Today is our midterm examination, a chance for you to
question and examine me. All right, so before we look at
the questions for the midterm examination, I want to discuss
briefly the ceasefire between United States and Iran.
So yesterday, Donald Trump announced that there will be a
two week pause to this war and that the United States and Iran
will meet in Pakistan to negotiate a possible long term
ceasefire. And when he said that's very
important is that he will use the 10 point uranium plan as a
framework to discuss a peace treaty.
And as you can see from the 10 point plan, in fact, this is
almost a complete US surrender to Iran.
The first point is that the United States will guarantee
never to attack Iran again. Iran will have complete control
over the certain Hormuz. Iran can choose to enrich
uranium for its nuclear program. All sanctions on Iran will be
removed. This is a very big deal.
Removal of all secondary sanctions against foreign
entities that do business with Iran and of and of all United
Nations Security Council resolutions against Iran and of
all International Atomic Energy Agency resolutions.
Compensation operations for the damage that United States
initial did to Iran. Withdrawal of US combat forces
from the Middle East, giving Iran control over the Middle
East. Now, last and the most important
is that United States will also agree to end hostilities against
all of Iran's proxies, including Hezbollah and the Houthis in
Yemen. So as you can see, this is
basically a complete US surrender to Iran, which tells
us whether right away that Donald Trump is not serious.
If you go into a shop and you negotiate with a with a shop
owner and you want to sell maybe a book to the guy, you're hoping
for $100, but because it's bargaining, you think, oh, maybe
I should start high. So you say $1000.
If you say $1000 and the show owner says, yeah, yeah, I'll
take that deal, there's something wrong here.
Okay, all right, so there's something very wrong and there's
very little chance that the ceasefire will hold.
And in fact, we're already seeing news that the ceasefire
is being broken. OK, so there are three
individuals on Twitter who've made some very interesting
points. All right, so in this tweet, Mr.
Bojack said that, listen, if this is really a ceasefire, why
is United States continue to send aircraft carriers, the USS
George Bush to the Middle East? What they're really trying to do
is buy time in order for the ground troops to get ready to
attack and seize the street. OK, So once everything is in
position, then probably what happened is that Israel will
launch a false flag against the Americans, which will justify an
American attack against Iran, right?
So that's a possible scenario. But again, the question is, if
this is really a ceasefire, if Donald Trump is really intent on
peace, why does he continue to send U.S. forces to the Middle
East? That's question number one.
Question number 2 is the problem is how the how Iran is defending
itself. It's using something called the
Mosaic defense, which is say that there's 31 provinces and
these are 31 cells or units that are all responsible for their
own strategy and attack and defence, meaning that there's no
longer a centralized command. So it doesn't matter if you
negotiate with the leadership of Iran because the IRGC, the
people who are fighting will not agree to a ceasefire because
they do not trust the Americans or the Israelis.
So whatever happens in Pakistan will not affect the outcome of
the battlefield. That's a problem with the Mosak
defence. Think of the Mosaic defense as
almost a dead man switch, where if you kill the Ayatollah, the
Ayatollah will tell his people to fight to the end.
So the Mosaic defense will only come to an end if either Iran is
defeated or the Americans are defeated.
This thing collapses if there's in between a ceasefire, because
in order for the Iranians to implement the ceasefire, they
themselves will have to go and control these mosaic units in
the provinces, which basically means a civil war, OK?
So it's almost impossible, even if Iran were to negotiate a
favorable peace deal, for Iran to actually implement this peace
deal within its military. OK, That's problem #2 problem #3
is the United States continues to have an air bridge to the
Middle East. So even though there's a
ceasefire, you have this massive movement of US ground troops, of
US planes, of US artillery and tanks to the Middle East.
So if there's really a peace, why is this happening?
And another way of saying this is that the political systems of
both the United States and Iran have lost control over the war.
Once these militaries start fighting, they are determined to
fight to the better end. OK.
But unfortunately, what this tells me, the fact that Iran is
willing to negotiate a peace treaty probably means that there
is a schism or divide between the global leadership in Iran
and the military leadership in Iran.
And this is going to cause a lot of problems in the future.
So maybe before this past month, it seemed as though that Iran
had control over the battlefield and Iran was winning, winning
it. But I think over time, what's
going to happen is that fissures will rise in Iran, and Iran will
start losing the battle more and more as the United States and it
will develop a much more coherent strategy against Iran.
Another major issue is that as this war drags on, the world
economy is going to suffer, which means that people can no
longer drive their cars, and which means maybe a lot of
people will also starve. And this means that ultimately,
public or global opinion will slowly turn against Iran, OK?
Even Iran's closest allies, Russia and China, will feel the
strain of this war and maybe even pressure Iran to end this
war. But again, as we discussed
previously, because of the way that Iran has structured its
military defense, it's impossible for Iran to end this
war unless it's either destroyed or it's destroyed the Americans.
OK, So this war, the ceasefire, it's only APR stunt, it will
actually lead to nothing. All right?
The major point, OK, of contention is whether or not
Lebanon is part of the peace treaty.
So the Iranians believe that this peace treaty also includes
its proxies, specifically Hezbollah in Lebanon and the
Houthis in Yemen. But after this peace treaty was
announced, Israel launched more than 100 strikes in 10 minutes
across Lebanon, killing 2050 people, at least 2050 people,
OK? So Iran is obligated to defend
Hezbollah morally, and Israel understands that if Iran breaks
the peace treaty and defends Hezbollah, then it is Iran's
fault. OK.
And the Americans have come out and said that.
Well, you know, we agreed that Lebanon was not a part of the
deal and JD, that the vice president said, oh, it's a
legitimate misunderstanding. We thought that Hezbollah wasn't
part of this deal, but the Iranians thought it was.
OK. So this is a misunderstanding.
OK, But this tells you that the Americans, in its release are
not serious about maintaining the ceasefire.
They've already found a loophole.
All right, okay, so let's now go on to the midterm examination.
And as I said, you 2 can ask me questions and I will try my best
to answer them. So this Twitter account OS app
did a very nice thing and basically analyzed all 8000 plus
questions and broke it down into some major categories.
All right, So what what I'm going to do first is I will look
at these questions and then answer them.
All right? And then we'll look at some
other questions. All right.
So the first question is, all right, I said that the empire is
declining, but at the same time, the US could benefit from this
war. How do I reconcile the
contradiction? And the answer is it's not
really a contradiction. the United States is extremely
powerful. It's really a question of who
benefits from these changes. So even though the US empire
will lose control over the Middle East, the the American
nation could still exert control over Mexico and Canada.
