill and this is Jeremy Banam. Okay. And not only that, but once this philosophy is in place, they are now going to promote certain scientists that um um agree with this philosophy or or whose findings support this philosophy. And the most famous of course is Charles Darin. Okay, Charles Darwin, right? When his book origin species came out, it was an instant bestseller. And within 20 years, it became the mainstream understanding of how we originated. Even though you actually read the book, even though you actually look at science, it's still very problematic. All right. So, this is very strange how science is supposed to be a field of rigorous debate, rigorous science, right? But but the but the evidence supporting evolution is limited and again we discuss this all the time but it doesn't explain to us how we come to think right it explains to us how we got our bodies sure yeah from apes we get humans that makes sense but intellectually we're a lot more imaginative than apes how to explain that and he doesn't explain that okay and you're not even allowed to ask this question all All right. So, um, as this alliance between the seven Franks and the British Empire is growing, there are certain individuals that become um these meeting points of these two different groups. Okay. So, so let's discuss two of them. The first is Benjamin Deseli. And he's important because he becomes the first and only Jewish prime minister of the British Empire. Okay. My second person is Leon the Rothschild who is here to the Rothschild begging family. They're best friends and you can argue the Rothschild begging family finance uh Benjamin Draeli's uh banking career. Okay. And um in 1844 Benjamin Desi will publish a book called Conan Conins. It's a novel. Okay. It's not a memoir but it's a novel. But if you read it, people will say that the characters are very much based on people that this Israeli knows. And this really is very explicit in telling us why he wrote the book. And the idea is to tell the British people more about Jews because Jews right now in history in Britain, they're an exotic species. And it's also to establish how Jews think. Now, what's amazing about this um novel is that you read it and it's really strange, but it conforms to every single anti-semitic stereotype that we say today. Today, you say that Jews rule the world. You say that Jews work together, they conspire together, you say that Jews think that they're superior to everyone else, you are labeled as an anti-semit. Okay? But if you read this novel and we'll read this down together, this is exactly what bed Israeli says, okay, about the Jewish people. All right, so uh let's let's read it together. Okay, so Emmer, can you can you read please? This is the introduction to uh the book Connor speak. Okay, >> in asserting the paramount character of the >> eistle keep going. Okay. Uh polity and the ma majesty of the theocratic principle. It became necessary to ascend to the origin of the Christian church and to meet in a spirit worthy of a critical and comparatively enlightened age. The position of the descendants of that race who were the founders of Christianity. The modern Jews had long labored under the odium and stigma of medieval meal. What we're saying is this um Christianity is a great religion but it's important that we look at the origins of Christianity and who found Christianity okay which is a Jews we know we know it's a Jews who create Christianity okay keep on going >> in the dark ages when history was unknown the passions of societies undisturbed by tra tradition [sighs and gasps] traditionary experience were strong and their convictions um mitigated by criticism were necessarily fanatical So during the dark ages, everyone was just stupid. Okay, keep on going. [laughter] >> The Jews were looked upon in the Middle Ages as an a cursed race, the enemies of God and man, the special foes of Christianity. No one in those days paused to reflect that Christianity was founded by the Jews, that its divine author in his human capacity was a descendant of King David. >> Wait, divine author of course is Jesus. Okay. >> That his doctrines a vowedly were the completion not the change of Judaism. That the apostles and the evangelists who names men daily invoked and whose volumes they embraced with reverence were all Jews. That the infallible throne of Rome itself was established by a Jew. And that a Jew was the founder of the Christian churches of Asia. So this really is not just saying that Jews are important, but he's also saying that Jews are superior because they're the ones who created Christianity. And what what he will say later on is Jews created everything because Jews are the most intellectually creative people in the world. Okay. And remember, this really is a Jew and he's one of the Jewish elite. Okay. All right. Let's keep on going. All right. So in the novel, the major character is Adidonia, who is a wealthy Jewish person based on the Rothschild family. Okay. And he's going to explain to us how Jews control the world. All right. Can you read Alan? >> Yeah. Okay. >> Sedonia. >> Sedonia was descended from a very Asian and noble family of arrogant. >> Okay. Aragon is in Spain. Okay. So we discussed how before 100 years the Jews were part of uh the Spanish Muslim Empire but when they were reconquered they were forced to leave or convert going that in the course of ages had had given to the state many distinguished citizens in the priesthood its member had been precar precoliately eminent besides several prelades they counted among their numbers and ar Arkbishop of Toato and Sidonia in a season of great danger and different diff different difficulty difficulty had exercised for a series of years the paramount office of grand inquisitor. Okay. So even after the Christians reconquered Spain and after some Jews converted to Catholism. Okay. First of all these Jews kept their faith secret. So even though on the outside they were Catholics, in the inside they were still Jews. Okay, they were crypto Jews. But much more importantly, these Jews rose to supreme power within the Catholic Church in Spain. The irony is that the Spanish the Spanish Inquisition where Catholics were looking for Jews who were pretending to be Christians, the leadership were Jews. The leadership were crypto Jews. Okay, this is this is what this really saying. I'm not saying this is true, but this is what this really is saying. Okay, uh keep on going. Yet strange at it may sound, it is nevertheless a fact of which there is no lack of evidence that these ill illustrious family during all these period in common with twoird of the uh aren arang uh nobility secretly adhered to the Asian faith and ceremonies of their fathers. I believe in the unity of the god of senior seni and the rights and observances of the laws of Moses. >> Okay. So guys, 23 of nobility in Spain were crypto Jews. Catholics disgu uh Jews disguised as Catholics. Okay. All right. So again, I'm not saying this is true, but it's striking and really strange that a Jewish man who's very powerful will become prime minister of England. He's writing this stuff. Okay. He's putting the mouth in the put in the mouth of basically a rash child. Okay. Uh can you read Amber? >> The Sedonius of Aragon were >> new Christians >> were nuvo Christianos Christristenos. Some of them no doubt were burned alive at the end of the 15th century under the system of to Quimada. Many of them doubtless were the San Bonito, but they kept their titles and estates and in time reached those great office uh offices to which we have referred. During the long disorders of the peninsula war when so many openings were offered to talent and so many opportunities seized by the adventurous ait of younger branch of this family made a large fortune by military contracts and supplying the comat commisserate of the different armies at the peace precient of the great financial future of Europe. confident in the fertility of his own gen genius in his original views of fiscal subjects and his knowledge of national resources. Then Sedonia feeling that Madrid Madrid or even Katis could never be a base on which the monetary transactions of the world could be regulated resolved to immigrate to England with with which he had in the course of years formed considerable commercial connections. He arrived here after the peace of Paris with his large capital. He staked all he was worth on the waterl loan and the event made him one of the greatest capitalists in Europe. >> Okay. So these crypto Jews they had a lot of money but not only that but they have a lot they have an information network okay because they have relatives friends all throughout Europe and there are index to superior and so they know how history will develop and they see a great money making opportunity in war. So when these wars come out, what these Jews do is they support both sides. So they have possibly lose and then they make a lot of money and then they figure out where it is in their most advantage to be. So they have actually no national loyalty. Don't see themselves as belonging to a certain group of people, a certain nation. They see themselves as first and foremost Jews. Okay? So when the time presented itself properly, these Sedonians they will migrate, some of them, not all of them will migrate from Spain into continental Europe and up to England because they saw England as a future. And of course from England they will also migrate to the United States of America. Okay. Um Alan, can you read please? >> The only human quality. >> Sorry. So the the the father goes to England and now he establishes the banking dynasty and his son will now inherit everything. Okay. And and so and so this is about the sun. Keep on going. >> Yeah. The only human quality that interested Sidon Sidonia was in intellect her he cared not whence it came where it was to be found. Creed country class character in this respect were alike indifferent to him. >> Okay. So again this is a very anti-semitic trope where Jews don't like the idea of nation or culture or religion. They like the idea of ideas. Okay. And one anti-semitic trope is that Jews have a conspiracy to degrade religion uh culture society nation state in order to advance their own interests. Okay. The author, the artist, the man of science never appealed to him in vain. Often he anticipate their wrongs and wishes. He encouraged their society was as frank in his conversation as he was generous in his contributions. But the instant they ceased to be authors, artists or philosophers, and their communications arose from anything but the intellectual quality which had originally interest him. The moment they were rash enough to approach intim in intimacy and appeal to the sympathizing men instead of the congenial intelligence, he saw them no more. Okay, so this is a really important idea where again this is propaganda for Jews, right? So this really is saying how great Jews are. Jews are intellectual. But you know what Hegel, Frederick Hegel will say is that without culture there can be no great ideas. Okay, ideas emerge from community, from culture, from belonging. Okay, so think of uh Homer or Dante or even the Yahweh. Okay, if you if you think that you are intellectual above culture, above nation, above people, you will not produce great ideas. Okay, keep on going. It was not however intellect merily in these unquestionable shapes that commanded his notice. There was not an adventurer in Europe with whom he was not familiar. No minister of state has such communication which secret agents and political spies as Sidonia. He held relations with all the clever outcasts of the world. The cat catalog of his acquaintance in the shape of Greeks am Marinians Moors secret Jews tartans geese geese seeds. >> Okay. All right. That's fine. Okay. Look, the idea is that Jews are intern first and foremost international the cosmopolitan right and as a result what will happen is that over time because he is in contact with so many different groups he's so intellectual he's always reading his his history he comes convinced that the superior race the greatest race of humanity are the Jews why because unlike other races the Jews refuse refuse to intermar. They refuse to breed with other cultures. And so as so as a result, the Jews are first and foremost peer. They are Aryan. Okay, this is really ironic again because the Nazis will use this idea 100 years later to justify the Holocaust. But at this time in history, uh the Jews think that they are the superior race because they are the most pure. Okay. So So this is all that is saying. [snorts] All right. Can you read Amber? >> In this country, says Adidonius. >> So this country of course is England, right? >> Since the peace there has been an attempt to advocate a reconstruction of society on a purely rational basis. The principle of utility has been powerfully developed. I speak not with lightness of the labors of the dis disciples of that school. I bow to intellect in every form and we should be grateful to any school of philosophers even if we disagree with them. Doubtly grateful in this country were for so long a period of our state statesmen were in so pit pitiable and a career of public intelligence. There has been attempt to reconstruct society on a basis of material motives and calculations. >> Okay. So again this is the idea of utitarianism right? This is Jimmy Bentham, John Suit Mill. Keep on going. >> It has failed. It must ultimately have failed under any circumstances. Its failure in an ancient and densely people kingdom was inevitable. How limited is human reason, the profoundest inquir inquirers are most conscious. We are not indebted to the reason of man for any of the great achievements which are the landmarks of human action and human progress. It was not reason to be besieged to Troy. It was not reason that sent forth the sarin from the desert to conquer the world. >> Okay. So the Serakans are the Muslims. Okay. >> That inspired the crusades um that instituted the monastic orders. It was not reason that produced the Jesuit Jesuits. Above above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Men is only truly great when he acts from the passion. Never irresistible, but when he appe when he appeals to the imagination. Even Mormons counts more votaries than >> Benam. And you think then that an imagination once subdued the state. Imagination may now save it. Man is made to adore and to obey. But if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities and find a chieftain in his own passions. >> So um Sono is is emphasizing the limitations of British philosophy, right? Law, hume, banan, they're all limited. And so what the British need is for the Jews with their imagination, with their religion to save the British, to lead the British, to guide the British. Okay? Does that make sense? So again, this is trying to establish Jewish supremacy. Okay? All right. This is much too long. Okay? But what he's really saying is like, listen, we Jews, we want to be part of society. We are naturally conservative but we also want to practice our religion. So if you at any point if you the British at any point try to restrain us, if you try to take away our religious rights, we will rebel against you. We are cohesive. We we will stand up for liberalism. We will stand up for secularism. We will stand up for individualism because these three philosophies are what most protect us from religious overreach. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So that's that that's what he's saying. So Alan, can you start here? You never observe. >> Yeah. >> You [snorts] never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do not greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews. >> This is true. Okay guys, the secret intelligence agency of the Catholic Church were first Jews. This is true. Keep on going. That mysterious Russian diplomacy which so alarmed Western Europe is organized and principally carried on by Jews. >> So the Jews are the agents of the Russian Empire. Right. The mighty revolution which is at th this moment preparing in Germany and which will be in fact a second and greater reformations and of which so little is at yet know in England is entirely developing under the an uh >> opaces >> opaces of Jews who almost monopolize the professional profession professorial chairs of Germany. >> Okay. So this doesn't happen yet. Okay. He's saying this year 1844 he's saying like the revolution you will see later on in Germany we organized it man we Jews organized it why because we control themies we control the professorships of Germany you want keep on reading >> ner the founder of spiritual christ Christianity who and who is re regious professor of divinity in the university of Berlin as a Jew >> okay so keep on going okay we won't read it about how many professors are Jews okay do you understand now what's amazing is again this came out 1844 and 1848 there were revolutions throughout Europe throughout Germany. So how did the Israeli know about this? Well, possibly because the British were helping to finance all this right from the alliance between the British and the Frankus. All right. Uh can you read Amber? >> Okay. From >> from from here. Okay. >> A few years back we were applied to by Russia. Now there has been no friendship between the court of St. Petersburg and my family. It has Dutch connections which have generally supplied it and our representations in favor of the Polish Hebrews a numerous race but the most suffering and degraded of all the tribes have not been very agreeable to the Cesar the SAR. Okay. So what he's saying is we're very rich and nation states come and look for us for money. Okay. So Russia wants a loan from us. We said, "No, you mistreat the the Jews, so we're not going to give you any money." Okay. The Russians are notorious for being anti-semitic at this stage. Okay, keep on going. >> However, circumstances drew to an approximation between the Romanoffs. >> The Romanovs are the controlling family of Russia >> and the Sidonians. I resolved to go myself to St. Petersburg. I had on my arrival an interview with the Russian minister of finance court >> count. I beheld the son of a lethusian Jew. The loan was connected with the affairs of Spain. I resolved on repairing repairing to Spain from Russia. I traveled without intermission. I had an audience immediately on my arrival with the Spain minister Senor Mendes Sabul. I beheld one like myself, the son of a Novo Cristiano, a Jew of Aragon. In consequence of what transpired at Madrid, I went straight to Paris to consult the president of the French Council. I beheld the son of a French Jew, a hero, an imperial marshall, and and very appropriately so. For who should be military heroes, if not those who worship the Lord of hosts? And is salute a Hebrew? Yes. And others of the French marshals. And the most famous, Masenna, for example, his real name was Manisa. Manessa. But to my anecdote, the consequence of our consult consultations was that some northern powers should be applied to in a friendly and mediative capacity. We fixed on Prusia and >> Prussia and the president of council made an application to the Prussia Prussian minister who attended a few days after a conference. Count Arnim entered the cabinet and I beheld a Prussian Jew. So you see my dear >> Connor speak Connor speak >> Connor speak that the world is governed by very different personage from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. >> So it's Jews who control the world because only Jews get along together. Okay. So if Jews didn't exist, the world couldn't get along, right? And Jews hide everywhere. And that's how the world works, guys. You think the person in charge is in charge, but actually it's a secret society of of Jews. Now, again, I'm not saying this is true. I just found it really weird that Benjamin Israeli is writing about this, okay? And again, he's getting a lot of this information from the Rothschild banking family. So, the Rothschild, for whatever reason, think they control the world. Okay? So I don't go much into this in detail, but I will point out that there is evidence that this is true. All right, so we're going to look at the communist revolution in Russia together. I also want to keep you in mind that I don't think this is true. Actually, there's evidence is true, but I do not think this is true. Why this really is writing about this, we will discuss next class, okay? But it's all part of a secret plan. All right, but first let's look at the evidence that this may be true. Again, I'm not saying this is true, but there is evidence that this is true. Okay? And the main major piece of evidence is the communist revolution, the bullsh revolution 1917 that overthrew the uh government of Russia to create a communist government. All right, first let's talk about revolution. There are four elements you need in order for a revolution to be successful. Okay, the first is you need a really charismatic leader. Second is you need a broad mass appeal usually land for the peasants freeing debt okay and end of war peace then you need organizational discipline everyone has to get along okay has to be a cohesive group the last element of course is you need incompetent opposition your enemies a okay and of course the classic example of this is maong versus Changai. Okay. Minon was a charismatic leader who had a very strong organization and checked even though he had a huge army even though he had the American army. Even though he had all sorts of benefits, he was a Okay. And that's why he lost. [snorts] All right. So the same is true for the Russian Revolution. This is Valer Lenin. He's not charismatic, but he is extremely focused. He's fanatical. And um this is Leonki who is very charismatic. He's a very he's a great speaker and he's a Jew. Okay. So I will point out that in 1917 he helped lead the revolution. But before that he was actually the United States. He had an apartment in New York City paid for by wealthy Jewish bankers. His uncle is a very wealthy Jewish industrialist in Ukraine. Okay. So, he's part of this transnational capital network and even though he himself is a revolutionary, he hates capitalism. If someone gives you money, you cannot help but be influenced by that person. Okay? That's just a reality. [snorts] All right? So um October 1917 is when the bullshiks uh launched a revolution and they seized power and then a month later they organized um an election and as you can see they are actually not that they are not the most popular party in Russia. Um they only have about 23% of the votes. The socialist revolutionaries actually have much more popularity than they do. They have 37%. And then you have all these different groups. the Ukrainians, the cadets who are liberals, dimensions, um the Kosaks. So at this point in history, Russia is divided into so many different groups. You have different ethnicities, you have different political programs, you have um different orientations. Okay? And this is what will launch the great civil war. Okay? And at this time in history, remember the bullshiks only control a certain part of Russia. They are the official government, but they only control a small part. and the white army who are the which combination of the liberals and monarchists they have much more stronger military and also at the same time you have all these different ethnic groups the Ukrainians rebelling against the boss including the Polish but over the next 5 years slowly the bull blevik will obtain absolute power and so the question is how do they do that well the first tool is terror. Okay, this this is called the red terror where they went around and killed anyone who opposed them. Now, what you don't understand is there's actually a strategy behind the red terror. The the very idea is to steal as much money as possible from wealthy people. Okay? So, you're an aristocrat. You have a lot of wealth hidden. I need your money. So you either give me your money or I will kill your daughter and I will kill your son and I will then I will kill your wife. Okay? So it's your choice. Give me all your money or I'll kill everyone in your family. So the Bullshiks were fanatical about this and that's why they won the war. [snorts] Leon Trosky organized the red army in um the war against the white army. Okay. They also the greens which were these peasants. So there's a lot so the Bushiks were far behind. So, how did the Bullshiks, the Red Army, win the war? Well, guys, they had a lot of help. Okay, they had a lot of mercenaries coming to the country, tens of thousands of mercenaries to help them, especially uh the Chinese mercenaries, the Latvians, the Hungrians. Okay, why? How did they get all this money? Transnational capital. Wall Street and City of London were bankrolling the Soviets. Why were they doing that? [snorts] Also we have to remember that at this time in history during the revolution Britain and France, United States, Japan sent armies into Russia. Now what you learn in class is oh it's because they are capitalists and they fear the communists and that's why they sent armies to try to uh uh reduce the threat. That's not true guys. Why is it the armies is because the Bolsheviks reigned on debt. Okay, Russia owed a lot of money to Britain, Japan, United States and France. And so these armies were sent in order to threaten the Bviks. So what the Bik Bixs did was they stole as much money as they could from the peasants, from nobility, from the treasury and pay off these armies. And then these armies helped them in the war against the uh the whites. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. All right. So, let's summarize what what we've just learned. Now, what you're taught in history class is American Britain needs Russia in war against Germany. And that's why and the Germans control the Bolshviks. And that's why Britain and uh America would not support the bullshiks. And the counter argument is no, it's transnational capital that has influence over Anglo-American foreign policy. Okay, do you understand? Anglo-American foreign policy. It's not to serve national interests. It's not it's to serve private capital. Okay, that's the first point. Second point is the Bviks are communists and so they're a threat to capitalism. And the kind argument is actually transnational capital cares about profit. They don't care about ideology. All right. What drives them is money not ideas. The third argument is the most hated imperialism and capitalism. So they would refuse to work with Wall Street and the city of London. And the kind of argument of is that they believe that the ends justify the means. We just have to like do what we need in order to obtain power. Then we can create our socialist paradise. Okay. All right. All right. So, uh, this is a book called Wall Street and the Russian Revolution. A story by Rich by the name of Richard Spence. He spent a lot of time collecting documents that show that in fact transational capital were helping the bullshiks win power in Russia. Why? Because they believed in the bullshiks? No. Because transial capital first and foremost steals. You understand? They like revolution because revolution is opportunity to steal as much as you can. Okay. You can buy things really cheaply during a revolution. And this this is his argument. All right. So, let's read a couple passages from his book. So, uh Emma, can you read please? >> The pro bosic fashion faction on Wall Street had a most outspoken pitchmen in the >> aforementioned William Boyce Thompson. Departing Petrograde, he arrived back in the states on Christmas Day in 1917. On 18th January, he sat for an interview with a representative of Do Jones and published in the Wall Street Journal. >> Wall Street Journal of course is the newspaper of the of Wall Street. boy. >> Despite the fact that Bolshvix uh had proclaimed an army army on the Eastern front and open peace negotiations with Berlin, Thompson insisted that the Russians would never conclude a separate peace. >> Okay, so he's just lying to people. Okay, the Bikes want peace with Germany. They promise peace to the people. That's why they're popular. And these Wall Street bankers are just lying to American people. Okay, keep on going. He pooed pooed reports that there was anarchy in Russia and said that the Russian people were trying to adopt socialism as the basis of their government. If they were allowed to succeed, an extremely democratic, well-managed country will emerge. In other words, an excellent business environment. >> So, what the basically did was they took all the gold they had to bribe Wall Street so that Wall Street would go and brainwash American people. Okay. That's that's the strategy here. >> All right. Um, can you read, Alan? Yeah, >> for those on Wall Street and elsewhere who dreamed of putting the brakes on Russia's economic development and seeing its reaches and resources up for grabs under the regime willing to sell anything that dreams had basically come true. >> Okay, so it's really important to understand the British Empire was fighting a war against Germany. Russia was an important ally, right? They didn't care because for Britain they want to destroy everyone. Okay. So that's why they support the Russian revolution because they know they knew the boss would destroy the Russian economy. So keep on going. >> Yeah. From 1918 through early 1921, Bri war commun communism reduced Russian to an econ economic based on barter and robbery. Besides the abolition of private trade and the destruction of the monetary system, the rare regime embarked on a massive looting campaign, reanking rents palaces, bank vaults, churches, and museums. They expropriate every volume valuable they could get their hands on and stash it all in a new state treasury. By the close of 1921, an estimate $450 million dollars in valuable had been sequestered u sequested sequested there with more to come. Much of it does not disting to be fenced abroad for a fraction of its value in capital capitalist hard currency. >> So this is how empire works guys, okay? They destroy nations in order to steal as much as they can. What happens afterwards? They don't care. All right. It's that simple. All right. Okay. So, after the Bolsheviks consolidate power, after the win civil war, everyone assumes that Trosky would be the new leader. But it's Stalin that becomes the new leader. Okay. Why? Because after the war ends, there's expectation among the bullshiks. know we help the transational capital so much they're going to help us rebuild our nation. Okay, they're going to give us loans. They will give us technology to help us rebuild Russia. And guess what happened? National Capital says, "No, you guys are good. We're good. We we made our money." Okay? And so now what's happening is that Leontrosky, who is a Jew, he gets blamed, right? Because Leontrosky is the one who brought in transational capital. He's the one who facilitated this exchange. And now the  is thinking, "Oh, this is Jewish conspiracy. You Jews were planning this all along to steal everything from us and then screw us over in the end." Okay, that's why Stalin won. All right, so let's go over the difference between Leon Trosky and Joseph Stalin. Leon Trosky did not work for transnational capital. Okay, he was first and foremost a revolutionary who was interested in global revolution. He had a he had a mess calling to transform and save the world. Um but he was accused of being transational capital and because he was a Jew that just assumed that he was a spy. Okay. And um he also had a personality which was arrogant and aloof. Stalin had his own issues. Okay. But he benefited from the fact that Trosky was a Jew and he was able to slowly amass power for himself. He also has a background as a police informant but um but being a spy for the capitalist was a much worse crime. All right. And that's why Joseph Stalin uh won in the end and this is terrible for the Jews the BI Jews who believed in the revolution because they all got killed by Joseph Stalin. Okay. Leoni was killed along with his with all his children. [snorts] All right. So it's not just that transational capital supported the bullshiks, they also supported Carl Marx. Okay. All right. So Karl Marx has an interesting background. He actually comes from a uh many generations of rabbis. So he's basically a Jewish aristocrat and he was German, but then he moved to England and he wrote many letters, wrote many books to promote communism. These books aren't going to sell well. So he was poor all his life. But what's interesting is he lived a very nice life. Okay, he he lived in England and he lived a basic middle class life. So where did he get all his money from? Well, he got he got all his money from Frederick Engles who was a friend of his and whose father was an industrialist. Okay, a Jewish industrialist. So why would a Jewish capitalist support Carl Marx? And the answer is because communism benefits transnational capital. Okay. So um why why would it benefit transational capital? All right. Uh can can you read Amber? So this is a letter written by Carl Marx. Okay. [snorts and clears throat] >> For as soon as the distribution of labor comes into being each man has a particular exclusive sphere of activity which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman or crit a critical critic and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood. While in communist society where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rare cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner and uh and as I have a mind without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, horsemen or critic. Okay. So the problem with capitalism is that it degrades our individuality. We as individuals want freedom to enjoy ourselves. Right? This is a very frankus idea, right? We want to enjoy ourselves. We want to be free to enjoy the pleasures of life. The problem of capitalism is the idea of specialization, right? Where you're forced to do one thing, one thing only according to the needs of the capitalist. Okay. Uh can you keep on reading, Amber? Okay. >> Supposing that we had produced in a human manner in his production each of us would have doubtly affirmed himself and his fellow men. I would have objectified in my production my individuality and its peculiarity and would thus have enjoyed in my activity and individual expression of my life and would have also had in looking at the object the individual pleasure of realizing that my personality was subjective, visible to the senses and therefore a power raised beyond all doubt. >> Okay. So what what he's saying here is that before each of us were crafts people. So I might make a vase. Okay. And when I make a vase then this vase is a expression of my individuality expression of my creativity. And by looking at this vase it becomes an objective symbol of my existence. I can look at this vase and my own individual individ individuality will be reflected back to at me. Okay, keep on going. >> In your enjoyment or use of my product, I would have had the direct enjoyment of realizing that by my work I had both satisfied a human need and also objectified the human essence and therefore fashioned for another human being the object that met his need. >> Then I give you this vase to a friend and I see this vase at the friend's home, right? He puts flowers and he's very happy with this vase and then I I can see my impact in the world. All right. Uh, keep on reading. Amber, >> I would have been for you the mediator between you and the species and thus between and thus been felt by you and acknowledged as a completion of your own essence and a necessary part of yourself and I would thereby have realized that I was confirmed both in your thought and in your love. >> Okay. So this vase now shapes your reality and I know that this vase has given you meaning and it has shaped your reality and therefore I find meaning in that. Okay. Again this is a very Frankish attitude right where you can project your imagination onto people and it can shape the way he or she sees reality. Okay. This is a very similar concept. Do you want >> in my expression of my life I would have fashioned your expression of your life and thus in my own activity I have realized my own essence my human communal essence >> okay right so again this is something that sounds perfectly correct right and the reason why it sounds correct to us is because it becomes a basis for our society okay the idea of individ individualism the idea of materialism okay keep on going >> in such a situation our products would be like so many mirrors. Each one reflecting on our essence thus in this relationship what occurred on my side would also occur on yours. >> Okay, so this is a really important metaphor. Okay, he's saying that objects become mirrors where we can see our own individuality reflected. Okay, and this goes against the religious concept where our humanity is all reflected in each of us. Okay. So, so what he's doing is creating a material outlook. Does that make sense? He's denying the existence of God. He's he's denying the existence of spirituality, but he's taking the concept of religion and applying to a material world, right? He recognizes that we have these spiritual religious needs. And what he's saying is that we don't need God to achieve these needs. We can we can have materialism achieve these needs. Okay? Which again is a very Frankish concept. Keep on going. My work would be a free expression of my life and therefore a free enjoyment of my life. In work, the peculiarity of my individuality would have been affirmed since it is my individual life. Work would thus be genuine active property presupposing private property and my my individuality is so far externalized that I hate my activity. It is a torment to me and only the appearance of an activity and thus also merely a force activity that is laid upon me through an external arbitrary need not an inner and necessary one. >> Right? So why would transnational capital support this idea? The reason why is that before the debate was mind versus matter, right? What what matters more the spirit or the flesh? And what Marx is saying is no what matters what the debate the dialectic is between private property versus public property in private property I have to work for someone else in public property I work for myself that's the question that's the debate that's the dialectic okay and so what by doing this it's a very clever trick that trans capital uses by making us think that the only thing that matters is private versus public as opposed to mind versus matter. Okay, that's the goal of communism. That's why trans capitalist support idea because it advances the goal of empire which is turn us all into slaves. Okay, does that make sense? All right. [snorts] All right. So Markx is correct in analyzing the problems of capitalism. Okay. But his problem is that he believes the solution is to make capital public and as a result this will create a workers's paradise. But there are problems with this. Okay. So let's go over some of the problems. Okay. Markx believes that history is linear progress. So capitalism will lead to socialism which will lead to communism. It is a linear progress. Okay. Second is a problem that history is theological, meaning things go the way they should. Markx also believes that what matters is class struggle between the rich and the poor as opposed to uh between spirit and flesh. Okay. Now, the last thing that's that's most problematic is Marx believes you need a vanguard in order to lead the politarian into a socialist paradise. you need an elite in order to um lead us into paradise. And this estology is all Frankish, right? This is something that we learned last class. This is something that Frank proposed where um his group is a new people which will lead people into a material paradise. Right? [snorts] So all Marx is doing is taking Jacob Frank's ideas and systemizing it. Now I'm not saying that Marx was a Frankus. He's probably not a Frankus. But what I'm saying is that there are people around him like Frederick Engles who could have been a Frankus and as such and they used their money to influence Marx in a way. Okay. And we kn and I we can suspect this because there's some ideas that don't make sense. If you are a socialist, you believe in democracy. But Marx believed in a dictatorship. Okay, that makes no sense. All right. So, um this is Muel Buchanan and he was a socialist. He was an anarchist. And he believes uh he agrees with most of Mark's analysis, but where they disagree is this. Markx believed you need a vanguard. Okay? Like critical Frank believed. But Bennon says, "No, no, no. If you're a vanguard, they'll just become a new capitalist class. Okay? What's the difference, man? If you are a socialist, you have to believe in democracy. You have to believe that everyone has capacity to make his or her decisions. And that has that must be the basis of your new society. Otherwise, we're just going to go back to the way things are before. Okay? It'll just it'll just be another empire. Before it's a British Empire, now it's a Russian Empire. Who cares? What's the difference? All right. So, let let's read some. Okay. All right. Can you read Amber? >> As for us, we want neither phantoms nor nothingness, but living human reality. And we recognize that man can feel free, be free, and therefore can achieve freedom. In order to be free, I need to see myself surrounded by free men, and be recognized as such by them. I am free only when my individuality reflected in the mirror of the equally free consciousness of every individual around me comes back to me strengthened by everyone's recognition. >> Okay, >> so this is really important. Okay, this may seem the same as Marks, but really they're saying different things. Mark says no, the object is a reflection. And what we kind of say, no, no, no, the other person is a reflection. Okay. And this goes back to Dante Zorusra Jesus the divine spark in us and we love someone else. When we care about someone else, our divine spark is reflected in that person's divine spark as well. Okay. And the object gets in the way. That is a crucial distinction. Do you understand? Okay. It sounds the same, but these are two radically opposing ideas where Mark says, "No, it's the object that matters. As long as the object is created by yourself freely then that is good. And what we kind of says no no what matters is our relationship with each other. Okay we don't need the object. Okay. >> The freedom of every other individual does not limit my own as the individualists claim. On the contrary, it is the confirmation, realization and human dignity of all persons to see and feel my freedom confirmed, sanctioned and boundlessly expanded by universal agreement is happiness. It is human paradise on earth. >> How you create paradise is through love. Okay, you understand? Not through objects, not through public property, not through socialism, but through love. Okay, the problem with Markx is he focus on the individual. what makes the individual happy and what kind of says is that's stupid. You have to focus on what makes a community happy because it's only through food happiness of others can we ourselves be happy. Okay, this is something that Jesus said Zorusta Dante. Okay, this is what makes logical sense and Mars is not a dumb guy. Okay, he's a really smart person but he says something opposite which suggests to us that he is being influenced by an outside force. Okay. He himself would not come to the conclusion that he himself would not come to the conclusion that you need a vanguard to lead the uh the workers. All right. Can you keep on reading? Amber >> available to everyone will be a general scientific education especially the learning of the scientific method, the habit of correct thinking, the ability to generalize from facts and make more or less correct deductions. But of encyclopedic minds and advanced so sociologists there will be very few. It would be sad for mankind if at any time theoretical speculation became the only source of guidance for society. If science alone were in charge of all social administration. Life would wither and human society would turn into a voiceless and surv. The domination of life by science can have no other result than the brutalization of mankind. Okay. So what he's saying is this the ultimate project of Marxism when you have something elite a vanguard in charge when this is no different by the way from trans national capital or the British Empire okay it would lead to slavery all right and quite honestly he was right all right let's look at Simon Freud okay Sigman Freud like Marx is also extremely influential um He practiced medicine in Vienna. He was a psychologist. And so there were a lot of young women who came to him as patients. And for would ask them, "What's wrong with you?" And the woman would say, "I'm hysterical." Okay? And at that time, hysterical just meant that um depressed or anxious. I can't control my emotions. If a man talks to me, I like I I I stutter and I I I run away. Okay? And I can't have personal relationships. I can't sleep. I'm sweating. I'm anxious. And then for of course would ask him would ask them why is this happening to you to you? Okay. And then the woman would say because when I was younger when I was a little girl my father raped me. Okay. Incest. That's why this happened to me. And then Freud's like, "Wow, this sounds really strange." But then he looked at at the literature. He talked to many patients and he recognized that everyone was telling him the same thing. And it's true. I mean it's just pure um logic right if you are abused as a young girl by your father you have a lot of social problems when you get older okay especially with men and so he he collects all this research and he published a paper which is very good called the ideology of hysteria and so uh Emma can you can you read please >> above all my previously communicated assumption that trauma specifically sexual trauma cannot be stressed of as a path a p pathogenic agent was confirmed a new even children of respected high-minded puritanical families fall victim to real rape much more frequently than other had dared to suspect >> okay so this is what he's saying is this rape is a really common phenomenon especially among higher society okay keep on going >> either their parents themselves seek substitution for their lack of sexual satisfaction in this pathological manner or else trusted persons such as relatives, uncles, aunts, grandparents, tutors, servants, abuse, ignorance and innocence of children. The obvious objection that we are dealing with sexual fantasies of the of the child himself that is with historical lies unfortunately is weakened by the multitude of confessions of this kind on the part of patients in analysis to assaults on children. >> Okay. So what he's saying is first of all rape is very common and these children are saying the same thing. Okay, keep on going. >> If you try in a uh an approximately similar way to induce the symptoms of hysteria to make themselves heard as witnesses to the history of the origin of the illness, we must take our start from Joseph Brewer's momentous discovery. The symptoms of hysteria apart from the stigmata are determined by certain experiences of the patients which have operated in a traumatic fashion and which are being rep reproduced in his uh psych psychical psychical life in the form of mimic symbols. >> Okay. So this is the ideas are simple. Okay. These women when they're being historical, when they're being anxious, depressed, it's because they suffered real trauma when they were younger, they're not making this up, okay? They're not imagining this because a lot of people are accusing them like you're just fantasizing this. Okay? And they say, "No, no, no. The science tells us, the research tells us you can only have these symptoms if you yourself experience it." Okay? You cannot imagine a leg injury. It has you have to be hit by a car to have a leg injury. And and this is what he's saying. You have to be raped by your father or a trusted friend or a relative in order to have these symptoms. Otherwise, they can't exist. Okay. All right. Keep on going. All right. So, this is a book by Jeffrey Mason. Okay. And and he was for the longest time an um follower of Freud. Okay. um Freud was dead but he himself looked at Freud's personal letters and what he discovered was there's a sharp break okay and early Freud was very scientific he believed the woman uh who are his patients but then later on for a reason he changes everything okay so so so can can you keep on reading Amber >> I therefore put forward the thesis that at the bottom of every case wisteria there are one or more occurrences of premature sexual experience occurrences which belong to the earliest years of childhood but which can be reproduced through the work of psychoanalysis in spite of the intervening decades >> okay so again he's writing these letters to his friends and he's saying very clearly I am certain 100% certain that if these women are suffering from depression or anxiety it must be because of sexual abuse at an earlier age and when I talk to them I can reconstruct the experience. Okay? Because even though they're traumatized, the memory is still there. So through talk therapy, I can slowly reconstruct the experience and this will help them heal. Okay? And this is true. If the if the women are able to reconstruct this experience and they feel as though someone believes them, advocates for them, they will feel much more safe about the world. Okay? So this is true. This is very simple. Okay? Keep on going. There are however a whole number of other things that vouch for the reality of infantile sexual scenes. In the first place there is the uniformity which they exhibit in certain details which is a necessary consequence if the preconditions of these experiences are always of the same kind but which would otherwise lead us to believe that there were secret understandings between the various patients. >> Okay. So, what he's saying is, is it possible there's conspiracy among these patients? Um, possibly. But they're telling me they're giving me like these details and these details make a lot of sense. Okay? So, he doesn't believe it's a conspiracy, but he does not discount the possibility of a conspiracy because he's a scientist. He wants to be rigorous. He wants to be um absolutely certain. Okay? Keep on going. In the second place, patients sometimes describe as harmless events whose significance they obviously do not understand since they would be bound otherwise to be horrified by them or again they mention details without laying any stress on them which only someone of experience in life can understand and appreciate as subtle traits of reality. >> Okay. So he he says that one thing about this trauma is this disassociation. Okay. So these patients will reveal details that would shock anyone else but she says it indifferently which means that she was disassociated from the experience when it happened. So just by telling that person you're able to reconstruct the experience itself. Right? Does that make sense? All right. Okay. It is less easy to refute the idea that the doctor forces a reminiscence of this word on the patient that he influences him by suggestion to imagine and reproduce them. Nevertheless, it appears to me equally untenable. I have never yet succeeded in forcing on a patient a scene I was expecting to find in such a way that he seemed to be living through it with all the appropriate feelings. Perhaps other may be more successful in this. So one major objection is is it possible you are you are implanting false memories in your patient and what he's saying is okay well I've tried this and it doesn't work and maybe others and he he doesn't deny that it's possible okay but he's saying like I myself have tried this and it has not worked so he's being a very rigorous scientist right he's looking at all different possibilities and he's discovering that no um there's only one possibility which is like they are telling the truth. So he's advocating for his patients. Okay. The problem though of course is that the fathers who are doing this are extremely powerful men. These are Frank. Okay. Remember Frankus practice um uh father daughter incest. Okay. Understand? Okay. that Franks are very powerful people especially in Vienna and this is part of their religion. If you do it over generations, it just becomes multigenerational trauma. You just do it because it's you're addicted to it. Okay. And this is screwing up a lot of these young women. It's making them miserable. Uh yeah. Uh so you mentioned that this kind of rape is frequently occurred in upper class. Why does it not so frequently in the lower class? >> Um, you know what? That's a good question. Okay. And the answer is, um, if you are an upper class woman, you're much more likely to report this than if you are from the lower class. So, I'm not we're not saying that this occurs only among the rich. It could also occur among the poor. But it's the rich who have money to send their daughters to psych psych to psychiatrists. Okay? The rich are educated and therefore they will report this. They understand this is a bad thing. Okay. So we don't have evidence to suggest that this is more common among rich. Okay. But what this is telling us is that among Frank is this is very common. All right. All right. So after this happens after Freud is reporting this and the Frankus are getting angry at him. What happens now is an alliance between Freud and the Frankus. In fact, you could argue that Freud now joins a fractus. And so now what we'll see is a radical change in how Freud perceives these patients. Okay. So, Emma, can you read please? >> Since childhood masturbation is such a general occurrence and is at the same time so poorly remembered, it must have an equivalent in psychic life. And in fact, it is found in the fantasy encountered in most female patients. >> Okay. namely that >> namely that the father seduced her in childhood. This is the later reworking which is designed to cover up the recollection of infantile sexual activity and represents an excuse and an extinuation thereof. The grain of truth contained in this fantasy lies in the fact that the father by way of his innocent car caress in earliest childhood has actually awakened the little girl's sexuality. The same thing applies to the little boy and his mother. It is these same affectionate fathers that are the ones who then endeavored to break the child of the habit of masturbation of which they themselves had by the that time become the unwitting cause and thus the motives mingle in the most successful fashion to form this fantasy which often dominates a woman's entire life. seduction fantasy. One part truth, one part gratification of love, and one part revenge. >> Okay, so now this is like really weird. Okay, what what he's saying is these young girls, these young boys, they want to have sex. They they're they're like sexually obsessed. And whenever a father kisses them, which the father wants to do, they think this is this is going to lead to sex. But the father recoils at that possibility. And now the young girl feels rejected. But she has all these sexual desires. So she masturbates, but while she's masturbating, she feels anger and guilt at her father. Therefore, she makes up these sexual fantasies that the father is raping him. And that's why and she's determined that the world know this. That's that's how angry he she is at him. Okay, this is complete nonsense. But guess what guys? This becomes standard mainstream academic knowledge taught in schools and universities for many decades. Okay, this is called the edifo complex. That's that's a complex. Have you guys studied this? >> Yeah. >> It's complete utter nonsense. >> Agree. >> Right. Can you keep on reading, Amber? The motives. >> The motives for illness often begin to stir in childhood. The love hungry little girl unhappy at having to share her parents' affection with her brothers and sisters, realizes that all that tenderness comes flowing back when her parents are made anxious by her illness. The girl now knows a way of calling forth her parents' love and will use this as soon as as she has at her disposal the psychical psychical material necessary to produce a morbid state. Once the child has become a woman and in contradiction of the demands of the childhood has married an inattentive man who suppresses her will unst uh unstintingly exploits her work and expends neither affection nor money upon her. Illness becomes the only weapon with which she can assert herself in life. It gives her the it gives her the rest she craves. It force it forces the man to make uh to make sacrifices of money and care that he would not have made to the wealthy woman uh to the healthy woman and it requires him to treat her with care if she recovers because otherwise a relapse would be waiting in the wings. Her illness is apparently objective and involuntary as even her doctor will be obliged to testify and it enables her to employ without conscious self-reroach. this useful application of a means that she found effective during childhood. >> So why is woman being hysterical later in life? Because it allows them to control people. Okay, it it draws attention to them. They want attention but also makes people obey her whims. Okay, this is gaslighting. All right, this is peer and other gaslighting. And the guys, this is what psychology is just peer and other gaslighting. Okay. All right. Um the problem of course is how do you convince your patient that this is true and so he develops a mind control technique called dream analysis. Okay this is his book from the book interp interpretation of dreams. Okay and it's all just mind control crap where the patient is trying to recall dreams and you're brainwashing that patient. Okay? Because if you've discussed memory that that the person like I know what I saw, right? But his dreams then you can implant false memories. Then you can make suggestions. You can hypnotize that person. Okay? And so psychology becomes now mind control. Okay. So can you read? [snorts] I think everyone who occupies himself with dreams will recognize as a very common phenomenon that fact that a the fact that a dream will give proof of the knowledge and a recollection of matters of which the dreamer in his waking state did not imagine himself to be cog cognizant cognizant in my analytic investigations of the nervous patients of which I shall speak later. I find that it happens many times every week that I am able to convince them from their dreams that they are perfectly well acquainted with quotations, obscene expressions, etc. >> Okay? So, do you understand? So, when when the person is talking about his dream, you can now make suggestions and that person will believe whatever crap you tell him. Okay? And that's a secret of mind control. And guess what, guys? We still use this crap today. All right? All right. So um Floyd is of course gaslighting everyone because he has to protect his patrons the Frankus and the Frankus will allow him to get very will become very famous. He'll get a lot of awards. When the Nazis come to power they he'll go to England where he's well treated. He joins the Royal Academy. Um the British protect him and the British will then spread his views. Okay. He has a uh disciple Carl Young who will take his for ideas and turn it into a understanding a systematic understanding of how the mind works and from this will develop neuroscience. Okay. Um the problem with all this this is public problem with all this is asan tells us it's all selfdirected inwards which gives us nowhere. Okay. It's just you looking into yourself. It's naval gazing and from that you learn no truth at all. But that's the entire basis of our society. And so um so yeah so this is so our so this um understanding of the mind becomes reflected in popular culture. Okay. U back to Macan he tells us that to be truly free we all have to be free. We have to be free together. Okay. In each other we find meaning, purpose and love. Okay. Not in oursel but in each other. That's a difference. And so this leads us to a question. Okay. And this is a question I don't know this today. It's all speculation. The question I want to leave with with you today is is Marxism, liberalism, individualism, Darwinism, psychology ops meant to turn us into slaves? Okay, that's a question that you have to carry with you. I don't know the answer to I don't know the answer to to that. Okay, I'm just providing you with a theory and these connections we don't know how close they are. Okay, it may it may not it may just be random coincidence. It could be cause and effect. We don't know. Okay, but this something that you will have to ask yourself as you continue your study. Okay, so this shows us in alliance between the Sabatine Franks and the British Empire. And so next class will be our last class and in our last class we'll talk about the past Judea. Okay, which is a culmination of all these trends. All right, any questions, guys? Okay, great. So, I will see everyone next class.

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Okay. So, let's start class. I'm going to review very quickly what we did last class. So, last class we learn about monotheism, which is the idea of one true God. And as I said last class, this marked a intellectual revolution in human history. And for monotheism we develop three new ideas which are money individual and the nation state. It's important to note that these ideas have always existed in in human history. But with montheism, these ideas became the dominant paradigms and together they will give us modernity and create the world that we live in today. Okay, so that's what we discussed last class and remember last class we also discussed that this created a lot of problems for us. There are a lot of benefits but there also a lot of consequences. Okay. So um we're going to continue the story of humanity today and today I want to focus on a very specific question. Why do societies rise and why do they fall? Okay. And um I know that these first few classes may seem abstract and theoretical, but that's because we're developing the ethical models in order to better understand our world. So as we move on, we will start looking at very concrete examples. But for the first few classes, please be patient. We will look we are going to develop the theory to understand the world. All right? So let's discuss societies why they rise and why they decline. Now um unfortunately we live in a world in decline. So there are lots of signs that the world is in decline. What are these signs? Shout out shout out some signs. >> Wars. >> Yeah. Very good. Okay. So you have conflict and wars. You look at the situation in Ukraine. Look at the situation in the Middle East. But also you may you may have seen the news and you have seen conflicts arising in Southeast Asia, Thailand, Myanmar also um Trump is about to send US troops to Mexico and Venezuela. Okay. So we live in a world of conflict. Um and that tells us that the world is in decline. What are some other signs? >> Environmental issues. >> Good. Yes. So you have climate change. Okay. We are um putting too much pressure on the environment. So the air, the water, the land is is becoming much more toxic. Okay. Good. What else? >> Good. Yes. Unemployment is going up. And not only that, but people's attitude towards work is declining. We live in an age when people don't take work that seriously. People are not as enthusiastic. They're not as motivated to work hard as before. We call this in China the balan age, right? The age of bailan, meaning let it rot. Like who cares? Don't take things too seriously. In America, the term is called quite quitting. Okay? You pretend to work, but you're not really working. What are some other signs? So, also you have lower birth rate. And this is a very important sign, right? Because if you think about it, if young people refuse to get married and have babies, eventually the world is going to die off, right? So, this is actually a very important sign that the world is in decline. And we're seeing this happen throughout the entire world in all societies. Um, the only exception is Israel and Georgia, but these are very small, rare cases for most societies. uh there's rapid decline in birth rate. What are some other signs? Okay, you see a lower standard of living. Okay. And all this means is that inflation, right? So people make less money and they can afford less. Prices go up but people's wages go down. So that's another sign of decline. Okay. What are some other signs? >> Health issues like diabetes or high blood pressure. >> Okay. You also see higher stress, right? Higher stress, people feel more anxious, people feel more depressed, people feel more stressed. Emotionally, they feel drained. >> Okay. What else? Okay. People are less optimistic, right? Okay. Um greater pessimism. Okay. Also, this is really important is the idea of debt, right? Both public and private. There are lots of governments around the world that are facing a fiscal crisis. A fiscal crisis just means that they spend more than they take in in tax revenue. Um there are many families in China, United States, throughout the world that are heavily in debt. Okay. So debt is a huge issue for the uh world today. also lower cohesion and trust. And what this means is that people no longer trust each other as they did before. Society is less cohesive. If you see if you walk on the street and you see a man on on the street bleeding or hurt, you're less likely to help him. Okay. And this is very true not only in China but also elsewhere as well. So lower trust issues. What are some other signs? >> Disease. >> Okay. Greater disease. Yeah. Okay. Increase in disease. People are less healthy than before. People are more stressed than before. People are less optimistic. So we can go on and on and on because the signs of rapid social decline are too many. Now this is a these are signs of decline. Well, if you look at rise then obviously it's the opposite, right? >> Yeah. >> People are much more willing to trust each other rather than go into debt. People will save money. People are healthier. People are much more optimistic. Um people um people are having lots and lots of babies, >> right? Um people are in okay so these are all signs that uh society is decline. The rise it's the opposite. Um also another sign of decline that's very important that doesn't really happen in China but happens in the western world is immigration. Okay. Immigration. Immigration is a huge issue in the western world and we will discuss immigration in future classes. But immigration is a sign of decline because it reduces cohesion. Okay. and it also reduces the standard of um living. Okay. Another um sign of decline is also housing prices go up. So people can no longer afford to buy a house. This is true in China. Young people can no longer afford to buy a house. But it's also true throughout the world. Okay? It's really hard for young people to get by. Okay. All right. Um, also fiscal crisis, right? We talked about this, but the idea of fiscal crisis is the government cannot afford a lot of public expenditures. In the future, maybe 5 10 years from now, pension will be a huge problem for governments. Okay. So these are all signs of rapid decline. All right. Now, having done this, what I'm what I'm going to do now is go over some theories as to why this is happening. Why is the world in decline? Okay. And there are lots and lots of theories, but I will present three theories to you that I think are interesting. Okay. The first is the idea of financialization. And this theory um is proposed by a name by an economist, a French economist named Thomas Pikid Pikid. Okay. And he wrote a book called Capital in the 21st century. It is a fantastic book. um you don't have to read the book, but if you have a chance, you should definitely pick it up because it is a very easy um but very illuminating read. And what he argues is that what happens in society is that capitalism transitions from face to face to face. In the beginning you have consumer capitalism meaning that um what the society is trying to do is create goods that consumers want to buy. This is an er this is an era of rapid wealth generation. Then you move into financial capitalism which is a period of investment. Rather than build factories, you put the money money into the stock market. Okay? So you're trying to generate as much money as possible. But what we discussed last class that's very important is wealth and money are not the same thing. So in the first phase in super capitalism you focus on the generation of wealth. In financial capitalism you focus on the generation of money and then you move on to monopoly capitalism which is where just a few companies control everything. And we live in an era of monopoly capitalism. And this happens because it is much more profitable for companies to be to be to be monopolies than to be in competition with each other. Financial capitalism um is looking to create as much money as possible, not as much wealth. And so a few companies come to dominate, become monopolies. And that's the age we live in today. Okay. Now why is this why is this important? It's important because it when we make this transition people are no longer focused on working hard. They're only focused on speculating. All right. So let me give you an example. Um let's just say I'm an entrepreneur and I want to make as much money as possible. Well, what I do is I build a factory. When I build a factory, I'm creating real wealth because a factory um requires you to hire workers. It requires you to build technology. It requires you to build goods that people want to buy. But after I build a factory and I make a lot of money, I want to take this money and let it grow as fast as possible. So, I put it in in a stock market. Okay? And that's just how people behave. The problem is that if too many people do that, then no one's really working. No one's really no one's creating real wealth in the economy. The other problem is that because of the way capitalism is set up, if everyone's putting the money in the stock market, the stock market grows too fast and the real economy does not grow that fast. Okay? And the difference is stark. Thomas spent a lot of time go going over um income tax just looking at how much tax people paid. He did a lot of statistical analysis and what he discovered is the real economy at in late stage capitalism will go about 2%. The financial economy will go at 5%. Okay. And this is really key. What this is telling us is that if you have a million dollars, you could choose to go and open a restaurant or you could choose to invest in the stock market. If you open a restaurant, you will make at most $20,000 a year. But if you were to put in the stock market, you would make $50,000 a year. So, everyone's going to put all the money in the stock market, which allows for the stock market to increase. But the real economy is not improving and therefore you have all these issues arise. Greater unemployment, greater debt, no one's really working. Okay, so that's the idea of financialization. And what Pikody argues is that this is just a natural cycle. This is just a natural byproduct of capitalism. We live in a state we live in an age of late stage capitalism. Is this clear to you guys? Any questions before I move on to the second theory? All right, let's move on to the second theory called elite overp production. And this was proposed by a historian named Peter Turchin. And Peter Turchin spent decades looking at white societies rise and fall. He looked at the Roman Empire. He looked at the French Revolution. He looked at many different examples. And what he believed is societies fall, decline, collapse because of the idea of elite overp production. Meaning you have too many powerful people competing for limited positions of power. All right. So to understand this, I'm going to talk about another experiment called rat utopia. And rad utopia was a series of experiments conducted by an American scientist named James B. Calhoun. And what James Calhoun was trying to do in his experiments was trying to figure out what living in a world of abundance and wealth and security meant. A after World War II, the world was divided between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was the Cold War, but it was also a time of increasing abundance due to technology and peace and the population was increasing. So, James Calhoun conducted these experiments to figure out what this meant for the world. So, what he did was this. He had a room, okay, that was sealed off from the world. And in the room, he put in food and water and housing for a colony of rats, maybe like 10 rats at first, but they quickly um became 400, 500 rats. And at first, the rats were really happy. But no matter how Cahoun um configured the experiment, ultimately the rats always ended up killing each other. Okay. So what he discovered is if you live in a world of abundance and security, the end result is the rats always kill each other. And he kept on doing this for 20 years. And he could never ever create a situation in which the rats lived peacefully. And he can never figure out why this was the case. And even today there's a huge debate as to why this is a case. But he had a theory. Okay? And the theory is this. The rats were not competing for food. They were really competing for status. All right. So, let's think about this. Okay. In a state of nature, in the real world, rats compete each other for mating rights, right? So, uh you see a beautiful rat and you you com you fight over her, right? The rat who wins out is now the alpha male. And the alpha male can have as many female companions as he wants. Okay. And what do the other rats do in nature? What will the other rats do? >> Well, the other rats will probably run away, go somewhere else, and find other female companions, right? Because everyone's trying to be the alpha male. >> But in What's the problem with James Calhoun's experiment? Why do they fight each other? >> Because they can't be down. >> There's no place for them to go. They're stuck where they are. >> You understand? >> So status is what we call a zero sum game. I win, you lose. Okay? There can only be one winner. But in nature, if I win, then the other rats run away and try to figure out try to try to build their own colony. But in James Calhoun's experiment, there's no place for them to go. And so all that happens is they keep on fighting each other until they they die. Okay? And that's the idea of elite over production. And that's what Peter Turchin says. The elite, the children of elite are always fighting for positions of power. Not normal people, it's the children of the elite. But eventually elite have too many children and there are not enough positions of power. Okay. Another another way of saying this is that in China today there are too many graduates of picking university led and tinua university tin right >> there. They want to be the big boss. They want to have the power, but there's too many of them. Okay, there's no and there's no place for them to go. And that leads to conflict in society. And ultimately what Peter Church has discovered is if that's the case, then elite over production will ultimately lead to either war or revolution. It will lead to the collapse of society. And there's no way around this. Okay, that's Peter Turchin. Now I want I want to go to the third theory and the third theory is the idea of a civil civilizational life cycle and this is proposed by a German philosopher scholar named Oswalt Spangler. And what he argues is that society, culture, civilization, it's no different from a person. As a person, as a human being, we go through a life cycle. We are born, we grow up, we mature, then we die, right? And there's no way around this. We all have limited life cycles. You can live to 100, you can live to 150, but eventually you'll die. And what also Spangler says is that happens to society as well. And there's nothing anyone can do of this. So let's go over the life cycle for for uh civilization. Okay. In the beginning you are in the village then you move to the town then you move to the city then you develop the mega city. Okay not all civilizations will go through the cycle but the successful ones will go through the cycle. Okay, you start off. So the Romans, right? The Ting dynasty, you start off in a village, then if you're successful in a village, you build a town. Then when you're in a town and you're successful, you be you defeat other towns and you build a city, they become a mega city. Okay? And what Arch Spangler says is at the height of the civilization, the civilization must now die. Okay? So let's go over the theory. Well, in a village, life is pretty simple. People work hard, okay? They are united. They have a collective mentality. Everyone's helping each other. And also what's really important is lots of babies, right? It's very common for um mothers to give birth to 10 11 kids in a village, right? And the reason why is kids are free labor. Um so you're incentivized to have as many children as possible. Okay? So this is the framework of a village. But as you go up the civilization ladder, as you mature as a civilization, what happens is you have increased abstraction. Abstraction is just a fancy word for you're removed from reality. Okay? So when you're in a village, you understand everything, right? You understand, oh, the food that I eat comes from the seeds I implant, right? But when you're in a city, guess what? That those drinks you're drinking, you have no idea where it comes from, right? The food you're eating, you have no idea where it comes from. It's all abstract to you. It's all removed from reality. Okay? Um so in the village, people are engaged in working hard and in helping each other. But as you move up, people become much more individualistic, right? You're concerned about your own personal pleasure. You're concerned about what how do I derive benefit from this? Okay? So, another way of saying this is in a village, what keeps people together are emotions and tradition and relationships. But when you move to mega city, what is it that holds people together? It's money, right? Money is the greatest abstraction. The problem with money is that it means we don't have to ever trust each other. In a village, if you get sick, everyone comes and helps you, right? But in the city, if you get sick, you go to the hospital and pay the doctor. Your neighbors don't have to care. Your family doesn't have to help you. >> Okay? So, you become individualized. You become atomized. Okay? And in this mega city, what happens is because you are concerned only about your own individual pleasure, you don't work hard anymore. In fact, what you want to do is you want immigrants to work for you, right? You don't you no longer care about other people. All you care about is yourself. And guess what, guys? You don't want to have any children, okay? And that's why the mega city represents the death of civilization. And what is Beijing? What is Shanghai? What is Washington DC? What is New York? What is Paris? What is London? They're all mega cities. Okay. And that's why we have these trends. And what Oswald Spangler says is there's nothing anyone can do about this. It is a natural life cycle. All right. So these are the three major theories I want you guys to remember. Okay. Um sorry c can you give the microphone? Yeah. Can you just speak to the fact more? >> What if there is a um a universal target that that force everyone needs to work together? You know will that work out to like um everyone just put down all of these problems and you know figure out the Yeah. Okay. I understand. That is a great question. Okay. So, the question to rephrase it, okay, is yeah, but what if there's an external threat threat? Okay. An external threat. If there's an external threat, then surely this system, this life cycle um can be extended, right? and external threats are examples of hey let's say there's an alien invasion let's just say um China's being attacked by the United States right and unfortunately the answer is it does not matter because once you've reached the point of a mega city first of all you're so selfish you're self-absorbed you are not aware of external threats The other issue is you're no longer capable of working together because you don't trust each other. Okay. So the external threats don't factor doesn't really matter. But that's a great question. Thank you for for asking. Okay. Yes. In theory, oh my god, if aliens come, then humans would unite. No, that's not what would happen. Okay. What would happen is certain factions of humans would try to align the aliens to conquer everyone else. All right. All right. So, having gone through these three theories, what I'm going to do is combine them together to create a comprehensive holistic broad theory of why societies rise and fall. Okay. All right. And the problem with theories is they are simplistic and inaccurate and imprecise. So, so I warn you that this theory has limitations. But for our purposes, what we want to do is have a working framework and then when we apply this framework to concrete examples, we can better refine this framework. Okay? All right. So I warn you that this framework there a lot of problems with it but it is a useful tool for us to analy an analyze society in the past. Okay. All right. So I'm going to make generalizations about how society is structured. So at the core of society the very powerful people they these are certain families. Okay these are the founding families of this nation. And there's not that many of them. maybe 10, maybe 100, okay? But at most 100. So if you go back to the Roman Empire and Roman Empire um controlled most of Europe as well as Anatolia, Egypt, it was a huge area area, but really there were only about 200 families that control the Roman Empire. Okay. All right. So how these families express power, how they control power in society is through is through three mechanisms. Okay. three pillars of power and these three three pillars are finance. Okay, finance we talked about last class. It's just central banking. All right, second pillar is religion. Religion is just what people believe. How how to control what people believe. Now the religion of today is science and technology. Mhm. >> And the third pillar is intelligence or spies. All right. Now, um for the purpose of to save time, I'm not going to go too deeply into intelligence and religion, but I will in future classes. Okay? I just I just need you to remember that there are three pillars of power at the core of society. Finance, intelligence, and religion. And it's their nexus, their culmination that allows the elite to control everyone else. Okay? So from this nexus they will control all aspects of society including schools, including the military, including government, including the media, including culture, including crime, the mafia. Okay? every aspect of society that you can imagine is being controlled in some respect by this nexus of power. Okay. Also you have like uh corporations, right? And then at the outer edge are the people. Okay, the people because they're so massive, the massive people, they're the ones who generate wealth for society. So this system is designed to create as much energy as possible through the people. Okay, energy because the harder the people work, the more wealth is generated in society. All right? So a metaphor that that we can use is this. Think of society as a corporation. The people are the workers, right? They're the ones who do the real work. the elite, these families are the owners and these people in between the middle class are the managers. Okay, so again this is a very simple um metaphor and it's not accurate but it's useful for analysis. Okay. So the families are the owners of the corporation, the people the workers, the people in between the managers or the managers and we call these people the middle class. There have been other names for it in China before in history. We call them the scholar officials. Right? Um another name for them is something called the professional managerial class PMC. Also another name for them is the petty boujo. Okay, again you don't need to know these names. For the purpose of simplicity, we will just call them the middle class. All right, does that make sense? Okay, so having gone through the structure of society, let's talk about what happens when society rises and falls. Okay, when it rises, the dynamic of these three groups, it's very interesting. When it rises, the families who own the nation are happy to let the managers control society. And this is what we call democracy, right? And the managers are always providing feedback to the families and saying we should treat workers better. We treat workers better then they will work harder. Okay? And at this point, things are great. The people feel that they have a voice in the system. They're making good money. Everyone's really happy. But what happens because of of elite over production is these families produce too many children who want position of power. Basically, they want to spend money from the corporation. And now the corporation is in trouble. It's in debt. Okay. So, at this point, what happens is this. You would think the managers would say to the families, "Listen guys, we need to be more fair to the people." But what really happens in reality is the managers exploit the people. Okay? The managers will now deceive. They will lie to the people. They will commit fraud. They will exploit the people. Why? The reason why is this. What the managers really do is something called um rent seeking behavior. Okay, rent seeeking behavior just means they have a certain power that they want to exploit in order to extract wealth from other people. So for example, the more classic example is you own an apartment in Beijing, right? So you rent it out to someone who needs to live in Beijing and you collect rent. Well, this is true for um a lot of people. So if you are a lawyer, you collect rent because only you can work in the court system. So if you want to sue someone or if you want you have a contract dispute, you have to go to a lawyer. Okay? The lawyer is colle collecting rent and that's what the middle class the professional managerial class do. They are rent seekers. Okay. Another way of saying this is guys if you go to a company you know what the workers do right? Do you know what the managers do? They really don't do that much. Okay. And this is true for the middle class. like um the managers, the middle class live very nice lives. And so when the company's in trouble, the managers are like, "Well, I have a very nice life. I have a very nice job, but I don't really don't do anything, so I I'll probably be the first to get fired." So they have to show their worth. They have to prove their worth. And therefore, they exploit the workers. Okay? Do you understand? They push the workers harder to generate more wealth. All right? So in the decline phase this is not really a problem but what happens over time is the conflict within the elite gets worse and worse elite over production and what will eventually happen is they will form into factions that compete against each other for power. Okay. And when that happens then society becomes aligned into factions. The factions will bring in certain elements of the middle class which will then bring in certain elements of the people and now what happened is civil war or revolution and this marks the collapse of society. What's really important for us to remember is this is a natural cycle and no amount of n of external threat will change that that that dynamic. Why? because it's very common for these factions to align with mercenaries. Okay? So there's foreign invasions not because some guy overseas is like, "Oh, this society is unstable. I'll come and invade." What happens often is a certain faction invites mercenaries into the nation as part of the power struggle. And then the mercenaries realize, you know what, we can stick this for ourselves. Right? So when you reach the collapse phase, the society is much too insular, much too racked with infighting to care about external threats. And that's why if there's an alien invasion, it really wouldn't change anything. Okay? All right. Is this clear to you guys? >> Yes. So again, this is the model we're working with to explain the rise and fall of societies. At first, in this system, the elite families are willing to let the measure class incentivize and motivate the workers to do their best. And you do that through democracy, through openness, through meritocracy, through innovation. But over time as these elite families have more and more children and these children are engaged in renting behavior. They basically want to steal profits from the corporation the corporation runs into trouble and the managers are forced to coers the people which leads to greater conflict and eventually over time the collapse happens when society breaks up into different factions which leads to civil war or revolution or war. Okay. So that's a model working with. All right. Any questions? Are you guys clear about this? Yeah. >> On what if they just like don't have that much children? >> Excuse me. What what's the question? >> Like on what if the family that the elite families don't have that much children? Will this model still works? >> Oh, that's a great question. Okay, so what if families don't have that that many children? Okay, that's a really interesting question and the answer is these families first and foremost want to have as many children as possible, right? Because how do you pass on your power? So maybe the so maybe the middle class don't want that that have that many don't want to have that many children but the elite will have a lot of children because they need to be able to pass on their power and privilege to their children. In fact the elite is first and foremost concerned with passing on their privilege to the next generation. Okay. And that's why these families expand so fast. And also who wants to marry into these families? Who wants to marry into them? Everyone. All right? And they have to marry into other families in order to maintain their power. Okay? So having children in a marriage is a way for the elite to maintain their power. Okay. But that's a good question. Any more questions before I continue? Okay. So, let us summarize what we've learned so far and discuss what is it that allows societies to rise and fall. So, we'll look at three phases. The rise, the decline, and the collapse. Okay? Okay. So when I mean decline, I don't mean like things are getting worse. I mean things aren't improving. Okay. So rise is when things get better. Decline is when things are stagnant or getting slightly worse. Collapse is when society is about to fall apart. Okay. So if you look at these three particular phases of society, there are different characteristics. In the when society rises, it is first and foremost open. Open just means that you have opportunities for social mobility in a society. If you're a poor person, you can make money. You you can become wealthy. Your talent is appreciated. It's a meritocracy. It's innovative. If you criticize society, people are like, "Thank you for criticizing us because criticism makes us better people." Okay, there's open debate. Now what's really interesting is um most young societies or open societies okay so for example in 1950s America was a democracy right China was communist but this is really interesting 1950s they were both open societies you could criticize leaders in fact you were encouraged to criticize leaders China was as democratic back then as the United states. Okay. So, it's not about political systems. It's just about the uh what state you are in social development. So, if you're young, you're going to be open. You're going to be democratic. You're going to be metocratic. You want to learn. So, you will listen to criticism. Okay? That's the first great characteristic of a society on the rise. It's openness. But when you reach a decline phase, guess what? Society becomes bureaucratic. Okay, bureaucratic. Why? Because if we go back to this model, as a company loses more and more money, the managerial class is concerned with maintaining their jobs. So they become bureaucrats, okay? They have to prove their worth. So they create a lot of paperwork. They make everyone follow the rules. Society becomes more and more bureaucratic. Then in collapse phase z becomes a authoritarian. Okay. Before the client is all following the rules. Now it's just rule by force. I know there's but there's another way of saying this. In the rise phase what matters is the consent. Okay. So these three groups, the elite, the middle class, and the people, they're all working together to improve society. There's consent. But when you hit the decline phase, now it's there's deception. And then when you hit the collapse phase, it's coercion. So let me give you an example. Let's just say uh we are in the rise phase, right? Well, we want to go to lunch. So, we discuss where we go to lunch. I want to go McDonald's, but you guys want to go to Pizza Hut or KFC. We have we have to debate and then eventually we vote and whoever wants to go like the majority wins. Okay, that's a consent phase. When we hit the decline phase, deception, I'm the teacher. So, I say to you, "Hey guys, let's go to McDonald's because Wong Fay will be there or Jack Ma will be there or it's free hamburgers today." Okay, I'm lying to you to get what I want. And then in the cloud space is I say to you, I'm the teacher and I will beat you up if you don't if you don't listen to me. Okay. So the rise phase, what matters first and foremost is unity of the people. We're all working together. There's empathy. There's concern for other people. I want to be your friend. We need we need to work together to make society better. Okay. But in the decline phase, it's really about stability. It's about making sure that society maintains a status quo. Okay. When we reach a collapse phase, it is survival. Screw you. I want to live and if I have to kill you, I'll kill you. All right. So this is a map that shows us this what happens when satic rises, declines and collapses. Now what's really interesting about this is the timing. Okay, so if you actually look at society's the timeline, it goes like this. Okay, there's a steep rise, the decline is slow and the collapse is sudden. So people think oh decline you know things get worse worse but you know we follow this trend we we'll still be here but actually the collapse happens really fast. Why? The reason why is this system cannot survive external shocks. External shocks is a perfect storm of crisis. So another way of saying this is maybe society prepares for okay if there's a plague we'll do this. If there's a climate crisis we'll do this. If there's a drought we'll do this. If there's a war we'll do this. Okay. What society is not prepared for is these things happening all at once. The plague, the drought, war, it's revolution. They all happen at once. It's a perfect storm. And that's what leads to the clouds because society is not prepared for this. Okay? And why is society not prepared for this? Because when you hit the authoritarian phase, you're not allowed to criticize the system anymore. The problem are those who speak out. The problem is those who point out the problems of society. In the rise phase, those who criticize society are the heroes. They are appreciated. They are rewarded. In the class phase, those who speak out are the enemies of society. And therefore, society cannot be prepared for any external threats which leads to its collapse. Any questions? Okay. So this is the anical model that we're working with and again we're going to apply it to the present and then we're going to apply it to the past. Okay. So with this analyical model what we can do is make certain predictions about the future. So I will make these predictions and I expect these things happen in the next five to 10 years. after 10 years or 10 to 20 years. Okay, I'm not like I don't know the time frame. Okay, I expect these things to happen. Okay, the first thing that's going to happen in the western world is decline of democracy and freedom. So remember in the rise phase society is democratic and open and meritocratic but as you move on it becomes more bureaucratic and ultimately authoritarian. Okay. So we will see the United States Europe become much more authoritarian. you will see a collapse of democracy and freedom in these nations and and already we're seeing this happen in the United States where Trump is using more and more military to resolve issues right so that's the first prediction and this is going to happen throughout the western world second thing is economic collapse so as there is let As people have less and less right to speak up, they feel less invested in the system. They're less willing to work. Therefore, you have economic collapse. People don't believe in the system anymore. Okay? The system is in crisis. This will lead to immigration. The government is like, you know what? If the people don't want to work, screw them. Let's bring in immigrants to do the work. Okay? this this is let's replace our population but the people are not going to sit back and take it right this leads to civil war people are not killing each other on the streets and the government is like you know what if we kept if we continue to let them fight eventually they're going to come after us so what we'll do is send them off to like these stupid pointless wars overseas Okay, so now you have stupid wars, stupid foreign wars. And this these are my five predictions for the world for the next 5, 10, 20 years. Okay, Europe and America will see less freedom and democracy. There'll be economic collapse, increase immigration, civil conflict, and then ultimately stupid foreign wars. And I'm not saying this happens in a sequence. I'm saying you'll see all five things. Okay? But they may happen in different order. Any questions? Was this clear to you guys? Yeah. Thank you. Is there any chance that um the government tries to use a war to um distract the people? Like they they're trying to hide all of the collapse of the society and their country. >> Yeah. Yeah. That's a great question and the answer is that's what wars are for. It's to distract the people, right? Because if you don't distract the people, they'll come and revolt against you. So you either send them to a war or you could have a French revolution on your hands, >> right? That's your option. War or revolution. I think war is the better option. That's why we're heading into a world at war. >> Not revolution. >> Okay. No, no. I'm I'm saying like if you don't send the people to war, they will revolt against you. >> So you send off send off to war to distract them, to get rid of them. But what if they're right? >> Okay, there's no right and wrong here. Okay, guys. Okay. All right. All right. Okay. I'm I apologize. Okay. But one thing that you will learn in my class is there's no right and wrong. There's no logic. Okay? It's not like it is immoral to send people to war. I know that. Thank you very much. Okay. But I'm trying to explain to you how power works. That's a theme of this course. I'm trying to explain to you how people in power think and behave. All right? And again, I keep on saying this, I don't know if I'm right. But what I'm doing is I'm presenting a theory, a model that we can use to make predictions. And if these predictions work out, if it actually happens, then our model, there's some accuracy to our model. Okay, we'll have to refine our model, but there's some accuracy to it. But hey, hey, if tomorrow Trump, Putin, she all get together and says, "Let's be best friends, then I'm wrong." Right? Okay. So, so that's what we're trying to do in this class. We're not trying to argue what is right, what is wrong, what is just, because quite honestly, it doesn't matter, right? Morality doesn't matter here. It's about power. We're trying to understand how the world works. And when we do and if we do that, then maybe we can work together and build a more just world. But first, we need to figure out how the world really really works. Okay, any more questions? Okay, great guys. Um, so we will continue this story next class. I'll see you guys next class.

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So good afternoon class. Today we do death by gerontocracy. Gerontocracy just means rule by old people. Last class we discussed the decline of western society and civilization and why it's happening. We discussed the theories. Today we will look at what the reality on the ground is. What the actual trends are. What are the current examples of decline in the western world. All right. So let me start with this young man. Um his name is Axel Ruda Kubana and he was 17 years old when last year um he took a knife and he walks into a dance studio in Southport uh Britain and then he proceeds to stab the little girls inside the dance studio and they are five, six, seven. He kills three of them. He is quickly arrested by the police. And as you can see, he is a very disturbed young man. He clearly has a mental illness. Otherwise, why would he go kill children? Um, and he was sentenced to 52 years behind bars. So, he's going to spend the rest of his life in prison. So, justice was done. What happens next is that all throughout Britain there are riots and protests. What happened was that rumors start to spread online about the attack. They claim that the young man was a asylum seeker, an immigrant and because there are too many immigrants coming to England, everyone's safety is at stake. So, as you can see, these protests were extremely heated. They were extremists. Um, they were anti-immigrant and ultimately it led to violence between the police and the protesters. And this is happening all throughout Britain. Last summer, the country of England burned basically, literally burned. Okay, so these protesters were setting cars on fire and they were targeting immigrants in Britain. Remember that this 17-year-old boy, he's actually not an immigrant. He was born in Wales to parents who are from Rwanda. Okay. So, he is a um British citizen. As you can see, the men who participated in the protest um they're not sad about what they're doing. They feel virtuous. They feel righteous. They feel proud for protecting their people against immigrants. So the question for us today is why is this happening? Why are the all these civil conflicts caused by immigration throughout the western world? So this is happening in Britain. But as you know immigration United States led to the victory of Donald Trump in last year's elections in the United States. A lot of the conflict comes from the fact that immigration is happening too fast in the western world. So after co um you see this large spike in immigrants. The other issue is that most of these immigrants are coming from um countries in the Middle East, in Africa, in East Asia. So it's clear that these people are different from you. Okay. So before there might have been a lot of EU, European immigrants, but now it's just mainly countries outside of Europe. So the British people feel as though they're being invaded by foreigners. The changes, demographic changes to British society are stark. So the uh I'm not sure if you can see this clearly. Okay. But like the dark brown are places where in the past 5 10 years the immigrant population has tripled has tripled three times. Okay. And as you can see there are quite a few pockets where immigr immigration is sort of overwhelming the local population. So if you go to Britain, there are some places where you feel this is like Morocco or this or this is like Rhonda or maybe even uh Egypt. Okay. So the British people feel they're under siege and this happening throughout the western world. So this is Australia. Okay. So Australia after co huge spike in immigration and most of them are coming from non-European countries. So the greatest spike is in India but then you also have China and the Philippines as well. These are the three major sources of immigrants to Australia. Okay. The same is happening in France where you're seeing a huge spike in immigration and again most of the immigrants are coming from African or Middle Eastern countries and so the French feel as though their culture is being diluted. It's being attacked and invaded. This happening all throughout Western Europe. The UK, France, Italy and Germany are seeing a huge spike in immigrants and refugees and so their culture feels threatened. What these what's also happening is a huge spike in inflation. Okay, so this is something called the CPI, the consumer price index, which is just measuring the price of basic goods like food and shelter. Okay? And as you can see, there's a huge spike in prices. So, as these immigrants are coming into your country, you also feel as though your quality of life is getting worse and worse. It's getting harder for you to afford basic goods like rent and food. it's getting harder for you to um support your family. The major increase is in housing prices. Okay, so Canada these past 5 years has seen a huge influx of immigrants and this has caused housing prices to skyrocket. The United States, which has a much larger economy than Canada, the housing prices are pretty stable. You can still afford to buy a house if you're a young person in United States, not in Canada. Okay, you see this huge spike in Canada. The house housing prices are now unaffordable. This is a chart that shows you economic growth as compared to housing prices. So, as you can see, United States um housing prices there's a correlation between income and housing prices. Okay, this is pretty reasonable. In Canada, it is not reasonable. Okay, so GDP is GDP, housing prices is growing like this, but housing prices is just skyrocketing and that's why Canadians feel as though the Canadian dream of one day having their own house, it's basically dead. So, one strange thing is that as Canada lets in more immigrants, um, and as property houses go up, you would think that they would build more and more houses, but as you can see, housing supply, okay, housing supply, it's pretty flat, even though immigration is going up. Does anyone know why this would be the case? Why is it that you have a policy of letting in more immigrants, but you don't have a policy of building more housing for them? That's kind of strange, right? Does anyone can anyone guess why that would be the case? Yeah. >> Sorry. Can you can you speak in the microphone? Thank you. >> Okay. Um maybe they want to make sure that the housing's not affordable maybe because they want to make more money cuz now there's like more competition for housing. Definitely. As you said the prices of housing was like going like skyrocketing and people would make more money like people who provide the housings would naturally real estate's people make more money I guess. >> Yeah that's exact exactly correct. Okay. So policy is not being controlled by what's best for the nation and the people. It's controlled by vested interests that will make money off the process. Right. So as you say real estate developers can make money off this process. But the people who who benefit the most actually property owners right. So you if you have a if you already have a house if the supply is constant but the demand goes up then you know by from economic class that the value of a house increases artificially. So it's making homeowners very happy. Okay. And that's why you have this crisis in Canada. Um the other issue that's really problematic in the western world is that as immigrate as the number of immigrants goes up, native people, the native population, they're not having children. Okay, so this is this is Canada where the birth rate, okay, the blue is the birth rate, okay, it's steadily going down whereas immigrants are going up. So it's the immigrants who provide most of the new people in Canada. In fact, right now, 25% a quarter of all Canadians are first generation immigrants. Uh, sorry, first generation Canadians, meaning that that they they're immigrants to the country. And if you just look at this trend, in 40 years time, 50 years time, there'll be very few white Canadians in Canada. And this is causing a lot of lot of conflict and tension in the country. So you have these huge issues. Um housing is unaffordable, inflation is going up, ethnic tensions are increasing, but the Canadian government still insists on increasing the number of immigrants in the country. Okay? There's no there's no policy roll back where like you know what, let's have a moratorum. Um, clearly our policy is too rapid and we need to slow things down. In fact, as you can see, they're they're actually going to ramp up the process. The goal for Canada right now, Canop population is about 35 to 40 million people. They want 100 million people 100 million people in Canada by the year 2100. And guess what? The majority of these people are going to come from India and probably China. Okay? And as we discussed the percentage of immigrants as part of the total population is just rapidly increasing. So in Australia it's almost a third now. In Canada it's a quarter. In Germany it's a fifth. And these percentage will go up and up and up leading to more and greater ethnic tension and immigrant protests within these countries. As you can see, uh, the number of immigrants coming from India far surpasses that of other countries. Okay? And these are just legal immigrants. We're not counting in students. So, there are millions and millions of Indian students right now in Canada on student visas and they're looking for a path to permanent residency, to citizenship. And that's what leads to situations like this. Okay? these viral videos online where you have thousands and thousands of Indian students lining up for hours and hours because they're applying for a minimum wage job at a restaurant or at a store. Life for these Indian students is just terrible. A lot of them live eight to a room. Okay, this one room that was meant for one person. There are now eight students living in that room. At the same time, what's really interesting is that the Indians are now a extremely powerful political force in Canada. This was the former prime minister Justin Trudeau meeting with representatives of the Indian community because he depends on them for his votes. In last year's federal election, 22 Indian uh people of Indian descent were elected to parliament. Okay. So in parliament there's 343 seats. 22 of them now are Indian. How many Chinese? How how many MPs of Chinese origin? There are less than 10. So even though the Chinese have been there longer and even though they're actually the more numerous Chinese than Indians, the Indians are extremely powerful political force. Now a lot of it is because Indians um come from democracy. So they're very good at debate. They're very good at organizing. They're very good at collective action. And that's what let leads them to excel in the Canadian political system. At the same time, we can imagine that if current trends continue, if the immigrant population from India increases um and if the Indians continue to amass more more political power, there could be a situation where the Indians take over the Canadian government in like 20 or 40 years time. So there's a real risk that in Canada that their native population gets replaced by the Indians. And this is happening elsewhere as well. Yes. A question. >> Uh like the all the imi Indian immigrants that you have mentioned like it's took a part of the Canadian population. How about the like uh having the risk of aliens took over Canadian but how about the people that is local in Canadian like how are they doing right now because we are all focusing on immigrants >> right okay that's a great question okay so immigrants are suffering but actually the local population is suffering even more because as we discussed the last class the economy is declining and it's pretty rapid rapid decline. So, it's harder for young people to find jobs, especially with immigrants coming into the country, right? Um prices are very expensive nowadays. So, it's very hard for young people to live and work in big cities. So, as these immigrants are coming into the country, they're putting tremendous pressure on the local population. That's why there's so much ethnic tension uh throughout the Western world right now. Okay. So this leads us to a paradox. If immigrants are making life worse for everyone, especially young people, who's the future of these nations, why is this happening? Okay, so I want you guys to keep this in the back of your mind. You probably know the answer already because you you you know how property prices work, right? Okay, so uh let's move on to another topic. So Canada like 10 years ago introduced a new policy called maid called medical assistance in dying euthanasia and the idea here is that if you feel life is meaningless if you're depressed um if you feel that you cannot cure your disease the government will help you kill yourself. The government will let you die. Now the big question then is yeah but 25 years ago this was illegal in the world right you suicide was you was illegal if you helped someone kill himself you'll be put in prison this would be basically murder. So what's the difference between suicide and the government helping you kill yourself? Well there really isn't. Okay but the government says there is a difference. Okay. So this a brochure from the government from the Can government explaining you why suicide is bad. Okay. Suicide is bad but suicide by government is good. Okay. And it's really stupid. It's disgusting. Stupid. It's disgustingly stupid. Okay. What they say is that if you if you do suicide well you do it alone and you shock your friends and family. But if you do maid, then everyone knows you're killing yourself and so they won't be so sad when you die, right? If you kill yourself, you might screw it up, but if the government does it for you, you won't screw it up because it's it's being uh facilitated by professionals who know what they're doing. All right? If you think this is stupid, there's more stupidity to come. Right? And what this tells us is we discussed this last class is one major sign of decline in society is the over bureaucratization of society with the government interferes in everything. Okay. Um this is the number actually number of deaths from euthanasia in Canada. As you can see in 2016, it started at about a thousand. By 2021, it's at 10,000. Okay? So, the numbers are going up really rapidly. Why? Well, because if you want to kill yourself, they won't stop you. This is the number of days required to be approved for suicide. As you can see in the Netherlands, sorry, this is Oregon, actually. This is Oregon, United States. Okay. The number of days have been going down, but it's still like at most a month. Okay. In Canada, they'll do it in like 10 days for you. They won't even think about it. They're like, "You want to kill yourself? Do it, man. Good for you. Good choice." Doctors have been trained to not do any harm, right? Well, and death ought to be the last resort. But in Canada, death is now the first resort. If you go to a doctor and say, "I want to die." The doctor's like, "Sure, let's do it, man." That's pretty disgusting. All right. Why are people people killing? So, like, if you see um the number of approval rates have been going way up. It seems that it seems as though they have a quarter of the field. This is 2019. Um only 7 75% were approved. Now, it's 81%. It's almost like they have a quota. They're trying to kill as many people as possible, right? Um, as you can see, this number is the percentage of people who die because of euthanasia. Uh, this is the Netherlands, which for the longest time had a very open policy when it comes to euthanasia. And yeah, it's going up, but this huge spike is Canada. Okay. It seems as though Canada can is in a rush to kill as many people as possible. So who's dying? >> Yeah. Do you have do you have a question? >> So the suicide of Canada is not insunia. Is that also a type of in insunasia? >> No. No. No. Okay. All right. So suicide is when you kill yourself. Euphanasia is when a doctor helps you kill yourself. Euphania means good death. It means like you will die painlessly. Okay. >> No, no, no. Okay. Euphania is suicide by government. Okay. All right. So, why are people dying? Well, a lot as you can see most is actually from cancer. Now, what's interesting about cancer is that it's the most expensive disease to treat, right? Well, that's interesting. And a lot of cancer, it's not um it's not it's pretty painful, but it's not terminal. You can still live with cancer, right? So, it seems as though um people with cancer are being encouraged to die because they're a burden on the system. Which means who's dying? Who's dying here? It's poor people who are dying, right? That's this is pretty obvious. And this is even more interesting. Okay, this is the most disgusting part. If the government were to prove your death, you would think that there would be a rigorous process, right? It would be the last option. But let's understand why people are killing themselves. And the two main reasons. The first major reason is loss of ability to engage in meaningful activities. It's because you're not happy. This is a lame reason to kill yourself. Okay. Also, loss of ability to perform activities of daily living. It's harder for you to go buy groceries. It's harder for you to walk around. Okay. So, again, what's happening is that poor people are dying and poor people are encouraged to kill themselves because the poor are being a burden on the medical system. And that's the entire basis of euthanasia. So let me ask you this question. Why is it that 25 years ago we discouraged euthanasia? In fact we legal to conduct euthanasia even if the person was suffering from brain cancer and the person was just basically in hell every day. The government would not allow euthanasia. Why not? >> Yeah. >> Maybe because it was like harder to regulate like the procedures to take for youth in Asia and because it was like such a new thing, you have no control over what the companies who like provide the service do. Yeah. >> Or like what they do to their um patients. I wouldn't even say patients but like people who purchase their services and also um all because again it's such a novel thing um the procedures involved the medical companies involved maybe um what maybe to me loopholes and it was if I was the government I'd consider that as a potential danger something that may be dis like disturbing to this current system. >> Okay. All right. Yeah that's a very interesting answer. Okay. What it tells me is that the the society you live in is very different from the society I grew up in. Okay? Because 25 years ago when when I was younger, we were taught that every life matters. Every life is a gift from God. And as society, we have to protect everyone, especially the poor, the vulnerable, and the marginalized because that's how we come together as a society. If we just let anyone die, then how do you know that you'll be protected? Right? So what mattered back then was about social cohesion, social capital, social trust. And now what matters is just numbers. How much does this cost me? How much revenue will this generate? Okay, so that's the difference in the world today. Before we cared about social cohesion, we care about morality. Nowadays it's all just money, money, money. Um, and this is interesting for us. Okay, another sign of decline is growing financialization. We talked about this last class, right? Well, guess what's happening in the stock markets throughout the world? It's booming. Okay, it's booming. If you're a rich person, you're just getting richer and richer. 10% of the population owns 9% of the stocks in America. Okay, so this is an indicator of how wealthy the rich have become in the past 20 years. In the year 2008, um if you bought Amazon, you would buy for $7. Now it's like $300. Okay? So that just shows you how wealthy the rich have become due to government policies. At the same time, we talked about this last class, productivity, real economy, the amount of work you you do, it's going way down. So we have we have this absurd situation where the fake economy, the financial economy is going way up, but the real economy of jobs, of people doing work, of being productive, it's going way down. Okay? Meaning that we live in a fake world. And the government responds by lying to people. Okay? People know their lives suck. People know that basically the economy is in a recession. That's what the facts say. But the government But and what does the government do? Well, the government says that oh, it's not really recession. What it really is is a state of trans transition. Okay, this this is what we call gaslighting. This is blending gaslighting. Rather than just say, you know what, the economy is in trouble and we feel your pain and we're going to work hard to solve the problem. They're telling you, "No, no, no. It's not black. It's white, guys. You You're lying. Your eyes, they're lying to you. Don't you see? You're not seeing clearly. Get new glasses and you your life will be a lot better." That's like literally what they're telling you. Um, debt, right? We talked about this last class as well. This is US debt. You can see how the debt is booming. Okay? So, up in the year until the year 1980 for 200 years, America's existence, there was very little debt. Now look at this. Okay, America right now is $37 trillion in debt. That's a government. Okay, the people with their credit card debt, with their mortgages, they owe $17 trillion. They'll never pay that off. So basically, the middle class in America, it's finished. Okay, the government has no more resources. This is what decline looks like. Um, no one's having children anymore. Okay, so the world sucks and young people are like, "Screw this. I'm not having kids." Okay, this is happening throughout the world. Canada is selling its resources to outside investors. Okay, so oil is a big Canadian resource. As you can see, a lot of the big players in Canada are actually American or overseas. When it says Canada, it's you it usually means British people. So Canadians don't even own their own resources anymore. So let's summarize what we've learned today. Okay, let's look at the signs of Western decline. You got higher property prices. This happened throughout the Western world. Inflation and lower quality of life, higher stock market valuations, which means greater inequality. Less real economic growth, less and less people are doing real jobs. Euthan Asia for the poor just killing off the poor people. Mass immigration, population replacement, lower birth rate, greater public and private debt, bureaucratic gaslighting where the government no longer acknowledges problems. It just lies to you directly and privatization, asset stripping. Okay, so all this is happening in the Western world. The question now is why would this happen? And there are different theories. Okay? And uh we'll go over some of the major theories. There's lots and lots of theories. We'll go over the major ones. And there's going to be overlap between these theories. And um some of these theories make a lot of sense. Okay. So one major theory is idea of neoliberalism. The idea of neoliberalism is the belief that all that matters in society, all that matters in life is economic growth. If you if your society can generate more economic growth, all problems will be solved. Okay. So, so if your economy runs really fast then everyone will be happy. That's the idea of neoliberalism. Then you have technofudalism which is the idea that some big corporations usually these tech companies they want to control the world and so they want to turn everyone into slaves and if you don't have a house if you don't have your own property then you can you can be controlled by these companies. Okay. technofudalism uh world government where the United Nations has a has this conspiracy to control the entire world to distort national sovereignty and create a world unified government. Okay. Uh population replacement theory and the idea here is that the problem for governments in the western world is that white people are opinionated. They believe in democracy. They believe in freedom and they're hard to control. So, let's replace the white people with Chinese and Indians and Filipinos because Asian people are more obedient, right? That's the idea. And again, uh these are just theories. I'm not saying they're right or wrong. Okay? And we'll go into these theories later on semester. Now, the last reason is bureaucratic incompetence. Just the government is just stupid. Okay? Now there is overlap among these theories and there's some validity to all these theories but what I want to show you is that there's actually a much better way to analyze this. Whenever you have a problem, you always ask yourself who benefits, who is benefiting from this, right? So, when we're talking about housing prices, well, clearly property owners are benefiting from this, right? So, if we took all the groups, okay, and there's like millions and millions of different groups in society. We just analyze who benefits from all these trends that we discussed, the answer you would get is rich pensioners. These are the people who benefit the most from these trends and therefore we can suspect that they're the ones behind these trends. Okay, so let's go over them. Property prices make sense, right? Because they're old. They have houses. They probably have two or three houses. So they want to see the property prices go up. Higher start market valuations makes sense because they own the most stocks. Youthation for the poor makes sense because they want good medical care. If poor people are standing in line, that's a problem for them, right? So just kill the poor people and and they'll have better access to healthare, right? If that frees up the healthare system. Mass immigration means cheap labor. If they're old, they're 70 or 80 years old. They need gardeners. They need cooks. They need nurses, right? Immigrants. Are you guys going do you guys want to be gardeners and cooks and uh laborers? You don't want want to be. So we have to be in immigrants and everything else. Okay. inflation, em growth, lower birth rate, gaslighting, it doesn't really affect them. Does that make sense? So all these trends, some of them are really good for these pensioners and the rest doesn't really affect the pensioners and that's why we we can assume for analysis that's the rich pensioners who are most responsible for what's going on. Does does it make sense to you guys? All right. So, how how can we understand this? Well, the problem that we're facing is never in human history have we had so many old rich people before. Okay? And you can see these trends where in the year 1900, people who are 75 and older were just a small fraction of society. But you can see how fast they're growing. Okay? 60 over 60 years old, really growing really fast. There's a problem because if they keep on if they keep on living they accumulate more and more resources which creates a lot more inequality. Now I'm not saying that all old people are rich. In fact that's not the case. If you just look at statistics you will find that wealth is pretty much evenly disputed distributed among demographics. Okay? So there are young people with a lot of money but there are more old people with money. Okay? So there and there are lots and lots of old people. the purple or old people who are poor. I'm I'm not saying that old people are the problem. I'm saying that old rich people are the problem. They're problem because they want their pensions. The pension systems in all societies made assumptions about old people. The major assumption that they made is that old people would die. Right? So, for example, in Canada, uh, when they first create the pension system, the retirement age was 65 and they expected people to die when they were 72. So, you have five to seven years of a good pension. Okay? Guess what, guys? They're not dying, right? And that creates a huge problem with your pension plan. And you can see how these liabilities are going up over time. uh these are teachers and and as you can see the liabilities are going way up. Why is this happening? It's happening because of something called assumption changes. Okay, so two assumptions are being made. First is that OP will die. Well, they're not dying. The other assumption is that if you put money in the stock market, it will o it will yearbyear improve, right? The problem is that there's volatility in the stock market. It goes up and goes down. And the smart people make money off dumb people. Guess what guys? Okay, I'm going to ask you a question. In finance, where do the dumbest people work? You guys know in finance, the dumbest people work where they work in pension funds. Why? Because it's a boring job. You just sit there and do nothing all day. So these pension funds are constantly getting ripped off from investment banks where the smart people are. Okay. So if you look at all investment vehicles, pension funds have lost the most money and this has created huge issues within government pension funds throughout the world. Okay. So as you can see there's volatility in returns in the pension fund. Okay. when you put the money in, the returns will differ year by year, and that screws up your model. If you're a young person, do not put money in the pension fund. Why? Because the value of the pension fund is going drastically down. When you grow up, when you mature, and you retire, guess what, guys? There's no money in the pension fund for you because all that money is gone. Why? Because there are too many retirees and not enough workers. All right. So back in the year 2001, you had a problem. You had 7.6 uh retirees for every 12.7 workers. This is you basically the ideal is 1 to three. So one pensioner, three workers. That's a healthy pension system. Now you have more pensioners, okay, than you have workers. This is a huge problem. These pensions will all go bankrupt in 5 to 10 years time. At the same time, as I said, old people are not dying. In fact, old people are coming to dominate society. This is America. You can see how people are who are 85 and older. Whoa. Look at this. Look at this. The aging crisis in America is huge. But this is it's not just America. It's everywhere. Right? So by the year 20 240 you have 65 million people in America who are over 65. You have 15 million Americans who are 85. And guess what? These 15 Americans most of them are the ones who control America. So they dictate policy and again this is happening throughout the world. Okay. It's particularly stark in Japan and Germany but this is happening throughout the world. And this leads us to the idea of gerontocracy. Okay, this is Joe Biden, president of the United States, and this is Mitch McConnell who was head of the Senate. Uh they're both retired now. Okay, but they're both in their 80s and they were the two most powerful men in America. He can't walk straight. Okay, whenever he walks, he trips. This guy is even worse because look at this. The guy's brain dead. The guy is literally brain dead in public. Okay, he be like and like no matter what you do, he's like this is brain dead. Okay, the guy's this is a brain freeze. The guy should not be one of the most powerful men in America, but he is. That's the world we live in because he will not give up power. This is Dian Feinstein. She died in office. She was 90 years old. She was 90 years old and she was still working and she died in her office and she was a senator in the United States. These people are literally fighting for life. Okay? They refuse to give up power. You they only give up power if they die. This is the US Senate. Again, the most powerful political institution in America. These are people who are above the standard retirement age which is 662. Okay, this guy's 90 years old and he's still working. 90 years old and he's still working in the Senate and he doesn't want to retire. Chuck Grassley. What does it mean to have a world run by old people? Now maybe in school, maybe you've been t maybe at home you've been taught that old people are wise. They're tolerant. They're generous. They're benevolent. No, no, no, guys. No. The difference between these three generations, young, mature, and elderly, are pretty stark. If you're young, you're rebellous. You want to change the system. If you're mature, you want things to move slowly. Okay? But if you're elderly, you're reactionary, means meaning you don't want anything to change. Okay? If you change anything, they get upset and slap you. That's reactionary. Young people are creative. Mature people want growth. But elder people care first and foremost about safety. Uh young people are open-minded. Mature people want consensus mean they want everyone to get along. But other people are stubborn. They want things their way. So we are now living in a joury which is ruled by elderly people. Okay? So we're going to live in a reactionary stubborn system only concerned about the safety of these people. And so what does that mean? Well, it means that the world will go into lockdown. When when there's a virus, guess what? We're all we're going to have to shut down because old people are afraid of catching germs. It will also lead to a police state. Okay? Now, police state does not mean that there'll be terrible police coming to beat us up. In fact, you know, if in real life, most police that you meet are really, really nice people. But um you'll have no individual freedom. Okay. So let let me give you an example of this. So in Canada um a Chinese moved to Canada and uh she bought a house and her son is very naughty and her son was so naughty that she wants to slap him. But she she knows that in Canada you can't really slap children even in private, right? So she goes on online and asks everyone, "Can I slap my child?" And everyone's like, "You can't do that because if you do that, your neighbor should report you to the police." But what you can do is report your child to the police. Tell the police your child is naughty and they'll come and help you discipline your child. In fact, you can get you can come get the police to come every single week. They like that. This is what we call a police state. Okay? Intrusive government interference into your personal lives. Oh, and lots of lots of surveillance. Okay. Wherever you move, you'll be tracked. Whatever call you make, you'll be tracked. Um, in 2003, Britain passed something called the online safety act. And the idea is if you say anything bad online, you can get arrested. Okay? So, the freedom of expression is being limited. This passed in 2022 23 in Britain, but I assume it will pass everywhere in the western world. Digital currency. The idea of digital currency is the idea of financial repression. So they're trying to eliminate cash because with cash is freedom. You you can do what whatever you want with cash. You can buy whatever you want for how much you want with cash. But with digital currency, all your transactions will be limited and monitored. Okay? So in the future you will not be able to buy video games because that's bad for you. Oh microchip implants guys right? Isn't that great? You before you had cell phones then you had facial recognition and in the future you have implants microchip implants. Immigrants lots and lots of immigrants because poor people sorry rich pensioners need help. They need nurses. They need laborers. They need gardeners. They need people to mow their lawn. So you have massive immigration coming into the country. Oh, but good news, okay? It'll be easier for you to study in America from now on, right? Today, Trump announced he wants 600,000 Chinese students to go to the United States. Right? Before you guys were worried about not getting your visas and uh getting denied at the border, don't worry, guys. They want you to go to the United States because you guys are the best labor. Okay? You're cheap, you're obedient, and you're studious, and you're young. Okay? So, this is the plan to let in more Chinese students into America so you guys can take care of elderly people. Isn't that great? Good news, right? Oh, lots and lots of prisons, guys. Okay? Because elder people are afraid of criminals. And also prisoners are free labor. Isn't that great? Oh, and one more thing. War after war after war. All right. This is what it means by death by gerontocracy. This is what it means to live in a world governed by elderly people. Elderly people are perfectly happy to send young people to die for their glory. All right. Okay. Pretty depressing, but don't worry, things will get even more depressing as we go along. All right. All right. Good. Any questions? Are you guys clear? Any questions? Yeah. like for like the above that you said that elders controls the society and wants like they exploit young people but is there a way that young people could like overthrown or having method to solve this? >> Yeah, that's actually a great question. So what can young people do about this? And the answer is nothing. Okay. And the reason why and this is really really important is that young people are biologically ingrained to respect the elders, right? This this is true throughout nature. Even young animals will respect their elders. So, do you want to go kill your grandparents? Probably not. Okay. So, there's nothing anyone can do about this. This is just the unfortunate state of affairs. Okay. Old people are people we are biologically trained or wired to respect and obey. That's why they can send us to wars and we'll go fight wars. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. Yeah. >> So, what happened after the rich pension elders dead? Like what about their money? >> Okay. All right. That's a good question. Okay. So, as you can see from these charts, eventually there'll be a pension crisis where there are too many pensioners, enough money. Well, guess what? The old people are the major political force in society. They dictate policy. So what will happen is that money will be diverted from elsewhere into pensions where schooling, right? Public schooling, uh health care, um everywhere basically. Okay. But that but the pensioners will want that money. And pensioners first of all, they're powerful, but they also have a lot of free time on their hands to make trouble for everyone. And also because we respect our el the elderly, right? Okay. Do you want to deny health care and pension to your grandparents? So everyone will be for this. There's nothing we can do about it, right? Good question. But like people humans life have a limit like what will happen after like they all died because they are just uh although they are elders and those reach pensions they are still generations of human. That's a really great point. Okay. So the idea is that what happens when they die off? Well they're not dying off. Okay. They were supposed to die at 72. Now they're living to like a 100. Modern medicine is incredible. I have I have a friend who's like 90 years old. She's like literally brain dead. Okay, she's like literally brain dead. She's 90 years old, but she's filthy rich and she has access to the best health care. So, I asked my friend uh who's a doctor like if you're filthy rich and you want to keep on living, how long could modern medicine keep you keep you going on even though you're vegetable? And they and he said to me, 20 years. 20 years. 20 years of being a vegetable but she has money so and she wants to keep on living then she can do that. Okay. And that was not available before because of scarcity right because of lack of technology. But nowadays because of abundance because of technology um opio can live as long as they want to. And also this what this chart tells us that when the green goes away the red becomes the green right? So you'll always have a society where the elderly are in control. Okay? Does that make sense? Unless of course there were maybe I don't know a catastrophe, a nuclear holocaust, who knows? Okay. But but yeah, but given the way things are, the trend is that old people can control society for a long time because if there's a war, it's not old people who die, it's young people who die. Okay. But but good question. Okay. Uh any more questions? Okay, great. So, um we'll continue this next class. Okay, thank you.