OK, it's something I will discuss it later on.
That's number one. What's the world eschatology in
shipping global events? How do you account for the
influence of 6 societies? All right, so these are the same
question and I'll, I'll answer it right now.
All right, so let's examine how all this works.
All right, so first thing you need to understand is that
history moves in a certain direction.
OK, it's very complicated, it's very messy, but there is a
structure and a pattern to the movement of history.
OK, a structure and a pattern. So think of a river.
And when you see a river current, you think I can't see
anything. It's just going to be chaos.
But if you, if you're able to read the river, well, you know
how the river is moving, OK? So you can position your canoe
or CAG in a way that allows you to seamlessly, smoothly cross
the river, right? So that's the idea.
OK. But this is all very chaotic.
So what? So what happens is that there's
certain individuals, we can call them occultists, who try to read
the river or try to read historical patterns in history,
and they create something called an eschatology.
OK, so think of the stars. When you try to read the stars
and try to find meaningless stars, we call this astrology,
right? But when you try to read human
history and you try to find a pattern in human history, we can
call this eschatology. And the thing about the
eschatology is that it's a story.
And so you want the story to work out.
So it's both a prophecy as well as a plan.
You think it's going to happen, but you also think that you are
obligated to make it happen as well.
OK, so the occultist, these are British people, they try to turn
the chaotic movement of history into a story that comes to an
end in which you can participate in.
All right. OK then from these occultists
are form secret societies. In order to understand this
eschatology and also also to promote this eschatology.
Now what happens is that powerful people, OK, powerful
people, the rich and the powerful, they join these
societies. Why?
Because as a rich and powerful person, you want to know how
history moves in order to better perceive yourself, in order to
protect your power and your wealth, OK?
That's why very famous people, they often have astrologers to
work for them. And that's why recent powerful
people join single societies because they want access to this
secrets that tells them how to make better investments and how
to have more political power. Also, single societies enable
them to create networks in order to maintain their power.
OK, But the problem is that you need people to actually move
towards the ending to propel this eschatology.
And these people we can call agents, OK, agents.
And these agents, of course, include Donald Trump and
Vladimir Putin, OK. And this is how the world works,
where the occultists are the ones who imagine the world, and
the rich and powerful are the ones who act out the world in
order to benefit themselves. And then they appoint certain
agents who are like puppets in order to move the world in a
certain direction. OK, so these agents are like
vectors, all right? But there's certain problems
with this system. The first problem is that there
are different secret societies, and they fight amongst
themselves to achieve different eschatologies, OK?
The other problem is that the rich and powerful will often
switch secret societies, switch loyalties in order to maximize
the benefit. So they don't have any
loyalties, right? And then the last problem is
that these agents like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, they
seem like puppets, but they themselves believe they are
using these six IDs to achieve their own vision, which is given
to them by God. OK, So it's a very complicated
system. And This is why no one thinks
that it's all grand conspiracy because each person is doing
his, his, her own part subconsciously to maximize his
or her benefit. OK, so it's on a top down
system. It's a much more dynamic, fluid
game than people assume. OK, so this is a map that helps
us understand how the world works.
And This is why I'm able to figure out what's happening in
the moon, the East, because if you're able to focus on the
story, OK, the story here, you basically know where people are
going, even though you may not be aware of what the different
different are doing and how the different agents are thinking,
OK? As long as you're able to figure
out their cult is how they're thinking, you're able to figure
out the story that they want to tell the world.
You can basically figure out the general direction of the world
in the long term. OK, All right, so now what I
want to talk about is China. What is China and and what is
China going to do? All right, so again, let's go
back to our theory of how the world works, of how the world is
structured. You have the empire, and then
from the empire you have the game masters.
OK, the deal on finance, then they create the global economy.
Then this creates the rule space in actual order.
And then you have the education system, media and culture in
order to indoctrinate people to believe in the system.
But this system is fair, right and natural.
OK. And then you have parasitic
organizations, science, crime, intelligence, to control the
system, but also to draw benefit, to extract value from
the system. Now, what we understand is that
the beauty of the system is that it is capable of extending
itself and replicating itself in other societies.
OK? So the two examples are the GCC
and China. OK.
This is really important for us to appreciate.
China is not a civilization. China is not a nation state.
China is a construct of empire. OK, China, what the system has
done is basically taken all its elements and embedded itself
into China to create a vassal state, OK?
Or you can also see a mirage. And then you're like, OK, well,
what? What?
What does that mean? Well, just think of the GCC.
Where before the empire, the GCC was just a desert.
And the empire, the system takes the GCC and turns it into this
seemingly vibrant, cosmopolitan, wealthy center.
And then they bring in the universities, right, like
Georgetown, NYU, they bring in culture, they bring in the media
ecosystem. So this system replicates
replicates itself into the GCC as well as China.
Now, this is important because the moment that this system is
under strain, OK, for example, we ran a tax it, we see it's all
just a mirage. This system is not sustainable.
It collapses onto itself because it doesn't have a civilization,
it doesn't have an existing soul, OK?
It's all just appearance. And what I believe is that China
is in a very similar situation. That's why China was allowed to
join WTO. That's why China, so many
Chinese students go overseas to become educated, OK, To create
this mirage that China is this modern flourishing economy.
So. That this is China's
relationship to the world. So rather than believe that
China is competitor to the system, we need to appreciate
that China is really an extension of the system.
So if this system comes under strain, China itself comes under
strain. That's why China is so
desperate, so anxious to see peace in the Middle East again.
OK, so there's there are rumors, there's news reporting that
China has has exerted pressure on Iran to negotiate a ceasefire
because if the global economy collapses, China is in a lot of
trouble. All right.
OK. OK.
So what are long term implications of a Hollywood
Pentagon complex? OK, and the answer is if you go
back to the system, OK, no one actually knows what's going on,
but they believe they know what's going on and they believe
they're individual parts of the story.
OK, so if you're in culture, you think you're the ones in control
and you're the ones dictating policy.
If you're in the media, you think you're the ones in
control. If you're in education, you
think you're in control. OK, so everyone just basically
lives in his own bubble, in his own fantasy world without being
able to see the bigger picture. And that's why we don't have
control and agency and free will over how the system will turn
out. OK.
And we cannot because it's actually very difficult for us
to really appreciate how the system works.