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Today we are going to discuss some extremely controversial topics and because this is going to go on YouTube there are certain words I cannot say. So just to warn you I will write down these words but I will not say them because if I do say them then I will get censored on YouTube. Today we're going to look at how evil triumphs. Why is the world so evil? And there's going to be a lot of extremely disturbing topics we're going to discuss. Um, but you're mature and it's important that we discuss these topics in order to understand how the world works. So, let's just start. Um, and we will do a lot of speculation and theorizing in this class. So, do not take this as gospel. Do not believe this is the truth. The entire point of this class is to help you develop the theories and the ideas to better understand the world. These are tools. Okay? This is not truth. This these are tools. All right. So the first question I have for you is what h what is happening in Israel right now? As you know, Israel is besieging bombarding Gaza. You might have seen the videos on social media. It is disturbing. It is terrible. What is happening? The word that is happening, the word that we use for what what is happening in Gaza is this word. You are not allowed to say this word on YouTube, but that is the intention. What I will argue though is that the truth is far more disturbing than this. What is really happening in Gaza is a ritual sacrifice and this happens quite often in human history. If you go back and you look at the real history of humanity, this happens quite often. Some of the most um famous examples are the Aztecs. We've dug up temples of the Aztecs and inside the temples are thousands and thousands of human skulls. So before they went to war, they practice human sacrifice. They would commit mass murder of their enemies in public. So the Aztecs were really famous for this. The phoenetians uh specifically the constant genians uh we will discuss them later this semester but the phoenetians were also famous for a particular type of sacrifice which is child sacrifice. The Romans wrote histories insulting the Infineticians for practicing this sort of sacrifice. But the Romans themselves practice human sacrifice. What they would do is that after every major war, they would capture all the major leaders, all their enemies, and they would parade their enemies through the streets of Rome. This is something called the triumph. At the end of the triumph, they would gather enemies at the temple of Jupiter. Jupiter is their god. And then they would strangle to death their enemies. That's sacrifice. That's human sacrifice. They didn't call it that, okay? And they sort of disguised it. But we know for a fact that they did do this. So the question for us is why is it that this happens? Why do the Aztecs do it? Why do the Phoenicians do it? Why do the Romans do it? And why is it today the Israelis do it in Gaza? And remember, okay, um what the Israelis are doing is quite horrific because it is really this sort of sacrifice. Why? Because 47% o almost half of the population of Gaza is under 18 years old. So the majority of people who are getting killed are in fact children. What is most striking or blatant about what's happening in Gaza is that we can all see it for ourselves. And it's almost as though the Israelis want us to see it and want us to hate them. Right? You can see all over the world popular opinion is turning against Israel. You have these popular protests all around the world protesting what is happening in Palestine. If they really wanted to do this, right, there are actually much more effective ways of doing this. For example, you could just poison their water or you could poison the ear so that everyone in Gaza gets a fast cancer. Right? We have the technology to do this. So, so Israel could do it this secretly and no one would talk about it and in 20 years time, 30 years time, the population of Gaza would all be gone. It would be a very secret, right? Instead, they choose to do this in front of the world. And my argument to you is that this is intentional. They want the world to hate them because by doing this they create the ultimate taboo. Right? It we find this disgusting and contemptuous. So the entire world will unite against Israel. But guess what? That's what their religion wants. In the extreme form of Jewish esquetology or their religion, they believe that at the end of the world, Israel will fight the entire world and God will help Israel triumph in the end. So what's really happening in Gaza is that there are extremists within the is Israel government who want to accelerate the process of the end of the world where Israel will face the world. And if you think about it, the entire idea of this ritual sacrifice is to unite the Israeli population. And what's extremely disturbing and horrifying about it is that this works. Why? Well, let's use an analogy. Okay, the analogy is this. In Chinese history, the most popular military strategy is to fight with a river behind your back. You guys have heard of this strategy, right? where okay um an army is losing okay it's being scattered by the enemy. So what the general does is forces the army to retreat to a river and now with a river blocking your escape you have a choice. You can either drown on the in the river or you can fight to the death and most soldiers will choose to fight to the death. And so at this point the soldiers are unified. They're galvanized. They're energized. And then they find a surge of energy to go and destroy their enemy. Okay, this is the most popular military strategy in ancient Chinese history. And guess what? It's the same as Israel doing this right now in Gaza. It's the same logic. Yes, you have a question. >> So what is the river for the Israel? Like >> Yeah, that that that's a good question. What's a river right here? Right. The river is a taboo, right? What's the worst thing you can do in modern society? Killing children, guys. Right? So, there's no exit for Israel. You either go all the way or the world comes and destroys you anyway. And in fact, what's really interesting is that if you go online, you will see Israelis go around the world and causing trouble everywhere. They're going to start fights. They're they shout death to the Arabs on public buses in the western world. It's intentional. They want to unite themselves by dividing the world, by angling the world. Okay, does that make sense? All right. So, this is all very disturbing and I want to slowly unpack review to reveal to you how this works. Okay. So, uh, to do this, what I'm going to do is I'm going to use a thought experiment. A thought experiment is this. Let's just say that there's an island. We don't know where the island is, but it's an island and there's no escape from the island. And on the island there, the center, it's a hill and it's safe. But everywhere else you have these flesh eating monkeys roaming everywhere. Okay. The problem is that on this island, uh, the resources you need to survive, trees, food, and rivers, the monkeys are there. Okay? There's one safe spot in the center, but everywhere else if you want resources, you have to go fight these monkeys. They're flesheating monkeys. They want to kill you. They want to eat you. And there's an infinite number of them. Now let's just say that one day for whatever reason okay we don't know why but 100 men aging and they range from 15 to 65 years old okay they are mysteriously transplanted onto this island in a safe spot they come from different countries they do not speak the same language they are of different ethnicities they are all poor people in their countries they don't have much education So they're there and they realize quickly that the situation is utterly hopeless. There's no escape from this island. These monkeys are everywhere and they are tough warriors. And the situation looks bleak. They don't even speak the same language. They don't have a common culture. So at this point you would imagine that they would feel hopeless and just lie down and die. But in reality what happens is the opposite. What happens is that in this hopeless situation they find a drive a purpose a spirit to fight for each other. And what will happen really quickly? Okay. And this is really interesting is the first thing that they will do is they will develop a common language. They don't speak the same language. Some speak Chinese, some speak English, some speak Spanish, some speak Russian, doesn't matter. They will very quickly develop a common language. And then what they will do is with this common language they will start to tell each other stories of where they come from. And then these stories will become a common myth, a founding myth of why they're here. And they come to believe that God has chosen them to save the world and that's why they're here. Then what they will do is with this new religion they will start develop rituals to reinforce this religion. These rituals include sex. Okay. So these men will have sex and the reason why is create intimacy and bonding among them and there'll be a lot of religious rituals as well. Another thing that they will do is pick a leader. There's 100 of them. They need a leader to organize them. And so we can imagine that during the leadership election, everyone gets up to speak. Now the man who's 65, he is wise. He has experience. He has strategies. So he delivers a very powerful speech inspiring everyone and telling people how they can survive against the flash eating monkeys. Okay? So he's really smart. Then suddenly you have a man up here who's 15 years old or 16 or 17. Okay? He is not articulate. He has no ideas. What what he does is this. He stands in front of everyone and he's bold and he's brave and he looks at everyone without saying a word. He shows them his hand. Okay, he shows them his hand. Then from his pocket, he takes out a knife. Okay? And then he cuts off his hand in front of everyone. And he does not cry. He just looks at everyone as though nothing happened. Let me ask you this question. Who does everyone pick to be their leader? The second person obviously, right? The man who has shown sacrifice and commitment and devotion to everyone else. The old man has ideas and he will become the advisor to the leader. But the leader is the man who is most willing to die for everyone else. And so in this situation the bravest among them will come and emerge as the leader. And as such what will happen is that these people these men will become extremely inspired and devoted. Even though they are weak, they will learn to become strong. Even though they are poor and uneducated, they will learn to be wise and clever and strategic. They will radically transform themselves. And ultimately what will happen is the idea of cohesion. Cohesion like brothers, cohesion like a family. They will understand each other even though they're from different cultures. Even though they have different backgrounds, they will understand each other better than they understand their own children and their own wives. And this cohesion will lead to something called synchronicity. Synchronicity. Synchronicity is when people act in unison together. Okay. So a very simple example of synchronicity is a sports team, right? When you watch a soccer match, how is that soccer soccer team able to work together? Well, because of synchronicity. Because their minds are alike. It's what we call a hive mind. And this allows for something called telepathy. They're able literally to think and act as one. So let me give an example of this. Let's just say one they're like these men they're sleeping but one of them wonders off to collect wood and then he's attacked by monkeys. It doesn't matter if he screams because he's too far away. Would his comrades know that he's in danger? They would. Okay. Okay. And the example here is let's just say you're a mother and you have children, okay? And one of them goes off to France on vacation, but then while he's in France, he gets hit by a car and he's hospitalized. Would you as a mother know that he that your son is in danger? Would you feel it? He hasn't called you. You don't know about this, but in your heart, would you know it? The answer is yes, you would know it. You would feel something is wrong. You would get on the phone and try to call your son. You would, you can't reach your son. You would call the police. Okay? You don't know what's happening, but something in your heart is telling you, I need to get in touch with my son. Okay? And that's how the hive mind works. That's how synchronosity works. Let's let's look at another example. Let's just say that one day you there's 10 of you and you're all collecting wood and then suddenly you're attacked by hundred flesh eating monkeys. There's a bridge that you've created. Okay, it's a rope bridge. Nine get across the bridge. All right, but you're the last person. Okay, and all the monkeys are about to descend on you and you know that if the monkeys get across your comrades are dead. So what what do you do in this situation? for the >> Yeah, you you cut the rope. Okay, you die. You didn't think about it. You just kill yourself because what matters is not your life. What matters is the family. What matters is the team. And we know about this because in war, what often happens is in trench warfare, the other uh the enemy will throw a grenade into the trench, right? there's not enough time to get that to pick up that uh grenade and for away. So what soldiers do is they will jump on the grenade and absorb the explosion thus killing himself. It happens instantaneously. No one thinks about it. You just do it because what matters is saving your comrades. And this is what happens. Okay. A synchronosity develops where it's almost as though you're able to reach read each other's minds. And they keep on doing this for like 10 20 years. And then suddenly, okay, let's continue a thought experiment. Suddenly you are transported back to the real world as though nothing happened but you have memories of what happened. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, you've experienced 20 years of hell on Monkey Island. You've dealt the capacity to work together. You have a hive mind. You're really energized. You're really inspired. You're really driven. You have a new religion all to yourself. Now, suddenly you're all trans transported back to your real world, your old life. Okay? Now, what would happen? Well, what would happen is that the hund of you would want to come together again, right? And you would share your experience, your rituals, your religion with your children and your grandchildren. And quickly over time, what will happen is that you guys will conquer the world. You will become the secret elite. The world is yours. There may be presidents. There may be famous people. But secretly, you're the ones who are in control. Your children, your grandchildren, your great grandchildren will inherit this legacy. And they are the ones who truly control power in the world. Does that make sense? All right. Yeah. Question here. Guy if we like if when the time if this person really transferred back to the real reality what if that time already have a leader that like you are just a peasant but not a leader >> okay yeah that's a good question I've already told you this okay on the surface there are leaders but the real power are you guys okay and I'll explain why all right now um what's also interesting is that um while you're on this island, you will develop certain rituals that are very strange but are important if you want to maintain unity. Okay. So, for example, one strange ritual is the funeral ritual, the funeral ritual. Um the idea here is that when someone sacrifices himself, you have a huge funeral to sh with that person. And this may involve you cutting that person into different pieces and eating that person. Okay? But you you you will develop really strange rituals. Okay? Does it make sense? Okay. So I'm going to answer your question. Uh why are these guys in charge and not the real leaders of society? But first I want to give you some historical analogies to this. Okay. How do you know that what I'm saying is correct? Well, let's look at certain analogies of h in history. All right. So, Sparta, Sparta is one of the most famous military societies in world history. Sparta is a city-state in ancient Greece. And you may have heard of Sparta. Um, a movie about Sparta was made called 300. I'm not sure if you guys have seen the movie 300, but 300 is really about 300 Spartan soldiers who are fighting millions, not millions, but hundreds of thousands of Persian soldiers. Persia is invading mainland Greece. They fight at a place called Thermopily, the battle of Thermopily. And this is the pass into main Greece. The Greeks have to hold this position. They are to prevent the invasion. Okay. 300 Spartan soldiers backed by thousands of other Greek soldiers make a last stand in this pass. They are overwhelmed by the Persian invasion and rather than run like most people, the 300 soldiers make a final stand. Their leader is Leonitis and he tells them, "We will fight to the death." They all fight to the death and they're all massacred. And the Persians take Leonitis's head, cut it off and put on a on a pike to warn the Greeks, we are merciless. Eventually, the Greeks um inspired by the sacrifice of Leonitis, they will repel the invasion and destroy the um invaders. So, how do we get this culture? Okay. Well, the education system of the Spartans is really interesting. It's really disturbing actually. So young boys at age five and six, they're taken away from their homes and they are put in a school run by older boys. Okay? So, so the older boys are maybe like 10, 11. And so what happens as you can imagine is the older boys beat the crap out of the younger boys. Okay? From day one, there's no education. They're not learning anything. All that's happening is the older boys are just beating the crap out of the younger boys. But because this is happening, we call this like hazing. Okay, this happens actually a lot um among fraternities and sports teams there. When they're getting a crowded out of them, it builds solidarity. It builds brotherhood. So these young boys who are five and six, they learn to love each other because only by helping each other can they survive the brutality. Okay. Then what happens is when they're 11 when they're become 11, 12, 13, when they hit puberty, this is really interesting, they become mentored, okay, mentored by an older soldier, an older Spartan soldier who's maybe 28, 29, 30, but he has a family. They become lovers. They have sex with each other, and this builds group solidarity. Okay. So during hazing phase, these young boys learn to trust each other. They learn how to bond with each other. Uh during the mentorship phase, these young boys learn to think like in a hive mind. Okay? They learn to be part of a larger group. Then when they um turn 18, they um graduate. Okay? And in order to graduate, what they do is this. They have a mission. So the Spartans um have slaves called Helotss. Okay? These are just people that they've conquered and who are now work as slaves in the fields for them. Okay? They're like serves. So there are lots of rules governing the helotss. An important rule is curfew. So if it's dark at night, you cannot be outside the house. If you are outside the house at night, you could be um executed. Okay? So, as a graduation mission, these young soldiers hide in the fields at night, okay? They hide in the fields and they wait for the sun to go down. So, it's now dark and they look for helots to come back because they're late. And what they'll do is they'll sneak up behind the helot and cut their throats. Okay, this is basically sacrifice. Okay, human sacrifice. So, the Spartans did this as well. It's a very common thing. And what this does is it builds group cohesion leading to synchronosity. Only there are thousand thousands of city states in Greece. Only Sparta did this and it made everyone think Sparta was disgusting. Everyone hated Sparta. But it kept Sparta unified. It made Sparta into the dominant military power in Greece at that time. Okay. What happened then is thieves, another city state in um Greece, they would copy the Spartan Spartan system. Okay. But they made it voluntary. So if from if it so in Sparta you have to be an elite to be part of the system. But in thieves anyone could join the system. Okay? And they call the system the sacred band. um of 300 soldiers and they were again lovers. Okay, but this is really important for you guys to understand. At this time in history, there's no concept of homosexuality. It was perfectly permissible. No one cared if you had sex with men or animals or whatever. Okay, it was not a big deal. This comes much later in modern times. Back then, this was not considered homosexuality was not considered a concept. Okay? If you're out in the field, if you're out at war for like years and years and there's no woman around, you're going to have sex with other men. It's a very natural thing to do. Okay? It doesn't mean you're homosexual. Okay? So, the Sacred Band of Thieves became the dominant military power after Sparta. Okay? It's called the Sacred Band. And they were like the um vanguard. They were the spearhead. They would be the first in battle and they were so ferocious that their enemies would run away. Okay. Then what happened is that Macedonia would copy the Theian system. Um who is the most famous Macedonian in the world? Do you guys know which Macedonian is the most famous ever in human history? You know the name but you may not know he's Macedonian the Great. Okay. His father is Philip II. Philip II is the one who actually built the greatest army in the world, the Macedonian army. And it was actually the great, his son, who would take this army and conquer Persia. Okay, we'll learn this later on. But Phil the second learned learned all this from thieves. And at first, Macedonian thieves were allies, but Phil the second was very ambitious. So then he start to want he wanted to conquer all of mainland Greece. And in 338 uh BCE at the battle of uh Traonia, Macedonia fought against the combined of thieves and Athens. And Macedonia destroyed thieves in Athens. Okay? Because Macedonia basically copied the system from Sparta and thieves. At this point, Macedonia should have destroyed the entire Theban and Athenian army. But when all was lost, the sacred band, they stood in the middle of the field and they blocked the advance of Macedonian charge so that everyone could escape back into the cities. They did not fear death. They welcomed death. Okay? For them, what mattered was honor and sacrifice. And that's how you create the greatest army in the world. Okay, does that make sense? So these historical analogies give credence to our thought experiment. Okay, now we're going to look at a question which is okay, why does a system work? Okay, so let's do game theory. Game theory. Game theory is just a study of how you how to win games. Okay, it's a very general thing. So, let's do a thought experiment and just say there's about a million people in the world. Okay, there's a million people in the world and they're all trying to win the game against each other, but only only one can win. Well, according to game theory, the best way to win a game is by Does anyone know? Cheating. Okay, cheating. If you follow the rules, you will never win the game. You have to cheat. And in this game, the best way to win is by coordinating with other people, right? Because everyone's playing by himself. So, if you can work with other people, then that gives you a huge advantage over everyone else, right? The problem with this is the moment that people start coordinating it forces an arms race of coordination. So maybe these two are working together these four now are forced to work together which now forces these five to work together. Okay. So if you are the first to work together you're get you get screwed in the process. So if you cheat you have to cheat. Okay. You have to coordinate without people knowing you're actually coordinating together. You have to conspire secretly. Okay. And there are different ways to collaborate secretly. Okay. So let's let's look at examples. So family is one example, right? Of coordination, synchronosity. Another example is religion. Um if you have a leader, right? if you um have a similar race, ethnicity, and you have a sim similar language. Okay, so these are examples of how you you get people to coordinate together. The problem is that these are all obvious to people, which forces them to do the same thing. Okay. But there's a strategy that you can use that allows you to coordinate secretly and defeat all your enemies. And this strategy is called transgression. Transgression. The breaking of taboos. The breaking of social norms. The breaking of social laws. Transgression. Okay. So let's study this concept. All right. So the idea is that um the theory is that the greater you transgress. Okay. This is a level of transgression, the greater your cohesion which leads to synchronosity. Okay, that's a theory I want to propose to you. All right. So, transgression, I mean, it's it's a very simple idea. You're breaking the rules, right? You're cheating and therefore everyone wants to put you in prison, which means that the only way that you can survive is if you keep the secret among your group, right? Which forces cohesion. Does that make sense? All right. And we see this in all aspects of society, right? So the most basic form of transgression is just joking or pranking, right? So for example, you guys, six of you decide, you know what? We're going to play a joke on the school. We're going to cover all the rooms in with toilet paper. It's a joke. It's a prank. But obviously, you don't want to get caught because the school will punish you. And this joke and this prank will make you more cohesive, right? Because now you have a secret among amongst yourself and anyone betrays you, you're all screwed, right? Does that make sense? That's a logic. Um, the other thing that's really interesting is that when you transgress, when you break a taboo, you feel empowered, you feel liberated, and it becomes addictive. Right? You fill the school with toilet paper. You're like, "That was a lot of fun." Well, was it fun? Because you broke the rules. You feel I'm more powerful than my teacher. Then, so you keep on doing more and more of this stuff, right? Then you may be like, "Hey, let's go to the store and steal a candy. That candy may cost $1, nothing, right? But you try it and you are terrified. You're seized by doubt. You're ceased by fear. Sorry. So, um this is the um sound that tells us that we should go on break. But but again, we don't go on break in this class. Okay. So, I apologize. We're not we're not taking a break. We keep on going. Okay. But that's what the sound is. Okay. So, um, you're terrified because your mother, your teachers, everyone told you stealing is bad, right? But when you actually go and do it, how do you feel? You feel energized. You feel liberated. You feel empowered. And if your friends are with you, how the friendship becomes much more unified, much more cohesive, much more synchronized. Does that make sense? And now you want to learn, let's break more rules. Let's see what happens if we break more and more rules and you keep on going because it's addictive and ultimately there's a transgression that is the ultimate taboo which is what you guys know. Yeah. Right. This right? Can you think of a more worse transgression than this? That's why they do it because it feels empowering. It releases energy. They do it because they believe that when you do this, it releases divine energy. And when you when you actually do it, okay, I'm guys, I'm not telling you to go do this, okay? Please do not do this, okay? And please remember, okay, this is evil. We should not be doing this. But when you actually go and do it, those who can do it, they feel as though they are now inudated that now they are now filled with divine energy. They found the secret of the universe. They found the ultimate power in the world. Another transgression which is not as bad but pretty bad is the idea of incest. Right? And there are secret societies out there, guys, that do this. And you know what, guys? I I hate to tell you this, okay? But they do it in public in front of everyone else because that creates both group unity, synchronosity, and it releases in their minds divine energy. They have now access to God. If you want to know what secret societies do, well, um, yeah, this and this. Okay. And again, there's only a small group of people, but now we know why these people control the world because they're able to keep secrets, because they're more motivated than everyone else, and they're able to work together in a way that allows them to achieve ultimate power. Th these leaders you see right these leaders you see they are puppets they are just the face the real power are these secret societies that practice these rituals and again I'm not saying this is a truth I'm just saying this is a possible theory about how the world works right because this is a class of speculation it's a class of theory don't think this is the truth okay but you can think about how this works and ask yourself. Does it explain the world? Okay. All right. So, having explained this, what I want to do now is go into the deep theory as to why this is happening. Okay. So, if you talk to these people and they're honest with you, they they'll tell you that when we do this, we access God and God gives us divine power because they're superstitious and they're stupid. Okay? Just because they're the lead, just because they're powerful people, does not mean they're clever. In fact, they're kind of stupid if you actually meet them, right? But um I'm going to explain how this system works. And when I do when I explain to you, it will make sense. Okay? But are we are we clear so far about what's happening, guys? All right. I know this is disturbing and I know uh I'll probably get banned on YouTube for this, but it's important that that that we do this. Okay. All right. So now I explain the theory as to why this is happening. How is a transgression is able to unleash divine energy. Okay. So um Kant we will look at some major thinkers and um they're really deep thinkers and we'll go deep we'll go more into them this semester but I'm going to introduce them. Okay. So Kant remember from the first class Kant had a theory of how the world works. There is no objective reality that we see. Okay. So before the assumption was that we just absorb reality. Okay. But Kant says that we are active. Sorry we we'll wait for this. [Music] So Khan says that we were active participants in reality. How? Well because our brains are filters. We add space and time to reality. Space and time does not exist outside of us. Okay? So the objective reality is called nomina. Okay? The things in themselves do not worry about these names. But this is the objective reality. What happens is that for our filters, we interact with the nomina and that creates something called the phenomena. The things that we see the phenomena. Okay? And that's the world we know. The nomen we can never ever know. That's the theory of Kant. Okay. And this has been confirmed by neuroscience. So this is basically the most accurate model of the world that we have. The problem though is that Kant's conception of the world creates three questions. Okay. The first question that first question is what is the nomina? Kai says we can never know it but we still want to know it. Okay, that's the first question. Second question then is who gave us these filters, right? Where do our filters come from? How do our minds work and who created our minds in the first place? The second question. The third question is if we are all seeing the world for our own lens, how do we know that we're seeing the same world? How do our perception of the world align together? Okay, so Kant creates these problems. Hegel who comes after Kant Frederick Hegel by the way he proposes a solution to this to these three problems and what he says is this and this is really important for us to understand is the nomen is the gist. The gist is hard to translate. We usually translate to mean spirit. Okay. So what Heggo is saying is that the spirit world is what creates the material world. We are just a shell. What really matters is the spirit world. Now it's really important to understand the concept of the gist. Okay? And again there's it's German but there's no actual English translation for it. So it's best to see guys as a combination of three words that derive from guys. Okay. These three words are ghost, geyser and gist. Okay, so these three English words are derivatives of the German word gist, right? Most words in English are actually German origin. Sorry, not not most words but many words. Okay. All right. Ghost is just a parallel reality that exists alongside us, right? A spiritual world. That's the first concept. Geyser is just a force that is exploding or becoming or expanding. So this guys is constantly expanding and becoming gist. G just means the essence of things the core of things. Okay. So the real truth in the world is the gist. Not what we see but what is invisible to us. Okay. So that's the idea of the gist. Does that make sense? Now with the guys, we can answer all three questions. The nomena, the real world is the spiritual world, not the material world. It's the gist that gives us these filters. And because we're all seeing the world through the gist, we see the same world. Okay. So now this creates another problem which is where did the gist come from? What is the gist? Okay. And here we will look at Plato and Dante. Okay. So um um again this is a really deep theory and we'll go more deeply into this as the semester um moves but I just first want to introduce the idea to you right now. Okay so this comes from Plato and a religion called Nostism. Okay the Gnostics Gnostic just means knowledge. Okay. Um so in the beginning the big bang the force is the monad or the uh the one. Okay there are different names for this thing or news. Just think of this as a supreme god. Okay the big bang the the the force of like like the the the sun almost. Okay the spiritual son of the universe. The news works by breathing. When he breathes, he vibrates his divine power and through this he creates new beings called diads. Diads are just peers of um forces. Okay, these diads then create different realities. All right, so different realities are being created through this inaction and eventually you reach earth. Okay. So in other words, what Plato and Nostics are telling us is that the gist is a multi-layer, multi-dimensional world that we access all the time. Okay? Does it make sense? And the earth what we see it is just the out the most outer shell in this universe. Is this clear to you guys? All right. So now the question then is what is the purpose of life in the world? And what Plato says is that the purpose of life in this world is to return to the monad. Okay? And guess what guys? This is actually the um framework for a lot of religions including Hinduism, right? And Buddhism. This this is what the Hindus and the Buddhists believe as well. Nirvana is the return to the monad. I'm not sure if you guys have studied religion before, okay? But that's the idea. So what Plato says is that through the pursuit of knowledge, philosophy, the love of knowledge, you can return to the monad. Okay. Um Dante and we will study Dante in depth later on. Okay. But Dante has another solution. What Don Dante says is that the manad the monad is love. Okay. And the monad because he creates things, his divine spark emanates throughout the universe. Okay. So there is a divine spark in us. And this divine spark is called love. So we are able to love people. Mothers love children. Um you love each other because of this divine spark in you. And the more you love, the more you return to the Mona. Okay. So Plato says pursue knowledge. Donna says pursue love. Okay. So now the question is, okay, this sounds all very good, but why does evil happen in the world? Okay, what's the source of evil? Right. That's interesting. Okay. You have you have this theory of the universe. But then the question then is why do people do bad things then? Why is there sacrifice in the world? Why why are people doing all these bad things and not only getting away getting away with it, but they're also controlling the world? That's a big question, right? So um for Plato the answer is very simple. This world doesn't matter. Who cares if they control this world? It's a fake shadow world. Ignore them. Just focus on the pursuit of knowledge because that allows you to be one with the monad. Okay? Who cares about this world? Give them what they want. Give them their power, their fame, their money. Who cares? Dante's answer is actually very interesting. Okay, that's that's Plato's answer. It doesn't matter. This world doesn't matter. Who cares what happens in this world? It's a prison anyway. Donnie actually proposed something different. He says this, if the monad is love, love is trust. So the monad loves us and as a result the monad gives us free will. Now free will can lead to bad things for example this world but he has no choice in the matter because for him to interfere means to take away our free will and that's and free will is his greatest gift to us. Okay. But now and then what he will do is he will send messengers to our world to remind us that there is a divine spark in us and we can activate it and achieve a greater consciousness. And these messengers are Plato, Dante, right? Jesus, right? Doesn't make sense. So now and then the Monet will send um fool the gist. Okay. The Monach will implant ideas in these people who will then tell us the truth. But it's our choice whether or not to believe it because the Mona has given us free will. All right? So for Plato, what's important is the pursuit of knowledge. For Dante, what matters is the pursuit of love to love each other unconditionally. Okay? Um and that's what they tell us. What the system also tells us is that the powerful want to deny this system, right? Because if they control earth, the fake world, they want to make it as real as possible. Does that make sense? That's the source of their power. The belief that the only that matters is the material world, the prison that we live in. And that's why we have science, right? Science is negation of the spiritual world and the validation of the material world. If you cannot see it, it must be fake. Right? Okay. So that's how power works. Now transgression works in this model because transgression allows the powerful to align to a certain part of this universe. Okay? Because in this universe there are evil forces as well. Does that make sense? So for example, the metaphor is think of the internet, right? Well, there are millions and millions of websites and through transgression by doing the same evil act, what the power have done is they've locked on to the same website, right? And because they locked on the same website, it allows for synchronosity. It allows for them to commit uh to think alike and to behave the same way. Okay. All right. So, that's the general theory. And again, this is all speculation. I'm not telling you this is true, but I'm giving you a framework to work with to better understand why things happen. We're just speculating. We're using our imagination here, right? Um, I know this is a lot, but Kant, Plato, Hego, Dante, we will go much more deeper into over the semester. So I just introduced these ideas now. Okay. Questions guys. Okay. Uh you you had a question from last class, right? >> Right. So So can you ask a question from last class and I'll answer it first. >> All right. From last class, you mentioned that um the ones that control society are those old pensioners, right? because they get revenues from the youngers and they control the society. Um in our society I do see signs or phenomena that um the government are sort of helping the old patients by creating more um say entertainment or facilities that benefit them. So why is that? Is that possible that the the government also benefit benefits from old pensioners actions or is actually the governments are controlled by old pensioners? >> Yeah. I mean u we we discussed this last class but it's the pensioners the old people who control society control the culture who control government right because in China from a first day you're taught to respect your elders right you're taught that elder pe elderly people are worth um emulating they're worth they're worth studying from they're they're what's most precious about our society so it makes sense that the government would create policies to most benefit the elderly okay that's that's is the structure of Chinese society. Respect for the elderly. Okay, thank you. Any more questions, guys? Yep. Ember has a question. >> Um, so I was just thinking about the model and I think >> uh yeah, this model that we have on the board. >> Um, so like you said, the existence of evil is >> if you don't mind repeating yourself. >> Oh yeah. So what is evil? >> Yeah. Okay. In in the system. >> Okay. So, um in the system what is evil is the denial of the system. Okay. Okay. >> So, because the monad is the truth, it's love. Right. So, the closer you move to the monad, that's what's good. The further you move away from the monad, that's what's evil. Right? So, at the very end of this model is earth. So the more you embrace the material world, the more you uh deny the spiritual world, that's what's evil in this in in this model. >> Okay. >> So for Plato, the what's good is the pursuit of knowledge and what's evil is the pursuit uh the denial of of knowledge, which includes by the way art, right? Movies because movies are just a shadow of the shadow world. We if the world we live live in is fake and movies all they do is depict this fake world then it makes things worse. >> Okay. And Dante uh whatever um allows for more love is good. What allows for less love is bad. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Um so just to add on to that. So what if um like we mentioned earlier sacrifice sacrifice can be considered as a way to unite people. It creates cohesion. Yeah. >> And with cohesion >> it unlocks divine energy because you're accessing a part of this model. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Does that make sense? >> Yeah. >> Right. And and that's why >> as they're doing this sacrifice they are worshiping a certain god. >> Right. So sacrifice is part of their religion. It's not done independently. They have a religious framework for the sacrifice and that's why they do it. Right? They don't do sacrifice for a personal sacrifice. They do sacrifice um as a consummation of their religion because that's what their religion demands of them. >> Mhm. >> Right. And because so the worship of God, they're sacrificing these people to send to this god. >> Okay. >> Right. So they're accessing a part of this model which is a lower part. Okay. M >> and there are there are evil beings in this model as well, right? But but they go lower. >> So by okay I'm trying to So by being evil we're like doing the bad deeds we get as long as it creates love in Dante's theory it gets us ultimately closer to the >> to the monad. Yes. >> But the evil now that we perceive is constructed by our current society. So >> yeah, so what D is saying about core society is that our society is first and foremost anti- love. It does not allow for people to love each other. So for example, school, right? >> So um without school, your parents would just care about your happiness. >> But because of school, parents care about your grades and whether or not you get into a elite American college >> and whether or not you get a good job. And so the parents deny your free will. They deny your agency and as a result you don't feel loved. Okay. So that's what Donna would argue. Our society is anti- love because the society is constructed in a way that does not allow for normal human relationships to flourish. >> Right? In a normal relationship, your parents would just let you do whatever you want. I would think, you know, >> but because they're like, "No, no, no. If I let you do whatever you want, you will not do well in school and you won't be able to get a job and then you'll become, I don't know, unemployed and a drug addict. Who knows?" Okay. Right. That's how they think. >> Mhm. >> Does that make sense? >> Yeah. So the denial of free will is anti- love and therefore it's evil and make it limit Yeah. It limits you from getting closer to Monad. >> That's right. >> Okay, great. >> Exactly. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Just like the uh what Amber mentions that this world is anti- love, but what is the purpose of like not letting us get closer to the Monet? That's a good question, right? Why are they doing this? Because the people in power want to stay in power, right? Because what they're doing it goes against the monad, but they want to stay in power. So they gain like benefits such as power by disobeying the monad and letting others like disobeying the monad because they can keep their power. >> Okay. So, so let so let let us be very clear. Okay, this is really important. Different people will interpret this model in a different way. Okay, in their conception, the monad is the evil one. Their god is the good one. They're liberating us from the monad by making us more focused on the material world. Okay, does that make sense? But the reality is that they were able to get their power because they were they had a religion that promoted transgression which allowed them to coordinate well together. And now that they have this power, they need to rationalize why they have this power and they need to develop systems to maintain this power. That's why we have the world we live in today. Does that make sense? Okay. Does that make sense? They're powerful. They want to maintain a power. So they will think of new ideas that allow them to keep this power even if it means denying the truth. Okay? And and again guys this is a theory. No one knows if this is true or not. I don't know. Okay. But like what you just mentioned that nomad has two meanings to either >> No. The nomad does not have two meanings. It has one. It has different names but one meaning. Okay, this is really important for you to understand. >> There are different names for this but it is the sun. Okay, the divine son, the source of all life. >> So Plato defines nomad as knowledge and dentine defines nomad as love. >> No, no, no, no. Okay, listen. Okay, you have to get this straight. Okay, this is everything. Okay, love, knowledge, everything. Okay. The question that Plato and Dante are debating is how do you return to the monad? Okay. So for Plato it's the pursuit of knowledge that allows you to get closer to the monad. For Dante it's a p pursuit of love. Okay. But this is the one and all the infinite and eternal. What play would say is that this is the perfect. This is the immutable. It will never change and it's the eternal. It's always been there and it will always be there. >> Okay. It's really similar to Buddhism. >> It is exactly Buddhism. >> You're like looking at the same thing. It's like more spiritual. Yes. >> Aspect of the world and like the ultimate end of things. It's more like abstract concept. It's not something physical that we can um interpret as one thing or another. >> Yes. This is exactly Buddhism and Hinduism. Okay. So this is really interesting how different religious traditions working in different localities have the same conception of the world of the universe and c can we can we give someone else an opportunity to to speak please okay can can someone else ask ask question like like like I know I know you're enthusiastic but sometimes you want to step back and absorb the idea okay so so you've asked a lot of questions but Go home, think about this some more. Okay, does that does that make sense? Okay, does anyone want else want to ask questions? Okay, one more question. Okay, >> so like just to confirm that >> uh Plato and Dante just like gives us the way to approach nomad, right? >> Okay. Um can you ask the question again? I I I I don't >> like I want to confirm that Plato or Dantain they because they uh Plato said that to learn knowledge and Dante said to pursue love so they gives the way to to let us approach Monad right so the monad in the conception of everything is the same okay it is a source of everything Plato and Dante are proposing different ways to achie to be come closer to the monad Right? For Plato, it's like spend your entire life learning mathematics, specifically geometry, because he thinks that geometry is really the language of of the universe, the secret language of the universe. Dante says that's too hard, guys. That's not intuitive. Like for Plato's an elitist, right? Plato is like only if you come to my school and you learn geometry, sacred geometry, will you access heaven. D is like that makes no sense. The Monad would not create a system which only the elite, the chosen could access him. The Monad if he truly loves everyone will give everyone the capacity to reach him. And that capacity that that is accessible to everyone is love. Right? Doesn't matter who you are, you can all love. But quite honestly, there are there are not that many people in the world who can do calculus. Right. Right. So Plato's like, "You have to do calculus." Plato is like, and D is like, "That's just ridiculous. That's the most ridiculous thing in the world." Okay. Does that make sense now? Okay. Um, any more questions, guys? >> I actually like why is that like a lot of other like religions and you know, Plato or like Dante, they came to the same realization of Monard? Like why is that? like it's from different places in the world, different regions, but like why do they all have kind of the same thing about wisdom or like knowledge in general? >> Yeah. So, so um that's a really good question and the answer is the gist, right? The answer is where do our thoughts come from and where do our thoughts go? Do you really think that it's our brain that produces thoughts? Why is it that we're the same brain, right? same neur neurological structure but we have different ideas and why is it that I have so many ideas and you and others have limited ideas well like biologically we cannot explain it okay we never explain it so if you study neuroscience one thing that will never ever ask is where do our thoughts come from which is weird because that should be the most basic question right that's the first question you ask but they never ask that why because they cannot answer it and the answer the possibility is The gist exists and our ideas come from the gist. And when we think of ideas, it goes back into the gist, right? It's a ghost. It is with us and is not with us. >> There's just like a big system out there that everything comes from there. So all of things will go back there eventually. >> Exactly. Exactly. And and that's and and that's why and that's how we can explain why all these different religions have the same conception of the universe because they're getting this conception through inspiration, right? Through communication with the guys, right? Does that make sense? Okay. I I think that makes a lot more sense than oh the synapses in our brains, you know, they fire together and they hit and like oh we have an idea. I don't know. Okay. Okay. All right. So great. Uh we will continue this next class. Okay.

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Okay. So today we continue the topic of secret societies. Last class we discussed how they come into power. Today where we will look at where they come from and what they believe. Okay. So to understand secret societies I first need to explain to you the history of religion in the western world. So in the western world there have been three major stages of religious development and again I will oversimplify for the purpose of clarity. Okay. So this is a simplified version of the history. So the three major stages of religion develop of religious development in the western world are the mother goddess, mother goddess, uh polytheism and monotheism. Polytheism means many gods. You believe in many gods. Monotheism means one god that only one god exists. So the mother goddess civilization um came about because of agriculture and in an agricultural world you have two problems. The first problem is to make sure that your crops are healthy and you can harvest them in time. The second problem is to give birth to have as many children as possible to work the fields. Okay. So these are the two problems and because of that a religion developed in order to facilitate facilitate both called the mother goddess civilization. So at the center of this religion is the womb. The woman's womb is considered a divine portal from the spirit world into our world. It's almost like a cave right in which the spirit world can come out and manifest itself in our world. So the center of this religion is the womb of the woman and as such the woman are control. What's really important is to understand that in this world everything is interconnected, harmonized, balanced together. So the womb is the center of this world. But then you have the stars. Okay, the stars. And of course this gives rise to astrology. Astrology is a study of the movement of the stars in order to understand its its impact on our world. Right? Then you have of course um the crops Right? So in an ideal world, all three are aligned together. By setting the stars, you know when to best plant the crops and when to best have children. And in this world again, it is the woman who are in control. They have a high status in society because they believe that women are direct representatives of the mother goddess who rules the world. Usually in this society the mother goddess is represented as a bird. Okay, a bird. Why? Because if you think about it, if you study all the animals in nature, it's a bird that has dominion over the sky. And if life comes from the sky, it makes sense that the mother goddess must be a bird of some sort. But the mother goddess is also paired with a bowl. Okay? A bowl. Why? Because a bowl is a symbol of verility and energy. You cannot you cannot get pregnant as a woman by yourself. You need a man to do it for you. Okay? So the bird and the bull are the two symbols of worship in this world. Now this world is very strange from our perspective because there's no property. Everything belongs to everyone. There's no hierarchy. Everyone is the same. And there's no such thing as um as sex by yourself. Okay. So sex is actually a community act. So they have these rituals um called fertility cults, fertility cults in which they have sex together. In fact, many men will have sex with one woman. And it makes sense because as a woman, you want to have the best DNA. You have the you want to have the best sperm, right? You don't know who's going to have the best sperm. So just have sex with everyone and whoever has the best sperm will give it to you. Okay? So that's the mother goddess civilization. Then we switch to polytheism. So why do we make the switch? The answer is war. For the first time in human history, as populations increase, there's now struggle for resources. And what's the most important resource in this world? Do you guys know? >> The most important resource is woman, right? Females. Because it's females that give birth. And that's the And so with war, we have a new concept called property. In order to get men to fight wars, you have to give them something as reward, right? So they get to have a woman, a wife. And now this wife belongs to them and only them. So in this world what happens is that you now have property hierarchy and marriage and the role of the woman decreases and the role of the man increases. Okay. At the same time what's happening is that these different societies in order to fight wars they have a god. Okay. And when they go to war, they it's like the gods are going to war. And if you lose the war, what it means is that your god is inferior to their god. So now you have a hierarchy of gods. So to maintain peace, what happens is that if you lose the war, you omit that your god is weaker than their god and you you now must obey their god, right? And this is what we call the pantheon. So remember in the Greek pantheon, Zeus is at the top and you have Apollo, Aries, Aphrodite. Okay? Everyone else is a lower god. But before they were separate gods and in a series of wars, the people who believe Zeus is the best god won out against the other gods. And as a result, the other gods became Zeus's children. Yes. Do you have a question? >> Um why does uh like the man the men's are fight for women but womens don't fight for men? like the women's don't um fight for the men. So why? >> Okay. Okay. So the question um is why do men go to war and why don't women go to war? Okay. So that's a really good question. Okay. So let me explain to you very slowly. So in this world the women are in control, right? So women have all the status. But over time as populations increase you have a you have young men who have no families and these young men are discarded from the societies because of lack of resources. So these young men have a problem. They need to find wives in order to survive. So these young men start to raid other societies in order to capture women. Hey, do you understand? So in this society, it's never young women who are discarded because they pro they have value to their society. It's always young men who are discarded and as a result these young men become like wolves. Okay, they become like a wolf path who then go and pillage other villages and that's how you start and that's and that's how you have the origin of war. Okay, does that make sense? >> Yes. >> Okay, so now you have this pantheon of gods. Okay, which leads to polytheism. Then we make the switch from polytheism to monotheism. Why? Because now you have a new idea called empire, specifically the Roman Empire. And they introduce a new religion called Christianity, which is the first monotheistic religion in the world. There's a lot of debate um as to what was the first montheistic religion. Some people say Zorashianism, some people say Judaism. I will I will show you in this class later on that actually the first religion that was monistic is Christianity. Okay. So the difference between between this society which is a society based on war is you still there's a lot of humans but humans are still the most precious resource. Therefore, it is not in your best interest to kill everyone. But we have when you have an empire like the Roman Empire, you don't have to worry about killing other people. In fact, you can go and destroy entire societies, which is what the Romans did. And you can now as an empire enforce impose your reality, your god on everyone else. That's how you have monotheism. Does that make sense? All right. So, let me explain that. What I'm going to show you now is how the world view our understanding of the world changes over time. Okay. So in the mother goddess civilization there are two things about their world that's very different from our world. Okay. So the first major difference and this is this is really important for you guys to remember is they understood that mind led to matter. Mind leads to matter. But in our world we believe that it's matter that led to mind. Right? Do you understand? So in science class you're taught we have a brain. Then the brain because of synatic connections creates the mind. Okay. So, it's matter that leads to mind. Um, even though we're taught this, if you think about it, it actually doesn't make any sense because how does our small little brain, how is it able to do so much processing, which is the mind, right? How how are we able to imagine? How are we able to dream? It's really confusing for us. And quite honestly, if you talk to the very best neuroscientists in the world, they their response will always be don't ask this question. Okay? It's never like we don't know. It's always like don't ask this question. Okay? This question is forbidden to ask in neuroscience. But so throughout most of human history, we believe that was mind that led to matter. That it's the mind that creates the brain in order to understand the world. Okay? that makes a lot more sense than mind uh matter leads to mind. Okay. Okay. So that's the first major difference. Throughout most of human history, most societies believe that it was the mind that creates the brain. The second major difference is that this is a metaphorical world. In other words, they spoke using metaphors. They understood the world through metaphors. Today we live in a literal world. Okay, what's the difference? Well, the difference is this. Let's just say that you and I fight. Well, we would say that okay, what happened was that um I became angry, the emotion overwhelmed me, and then I hit him, then he got angry, then he hit me back. Okay, this is a literal interpretation, but back then the metaphorical understanding was that anger is a god who seized me and who propelled me into the fight and then anger unleashed the god of vengeance who fought back by seizing the other person to fight me back. Okay, so we believed for most of of human history that we were controlled by forces outside our control. Now today you may believe that the literal world makes more sense. But if you think about it from the perspective of human thought, okay, how do you understand the world? How do you um interpret what goes on in the world? The metaphorical understanding is actually much more useful. And that's why and I and I know this is hard for you guys to understand. back then they were much more creative than we are today. Okay? And also the things that they were able to do are beyond our imagination. So for example, we've never really figured out how the Egyptians create the pyramids. Okay, for our explanation is aliens did it because their mind is beyond our imagination. Okay. So that's the that shows you the switch. Now when we go to the polytheistic um world, this system still continues but they add more elements to make it more complex. Okay. So the first element is they believe that we are controlled by gods. We are the play things of gods. Now, what's really important to understand is that these gods, Zeus, Apollo, Aries, they're no different from mortals. The only difference is they just live forever. Okay? So, for example, if you're a king, what do you like to do? Well, you like to go around and chase young girls around. Okay? What does Zeus do all day? What does Apollo do all day? These gods all they do is go around and chase young girls around. Okay? So there's actually no difference. Above the gods are the older gods. Fortune, fate. So the belief was that even though these are gods, they're still controlled by forces beyond their understanding understanding like fortune and fate. What mattered in this world was not to be good. What mattered in this world is to be lucky. Okay? to be fortunate because that showed you that that the gods favored you. And the last element, the most important element is the unwritten and immutable laws of the universe. Okay? So a concept like justice. So think of gravity, how gravity gives structure to the universe, right? Well, back then they believe the same thing where at the at the most fundamental level there were concepts that existed like justice and if you you could have to favor the gods and you could be very lucky but if you did things that were unjust then eventually you'd be punished for it because you're breaking the structure of the universe. Okay. So this was the polyphysic worldview. Now when you go to the monistic worldview all this changes because now you have a new concept that never existed in human history before called one true god. And this changes everything. Okay? Because before as you can see humans thought in a very complex sophisticated diverse imaginative way about the world. But now with the with the advent of Christianity it's only one true god. And as such, you have three new concepts that become dominant in this world. These these concepts have existed before, but now they're dominant. The first concept is the idea of truth. Okay? If there's one true God, then there must be one truth to the universe. And so when we move towards the truth, that is good, right? But when we move towards but when we move away from the truth that is evil. So now you have a new concept called evil that that that didn't really exist before. Okay. You did good things because in this world it was to your advantage. Now in this world if you defy God that is evil. Okay. And now with truth and evil you have a new concept called the individual. Before in this world what mattered was your family, your community, your society, the people around you. Now with the advent of one true God, the community and family doesn't matter. What matter is your loyalty, your faith in the one true God. So you can actually step outside your community and just do what you believe is right as long as you have faith in the one true God. All right? Okay. So this three concepts truth, evil, individual are important for you to remember because they underpin modernity. These three concepts once they grow to a certain extent they will create modernity. the world we live in. Okay, our world is controlled by these three forces. Now, what's important for us to understand is these three concepts are beyond the human intuition. You cannot logically by yourself deduce or come up with these three concepts. This world of the mon goddess, it's intuitive. Okay, this polytheistic world is also intuitive. But the Christian world now is counterintuitive. Okay. So as a result um for montheism to triumph because it is so counter counterintuitive it must now destroy the politistic world. Okay. So the Romans spent a lot of time taking centuries and centuries to destroy the politistic world. But the thing is this, you can never ever kill an idea. The idea if it is being suppressed just goes underground. Okay? So remember here in the mother god civilization the main instrument of religious worship are fertility cults run by women. Well now that war has come and men have taken over from women. What happened is that the woman went underground to create new religious organizations called mystery schools. And mystery schools what they're trying to do is they're trying to maintain the best knowledge and traditions of the mother civiliz the mother god of civilization. Okay. Especially the fact that we come from the mind. We created the universe through our imagination. Okay, that's the main secret that they're trying to maintain. These mystery schools become extremely popular among the elite because they offer great sex. Okay, the elite join these mystery clubs as sex clubs. Basically, um remember in this civilization what matter is the womb. So they develop all sorts of like secret sexual uh techniques to please the woman be to make the woman feel association harmony with the uh uh universe. In this world the mother goddess sex is a mechanism to communicate with the universe to discover the secrets of the universe. And so they maintain these rituals in the mystery schools. And the most powerful people will participate in these mystery schools. They're called mystery schools not because they're secret, but because everyone is sworn to secrecy. So if you um ever divulge what actually goes on in these mystery schools, you'll be punished by death. Okay? You'll be executed by the members. But with the advent of Christianity, these missionary schools now are a threat to the empire. Okay? Because these missionary schools are where the elite, the local elite hang out. So now what happens is now they become secret societies. Okay? That's where they come from. Secret societies are an attempt to maintain the secrets of the universe against the advent of Christianity and empire. And secret societies have been around for a long long time. You may have heard of Sunni secret societies like the Knights Templars, Rosian, illum, the illuminati, the Freemasons. Okay, they're all very powerful. They're still around. Yes, I understand that. But what I'm saying is there are a lot more secret societies that we do not know about and who've been around for much longer. Okay? But they're all trying to maintain the secret of the universe which is that mind leads to matter. That's the great secret of the universe. And this is something that we've always believed and always known. But with the advent of Christianity, this has been become suppressed over time. All right. So any questions before I move on? Okay. So now what what I will do is I'm I'm going to explain to you Christianity and I'll explain to you what these secret societies believe. Okay. I' I've already explained to you where they come from. But now what I will do is explain to you what they actually believe about the universe. Okay. So what I'm going to do is first thing I'm going to do is explain to you what most Christians believe about the religion. Okay? This is called the orthodox or the canonical perspective. Okay? So this is what you're taught officially by the church. Christianity has many different factions, but they all believe in a certain interpretation of the Bible. Okay? Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you the apocryphal. Apocryphal apocryphal just means hidden okay or secret or esoteric just a secret knowledge that is kept within these secret societies. All right. So the orthodox comes from a reading of the bible. And the bible at its core is a story of the covenant between God and humans. Okay. Covenant. Covenant means contract or understanding. So throughout the Bible, there are a series of covenants. Okay. The first covenant is between Adam and God. So you may have heard of the story of the Garden of Eden, right? God creates the universe, then creates the Garden of Eden where he puts Adam and Eve. And God says to Adam and Eve, "This is paradise. You don't have to work. Just enjoy life. The food is free. The food is plentiful. Every day, you'll be happy and free of um want. You will live forever. But there's only one thing that you must not do. And only one thing, okay? Whatever you do, do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Just don't do that. and you'll be okay. So, of course, what do Adam and Eve do? They eat the stupid fruit. Okay? So, then what God does is he banishes Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. And now they're forced to work to to grow food to feed themselves. Okay? And this leads to um society, okay? Development of society. God looks down from uh the heavens and sees that humans now are going to war. They are fighting. They have private property. And God says, "I don't want this crap. This is not why I created humans." Okay? So, he's like, "You know what? I'm I'm I'm going to destroy everyone and start over." But then he sees a human that he likes named Noah. And this leads to God saying to Noah, "Build a ship. build an ark and save yourself because I will flood the universe. I will destroy the world. So God God destroys the world and Noah lives. And then God says to Noah, you know what? That's kind of silly. I should destroy the universe. I promise never ever destroy the world again. Okay, that is his covenant with Noah. But God sees that humans are still wicked and evil. And he says, you know what? I need to find a man who is good. And I I need him to grow a nation that can be the light of the world, that will be the best example of what it means to be a good person. So he finds a man named Abraham. And Abraham, of course, is the father of a nation called Israel. And so this is the third covenant. God says to Abraham, "You and your children, your uh grandchildren, your great-grandchildren are now loyal to me. I see you as the chosen people, and I gave you the promised land." Okay, that's what Israel is, a promised land. Over time, what happens is that Abraham and his people, they go off to Egypt. And in Egypt, they become slaves to the Pharaoh of Egypt. And then God is like, "You know what? I should check up on the Israelites and see how they're doing." He looks down. He says, "Oops, they're now slaves to the Pharaoh. So, I need now to fix this." Okay. So, he appoints a man named Moses to free the Israelites from Egypt and take them back to the promised land. When Moses does this, God says, "Now, what you must do is give the Israelites my law, the Ten Commandments." Okay? The law. because otherwise I can't trust you guys to behave. Okay, so now this is the fourth covenant. So now the Israelites are back in the promised land but again and even though there's laws, they still become wicked and they start to worship false gods. So God punishes them and God is now looking for a good leader of the Israelites. And then finally he finds a person named David who becomes the king of the Israelites. And God says to David, "You are the person I've been looking for all of eternity. You are the best example of what it means to be a faithful follower of me, Yahweh." Okay? And so this is something called the Davidic covenant. The Davidic covenant states that God will always favor Israel as the chosen nation and the house of David will rule Israel forever. Okay, so guys, quick question here. Who wrote the Bible? Probably this guy. Okay? Right? If you have to guess who wrote the Bible, probably not Moses, probably not Abraham, probably not Noah, probably not Adam, probably this guy. Okay? because he's saying that of these five, okay, I am the best. I'm the God. I'm the person that God loves the most. My family will rule the world because that is God's will. Okay? Now, of course, that that's not what happens. Eventually, David has a son named Solomon. And these two are considered the two best rulers of Israel. And this is what we call the Davidic kingdom. Okay? The Davidic kingdom, the golden age of Israel. But after Solomon, the Israelites turned wicked again. And then God has to punish them and scatter Israel across the world. Okay? And so the last covenant is the arrival of Jesus. What Jesus does is that first of all he reasserts the law of Moses and and say to the Israelite people remember Moses and his law because that's what God wants. Then he sacrificed himself in order to free the Israelites of the original sin, right? Because God's pissed off at people because people ate the fruit. That's the original sin. That's the first crime of disobedience against God. So by killing himself, Jesus frees humanity of the original sin. He redeems humanity. Okay? The last thing that Jesus does is he creates a new covenant. Okay? A new covenant between humanity and God from now on. Because Jesus has freed everyone from the original sin. Everyone can now be with God. You don't have to be Israelite. You don't have to follow the Mosaic law. You don't even have to come from the family of David. Anyone and everyone can now love God and God will love that person back. Okay? And this of course starts Christianity. All right? So this guys is called Judaism. What the Jews believe. Okay? And this is all six is what Christians believe. Christianity, right? The first five covenants are what Jews believe to be true. But they do believe that eventually someone will return to restore the kingdom of David. Okay? But not Jesus. Not Jesus. The Christians believe that Jesus is the final prophet. Okay? In fact, Jesus is God himself. that that's why it's called Christianity because they believe in Jesus Christ. So this is the entire history of Judaism and Christianity what they believe officially. Any questions before I move on? Okay. Now as you can understand if you are a true Christian or you're a true Jew there are actually lots of issues with this understanding. The first issue is um why did God have to kick us out of the Garden of Eden? I mean, was eating our fruit so bad as to banish us from paradise? Like what was wrong with that fruit? Okay, that's a great mystery in the religion. Why did the original sin happen? And why was God so angry? Second problem is Noah. I mean like God destroyed the world because we were wicked. But after he destroyed the world, we were still wicked. So why did God have to destroy the world in the first place? If he's God, then she then should he understand how humans are? That would he understand that destroying the world would just I mean it doesn't really do anything. Okay, so that's kind of strange. The last problem is Jesus. Um, who was Jesus and why did he have to kill himself? Why did God have to send his only son to die for humanity? Right? So, if you're new to Christianity, the very idea of Jesus actually doesn't make much sense to you. I grew up in the West. I grew up in a Christian world and it never made sense to me. Okay? People told me about how great Jesus was. Like, okay, the story doesn't make any sense. So if you're a really smart person, there are lots of there are lots of questions about this interpretation of the Bible and these are the three major ones. Okay. So now what I what I will do now is I'll explain to you what the esoteric what secret societies believe really happened. Okay. So I want to start with Noah. Why did God destroy the world? The reason why God destroyed the world is not because of humans but because of something else. These people are called the Nephilim. Nephilim. Okay. Um also by by the way um if you guys are interested in learning more there are two books that are not part of the Bible but which will give you insight into the esoteric knowledge. Okay. The first is called the book of Enoch. Book of Enoch. The second is called the gospel of Thomas. Okay. All right. So I am using these two books as sources for my explanation. Okay. So the Nephe are children of angels and woman. Okay. So what happened was that um the angels who are supposed to watch humanity came down and saw wow these human humans these females are really beautiful. So what do they do? Well they have sex with them right and then what happens they have lots and lots of children and what do these children do? These children enslave humanity. These these people are called Nephe. Okay so if you if you want to understand what happened let's do a thought experiment. Let's just say that there's this group of superhumans called the Avengers. You know, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, okay? And they fight Thanos and they save the world. And now what do they do? Well, they're bored. So they start to have lots and lots of sex. They have lots and lots of children. And these children now are like demagogues, right? So what do they do? Well, they enslave humanity. But then what do they do? Well, they start fighting amongst themselves. Okay? So that's basically what happened. So God had to destroy the Nephilim because they are not natural. Angels and humans are not supposed to have sex with each other and that this creates a new um power called the Nephilim. The problem though is the Nephilim are divine and therefore they cannot be killed. So you can get rid of their mortal bodies, but now they become demons who live underground and are in the shadows. And guess what guys, they're still here today. So these these two societies, they believe the Nephilim are real and they still control the world. The richest people in the world are actually Nephilim, okay? because they've been around for thousands of years and therefore they're able to control the development of humanity. Okay? So they called the Nephilim. So that's easy to understand. But now the question then is wait a minute. Why did Adam eat that app that fruit and why did Jesus have to kill himself? Well, now it gets really complicated. Okay? So now I need I need to explain to you what the secret societies believe. Okay? Remember they believe that mind leads to matter. What does that mean? Okay, let me explain what this means. Mind leads to matter. In the beginning, the true God is called the Monad. Okay? The one. So just think think of this as the core of the universe, the sun, the divine sun. The monad is so powerful that when he breathes, okay, he vibrates divine energy. And over millions of years, this divine energy creates new life forms. Okay? So the first life form are called the diets. Diets are just peers, okay? Usually male female that are children of the monad and they're able by themselves to create new universes as well. Okay. So the diets start to emanate, emanate, emanate, emanate, emanate, emanate. Okay. So so the entire universe is vibration. It's vibrational energy. It's vi it's the breathing of these cosmic beings. Okay. And over time, over millions of years, these vibrations become atoms, which then leads to matter. Okay, that that's what they mean by mind leads to matter. Now, one of these diets named Sophia decides, you know what? I can be just as good as the monad. What does the monad do? The monad is able to propagate by itself, by himself. He doesn't need to mate. So Sophie Sophie says, "You know what? I'm going to produce something by myself. I'm gonna have a child by myself to prove I am the monad." Okay. So she does this and she creates a new being. Okay? A new being. This is called the demi urge. There are different names. We'll call them the dirt demi urge. The demi urge is a monster, a monstrosity because it goes against a natural order. So then Sophia is like, "Oops, I shouldn't have done that." So So what does she do? She abandons the monstrosity. She throws him away and hides him in a sea of clouds. So, no one knows he actually exists. Okay? Even the demiurge doesn't know he exists. The demiurge does not know about this world, right? Therefore, he believes that he must be the one true God capable of creating new life. So, what does he create? Us. Okay? He creates the planet Earth and then he and then he creates Adam and Eve. Okay, that's what a monster would do. Okay, look at this history. What kind of god would kick someone out of paradise for eating a fruit? A monster would do it. Right? What kind of god would kill a people for no particular reason? A monster would do that. Okay. What kind of God would demand that a that a people be loyal to that person? A monster. What kind of God would enforce his will on a people? A monster. What kind of God would say to someone, you're the only person I like, everyone else I hate. A monster would do that. Okay. So in other words, the true secret that these secret societies are trying to keep is the god we worship today is the false god. It's the and we are actually in a prison created by this false god. And that's who Jesus was. Jesus was a cosmic being sent by the monad to tell us the truth about the world. And that's why he died because the Roman Empire could not allow people to see the truth. If I told you the truth, you would know it right away. You would wake up. Therefore, the truth tellers must be killed. Okay? So, that's what these secretists believe. They believe that the monad exists and the mind of the monad is what creates creates the universe. And Jesus was sent to remind us that even though we're in a prison, there's still the monad in you. There's a spark in you, a divine light in you that you can activate. And if you activate it, then you will return to the monad. You will see the truth for yourself. And when you die, your soul, which is part of the monad, will want to return to the monad and can escape this world. But to activate this light, you must be a good person. You must love one another. You must reject money and materialism and grades. Okay, grades in school. You must reject competition. You must reject material wealth in order to pursue spiritual happiness. Okay, that was the message of Jesus. Now, you can imagine that the powers that be the Nephe were not like this. Okay, it's a direct threat to Nephe who now control the prison created by the demiurge. It's also a direct threat to the demiurge and that's why these secret societies have been over the centuries been repressed been executed okay been massacred but they believe that it is their duty to protect the secret because only by protecting the secret can humanity be ultimately saved. Right? Does that make sense? Okay. Any qu any questions? Right? So you have the official version which is what you're taught in school, but now you have the secret version that is only taught in secret societies. The other thing about secret societies that's really important is they believe that most of us cannot accept the truth. If I told you this, you think I'm crazy and report me to the police. Okay? Therefore, they can only wait for people to wake up by themselves and approach them. And if if you approach them, then they will test you and then they will reveal the secret of the universe to you. Okay? And that's why these secret societies were founded and that's why they've been so persistent and so successful over the centuries, right? So now the question is, okay, this is a great theory, but how do we know it's true or not? How do we know that this is actually what they really thought? Well, we know because in poetry, in literature, the members of the secret societies have embedded the secret within the poetry. So, if you're able to analyze the poetry properly, you will see for yourself that this is true. Okay. So what we're going to do is we will study today the greatest poem in English language called paradise lost by John Milton who was who actually was a member of the secret societies. Okay. Any questions be before I um continue. Okay. We're going to repent loss. Okay. Are we clear? Any questions? Yeah, there there's a question here. >> Um, if all of these are from the false god, do we have a like truth god? Like, do we or like it's just a thing? >> Okay. Yeah. So, in this system, the monad is a true god. >> Okay. And the question then is why doesn't the monad interfere? Why doesn't the monad stop the demi urge from imprisoning us and making our lives hell? And um there are two explanations for why this is happening. Okay. The first explanation is that the monad does not interfere in material affairs. Okay. Because the monad is it's all mind. And also we have the capacity to reject this world and return to the monad. Right? So why would he force us to um do what we don't want to do? Okay. If you want to return to him, then you have the choice to engage in spirituality, to engage in goodness, to engage in knowledge, and then you'll be able to return to him. Okay, that's the first explanation. Second explanation is that and this comes from Dante. Okay. The monad is a force that is eternal, perfect and immutable. And therefore the monad has no imagination. But how do you grow as a being? You grow through the imagination. So in order for the monad to continue continue to grow the monad allowed for the demiurge to create human beings because as human beings we are flawed. We make mistakes we commit evil but by committing evil by making mistakes we expand the imagination of the universe. Okay which allows the monad to to expand. Okay. So for in this perspective sorry so in this perspective what is happening is that each time we imagine we we turn to the monad. >> Okay. So, so um it's hard to understand but the monad it's there it's eternal but it's it's also becoming it's also moving and so when we imagine things when we commit mistakes but at the same time when we recognize these these mistakes and um try to adjust for these mistakes we expand the imagination of the monad and that's why these secret societies believe that evil and good exist together you can only be good if you do evil Okay? Because e by committing evil, it gives you a chance to become better. Okay? Does that make sense? >> All right. All right. So, we're doing Paradise Lost. All right. This is um the national epic of the British Empire. If you are a member of the British Empire, which rules the world today, the Anglo-American Empire, it rules the world today. If you are an elite member of the British uh empire, you memorize this poem. Okay? And it becomes part of your soul basically. And it's it's beautiful. Okay? So this was written by a man named John Milton. And John Milton, he was a rebel. He was a freethinker. He want he questioned the world. He fought for himself. and he was a passionate advocate of free speech. He was a man who wrote Paradise Lost and he wrote it when he was blind. He could not see. Therefore, he had to speak it out and his secretaries had to write it down for him. And as you can see, well, if a blind man is able to recite poetry, you must think he is a prophet. He's a messenger of God. What he is revealing to you is divine truth. Okay. All right. So, John Milton and his most famous work is called Paradise Lost. And Paradise Lost is the foundational text of many secret societies. They read this, they discuss this, they worship this text. And within this text lies the secrets of the universe. Okay? And but only okay this is this is really uh hard but only if you understand the secret secrets yourself can you see the secrets it embedded in Paradise Lost. Okay. All right. So what we're going to do is we will read two speeches by Satan. The plot of Paradise Lost is really really simple. It's trying to reimagine the fall of man. Remember Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden. Then they eat that fruit and God banishes them. Okay, so Milton is trying to tell the story again and he imagines a serpent who tricks Eve into eating the fruit as Satan himself. And Satan was God's uh favorite angel. They had a falling out. Satan rebelled against God. God won the war and Satan and the devils are now banished to hell. And Paradise Lost begins with the devils discussing what to do. They've lost this war against God. They will never ever defeat God. Now they're stuck in hell. So now what do they do? Some propose that you know what? Let's create let's just create an empire. Okay? Some are like, you know what? Let's just sit back and enjoy life. Okay? But Satan is determined to seek vengeance against God. And so what he wants to do is go to the Garden of Eden and corrupt Adam and Eve and destroy humanity forever. Okay? So they all agree this is a great plan. But now the question then is who's going to go? Because it's dangerous, right? Because you're escaping hell. There angels guarding hell. But even if you leave hell, you go into the abyss. You go into space, right? You you don't even know where earth is. You you get lost for all of eternity. So no one wants to go. So at this time when no one's to go, Satan steps up and says, "I will go." Okay, this is his speech. Oh progyny of heaven, imperial thrones with reason have deep silence and demur ceased us though undismayed. Okay, I know you guys are scared. All right. Long as the way and hard that out of hell leads up to light. Our prison strong. This huge conduct of fire outrageous to devour immers us round ninefold and gates of burning adamant barred over us prohibit all egress. This prison is designed to keep us here for all eternity. It will be hard to escape this prison. These paths, if any pass, the void profound of unessential night receives him next. Wide gaping of utter loss of being threatens him plunged in that abortive gulf. If then he escaped into whatever world or unknown region, what remains him less than unknown, in dangers, and as hard escape. Okay, if you can leave hell, you're still up in the abyss of the universe, right? You're going to be floating there for all eternity. You don't know where you're going. But I should ill become this throne, O Pierce, and this imperial sovereignty adorned with splendor, armed with power, if art proposed, and just of public moment in the shape of difficulty or danger could deter me from attempting. Wherefore do I assume these royalties and not refuse to reign, refusing to accept as great a share of hazard as of honor? Do al like to him who reigns and so much to him do of hazard more as he above the rest. Okay, so what he's saying here is really simple. I'm your leader and therefore I must go. You have trusted me to lead you for all eternity and therefore I will risk my entire life to prove my worth. High honor sits. Go therefore mighty powers, tear of heaven, though fallen, intend at home, while here shall be our home. What best may ease the present misery, and render hell more to toler more more tolerable. If there be cure or charm to resppite or deceive or slack the pain of this ill mansion, interimmit no watch against a wakeful foe, why I abroad, through all the crows of dark destruction, seek deliverance for us all. this enterprise none shall partake with me. I am your leader. I will go by myself. You guys can just sit here and like sip, you know, have some drinks, watch some TV, enjoy yourself. I don't care. Okay? I'm your leader. I will go by myself to redeem us, to deliver us from um our torment. Okay? So, as you can see, this is heroic. He is the grand hero. A couple things I will say about the speech is number one what he's describing and secretists believe is believe this is he's describing his ascent from hell as almost uh our souls leave our bodies to the heavens. Okay. And some secret sites believe that when you die, the first person you meet is Satan because it is Satan who knows how to take you from this world, the prison world to the light because he's he's done this. Okay. So, Satan is a very important part of our journey back to the moon. That's a also if you study this um poetry very closely you study the imagery he what he's describing almost is a baby leaving the womb right because the baby is a is in the womb a prison and then the baby escapes. So secret believe that life and death are the same thing. To be born you must die and when you die you are born again. Okay. All right. The other thing is that the secret societies you will use the speech as an initiation ceremony for members. When you join secret society you must by yourself choose to fight for all of humanity by yourself. You must be the hero. Okay, you must know when you join secrets of society, people will hunt you. People want to kill you for speaking the truth. Do you do you dare to go on this journey? Okay, so that's the first speech. The second speech is much more important. This is a speech where Satan, the serpent, convinces Eve to eat the fruit. Okay? And this speech is very powerful. Okay? So, I'm going to read it really fast and then explain to you what it means. Oh sacred wise and wisdom-giving plant, mother of science, now I feel thy power within me clear, not only to discern things in their causes, but to trace the ways of highest agents deem however wise. Eve is talking to the serpent and Eve is is of course like hey what can you speak? And the serpent says because I eat that fruit from the knowledge of good and evil. It gives you power. Okay. So the serpent now wants to convince Eve to eat that fruit. So he invokes the power of the tree, right? Oh sacred tree, give me the power to speak so well that I convince Eve to do the impossible. Queen of this universe, do not believe those rigid threats of death. Ye shall not die. How should ye? By the fruit it gives you life of to knowledge. By the threatener, look on me. Me who have touched and tasted yet both live. Okay, so God has warned Eve, Adam and Eve, if you eat this fruit, you will die. And the serpent is saying, "No, that's not true. Look at me. I ate the fruit and I'm still alive. And life more perfect have attained than fate meant me by venturing higher than my lot. Shall that be shut to man which the beast is open? Or will God in sense is higher for such a petty trespass and not praise rather your dauntless virtue?" What's in saying here is really important. If he is a true god, he will reward you for your risktaking, right? He said the fruit will kill you as a test. A true God will want you to become better and better. And you can only do that by transgressing, by making mistakes, by disobeying authority. And and a true God would reward you for seeking more knowledge. Whom the pain of death denounce, whatever thing death be, deter not from achieving what might lead to happier life, not of good and evil. Of good, how just, of evil. If what is evil be real, why not known since ease your son shun? We can only be good people if we know what evil is. Right? If you don't know if good and evil, then you're just stupid. Okay? It's because you shun away from evil, you ignore evil, you fight evil, that you're a good person. God therefore cannot hurt you and be just. Not just, not God, nor fear then, nor obeyed. Your fear itself of death removes the fear. Why then was this forbid? Okay, so he's asking himself, why would God not allow you eat that fruit? Why, but to all, why to keep you low and ignorant, his worshippers? He knows that in the day ye therefore your eyes that seem so clear, yet are but dim, shall be then open and cleared, and you shall be his gods. So what's interesting is this. There's two possibilities, okay? Either God is testing you, God really wants you to disobey him because that will allow you to achieve more virtue and knowledge or God is enslaving you and keeping you ignorant because God is afraid that you might become God himself. Okay. So there are two possibilities. All right. What can you not hurt him or this tree and part against his will of all be his? Or is it envy? And can envy dwell in heavenly breast? If he is God, he is in control of everything. He knows everything. Therefore, if you eat this fruit, how could I possibly challenge him? Unless he's a false god. Unless he's tricking you, unless he's deceiving you, unless he's trying to imprison you. Okay, that's the only possibility. Now this is sitting speech and you and you know I took Milton in college. I was an English major at Yale and I took in a semester of Paradise Laws and at university I was taught that this speech shows you how clever and evil Satan is. He's lying to Eve. God is invincible omnisient. You can't eat a fruit and become God. That's ridiculous. also either is stupid because he she believes him, right? That's what you taught in university. That's what you believe. But this is really important. When you actually read the Bible, Satan is telling the truth. What what the sin is logic is what the Bible says. Okay? A professor at Yale will tell you that sin is lying. When you actually read the Bible by yourself, you will see he's telling the truth. So, we're going to read the Bible together. Okay, this is what the Bible says. This is the word of God. All right, so this is Genesis. Now, the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, did God say, "You shall not eat from any tree in the garden?" Okay, so in the Bible, this is actually not Satan. It's just a serpent. The woman said to the serpent, "We may not eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, "You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die." But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die, for God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be open, and you will be more like God, knowing good and evil." Okay, so this is exactly what Satan said. Okay? And this is what the Bible is saying as well. Now, let's move on. Eventually, God banishes Adam and Eve for eating the fruit. And you believe that they were banished because they disobeyed God. But if you actually read the Bible, that's not what it says. For disobeying God, God punishes both Adam and Eve. Eve now when she gives birth will suffer pain, right? And Adam will now have to work hard to grow food. That's a punishment. The banishment is not the punishment. So another question then is why were they banished again? Let's read the Bible. Okay. So the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise. She took of its fruit and ate and she was also gave some to her husband who was with her and she ate. Then the eyes of both were opened. Okay. So Satan is telling the truth. You will not die. You will learn. You will be become higher. Okay. Satan was telling the truth. All right. So what so so what did God kick Adam and Eve out? The Lord God said, "See the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, and now he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever." This is why there are two trees. The tree of knowledge, which allows you the mind of God, and the tree of life, which he liv allows you to live as long as God. What God is saying is this. If Adam and Eve ate that uh tree that fruit from the knowledge of good and evil and then they eat also a fruit from the tree of life, they will be like us. Satan was telling the truth and God was lying to Adam and Eve all along. Okay. So now the question then is how did Eve know that Satan was telling the truth? How does she know? How >> try? She tried. >> Well, the problem is if you tried once and you're wrong, you die, right? So, how did she know? She was certain that Satan was telling the truth. She was certain. Yes, he must be telling the truth. Why? the light in us. You understand? The true God, the true God still speaks to us today, >> right? The false god will lie to us, but inside you in your heart is the is the light that connects you back to the monad. And that tells you what is false, what is true. Okay, that's how she knew. All right, so you see paradise laws is now showing us the lost secrets of the universe. All right. So, um I'll finish with by talking about the Nephilim. In the Bible, it says that the Nephilim are the children of the from angels and woman. Okay? So, when people began to multiply on the face of the ground and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that they were fair and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose. And the Lord said, "My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh. Their days shall be 120 years." Okay. So now God sees Nephilim as a threat as well. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterward when the sons of God went into the daughters of humans who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown. Okay, this is really important because it introduces the Nephilim which is still around today. Okay, according to the secret societies, but also what it's doing is this. It's telling us the children, the heroes that are of old, warriors of renown, who are they? They're Hercules. They're Achilles. They're Thesius. They're all heroes from different mythologies. Where do they come from? They come from the mating of angels and humans. The sons of God, who are they? They are the old gods. Zeus, Aries, Apollo. Okay. So this is the beginning of monotheism where the Bible is trying to destroy polytheistic mythologies and create one universe where the god is supreme. Okay. And in this universe Zeus now becomes a son of god and the children that Zeus has with mortal woman are now called the nephlem. So Hercules is Nephilim. Okay. So we'll go into this theme throughout the semester where the Bible is a tremendous act of propaganda that tries to re reinvent reality around one true God. Okay? But by doing that it's denying our intuition and it's denying the history of humanity. All right. Okay. So we'll continue this theme next class. Any questions before we conclude? Yes. Well, I think nowadays a lot of us will pray to God like for getting something that we wanted. But as you said, like are we playing like praying to the truth God or the false god? Do we know or like do do we get to know like from our wishes? >> Yeah. So that's a that's a great question. So um according to these secret societies, okay, the truth is that when you pray, you're praying to the false god because where's the true god? It's inside you. Okay. So don't pray to an outside force. Look inside to you and ask yourself, I know for a fact what is true. If I believe in myself enough, then I will find the truth. Okay? And actually that's a theme throughout Western poetry and literature. The theme is that we will always be in conflict with the between the devil and God, between good and evil. And what we must do is not say like I must surrender to God. What we must do is believe in ourselves. Make mistakes but know that you will eventually find a light because the light is in you. Okay? As long as you still believe in yourself. All this all these mistakes you make will become your strength because they become part of your wisdom. Okay? That's the divine truth that these secret societies are trying to promote. It's okay to make make mistakes. It's okay to do evil. But listen to the light and the light will tell you how to redeem yourself. Okay? The possibility for redemption, for growth, for imagination is all in us because of our connection to the monad. The monad will reward you for believing in yourself. But you must first believe in yourself. And believing yourself means often defying authority, making mistakes, transgression, transgression against the rules of society. Okay. And that's the ultimate secret that these secret societies are trying to keep. All right. Any more questions? That was a really good question. Thank you. Well, well, well, the gods are usually depicted uh the most beautiful. Then why uh gods like those they will come to uh human society and uh give birth um with um fertilized with the human um girls. >> Okay. >> Which is actually not >> okay. Um so there so the question then is why are the angels doing this? Okay. There are two explanations. Okay. So the first explanation is these angels are created by the false god, right? So they're they're wicked anyway. Okay. The second explanation is that if you're like a hotl looking woman and you see an angel, I don't know, man, you know, you're probably going to want to marry that person. Okay. All right. Anyway, um if you're interested in learning more, there's a book called the book of Enoch, which goes into detail about the Nephilim. Okay. But the nephilim are a really important topic throughout the semester because a lot of secret societies believe in the Nephilim and that's and that's going to motivate them before. Okay. Now what I've discussed today is how these secret societies were born and as you can see um they started off as a noble mission but then the question then is like how do they become corrupted over time? Well this something I will discuss later on. Okay. All right. So I'll see you guys next class.