It's much easier for us to believe in our fantasies because
it allows us to work with our friends and our colleagues much
easier. It's much easier for people to
live in his own bubble and to be delusional than it is for the
person to be objective. Okay, so the Hollywood Pentagon
complex, it is not just unique to America, it is true for
everyone. How do emerging powers like
China, factoring in the pretty shifts in global order?
I already told you that all these things that you believe
alternatives, including digital currency, renewables, China,
they're all just projections, extensions of the system.
The system is on the strain. These are on the strain as well,
OK? What should can individuals
employ to navigate potential global economic stability and
resource scarcity? OK, so the problem is that
individuals by themselves cannot navigate change.
Individuals need to enter into communities.
OK, So if you really want to survive the change, well, first
of all, you need to educate yourself as to what's going on.
And that's why I teach these classes to give you the bigger
picture as to how the world works and where things are
going. But you also need to make need
to make a commitment to reach out to other people, become
their friends, be generous and open with them, share with them
and build a community. OK.
Also, one thing that I I would recommend is maybe starting a
family and the reason and you're like, OK, wait a minute here.
This is silly because you have said for the longest time the
world is collapsing. This is the end of the world.
Why would you have children? And the answer is because, first
of all, death doesn't matter. Destruction doesn't really
matter. What matters is our ability in
this world to live a creative, purposeful, significant life.
OK, That's why we're here. It's not.
It's not to make $1,000,000. It's not to eat a lot of food.
It's to have the best experience possible to extend the
imagination of the universe. And what I found having
children, I have 3 kids, is that I live every day with tremendous
energy and purpose because I'm here not to become famous or to
make a lot of money. I'm here to make sure that my
kids are happy and healthy. And that's why I get up in the
morning and work very hard. And I don't really care about
the world. All I care about is, are my kids
happy and healthy. So children and family give you
a energy, a purpose, a meaning that drives you to greater
creative heights. OK, all right, What are the
primary drivers behind specific geopol actions and how do these
motivation that the game theory? OK, all right, so again, this is
a really important theory to understand where the occultists
are the main drivers. Why do you see occultists?
Whether it be poets or prophets, they're the ones who imagine the
world we live in, OK? And we can and others can only
work within the boundaries of this imagination.
So yes, the rich and the powerful, they have all the
money and all the wealth, but they don't have an imagination.
So, and ultimately, your actions have to be driven by your
thoughts. And it sees a cultist, OK, who
drive your thoughts, who control your thoughts.
So we just live in the world imagined by a cultist, who they
are, what they want, how they how they work is something that
we'll discuss after the break. OK, After today, we're going to
on a one week break for the midterms.
And then we'll come back, We'll start more.
We'll talk more about these people.
They're cultists, OK? They're very important people to
talk about. All right, so let's move on.
OK, Now I want to look at some individual questions.
All right, So this is Joyce Lay from Substack.
She's a founding member. So thank you, Joyce, for your
generosity. OK, she asked this question.
You make 3 predictions about the outcome of the US Iran war, but
I don't have any time frames. Yeah, I don't do time frames
because these things are trends, OK?
They're general movements, OK. And she says, well, if all three
come true, then then we have to believe that it may not be
because of the war itself. How do you differentiate between
causation and correlation? OK, this is a great question,
and it's something that I think a lot about.
So I make these predictions in order to validate my prediction
model. But just because these
predictions turn out to be correct does not validate my
prediction model 100%. OK.
And that's why it's important to keep an open mind and to
continue to make predictions. Now, what I will say is this.
When I first started making predictions two years ago, I was
just looking at patterns and then trying to figure out what
patterns were the most salient or the most obvious.
And then I made those predictions and I was very
confident about these predictions.
Now that I'm famous, now that people are demanding I make
predictions every day, it's hard for me to make accurate
predictions because I don't have access to all the information
need to think clearly, objectively, because I know that
whatever I say is have an impact on global events, OK.
So this is a major constraint on my capacity to make accurate
prediction. I'm no longer an observer, I'm a
player, OK? And I also get a lot of
influence from other people who want to control my prediction.
I understand that. So I try to keep away from
people as much as possible, but it's an impossible thing.
So I, so I appreciate this question.
Yes, correlation and causation are two different things
altogether. It's possible that we'll never
really understand causation. The other thing that I, I want
to emphasize is that I, I myself appreciate the limitations to my
own objectivity. OK, because of my status today.
OK, so that's from Joyce. Isn't pomp and every politician
just a puppet of the societies? This is a great question.
It's something that I that I addressed earlier, which is yes,
they are agents. They can only be agents.
But at the same time, the agents have agency, The agents have
free will. So think of Napoleon and Julius
Caesar, who and they were obviously supported by secret
societies, but they reach a certain point where they can
betray the secret society or bear off in a different
direction. And Hitler and Stalin are also
different examples, OK. So every great person in
history, most of them are supported by civil societies,
but they also reach a point where they feel they have a
higher quality and is God that they must be loyal to.
So they betray their serious society.
And I think that something will something will happen with both
Trump and Vladimir Putin, OK. I have the. 3rd Rome.
I have the American Technate and I have Patruderika.
Wait a minute here. These are three different
empires, and the reality is that this unipolar moment where
America controls everything, it is unique in human history.
It's not sustainable and it will not last.
So the idea of competing empires, it's much more common
in human history. So yes, you'll have to technique
where America retreats into greater North America, Russia
exerts control over its territory, and Israel tries to
build a Pax Eudaica in the Middle East.
And they will be in competition against each other.
There'll be some areas in which they cooperate.
There are some areas in which they compete.
And so we are moving towards a multi polar world, OK.
And we don't actually even know how long this multi polar world
will sustain itself. Probably not very long, maybe 10
years, maybe 20 years. OK.
All right, so this question. Is why would the world be
dependent on American fertilizers energy when other
parts of the world have. Energy and fertilizers.
As well. And the answer is trade access,
OK. What America can.
Do that other nations cannot do is basically retreat into its
continental fortress and control sea trade.
OK, so right now the easiest way to trade is through the sea.
And unfortunately for the world, America controls the seas with
its navies. OK, So what America can do is
basically allow its ships to go anywhere in the world and block
Chinese, Iranian, Russian ships from accessing the rest of the
world. Now, a counter to this is that,
well, you know, you don't have to go by sea.
If you were to unite Europe, Asia and Africa and the Middle
East, you can just use railways. And that's what China wants to
do. The problem is Iran.
That's why America is so invested in destroying Iran,
because Iran is really the pivot of the world.
If you're going to destroy Iran, it'll be very hard for China to
access Belton Road and hard for Russia to trade with Africa.
OK, All right. I would challenge Professor Zhao
on his assessment of why Russia attacked Ukraine.
Russia was not prepared for the long war and it adapted.
OK, Yeah. So the general theory, the
general explanation is that NATO provoked Russia into an attack.
And that's true to a certain extent.
But we have to remember that if you commit to a long war, if you
commit to any war, you need to have a long term strategy
because you need so many different organizations,
institutions, parties involved in a war, OK.
A war means a fundamental restructuring of society and
therefore you need a grand strategy, you need a
eschatology. OK, because this is what?
Allows for political will. And that's the issue that the
Americans. Are facing in Iran where they
don't really have have an eschatology or grand strategy
that's articulated OK there are people in America who do have
the grand strategy and that's called eschatology, but it's
articulated to the American people OK.
And that's why America doesn't really have the political will
to sustain this war in Iraq. So again, it there's, there's
this misconception that these these people, Putin, Trump, they
just work. They just have these emotions
like, I want to go attack. So they go attack.
That's not how these things work, OK?
You need a lot of people to agree to attack Ukraine, to
attack, to agree to attack Iran before these things happen, OK.
The, the idea that one man can control an entire country, it is
just a myth. It cannot happen that way.
A country is controlled by different vested interests,
different institutions. These institutions have to align
together in order for something to happen.
OK? Otherwise they'll just sit back
and do nothing. And that's a situation that Iran
faced in the lead up to this war where everyone was like, you
know, the Americans, you know, the Israelis are going to attack
you. So take the initiative.
Why are you still sitting around doing nothing?
And the answer is because there are different factions.
There are different institutions cannot align together on how to
respond to the Americans in Israel, so they just sat back
and wait to be attacked. OK.
All right. Why don't Asian and middle?
Eastern nations unite to prevent American interference driven by
its own interests. OK, Yeah, OK.
Another misconception is that the nation state.
It is real. It is not real.
It's just a made-up concept, OK, the idea of China, the idea of
America, the idea of Russia, Iran, they're all made-up
concepts. They don't exist.
What these nation states are, are collection of interests.
Collection of elite. Interests.
And all this means is that. The people don't matter, OK?
The people are resource to be exploited by the elite.
What matters is the elite. So the question then is where
are the elite? Where are their allegiances?
Where are their loyalties? And the fact of the matter is
that in East Asia, in the Middle East, much of the elite have
their family and have their wealth all stored in the Western
world. So they're not loyal to the
people, they are never loyal to the people.
They are loyal to themselves, to their families, to their, to
their social network. And because all of their wealth
and family is located overseas, they're loyal to overseas.
So these elite in Asia, in the Middle East, they are basically
cover baggers, OK. And, and, and that's why we have
this situation. And that's why as things
progress, nations that have very close relationships with the
Western world, for example the GCC, they are much likely to
fall, they're much likely to collapse.
These are these are our unstable countries, whereas countries
like Iran that have been isolated, ostracized by the West
are much more cohesive, OK. All right, can the Strait of
Hormuz? Be avoided by laying gaps?
Pipe through Oman? No, no, that's not how these
things work. OK.
What Iran is doing is using the Strait of Hormuz to blockade the
global economy, to disrupt the global economy.
The Strait of Hormuz is the most convenient way of doing so.
It's the least controversial. But if forced to, Iran can also
destroy any energy production in the GCC.
It can destroy the pipelines. If a drone can attack a city, it
can attack a pipeline as well. OK, so these pipelines are
extremely vulnerable. And and already we're seeing
reporting that just yesterday the Iranians attacked a pipeline
in Saudi Arabia. These pipelines are extremely
vulnerable. Just think about all this gas
and oil, right? It's all combustible.
So a drone can just blow it up. It's not hard, right?
So again, understand the point is not the sort of Hormuz, the
point is the vulnerability and the fragility of the global
economy that is completely dependent on cheap access to
energy. That's where the problem lies.
All right, all right, Donald Trump, he's erratic.
Do you believe this behaviour is calculated strategy or does it
stem from lack of understanding? Is he stupid?
Do you think that people advising.
Him are also stupid or are they strategic?
What is he trying to achieve? OK, again, this goes back to our
understanding of how the world works.
You have the eschatology, then you have the societies, then you
have the agents. OK, And Trump is an agent.
Now, what makes him a very powerful agent is his
unpredictability. Today he's like, I'm going to
nuke. Iran tomorrow, he's like, let's
have peace in the world, guys, OK?
He's just unpredictable. It's all a show, OK?
And there are three reasons why unpredictability is so powerful.
The first reason is that it's paralyzing.
Paralyzing just means like you. Don't know how to respond to
him. Like what do you do to how do
you fight a guy who changes his his opinion every single day?
OK, he paralyzes you into into inaction.
Second, is distracting. You all your attention.
Is focus on his antics and you don't realize that behind the
scenes things are happening, OK? There are people who are
implementing certain things, but you don't really notice the
backstage because you have just focused on Trump being a clown
on stage, OK. And the last advantage is
flexibility. Which is say that.
He is not beholden to any strategy, and he can change his
strategy at any time. OK, So yes, we think he's a
clown, and he is a clown, but there's a method to his madness,
OK? So it paralyzes his enemies, it
distracts his enemies, and he's able to maintain maximum
flexibility in his actions. OK.
And that's why he's so successful.
All right? The people around him just do
whatever he tells him to. People around just tell him,
tells him exactly what he wants to hear.
OK, It's it's actually Donald Trump that's making all the all
the decisions and it's ultimate purpose is to get his third
term. All right, because for a best.
Perspective. He actually wants to implement
his vision for America. He needs the third term OK.
And again, his vision is a technique where America becomes
a fortress, abandons the world and just trades with the world.
OK, we just, we discussed this previously.
But for him, for him to achieve that, he needs his third term.
And so he needs to figure out how to get his third term.
And this war in Iran is about strategy because if this war
continues and it goes badly for America, then Trump can declare
martial law and have a lot of powers, OK.
And again, his enemy, his enemies are too distracted to
appreciate that this is strategic and they're paralysed
into inaction. The Democratic Party, which
should be opposing Trump and this war, are just sitting back
and doing nothing, hoping that in the midterms, Trump, Trump's
party, the Republicans get wiped out and they get they go into
power and then the world is perfect again.