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So, um, we continue the topic of secret societies and we're going to focus on their secret weapon, which is mind control. They're able to turn you into a programmable robot that they can use as a weapon. Um, but before I start that, let's review what we discussed last class. This is a class of ideas and concepts. So it's really important you understand these concepts because we will build on them throughout the semester. Okay. So last class we discussed the transformation of religious worldview during the course of western history. So at first there was the mother goddess then transition to polytheism then monotheism. And during this transition, the way that our minds perceived the world radically changed in three aspects. The first is that before we understood that mind led to matter. So the universe is just one giant mind that vibrates. Okay? And the intersection of these vibrations creates atoms. Then that leads to matter. Okay. But today in science class, you're taught that's the opposite. It's the brain that creates the mind. And as you will discover throughout the semester, this conception that the brain creates the mind. It's very problematic. Okay? So we will discuss this throughout the semester. Okay. The second big difference is before we understood the world metaphorically. Okay. So we saw that the world was controlled by these forces that we could not see and feel but they were there and we gave names to them the gods. Now it's all literal. In science class you're taught that if you don't see it, it doesn't exist. If you cannot measure it, it does not exist. The third big difference is that before we were intuitive. We trusted our heart. We trusted our eyes. But today in science class, you're taught to not trust your eyes. You're taught to trust the data, the tools, the theory. So today is counterintuitive. And this is why school is so hard. Okay? We humans are learning machines. That's what we're designed to do. To learn, to absorb, to adapt. But school is hard because you're taught ideas that go against your own intuition. Okay. So these are the main concepts that we learned last class. So now I want to talk about mind control. Okay. So um let's go back to the four earliest civilizations. These are mass societies. So these four societies that first came into being are China. Uh the Indis Valley civilization, the Harapen civilization which is now northern India, Mesopotamia which today is Iraq and of course the last one is Egypt. And of course, Egypt was for thousands of years the most powerful, the wealthiest, the most influential. Now, when you have a mass society, your biggest problem is social control. How do you control the population? How do you get everyone to get along? And in each society, they have different solutions. Okay? So, in China, we develop a bureaucracy. And what underpinned the bureaucracy of course is something called the kju which is the civil service examination. So everyone's attention everyone's energies was focused on getting their child to pass the ku to become an official and that's what gave China social stability. And guess what guys it's still around today. to that we call the gao okay but it's the same system no difference at all >> the IVC industization created religion and what's remarkable about the religion is it is one that preach egalitarianism equality as well as peacefulness and their religion becomes the prototype for Buddhism today okay so what the religion was puto Buddhism and for the longest time The IVC was peaceful, egalitarian. It was a very prosperous society. Mesoptitania, the solution was war. The difference between Mesopotitania and other places is that there are no natural defenses. In China, we have mountains, deserts, seas to protect China. But in Mesopotamia, it's a desert. And so, it's really easy to attack. And therefore they had centuries of warfare and that's what kept the society together because they were always at war with each other. And with Egypt the solution was the Pharaoh, right? So Egypt is unique in that they believe the Pharaoh was God and therefore everyone had to obey their God. The problem though is that the pharaoh was not God. And as a human in charge of an empire, his life was always at risk. Okay. So now I'm going to ask you a question. What does it take to be a great leader? In school, you're taught what skills do you need to be a great leader? Just shout out the answers. >> Leadership. >> Leadership skills. But what are they? What are they? Responsibility, right? How about what else? Wisdom. >> Openness. Empathy. >> Excuse me. >> Respect. >> Regret. >> Respect. Yeah. What else? Knowledge. Right. >> Okay. This is what you're taught in school. And we can go on for a long time. Okay. There are hundreds of skills you need to be a great leader. Guess what guys? Wrong. Okay. To be a great leader in the world in history, you need three skills. And if you just analyze what the leaders of today are like, it will make sense to you. Okay. So, Putin, Trump, every leader in the world shares these three skills. Okay. The first is unpredict predictability. People cannot predict how you will behave. You are a mystery to people. That's the first skill. Second skill is high stress tolerance. So Donald Trump is probably the most hated man in America. Guess what guys? He goes to bed and he sleeps like a baby. He does not care. Okay? He gets up and he's tweeting. He's giving speeches. He's talking to reporters. He's the happiest man alive. He does not care. And so, so the last skill is lack of empathy. He does not care what happens to other people. All he cares is about himself. And guess what guys? To do well in life, you need these three skills. Unpredictability. No one knows how you think. No one knows how you behave. High stress tolerance. You don't care. Lack of empathy. You're very selfish. Okay? And these are the three skills that leaders need in order to uh do well. But you know what? We can just use one word to describe all three skills. The word we can use is dissociation. Dissociation just means that your mind is part of your body. When you dissociate, what what literally happens is your mind leaves your body so that you don't think that what's happening is happening to you. It's happening to someone else. It's like you become an observer in a movie. Okay? You're in the movie, but you're also watching the movie. And this is what leads to these three things. Unpredictability, high stress tolerance, and lack of empathy. Okay. Um, another word for dissociation that we use is multiple personality disorder. Donald Trump is so unpredictable because he's literally a 100 different people in a different circumstance. He's a different person. And that's why you can never actually predict how he will behave. And all the great leaders in history were like that. Okay. So let me use game theory to explain why this is the case. Okay. Game theory. So in game theory, we discussed before how when you have a game where there are millions of different players, okay, the secret to winning this game is cheating and you do that by forming secret alliances, right? So these three do it. The problem is this is actually pretty obvious. We understand this rule. So guess what? A lot of people form secret alliances. Okay. So to win this game, if you want to win this game, you have to be part of as many powerful secret alliances as possible. You have to be the intersection of these groups. Okay? So you're here, but you're also here. You're also here. Okay. But as we discussed pre previously, these secret societies have developed systems to make you loyal, to make you obedient, to make sure that you will never betray them. So the only way around this problem is to create multiple personalities, right? Because literally you're a different person in a different circumstance and therefore they're never able to figure out what you really think. Spies have the skill. Okay. When spies are being recruited, um the one skill that they're looking for is dissociation. Is this person able to quickly dissociate from who he is? Lack of empathy, basically. They're all psychopaths basically. Okay. So in real life in a game it's a person with the most multiple personalities that wins out. The problem though is when we we go back to Egypt the pharaoh is born in that position. So now the question is are you able to take a person and create multiple personalities with from that person? And the answer is yes. Okay. So I'm going to show you how. By by the way, the word we use for this is psychopath. Okay. All right. If you have multiple personalities, you're a psychopath. All right. So I'm going to show you how they do this in Egypt. Remember, a pharaoh is born into that position. And so now the priests who control the pharaoh, they have to train that priest to have multiple personalities. The the mystery today is how would they do this? And again, we don't know, but I'm speculating how they would do this. Okay. So, if you look at mythology, Egyptian mythology is different from all other world mythologies. There's Greek mythology, there's Chinese mythology, there's Babylonian mythology, but Egyp Egyptian mythology, it's unique. Okay? So, I'm I'm going to explain to you the basic contours of the mythology. Very simple. So, there are three main characters in the mythology. There's Rah, the sun god. There's Osiris. And there's Horus. Okay, these are the three main gods that Egyptians worship. Rah is what gave life to the universe. He's a sun god. Osiris is the god of civilization. He built Egypt. Okay? And then Horus is the god of kingship of empire. He's the one who brings stability to the throne. Okay. So there are different stories associated with Rah, Osiris, and Horus. Rah, what he does is every night he goes into the underworld and he fights the serpent, Opthus. Every night, Opus, the serpent, he's trying to swallow the sun to prevent the sun from rising. So Ra must kill him every night. Okay? And there are different ways that he kills Oythus. Sometimes he stabs Oythus with a knife. Sometimes he uses a lance. Sometimes he burns Opthus. Okay? Sometimes he strangles Oythus. But there are different ways that he kills Opus. But rest assured, he kills Opthus every single night so that the sun can rise in the morning. If one day uh Ra doesn't defeat Oythus, well, you have a solar eclipse. Okay, the sun cannot rise. But rest assure Ra will defeat him eventually. Okay, eventually Ra gives birth to Osiris. And Osiris is a great pharaoh. But his brother Seth, Seth, it's pronounced Seth, okay? But it's it's spelled Seth. Um he is jealous. He wants a throne. So he tricks Osiris. One day he says to Osiris, "Look, I built a tomb and this tomb is really comfortable." And so Osiris, "Oh, let me try." So Osiris jumps in the tomb and he's like, "Wa, it's really comfortable." And of course, Seth then closes the tomb and then throws the tomb away. Now, now good news is that is Osiris has has a smart wife. He's pretty dumb, but but Isis is pretty smart. So Isis is now looking for Osiris and Seth's like, "Oh, I can't allow Isis to find Osiris." So Seth cuts Osiris into a million pieces. Okay, so uh tomb. And then he cuts up Osiris and throws Osiris all around the world. But Isis is committed. So Isis goes around the world and finds all the pieces and reassembles him. Okay. But he but she knows that eventually Set will find them again. So he she has sex with him really quickly which gives birth to Horus and Horus is wants the throne back. So he goes to war with Set and they have a series of challenges. Okay. And some of these challenges include drowning. So what they do is they turn each other into hippos. They go into the bottom of the river and they see who can hold the breath the longest. They drown each other. Okay. Basically, but also um there's a challenge where set can you see this word? Okay. R A P E. Okay. He will do this to Horus because it's a sign of domination. But eventually Horus wins out and he becomes the pharaoh. Okay. So this is the main structure of Egyptian mythology. And as you can see, it's really weird. Okay? And it doesn't make really make sense as a story. It's not a great story, but if you don't see it as a story, but as a script, it makes a lot more sense, right? It's not something to be believed. It's something to be acted out. Okay? Why? Because in Egyptian religion, in the religion, the pharaoh is a literal reincarnation of Rah, Osiris, and Horus. And when you act these things out, you become the gods because you have their memories. Okay? So, how? Let me explain this. Okay? I I know you'll be confused by this, but let let me explain. So, let's go back to Kant. What Kant tells us is that there are something called the nomina which is the things in themselves. We can never know the things in themselves. We can never know true reality. We can only know the phenomena which is the things we see. In other words, we cannot differentiate between what is true and what is false. So if you're able to control our experience, you're able to control our memories. Okay. So, let me give you another example of this. Remember Monkey Island? On Monkey Island, we we discussed this previously. 100 people are transported onto an island um randomly and they have to survive millions of flesh-eating monkeys. And this experience makes them strong, wise, and united. They're transported back to the real world, and together they conquer the world together. But now the challenge is how do I ensure that my children and my grandchildren and my grandchildren inherit my legacy? And the answer is through ritual. Okay? So what you do is you take your children, you put them on an island and you tell them a story and then you give them psychedelics. Psychedelics are drugs that enhance your experience. So you actually believe the story is happening to you. Okay? It's like being put into a movie. Okay? And then you have these rituals that make you believe that you actually experienced this yourself. Okay? So this is what we call programming. And this is the great secret of the human brain. Every human brain can be programmed in a certain way. Okay, so let's go back to the story. What's going on here? This is a recipe for programming the pharaoh into separate identities. All three of these individuals, Rah, Osiris, Horus, represent different identities. Rah represents the virtuous hero, right? Osiris represents the passive victim and Horus represents the vengeanceful child. Okay, does that make sense? Okay. So, by doing these different rituals, I can get the pharaoh to believe he's a different person in different circumstance. So, while the pharaoh is drugged up, the pharaoh is dressed up as Ra and he will take an effigy or a real person and he will stab, lance, burn or strangle that person to feel as though you're a virtuous hero. And also what will happen is that the pharaoh will then be um asked to be Osiris and guess what the person will be put in a tomb cut up and have sex with a prostitute. Okay, pretending to be a priest and then Horus will be of course this. Okay. >> So, this is all to create trauma which creates disassociation which allows the priest to program the pharaoh. >> Okay. Does that make sense? >> Okay. So, how this works is while this is happening, there's the the um pharaoh is under a lot of trauma, but there's always someone there to support the pharaoh, and that's Isis, right? So, there's a priest in the ISIS mask using ISIS voice to calm the pharaoh, even have sex with the pharaoh to make the pharaoh dependent on Isis. And now Isis becomes the controller. the person that the pharaoh will always trust. So if the priest ever want to tell Pharaoh to do something, then late at night while the pharaoh's sleeping or on drugs, Isis wearing the mask can come in and whisper the pharaoh what to do. Okay? And in the system there are different ways in which the priest can use to activate the different identities. But the main mechanism is smell. Okay, smell. And what this means is that while all this is happening, there are different scents for different identities. Okay, so for example with raw it might be incense. Okay, but with Osiris it might be I don't know roses. Who knows? Okay. But so what happens is when the pharaoh is a throne room and the priest need the pharaoh to make a certain decision, the priest will let out different scents which will activate different emotions in the pharaoh which then determines how the pharaoh will make the decision. Okay? So there's different control mechanisms. Okay? And what's important for us to understand is we're all like this, right? Because for example um we have different identities. At school we're a student but at home we're a child. We're outside we're friends. We're a friend. When we're at work we're an employee. So we behave differently depending on the different circumstance. And the circumstance activates a certain emotion, certain identity, certain behavior, certain actions in us. Okay. So we're all programmable, but the pharaoh has to be programmed to a certain degree. Okay? So to better understand this, let me give you an example. Let's just say that you are the best football player, the best soccer player in the whole world. No one can beat you. You're you're basically messy. Okay? But one day, for example, for whatever reason, you wake up and you lose all your memory. You forget what your name is. You forget who your friends are. You even forget that uh you play soccer. And what's also really strange is the entire world forgets that you play soccer. Okay? So, you're just wandering around and you have no idea who you are. And you do this for like 10 years. Suddenly, one day for for whatever reason, you're on soccer field and someone kicks you a ball and you kick it back. Would you still be the best soccer player in the world? The answer is yes, you would be. Right? Why? Because you've been trained. It's muscle memory. It's in it's your subconscious. So that's the trick here. The trick is to train you in a certain way to make you a robot. Okay. Is it possible for me to make someone into a killer? Yes. Because what I do is I make that person take a lot of psychedelics and then train that person to shoot someone with a gun. Okay? And then while he's shooting that person, I use the word acadabra. So what happens is the person if he's walking has a gun, all all they do is use the word acadabra. Takes a gun and shoots someone. Okay? All right. So through programming, I can turn anyone to a robot. I can turn someone anyone into a sex robot, a killer robot, even a sex killer robot. Okay? Okay, I can do all this. >> And that's this great secret here. All right, so 5,000 years ago in Egypt, they were doing this. And but again, okay, it's what's really important is this is all speculation. And it's really important for you to doubt and question me because we don't actually know that this happened. All the records have been lost to us. And obviously, this would be the greatest state secret of Egypt. But from my perspective, it makes sense because the Pharaoh needs to be like this in order to survive, right? Because the Pharaoh has brothers who want his throne. If he's a nice guy, guess what? Dead, right? So that's true for everyone in power. If you're a nice person who feels sorry for poor people, you're dead. Okay? So you have to have certain characteristics in order to be a great leader and the main characteristic is dissociation. So the pharaoh so the priests are actually protecting the pharaoh. Okay, >> does that make sense? All right. So what I I know this is hard but I need you guys to remember the story of Egyptian mythology because we'll use it over and over. Also, these techniques that they use, uh, tombs, cutting you up, um, sex, drowning, uh, rape are also techniques that we still use today. So, what they did in Egypt 5,000 years ago, we still do today. There's absolutely no difference. And I will show you this as we move on. Okay. But are there any questions so far? Yeah. >> Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Can you speak in the microphone, please? So they only trained the pharaoh by this method and and not his relatives know his brothers or something. >> Okay, that's a great question. Okay, that's a great question. So who's being trained into this system? And the answer is everyone, right? Because the people really in control are the priests. They're what what we today call the deep state. And it's possible the pharaoh gets gets an accident and dies. Okay. So you need someone right away to replace the pharaoh. So everyone is being everyone in the royal family is being trained into this. The problem arises when the priest class divides into different political factions who all want power. Then they program the pharaoh's brother to create a civil war. Okay. So everyone who who is in a royal family is being programmed like this. But then this raises a really interesting question is like why would they agree to this right now? What's interesting is that um these psychedelics and these uh trauma create something called NDE. Okay. What we call neardeath experiences. So for like a minute or 10 minutes or or half an hour they are literally dead. And what we know is when that happens and and it's really interesting is when you are feel you're almost dead you transcend into the spirit world. In the spirit world you actually meet God. And we know this because tens of thousands of people have had an ND ND near-death experience. you know, they got in a car crash and they blacked out or they were drowning and they almost died or they had a heart attack and died. They all went to to meet God and they all said up there in the spirit world, it's all peaceful. It's all love. You can feel God in you. But God told me I cannot die. I have to come back and tell people the true spirit world. So the royal family does this because it gives them wisdom and access to the spirit world so that they feel as though they're truly God. Okay? And that's why they agree to do this, right? But then the question then is how do the priests know how to do this? because they they experiment on themselves because they're priests and they want to access the spirit world themselves and they recognize that uh near-death experiences and psychedelics are the best two ways to go into that world. So, they drown themselves, they cut themselves up, um they starve themselves, um there are lots of ways to create near-death experiences, okay? But but that's how they know the secrets. And what's amazing is we have not improved on Egyptians today. like all the modern technology, all the modern medicine, science, we're just doing what they're doing. Okay. Okay. So, does it make sense, guys? >> Okay. Any more questions before I move on? >> So, there's >> Okay. >> There's no difference between heaven and hell. >> Sorry. Excuse me. There's no different between heaven and hell because I mean um technically speaking if if you do bad things you will never go to heaven but uh and then when if you experience NE and you still meet the spiritual world then you'll realize that there's no difference between heaven and hell. >> Okay that that that's a great question. Okay. So what is h heaven? What is hell? Why should you do bad things? Why should you do good things? You know, there's no difference. Okay. So what people who suffer NDE will tell you is this. You go up to the spirit world, the first thing that will happen is something called a life review. What is a life review? A life review is this. You're able to see exactly what you did your entire life. So if you're a bad person, that's hell because you're able to now feel pain for the first time, right? Dissociation means you don't feel any pain. But guess what? You're just tricking yourself because when you're up in the spirit world, you have to see exactly what you did to other people. You have to feel their pain. Okay? That's what hell is. In heaven is you can see the good that you did. Okay? So what they say is that when you do evil, you create negative energy and when you do good, you create positive energy. And you can't see that in this world, but up in the spirit world, you're able to see for yourself finally how much evil you did and how much good you did. Okay. And and that's what heaven and hell is. Okay. And um I mean I don't want to go too much into this, but another another theory is that um when you die, the only thing that that is that remains in you is love. Okay? So love is actually a physical force. And the more love you have, the higher you can ascend in the spirit world. And the less love you have, well, you're kind of stuck and and you you have to come back and do it again. Okay. So, um, be a nice person. All right. Okay. Great question. Okay. So, so are we clear about this? Okay. Well, we'll we'll discuss more about near-death experiences later on in the spirit world later on. Okay. But I I want to I want you to understand that 5,000 years ago in Egypt, they discovered how to program the feral into a robot that they can control. And we still use same techniques today. Okay. Any questions before I move on? All right. So, let's go to the PPT. Okay. So, um as you can see, as you can see in Egypt, it's the priests who are willing control. The pharaohs are just a puppets. Okay? And it makes sense, right? Because one person cannot control an entire empire. It's the priests, the bureaucrats who really have the power. Okay, so we talk about dissociative identity disorder, right? And you think, wow, it's really great to have all this power, but actually the one thing about dissocive personality disorder is you can never feel happiness. In fact, you can only feel misery. So the way to reduce your misery is by making others more miserable than you are. >> Okay? Okay, so the people in power are committed to making the world as evil and as unhappy and as miserable as possible because that's the only way they can feel good about themselves. Okay, so this is dissocive identity disorder. Um, as you can see, it's really bad. Okay, you have identity confusion. You have changing memories, flashbacks, uh, intrusive thoughts, okay, internal voices. It's it's not a great feeling to have this. All right. Sorry. What is going on here? Oh, great. Sorry. Okay. Okay. So now I want to talk about 911 and the war on terror. This is Donald Rumsfield. And after 911, America decided that they need to take offensive. They need to hunt down the terrorists and control their behavior and so they start to arrest terrorists. But then bad things start to happen. Okay. So this is a prison in Iraq, Abu Grabi, where they arrested terrorists and they were doing strange thing to these terrorists as you can see. Okay, so this is pretty disgusting stuff. And this was leaked to CBS News and CBS News report like showed all this. Okay. All right. So, it's pretty disgusting. So, now the question then is why is this happening? And there they've been different explanations. The military says these are soldiers who went crazy and they went rogue. So, we we've arrested them and we punished them. But then they discovered that they're actually psychologists who were responsible for this program. So, these are two psychologists um and they were sued by the victims and during the court testimony we discovered that they were paid $80 million by the CI CIA to develop this program. So, what is going on here? This is not something that happened randomly. It was designed by the government by the CIA. So, why is this happening? Well, they call it enhanced interrogation. Okay, this is a book, The Dark Side by Jay Mir, who's a fantastic reporter. I I highly recommend this book. Uh she's a reporter for New Yorker and spent years looking into why this torture happened. And what she argued is it's an experiment to change the mentality of these terrorists. And the theory is called learned helplessness. You can basically take someone like Rah, okay, the virtuous hero and turn him to Osiris through certain techniques. Okay, remember Rah, the identity is the virtuous hero who fights Opus every day. Osiris is a person who gets tortured by Set every day. Okay. So the goal of this experiment is to turn Ra into Osiris. [Music] And the person who help learn helplessness is also the person who developed a new theory called positive psychology. His name is Martin Sigloman. Okay. So positive psychology that you're learning in school is brainwashing. Okay. All right. So that's a theory and it's a great theory and this is what most people believe. The problem though is it doesn't actually work because after the CIA started to torture all these prisoners, they became ISIS, Islamic State. ISIS is the name of what? the Egyptian goddess who saved Osiris, right? And who father Horus. Do you think it's a coincidence? Maybe not. Okay, maybe not. So, ISIS is this fanatical death cult that are terrorists who go around the Middle East and kill a lot of people. Okay, you might have seen their videos where they do a lot of nasty stuff like beheading people. Okay. So, what a lot of people discovered is that there's actually a direct connection between sorry ISIS and this torture. In fact, in many academics, so for example, Jeremy Suri and Andrew Thompson, they discovered that many of the ISIS fighters the US is currently combating in the Middle East deep into extremism during a time in prisons controlled by the United States. So, it's really strange. The United States thought that they they were going to use the psychology to train to turn Rah, the terrorist, into Osiris, the citizen. But they end up doing the reverse. Osiris became rah. How stupid were they? Right? And these guys were paid $80 million to be stupid. Okay, so this is human rights first, an organization that start to interview these prisoners of uh of of of America. Okay. And what they discovered is these prisoners told them sorry this okay their testimony shows that ISIS recruitment is still ongoing unchecked by Egyptian authorities and field and substantial part of the torture and other abuse that pervade Egyptian prisons. So it's really strange how these prisons are almost training ISIS terrorists. What's going on? Well, let's go back to Guanton Bay. Okay, the answer lies in these prisons and what they doing there. So, most of these prisoners were so traumatized they forgot what happened. But we have one man um Abu Zuba who remember what happened. He's a Saudi citizen who was captured and he told us what were they what what they were doing to him. Okay. So, we're going to go through your story and you tell me what the story reminds you of. So, they basically were force-feeding him, torturing him, strangling him. Then they put him in a coffin and they drown him. Then they use a power drill to do this to him. Okay. To basically cut him up. Whoa. Do you guys remember the story? >> Oh, and also sexual humiliation, right? Where they had a woman who tried to seduce him also guys, right? Do you guys see this? >> What the story? What what what is the story guys? What is the story? It's a story of Egypt. This is what they did to Pharaoh 5,000 years ago. It's the same story. It's the same script. In other words, they're not trying. What they're really doing is they're trying to turn these people who are mostly innocent into terrorists. They're trying to turn these people into drones that they can program and unleash in the Middle East. That's the real goal. Okay. So, it wasn't that the experiment failed. It worked. ISIS is an American creation designed to create as much chaos as possible in the Middle East. Let me ask you this question. If you really wanted to get information from these terrorists, what's the best way to do that? >> Pay the money. Be friends with them. Be nice to them. Take them out to dinner. Okay? We have lots of evidence to suggest that if you just be nice to these people, they'll tell you everything they know. You don't have to torture them. You torture them because you're trying to turn them into secret weapons to be unleashed in the world. Okay. All right. So 5,000 years ago, they were doing this to Pharaoh and now they figure out how to do this to anyone using drugs, using torture, using ritual abuse. Okay, so all these ISIS fighters, they're robots controlled by the American military. They're drones, the human drones used. Okay, why is this important? It's important because 5,000 years ago, trying to control the feral was first and foremost about social control. So, so there's a program called MK Ultra started in the 1950s and60s led by a chemist called Sydney Gobble. Okay? And the point of MK Ultra was to figure out how to brainwash people. And for the longest time, this was considered a conspiracy theory. But a few years ago, the CIA, the US government admitted, "We actually did this." But not anymore. Okay? We did this before, but not today. Not today. Okay? Okay. So, if you're curious, there are lots of there are lots of documents, government documents, um, on the internet that you can read. Okay. But the NBA Ultra was a program designed to test the effects of drugs and brainwashing on innocent American citizens, especially children. Okay. Um, so some of the documents that are now public and and guys, just so you know, most of the documentation, the most sensitive documentation was destroyed by the participants. So we only have a few of the documents. But some of the things that they were doing was brainwashing, okay? Using drugs, hypnosis in order to control people's minds, okay, interrogation techniques. Um, they were working with foreign intelligence officials to conduct mind control research. Okay, so the things you couldn't do in the United States legally, they were doing in Egypt, which created what guysa. Okay. Um, they were also doing things that were really weird. For example, they they started a brothel. And so if you came to the brothel, they gave you drugs, okay? Like LSD. And they were trying to figure out how to control your mind. But they won't do this to most people, right? Okay. Well, I'll show you later on. Um, you'll be surprised. Okay. Okay, so this is Sime Gobbley and he was the man responsible for MK Ultra and he's a chemist. Okay, so he's trying to figure out how to use these drugs to control the population. And you're like, well, this is just weird. And if you talk to experts, like, well, the MK Ultra results were terrible. But then ask yourself this. What is social media? What is if if you feel bad and you go to a doctor and the doctor gives you drugs, how do they know these drugs work? Okay, so MK Ultra did work, but they they they were they hide the fact of its effectiveness and the results of MK Ultra have spread throughout society. Guys, good news. You're now the pharaoh. Okay, each and every one of you are now the pharaoh. Congratulations. Something really funny about psychologist is this. Sorry, I'm just Why is this happening? Okay, you may not know this, but psychologists have been known to have a greater propensity to have mental illness than most people. Your psychologist is literally more screwed up in the brain than you are. Okay, you don't believe me? Do some research. And this is really weird because if you went to a doctor and the doctor was fat and unhealthy, that' be that'd be problematic, right? Um, also I have not met anyone who's gotten better psychologically after seeing a psychologist. You guys might have and I'm sure there are lots and lots of people who benefited from seeing a psychologist, but I myself have never met anyone or seen anyone who's benefit from seeing a psychologist. That's really weird because if you break your leg and you go to a doctor and like for years and years doesn't get better, well, that's a problem, right? Okay. So, um something to keep something to keep in mind. Okay. So, any questions? questions guys. So I I know this was a lot to take in um and we'll be expanding these topics as we move on. Okay. But some key takeaways is all societies are first and foremost concerned with social control. And what's really interesting is who we are as a human being has not changed in thousands of years. So that the way the way they were controlling the pharaoh in Egypt 5,000 years ago is still is really the way that they control us today. And I'll show you how as we discuss mass as the mass media, okay, and mass education and mass psychology. Okay. Um we have a question here. In that case, shouldn't the social media be controlled by government? Like for example, why Twitter and or say X could be a personal thing by owned by Elon Musk? >> Okay, that's a great question. Okay, so if it's true that social media is a mechanism for social control, why are they being controlled by private citizens who've made billions of dollars doing it? Right? Okay. Well, let me ask you this question. Who built the internet? You guys do you guys know who built the internet? The US military, right? Because the internet is is um controlled by these cables that run around the world. Who who who built all these cables? The US military. Do you think they would do this for free? Why would they do this? Okay. So, Twitter, Facebook, that's the public face. Okay. What what people forget is behind Facebook and Twitter are all the this infrastructure that's being controlled and protected by the US military. So why would why would the military do this? Okay? Right? And again, this is a class about speculation, about theories. Okay? I'm not telling you what's true. I'm I'm just raising questions and possibilities about what's really going on. Okay. And also like um I don't know what they did in Egypt 5,000 years ago. I'm just speculating. It's just a theory. It's a nice theory, but I have no evidence that it's true. Okay. This is just a disclaimer. Take what I say with a grain of salt. Be skeptical and doubtful of what I say. All right. Okay. Any more questions? Okay, great. Okay, so I'll I'll see you guys next class.

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Okay, good afternoon class. So, um this will be our last class before the break. We have a three-w weekek break coming up. Um I hope that during these three weeks you have a chance to reflect on what what we've learned because when we come back we'll continue to build on the ideas that we've learned so far. And so today I want to talk about the meritocracy. The meritocracy means that people should succeed based on their talent, their ability, and their hard work. And in theory, this sounds like a good idea. And in fact, the school system is built around the idea of a meritocracy. The good students go to the best universities and then after they graduate, they will get the very best jobs. That's the idea. But what I will show you today is that there actually lots of problems with the meritocracy. And what I also show you is that in fact this idea is actually destroying American society. Okay. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to explain to you why America has the world's most complicated emission system. Okay? So in China when you apply to university you take the GACA you take you take an examination and then based on on your test score you get into university and this is a system that most countries use only in America is a system that's complicated your transcript matters but so does your uh standardized test scores the SAT uh the TOEFL so does your ext extracurriculars So does teacher recommendation letters and so does essays in which you have to say to America, I'm a really good person. Why does it matter if you're a good person? Okay, so it's it's the world's most complicated emission system. So what I'll do first is explain to you why we have this system. Okay, so we start off in England in the 1600s. And at this time in history in England, there's a major conflict between um religious belief and the king. Okay, the king is head of the Anglican Anglican church which the official church of England. And there's no difference between the Anglican church and the Catholic Church. The only difference is in the Catholic church the head is the pope. In the Anglican church, the head is the king of England. That's the only difference. In terms of rituals, in terms of belief, it's the same. Now there are people called Protestants who believe there should be no pope, there should be no king. You should as an individual be able to act as God directly. And you do that by reading the Bible. So at this time in history there's a major conflict between the Protestants the p the Puritans uh or the denters and the king and it leads to wars basically and so the solution is the king says to the denters hey there's this new place called America it's far away go there guys and leave me alone okay so uh the denters go as pilgrims to America to build their own theocracy, what they believe to be the new Jerusalem or paradise on earth, heaven on earth. Now, one core belief of the Protestants is you must read the Bible in order to understand the mind of God. Therefore, education, literacy, learning, it is the divine imperative. And that's why they established Harvard. Okay. Harvard was a school designed to train people into the religion called ministers in order to study the Bible in order to spread the truth of the Bible. Now Harvard then would um encourage development of other universities uh Yale, Princeton. Okay. And collectively they would be known as the Ivy League. Right? So this is how the Ivy League started because America was founded as a religious colony and everyone needed to read the Bible. So they needed places to study the Bible and so they founded Harvard and then Yale and then Princeton. Okay. But over time as America became more wealthy it became also less religious and so the Ivy League became social clubs. And what I mean by that is these were just places where the rich of America went to become friends. Okay? It was to build cohesion. Right? And remember we discussed the idea of cohesion where you if you commit transgression you become more cohesive. So these guys did not study. They drank. They dress up like girls. They had wild parties. They played football. They took risks. Okay? And they became good friends. And they they went on to become the leaders of America. As America became much more diverse, much bigger and much more wealthy, it recognized that it needed to educate its population and started it started state schools. Okay, state schools, what we call AMM. Okay, you may have heard the term Texas&M. Okay, it means Texas Aerocultural Mechanical. The reason why was these schools were uh built to train farmers, engineers and soldiers, okay, trades people in order to help grow the American economy. Now, and these the system was extremely successful. America was able to industrialize really really quickly and most people went to these schools. only the rich would go to the Ivy League because they were country clubs or social clubs. Over time, America as began to as began to industrialize more and more, it recognizes it needed science and technology. So, it basically copied the best universities in Germany and Germany was at this at this time the main center of science and technology in the world and so they built something called research universities. Okay. And a couple of the first research universities were Chicago University, the University of Chicago and John Hopkins. Okay. So at in the about 1900, you have this system, okay, um of state schools where most people went. If you're a poor person, you go to learn to trade and then you go and get and get a good job and make good money. If you were if you want to be a professor or scientist, you went to these research universities. If you were rich, you went to these social clubs called the Ivy League. And quite honestly, it was a really good system. And America should have stayed with this system. But what happened was who's unhappy now about the system, >> these guys, right? >> Harvard, Young Princeton. Because if you think about it, over time, they become less and less relevant. Because just because you're rich doesn't mean you're smart. All the smart people are going to to Chicago and John Hopkins. And so over time we can expect Chicago and John Hopkins to overtake the Ivy League. Okay. And that's why Harvard decided to in to institute scholarship programs. So it wanted more smart people into its it wanted to welcome more smart people into its campus. Okay. And this creates something called the SAT. Okay, this is the origin of the SAT. The SAT was founded as a scholarship program to identify the best and brightest students from all over America so that they can come to Harvard and help Harvard be the best university in the world. Okay. Um but now who's angry about the system? Harvard's not happy that the best best students are going to Chicago and John Hopkins. So they bu So they quit the SAT and now the best students are coming to Harvard. Now who's unhappy? >> The rich kids, right? Okay. The alumni, the legacies because before their kids just just their kids can just go to Harvard and have a great time. Now it's hard for them to get in. They have to take a test. And also they're in class with smarter people. Okay. So now Harvard has a problem. On one hand, it wants the best students in America, but on the other hand, it still wants to maintain good relations with its alumni. So that's why it created a new system. Okay? In this new system, grades are not the only factor. Test scores are not are not the only factor. Now it's focused on holistic. >> Holistic. Okay. The new word is holistic. Specifically, character. Just being smart is not good enough. You have to be a good person. You have to be a strong and brave and and virtuous person. Okay? So, they have a new concept called character. But this word was created to basically keep Jews out. Okay? Because Jews are really smart, but Jews like to read books. So, they're not good at sports. And so, like that's not good. We need people who are manly, who are strong, who are brave. We need white people. Okay? Okay. So they developed this holistic system and that's why we have the system that we have today where it's not just test scores, it's essays, it's transcript, it's teacher recommendations because they want to identify the Jews and keep them out. Okay. Today we have the system to identify both the Jews and the Asians to keep them out. Yes. >> They would they would even identify for your household like they would ask for your profile. >> Exactly. Exactly. So all the information that they're looking at today is to identify your ethnicity, your um yeah, they want to keep they basically want to keep Asians out of Harvard. Okay, >> that's it. It's that simple. All right, but but I'll explain I'll explain more as we go along. Okay. All right. Um so the purpose of all these changes is to ensure that Harvard remains the institution of power in America. That doesn't make sense. Harvard is not interested in academics. It's interested in power. Therefore, it must ensure that the people who come to Harvard are the ones who are most likely to succeed. And that's why it doesn't want all Asians. It wants a mix of students. Okay. But I'll explain this later on. Okay. Now, in this new system, there are two key concepts. The first key concept is the idea of secrecy. Okay. Secrecy. Secrecy just means like I'll never tell you why I let you in or why I didn't let you in. I don't have to. Okay. The other is the idea of discretion. Discretion means that I can choose to to let in for no reason. Okay? So in China, if you get a really high score on the gao bay or chin has to let you in. Not not in America. You can be the best student in the world. They don't care if they don't like you. They'll just they'll just say we don't want you. Okay? They have their own institutional reasons to let you in and they'll never tell you. All right? And the system was created to ensure that Harvard is able to recruit the best students in the world. But what's important for us to remember is from Harvard's perspective, best just means the most likely to succeed, not necessarily the best academically oriented student, not the smartest student. Okay. So, let let's run a thought experiment. Okay. Let's just say that you are a Harvard admissions officer and you're presented with four students. Okay? You're Harvard, the best university in the world. Okay? And I give you four students and you you only let in one student, okay? You tell me who you let in. I'll tell you if you're a good admissions officer or not. Okay? Okay. The first is the best math genius from China. Okay. >> Everyone's like, "No." All right. Second is the best basketball player in the world. Okay. Basketball player in America. Okay. >> Okay. The third is the best student in the world. And the fourth is three generations of Harvard. Okay. So your father, your grandfather, your great-grandfather went to Harvard. Who do you let in? >> You guys know the system exactly. Okay. >> You don't even think about it. Like I let in number four. Okay. Because you know that in the world he is the most likely to succeed. You're not interested in educating smart people. All you want to do is graduate rich people. Okay. So, let's but let's just say this guy doesn't exist. Then who who do you let in? >> Exactly. Yep. This guy. Okay. Definitely not this guy. Okay. Definitely not math teachers from China because you know that he's probably just as a math teacher, right? Math professor. Who? We don't want that. Okay. We don't want professors. We don't want lawyers. We don't want doctors. Want people who will be head of a company. One people who will become a famous rock star, one people who will become president of United States. That's what we want. Okay. And um yeah, so either one of these two is fine. No. No. Okay. But we want these guys to apply because that helps us look better, right? We want people to apply so we can reject them so that our metrics look better. Okay. Okay. That does that make sense? Okay. That's how the system works. All right. So, let me explain why they do this. Okay. Why is the system system set like this? The best analogy for Harvard, Yale, and uh sorry, go go ahead. >> Um like does all the uh admission officers in America college doing this intentionally? >> Okay, that's a really good question. Okay, so um if you're the Ivy League, you do this because everyone wants to go to the Ivy League. But if you're an average school, you're actually just trying to recruit students. Okay? So, so this is like the school, this is the mentality of admissions officers for elite schools. But most most schools are just like they want you to come in and pay the tuition. Okay. >> So, why uh the Yale pick you? >> Yeah, I'll explain later on. Okay. Okay. >> All right. So, so Harvard is first and foremost a venture capital firm. Okay. Okay. You're an investment firm. So, let's let's pretend you're a venture capitalist and I give you two options, okay? And you tell me which option you pick. Option one is I want to open a restaurant and I need a million dollars from you. Okay? But guess what, guys? My uncle works for the government. So, I can guarantee that he and his friends will come to my restaurant every single day. And so, there's no risk. There's absolutely no risk involved. I guarantee we'll make at least $500,000 a year. No risk. Five easy money. Okay. Number two is I want to start a website that that's AI and Bitcoin or and uh um all all this. Okay. problem is I don't even know how to write code. I have no experience writing doing a website and my idea isn't really fleshed out. But if it works, we can make $1 billion, guys. Okay, so option one is low risk, really good plan, solid returns, $500,000 a year. Okay, option two is concept, vague idea. I have absolutely no experience doing any of this, but I but we could possibly make a billion dollars. Okay. Which option do you take? Okay. You always take this guys. Okay. Right. Cuz like you don't need $500,000. That's boring. You want a billion dollars and that's the mentality of Harvard. You understand? They want to take a risk on you. They don't want students who are solid and who become a professor. That's boring. Okay? They want crazy people who will change the world because that makes Harvard look good. Okay. Another saying this is they rather so so they rather have a class where 10 people succeed and 999 fail rather than a thousand people succeed slightly. >> Does that make sense? Okay. Why? Because we only remember the 10 people who succeed. >> We forget everyone else. Okay, that's the Harvard mentality and that's why they're the most famous university in the world because they're looking to create as much brand name recognition for themselves as possible. Okay? Right? Does that make sense? All right. Now, how do we know if they succeed or not if you're Harvard? Well, remember the class that we learned last class, which is dissociative personality disorder. And what we discussed last class is in a game, people who are most likely to succeed have this characteristic. Okay? And so I'll explain why using myself as an example because I got into Yale. Okay? So what we're going to do is this. We're going to examine my application to Yale and then we're going to look at how the admissions officers would perceive application and how they would judge my potential. Okay, so three things. The first is what my application actually says. Second is they will examine my background and the third is they will then judge my potential. Okay. All right. So, my application. All right. So, I went to a public high school. It was good, but it's not a private high school. You get better education on a private high school. Plus, it's it's in Canada, okay? Which is like everyone's kind of stupid in in Canada. Okay? So, and I was like top 10 of 200 kids. So, it's good, but it's not number one. It's not number two. It's just top 10. Okay. I was number 10. My SAT was 1,400 out of 1600. and it's like decent, but you know, people are trying to get 1550,500 easily. Okay, so um not not that great. I was on a soccer team. I was not athletic. The soccer team just needed players, so I signed up. Okay. Um I was also editor of the school newspaper. Okay. And I was captain of a quiz team quiz team called Reach for the Top. Okay, so that's a Canadian thing, but I was captain of it. I organized it. Okay, so these three activities, they're fine, but it doesn't really demonstrate leadership potential, right? You're not like head of student government or you're not head of modern United Nations. All right. Um, on my essay, I wrote about Richard Feman who is a physicist. It was a really boring essay. It was I mean like anyone could have written I mean like chat chat could have written it. Okay. It was just a bad essay. My teachers I mean they liked me but they really didn't like me because I seemed aggressive to them. You know I I wanted grades too much. So the word they use is ambitious. They thought I was ambitious. Ambition is a dirty word in Canada. It means you don't play by the rules. It means you're too aggressive. It means you're too pushy. Okay. All right. So this is my application to Yale. As you can see, it is a decent but not a still application. So, how did I get in? Well, because there was some information that they could also derive from application that made them interested in me. Okay, the first is that I was poor. So, I couldn't afford the application fee. I had to um apply for a waiver for my my application sorry for for my um application. Okay. So I was poor because I was an immigrant. So I was born in China in 1976 and my family went over when I was 1980 in 1983 when I was like six. Okay. So I was a poor immigrant in Canada. I transferred high school. So I was I was I was in a poor high school. Then I went to a rich high school. Okay. So basically I switched neighborhoods. My family lived in a poor neighborhood and then I applied to go to a rich high school in a different neighborhood. So I I had to take the subway there every day and I spent like half an hour on the subway. And guess what guys, Canadians don't like that. Okay? Canadians want you to stay where you are and that's it. So when I told my high school principal that I was going to transfer um high school, he got very upset and he said that I'm going to write a discipline letter. Okay, a discipline letter and it's a very serious thing and I'm going to put in your folder so that when you apply to university they will know that you were suspended from the school and and like that that's basically like a really bad thing. Okay. Um, so, um, I got this disc this letter and when when I went to the rich high school, I had no friends. Why? Because they didn't like me. Because they don't like it when someone new comes in. Okay? I didn't know their culture. I I'm sort of like ambitious and I was great grubbing grade grubbing. But the thing is I was desperate because my family was very poor and I wanted a better life. Okay. Okay. So again, they all they know all this, okay? They know I'm a average student and they know that I'm pushy and ambitious and that's why Yale let me in because it's clear from this information that I had dissociative personality disorder. Okay, what what does that mean? It means first of all I'm desperate. Okay, desperate means like if I don't get in Yale I'll probably kill myself. I I mean if I didn't get a Yale I would drown. I couldn't breathe. It was a life life or death issue for me. They can see the desperation. They want that. Okay. Second thing is I was insecure. Okay. If you're insecure person, it means you're not happy with who you are. It means there's a void in your heart. And therefore, the way to fill the insecurity is through achievement. Okay? So, if I made a million dollars, I wouldn't be happy. I would need to go make $2 million. If I made $10 million, I would see people around me who had $100 million and and I would be like, I need I need to go make a billion dollars. Okay? So an insecure person sees the world as a competition and um you're always achieving achieving okay and that's how you succeed okay and the third thing is I was not a moral person okay I was ready to break the rules in order to succeed transgressive okay so I was not supposed to leave leave my poor high school and go to the rich high school. That's breaking the rules in Canada. It's not illegal, but you're not supposed to do that. And I didn't care. The principal said I couldn't do that. I said to him, "Screw off. I'm still going to do it." I went to the rich high school. Everyone said to me, "You're not welcome." I said, "I don't care. I'm I'm going to get my good grades and I'm I'm going to get into the Ivy League. I don't need you guys." Okay? So, they saw the desperation. They saw the insecurity. They saw the hunger and the immorality. And this is part all part of dissociative personality disorder. And that's why they let me in because it's possible I go crazy. Okay, it's it's possible I become depressed, but it's also possible I change the world. Okay, does that make sense? That's how they think because you're a venture capital firm. They're looking for the riskiest investment with the best possible return. looking for people who can become president of the United States, who can change the world, who can make a name for themselves. Because if they do that, that makes Yel look good. So you remember the name. Okay. It's all about brand name recognition. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. Okay. So, you're like, "Okay, well, this is fine, but and what's wrong with the system?" Okay. Why would this be a bad thing? It works. Why would why would this be a bad thing? Well, the problem with this is because Yale, Harvard, and Princeton are so powerful, not only are they looking for people with trauma, okay, I was traumatized as a child, but they're also traumatizing the world. Okay, if that makes sense. All right. So the meritocracy um exists to find people with trauma and because it exists it's traumatizing the world. Okay. So let me explain how and why. Any questions so far? Is this all clear? Yeah. Um so let's say if like the Harvard and Princeton these college students then why why they're still like so famous because um the system is and is is just unreasonable for and unequal for the students who have great uh who who have a good grades. >> Okay. All right. That's a really good question. Okay. Why are Harvard students, Harel students, Princeton students so famous? Okay, the reason why is when you do investment, you don't take you don't do all risky investments. Okay, you always have you always have diversity in your portfolio. So the majority of students are still students who will be successful no matter what. Why? Because their families are rich. >> Okay, so if you're so we go go back to example, right? those four you let in the child who had who comes from three generations of Harvard graduates okay and that's a majority of people who get into Harvard and then you let in the athlete okay so the athlete the legacy these are the people who are the majority those are the safe investments and then you have like 1% of positions for people like me who like you don't really know but there's potential there so let's take a risk okay and quite honestly it's a crapshoot because Um, it's all very discretionary. So, they're basically, it's all intuition, okay? They don't have a formula for this. They think, "This guy is interesting. Let's just let him in." Okay? And it's possible you on an essay, you just wrote something really interesting and they laughed and it's like, "Okay, let's let's take a chance on this guy." They have that 1% of of positions available for risk. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So, I'm not the average Y student. I'm I'm I'm I'm a marginalized Y student. Okay. So um this system the meritocracy the way it's set up it creates trauma. Okay so let me explain why. So let's look at university Yale then we'll look at high school. Okay then we'll look at parenting. Okay so you think oh you get into Yale you can just coast you're happy life is simple. Okay. The fact of the matter is that when you get into Yale, Yale is actually the Hunger Games. Have you read the book The Hung the Hunger Games? >> It is a relentless competition because once you're in Yale, you're still competing, but now you you're competing against the most competitive people in the world. Okay? So maybe at the school, you can be the best student. Your parents love you. You have lots of good friends. You had a student government. You feel really good about yourself. You go to Yale and you recognize that you're a nobody. your parents are far away and you're now in competition with the best students from all around the world who all want to kill you because it's a zero sum game, okay? Own it, stronger, survive. And so everywhere you go, it's a competition in the classroom. Um, it's a seminar style, so you're with 20 other students and the professors asking you questions and you're all competing to impress a professor. Okay. Outside the classroom, you're competing to get into clubs and something called secret societies. Okay? But you're also competing for graduate school, for law school, for medical school, for scholarships like the road scholarship. Okay? So Yale, it sounds nice. Once you get in there, from the first day, it's an endless pursuit of achievement. It's just competition after competition after competition. Wherever you go, you're being judged by someone, okay? You're being judged by the professor or your classmates. and everyone's looking to like basically kill each other because it's a it's a it's a winner take all system. Okay, so this is very traumatic and it makes you so insecure that you go through life thinking thinking like life is just like that. Everyone's an enemy. I have to achieve and achieve in order to feel good about myself. I cannot stop working hard otherwise I will be killed by other people. Okay. So people gradu from Yale have a deep sense of insecurity even those who come from the wealthiest families. Okay? They all they're always looking to achieve and that's what Yale wants. That's what Harvard wants because these are the people who will be most successful in life. Okay? They're not happy with one $1 million. They want a billion dollars. Once they have the billion dollars, they want $10 million. Okay? It never stops. Okay? So to get into Yale, you have to go for high school. and high school has to train you for Yale. So, it's also a competition, also a Hunger Games. Okay? And to train you for high school, the your parents have to have a different parenting system. Okay? So, I'll give you two examples of parenting. Okay? The first system, which is a healthy system, you say to your child, I love you unconditionally. No matter what you do, I will support you. I will always be here for you. And if you say that to your child every day, your child will be happy, fulfilled, and um secure in life. But the person will probably end up as a teacher. Okay? Now you can also say to your child, I don't have time for you, but if you win the swimming competition or you place first on uh your math test or if the teacher say nice things about you, I'll take you for ice cream. Okay? And so it's a system that neglects the child while at the same time demands the child. Okay? And this is trauma. And again, most kids will be traumatized by the system. But there are some kids who will thrive in the system and the trauma will encourage them or drive them to achieve and achieve and achieve so that they get into Yale so they can compete the Hunger Games so they can go on in life and compete some more. Okay? And that's how the system is set up. And this is what we call the meritocracy. And and as I'll explain to you later on, it is destroying America and the world. All right? So that's how the system is set up. And guess what, guys? Is it different in China? Not really. Okay? All right. So the concept of meritocracy has conquered the world. It started in America. It actually started at Harvard, but now it's conquered the entire world. And that's why the world is so messed up. Um, so as you say, the Yale gives you so many uh negative emotions. So will you still go to there if you got a second chance? >> Okay, so that's a really good question. Um, would I go there if I had a second chance? And the answer is probably. Okay, and the reason why is the set system is set up that you don't really have a choice, right? If you want to move ahead in the world and you're poor, what are your options? Right? So before in America um there are opportunities for poor people to succeed. So for example, George Washington, the first president of United States, he never went to college. Abraham Lincoln didn't go to the Ivy League. And these are two are considered the two greatest presidents in American history. Unfortunately today, if you look at the presidents, if you look at the top people, they all went to the elite schools. Okay? So the system is set up so that if you if you want to succeed, you have to go through the Ivy League. But I do not plan to send my kids to the Ivy League. Okay. The last thing I would do is have them in such a competitive traumatic environment as the Ivy League. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. All right. Any more questions? So, so thank you for your question. Any more questions before I move on? Okay. So, let's do a PBT and I'll explain to you how America is destroying the world. Okay. Sorry about this. Okay. So I I I actually need to go back to the beginning. Okay. Death by meritocracy. All right. So let's go. Okay. So if you from this um graph, what you can see is this. In the year 1875, the best universities in the world were actually not in America. They were in Germany. Germany was producing the most Nobel Prize winners. Second was France followed by the UK. Okay. and America was non-existent but because of its investments in research universities it started to move up and up and then it it won World War II so now it can import all these German scientists and that's why it dominates today so the best universities in the world are now America are in America Harvard Yale and Princeton okay um now as university get better and better they're letting more students okay and as you can See, more and more American students are now going to college. Before in 1940, it was only about 5% of all males who went to university. Today, it's almost um it's 35% basically. Okay, so that's a huge step. And you would think that with the increase in um college graduates, America will become a much more equal society, right? Well, the opposite has happened. Okay. Um, America has become a much more unequal society. Um, there's something called the genie coefficient which measures inequality. And as you can see, um, these past 20 years, it's gone way up. It's among the highest in the world. Meaning, America right now is one of the most unequal societies in the world. even though it it mo even though um over a third of its young people go and graduate from college. This is a graph of social mobility. Okay. So uh the graph the top the top this number shows you um if the number of people who are doing better than their parents as you can see in the year 1940 most people are doing better than their parents but over time it's no one's doing better than their parents. Okay so your generation um you will not do better than your parents most of you. Okay. um in in income inequality has gone way up the United States, the top 1% control most of the wealth in the United States as you can see from this map. Okay. So even though America has become wealthier, it's actually going to just the 1%. At the same time, univers universities are becoming much more expensive. Okay? So this is leading to student debt. You can see how student debt, student loans has gone way up. So in America, student loans, student debt is the only type of debt that you can never ever get rid of. You can't declare bankruptcy. You can this debt cannot be getting be gotten rid of. Okay? When you die, it passes on to your children. Okay? So um this is a terrible situation for young people in America. This is actually more stark graph where tuition has gone way up but wages have stayed pretty stagnant. Okay. Um and it's leading to depression among teenagers. Okay. And um also the thing about this graph is the middle class and wealthy students are much more likely to be depressed and identify as depressed than poor students. Right. So this is linear crisis in America. So why are we why what what has happened? Well, you have two individuals who create the meritocracy. The first is named James B. Conit and he was president of Harvard for a couple decades and he was a person who brought brought the SAT in order to identify scholarship students and he made Harvard into the best research university in America. Okay. And he was determined to make Harvard into the best university in the world as well as an institution of power in America. Meaning that it would now decide who wins and who loses in America. The man who would help him is named Harry Tony. He was dean of Harvard who was in charge of a scholarship program. Then he got a new job at a new new organization new organization called ETS. You know ETSs because it's education testing services. They're the ones responsible for the SAT, the TOEFL, the AP, the GRE. Okay? So, these two together create the modern meritocracy. And as you can imagine, because you're both from Harvard, the entire system is set up to benefit Harvard. >> Okay? And guess what, guys? It worked. Okay? So, in the year 1940, 90% of applicants for Harvard got accepted. Now it's gone way down to 5%. Okay, Stanford is even lower. Okay, so now it's so hard to get to Harvard. At the same time, look at the cash of Harvard. Okay, this is called the endowment. The amount of money they have at Harvard is just ridiculous. They have more money than most countries in the world right now. Their endowment is about $40 billion. Okay? And it's just the past 30, 40 years. The success of the Harvard alumni is just incredible. The most billionaires in America, Harvard graduates, more billionaires than any other place. Okay? 127 uh billionaires in 2024. Second is Stanford. All right? No one else comes close. But not only that, but it's also anyone with with over $und00 million. Most of them graduate from Harvard. Okay? 7% of all sorry 7 7% of all people in America who have over $100 million in net worth graduate from Harvard. Okay. Then you have MIT, Stanford, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Princeton. Guess what, guys? Ivy League plus MIT. Okay. Okay. $30 million still Harvard is number one. Okay. All right. So, their graduates are the most successful in America. Okay, but it's not just rich people. It's everyone in the American elite. Okay, most of them are graduates of the elite universities. Okay, so this is a article in Nature and they looked at all the elite in America and what they discovered is they all most of them went to certain schools, the elite universities. Um, and this is what's causing a lot of political conflict in America today. All right. So, let's just look at what they found. The red is Harvard graduates. Okay. The green are Harvard plus Ivy League. And as you can see, Harvard is everywhere. Even among generals, admirals, there's Harvard people. Okay? They dominate in terms of philosophers and professors, but they're everywhere. Even politer prize winners, billionaires, New York Times bestselling authors, Fortune 500 CEOs, federal judges, senators. Okay, they're everywhere. And that's the power of Harvard. This is a this is a portion of of Harvard graduates compared with the general population. This is the portion of Harvard graduates compared with the elite. Okay, you see you see the contrast. So Harvard and Ivory League dominate America today. Okay. Now, what's amazing is Harvard people don't know they dominate Harvard. They don't know their elite. So they did a survey and so they asked people in these elite organizations, how many people do you think in this organization went to Harvard and other elite universities? So the red is the actual number, the blue is the estimate. So Harvard, they really don't even know they dominate America. Okay. If you ask them like, "No, it's conspiracy theory." No, you spread conspiracy theories. We're just average people. There's no way Harvard controls America. All right. Now, um, as I mentioned at Harvard, just going to Harvard is not enough. You have to join the elite social clubs, the social secret societies. So at Harvard there's a place like the at Harvard everyone should join a more porcelain club. Okay. Um at Princeton is the Ivy club. Okay. These are secret societies or they're not really secret but they're senior they're senior societies. Okay. They're clubs that everyone should join. At Yale it's skull and bones. Okay. Skull and bones is the most famous college secret society. They're not that secret because they they like to brag that that they're um um skull and bones. They're so powerful that they produce a lot of presidents, a lot of rich people. Okay, 2004. Okay. Um, George W. Bush versus John Kerry. Guess what, guys? John Kerry is the Democratic nominee. George Bush is Republican nominee, right? They're both skull and bones. They're both Yale skull and bones. Okay. So, it's a rigged game. Barack Obama. Okay, Barack Obama, Colombia, went to Harvard Law School, but he promised hope and change. He told people in 2008 that the game is rigged against them, that he would be their champion, that he would make America more fair. Okay? And he won. Why? Because well, sorry. So this is this is his book Dreams My Father. Um it was a New York Times bestseller. It it basically launched his political career. Um he won because in 2008 the US economy collapsed. Why? Because the US banks, the US political system was controlled by Ivy League graduates, by just people who were friends with each other. And so they cheated. They became corrupt. Okay? They basically destroyed the American economy. and people protested uh against all this and Barack Obama promised that we come in and do something about it. Okay. Well, he did he did do something about it. All right. So, his e economic team, he appointed quite a few individuals. These these are the two most famous. Larry Summers who was a Harvard graduate as well as as a president of Harvard and he was treasur secretary under Bill Clinton and he was the guy who created the mess in the first place and then Tim Gner who's a Dartmouth graduate and he was a treasure secretary. Okay, so these are friends of Wall Street who came in to save Wall Street. So a lot of critics say you know it's Wall Street who created this mess who destroyed the American economy. they should be punished or at least they should feel some pain. If you just let them go and help them out and save them, then you create a problem called moral hazard. The idea of moral hazard is if you don't have have any consequences for your mistake, you will do it again. Okay? And then there Summer said, "No, no, you guys are seeing it incorrectly. We have to save the American economy. The goal is not to save the banks and my friends. the goal is to save the American people and the American economy and that's why we're bailing out the banks by giving them free money. Okay? And then the critics were like, "Well, how about all these American homeowners who've lost their homes? Shouldn't we help them as well?" And and you know what Larry Summer said? Moral hazard, guys. Do you understand? Moral hazard. If we help out these ordinary Americans, they won't learn anything. Okay. So, as you can see, people were angry. The banks got saved. The people got screwed over. And guess what, guys? Because because of this, who who did we get? This guy. >> Okay, this is why he won. There were millions of Americans who voted for Barack Obama because he promised hope and change. And then they voted for Donald Trump because he promised destroy the system. Okay, that's why we have Donald Trump. Now, funny story about Donald Trump and Barack Obama. So, Barack Obama and Donald Trump were always adversaries. In fact, Donald Trump led a movement uh which accused Barack Obama of not being being born in America. Um it's he's born in America, but Donald Trump is saying no, no, he he was actually born in Nigeria. His father is from Nigeria. So, Barack Obama made fun of Donald Trump. 2011 there's a big dinner, the White House correspondence dinner where where Barack Obama gets on gets on stage and he makes fun of Donald Trump. Okay? He says, "Hey, if Donald Trump ever became president, this is what the White House would look like. It'd be a casino." Okay? And this is funny, right? Donald Trump was in the audience that day >> and everyone was laughing at him and that's what motivated Donald Trump to become president of United States. >> Okay. So thank Obama for Donald Trump. Without Obama, there would be no Donald Trump. >> Okay. So it's not just Barack Obama. It's a lot of people in the American political class. They're just soulless um robots. Okay. This this this this man is JD Vance. He's the vice president for Donald Trump. like like Barack Obama, he wrote a book, a really a bestseller called Hillbilly Elegy. And it's possible he becomes president of the United States as well. Now, you may not know this, but when he first came into prominence, he opposed Donald Trump. He thought that Donald Trump would be a fascist and be a dictator and all that. And then suddenly he changes his opinion and said Donald Trump is the greatest guy in the world. Okay, so these guys like JD Vance and Barack Obama, they have no ideas of their own. They're just puppets. They just they just um tell people what they want to hear. All they know is achievement. Okay. So, another example of this, this man's name is Johnny Kim. Okay? And he'll probably run for president of the United States one day or at least be a US senator. Why? Why do I mention him? Guess what, guys? He was a Navy Seal, which is a which is the top position you can ever achieve in the military. He was he was a secret soldier. Okay? He was he went to Harvard medical school became a doctor. Then he joined NASA became an astronaut. >> This is like the ideal Ivy League graduate. Okay. This is what Harvard wants. >> Now why is he able to do all this? Well, because this is his Wikipedia entry. Okay. In 2002, the police went into his house and killed his father. He was there and he saw the police killed his father. He was traumatized for life. His father was a domestic abuser. The father was violent, crazy, hit him all the time. Okay? So, he has dissociative personality disorder. And in fact, if you look at most of the of these really successful people, they do have dissociative personality disorder. And that's why he was able to do all that. Do all this because he turned the trauma into an energy to drive him to greater and greater achievement. The problem though is he has no ideas of his own. He's just a puppet, guys. Okay. So, let's conclude and summarize why the meritocracy is so great. Um, it creates this extreme inequality in America. Okay. So, um, it destroyed the school system because all people care about are the grades now, right? People don't even care about learning anymore. All all they want are the grades. In fact, if you get a bad grade, you'll probably complain to the teacher. In which case, the teacher is not afraid to teach you because if the teacher tries to challenge you, make you a better student, you'll just complain. Okay? And your and if you don't if you don't succeed, your parents will come and complain. Okay? Uh, traumatized children. Okay. Okay, >> if you look at the rate of mental illness in China, in America, it's just insane. >> Death of American dream and social mobility, you're not going to be richer than your parents. You're just not. Uh concentration of wealth, power, and status in the 1%, the rich, the riches get richer. Political divide between left and right. Okay, so you have all these political divisions right now in America. Corruption. So, Wall Street just steals and steals and steals and no one can do do anything about it. destruction of American identity, globalization, immigration, woke ideology, okay? Uh incompetent and mismanagement. You look at COVID, you look at the fact that America now has $37 trillion in debt. An elite that is soulless, mediocre, and unimaginative. Okay? Barack Obama, JD Vance, this guy Johnny Kim. Okay? They're just they're just robots. Oh, and Donald Trump. Okay? So, thank you American meritocracy for destroying the world. Okay. All right, questions, guys. I I know this was a lot to take in, but do you have any questions? You're all depressed and sad >> still >> and shocked. Yeah, we have a question. Thank you. like is there a way to get rid of all those bad uh impacts of this? I mean like is there some suggestions for us to help us better develop ourself uh not just using this system? >> Okay, great question. Okay, so the real solution is to destroy the Ivy League. Okay, and there are different ways you can destroy the Ivy League. The best way is to make them public, right? To make to to have for the government to come in and control them because a lot of the issues stems from the fact that these are institutions that only care about their own power. Okay? So, the government were in charge. Um, they wouldn't be so powerful and secretive. Okay? So, that's the best solution. It's not going to happen because Harvard, as you can see, it's too powerful as well as Yale. So, um, as an individual, your best option is to recognize how evil the system is and choose to learn for yourself, okay? Because when you go to Yale or Harvard or Princeton, you think you're learning, but you're not. You're being indoctrinated and being brainwashed and being traumatized to be turned into basically a robot that's only focused on success. So you need to recognize this. Be truthful to yourself and focus on real learning. Okay. So what do I mean by that? Okay. So let me um sorry let let me um explain. Okay. So success what is real success? Well before the meritocracy you didn't have to go to college but you you need to have certain values and attitude. Okay. So, the first was to be open-minded. What and so recognize that you have a lot to learn and ask questions, learn from other people. Okay? And what people recognized was failure is the best teacher. Why? Because failure forces reflection, right? and resilience which leads to learning. Okay. And this is a model that most people understood before the meritocracy. Keep an open mind, make mistakes because if you make mistakes, you will learn from them naturally and then you can reflect and then you can be become resilient and then you'll grow and grow and then you will achieve your true potential. Okay. The meritocracy has destroyed this system. Why? Because now we just want you to focus on grades. Okay? And to get good grades, you cannot fail. Do you understand? Failure now is a problem. If you fail a class, you may learn a lot from your failure, but it won't look good on your GPA, right? It will destroy your GPA and you won't get into Harvard. Okay? You don't have failure. You cannot have reflection. You cannot have resilience. Also before you had time for yourself. Nowadays every minute is organized for you right you come to school the school day is very long then you have lots of homework and then you have activities then you have to have dinner then all that you don't have any you don't even have time to just think for yourself to just chill and do what you want to do. Okay it's intentional. Okay. So, destroying reflection. You don't have any resilience and so you can't learn anything. So, the so it's a really bad system because if you're like me, okay, you're just a normal person. Your family your family's not rich or powerful and you go to Y Harvard, it actually makes you fail in life. Okay, let me explain why. Okay, the first is it makes you arrogant. It makes you it makes you think I went to Yale therefore I know more than everyone else so I don't have to ask questions. I don't have to learn anymore. Okay. Um second is that it makes you you utilitarian. You only care about things that help you succeed. You're not actually interested in real learning anymore. Okay. And the third thing is all you care about is success. So you're narrow-minded. you don't want to explore. Okay, you're not so creative anymore. Okay, so it's it's a great system if you come from a rich family because this system trains you to to go into power. But if you're just like me and you need to work hard and be talented uh and be committed to your passion in order to succeed, this actually destroys all that. And that's why um probably most traumatized people in America are those who came from poor families who had the dream of going to Ivy League who got in Ivy League and then they just failed in life because they don't have the ability to succeed. They don't have the reflexive ability. They don't they don't have the resilience. They're not open-minded. They don't accept failure. They're not committed to learning. They're only committed to success. Okay? So if you're rich, go to Harvard and Yale and Princeton because you'll become more rich. But if you're a poor person, going to these schools may be a mistake. Okay? Certainly for me, um it was a mistake because after I graduated, I stumbled through life. For me, it was just failure after failure after failure because I want to succeed right away. Okay? I refused to put the time and effort to learning a real skill and learning a real passion. Um and so um in my 30s, late 20s, early 30s, I became really depressed and honestly I thought about killing myself and um I was playing video games every single day. I just hid in my parents' basement and so um I was traumatized by it. And it took me a long time to get over the trauma and recognize this is a false system. Okay, Yale traumatized me and I need to relearn to be open-minded, to embrace failure, to be resilient, to embrace learning. Okay? And that's why I'm a teacher today to teach you guys that to be successful in life, this is the formula. Okay? You don't need Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. All right? All right. Any more questions, guys? Yep. >> Well, um, can we do both like open-minded and get the grades and being rich? >> Okay. >> Is it a possible thing? >> Yeah, that's a great question. Thank you. Okay. All right. Okay. So, I'm I'm going to have to go into some psychology here. Okay. But psychologists have discovered that we have two modes of being. Okay. There's the altruistic mode and there's the utilitarian mode. Okay. Okay. So, utitarian is what we call fight or flight. >> Okay. Uh altruistic is just family and connections. So, imagine we're back in the village. Okay. And most of the time we are Yeah. But you but you said that all the psychology is just brainwashing. >> Okay. I Yes. Psychology is not all brainwashing. There's some valid validity to it. Okay. And so I'm not saying this is sic fact. I'm just saying this is a good way to understand how things work. Okay. All right. All right. So you you so in the village we spend most of the time being close to other people, right? We want to be friends with other people. So we help each other out. But sometimes um we have to be very utarian. So for example um if there's if there's not enough food okay or we're being attacked guess what run man >> okay so there are these two mindsets and what psychologist have discovered is they are mutually exclusive. It's either one or the other. The other thing that they discovered is the altruistic mindset is what leads to creativity. Okay. Creativity um and passion and love. Okay. The and the utarian mindset is one that's focused on rewards. Okay. Like grades. So it is impossible to both want have really good grades as well as help the world. But what's interesting is Harvard wants that. Okay. So in your application, you have to say to Harvard, I have a passion. I will die for my passion, but at the same time, I want to be a billionaire and I will die trying to be a billionaire. At the same time, I know it's important to be loyal to Harvard. So I I will die being loyal to Harvard. Okay? And the only people who can do this are people who have dissociative personality disorder. Okay? And they can they can test for that in your application. They're so experienced that they know exactly how you think. Okay? They all like, "Come on, guys. You would not apply to Harvard if you're not if you're not utilitarian." Okay? Right? But you have to pretend you're not. And that's what makes people crazy. Okay? Because you're basically an actor. Harvard wants the best actors in the world. They want people to go for like pretending something they're not. Okay? They want Barack Obama. The problem with Barack Obama is he's soless. He stands for nothing. Okay? In 2008, he promised people hope and change. The moment he gets in office, he's like, "Sorry, man. I was just joking. Why did you believe me?" Okay. Then in 20 2012, when it's time for reelection, he said, "Oh, you know what? I want hoping change." Okay? In 2016, he's like, "You know what? Screw that. I'm I'm I'm gonna go water skiing now." Okay. So, the man is actually soulless, sense of nothing. All right. Any more questions, guys? Okay, great. So, thanks for today and uh I'll see you guys after the break. Okay, so we'll continue this after the break.