OK, so the Democrats actually don't have a strategy for this?
All right. The.
GCC, the petrodollar collapses. OK, let's pretend the
petrodollar collapses. AI collapses.
Treasurer brought by collapses. Will the US not suffer an
economic and development catastrophe which is not, which
is not part of the US plant? Yeah, this is a good question.
But you have to understand, again, a nation state is a
collection of different interests, and these interests
are competing against each other, OK?
So you have different interest groups, you have AI, you have
finance, you have resources, OK. And So what matters is the
general direction of the country.
So if the economy were to collapse, the main losers would
be finance and AI, OK, But then what America can do because it's
so wealthy and it's people are so energetic is well, let's just
focus on building resources, okay?
Oil, food, water, fertilizer. Let's just make the stuff and
sell to the world. Then the economy rebounds.
Okay, So this is actually a restructuring.
Okay, something. We talked about before where the
purpose is not to destroy America.
The purpose is to move power away from 1 elite to another
elite. Okay, this is basically a
revolution in America. AI can actually be saved okay
with government bailout. And that's what I imagine what
happened. OK, AI in finance, the bubbles
will burst, finance will be allowed to collapse, AI will be
bailed out because Trump is very close with these AI overlords
like Peter Thiel and St. Altman.
And then resources will be resource of manufacturing, OK,
will become the dominant center of gravity in the American
economy. OK, so that's a that's a plan.
I'm not saying this will happen exactly like this, but that's
what they have they they intend to happen.
All right, transnational capital is a game master.
Transnational capital will then take its money elsewhere if the
empire collapses. So transnational capital
doesn't. Lose any power?
And they can just bet. On different horses, Japan issue
Germany. OK.
Yeah. So.
In my analysis. I use abstract terms that are
not accurate, but some, but are useful for simplicity and
clarity. OK, so you're writing that
transnational capital also have competing interests and just
because the empire empire collapses doesn't mean that all
the money goes to Israel. This money will spread out, and
that's true. OK.
But the point, the point I'm trying to make is that first of
all, most of the money will go to Israel.
Why? Because Israel provides the best
short term investment opportunities if you're a
trillionaire, OK, But you're right in that other money will
go to other places as well. But again, the best opportunity
is Israel. So you will see the most growth
in Israel and that's why over time more capital will shift
towards Israel. That's how capital works.
OK, Yes, capital will allocate its resources.
Capital will put its eggs in different baskets.
But ultimately you have to ask yourself where is the best
investment opportunity? And in the short term, not in
the long term, but in the short term, it's going to be the
Middle East. OK, All right.
How do we combat the war against truth?
How do we engage in discussion that transitional biases?
OK, we're all we all live in fantasies.
How do we overcome this? What techniques do you employ in
your research? All right.
OK. So things that I do that I think
are very important is first of all a doubt.
You always want to. Question yourself.
You always want to ask yourself, am I correct?
That's why I'm making predictions is important because
making predictions, it's actually about creating doubt in
yourself because if the projects are wrong, it's a mechanism for
you to self reflect and appreciate the limitations of
your model. Okay, so that's one strategy.
Another strategy is the bait. OK.
Where you engage in people who think differently than you do.
And I do that by watching a lot of YouTube videos.
And I try to try to watch people of different political leanings
or different viewpoints than I because I'm interested in
hearing their perspective. OK.
So keep an open mind, engage in people who disagree with you and
have an honest debate with them as well as yourself.
Now last piece, and this is actually something that I do but
most people don't do, is I use my imagination.
And all this means? Is I will go places, I will make
certain assumptions that other people don't do, OK?
That that's why I think people find me so interesting, because
I will say things that are imaginative, that are
speculative, but which is not backed by any evidence.
Don't be afraid to do that, OK? If you want to seek the truth,
you have to make some imaginative leaps into leaps
into the unknown in order to find the truth, OK?
The truth is not in front of you.
The truth is often behind you or far away from you, OK?
So you need to be you. Don't be afraid to just leap
far, OK? Into the unknown, all right?
All right, let's continue, OK. So Asia and Australia are
suffering the most from this global conflict.
Why are these nations passive? Won't these nations intervene?
OK, again, a lot of this is misconception in that everyone
thinks that the nation states are the constituent players in
this game and the nation states are equal.
They're not equal. They're not nation states.
They're only certain nation states that have the capacity to
project force overseas. Russia, America, maybe some
European countries, Australia, Asia, and most European
countries are just vassal states.
They are not capable of playing this game.
They're only capable of obeying. OK, maybe over time they'll
change their attitude and develop the capacity to play
this game. But you have to remember that
like the GCC, a lot of these European countries, Japan, South
Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, they're all Co
opted by the CIA and these are all American National states.
And so they're not capable of acting independently of American
policy. There's the illusion that they
are independent, but they're not OK.
And you can tell because of their actions in that you're
actually right in that, OK, you're Australia and you don't
have any more jet fuel, well, then you should send your army
or negotiate with Americans or negotiate with Iranians, but
they're not doing that, OK? Japan is in fact negotiating
with Iran, but Japan is still a vassal state of America.
Pakistan is the mediator for this ceasefire talk between
America and Iran. But guess what?
Pakistan is also just another vassal state.
OK, they pretend, pretend not to be, But just by their actions,
you can know that they are in fact vassal states.
All right, OK, civil war breaks out.
Who's going to win? Christian nationalist Silicon
Valley versus the Omont Wall Street, a city versus country
like Catholic. Do you believe it will result in
separation of the unit into multiple factions?
OK so if you look at the history of the Roman Republic, once a
civil war starts, it almost never ends, OK.
That's just the nature of American Society, where America
is so vast and people are so energetic and ambitious that
once a civil war starts, it's very unlikely that it will ever
stop. OK, maybe the maybe the
intensity will shift over time, but you will have civil war for
the next few 100 years. OK.
And the question then is who triumphs?
OK. So if you just use our game
theory formula, OK of cohesion energy.
And openness. And you ask yourself, OK, let's
just look at American Society and ask of which state has.
All three. The answer is Texas, OK.
And this is pretty clear. If you just look at the 50
States and which state is the most dynamic, which is the most
energetic, the most open minded, it's going to be Texas,
California, New York are going to suffer in the Civil War,
though economies will suffer a great deal, The Saudis will
suffer a great deal. Texas will emerge as a clear
winner in any conflict. OK.
And with Texas, you also have Christian nationalists.
And. AI.
OK, Why Christian nationalists? Because Christian nationalists.
It's actually a coherent philosophy.
It's coherent, it has the direction, it has a strategy, it
has a purpose, Okay, So I think Christian nationalists will also
win out and the AI will win out because AI can provide the
technological support to Christian nationalist.
Okay, So if you are working in Texas, if you live in Texas, and
if you work in AI and you're a Christian nationalist, well,
you're going to be a big winner of this Civil War, OK?
I mean, if you if you if you're the opposite, OK?
If you are maybe living in New York or California and you work
and you are maybe an atheist and you, I don't know, work in arts,
I don't know. Well, you're going to be a clear
loser in this war. OK, Often these what's called
professional managerial elite. Professional.
Managerial elite leaving the coast.
These guys are done. OK.
Completely useless, costs too much money, contributes nothing
to society. These guys are just done.
All right. All right.
How does an individual survive for what's coming?
Family and community, guys. OK, Forget the fact that you are
an individual. Leave that behind.
You will not survive as an individual.
I don't care how much money you have.
I don't care how prepared you are.
You might have a bad bunker. I don't know.
I don't care. OK?
But you have to focus on family, community if you are to survive
the new world. All right.
All right, do. You think Iran should have
nuclear weapons? No, the worst thing Iran can do
at this point is develop a nuclear weapon.
Iran can at most have 10 nuclear weapons.
America has 1000. There's one way for Iran to lose
this war really quickly, and it should threaten America with a
nuclear weapon, because that gives America the certification
to use its nuclear arsenal. OK, But the other problem, and
this is actually more one important problem, is the idea
of complacency. Where if you.
Think you have nuclear weapons or sorry if you have nuclear
opens, you think you're I'm safe, I don't have to worry
about anything. No, no, no.
It's much better to be creative and resilient and open minded.
OK, so if you don't have nuclear weapons, you're always under
threat, right? That forces forces your people
in society to constantly think about how to be strategic.
All right, so nuclear. Weapons is a bad thing.
It's not a good thing all. Right.
Paksudaika, doesn't Saudi Arabia see that coming?
Why would they allow that to happen?
Well, because for Saudi Arabia, what matters is first defeating
Iran, because the the strategy is I defeat Iran and I'm, I'm
master of the, of the Muslim world.
So I can unite the, all the 2 billion Muslims in the world
behind me to defeat Israel. OK, so from a perspective of the
GCC in Saudi Arabia, Iran is a much bigger threat than Israel.
Why hasn't the GC said anything about what's happening in
Palestine and Lebanon? The GCC are corrupt vassal
States of America, all right. Just it's not it's not hard.
These are all run by the CIA. If Trump is a trading genius,
why did offline see insane and stupid film mission to steal
uranium, Uranium, uranium, uranium.
OK, All right, that's a really good question.
And the answer is this. Trump is a genius at politics.
He's a genius at screwing over his enemies and accumulating
power for himself. He is not a military genius, OK?
He's a Trump is a genius at controlling his face.
Trump is a genius at being ATV star.
He's not a genius at geopolitics, OK?
These things, these things don't happen the same, all right?
How can Israel sustain a global empire when the religious
leaders view the physical destruction of those cities as a
spiritual victory? OK, it's not that hard to
rebuild an economy and a city. It's not hot, OK?
What is hard, though, is to develop the spiritual cohesion
of a people, to make them believe in something so that
they're willing to die for it, OK?
That's what matters, right? They're showing a city you can
rebuild in five years time. It's not that hard.
Just hire the Chinese to do it. OK?
Our nuclear taboos. Why would they respect a
rational escalation ladder to avoid using nukes?
OK, that's a really good question.
If these people are religious and they're fanatical and
they're crazy, why do they care about nukes?
And the answer is they don't care about nukes.
They think this world is fake, OK, But the problem is that
nuclear weapons, there are institutional constraints and
restraints on the use of nuclear weapons.
OK, so there's this myth that Donald Trump can just press one
bit button and all the nukes will go flying.
That's not how it works, OK? There are lots of subtle
constraints on the president, OK?
He has to go get the nuclear football, then someone has to
open for him, and then he can press a button.
But if people think Donald Trump is crazy, I guarantee you that
nuclear football guy is going to run away.
OK, There's so many taboos against the use of nuclear
weapons. Again, I keep on saying this,
but if nuclear weapons are used in this war, we are completely
screwed, OK? I don't think nuclear weapons
will be used in this war. All right, if master
organization on the primary cause of imperial decay where
unlimited population unlimited land.
So there's reasons that US Technet will succeed.
OK, All right, look, I I said the US technique is the plan.
I didn't say it would it would succeed.
Yes, I understand America can take over all of North America.
It can occupy Canada, it can occupy Mexico, Cuba.
But when it does that, it's going to create a lot of
insurgencies, it's going to create a lot of conflict.
So it's it will be a dumpster fire.
OK. Just because you are able to
accomplish it doesn't mean you should accomplish it, doesn't
mean it doesn't mean it'll be successful.
Immigration trap. Why is conforming the rules and
working hard consider playing the game wrong?
If high confidence requires resilience in the coming era of
resource, scarcely. Look, if the game is fair, you
want to conform to rules and you want to work hard.
But if there's an elite that is parasitic, that is rant seeking,
then by working hard, you're just transferring your energy to
the elite. OK, so before maybe 20 years
ago, America was a place that was very fair.
And so if you just worked hard and play by rules, you would
succeed. This is no longer true where
it's basically an oligarchy and where a few people control all
the power. OK, all right.
The Rains are growing less religious.
And so as this war becomes, as this war continues, the
framework of Shia Mariam will energize Iranians to become more
cohesive. And the answer is yes.
One outcome of this war that we should expect is that Iranian
society becomes much more religious, much more fanatical.
All right. And one reason is that the
Americans are intent on destroying Iranian urban centers
like Tehran. OK.
So the Americans and the Israelis are bombing railway
networks that connect Iran, Tehran to the countryside.
And so Tehran might not have access to food, which case
Tehran might disappear as a city.
In that case, when people are in desperate need, they turn a
religion astute for comfort, OK? And then they have this
ethological drive. So yes, we can expect Iran to
become much more ecological as this war continues.
OK, the US. Implements a draft, Generation Z
refuses. So you have a civil war then
Where's the US military going to get its soldiers?
OK. That's a good question.
And the answer is illegal immigrants.