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Okay, so welcome back from the break. Today I want to talk about an incident that happened in October 2015 at Yale University. What happened was this um Halloween is coming up and in Halloween people like to dress up silly, get drunk, have a good time. and a university department called the intercultural affairs committee sent an email to students saying it's Halloween you guys want to have fun that's fine but please be sensitive about the feelings of other people. So for example do not dress up like a panda because we have Chinese students and they might be offended if you dress up like a panda. Okay, so this email went out to all the students at Yale and one teacher who works at a resident residential college called Silleon. Okay. So Yale the university is divided into dormitories called residential colleges and she is a dean with her husband of this college called Silleon and to her students she writes an email and says that she didn't agree with the university email. She says that a university is a place for you to explore, experiment and make mistakes. So yes, be sensitive about the feelings of others, but we trust you to make mistakes and to recover from them. Okay. So um the debate was essentially over safe space versus free space. The university said that safe space is important. We must respect the feelings of others. But the dean of Sillein, her name is Erica Kustakis. She believes the idea of free space. So a university is a place for debate, for questioning, for experimentation. And yes, feelings will be hurt. That's part of the growing up process, the intellectual process. So let me ask you a question. Do you guys agree with number one who argues for safe space or number two Erica Kakus who argues for free space? What do you think? Can sorry can can you speak into the mic please? >> Of why do I >> Yeah. Why do you believe number two is cor number one and number two is correct? Oh, because I think that university is a place that you could explore yourself, you know, jump out of your comfort zone and try the things that you never had experienced before. >> Okay. Who disagrees? Who believes it's more important to respect the feelings of others? >> And like if if the college prohibit these on dressing that maybe be offensive to other uh students. It's just in the campus. If you like walk out in the society, it still will have the people like wants to uh dress maybe like a panda or something. So, um I think it's I think it's like necessary to like to um to well uh Yeah. >> Okay. All right. Any other opinions? Any other opinions? Okay. So, you say we start the rules, right? I think I think it depends on who decided. It feels like for myself I think free space will be more important. I need to explore what I want but for being as a leader being as a head of the college I think safe space will be more important for them because they need to take in control. >> Okay. Right. But the problem is this is a conflict. Right. >> If the teachers care about safe space you cannot have free space. >> Mhm. >> Right. So the question then is what do you think in principle is more important free space or safe space? >> Safe space. >> Okay. >> Okay. All right. Okay. So yeah. So most students believe safe space is more important and this marks a generational shift because when I was growing up there's no debate. It was just assumed that free space is more important because if you're not allowed to make mistakes, if you're not allowed to explore, if you're not allowed to argue with other people, if your feelings don't get hurt, you will never grow as a person. Okay? So, this marks a generational divide or generational gap. Okay. So, um we're going to look at what happened because of this debate. So, the students who read the email were offended that Erica Kristakus was arguing for free space because they believed that by doing this you're going to hurt our feelings. All right? And so, let's look at what happened. And remember, this is Yale University. So what's happening is that when Chris Nicholas Kristakis, the husband of Erica Kristakis went to a meeting, he was surrounded by students >> and they're confronting you. Okay, there's like 100 students racism here telling you that you are being racist. You were being offensive. You admitted that you hurt us. Why can't you say sorry hurt you? I'm sorry. One at a time, please one at a time. It's very easy for any trivial world of mine to be misinterpreted. So, I'm one at a time. I'm happy to speak to you as much as you want. I can't speak as much because I have other students that need time as well. So, unfortunately, a little bit. >> Okay. So, look, I'm not saying which side is correct. Okay? Both sides have legitimate points. Both sides have problems. But you will notice that he the professor, he's much older than the students. And the students are treating him, you can see their faces, right? They're treating him with some contempt and that's not appropriate. >> And when I was growing up, we didn't do this. >> If you didn't like a professor, you thought, well, he's an And but you know what? Most professors are  because they're professors. Okay? You didn't you did not go and like stalk the guy and complain to him. That's kind of disrespectful. All right. So the question then is why is this happening? So I want to show you another video. And this video is kind of crazy. introvertly learn. >> Okay, this video you understand that as your decision of matter, it is your job to create a place of comfort and home for the students that live in Silus. >> You have not done that. By sending out that email, that goes against your position as master. Do you understand that? >> No, I don't agree with that. >> Then then why the did you accept the position? because I have >> Bob hired you. >> Okay, so this is not appropriate. Okay, again both sides have legitimate points, but this is not appropriate, right? Because what she's saying to him is you work for us. Your job is to make us feel at home. And his response is that my job is to help you learn. My job is to help you grow. And that means openness. That means debate. That means pain. And her response is, "I don't want that crap. I want to feel good. I want to feel at home. I don't be challenged." And if you think about it, that defeats the entire point of university. So again, I'm not saying who's right. Um I'm not saying who's wrong, but clearly there's a problem here. And when I went to Yale a long time ago, we didn't have any of this. In fact, this sort of incident where a student would curse a professor, it was unimaginable to us. Okay. So the question then is why is this happening? And there are three explanations for why this is happening. The first explanation is parenting. These kids grew up in very privileged households and their parents are very protective of them and their parents treat them like friends and so these kids are spoiled. Okay, that's the first explanation. The second explanation is the idea of a consumerous mentality. So in a university the idea is that the students are consumers. the customers and the customers are always right. What the customers want you have to give them. So if the customers want a safe space, they want to come and enjoy their time at university and they don't really challenge that the professors have to meet their demands otherwise he should not have this job. Okay. And this is a mentality that we call neoliberalism or consumerism. Okay? That's the second explanation. Okay. The third explanation is ideological. So the idea is that at universities, universities are overrun by leftwing professors who teach students that society is racist against minorities who happen to be, you know, black and female. and they must overturn the white racist supremacist structure and you do that by telling white professors who are privileged that they are racist. Okay, so these are three standard explanations for why this is happening because this sort of stuff is happening quite a lot in America. What I want to argue to you today is that there's actually another explanation which I think is much more compelling. And the explanation is that universities have become bureaucracies. Before universities existed to teach you how to think, to help professors do cutting edge research that helps a society improve or innovate. But today universities including Yale, Harvard, all the universities have become bureaucracies that exist in order to promote the interests of the administrators who want to sit in their office, get really nice uh get get a really big salary and feel good about themselves. Okay, that's the argument I will make to you today. And what I will show you is that this is not just true for universities. It's true for every major organization in America and in the western world and arguably all around the world. Okay, that's the argument I will make to you today. Any questions before I begin? All right. Okay. So today's lecture is death by bureaucracy. how the idea of bureaucracy, the bureaucratic mindset is taking over the world. All right, so let's talk about another incident at Yale. Okay, this is Yale Law School and a student named Trevor Colbert. He sends an email. He has a party. He sends an email to all the students at Yale Law School. And there there are actually not that many students at Y Law School. There's maybe 300, okay? But all the students get it. and he says that he's going to organize a party and it's it's a trap house party. And you know, it's it's a bit of a joke because trap house means actually a drug house, a place where drug dealers sell uh drugs. But black students, African-American students, read the email and they're offended and they're like, "Are you making fun of black students?" So, they write a letter of complaint to the deans of Yale Law School. And there are two deans who investigate. Okay, their names are Eldic and Koskov. Okay, and they said and what Trevor Cobert does is he actually records the meeting. Okay, secretly 20 for 20 minutes they talk. And basically Colbert does not believe he did anything wrong. He sent an email and he said it it was a funny email. He thought it was funny. Okay. But the deans tell him, "You think it's funny, but other students found it offensive. So, you need to apologize. And Cobbert's like, "Okay, well, I'll tell you what. If these students thought that what I wrote was offensive, then I will talk to them. We will talk together about why they found my email offensive and we will settle this amongst ourselves." And the dean's like, "No, no, no. We want to we want to help you guys out. We want to protect you guys. We're afraid that you guys meet, you guys will fight even more. And Trevor Corbert's like, "Well, I want to hear what they think. I don't want to hear this from you. I want to hear what they think." Okay. And and then what happens is that the deans start to threaten Trevor Colbert. They basically tell him, "These things amplify over time, so you must apologize right away for your sake." Okay? and they tell him, "Listen, if you do not apologize, then this might affect your career. This might affect your social circle." Okay? So, they're threatening him. And what they say is, "We're doing this for your sake." Okay? Eric says he worries about the email affecting students reputation, not just here, but when you leave. You know, the legal community is a small one. And he says, "You know what? I will write the email for you. I will craft the apology for you." And cost warns that escalation is a possibility if the student doesn't apologize. Okay, so this is coercion. And again, the student, it's not clear what the student did wrong. Some students found it offensive, but it's not clear what rules or what laws, what regulations Trevor Covert broke. Okay, it's not clear. So why is this happening? Okay, my argument to you is that it's happening because these guys cost and elic they need things to do because being a dean of a university, it's not a real job, right? They're professors who teach, there are researchers who do research, but deans actually don't do anything. So when you have a bureaucracy, bureaucrats go make problems for everyone in order to create solutions for everyone. Okay? So another way of saying this is 20 years ago, 30 years ago when I was a student at Yale, if you had a problem, you had to go talk to a professor because there was no one else to talk to. Nowadays, you can talk to like 20 or 30 different deans, dean of student affairs, dean of student faculty relation, who knows? Okay, but there are like all these offices they can go to and quite honestly the same at the school as well, right? If you don't like me as a teacher, there's like four or five different people you complain you can complain to and quite honestly a lot of you do complain. Okay, so I know about this and and what this is happening is these university have become bureaucracies. Now the question then is why the bureaucracies and the answer is in the beginning as a university you have to build up your reputation right so you work hard uh you focus on teaching you focus on research so it's a struggle to become a global brand once you become that global brand there's nothing else to do there's no more ideology there's more struggle so what happens is the people in charge start engaging in rent seeking behavior they take advantage of the position in order to make their life easier and then they pass on this privilege to their friends and then to their children and this creates a bureaucracy and the university starts to exist in order to empower these people at the expense of students and professors. Okay. All right. So to show you how ridiculous this has become, here's an example. This is from CNN, okay? And this is the year 2020. A University of South California professor is under fire for using a Chinese expression students alleg sounds like an English slur. Okay? So, there's a Chinese word that sounds like an racial slur, >> an insult in English. >> These two words actually do not sound the same. Okay? You know what the word is, right? Okay. They It's not the same as the English word, but it sounds a bit similar. So, what happened was some black students, African-American students who are not in his class, okay? >> Wrote a letter of complaint. And honestly, if you read it, it sounds like a joke. It sounds like a prank, right? So, let's read it together. Let's let's Okay, so this is professor Greg Patton, and he's just teaching communication Chinese. He's just teaching Chinese to his students on how to communicate in China when you do business. Okay? and he and he says, "Look, nga, it's just a feeler. It doesn't really mean anything." And he says it a few times, but there's no there's no bad intention what he's saying, right? I mean, he's he's just pointing out a fact. So, what these students write is this phrase clearly and precisely before instruction is always identified as a phonetic hunter and a racial derogatory term and should be carefully used especially in the context of speaking Chinese within the social context of the United States. Okay, so this is a ridiculous idea and honestly it sounds like a joke. Okay, it just sounds like these students are playing a joke and and the prof and the administration just ignore this, right? Guess what happens? The dean, okay, the head of the business school announced that a different professor would take over teaching Patton's class. He fired Patton. And then he said, "Professor Patton repeated several times a Chinese word that sounds very similar to a vile racial slur in English. Understandably, this caused great pain and upset among students. And for that, I am deeply sorry. It is simply unacceptable for faculty to use words in class that can marginalize, hurt, and harm the psychological safety of our students. We must and we will do better." Okay, he's being It's a joke. It's a prank. And and he's taking it very seriously. Why? Because he's trying to protect his job. He's trying to look good. He's trying to explain why I'm the leader because I protect everyone. Okay. So then again, what is why is this happening? Well, again, the idea of bureaucracy. So this is a University of California, San Diego. This is student enrollment. Okay, so you can see a slight increase in student enrollment. But look at this. Senior management, deans, administrators, managers. Boom. Okay. Boom. This is called rent seeeking behavior. This is people in power take advantage of their power to give jobs to their friends who do nothing every day. And because of that, they're always looking to cause problems for everyone else, especially professors who do real work. Okay. So, let's just look at universities. As you can see, um the blue is teaching. So, what's really interesting is that the investment in teaching has gone down. Okay? So, the investment in teaching has gone down the blue. Okay? But look at this. The red is administration. So over the past from 1980 to today, over the past 40 years, universe have put less money into both um administration as well as maintenance, but have put more money into administration, into bureaucracy. Okay, this is where your money is going, guys. All right, so this is Illinois. You see a massive surge in managers at but the same time student enrollment is going down. It went down 3%. All right. So this is a paper written about the Swedish education system. The higher education system system. Okay. It's it's no different anywhere else. All right. So let's so the argument is that bureaucracy is ballooning in Swedish higher education. So let's look at some interesting statistics. All right. So what's happening is that this chart tells you that teachers are teaching more and more students. Okay? >> Teachers are teaching more and more students but administrators are managing less and less students. And the reason why is teachers are fewer and fewer but managers are more and more. That makes no sense. Okay. Um, so you can see that teachers and researchers it's pretty flat. Okay. It hasn't really expand that much but secretaries people who do real work it's going down but managers are going up. Okay. So if the university is facing problems the first thing you should cut are the people who do no work. Right? But it's the opposite. People who do no work the managers keep their jobs and in fact they pay themselves more. the professors and the maintenance and the secretaries lose their jobs to cut costs. Okay. Um this is how much they're paid. As you can see over the same time period, secretaries are getting paid less and less. Teachers are getting paid less and less. But look at this. Managers are getting paid more and more. Uh these are the different departments, okay, of a university. So, as you can see, okay, the the the jobs, the departments that do real work, IT, uh, HR, they're going down, but management is going up, right? So, the people who do absolutely no work, their jobs keep on going up and up, and they get paid more and more. And as I said, the problem of bureaucracy is not only do managers do nothing every day, but they expect others to do more work. Okay. So, professors, researchers, teachers, they're doing more work because the managers are giving them more paperwork to do, okay, like evaluations and all that. So, professors spend all now almost 20% of their workday on paperwork given to them by managers. And this paperwork is not necessary. It's just given to them to justify the jobs of the managers. Okay. This is America. We go back to America. And as you can see, um, this is a university called Galidat debt. And as you can see over a 20-year period, there's a blue are the salaries of professors, and it's pretty stable. Okay, you went from 72 to 86. Not a huge increase, but look for managers. Okay, the president, it doubled from 141 to 28 280. it doubled. Right now, the salaries are over three times as much as faculty. Um, this is Connecticut. At Yale, the president makes $2 million a year. At Wesland, he makes $3 million a year. Okay. Um, this is a private university called Stratford University. And they went bankrupt. Right now more and more universities are going bankrupt because obviously you have too many managers and all they do is um get huge paychecks for doing nothing. Eventually you're going to go bankrupt, right? So yeah. >> Okay. Sorry to interrupt, but the school the school board is not stupid. So I mean this is a fact. And so why why don't they just change anything? >> That's a great question. Okay. The reason why is they're all friends. the school board, the president, the vice president, they're all friends. And that's why they can do this because they control all the power. They're all friends. And it's in their best interest to steal together, right? Because if you steal by yourself, then you might get caught. But if you steal together, then you're untouchable. Okay? So this is exactly what happens at Stratford University. The university goes bankrupt. And because the president and the vice president are stealing from the university, stealing because they are um not only collecting huge paychecks, but they're also expensing everything to the university. So for example, they buy a car or they have a gym membership, they charge the university. And if the university can't pay for it, what they do is they lend money to the university. Okay? All right. So Schultz is a president. He lists himself and his wife as the biggest creditors claiming that the university owes the couple 2.5 million for eight promisory notes. Okay. So, the university could not pay uh their cars or their house mortgages. And it's like and the sourc [Music] went bankrupt like okay now you have to pay me back. All right. So, so again how were they able to do this? Because the filings also shed light on payments to university insiders in its final year of operation. The college paid out of over 30,000 in segments to seven trustees. So the people at the top were getting paid off even as university was going bankrupt. Though the filing doesn't differentiate which expenses were Richards and which were Maryann's, the filings for 2020 alone showed over 18,000 in lease and insurance payments for the shorts cars. Okay, so they had cars and they were making university pay for these cars over 4.7 million in loan payments and collateral return to Eagle Bank on behalf of Schultz. Okay, so they also making the university pay for their houses as well. And then you're like, how could they do this? Well, the answer is because in America, the rich always wins in the court system. >> So whoever is able to hire the best lawyers always wins out and they have a lot of money. The university is bankrupt. They don't have a lot of money so they will win out. Okay. So I point this out because this is going to what this is what's going to happen to many universities over the next 5 10 years in America because you have a system where you have the managers at the top. They all best friends. They're all stealing from the university together and eventually the university will bankrupt. So that's America. Okay. But it's not again it's not just universities. This is every bureaucracy. is every organization is happening like this. So you look at Canada in Canada you can see a rise of 9% in the population but look at the government okay it's went up by 26%. Um in America you can see a sharp decline in manufacturing jobs starting in about the 1980s because these jobs are being offshored to China but at the same time you see this steady increase in government jobs. Okay. So people in America are doing less real work and more and more people are becoming bureaucrats. Okay. So as you can see the growth in the government is usually in management. Okay. People will real work no it's pretty flat but look at the managers look at the administrators. Okay they're going way up and it's a pretty steady increase. All right. So how do we know the government doesn't really do anything? Okay, so there's a study that shows us that um it's looking at rules. Okay, so rules help society be more efficient. So as you can see um the number of rules have gone down actually number of significant rules, rules that actually impact you day-to-day have gone way down. But this is interesting, the paperwork has gone up. Okay. So, this tells us the managers, the administrators in the federal government of of the United States, they don't do anything but produce paperwork that's meaningless. Has actually no impact on the lives of ordinary people. Okay. Okay. Let's look at the milit military. So, everyone believes that America has the world's greatest military because it spends the most on the military and has all these high-tech weapons, right? The problem is a bureaucracy in the military right now. So you see what's happening is an increase in management because the ratio of manager officer to soldier is going down. Okay? So you have more officers and less soldiers. That's a problem. You're fighting a war. All right? So um in the Civil War, and this is the 1860s, you had one officer for every 14 soldiers. Now it's one to four. Okay. The biggest problem is the increase in generals. Okay. So you can see three and four star generals have increased the most. In World War II um America had about 12 million soldiers. They had seven generals who are fourstar. Today America has about 1.2 million soldiers. They have 40 fourstar generals. And this is a huge problem. Why? Because if you're a fourstar general, you have a lot of privileges beyond your salary. So, uh, this is from Raymond Dubas who works in the Pentagon and he writes about the perks of a fourst star general. A fourstar has an airplane. A three star often doesn't. Can a three star get an airplane when he needs it? Not always. Okay. So, a four-star general always has his own personal airplane. What is his personal airplane? It's called a G5. This is what a G5 is, guys. >> This is what a G5 is. This is his own personal plane. It's always there for him. If he if he doesn't want to fly, it's waiting on the Tarmac for him. Okay, you can see how luxurious it is. This cost 50 to $60 million per plane. Every four-star general has this plane. At the same time, guys, what's happened to soldiers? The soldiers don't have enough to eat. There's 1.2 million veterans on food stamps. Okay, that's 8% of all veterans in America. The people who actually fight, the people actually make sacrifices for their country don't have enough to eat while the generals fly around in like these really nice planes. That's a state of the American military. All right. So it's not just the military. It's every single US government department. Okay. All the administrator you see massive increase in administration. All right. So people who do real work, okay, is in the red. People who do actually no work is in the blue. Okay. So people who do science, math, engineering, 621. People who do administration 1782. So in every federal bureaucracy you have bloat. You have managers who do nothing and you don't have very few people people who do the actual real work. It's it's it's true for every single federal organization in in America. So this just shows you how the ratio of managers and supervisors to other employees. What's really funny about bureaucracy is evaluation is very important. Who does the evaluation? Managers do the evaluation. So at the end of the year they do do they do performance review and what happens is they tell they evaluate themselves and their friends like you did a great job. They then look at other people who do the real work and says you guys could do better. Okay. So outstanding is the highest uh performance review for the government. Right. 62 64% got outstanding. Okay. Managers who do nothing every day. 47% got outstanding for every other job. All right. So it's a rigged game. Same same thing with hospitals. The the brown is the growth in doctors. You can see it's pretty steady. But look at the administrators. Okay. The yellow are the administrators. It It's blowing up. Okay. And so it c it forces health care costs to go up. The reason why healthcare is so unaffordable in United States is not because it has the best healthcare in the world. It doesn't. It's so it's expensive because it's got so many administrators who do nothing every day. All right. So what do what do these managers do? Well, the managers always think of new ways to screw everyone else. Okay. So these are health insurance companies and this is their denial rates. Okay? So you work hard for 40 years, you pay your health insurance, okay? And then maybe you get cancer and then you go to the doctor. The doctor charges you like a million dollars and you're like you don't have a million dollars but you have insurance. So you go to insurance company. It's like hey I paid 40 years of insurance fees. Can you help me out? I mean, and look, the insurance company, Unite Healthcare, about a third, 32% of all claims are denied. And they do this as practice because if you fight them, they'll say, "Okay, you know what? We'll we'll we'll we'll agree to pay you back." Okay? But if you don't fight them, then they're like, "Great." >> Okay? So, it's extremely unethical. And so that's what what managers do every day. Think of new ways to screw over their patients and doctors. All right. So why is this happening? All right. Why is America like this? Why is the west like this? Why why is the entire world like this? So this is France Kafka and he was writing before World War I. This is his most famous book called The Trial. Okay. I'm not sure if you guys have read this book or heard of heard of this book. Okay, it's very good. And the novel, it's a very interesting novel because the main character, Joseph K, he works at a bank. He's a blank bank clerk and he has never gotten any into trouble his entire life. Okay? He's very obedient. He's very nice. He just sticks to himself. And then one day, the police come and arrest him. The police don't tell him why. And Joseph K tries to figure out why, but he he does not know what he did wrong. He does not know why he's being arrested. And then he's put on trial. And the judge doesn't tell him what he did wrong. >> Okay? And just in case trying to figure out why this happened to me, okay? And this and and and this is his answer. Its purpose is to arrest innocent people and wage pointless pro pointless prosecutions against them, which as in my case, lead to no result. How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning? Okay, because society has become a bureaucracy and bureaucrats need things to do. So they go, the police go and arrest innocent people and then send them to trial. Okay? Now, what he doesn't say is the police could arrest criminals, right? But the police don't want to do that because the criminals might fight back or the criminals might uh be mean. Okay? They rather arrest an innocent person because they know the person will be compliant. Okay? That's the logic of bureaucrats. How do I justify my existence by doing as little work as possible? Okay, so this sounds strange, but let me tell you a story. This is a true story. I'm in Toronto with my two boys and I let them run around the park. Okay? And we've been doing this for two months, so I trust them. One of my boys, he's four years old. He runs too far and I lose track of him. Okay? A stranger finds him and starts talking to him, but my boy doesn't speak any English. So people now surround my boy like where where's where where your parents and he is scared >> because he doesn't speak any English. So he faints. Okay, that that's what he does. He faints to protect himself. So they call the police. They call the par the paramedics. They come and they make sure he's all right. Okay, now I find him. Okay, and now the police interview me. They interrogate me and I explain to him what happened. And at this point, they just let us go home, right? But they insist on taking us to the hospital. I'm like, if we go to a hospital, we could be stuck there for like 12 hours. We could be we could be in line. And like the paramedics, the MAT has already told us there's something wrong with him. Okay? It's not heat stroke. He just fainted, but he's fine. His vital signs are fine, but the police kept on insisting. Meanwhile, there's a fight going on at the park. Okay? And I'm thinking to myself, why are you guys bothering me and not going to arrest those guys who are fighting somewhere else? And the answer is because it's easier to deal with me than to go arrest those guys. Okay? That's how bureaucrats think. They're always thinking of ways to justify the existence but not do real work. Okay? And that's the message of the trial. Eventually, society becomes so bureaucratic that the bureaucrats only think about how to make problems for ordinary citizens because life becomes easier for them. Okay, does that make sense? All right, let's move on to the origins of totitarianism by Hannah Rant. Henry Rant is a 20th century's one of the 20th century's most uh powerful intellectuals and she's writing about how Nazism came to dominate Germany. Now communism came to dominate Soviet Russia and how these two regimes led to the deaths of tens of millions of people. How they started World War II, how they create the Holocaust, how they create the famine. Okay. And in her book she she says that these two regimes are religious cults. They're evil cults and they have three defining characteristics. Okay. The first is that they're removed from reality. They don't care about reality. They have a religion. They have a faith. They have a mindset and they want to impose their faith on reality. Okay? They don't care about reality. They're removed from reality. That's the first thing. Okay? Second thing is that when you're removed from reality, your only logic is movement expansion. Okay? You only know if you're right if you're growing. Okay? So if the Nazis, their faith, their religion would lead to the destruction of Germany, but their membership was increasing. So they were right. They were winning these wars against European countries. Therefore, they're right. Okay? They cannot use logic to explain their actions. So they use movement to expl to justify their actions. Okay, that's number two. One and two means number three, which is the Nazis and the Soviets hated reality. They defied reality. They fought against reality. So even though the Nazis were losing the war, even though it's clear they cannot defeat the Soviet Russia, they doubled down because in their religion movement is what matters. Defining reality is what matters. And that's what led to the destruction of Germany. Okay. All right. So, and she explains that tot regimes have these three characteristics. They're removed from reality. All they care about is expansionism. and they want to defy reality as their true test of faith. What she does not say in the book is that these three can can apply to all bureaucracies. All governments meaning that over time all governments all bureaucracies will tend towards totalitarianism because they have that's the only way they can justify their existence. Okay, does that make sense? All right, so let's talk let's talk about this concretely. Okay, what do I mean by this? So this is a book by James Scott. It's an excellent book by the way uh called Seeing like a state. And he's trying to explain to us how brock bureaucracies work, how governments function. And for him, governments actually create more problems than they solve. Why? Well, he lists four reasons. The first is that he all they care about is the administrative ordering of nature and society. So, so another way of saying this is a bureaucracy is a machine. It's a hierarchy. It's static. It's mechanical. But society is like a forest. It's diverse. It's an ecosystem. It's organic. For a state to exist, it must turn the forest into a machine like itself. So it destroys diversity. It destroys spontane spontaneity. It destroys imagination. Okay. All right. So let let's use an example of this. All right. So my question to you is like who are you? Can can you can you tell us who who are you? Like like who are you as a person? Tell us who you are as a person. >> Like my >> Yeah. Yeah. just just use one or two minutes to to to introduce yourself. Who are you as a person? >> Hi, my name is Banker and I I grew up in Beijing. Uh, and I came to Moonshot this this school in 2024 last year. And uh, >> okay, wrong wrong. Okay, that's that's not the correct answer. The correct answer is you're a teenage boy. >> Oh, >> okay. That's the correct answer. All right. You believe that you are an individual with individual aspirations, ambitions, with a past, with a history. The state doesn't care. The state needs to classify you in a way that can that I can use you. Okay? You're a teenage boy, which means like two years time, you can be employed in a factory or I can send you to war. Okay? That's all I care about. Okay? I don't care about your name. I don't care about who you are. I don't care who your parents are. I don't care about your past. I don't care what you like. All I care about is the fact that you are a teenage boy. and therefore I can I can exploit you for labor. Okay, that's how states think. Okay, so the batization of society. Second is the idea of high marers ideology. So because the state is a monopoly, democracy is a monopoly. It becomes arrogant. It has hubris. It's overconfident and it it wants to impose its ideology on everyone else. It believes that through its own planning it can achieve paradise. Okay. Um so it becomes authoritarian meaning it refuses to listen to criticism to feedback to questions. It does it is not open to debate. It in it imposes its will on people. Okay. Which creates a weak civil society. And if if as an organization you're not getting feedback, you're not allowing for openness, then you will wither and die. Okay? And that's why states, governments will always fail in the end. Okay. So he uses two examples. The first example is what happened in the late uh 19th century Germany. So in Germany there's there's lots of forests and the state is thinking of ways how can we how can we best monetize the resource of the forest? Well, there are certain trees that you can cut down for lumber, right? The problem is that in a forest, most space is occupied by useless shrubs or greenery or trees. Okay? So, their idea is, you know what, here's a simple solution. We'll burn on the forest and just plant trees that we can harvest for lumber, right? Brilliant. That's a brilliant use of space. It's more efficient. The problem though is that when you do that, the trees are now are susceptible to disease, to weather changes. A forest is resilient because it's diverse. Okay, so that's what this what Scott says. Monocultures are as a rule more fragile and hence more vulnerable to the stress of disease and weather than poly cultures are. Any unmanaged forest may experience stress from storms, disease, drought, fragile soil or severe cold. A diverse complex forest however with its many species of trees. Its full complement of birds, insects and mammals is far more resilient, far more able to withstand recover from such injuries than pure stance. So nature has diversity because it allows for resilience. Okay? Some part of the forest can die, but the rest of the forest will recover from anything, whether it's disease or drought or weather. Okay? And we humans are the same way. If you let humans do whatever they want, we are resilient. So some communities might die off, but other communities will adapt. The problem with a state with a government is that it refuses it sees diversity as an enemy. Okay? So if there's a natural disaster, it's very likely that a lot more people die off than otherwise. Okay. Another example is force communism in Tanzania. Okay. Okay, so it's a top- down system and their idea is okay, these farmers have their little small farms and they grow their crops, but that's not efficient. What if we just got all the farmers together and had coffee and they all, you know, had coffee uh or wheat or whatever and then we can sell this to other countries. Okay? And of course you can imagine that this will lead to starvation because it's the same principle as the forest. If there's a weather crisis or if there's a disease then all your crops die off and then your people die off. Okay. What these planners carried in their mind's eye was certain aesthetic what one might call a visual codification of modern rural production and communicate community life. Okay. So the problem with bureaucrats is they have no imagination. Everything to them has to be mapped out. They like things that can be mapped out that can that can be a blueprint. Okay? They like to brag about these things because because that's how they see the world. But real world nature requires diversity. It requires organic. Okay. All right. So he gives examples of how the state transforms society. So before what would happen is that people would just come together and they will organize their communities according to their needs. Okay, it's a bottomup process. But the state wants to create permanent cities where people are just in one place all the time, right? That's why you have cities. Um before what's natural is just for people to live on small farms and share stuff with other people to trade with with each other. The problem with this is the state cannot tax you. So what the state does is it brings you to cities, makes you work in a factory so it can tax you. Okay? The point of giving you a wage is so it can tax you to exploit you. um property um before it was very common for people to share property together. Okay, now there's it's all owned and controlled by the state. Uh resources are the same thing. Before people just use resource according to needs but now the state wants to centralize these resources. Okay, so it can tax and exploit people properly. Okay, so that's what a state proxy does. So what are the consequences of the over bureaucratization of society? Well, what's happening in America is that while consumer goods like cars, clothing, and cell phones are going down, what's going up are hospital services, schooling, okay, housing. Why? Because these are monopolies controlled by bureaucrats, right? So what's happening is with the over bureaucratization of society, it's almost impossible for middle class people, or people to have a good life. Now, okay, here's another really interesting chart. The black shows you the growth in the stock market. Okay, and you think you think, wow, this is a good thing. Okay. The problem is first of all only 10% of people in United States control most of the stocks over 90% of the stocks. The other issue is this. The other issue is if you look at prices, yeah, it's gone up. But if you just turn, but if you look at stocks as a units of gold, if you use gold to buy stocks, guess what? The price of stocks have gone down. That's a blue. Okay? If you use money to buy stocks, it goes up. But if you use gold to buy stocks, it goes down. What this is telling us, okay, very simple, is we are living in a lie. All this wealth generation, it's all a lie. It's not real. We just think it's real. We We're living in a fairy land created by bureaucrats to fool us to believe that we are prosperous. Okay? Does that make sense? The amount of gold that you can buy with stocks has gone down. Okay. And so the blue is the gold, the black is money. The money isn't is worthless. Okay. All right. Another problem that bureaucratizing has created is people don't want to work anymore. So in America, this is called quite quitting. In China, it's called tonging or banan. Okay? Lying flat, let it rot. People don't want to work anymore. Why? Because it's pointless to work in a bureaucracy, right? Leaders don't care. The organiz doesn't need you. You are alienated. You are told what to do and you cannot negotiate. You cannot rise from the bureaucracy. You're you're being asked to work too too much. You feel as though you're just a machine. Okay? And so you're and so the way you rebel is lying flat or quite quitting. Okay. So your overure of society means that people now have become more lazy, more complacent, more more indifferent. And what this also means is that democracy is declining because people's voice people people's power is declining. Okay. So you can see that people feel as though democracy is in the decline. In fact, experts um estimate that democracy, the capacity for people to participate in politics, the capacity for people to influence politics has declined rapidly these past 10 years. Okay? So we are living in a world that is becoming more and more bureaucratic and it's killing us. Okay. All right. Questions. >> So, as you say, we now live in a very corrupt world. So, >> we live in a bureaucratic world. >> Yeah. Bureaucratic world. So what so I I I can't really see the future of no matter it's the mankind or like are there any good side of the current world? >> Okay, what what are what are the good things about the current world? Well, the good um side is that because things have become so corrupt, people now are forced to think for themselves, right? Before you could just trust your teacher, you just trust your parent. You just trust author authority figures. But now you see them for the bureaucrats that they are. And so now you're forced to think forced to think for yourself. And so you're now forced to educate yourself. You're now forced to explore different opinions. So people's minds are opening. And that I think is a very good thing in today's world. Okay, any more questions? >> So, will it help if we cancel uh most of the managers and just like keep one one or two of them like >> Yeah. Okay. So, that's a really good question. Okay. If this is a problem, why not just get rid of the managers? And the answer is they have all the power. >> Okay. they would much rather send you to war and kill you off than to tend to lose their jobs. Okay, so going back going back example of Straford University that's that their mentality is how do I maintain my privilege? They don't care about society. All they care about is maintaining their privilege, right? So they are bankrupt society and then when society becomes bankrupt they expect society to still continue to pay them off. Okay. So these are parasites and there's nothing we can do about it. Yeah. Um as we just said are there less teacher and less professor or like le like like most of people would choose to quite quitting then who are they going to control if there's less people to work for them >> you know okay that's a really good question they don't think like that they don't think about how efficient is my organization They don't think about like am I going to have a job in the next 5 years. All they care about is maintaining the position right here and now. Okay. The way they do that is they hire their friends or people like them into other manage management positions. So they become like a cabal or or a network onto themselves. And for them they they become parasites. And what parasites want to do is they want to feed off the host. The host dies, what's going to happen? They will switch to another host, >> right? Why? Because they're all part of larger networks as well. So that's how they think. They're thinking, well, you know, as long as society survives, I will continue have a job. Okay? So maybe this university goes bankrupt, but there's another university I can go to and exploit. And and you know what? It works. >> Okay. Because people at the top protect each other, >> right? >> Okay. Does that make sense? They don't care about this hole, this hole. They don't care about this organization. They don't care. They don't care if it goes bankrupt because they can always move on to another organization to bankrupt. Okay? What matters is to maintain their patronage, the political networks, >> so they all help each other. Okay? >> Does that make sense? Okay. Great. Any more questions? Um is there any possible to uh stop or even reverse this u cooperating system? >> Yeah. Um I keep on explaining this this this. Okay. They are the ones in power and so what has to happen is society has to collapse before society can regenerate before society can rejuvenate. Okay. But before society can collapse they have a lot of tricks up their sleeves. Okay. So, for example, they can create civil wars where the left and the right fight each other and they're left alone. Or they can use AI to control you, right? AI is God, guys. Listen to God. Okay? Or they can fake an alien invasion. Okay? Or they can send you to war. They can start these pointless wars. Okay? But whatever it takes in order to maintain their privilege and their power, that's a mentality. And that's how they got to where they are. Okay? Okay. And that's how the elite think. Any more questions guys? >> Okay Mr. J. My question is um so I'm a 12th grader. So if you are in my shoe like if you are in a 12th grader in nowadays what would you do like are you still going to pursue for a further education a higher education or will you going to like just drop out? >> Yeah. Okay. That is a great question. So, you are you guys are about to go to university. And as I told you in this class, university is a complete ripoff. Okay? All you're doing is you're paying for the nice salaries and perks of these administrators at university. You're not really paying for the professors. All right? You're paying for the administrators to have their nice lives. And so, what I would do is maybe not go to university. What I would do is focus on education, on learning, by reading a lot of books, by um asking a lot of questions and doing my own research, by learning real skills. Okay? So, in a site like this where the game is rigged, going to university means that you'll just lose. Okay? Maybe before like 20 30 years ago it was good to go it was good to go to university because you might become a manager >> but now all those slots have been taking taken up by the elite and the children. Okay, there's no space for you. So the only thing you can do in this context is to really start educating yourself in real knowledge. All right, reading books, um meeting lots of different people, exploring the world. Okay. Like really develop real knowledge. Okay. That's that's the best solution, right? Any more questions? >> Does it matter to the major? >> Does it matter to the major? >> No, it does not matter the major. It's all a scam. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> It's all a scam. >> Even for liberal arts, >> uh, it's all a scam. Okay. Doesn't matter what university you go to, liberal arts, Ivy League, state, it's all a scam. Doesn't matter what your major is, economics, psychology, humanities, computer science, it's all a scam. Okay? The system exists so that the managers, administrators can continue to feed off the system. All right? Okay, guys. So, uh we'll continue this next week. Okay? All right. But thank you for the questions.