OK there. Are about 20 million.
Illegal immigrants in America, they can be arrested and they
can be conscripted. OK.
So that's the solution to this problem.
Because as he points out, young people are not going to fight in
this war because it's suicidal. All right.
What? If you can make cheap drones OK,
so I so I say you know the way to counter cheap drones is with
a grand invasion. But America, America can make
even cheaper drones than. Wouldn't that solve the problem?
And. Yeah.
So the answer is this. We become too obsessed with
technology. We think that technology can
solve all the problems. And what you don't understand,
what people don't appreciate, is that technology is built on
people, OK? Technology is meant to.
Complement people to enhance the skills of people.
Technology is not designed to replace people.
That's the issue that America is facing this war, where America
thinks that by using sophisticated air defense, by
using super carriers, by using fighter jets that are stealth,
we can reduce civil casualties and win the war.
And it's turning out not to be the case.
Why? Because people are much more
creative, much more resilient and much more determined than
technology. OK, So if you have a group of
people together, they're going to figure they're always going
to figure out a way to defeat your technology.
So imagine. This.
OK, you build a robot and this robot is invincible.
Lots of machine guns. Night time vision, 260 vision.
OK, if I fight this robot one to one, I'm dead, right?
But I'm a human being. I'm not stupid.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to lure this robot into a
dark forest or a cave where the robot's going to stumble and
where I can maybe for a rock or pour water on it.
OK, but. But because technology it's
static. People are dynamic and.
Creative, OK and spontaneous. So that's what makes people.
People so wonderful because we humans, we're dynamic, we're
creative, we're spontaneous, we're not afraid to die for what
we believe in. A robot is just going to do what
a robot's going to do. So it's completely predictable.
We are not predictable, OK? That's why if you insist on
using technology and drones as your main military strategy, you
will lose this war. You have to commit your people
to Total War. You have to find people who are
willing to die for what they believe in, and then you'll win
this war. And that's why I believe that
ultimately America will lose this war in Iran because the
American people don't have the global will to fight this war.
I don't care how much money you put in this war.
You're going to spend 100 and trillion dollars.
I don't care. I don't care how much technology
you have. You're still going to lose this
war unless you're able to galvanized the patriotism and
global will of your people. OK.
All right. Is will be humbled?
Doesn't that change Packs Judaica?
OK, all right. OK, so packs Judaica and Israel
are not the same thing. Packs Judaica is a.
Project of transnational capital.
So think of Israel as the host, Paksudaika as the parasite, OK?
And the same thing happened in America, where at the end of the
19th century you have all the trinational capital coming into
America for Wall Street and for manufacturing the economy.
They were able to control America for the Federal Reserve.
OK, So trinational capital is the parasite, America is the
host. So in this situation, Israel is
the host and Patrick will be the parasite or transnational
capital, OK? So it doesn't matter what
happens to Israel, they can bomb Israel to Smith Marines, doesn't
matter who cares? Because transnational capital
can come into the region, hire Chinese, Filipinos, Indians to
rebuild Israel. OK.
Is the war going to transfer the transfer?
Transfer wealth from the old to the young in the US or worsen
it? OK.
Yeah. This is an excellent question.
This is a really a key question if you really understand
geopolitics. The answer is as this war
continues, as chaos continues throughout the world, more money
will be transferred to the old than to the young, OK?
So all this inequality is this generation of inequality that
we're seeing in America will worsen.
And the reason why is that in a time of chaos, in a time of
conflict, OK, capital always triumphs, OK?
The reason why is that capital is able to foresee risk, to
distribute risk properly and take advantage of risk.
OK, If I have trillion dollars, it's almost impossible for me to
lose my money and I can make more money, OK?
So imagine a situation where, OK, I have a twin dollars, I'll
invest a billion in America, a billion in Iran, a billion in
Israel. I can't possibly lose this war,
OK, but you have like $1000. I guarantee you you're going to
lose all your money. And the reality right now is
that the old, not all the old, but a minority of the old, the
anarchy, have all the capital and the young have nothing, OK?
So it's the young will give up all their money to the old, and
the young will be asked to die in the Middle East so that the
old can maintain their power, OK.
And that's a historical pattern A.
ICE. OK, Civil.
War, AI, Republicans, finance, Democrats.
Okay, absolutely correct in that these categories are not that
simple. It's a very fluid situation
where AI is going to bet on both Democrats and Republicans.
Finance is going to bet both on Republicans and Democrats.
But for the sake of my analysis, I create these categories so
that I can project into the future.
I can extrapolate into the future, but you're actually
writing that these categories are problematic.
OK All right. America's plan is to weaken the
global economy by letting the war drag on if the US wants.
If Iran wants the US to leave, why?
How can the issue will still achieve its plan?
OK, first question Is America trying to slowly weaken the
economy by letting the war drag on?
And the answer is it's not intentional, but it's a
consequence, meaning America can suffer the consequence of the
collapse of the global economy because America is
self-sufficient and it can it can always retreat back into its
fortress. It's the global economy that
will that will suffer. So it will seem in hindsight
that America had this planet all along, when in reality it's just
because no matter what America does, it always wins.
OK. That's the benefit of being
America. No matter what you what happens,
you always win. Iran wants US to leave, but then
how can Israel achieve the greater issue project?
And the answer is Israel will not let the US leave.
OK, I I mean, Israel right now is the parasite.
US is is the host. Once US leaves, issue will
become the host parasite data transnational capital becomes
the parasite. OK, so there's no way the US is
going to leave the GCC region Well, to exist our hold.
No. OK, no, forget the ceasefire.
It's all theatre. And like, think about who's who
is negotiating A ceasefire. You have your Kushner and you
have Steve Witkov, the same two guys that screw up the
negotiations which led to this war in Oman.
OK, And then where where is this taking place?
It's taking place in Pakistan, which is a vassal state of the
United States. So these negotiations will go
nowhere, all right. How do you fit variables?
And general human inputtable in your game theory model.
Yeah, that's a really good question.
And the answer is I don't use math.
It's impossible to model random human behavior.
It's just impossible. Maybe maybe if I had like a
million years of data, I could do that.
But I can't do that. I have like a few 100 years of
data. So I don't even use math.
I know it's game theory. I know I know supposed to use
math, but but I'll be constrained by math.
OK. So I use a lot of intuition.
I use a lot of doubt. I use a lot of debate.
OK, So doubt, debate, imagination.