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Good morning class. Today we do the theory of everything. So very quickly I will explain to you what science tells us about where we came from, who we are, and where we're going. So as you may know, it all started with a big bang. Okay, the big bang. So, in the beginning there was a massive ball of energy and then it exploded. Okay. And because of this explosion, it would create stars and planets and black holes and solar systems. And that's how the universe was created through the big bang. Then we had the earth and on earth life evolved starting with um plants and sea life and then we had um lizards, mammals and then we got to humans. Okay. So evolution the thing about evolution that's very important to understand is that it's all about m mutation. So the genes will randomly mutate and then those genes that are best adapted to the environment will survive. Okay. And this is idea of the survival of the fittest introduced to us by Charles Darwin. Okay. And that's how we came to dominate the planet because we are the fittest because we're able to work together because we had language which allows us to store knowledge and pass it on to future gener generations to accumulate new technology. Okay. So that's the theory of evolution. Now we get to the human mind, right? The human mind is unique in the universe. Um it allows us to communicate with each other. It allows us to imagine things. It allows us to be creative. And so neuroscience teaches us that our brains what we our brains do is we filter experiences into memories. Now if you take psychology you will know that there's long-term memory and short-term memory. Short-term memory is just what you have today. Long-term memory is what stays in you. Okay. So what the brain does is that it differentiates between shortterm and long-term. And then this long term is stored into a database of memories and it's divided according to your emotions. Okay? Happy, sad, angry, scared. Okay? So there's a rainbow of emotions and all your memories are stored according to the different emotions inside your brain, the database of your brain. And from this you are able to create an identity. Identity is basically an understanding of who you are, your place in the world, and how you should best navigate the world. Okay. So the idea of identity now what you also learn in psychology is it is possible for you to create many different identities. So in a school you're a student at home you're a child at work you're an employee. Okay. And all these identities put together is called a world view. And you can understand this as your personality. Okay. All right. So, this is all that science knows. I mean, this is pretty simple, but this is what science tells us about where we came from, who we are, where we're going. Now, there are three distinct characteristics about the Islam. Okay. The first is that this is all random. Okay. Okay, this is really important because before we understood this as design. Okay, before we believe that there was a god. Now we believe there's no god. All this is just random. That's the first thing I need you guys to remember. Second thing I need you guys to remember is that it's all material. Material. Before we understood the universe as spirit mainly spirit but now we understood it as mainly material things that we can see and touch. We cannot see it. We cannot touch it. We cannot measure it. It does not exist. The third characteristic is that it is emergent. Emergent which is basically means bottom up. You have like these particles they become atoms then the atoms become matter. they become stuff and then we become chairs or people. Okay, it's all emergent. And so these are the three major principles of our world view today and you should have learned most of this in science class. Now there's a problem with all these theories. All right? Right. So, I'm going to go over them one by one and I want I want to make sure you follow along, okay? Because what I will do now is I will show you the problems, the deficiencies, the flaws in all these theories. Okay. So, let's start with the big bang. Now if it is true that the universe started off with a big bang and it just expands slowly then it should it should expand linearly. Okay. But what we see is this. First of all the universe it expands weirdly. Okay. It's more like this. So as it expands different parts move faster than other parts. That makes no sense. Also, certain galaxies, okay, galaxies move faster than other galaxies. This makes no sense either. So, the way that astronomers have explained away these statical problems is to introduce a new concept called dark energy. And dark energy is most of the universe. It's it's like at least 80%. Some scientists believe it is 90%. So most of the universe is composed of dark energy. And of course you're like what is dark energy? And the answer is we don't know. Now dark energy sounds like we don't see it. That's how it is. It's we don't know what it is. And quite honestly it's cheating. Okay. So let me give an example. Let's just say you take a math test and the teacher asks you 19887 plus 25 and your answer is 20. Okay, that's obviously wrong, right? So your teacher says this is wrong. And then you say, "Oh, I know how to fix this." Plus dark energy. Problem solved. Okay, this is like literally what cosmologists are doing with dark energy. We don't know what it is, but they say it must be there because otherwise we cannot explain these statistical inconsistencies in our measurements and modeling. And then of course you're like, well, why don't you just say that the Big Bang theory is wrong? And they're like, well, we could say that the problem is we don't have a better model. Well, in fact, there is a better model. The better model is there are different big banks. Okay? So, if you just assume that there are different big banks, well, this helps us understand what's going on better. But then the question then is, wait a minute, there are multiple big bangs. Why are there multiple big bangs? Okay. So, our current system of understanding the universe simply does not work. And the problem is that it's become a paradigm, a story that is accepted by most scientists and they refuse to budge on this issue. Okay? But I'm telling you right now that this system is clearly problematic and it could be wrong. Okay. So, that's a problem with um the big bang. Now, let's move on to evolution. Okay. Evolution. Now, in theory, evolution does work and it works for most animals except when it comes to human beings. Okay? Because that the the idea of evolution is gradual progress. But we don't know how we went from the ape, okay, to the human. We share with the ape other monkeys 99.9% of DNA. But we don't know why we're so different from the ape. Okay, that's the first problem. Second problem is humans have been around for for about 200,000 years. Okay, that's a long long time. We only have maybe 50,000 years of history. So where do the other 100,000 150,000 years go? We don't know. Okay. So this is also another huge problem with the theory of evolution. The third problem is according to evolution there should be many different types of human beings. But in fact there's only one homo sapiens. Now what scientists will tell you is well before there were different species the n theanthodol the cromagnet and then gradually homo sapiens took them over and that's and you can believe that but it's problematic because according to evolution there should be many many different types of humans okay maybe some with six fingers some with three eyes like animals Okay. So the lack of diversity in the human species, it's a it's it doesn't really fit into the evolution model. Okay. All right. So that's problem with evolution. The real problem is with the human mind. Okay. So let's go over some of the problems. All right. So with neuroscience, what they teach you is that what the world view does that's very important is that it filters memories. Okay? The reason why is every day you're absorbing a lot of experiences. Your if your brain were to absorb all the experiences, your brain will explode because there's too much information to process. Therefore, your world view pro processes different experiences. It differentiates between experiences that are important and experiences that are not important. And experiences that are important of course goes into your long-term memory. The problem with this is how about babies? In theory, babies should not have a worldview. They should not have a personality. But if that's the case, then how do they process memories? How do they know what memories to store? What memories not to store? Okay. The other thing is that I have three kids and I can tell you that they're all distinct personalities. It seems as though they were born with a world view. And then the question then is where does this come from? Your eye color, your hair, your height comes from your parents DNA, right? So does your is your personality from your parents DNA? Probably not. Okay. Just ask yourself, am I a composition of my parents' personalities? You're not. You're a different person than your parents. So, this is a huge problem with this model. Where does the personality come from? And why is it embedded in us from the very first day? Okay. What's more problematic is how we think consciousness. We do not have currently a model for how we think. In fact, if you study neuroscience, you will find there are a lot of gaping holes in our understanding of the brain. For example, we do not know where the brain stores memory. That's very unusual because a memory is a building block of everything but we don't know in the brain where it is stored. Yeah. >> Isn't that hypocus? >> Excuse me. >> Isn't that hypocus? >> No. The hippoc campus. >> No. >> No, it's not. we we we don't know where where it's stored. There are certain things this that we know where it's stored. For example, we know where maybe language is stored. We know where faces are stored. Okay? So maybe the phases are stored in the hippoc campus, but we don't know where memory is stored. Okay? So what we say is the entire brain stores memories. But that's another saying we don't know where it's stored. All right. So the other thing is that our current model of the brain it's like a city okay think of the brain as a city and what makes the brain work are the roads or what we call the synapses when they hit each other it has it creates electricity and that's where we think that um how thought is generated. Okay. But this is problematic because um we think a lot. Okay. So let me give you an example of this to clarify. Now in science class you're taught the scientific method. Okay. What's the scientific method? Well, you do research. You create a hypothesis from the research and then you create an experiment to test out the hypothesis and then you have data and then you make observations and then you refine the hypothesis. Okay? And this is what we believe a way to model the act of thinking. And you're taught this in every class, even in in English class, right? You do research, then you create an outline, right? The outline has a thesis with three evidence, right? And then you write it out, write a draft, you edit it, and you repeat the process. Okay? This this is what you're taught in school. Okay? I'm going to say something that shocks that that will shock you. Okay? This is what you you're taught in school. This is what you believe works. But as someone who is much older than you are, as someone who actually thinks for a living, who teaches for a living, who writes for a living, I'm going to tell you how you actually think is a complete opposite. Okay? So what happens is you actually you actually think or imagine the story or the idea to begin with. Okay? And then you start working backwards to create the process. You're taught in school it's a process that creates the the idea. What I'm telling you is that in reality, it's the idea that creates the process. Okay? So, let me give you an example of this. If you look at every major scient discovery, it all came to the person in a dream or when he was or it sort of popped into that person's head. Okay? It's just think of a light bulb light bulb popping up. Okay? So, an example is Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein created his theory relatively not in a laboratory, not by um doing research with other scientists, but simply by sitting in a patent office every day and just daydreaming. And then boom, the idea came to his head. He's like, "Okay, now I have this idea. Now what he's going to do is go back and look for the evidence to support his idea." >> Yes. >> Hypothesis. Okay. Um, is a hypothesis the idea? Okay. No, the hypothesis is the assumption. Okay. What? Okay. What what I'm trying to tell tell you is this. What I'm trying to tell you is the idea or the final product comes first. Then you go backwards. Okay? And you create the draft. Then you create the outline. then you do the research. Okay, now I know this sounds weird, but let me give you more examples. James Watson came up with the double helix model of DNA. How he did this was he spent years and years working to figure out how DNA worked. And then boom, one day he had a dream of a staircase, a double staircase. And he's like, maybe that's the model I need to use. And then he start to do more research and he discovered, hey, this works. Okay, but the question then is how did that get into his head? Okay, let me give you another example. Um, I write books and I've written three novels. Um, and you won't believe this, okay? But but my wife is here and and like she knows how I work. You would think that when you write a book, you would spend every day at the at the desk and um read books, take notes, and then transform it into a book, right? I don't do that. What I do is I lie in bed and I might play some video games or I might read a book. Okay? I get up, I walk to the park and I come back and I have all these ideas and I write down all these ideas over one hour, two hours on the computer. Okay? Then I'm exhausted. I've run out of ideas and I'm like, "Okay, tomorrow what am I going to do if I have no ideas? I can't write anymore." But what happens is the next day I get up and I have new ideas and I write it back and I I write it down again. Okay? So it's not like I am generating these ideas. It's more like I'm receiving these ideas. If you watch me actually watch me work, it is almost impossible to think that I actually do any work because I'm always like lying around or walking around or daydreaming. Okay, my wife tells me that when I write or when I work, it's like I'm possessed. I'm possessed by something. Okay, meaning like I actually I don't see anything and I really don't know what other people are doing because I don't care. I don't care because I'm focused on my work. Okay? Also, I'll give you another example. The way I teach now when you see me teach, you think, oh, you must have a script. You must have outlined the class. I don't do that. I have a conception. I have a framework in my head. I come to class and I teach. How do I teach? I watch your observations. I watch your facial expressions and based on your responses, I then start to flesh out the framework and how how and and how do I do that? Because I'm always accessing a higher force and I'm receiving this information that I can then articulate to you in class. And that's why if you have been with me for a long long time, 10 years, you will know I've never taught the same class ever. You can go on YouTube and watch all my videos. I teach this class different each time because each time what I'm doing is I'm channeling a higher force and bring it to you. But it is a conversation. It's a dialogue. It's no different from reading a book or seeing a great painting. Okay? Each experience is unique because when you because a painting or the book, it's almost like a platform for you to experience the divine or higher power. Okay? When you read a great book, that's literally what you feel. You feel as though you are in conversation with the universe. And this book is really a portal into the universe. Okay? If you read a good great book, I'm not sure if if you had if you had uh read a good great book. Okay? So, if you want to really be creative, you have to trust the universe. If you really really want to destroy your creativity, you follow this system. Okay? So, what I'm telling you, and that's I know this this is going to be weird, but school, it destroys your creativity because it teaches you a process that does not work. No scientist in the history of humanity has ever come up with a great idea using the psyic method. I guarantee you, they've all came up with a great idea through their imagination, through their intuition, by channeling the divine. Okay, that's every single scientist including um Einstein, Newton. Uh yes, >> I wait sorry. Can you speak to Okay, so I agree with what you're saying, but I personally I I I think scientific method is more like how people how these inspirational ideas are being presented to others. >> Oh yes, good point. Exactly. That's that's exactly correct. Okay. So, I use static method in order to convince other people that I'm correct. You're absolutely correct because if I told people, oh, I had a dream. Well, like is that convincing? Okay. So, the sc method is a way for for us to communicate and spread ideas. You're absolutely correct. Okay. But as I say, you will never ever have a great discovery by following a seic method. You have to have an inspiration and then use the same method to explain your inspiration to other people. Okay. Yeah. And another thing, sorry. And another thing is that I I think how people absorb ideas or look like how how how you wrote a book is by based on your at least some some of the points are based on your experience because let's just say a person has born and he never like he has no knowledge and he has no experiencing on uh anything and I don't see the possibility for him to just observe this energy energy out of nothing. >> Okay, you're exactly correct. Yes. And I'll explain this as we move on. Okay. All right. But I want to show you there's lots of issues with um how the SIC method is taught in school. Okay. So, but but but are you guys clear? All right. But but but that's a good point. Let me continue. All right. So, let me continue. We have so much evidence that we communicate with a higher power all the time. All right. So, so let's go over some of the evidence. Okay. The first piece of evidence is nearde experiences ndees. Near-deaf experiences are um when you almost die, okay? or you're dead for like 10 seconds or 10 minutes, who knows? But there are thousands, tens of thousands of these testimonies on YouTube and they all say the same thing. When they die, they see a tunnel and at the tunnel there's a light that draws them. Okay, they go and then suddenly they are high up and they feel tremendous love, peace, forgiveness, compassion. It's all good. And then they submit to a life review. They have a chance to reflect on their entire life. They can see all the pain they caused. They can see all the good they've done in the world. And then they're asked by a higher force and it's like God or an angel but like there are different interpretations. Okay. Do you want to go back? And they always say yes, I need to go back. Why? Because I need to tell people about my experience. and they come back extremely changed people and again these are people who don't know each other and maybe before they were atheists or just scientists but once they have these experiences it changes them forever. Okay. So, near-death experiences, we have prompts explaining why this is the case. Second is the is the idea of psychedelics. Okay. Okay. Psychedelics. So, throughout human history, every culture has had has used psychedelics because psychedelics were a way for shamans or priests to access the divine. And what's really interesting is when you use a certain type of psychedelic, you end up seeing the same images regardless of who you are. Okay? And that's why civilizations throughout human history, what's amazing is if you go back to the ancient past and you look at different civilizations in different parts of the world, they have very similar statues and paintings. Okay? So what's a very common motif is that you have a cosmic serpent. For whatever reason, every early civilization has worship a serpent or serpent. The serpent is a very important part of their culture. And it's possible that when they're psychedelics and they're meditating, they see a serpent talking to them and they see that as the serpent of life. Okay. And also what's really interesting is the serpent. It's almost it looks like the DNA, right? Okay. So that's really really interesting. Okay. Um meditation when people meditate when you go up to a higher uh dimension you you end up you end up having the same experience of psychedelics and they do have experiences also great books I myself have never done psychedelics I obviously can't go back in the past and study these civilizations I never had a near near-death experiences but I've read Dante I've read Milton. I've read Homer. I've studied them very, very closely. And it what's amazing to me is they say the same things. When Dante in his Divine Comedy, when he describes the universe, when he describes God, when he describes the heavens, it's almost as though he's describing a near-death experience, even though we have absolutely no evidence that Donn himself had a near-death experiences. Okay, so this is shocking. Okay. So, there's a lot of evidence that there's a higher force beyond us. So, the spirit world does exist. Again, I can't prove it exists, but a lot there's a lot of evidence to suggest it does exist. Okay. So, now the question then is if our current model of reality doesn't really work, what is another possibility? Okay. And in this class, I'm not trying to tell you what is true, but I'm just trying to present to you new possibilities. So what I'm going to do now is I will present to you a new possibility of how of how reality is structured. Okay? All right. So to begin, let's talk about Kant. Emanuel Kant was the greatest philosopher who ever lived. The most influential philosopher who ever lived because he introduced us the idea that we are not observers of reality. We are participants in reality. All right. So let me explain what he means for Kant. There's a nana. The nana just means reality that is outside of us. The things in themselves. What he tells us is we can never know. No the nana. We can never know this reality. Why? Because whenever we see reality we filter it using time and space. Okay. So time and space do not exist outside of us. They are part of us. We use time and space in order to interpret reality in a way that allows us to make sense of it. Okay. So the nina for time and space becomes the phenomena and that's all we see the phenomena the things that are to me not the nana the things in themselves. Okay. And so we imagine reality we hallucinate reality. Okay, but of course this creates three problems. Okay, the first problem is uh what is the nomena? The second problem is why do we have these filters time and space? The third problem is how do how can we guarantee that what I see is the same as what you see? Because if reality is a subjective experience, then in theory, everyone should see it differently. But we all see it the same. Okay. So why is that? So these are the three problems. And so what happens is that Hegel comes along. Okay. Hegel another German philosopher. He explains the idea of the gist. So what he's saying is that the nana, it's really the spirit world. It's the gist. And when you do this, it solves all three problems. Okay? The nana you can never access because it's beyond us. It's a gist that gives us time and space and as a result because it's all coming from one source we see the world in the same way. Okay. All right. So this sounds complicated but but but let me now use quantum mechanics to explain what this means. Okay. Let's let's talk about quantum mechanics. Okay. So in science class you're taught the neo bore model of the atom. Okay it's a simple model. You have the nucleus and then around the nucleus you have these electrons that orbit the nucleus. Okay you taught this in physics class. >> Um if you are in more advanced physics you were taught that it's actually an electron cloud. >> Why? Because we never know for sure what electrons are. So we can only know the probability of where they are in orbit. Okay? So it's called electron cloud. And this is what you're taught in school. When you go to university, you're you will be taught this is completely and utterly wrong. Why? Because this assumes that these atoms are matter. They're solid. But in reality, if you go deep enough, you will find that they are actually just vibrations, what we call quantum fields. And they are just vibrations. And what the electron really is is an intersection of these quantum fields. Also these quantum fields can always exist in two states. The first is as a wave. The second is as a particle. Okay? And we can only know if it's a wave or a particle by observing it. And this is what what's called a wave function collapse. In other words, all of nature is vibrational. It's energy. And it's only when we observe it, when you interact with it, that becomes something solid that we can see and measure and touch. Okay. It's called a wave function collapse. Okay. So, this is complicated. So a a um physicist named Erns Schroinger, he creates a thought experiment called Schroinger's cat. Okay, you may have heard of it. Schroinger's cat. And so imagine a box and inside is a cat and then the cat in inside the box is also some toxic chemicals that may or may not break. If it breaks, the cat dies. If it doesn't break, the cat the cat's still alive. And what Shinju teaches us is that when the box is unopened, we can never know the state of the cat. It's only when we open it can we know it's dead or alive. But before then, it's both dead and alive. Okay, that's simple. You understand? But then another physicist introduced a new concept called the friend experiment or Wner's friend. And this is more complicated because he says, "Okay, if you are the experimentter and you open the box, you now know the state of the cat, but what if you're a friend? Okay, you're you don't see the box. You're outside the laboratory. When the experiment opens the box, does the wave function collapse?" And the answer is it does not. Okay, it does not. And what this is telling us is there is no objective reality that exists outside of you. When the experimenttor opens the box, the wave function collapses for him. But does that collapse for the observer and for anyone else? We have to open the box ourselves in order to see if the cat is alive or dead. Okay. But what if this person tells us the answer is it still doesn't collapse. We have to participate in the reality ourselves. And what this is saying, okay, this is hard to understand is that everyone lives in his or her own reality. Everyone has a unique universe onto himself or herself. And that's what quantum mechanics teaches us. Okay. All right. So now let's try to based on all this okay quant and quantum mechanics create a theory of reality. Okay. So what's important to understand is that all everything are just vibrations. Okay. That's all it is. It's vibrations. Yeah. But I thought like quantum mechanics can only be applied on quantum whereas we are a macro creature that is not like >> yeah that is correct but the quantum mechanics is the is the basis of reality right okay so we are so everything are just vibrations now what happens is that what we need to understand is that if it's vibrations if it's energy it's also information. Okay, does that make sense? All right. So, what our brains do is our brains are not independent. Our brains connect to the universe. Okay? So, as the universe is vibrating, we're receiving information and then through our experiences. Okay? This vibration allows us to turn it into memories. You understand? We're taking this um vibrational information. We're taking our experiences. We're combining to memories. Now, this is really important. The memories now go back to the vibrational force. So, our memories are connecting to the universe and they're being stored in the universe. They're being imprinted in the universe. It's an imprint. And this and of of course this is no different from the internet right on the computer whatever you write is being stored on the internet. So whatever you do is going to change the internet and you receive information from the internet. Okay? So you're participating in the internet and you're part of the internet. Okay? And the same thing is happening here. Okay? So everything's vibrational. If it's vibrational, it's information. We we turn we take the information and we combine with the experiences turn into memories. The memories then go back to the universe. And so it's as as it's it's as though we can implant ourselves into the universe. Okay. Now this is hard to understand. So what we've done is every single culture has turned this knowledge into a story that is easy for people to understand. Okay. So, I'm going to tell you the story. And this story, this framework, I'm actually using Dante. Okay. All right. Dante, what what does Dante tell us about the universe? Okay. Just the Monad, the one God, who knows? Okay. But it's the source of everything. And so what he does is he vibrates, >> he emanates, he thinks, he breathes. And this creates vibrational force right and this vibrational force creates new forces called diads. Diads are peers. And when the peers come together and vibrate they create new things. Okay. So this is how creation happens through vibration through the combination of different um forces. Okay. Now what's important to understand is that as the dimensions go lower the frequency decreases. So at high it's really fast right it's like ah okay when it goes low it becomes low frequency oh okay and eventually you get a point where matter can be created okay so this is spirit this is matter and this is the world that we live in okay so now the question then is why is a universe set up in this way and it has to do with the fact that the universe, the monad strives for newness, for imagination, for freshness. The problem though is that in the spirit world, everything is perfect. Everything is eternal. Everything is immutable. And so by definition, you can feel no pain. You cannot suffer. You cannot make any mistakes. Therefore, you can you cannot have any new experiences. Therefore you cannot you cannot have have any imagination. So we humans exist in order to solve this problem. We humans are corporal which is which all it just means is we have bodies. Okay. If you have bodies you go you get old, you bleed, you get hurt, you fall down. Okay, you feel um anger you feel hate. But this allows us to have an imagination. And the imagination allows the universe to grow, to expand, to vibrate. Okay, that's our function to have experiences that are new, which expands the consciousness of the universe. Universe itself is consciousness. All right, so for this system to work, there have to be some guiding principles to this universe. The first and most important principle is the principle of free will. Without free will, this system cannot work. If if you are if if you do what you're supposed to do, you can't have imagination. Okay? So, you have to disobey. You have to make your own choices. You have to make your own mistakes. And this is what allows the universe to imagine. Okay? But the problem then is if you have free will, how do you know you're doing good? How do you know you're doing evil? And the answer is the idea of love. Okay? So the monad is the totality of love. We are a part of the monad. Okay? We're part of the monad. And so there's a spark of the monad in us called love. And so when we do good, we feel good because the love, the spark is growing in us. And it's almost like a magnet. Okay? We want to return to the monad. And so we do good because it makes us feel good and allows us to return to the monad. But sometimes because we live in a world of free will, we make mistakes. Okay, we might hurt someone or we might be or we might traumatize someone in which case we feel anger and then this becomes a vicious cycle. Okay, so now there's another system set up to ensure we don't get trapped by our hate and this system is called death. Okay, in this system death is released. It prevents us from forever making mistakes because you could have a terrible life, right? But it's okay because then you go die, you go back, you go back into the universe and now you can observe everything that you did. Okay? You can see all the pain you've caused. You can see all the good that you've done. And so you become wiser and you come back and you live another life. And again, you can make the same mistakes over and over, but you can also improve. Okay. Now the other thing to remember about the system is that it's our choice whether you create love or hate. Now love goes back to the monad. But what happens when you create hate? Well, you need to store it somewhere. So it goes into lower dimensions. Okay. Hate. All right. So we create new dimensions through hate, through anger, through fear, through bad emotions that cannot return the spirit world because the spirit world is perfect. And so this is called hell and this called heaven. Okay? And this is how the universe is set up. Okay? So I'm just taking the literal reality and turning to the metaphorical reality which becomes the basis of all early religions. Okay. So there are different metaphors that we can use to understand uh this system. But let's look at let's look at look at um one from Hinduism and one from Dante. Okay. So in Hinduism there's a metaphor that's very powerful and the metaphor is that in the house of the god Indra Indra is one of the most powerful gods of India there's all these pearls that float. Okay. And what do what do pearls do? They reflect other pearls. And what happens is this. Because there's a spark in us, if one of our sparks grows bright, all the other pearls grow bright as well. Okay? So, literally, because God is inside of you, because there's a spark inside of you, because you're capable of love, when you do love, you're capable of changing the entire universe because your love expands outward and your love reflects in other people as well. Okay. So Dante uses the idea of mirrors. There's a candle, there's a flame, and we're all mirrors that reflect the candle. Okay? God, God is a candle. We're just the mirrors. But every one of us, no matter how far we are from God, we um the his flame burns in us. Okay? So you could be far away and you could feel as though God has forgotten you, but there's still the flame inside you. Okay? So for Dante and for our early civilizations, God is love forever. Okay? Eternal love. But God is also eternal compassion, eternal forgiveness. God will never forgive you. Sorry, God will never forget you. Okay? He will always forgive you. But you have to believe in God to return to God. You have to live a life of righteousness, of love, of compassion, of imagination. if you want to return to God. Okay. So that's how the universe is set up. We are here, our divine mission is to expand the consciousness of the universe. And we do that by embracing love and by imagining the world to be a better place. Okay. All right. So now let's go back and ask ourselves this question. If every single early religion, whether it's Dowoism or Hinduism or the Egyptians or the Native Americans, if every early religion all believed this and they all knew this, how did we come to forget or deny this with a material reality? Okay, remember the big bang, evolution, neuroscience, it's to teach us that there's no God, there's no purpose, it's all just random, it's all just material. So, how do we get this to this point? Okay, the answer is very simple and we'll be discussing this throughout CLA, throughout the rest of the semester. Okay. The problem is that you have heaven, you have earth, and you have hell. Okay? The heaven is spiritual. It's consciousness. Hell, it's mechanical. It's machines. Okay? We're stuck in between. It's always our choice whether to choose heaven or hell because of free will. Okay? And for most of human history, we have chosen um heaven. But eventually you had people who chose hell. And when you have choose hell, you have access to technology, right? And this technology allows you to conquer and control other people. Okay? But once you control and you conquer and control other people, you have to get them to obey you. If you are enlightened, if you know the truth, you know that none of this matters. We're all we're all going to go. We're all going to die. So why should I listen to you? So in order for me to control you, I need you to fear death. Okay, I need you to forget God and I need you to fear death. When you die, dying is the worst thing that can happen to you. And because remember before people understood death was just a part of the journey. It was a release. It was an opportunity to reset yourself and come back. Now death is the worst thing that could ever happen to you. Okay? So how do you forget God and how do you uh get people to fear death? You use science, right? And you create theories like the big bang, like evolution, like neuroscience to forget to make people forget the divinity inside you. Right? So that's what science is for. But unfortunately for these people that's not enough because eventually we'll all die, right? So the only way around this is by creating a new technology called transhumanism. Okay, you may have heard of transhumanism. Again, don't worry about the concept now. We'll we'll discuss this later on semester. But transhumanism is to surpass humanity, which basically means defeat death. To upload you, your brain to the internet so you're here forever. Okay? To trap you here forever. And so now the question then is um why are they doing this? Why are people in power doing this? Okay. So um as we've discussed in this class throughout human history it's usually secret societies that have the power. Okay. Why? Okay. Well we last class we discussed the idea of bureaucracy right mass bureaucracy. And we discussed how in a mass bureaucracy bureaucrats don't really want to do anything. They're lazy. Well, guess what? If you're part of secret society and you're able to coordinate secretly together, you can control the bureaucracy because you only need people doing stuff. Okay? But then the question, but the problem is bureaucracies do not like secrets, secret societies. So you have to maintain your secrecy and and how do you do that? You do that through transgression. If you guys are doing bad things together, okay? Now you have blackmail on each other and therefore you're committed to keeping each other's secrets. If one of you falls down, everyone falls down together. Okay? So now you're committed to um maintain a secrets. But the problem is this. The problem is okay, it's conspiracy, but the moment you're found out, they'll come and arrest you. So how do you work together without actually meeting each other? And the answer is religion. Okay? Or the word we use is esquetology. Religion is just a script and understanding the world that allows you to coordinate secretly. Okay. Does all this make sense? Okay. So now these secret societies, they are embedded in mass bureaucracy and they're manipulating the bureaucracy and they're working together uh to commit transgression. They have their own secret religion. Okay. When you combine these three together, what happens is that they're now forced to invert. This understanding inversion. Why? Because they know that they're doing evil in this world. So when they go meet God, God's going to punish them, right? So the way to get around this is well I will just c I will just worship someone who's superior to God who is Satan. Okay. Okay. So what they're going to do is going to invert this. Okay. By celebrating Satan, they can now justify all their transgressions, right? As a way to empower Satan. Also, there's a fundamental weakness in the system. Okay, so let's go over the three main characteristics of the system. The first is unity. Okay, so this entire system is complete and unified. Second is symmetry. symmetry or polarity. And what this means is that if there's good, there must be evil. If there's ugliness, there must be beauty. Why? Because you cannot have one without the other. Okay? One thing is meaningless without the other. That's why you have God, you must have Satan. Okay? And the third principle is as above so below. And what this means is that everything is a reflection of each other. So you can never defeat God. But what you can do is corrupt human beings to worship Satan so that Satan becomes everything. Okay. All right. Are you guys following along? Okay. So what you're trying to do is you're trying to invert this world. And how do you invert this world? What you do is you know that hell is material and you know that heaven is spiritual, right? What you do is you brainwash people to worship the material world and abandon the spiritual world. You make money, >> power, technology, science the greatest things in the world. Okay? You get rid of God. You get a religion. You get rid of compassion. You get rid you get rid of love. And that's how you control the world. So in other words, what is happening today is a war between heaven and hell. The people in charge, the secret societies, they are interested. They must make heaven in make hell into heaven and heaven into hell. They must invert the world in order to maintain their power. Okay? And that's what we will be focusing on for the rest of the semester. This war between heaven and hell, how it came about, who are the major players, and what will happen. >> Yeah. So I'm a bit confused about the part where um so the secret society are manipulating their power beyond the rest of the people and so they are devoting themselves into the power of Satan right but my question is so the this God and Satan they don't interfere they don't interfere to our world and so these are all just decisions made by the secret society itself. >> Yep. >> Okay. So if well in that case if s say S Satan now goes beyond or has the power that goes be beyond God then God wouldn't do anything to like rebut or something. >> Yeah. Okay. Great. Great. Okay. So um first thing to remember is that because of the principle of free will God and Satan cannot interfere in this world. Okay. Secondly is we have to remember like there are different secret societies. There are thousands of different secret societies. Okay. The secret societies that are able to use all three principles to accumulate power on on are the most successful. >> Okay. So that's why they're promoting Satan. Um then the third question then is um why doesn't God do doing anything about this? Okay. And the answer is because if you think about it in only in time of complete darkness only when Satan rules can humans fully shine. Right? Does that make sense? So God has trust in us. God has faith in us. God loves us completely. God believes that someone will stand up and do the right thing. And when that person does the right thing, the universe will shine. >> Okay? Does that make sense? >> Right? So only in the time of darkness can the light truly shine. And remember when someone shines that light, that light is reflected in everyone else. So everyone's light shines as well. >> Okay? So that's the idea here. You can choose to shine if you want, but only if the world becomes really evil and dark and sinful can you have this option. Okay. Yeah. Back back there. >> Like is is there a really a god or a Satan? And uh like uh there's a god for all of it and uh a god for all of the bad things or it's just two two worlds which is one positive one negative. >> Okay that's that's a really good question. Okay so what all this is saying is this. Okay in reality literally everything is vibrations. All right how these vibrations work right no one knows but it's all just vibrational. But what we know is we are participants in the universe. So if we all believe God exists, guess what? God exists. If we all believe sin exists, sin exists. Okay? That's why this war, it's not over resources. It's over perception. Do you understand? This is a war of perception. If I can get everyone in the world to believe that God is dead and Satan is a true God, I win. Okay? And how do I do that? Well, I can do that by shooting rockets up into space by putting man on the moon and on Mars. Okay? Why? Because now I destroyed the concept of heaven. Before we've understood that the moon, the Mars were beyond us because they are heavenly. They're spiritual. But once I put man on the moon and on Mars and go beyond, I've proven heaven doesn't exist. I've destroyed God. I can also fake an alien invasion and pretend these aliens are Satan. Okay. Okay. All science, you you don't know this, but all science, it's not about discovering reality. It's about reinventing reality in a way that serves power. That's what science really is. Yeah. So is there people who like they they don't believe in Satan or God? They choose to let others believe in them like uh they're making themselves into a God. Does it work? Like because if you believe God uh then God exists like like if if everyone believes in it. So if someone make everyone believes in him or her uh does does it work to make him into a god or Satan some kind of >> okay that's that's a good question and the answer is no historically what's happened is that a charismatic leader has emerged to say that I am God's representative >> okay why because um we believe we're all equal right you're no different than I what makes you God? Well, the answer is because I'm channeling God. >> Okay? And historically, so like like look look at the early the early empires, the early kingdoms. What what they can say is that I'm descended from God. God came down had sex with my mother and now I'm born. Okay? But that person is not saying you know I am God itself but I am born of God. >> Okay? Does that make sense? >> Okay. All right. So this is the basic framework for what what we we'll be working with the rest of the semester. Okay. But understand that what's happening today is a war between heaven and hell. If I can convince you that God is dead and Satan is the true God. If I if I can convince you that the material world is real, the spiritual world is a lie. If I can convince you that death is the worst thing to happen to you and you should do all you can to live, then hell has won. Okay? But what's important to understand is this system is set up so that hell can never win out. And the reason why is the entire cosmos is interconnected. So if we do evil, if we feel pain, if there's too much suffering in the world, the earth itself rebelss, right? Because of vibrational energy and this leads to things like the great flood which resets the world and lets humanity renew itself. Okay. So, there are all these different failsafe systems in there in here to make sure that um hell can never triumph and that's why Ellen Mus is wants us to go to Mars. Okay. All right. But understand you just use this concept of heaven and hell even though it's met metaphorical even though God and Satan are just projections of our imagination they do help us understand the world better. Okay. Okay. So, any questions? Any any more questions before we we conclude for today? Great. Okay. So, we'll continue this tomorrow. Uh uh um Friday. Yep. Okay.

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So, we come to the end of the course and all roads lead to Jerusalem. So, um we're going to take everything we've learned so far and combine it into a narrative about today and the future. So the grand thesis of this class is that six societies control the world and this something you can never prove. Okay, but let me propose a theory of how we can approach a truth. Okay, theory of truth. If you have a theory or an idea or a narrative and it does these three things then it approaches the truth. The first is that it connects the past. Okay. So does it help us put the past things that we know that happened in the past into a coherent story that we can understand? Okay. That's test number one. Test number two is it explains the present. Does it help us better understand the world we live in? Okay. And the last and the most um important is predicts the future. From this narrative, we should be able to make certain predictions about how events should develop. And if these events turn out to happen the way we predict, then we can be more sure that our theory of truth is correct. Now, let's be extremely precise. Just because things turn out the way that we predict doesn't necessarily mean that our theories is 100% correct. Okay? because it's really important to understand that correl correlation does not necessarily mean causation. Okay, so that that's a caveat. No matter how well we predict the future, it doesn't necessarily mean that our theory is 100% correct. But our theory gives us a model to understand the past, the present, and the future. Okay. So, with very little evidence, I'm going to present to you a theory about how the world works, a story about how we got to where we are. And again, this is speculation. Some will call this conspiracy theory. And this is just meant to be a funny class. So, take what I say with a grain of salt, okay? Ask good questions. Doubt what I say. But what I'll show you is that this theory, even though it doesn't really um make much sense and you may not believe it, it does help us connect the the past, explain the present, and predict the future. Okay? All right. So, uh without further ado, let's go into this theory. So, you remember Jacob Frank [snorts] who founded the Sabatine Frankus movement. Okay? and um he will convert to the Catholic religion and he he will encourage his followers to also follow him into Catholic religion and also to infiltrate secret societies. One of his friends, one of his patrons is Mayor Rothschild who is founder of course the Rothschild banking dynasty which we discussed last class. He will introduce Jacob Frank to another person named Adam Weiss Hot in Bavaria. Okay. In present day Germany. All right. Now, Adam Weisshot, he is actually a former Jesuit. Okay. He's so he's a member of the Catholic Church. He's also a Jew. Okay. And again, um we don't have any evidence that these three actually know each other, but this is a theory. All right. So let's assume they they knew each other. What they will do together is create a new organization called the Illuminati. And this organization is what controls the world, the Illuminati. Now there is a legend that Adam Was when he after he created Illuminati, he encouraged his followers to infiltrate another organization called the Freemasons. >> [snorts] >> And these were extremely prominent members of [snorts] European society. Okay, these are intellectuals like Gerta. These were nobility. These were bankers. And so this is the framework that controls the world. Okay. The illuminat Illuminati was able to penetrate the Freemasons. So now you have an alliance of the of the Jesuits, the Jews, the Frank, the Sepian Frankas, the Catholics uh and the Freemasons. Okay. And so this is the alliance of secret societies. Now there is a legend that what happened is that Adam Weishob he was eventually arrested for conspiracy by the authorities. And so the organization the Illumati has been disbanded. It no longer exists. >> [snorts] >> But there are others who argue that's not what happened. In fact, it was Adam Weisstock himself who spread the legend that there was a secret organization called the Illuminati. Okay. So, so the entire thing was to generate publicity. But in reality, Illuminati was not disbanded and it still exists today. So why would they do this? And the reason why is that secret societies like every organization depends on publicity for recruitment. Okay. So it's free free publicity. If you read a newspaper that there's a secret organization that's trying to conquer the world and which the authorities don't like. Then a lot of people will be like how do I join this organization? Right? And that's what happened. Right? So the the irony about secret societies is they have a structure which is like a triangle. Okay. At the very top is a leadership. This leadership is secret. You don't know who they are. You don't know what they do. Okay. But they usually come from um very noble families. We call these the 13 families. Okay. Then [snorts] at the very bottom are just the public members. and they think that what they do is just good stuff. Okay, so the Freemasons, they actually don't know what the leadership does. The key is the middle management. These people, okay, these people are the ones who are who do all the work and these people are selected for ambition. In other words, for power, they're willing to sell their souls. All right? [snorts] Okay. So when you have different secret societies together a major problem that you have is coordination and the idea here is you have different leaders and how do you get them to work together also after these leaders die how do you ensure that the new leaders are will coordinate together and the answer to this problem is the idea of esquetology okay we'll discuss esquetology but esquetology ology comes from the Greek word escaton which means the end. So esquetology means your understanding of how the world ends of how to create paradise on earth. And what I will show you is that even though these different groups have different esquetologies, there are convergence points which allows them to work together. Okay, so let's go over the major esquetologies. And remember what's really important to understand is that [snorts] these esquetologies are often secret. They sometimes change and the details will be different. But so I'm going to present to you more or less a general understanding of different esquetologies. Okay. So let's start with the eases which is a Jewish esquetology. What do the Jews believe? Well, the Jews believe that because they disobeyed God, because they worshiped false idols, because they sinned, they were expelled by God from their homeland, Jerusalem, to wander the earth, which creates the Jewish diaspora. But eventually, what will happen is that a Jewish Messiah will emerge to take the Jews back to Jerusalem. Okay? and he will reconstitute the nation of Israel. He will recreate Israel and then he will uh build rebuild Solomon's temple. Why? Because Solomon's temple is where God lives and it is where the people of Israel make sacrifices to Yahweh in order to show their devotion to Yahweh. So Solomon's temple is really important. There will be something called a war of Gog and Magog. where basically the entire world um unites against Israel. Okay. And the war of Gog will be led by the antichrist, the anti- messiah, the false prophet. We don't know what Gog and Mog represent. Okay. What the Bible says is these are people from the north, but that could mean anyone. And certain um Jewish um scholars have interpreted Gawk and Mok to represent Russia and Iran. Okay, this is important because of what's happening today. Okay. But of course, when it seems as though the enemies of Israel, Gog and Mog, when it seems that they are about to win, God will intervene and ensure that Israel wins. And this will usher in something called the Mesig age. When Israel becomes the most dominant nation on earth, when it becomes the light of nations, when it becomes the light of the world. Okay, does that make sense? So that is the Jewish esquetology and most Jews believe this. Then you have the Frankus. Okay. and the Frankus Sabatine Frankas they make important changes to this esquetology. Okay. The first important change is the Jews believe that the Messiah will come when the time is right. So most rabbi believe that the Messiah will come in the year 6000 in Jewish calendar which is about the year 2040 uh sorry 202040 in our calendar which is about 200 years later. Okay. So still a long time away. Um but the Franks believe that the messiah has already come right Zevi and then you have Jacob Frank. So they believe that the first of all the the Messiah is already here. Okay, which means that the war can start. Second thing that they believe is that you don't wait for God to intervene. You can you can accelerate the messianic age by sinning, right? Because by sinning, what you're doing is you are defying Satan. It's Satan who created this world. And by sinning, you're defying his laws. You're defying his authority. And this will create more chaos. And you will you will reveal how evil this world is. You will accelerate the collapse. Okay? Which will force God to intervene. And then at the and then during the messianic age what will happen is material pleasure. Okay. So rather than everyone being spiritual and pure we'll have a lot of sex. We will have feast. We will live forever. Okay. That's a Frankus interpretation of this esquetology. Does that make sense? Then you have the Christian Zionist. Okay. the Christian Zionist. I'll explain who the Christian Zionists are later on. Okay? But what the Christian Zionist will do is they will take this Jewish esquetology but interpret it in a Christian context. Okay. [snorts] So for the Christians they believe that yes all this will happen. Okay. The Jews will establish their me age. But this is really the antichrist system. Okay. The antichrist who is a Jewish messiah will establish a world government that will dominate the world and he will establish something called the mark of the beast. Mark of the beast is basically digital ID. Okay. So just think of a microchip in your forehead or wherever that um and so you can be tracked you can be monitor okay so basically an AI system okay so this is what the me age of the Jews will look like but it's the antichrist system and eventually what will happen is that the people will rebel against Israel and this will lead something called the war of Gog and Magog okay And when it seems as though Israel is about to be defeated in the battle of Ammeran, okay, what will happen is that Jesus will return. Jesus will return second coming and he will take all the Christians to heaven. It's called the rapture. And then he and then um he will kill a third of the Jews. A third will convert. And um this will usher the messianic age. Okay. So this is the Christian interpretation. It's called Christian Zionism. But as you can see what's really important is the Jews first achieve their esquetology before the Christians can achieve theirs. The Christians need to use the Jew Jews as a tool to achieve the second coming. Okay? Does that make sense? Right. And what's really important is for the Solomon's temple. Solomon's temple is where um the Alaxak mosque is right now. So in other words, for this es esot to happen, you will need to destroy the alexak mosque which is the third holiest site in the Islamic world. And you can imagine how angry Muslims will be and this might initiate the war of Gog and Magog. Okay. Another important thing about this esquetology that's really important is you need the Jews to return to Israel. And how do you get the Jews to return to Israel? Anti-semitism. Okay. So, not only do you have to destroy the Alex, which is, you know, not very nice, but you also have to uh promote anti-semitism around the world to force the Jews to return. That's another part of this plan, right? As you can see, this is not a nice plan. It causes a lot of death, cause a lot of suffering, lot cause a lot of persecution. But both Jews and Christians believe that for the meant age to come, there has to be an age of tribulation. There has to be the Antichrist. There has to be the war of Gog and Mog. Okay? There has to be a garden, basically. All right. So is this is it making sense? Okay, this is this is the again the esquetology which is a script which is a plan that these societies must implement in order to achieve heaven on earth. The last people I want to talk about are the Freemasons. Okay, the Freemasons um believe that they are sorry the Freemasons believe that they are of the enlightenment. Okay, sorry. Freemasons they are and they practice a new philosophy called theism. What makes theism different is that it's an enlightenment philosophy. So the idea is that God did create the world, the universe. That's why we are here. But then God left and now because of free will, free choice, we can do whatever we we want. Okay? And our mission is basically to achieve godhood through science, through open debate, through rational thinking. And what are the signs of godhood? How do we know that we've come become God? When we're able to do three things. Okay, the first thing is to warp reality. Okay, to to basically manipulate the essence of matter. And we've been able to do that because of something called the nuclear bomb. Right? So they we've achieved that. So in other words, when the nuclear bomb was a Freemason project to achieve godhood, but not only that, after we after they achieved the nuclear bomb, they had to use it to show that they are God, right? Because as we discussed before, at the end of World War II, the Americans were firebombing Japan. The war was over. They didn't have to drop the bomb, but they dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Okay, that's number one. Number two is they need to kill a king to show that they are god because the king is divinity right god gives birth to kings only gods can kill a king and who do they kill JFK again this is conspiracy theor theory okay [snorts] the third thing which a god does is create life okay and this is something that they haven't done We're going to imagine what this is. This is AI. Okay. So, these are the three missions of the Freemasons and they've achieved the first two. They've warped reality by creating a nuclear bomb. They've killed a king JFK. Now, the third thing they want to do is create life which is AI. Okay. In fact, we can also guess what where this AI will take place. Why? Because let's look at a map. Okay, let's look at a map. This is the equator. 33° north of the equator are four places. Okay. Now, 33 degrees is very important in Freemasonry. There are 33 degrees in Scottish right Freemasonry. It's a very sacred number. All right. So 33 degrees north of the equator, you have four places. The first place is Trinity Site, New Mexico in America, which is where they tested the atomic bomb. Okay, you go over across the Pacific to Japan. 33 days north is Hiroshima Nakasaki. All right. 33 degrees north in America is Dallas, Texas where they killed JFK. So the last mission of um Freemason or Freemasons to achieve their vision for the world um is creating AI. Right now question is where would they do it? And the answer is 33° north of the equator. Right? And where is that? Jerusalem. So this is the endgame guys. The Freemasons will create artificial intelligence in Jerusalem and this will become the world government. Again, this is just conspiracy theory. Don't believe this. This is just for fun. Okay? But if it happens like this, then that's interesting. Okay? But that's but that is the grand plan to create a world government in Jerusalem. And what what's the center of this world government? Solomon's temple because the Freemasons believe that their founder was the one who created Solomon's temple. So by recreating Solomon's temple, you close the circle. Okay. So again, this is very complicated. Um and I don't want to get too many things wrong, but this is a general gist of it. And so what and so what we can see is that all roads lead to Jerusalem. That is the case. Okay. then this helps us understand certain things about the world that otherwise don't make any sense. All right, so let's go over them. The first thing that doesn't make any sense is America's war on terror. Yes, I understand that America was attacked on 9/11. I understand that. But why did that go attack Libya and Iraq and all these other places that had nothing to do with al Qaeda? Okay. And the answer is they're trying to create something called the Greater Israel Project. They're trying to have Israel become Pax Judea, the grand power in the Middle East, because that's important in all secret societies. Israel must become the dominant power in the Middle East. Okay, so this helps us understand why the ter war of terror happened the way it did. That's number one. Number two is right now America is threatening to attack Iran. Why would they do that? Because in order for Pak Judeica to come into being, Iran must be taken out of the equation. Iran must be destroyed. Then if that were to happen, there would be no challenger to the power of Paka. Okay, does that make sense, right? The third thing is um Silicon Valley and AI. So right now you have AI chat GPT which doesn't really do anything, okay? It makes cool images um on your computer and it helps you cheat on in school. Okay, that's about it. Doesn't really do anything else. And if you don't go to school, then you're like, why am I using chatbt? Okay, and you're not going to pay a lot of money for it. So AI, it's a dead end. But at the same time, all around the world, everyone's spending billions, trillions of dollars on data centers, right? So, everyone's putting money into AI, but then you're like, well, how can you make money off that? If you think the answer is um for you to use AI, well, it's hard to make money off that. But if the answer is to create an AI surveillance state, that makes a lot more sense, right? A surveillance state, very easy, guys. We have it in China. Okay, it's digital ID and digital currency and the idea is that everything you buy, everything you do will be tracked and so they can create a profile on you. This profile will tell the government who you are, how you behave, what you think. Not only that, the government can also manipulate how you think, how you behave. Okay? And this is of course called the mark of the beast, right? And so that's what Pax decided is a global AI surveillance system. Okay? It also helps us explain immigration in Europe. Okay? Because the war on terror, you've sent these millions of refugees from Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq into Europe, which is causing a lot of conflict in Europe. Why? Why would that happen? Well, for Paka to come into being, you need to destroy the world. Okay? So, I'm not saying this is true, but I'm saying like if the goal is packed, it does help us connect the dots. It helps explain why things are happening the way they are. Okay. Also, the last thing is anti-semitism. Okay. So, you may have noticed on if you're online, people don't like the Jews. And this is like out of nowhere after after October 7th. Um, you have anti-semitism over the internet. Now, I have criticized Israel before. Okay? But anti-semitism is not the same thing as anti-ionism, right? Zionism is a belief that Israel is a chosen uh people and the promised land and all that. Okay? But Judaism as religion, it's perfectly fine. So why would people not care about the difference between anti-inism, anti anti-semitism? Okay? And you can argue it's all purposeful because remember the part of the plan is to force the Jews to return to Israel. That's very important for this plan to work out. Okay? It's it's key. That's why you are seeing so much anti-semitism around the world today. Okay? And the last thing of course and something we'll discuss is something called the red heers. So red heers are red cows that are perfectly genetically modified and you need the red heers in order to um you have to sacrifice the red heers to purify the ground in order to reconstruct the Solomon's temple. Okay? And guess what? They've already they've already sacrificed the red half first. So it seems as though everything is in place. All right? They're moving towards Pax Judeica. [snorts] All right? So let's discuss what will happen in the short term and in the long term if Paka really is the end goal. Okay. So when you have Israel fighting wars everywhere. Okay. The main enemy right now is Iran. In Europe, you have the Europeans about to go to war with Russia. In Ukraine, America right now is threatening to attack Venezuela. Okay, South America. You have 10% of the um US Navy in the Caribbean and they're about to attack Venezuela. You have China and Japan at conflict. You have India here and you have Africa. Okay. So, so what's going to happen in the short term? Okay. Well, what we know is that Europe is planning to go to war with Russia. Okay. Okay. Europe is about to go to war with Russia. Okay. At the same time, you have a lot of immigrants in Europe and this is this is going to create civil wars in Europe. Okay. Civil war. So you have both war with Russia as well as civil war. So Europe is kind of screwed. Okay. America has the same situation where the left right divide is so polarized that eventually they'll go to war. If you read the news, you may have heard about the uh shootings at Brown University as well as this MIT physicists who were shot. Okay, so random violence will be more and more common in the United States. And you can argue that's all deliberate because the idea is is this. Let's just say you have a jar. You put red ants in the jar and black ants in a in a jar. They get along fine. But you take the jar and you just shake it up and now they're at war with each other. Okay, that's what's happening where the left and right, they really don't like each other. They don't talk to each other and they refuse to engage uh in debate with each other, but then they're going to they're not going to fight each other unless there's violence, in which case their trouble mentality takes over and they start killing each other. Okay? So, we're going to expect civil war in the United States. Then you're going to have the Americans start to attack Venezuela and possibly other countries in South America. So, America is in for a bad time. Okay. China, yeah, I mean, Japan and China and India, they're all going to have conflicts with each other. But also, what we should expect is that America starts to embargo China, meaning America uses its sea power to block China from accessing resources, more seas. And China imports most of its oil and a lot of its food. So if there's a blockade of China, you can expect the Chinese economy to really suffer. Okay. All right. But and then what we can expect to happen is America at some point will go to war with Iran and this will destroy both countries. Okay? Iran will not lose this war, but it won't win this war either because America is just going to bomb the crap out of Iran. It's going to send Iran back decades. But America will lose this war. But this is important because America loses war, it's forced out of the Middle East. And once it's forced out of the Middle East, all its military assets goes to Israel, which creates the Pax Judea. Does that make sense, guys? That's the plan. Okay. Now you have Pax Judea. And what PUA will do is start to control the world because through chaos and conflict Pax Judea can make a lot of money, right? Because Paka, what's going to happen is that you have these technology companies like Google, they're going to move over to Pak Judea and build a global surveillance state. You have civil wars, you need AI to control people. If you're going to war with Russia, you need weapons, okay? But you also need financing as well. So, you can expect a lot of banks to move to Israel and it's possible Israel becomes now the global reserve currency because everyone is trading with Israel. If you're Russia, you need to trade with you need to trade your resources, right? Oil, energy, and grain. Okay? So, Russia controls a third of the world's car carbohydrates. Guess what, guys? Israel controls Africa. So, what will happen is that Russia and other countries will sign a trade agreement with Israel and Israel becomes a center of global trade. Okay, does that make sense? So this is how tax Judeica will um profit and remember that Israel has the world's best intelligence agency the Mossad and what they can do is go go around the world and create as much chaos as possible. Okay. So while the world is burning, Israel pes Jacob is profiting and that's what the future looks like for the next 10, 20 years. And this will of course lead to the rise of the antichrist who will take control of pack Judeica and force the world to eventually attack Israel in something called the war of Gog and this will of course lead to second coming of Jesus. So, that's a grand plan. Okay. Right. Any questions? Does it make sense to you guys? I know it's evil and you know what? I could be complete idiots. Okay. I I could just make making all this up. But you have to ask yourself three questions. Does it connect the past? Does it explain what's happened in the past? Does it explain what's happening today? And will these things happen in the future? Okay. So, we we we haven't lived with the future yet, but you can see the trends. Uh yeah. Yeah. Vincent. Yeah. Go ahead. >> Okay. >> Like you said that AI like they will like God create lives and create AI at Jerusalem, but I think like CHBT they already create AI in Silicon Valley. [clears throat] Okay. ChachiBT is not AI. Oh, it's an LLM. Okay. Like artificial intelligence is a thinking conscious sentient force. That's like God. So they're trying to create God in Jerusalem. Okay. Out of Solomon's temple. Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions before we go to the PPD? But you guys understand what's happening, right? Okay. Let's let's go to PPD. >> [snorts] >> And again guys, it's all just speculation on my part. Uh I have no idea what will happen, okay? Like everyone else. Okay. All right guys, the promised land. This is the greater Israel project. Okay. This is what Yahweh promised to Abraham in the Bible. As you as you as you can see, it's pretty huge. This entire Middle East extends from the Nile to the Euphrates in Iraq. Okay. It's a huge area and um if you say the Israelites are sorry the the is Israelis are want to achieve the greater Israel project they call you conspiracy theorist like we don't want that. Okay but explain two things to me. First of all why is the greater Israel map on a chiron of an IDF soldier. Okay these are soldiers Israeli soldiers and they wear the insignia of the greater Israel project. Okay this is the map. Also, if you look at the flag of Israel, there are two blue lines, right? These represent rivers, the Nile and the Euphrates. All right? So, if it's a conspiracy theory, then how do you explain these two things? All right? But I want to argue to you know what purea it's not about Israel or the greater Israel project. What it is ultimately is an alliance of transnational capital, multinationals like Google and Meta and intelligence agencies that will be based in Jerusalem. Okay? So, secret societies will be based in Jerusalem and they will use it as a headquarters for their global conspiracy but um and they will profit from chaos and conflict in around the world because they think that this is the culmination of their prophecy. But it doesn't necessarily mean the Jews will be in charge. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? Okay. So, it's it's a much more complicated idea than people think it is. All right. So, where do we get this stupid idea from? Okay. It actually starts with Isaac Newton. So, Isaac Newton, you learn about him in physics class. You learn that he's a founder of calculus. You learn about Newtonian mechanics. Okay. But actually, these are just side projects of his. That was not his what that that was not his focus. He spent most of his most of his life focusing on reading the Bible to understand the grand plan of God. And he wrote a book called observations upon the prophecy of Daniel and the populace of St. John. Okay, that's where his focus was. And he believed he found the Bible code and he was a member of secret societies. He's he was a member of the British elite. And if someone like Isaac Newton is telling you like this is what the Bible says and this guy who found a calculus and who developed the three laws of motion, you'll probably believe him. Okay, but the guy was insane. All right, so what he did was he's he's looked at certain sections of the Bible and put them together into a story about Okay, and so this is Ezekiel 37. [snorts] And so, um, Ezekiel 37 says that the Lord God tells the prophet, uh, Ezekiel that, yes, I've scattered the people of Israel, but now I bring back together, and then I will make your nation great. I will make flowers bloom. I will make your city prosperous. Okay? And this is all in the Bible. Um, Ezekiel 38 says that eventually there'll be a war of Gog and Mog when Gog and Magog will come invade Israel. But God will come and defend Israel and he will destroy Gog and Magog. And if you read the Bible, we're not talking to read the Bible, but it's really violent language. So the Israelis believe that for heaven to come, the first must be hell on earth. All right. So Newton's plan to force second coming. Okay. And this becomes the basis of Freemasonry, right? Freemasons really were really invented in order to promote the second planet cupping plant. The Freemasons were first uh in England but then where did they go? They went to America. Many of the founding fathers of America including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington were Freemasons. So America was founded in many ways to achieve this plan. Okay. So what's the plan? Well, you have to first reconstitute the nation of Israel and make it prosper. Okay. It's really important that it becomes very wealthy. And in fact, Israel is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Um, you have to have the Jewish diaspora return to Israel. That means you promote prosperity, but you also have to promote a Jewish conspiracy. So, while you're letting the Jews get rich in the West, you're also promoting the idea that the Jews control the world. Okay? It's all part of this plan. Um, you have to have rebuild someone's temple. You have to have the war of Gog and Magog. You have to have the antichrist. You have you have to immer. Okay? And this will force Jesus to return and usher in the millennium age. Okay, does that make sense? That's a grand plan. And unfortunately, most of these things have been achieved. Okay, these are the Freemasons and and the top leadership is focused on achieving this plan developed by Newton. Eventually what will happen is that um Adam Weisshob will found the Illuminati with Jacob Frank and they will infiltrate Freemasons. And why do the Freemasons allow Adam Weisshob and the Illuminati to infiltrate the Freemasons? Because Jews are an important part of this plan. They need Jews in place. They need Jews to go back to Jerusalem and build the nation of Israel and conquer the world in order for this plan to work out. Okay. So it is a alliance between the Freemasons and the Illuminati. Um this is Rothschild and Rothschild will establish many f many branches throughout Europe. Okay. Jacob Frank we've discussed in the past but this is a major alliance. Okay. All right. Once we understand that secret societies and their grand planet in in motion now it helps us understand why things turn out the way they did. For example, now we understand where British philosophy comes from. We discussed last class about John Lock, David Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Darwin. Okay, these were all sp thinkers sponsored by Britain to propo to propose to promote a certain understanding of the world that is materialistic and which will build foundation for the second coming. Okay. So, John Lock said private property is what's important. David Hume philosophy is pointless. Don't think about God. just focus on material wealth. Um Jeremy Bentham utility is everything. Okay. How do we know what's good what's right if it if it benefits someone? Okay. Uh John Mill liberty of the individual is everything. So making sure that people are individually happy as opposed to being spiritual. Uh car marks freedom of individual from material want. Charles Darwin man is a monkey. Okay. So this is promoting a certain worldview that will help promote the com the second coming. All right. So look, if you just look at science, there are certain things they study and certain things they don't study. For example, they spend a lot of time studying particle physics. Who cares? Can I ask you this question? Who cares about particle physics? They spend billions, trillions of dollars on this stupid thing. They built something called the CERN particle collider to figure out what the underlying atom is. Okay. Is it really important? Isn't solving world prop poverty more important? I I don't know. You can take all that money you spend on stupid collider. Make sure everyone in the world has enough to eat. They don't want to do that though. All right. You also have focus on outer space AI. Okay. So the very direction of science, it's very very specific. Okay. They're trying to achieve a materialist understanding of the world. And also, if you try to uh this is the collider, okay, I again, I don't understand why they're spending trillions of dollars on the stupid thing. This is the current collider uh LXC uh [snorts] in Switzerland and now they're going to be build a bigger one. Here's how big it is, right? What are they trying to do here? Are they really trying to figure out particle physics? Maybe, maybe not. All right. All right, guys. Jacob Frank. What Jacob Frank tells us is um there are different dimensions. Okay. And another dimension is big brother who's a friend of his but he's stuck in his dimension. He's trying to come into our dimension but he needs our help. So what's certain particle accelerator trying to do right? Is it really trying to discover particle physics or is it really trying to break the dimensions like they did with the nuclear bomb? Okay, do you understand the people believe the nuclear bomb it was really about creating an interdimensional portal for brick brother to come into and now people are saying is it possible the cern particle accelerator is trying to bring in these um interdimensional demons to our world to conquer us to enslave us that would make a lot more sense in particle physics okay guys all right what does science not study okay it doesn't study consciousness which is a number one problem in the world, right? Wouldn't it be nice to know how we think? Okay. [laughter] Would it be nice to know how I come up with the ideas I do in class and teach it to you and how you respond to my ideas? We have a much more basic problem in particle physics. We don't do that guys. Okay? There's abely no money or very limited funding in the study of consciousness, imagination, intuition, anything in material spirit. Okay? Like ghosts or spirits, we don't study at all. um religious truth. We don't also don't study kindness, happiness and love. Okay? We don't study what is the basis of these things. We don't care. We don't study telepathy connection. We don't study intelligence of animals and plants. We also don't study ancient architecture and civilizations. So if you if you go to these ancient sites like goep, we discussed goep before. We only have have uncovered 5% of it. Okay? We don't care what is underneath copetepe because it's possible that if we were to discover everything we would then it would refute traditional paradigms of the world including evolution. All right. So science is focused on spreading one particular paradigm about the world and discounting every everything else. Right? So why is that? Okay. Another thing that's really interesting about science is it hasn't really improved in the past 50 70 years. We're spending billions, $200 on science, but we haven't really improved science that much. There have been no great discoveries and there are three three reasons why. Okay, the first is specialization. You're only focus you're only allowed to focus on one very specific problem and without generalist without without being able to think of science very broadly, it's hard to come up with new discoveries. All right. The other thing is you have a very strict bureaucracy. So as a scientist, you spend most of your time actually applying for funding. You actually don't spend most of your time trying to solve the promise pro problems of the universe. The third thing is credentialism where if you don't have a certain PhD and you don't belong to a major research university, you're not allowed to talk about science. Okay. So because of these three reasons, it's hard to do science. It's hard to discover truth. And that's the intention. The intention is to prevent people from discovering the truth of the world. Okay? Now, science is not very good at creating new things, but it's very good at faking things. Okay? It's very good at faking things. Also, guys, it's possible we might they might fake something else called an alien invasion. S is very good at that. It's not good at creating spaceships, but it's good at faking spaceships. Okay? There's a difference. All right. So this is um Thomas and he wrote something called the structure of scientific revolutions and he just says it's natural for paradigms new ideas to it takes a very long time for paradigms to take shape. But then then if that's the case, how do you how do you explain Einstein? The moment he proposed relativity, boom, he's famous. World famous. Okay. How do you how do you explain Darwin? The moment he proposed evolution, boom, he's world famous. It's really strange like this way. Okay. [snorts] And so one explanation is secret societies control the world. They have a certain esquetology and they are promoting things that push their esquetology forward. That's how the world works. Okay. So you think Okay. All right. Um we also discussed last class the idea of kinsspeak written by this uh uh Jew in Britain who becomes the first Jewish prime minister Benjamini and it's about how Jews control the world and we were like why is this happening and I I said because it's part of the plan because not only will not only are Jews supposed to prosper in the west but they're all supposed people are supposed to think that they are part of the grand conspiracy. Okay. Because the end goal is anti-semitism and force them to return to Israel. Okay. [snorts] All right. So with this plan in motion, obviously the secret societies cannot themselves come out and propose this plan. The secret societies. Okay. So they have different individuals do this for them. This is Theo Herszel who who's considered the founder of Zionism. The idea of Zionism is that Jews deserve their own homeland, preferably in Palestine, okay, current day uh Israel. And he wrote a book called the state of for the Jews, okay? And it was heavily promoted in 1896. [snorts] You also have something called the Scoffield Bible, okay? Which is to take Newton's plan and turn it and and and then explain how the Bible and the plan work together. Okay? And this is this this is called um premillennial dispensationalism. Okay? Don't don't don't don't worry about the about the idea. Okay? Okay. All right. So um 1917 you have um Lord Rothschild. Okay. Balffor the British government is sending a letter to Lord Rothchild saying I have the pleasure of allowing you to create a homeland for the Jews. Okay. So again this part of the plan where the British want to create Israel but they're blaming the Jews for it. Okay. They're saying it's the Jews who want to create Israel. Okay. So in 1948 they create the nation of Israel. Okay. This is the Herszel and remember okay the nation of Israel it is not part of this grand plan. It's it's what the Jews aspire to. It is what the Jews want. It's all initiated by the Jews. Okay. This is very important. Okay. Um now one thing that they say one one thing that the Israelites say is that um we deserve Palestine because this is what God promised to us in the Bible. We are descendants of the Israelites. We are Hebrew. We're all one blood. Now the great thing about Jews, okay, and this is why I have tremendous respect for Jews is these Jewish intellectuals, they are first and foremost committed to the truth. So this is author Kesler, okay, who is a Jewish intellectual and he wrote something called the 13th tribe. In this book, what he tells us is this is nonsense, okay? The Jews, most of them don't come from Israel. They don't come from the Middle East. They come from Ukraine. Okay. And this is called the 13th tribe. And he explains how what happened. Okay. So, uh, Ember, could you, uh, read, please? >> Yes. >> All right. Could you, um, read this patch? Okay. >> Okay. >> At the beginning of the 8th century, the world was polarized between the two super powers representing Christianity and Islam. >> So, these two powers are the Bison Empire as well as the Abbas Caliphate. Okay. Their ideological doctrines were welded to power politics [clears throat] pursued by the classical methods of propaganda, subversion, and military conquest. The Khazar Empire represented a third force, which had proved equal to either of them, both as an adversary and an ally. But it could only maintain its independence by accepting neither Christianity nor Islam. for either choice would have automatically subordinated it to the authority of the Roman emperor of the cal califf of Baghdad. >> Okay. So do you understand this idea? It's very simple. You have these three powers in Eurasia. You have the Bisantines and you have the absence. Okay. Bisantines are Christian. The Abisites are Muslim and these are the two dominant religions. And the Khazars think they're a power and if they convert to right now they're pagan. If they convert to Christianity, they now have to obey Bentine. They obey If they convert to Islam, they now have to obey the uh opposites. They don't do either. Okay? So, so they pick another religion which is Judaism, right? And it makes sense because Judaism is the first religion. It is from Judaism in which you have Islam as well as Christianity. And therefore, Judaism is superior. And therefore, we as ours are superior. Okay? So, this makes perfect sense, right? Keep on going. >> There had been no lack of efforts by either court to convert Khazars to Christianity or Islam, but all they resulted in was the exchange of diplomatic courtesies, dynamic inter marriages, and shifting military alliances based on mutual self-interest. Relying on its military strength, the Khazar Kingdom with its hinterland of vassal tribes was determined to preserve its position as the third force leader of the uncommitted nations of the step steps. >> So the Kasar Empire is very ambitious as well. Okay, it sees itself as a great power eventually wants to unite the different tribes of step nations and conquer the world. But to do that, it needs it needs its own distinct identity. So it's not going to convert to Christianity or Islam. All right, keep on going. >> At the same time, their intimate contact with the Byzant uh Byzantium and the Caliphate had taught the Khazars at their primitive shamanism was not only barbaric and outdated compared to the great monotheistic creeds, but also unable to confer on the leaderships the spiritual and legal authority which the rulers of the two theocratic world powers, the califf and the emperor, enjoyed. Yet the conversion to either creed would have meant submission, the end of independence, and thus would have defeated its purpose. What could have been more logical than to embrace a third creed which was uncommitted towards either of the two yet represented of the venerable foundation of both? >> Yeah. Okay. This is a very simple idea. Monotheism is very important because they give one god gives ultimate authority to one person which allows for for the creation of empire, right? Otherwise every god is equal and you have like a lot of gods. So it's important to have one god. You have three religions that celebrate one god. You have Islam which is doing very well. You have Christianity which is doing really well. You have Judaism and no one's [clears throat] practicing Judaism. So let's just take it for ourselves. Really simple. Okay. So this was a mass conversion of an entire people to Judaism. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. And so this this what the map looks like. As you can see it's huge area. This is Ukraine, okay? Modern day Ukraine, the Ka Empire. Then you have you have the uh Bisantines and you have the Abbassids. And the Khazars saw themselves as equal to both. They want to maintain a separate identity. Okay. They don't want to be consumed by either empire. [snorts] Okay. And this is another map that shows uh Kazer Kazeria. Okay. And then Yep. [clears throat] All right. Can you hear my reading? Um, uh, the only mercy, >> the only mercy shown by history to those who took to flight or were driven to it was the existence of Kazeria both before and after the conversion. >> Okay, so it doesn't make sense. So Jews are being persecuted in Europe all the time. They have no place to go except Kazeria, which is now the Jewish homeland. And the Jews know about about Kazeria because they're traders. They're merchants. They're part of the diaspora. So information is spreading about uh Kazeria and they all go there and these Jews are heavily intellectual and they so so they bring their cultural practices to Kazeria. Also we discussed this before what is a Jewish person? A a Jewish person is not someone who is born Jewish. A Jewish person is someone who reads the Bible and accepts a cultural practice of the Jews. And therefore it's really easy to become a Jew. Keep on going. Before it was a refugee haven, after it became a kind of national home, the refugees were products of a superior culture and were no doubt an important factor in creating that cosmopolitan tolerant outlook which so impressed the Arab uh chronicers quoted before their influence and no doubt their prolet >> prostitizing >> proilizing zeal. This was an age when conver converting unbelievers by force or perse uh persuasion was a foremost concern that the Jews too indulged in it is shown by the fact that since the rule of justine and Bzantine law threatened severe punishments for the attempt to convert Christians to Judaism while for Jews molesting converts to Christianity the penalty was death by fire. Sharf uh P25 would have made itself felt first and foremost at the court and among leading no uh notables. They may have combined in their missionary efforts theological arguments and messenic prophecies with a shrewd assignment of the political advantages that the Khazars would derive from adopting a neutral religion. The exiles also brought with them Bisantine arts and crafts, superior methods in agriculture and trade, and the square Hebrew alphabet. Okay. So, not only did the Khazars wanted their own religion that was distinct from Bisines and the Abbassad, but they also wanted um the skills, the knowledge, the culture, the science, the medicine that the Jews would bring with them. Okay? So, this marriage made perfect sense. Okay? So, from logical perspective, this makes complete sense. Unfortunately, you're not allowed to discuss this. Okay? because this is embarrassing for the nation of Israel. You're not they're not saying this is this is not what happened because there's all evidence to suggest this is what happened. They're saying you're not allowed to discuss this. Okay. All right. Can you keep on reading? That's u ethnically the tribes >> ethically the cemetic tribes on the waters. >> Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. So, so okay. So, Kazeria is around for a long time, a few centuries, but then eventually get they become conquered up by the Mongols. The Mongols are ferocious. They're killing a lot of people. So these Kazarians have no choice but to immigrate over to East Asia. Sorry, to Eastern Europe. Okay. And then and they become the European Jews. All right. And so what Kesler is going to do is he's going to show evidence to suggest that they all came from one place. All these different European European Jews, they have similar cultural practices, which means they originate from a similar place. Okay, keep on going. Ethnically, >> ethnically, the the Seemetic [clears throat] tribes on the waters of the Jordan and the Turko Khazar tribes on the Vulga were of course miles apart. But they had at least two important formative factors in common. Each lived at a focal junction where the great trade routes connecting east and west, north and south intersect. A circumstance which predisposed them to become nations of traders of enterprising travelers or ruthless cosmopolitans. as hostile propaganda has unactionately labeled them. But at the same time, their exclusive religion fostered a tendency to keep themselves and stick together uh to establish their own communities with their own places of worship, schools, residential quarters, and ghettos originally self-imposed in whatever town or country they settled. This rare combination of wonderlust and ghetto mentality reinforced by me uh me misanic hopes and chosen race pride both ancient Israelites and medieval Khazars shared even though the latter trace their descendant not to Shem but to Jaffeth. >> So genetically speaking the um Kazerians and the Israelites have nothing in common. Okay, but they seriously culture and that's who who we ultimately are. were products of culture as opposed to genes. Okay. Um these are um uh kerites in the Korean the they the uh in basically Ukraine. Okay. And as you can see they're Jews um and they practice the quazarian version of Judaism. Okay. Um the first impression, okay, >> the first impression one gains is a striking similarity between certain privileges uh privileged positions held by Kazar Jews in Hungary and in Poland in those early days. Both the Hungarian and Polish sources referred to Jews employed as mint >> mint masters >> mint masters administrators of the royal revenue uh controllers of the salt monopoly tax colle uh collectors and money lenders i.e. bankers. This parallel suggests a common origin of those two immigrant communities. And as we can trace the origins of the bulk of Hungarian jewelry to the magarazar nexus, the conclusion seems self-evident. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So, does this make sense? Okay. There's a lot of evidence to suggest like the uh Khazars were Jews. And this is important to understand because guess what? the the Khazar Jews, they will take over Europe. Okay? And you have three different types of Jews. Uh you have the Sepharic Jews, which which basically the Jews who were expelled from Spain. Okay? These are real Jews. You have the Mazari Jew, Mazari Jew, Jews who were in the um Islamic world. Again, these are real Jews. The blue, these Askite Jews, they're not real Jews. They're converted. Okay? This something you're not you're not to discuss at all. even though the evidence is so stark. The the other issue with the Ashkenazi is that um they make up 80% of all Jews in the world today. Okay. And so you go to issue and they says like we we're here because this is what God promised to us. That's nonsense. But again, you're not to discuss this even though again the evidence is stark. All right. All right. So um this conspiracy also helps us again explain the JFK assassination. Okay. As well as uh so this is the book King Kill. Um you can read it online for yourself. It's by Down and Hoffman. It goes into why the Freemasons would want to kill JFK. The sort of ritual sacrifice ideas behind behind it. Okay. [snorts] Um 911. All right. Why did 911 happen? because it's all part of this grand plan. Now that happened because America needed to go to Middle East and destroy the Middle East to create Pax Judea and that's exactly what they did again al Qaeda is yes I understand al Qaeda did 911 but then why did you have to go ball destroy Libya uh why do you have to go destroy Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria? Okay. So, uh and the last place that they need to destroy is Iran in order to achieve the pack Judeaic Cup project. Okay. Um ISIS guys, ISIS is, you know, these fanatical Muslims and they hate Israel, but they never attacked Israel. Okay? They've never ever in their history attacked Israel. That's why they're probably controlled by the Mossiah. Okay? Okay. And these guys go around and destroy the entire Middle East, but they never attacked Israel. Okay. Really strange how this happens. Okay. And the and all this war on the terror, what it does is it creates all these millions of migrants to Europe, which is destabilizing European society. [snorts] And these societies, look, Libya was once a middle class, prosperous society. And now you have these slave markets. You got these millions of Africans who are sold as slaves in Libya. It is an anarchy now. Okay. So 2015 you have all these immigrants going to Europe and the Europeans like we don't want these immigrants because what are we going to do with these immigrants? They're poor. We don't have the money. We don't have the system in order to accommodate these immigrants. And Angela Merkel, who is the leader of Europe at this time, the German chancery, she says, "We can do this, guys. We can do this." And it was a it's it's it has become a dumpster fire. Okay? And like guys, in 2015, everyone knew this was going to happen. Everyone knew that you brought in millions of immigrants who did not speak English, who did not share European cultural values, and who didn't have much education. Um, this this would happen. Okay. Europeans are not as open as the Americans are. Okay? And even these immigrants are causing problems in America, right? And and at no point did the Europeans say, "Screw you, America. You did this to us." At no point, okay? And and and you can argue like, okay, maybe it's bureaucratic incompetence, but at the same time, it's all it could also be part of the grand plan. to create Jack Pria. This is October 7th uh when Hamas went and killed a lot of Israel's um Israelis and this of course led to what's happening in Gaza today. Okay. And what's happening in Gaza today led to all these protests for Palestine around the world and a surge in anti-semitism. And the surge in anti anti-semitism ultimately lead to killings around the world. So this is Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, where you have, if you read the news, um, two Islamic State uh, supporters killed 15 Jews celebrating a Jewish festival in Bonnie Beach. And quite honestly, um, we can expect more of the more of this to happen in the future. And you can say this is all just an accident or you can say well you know it's part of the plan guys. Okay these are the red hers and these red heers were spent people spent millions of dollars to generally create perfect red heers because nature doesn't produce perfect red heers and uh uh what people say the rumor is that these red heers have been sacrificed already. So now they're getting ready to rebuild Solomon's temple which will be the site of the world government. Okay. Back to Judeica. Um let's go to Silicon Valley. Okay. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elmas. How do how they become billionaires? Guys, I don't think they're smarter than us. In fact, I don't I don't think they're that smart. Okay, Steve Jobs is a smart guy. I I I will say Steve Jobs is a really smart guy, but these other guys are pretty normal guys. How do they become billionaires? All right. So, Silicon Valley people say that some Silicon Valley is a hot bed of innovation. That is complete and utter nonsense. The hot bed of innovation is the American military because they spent billions of dollars on innovation. Okay? So, these are computers that develop for war purposes. Okay? for the nuclear bomb to fight World War II to fight the Cold War. They spent billions of dollars to develop this technology and then what happened was this technology became smaller and smaller and so much smaller that Steve Wnak was able to take this technology and create our own personal computer. Now this is kind of strange because this R&D was funded by the American government. How did this one guy Steve Wnak how was able to take all this knowledge and then go and make his own computer? What what what did the American military led him? In fact, what's really strange is that while Steve Losak was building his own computer, which will become the Apple computer, he was working for Huard Packard. In other words, everything he did should have been the IP of Huard Packard. And in fact, Steve Warak said to his boss, listen, you guys pay me, you guys train me, if you want this PC that I'm going to create, I'm I'm happy to give it to you. And Hilo Pako said to him, "No, keep it for yourself." That's really strange, guys. What corporation is so generous? Why would they do that? Well, there are three good reasons. Okay, the first reason is that if the American military were to promote personal computers, every American in the world would say, "Screw you." Okay, you guys are in the military. You guys are responsible for the Vietnam War. You guys are responsible for militive deaths around the world. Why would I take a computer from you knowing that it's from the military? You're you're going to use a computer to spy on me, man. You're going to use this computer to turn me into a robot. There's no I'm I'm touch this computer. But it's coming from Steve Jobs. That's different, right? Oh, Steve Jobs. He's a visionary. He's messianic. Of course, I'll buy this personal computer from Steve Jobs. Okay. Um second is at this time in history, America's at war with Soviet Union. Okay. Which system is better? communism or capitalism. And so you wanted So if you said that, okay, we're the government and we spent billions of dollars to build this technology that proves you communism is better, right? But if it's like, no, no, no, it's these guys working by themselves in Silic Silicon Valley in the garage. They got all these ideas for themselves that proves capitalism is better. Okay, that proves entrepreneurship is better. Now the last reason and this is most important is if the US government built this knowledge right it belongs to American people. So, how do you monetize public knowledge when you create private companies controlled by secret societies? That makes perfect sense, right? And we can now understand all these guys, Bill Gates, [snorts] Alam Mas, they're front people. They're just poster boys. They're not they're not wheeling command. It's societies that's really in control. Okay. Sorry. All right. Um, another example is Google. So the American military spent billions of dollars, trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to build this fiber optic network which is the base of the of the internet. Okay? With this fiber optic network, you couldn't have the internet. And then these two guys in their 20s took over this network and create Google. It's the same thing as you know the government spends billions of dollars building a highway. Okay? And then you come along and says I'm going to build a toll booth. Same thing. Why were they allowed to do that? But not only that, but now they're slowly building their own underwater um fiber optic network. So b they're basically privatizing this network created by the American military. Yes, I understand they're spending their own money to build this uh network, but it's American military that spent taxpayer taxpayer money to build to do the R&D for all this. Okay, that's where the real value is. Mark Zuckerberg guys look look he's not that smart okay and look the other thing is he was 19 years old he stole this idea from his Harvard classmates and then he got billions of dollars from venture capitalist to fa to start Facebook where did he get this money Facebook is not a great idea right social media great but I mean like I could also start a social media company you could start a social media company the other thing is like Yahoo at one point offered this guy a billion dollars to buy Facebook, we'll give you a billion dollars. That's a lot of money, right? You would have taken I would have taken in but but market like nah, I would know. I wouldn't know what to do with the money. That's Why did you start Facebook in the first place? But to make money, okay, so you have these three questions. First of all, why are these people giving him money? He's a he's a 19-y old guy. He's a Harvard dropout. That's all he is. No experience, nothing. Second question is if you're someone who's that young he gets and you succeed so much you would suffer from hubris from ego you make a lot of mistakes right the guy has never failed in his life the third thing of course is I don't I understand why Amazon Google and Apple are successful okay go Apple has Steve Jobs Google controls the world search Amazon controls um buying things right what does Facebook do doesn't do thing, right? So, how can we explain why Mark Zuckerberg is so successful? Well, there's actually an explanation. This guys, okay, it's all part of a it's possible. Okay, I'm not saying it is true, but it's all part of the grand conspiracy to create an AI civilian state, which is which is what taxa is. >> This guy. Okay, >> they look the same. They look exactly the same. They are the same. They look like clones of each other. No personality, no ideas of their own. They're just robots. How do they become so successful? Right? And a guess what guys? Makes no money, but at the same time, they get trillions of dollars from investors to build data centers. Okay? And these data centers allow you to make really nice pictures and videos online that do nothing. Okay, why are all why is all this money being spent except one day to create a surveillance state? Okay, that's what makes sense. The idea that these things exist so that you can play on the computer makes no sense. But these things exist in order to one day have complete control over what you do, what you think, and how you behave. That makes sense now. Okay. Pax Judea. All right. Alan Musk. Okay. I Yeah, I understand millions of people worship this guy. I don't know how this guy makes money. Okay, if you look at Tesla and Facebook and you came in and says, "Listen, there's these two companies, Facebook and Tesla, would you invest in them?" If I and I be like, "No, Facebook, there's no business model here. I don't understand why people need social media." And I don't understand how Mark Zuckerberg, how he's he's going to make money in the future. Alan Musk, he gets all his money from government subsidies. Tesla doesn't make any money, man. And the guy's a Okay. But neural link. Okay. Why is he proposing neural link? It's part of transhumanism, right? All right. So, Jacob Frank, guys. All right. All everything goes back to Jacob Frank. What does Jacob Frank believe? He believes that what matters is at the end of the world is the spirit becomes flesh. You understand? The spirit becomes flesh. What matters is not the mind. What matters is matter. Second thing he says is listen your laws tell me to fast to suffer. I don't want that crap. I want to enjoy my life. Okay. And the third thing is this world cannot have been created by God. It was created by Satan because why would God allow us to die? Therefore, we must defy Satan by living forever. Okay. Now, if you understand Frank, we understand the idea of transhumanism. Okay. This is a guy with his own bionic eye that records things. This is a guy with his own arm. This is a new trend in the future. What is transhumanism? The capacity to live forever. Okay. All right. So, this is the future that we're looking at. If you're a rich person, if you're a powerful person, this this is what you will experience. You will experience longevity, health, and beauty. Okay? You will have organ transplants that keep you young. You will have stem cell therapy to repair any cancer, any diseases. You have gene therapy. You have blood transfusion. You have you have replacement bodies. Okay? You will be 20 years old forever. You have great sex. You live forever. Okay? This is if you are a billionaire. Everyone else, uhoh. Uhoh. Well, first of all, you become a cyborg where you are now specialized for certain function. Okay? They're going to put microchips in your body so you you can become a better accountant. Okay? They'll they'll turn your arms into cyborg bionic arms so you can be better construction worker. Who knows? Okay. Microchips inside of you, the mark of the beast. What these microchips do? They are digital ID and digital currency. And guess what, guys? If you're not happy, they'll know about it and they'll give you drugs to make you happy. If you you think this won't happen, they've already have everything in place. Okay? Addictive drugs to control mood. Oh, and like if you're lonely, don't worry, man. That's what AI is for. You have an AI girlfriend and boyfriend. And you know what? Most people would prefer an AI boyfriend and girlfriend. Okay? Okay. And then it'll be an individual matrix where you live in your own world. So think of World of Warcraft, but in the real world, okay? where everyone who's your friend, your entire family, it's all just AI generated. >> Okay, you live in a perfect world. >> Oh my god. Okay, guys. Now, let's look at how Pax profits what how they control the world. Well, AI surveillance systems and AI data centers will become a leader in that. Okay? Because for ADA a data centers to be effective, they need to be safe. Everywhere else there's there's going to be wars, right? Not Israel because Israel has nuclear weapons. So all the major technology companies will be based in Israel in the future. Uh weaponry, security, private militias to protect you if you're at war. Boweapons and bow warfare, psychological and information warfare. Israel is really good good at that. Intelligence espionage and sabotage. Mosad is the world's best intelligence agency. Financing. Okay. So if you want to go to war, you'll be financed by the Israelis. trade access, transhumanism for the global elite. Okay. This is how in the future they will control the world. Does that make sense? All right. But we don't know how much of the world will last because something called the manic pole excursion. And this will usher in something called the mini ice age. Okay. So maybe God is not happy with Pax Judeeka. Maybe we know no one can defeat Pax Judica except God himself. And maybe maybe God will intervene but not in the way that it says in the Bible. Okay, we don't know. This is all speculation. Believe whatever you want. Okay. So, um any questions? Does it make sense to you guys? Pax Judea, welcome to the future. Okay. All right. Let me go over some um Substack. So, um I want to thank the founding members of my Substack because they're extremely generous and they've left some questions and comments and so I will answer them now. Okay. So, um could you help me uh Amber by by reading the the questions? >> Okay. >> So, so I I I can rest a bit. >> Okay. Dear Professor Tang, I'm an avid viewer of all your lectures on YouTube and your content on Substack and I want to say a huge thank you for the incredibly important content you are sharing with the uh with humanity. I'm a 27-year-old Jew living in Israel. I oppose any Zionist idea and any nation state whatsoever, including Israel and uh including Palestine. I would like to know whether you think it is advisable for the younger generation of Jews, both those living in Israel and those who do not to live in Israel. On the one hand, anti-semitism is likely to increase the despora uh yeah despora which will diaspora which will lead many Jews to think that Israel is the safest place for us and the chain of events that are likely to unfold will cause Jews to believe that the Messiah is just around the corner. On the other hand, we are heading towards living here in a tech uh technocratic ghetto of surveillance, digital ID systems and so on. I'm sure that many sane Jews who simply want to live in peace regardless of religion or race follow you your wonderful work and would like to know what you think is the right course of action for us. I don't know whether this question is priority for you to address in a video and it's uh completely understandable if you choose not to share it, but even a written response from you would be more than enough. Thank you very much. Okay. So, thank you uh Daniel for your comment. Um, listen, I think I Pastor is not about the Jews. It's about the these evil people who want to control the world and they want to use Jews and Israel as a tool to do so. And a lot of Jews recognize this fact. A lot of Jews recognize that traditionally they've been used by empires in the past. And this is a great question. And I'll say certain I'll say certain things. The first thing is that I believe that the people who are most who will be most resistant to pastor the people who stand up and fight pasture will actually be Jews themselves. Jews have have a great tradition of being on the front lines of resistance for justice for humanity for all that is good in the world. So I believe that Jews will play a very important part in the resistance against uh past Judea. Second thing that I will say is that um it things look dark but what we what we've learned this semester are three things. Okay. The first is that evil must triumph so that good may rise. There must be total darkness for the light to shine and all hope must end so that we can become hope ourselves. Okay. So please remember there's divine spark in us. When all hope seems lost, that spark will remind you of who you are and it will lead you into the light. Okay? So, I don't have specific instructions or ideas on how to counter purea, but I think that being aware of paxa and being aware that we individually have the capacity to resist is fundamental to what is to come. Okay. So, thanks to Daniel for the question. Okay. All right. Uh, this is from Kevin Joel. Can you meet Amber? >> Okay. I first want to thank whatever gave you the courage to continue past tribulations. Maybe Mrs. Young and continuing to teach. Your will and dedication to learning and teaching is monumental compared to the attention spans of newer generations. I think I speak for most of us who watch, but you have definitely made a historical impact on us. It seems transnational capitalism, franosism, has weaved its web for hundreds of years, turning into the monster it is today. What are humanity's possible counters? Do you think it it is religion? Will we ever make a cyclic turn away from capitalism? How long would it take to undo this movement? Thank you. Never spot. >> Okay, so you're absolutely right. Okay, so thank again, thank you for this question. Okay, the Frankus has spent ye centuries preparing for today and that's why they win because they're willing to think long term. They're willing to work together. They're willing to make necessary sacrifices to achieve heaven on earth in their eyes. Okay? And so we need to if you want to defeat them, you need to become like that. Okay? You need to think long term. You need you need to like understand you need to make sacrifices. Okay? It's it's it's something that you cannot defeat in one day or 10 years or 100 years. It you have to like believe in yourself. You have to believe in humanity. You have to respond by working hard by making sacrifices. Okay? By learning. All right? So that's the only way forward. Also what we also know is that when empires come into being, that's when they end. Okay? So the moment priakica comes into being, it has to end because patcha becomes arrogant. It becomes obvious. It becomes um narrow-minded. It becomes insular. Okay? And so pria will fall. We don't know how long will last. May it won't it may not even last that long. Okay? Maybe 10 years, 20 years, who knows? Okay? But it's a very unstable system. So what we need to do is look ahead and think about what humanity looks like after Pat Judea. Also, I hate to say this, but it looks like the world is about to end. Wars everywhere, [clears throat] destruction everywhere. Maybe 9% of humanity gets wiped out. Okay? So, we need to face this back and prepare for what the future looks like after um the great flood that is coming. Okay? And we have to use our imagination. And later on, um as I as I continue my teaching, I will propose different scenarios, different solutions. Okay? But this is a long-term project. The Franken spent a lot spent a lot of time conceptualizing how to conquer the world. We have to imagine how we can rebuild the world together. >> All right. Uh this is from wildu. >> You speak a lot about the monad and uhn gnostic teachings. Do you see this as a possible emerging major religion? Can it be? It seems like these massive expansion like the bronze age, Muslim conquest and uh implosions like the bronze age collapse and the French revolution that repeat throughout history are almost the way civilization matures for those who uh who participate the same way a person grows from facing the overcoming trauma. Are societies who participate in a collapse and come out the other side better off for it? Lastly, who are your favorite English language poets apart from Milton? Okay, I'll answer the last question first. I was English major at Yale. Okay, so I know about English poetry. Uh Milton is definitely my favorite poet. Then you have John Keats. Um William Shakespeare is also really good. Okay. Um societies rise and fall so that there can be creativity in the world. Okay. It sucks if a society lasts for a long long time. We know because we're in China. Okay. Societies are meant to rise and fall so that new societies may um rise and fall as well. Parents must die so that children can be independent. Okay, it's so I understand death, destruction, war, these are terrible concepts, but they're all but they're all part and parcel of the human experience. We should stop seeing them as negative things and just as things that happen to us, we should respond accordingly. Okay. Um so if you think about the bronze age collapse, yes it was a terrible event but it led to the founding of Israel. It led to the Greeks. It led to the rise of Persia. And these three different civilizations were pairs of tremendous creativity in the human experience. And it seems as though we've come to um an the end of a cycle. Okay. So even though there's destruction, destruction will mean rebirth. Even though there is stagnation, stagnation will lead to creativity. It's all part of a cycle. Okay. The human experience is one that is extremely dynamic, extremely resilient. So even though there's death, death always leads to life. Okay. [snorts] All right. Uh this is from Demi. >> Professor, you have a remarkable way of synthesizing the best parts of spiritual practice while mitigating the worst parts. Dogma, lack of critical thought. Was there a moment in life where you had your spiritual epiphany? I imagine Dante's inferno helped. >> Okay. So, I think that my superpower has always been my capacity for self-reflection. Ever since I was young, I've been able to stare in the mirror and look at who I am and said, "This is who I am. This is what I like about myself. This is what I don't like about myself." So, I'm I'm constantly in a process of self-reflection um and self-rejuvenation and self-invention. Okay? I've done it all my life. Okay? So, I was a poor immigrant in Toronto. I was bullied a lot when I was young. I didn't like that. So, I worked hard, got into Yale. Um and then I after I got from Yale, I thought that I would succeed in this world. I I didn't succeed. So I looked at myself in the mirror and I I recognized that there were limitations to my Yale education. I changed that. Okay. Um I I started to reinvent myself. I did a lot of things that were experimental but which I am forever thankful for. For example, I did stand up comedy for a time. I did skydiving. I did parkour. So I am constantly in the process of self exploration, self-reflection and self-reinvention which is what leads to creativity. Okay. So I wouldn't say there's a particular moment when my life changed. I would say that oh I've always been like that. Okay. 5 years from now I'll probably not be I'll probably a different person from I am today. I'm not content with just being who I am. I'm constantly looking to improve myself. And that means constantly engaging in a process of self-reflection. But that means also engaging a process of self-doubt and sometimes even self-hatred. Okay. So even though you know like online I'm famous and people appreciate my teaching I don't really care about these things okay for me what's important is am I improving am I being creative am I contributing to the progress of humanity these are the questions that animate me okay [snorts] and I love Dante by the way Dant should be Dante and and next semester I'm teaching a great book and we'll spend a lot of time on Dante okay all right keep on reading >> hi professor I've always loved history and it's been a blessing finding you your teachings. I wish I had a class like this in school. Growing up with a Zionist mother, from that perspective, I thought what she spoke of would never really happen. I try to help combat Zionism and those oppressed, but it feels hopeless. Do you think there is any possibility to change or stop what is currently happening or has Zionism embedded into many aspect of society? >> Okay, Zionism has won out because the people believe in Zionism are the ones who are willing to make most sacrifices. the ones who are the most energetic who are who are willing to work together to achieve this vision. So an example is if you look at all these wealthy societies in the world, there's only one wealthy society that has a fertility fertility rate above replacement level and that's Israel. Okay, it's above two possibly three. Every other nation is like one or 1.5. Okay. So, it shows us that regardless of how we feel about um Israel and Zionism, people in Israel love being Israeli and they want a better future for the nation and they believe in a better f future for the nation. Young people making the sacrifice to have a family shows you the health, vitality and energy of a nation. Okay. But at the same time and I keep on saying this when Zionism has become an empire when when they become patria that's when it will fall very quickly and I also believe that a lot of Jews a lot of Israelites don't want an empire they just want to live normal lives and the fact that they come the center of the world the fact that they're causing all this war chaos conflict around the world to benefit from a lot of a lot of them going to rebel okay so I I can imagine that once petro comes into being you have a massive civil war throughout Israel, right? >> Okay, Dan, >> what is your favorite food and [laughter] what can we expect or not between semesters and over the break time? Thank you for all the great lectures this semester. >> Okay, my favorite food is Japanese. Um, I love sushimi. Uh, but but I also just love food in general. I'm Can um I just love eating in general. They say like can Chinese people live to eat. Okay, that's certainly true for me. Okay, so after this class I go on a twow week break and then and I come back to teach two classes game theory and geopolitics. So what we'll be looking what what we'll be doing is looking at current events and using game theory to understand how and why they're happening. Okay, so we'll be looking at things like Venezuela, Iran, Israel. Okay, so that'll be a fun class. Uh I'll also be teaching a great book. So we look at Dante, Homer, Plato, Shakespeare, Milton. Okay. Um, so two weeks, there'll be two week break, but in January we start two new classes and they'll be fun, they'll be interesting. I hope that you enjoy them. Okay. All right. Uh, this is from Oz. >> It's been a pleasure to read and listen to your work. The education and contextual framing is super interesting. I am especially inspired by the original works you quoted. a you quote which illustrates how well read you are. I'm sure you have already heard this so I'm hoping that writing a book is already on your radar. Half the work uh works is done and you have a proven audience. Start with putting all your transcripts and essays into AI with some guidance and ask it to create a book. Then you can uh you can iterate. All [snorts] you will need beyond that is per uh perfecting citations and ensuring there are no errors. But that wouldn't uh that won't change the messages you have brought to life. >> Okay. So thanks Oz for the encouragement. I am planning to write a book. Okay. Now I've written many books in the past before. I published two books. So I know the the uh bookw writing process. I have an agent. Um so it won't be hard for me to publish a book. And as a says I do have an audience. I I do have a global audience uh tens of thousands who would love to read the book. But I want to create the best book possible. So that requires meditation uh that requires discussion that requires experimentation. So I I understand the bookw writing process and the way I write books is different from how others write books. Okay. I have lots of writer friends. They're extremely successful. I can't do what they do. I mean they spend like 10 hours a day writing books. I am much more imaginative. I'm much more intuitive. I like to take long watch long walks in the park and just play around ideas. Okay. So I will write a book. I am very efficient when I set a goal. I do I go and do it but I want I want to write the best book possible for um everyone. I see my I see myself first and foremost as a writer. Most people see me as a teacher but I'm first and foremost a writer. And so I want to take tremendous pride in whatever I produce. I want this book, no matter what I write, to stand the test of time. I want people to read it 100 years from now. Okay? Uh I love reading books. I love books. Books to me are just as alive as people. When I read books, what makes me um what what what what makes me distinct as a reader is when I read books, I'm able to perceive or go into the soul of the person. Okay, that's why I know Jacob Frank so much. Um, when I read Jacob Frank, I'm like, I I I understand how he thinks, okay, I'm not judging him, okay? He's an evil guy, but I'm not judging him, okay? But I know how he thinks. I know how he feels. I know why why he's doing what he's doing. And that's what allows me tremendous insight into history. And that's why I'm able to create um really interesting content for everyone. So, I love reading. I love writing. If if I'm going to produce a book, if I'm going to write a book, I want it to stand the test of time. I want people to read it and be forever changed by it. Okay. All right. So that is it. Thank you so much guys. Next semester we start game theory in geopolitics. Okay.