How would Israel wait? OK so Israel is a prize state,
how can I achieve pashudeka? OK OK so this is confusing for
people but like public opinion does not matter in geopolitics.
Rome was this genocidal state, no one cared.
It didn't care, it still became the empire, lasted for 1000
years. OK, even today we still worship
Rome. The Aztecs were known for human
sacrifice. Didn't matter.
They still became the Empire of Mexico.
The British, the British, They created all these wars in
Europe. They enslaved the Indian
population and destroyed the economy and stole tranzols from
them. They addicted Chinese to opium.
Do we ever talk about this? I mean, like, if we had opium
poll back in the 1850s, I think most of the world would be like
the British Empire's evil, the genocidal.
We still watch the British Empire today.
OK? So public opinion does not
matter. We've come to this delusion that
our opinions matter in geopolitics.
It doesn't matter in geopolitics.
What matters is power. OK?
Oh, that's it guys. Wow.
Oh, wow. OK.
All right. We did it guys.
We we we did the midterm. OK.
So hopefully I did well on this midterm.
We're also we'll also have a final examination.
So I look forward to that. But thank you for the questions.
And we will take a one week break next week and we'll come
back and continue game theory and our analysis of the US Iran
war. So any questions so OK, so I
have like. 2 main questions and Vincent also sent me some
obvious questions like. So my first question is about
the global economy. Like in one previous discussion,
you argued that the US centric global economy system would
collapse after the Iraq war, leading to the.
Reminiscerization. Of virus nations and severely
disruptive disrupting the global trade.
However, why a new like global economic system created one or a
few countries will not be will not like emerge because even
though the system should would inevitably create significant
inequality among the countries, it would still bring substantial
wealth and economy, economic benefits to participating
nations. Why create modern, which I think
will create motivation for these country building.
OK yeah. And historically, after the age
of explorations, I think the class of each imperial systems
lead to the rise of the new empires.
For example, the Spanish Maritimes collapse and the
British Empire gradually replaced.
And after the World War One and Two, the American became the
empire and that replaced the British like, So why won't this
happen again? OK.
So the basis of the of the
global economy is the US dollar. OK, So what is the US dollar?
The US dollar is basically a contract system.
OK, so when I use. U.S. dollar, basically it's a
contract that our trade will be honoured.
OK, right. But with a contract system, you
also need need an enforcement mechanism.
OK. Meaning, look, if you don't, if
you don't honor the contract, then someone has to come beat
you up, right? Otherwise you'll just ignore the
contract. So that's what the US military
is for, all right? Now there's some problems with
the system. The first problem is that it's
actually very costly to create. A contract system.
OK, Why? Because you're absorbing all the
risk. OK, So you're the US economy.
You print U.S. dollars to enable the world to trade with each
other, OK. But when you do that, you are
collecting a tax. But at the same time, it's
putting tremendous strain on your economy, OK, because this
leads to finance financialization.
Which is just risk. And speculation.
OK, so all this access money is being created around the world,
and you have to absorb it into your economy, which causes
inflation, which causes things to be unaffordable to your
people. All right, So that's the first
problem. OK, It's really expensive on the
population. The population in America must
absorb the cost of excess liquidity in the world.
OK, Does that make sense? OK, The second problem is the
military. The military must be willing to
fight any wars around the world at any time.
OK, so the question then is, are there, is there any nation in
the world besides America that's one willing to absorb the cost
of creating a contract system being the global reserve
currency and #2 that's willing to fight a war to enforce this
mechanism anytime, anywhere in the world?
And the answer is no, Hell no. OK, this system is retarded.
It is unbelievable that America. Agreed to the system in the 1st
place and, and most Americans would say, well, we just got
stuck with this system and certain people benefited from
the system, but most people don't actually benefit from the
system. So the idea that anyone that's
going to come and say, oh, you know, we'll just take over the
system, whether it be Russia or China, that's just retarded.
OK, no one's going to, no one's going to replace America.
So the global economy is going to fracture because again, no
one's willing to to accept the cost to be the global reserve
currency. It's just too expensive.
Right? Does that make sense?
Yeah. OK.
But so. Why cannot like some regional
powerful country like Japan and German as you mentioned before
or American like they form into a group that will together build
a global economic systems? Because.
Ultimately you have to resolve the issue of benefit.
OK. OK.
Like we have to negotiate who benefits.
OK, it doesn't make sense. And it's hard for nation states
to figure that out. It's much easier to have an
empire. It's much easier for me to
impose my power onto you, but for us to, like, work together
peacefully, maybe for a couple of years, OK.
But it's very unsustainable, right?
Because why? Because of domestic concerns,
Because your population will want to maximize the benefit
from this relationship, OK. And.
So my second question is about the the, the, the value of the,
the culture of the world. As we discussed before, this
world today is highly materialistic with many and the
pursuit of material possessions become the main thriving forces
in society. And in the vision of the in the
future believe that people will place greater emphasize on
religion and spiritual life. But how exactly will this
transformation occur? Because if this will occur
through like war or suffering, then as in history, we go
through like War One and War 2, many people die and many tragedy
happen. But it seems that this value,
this materialistic value doesn't change because that's what what
we have today. OK, so I didn't say.
Everyone will experience this transformation.
What I'm saying is that those who undergo the transformation
will most likely survive the coming world collapse.
OK? So you can choose to say, like I
I want to be materialistic. You can do that.
And most people will choose to continue to want to be
materialistic, but they won't survive.
OK. And those who do undergo this
transformation will survive. And why do they undergo the
transformation? Because they see the world
coping around them and they and they are looking for comfort.
They're looking for a story, they're looking for explanation.
And so they turn to religion. OK, Does that make sense?
OK. And the reality is that, look,
in the coming 50 years of all this chaos and war, I would say
90% of humanity will be wiped out.
And a lot of these people will be because they refuse to adapt
to the new world. They refuse to believe that a
new world is coming and they should prepare for it, OK?
They refuse to change their minds.
OK Any more questions? Yeah, I have.
Some question of like you will want me to ask maybe two.
OK, OK. Yeah, the first.
Is like he he he had some question about our ours as an
individuals in this world. He said that if our efforts are
defined based on the consequent consequentialism of secret
society and other definitions, what is the significance of our
efforts? Isn't it still exacerbating the
secret society? Do we have a way to define our
own value or can we only live in the eye of others?
Yeah, it's. Actually pointless to worry
about 6 societies. It's actually pointless to worry
about others. What you can do is live your
life to the best of your ability, OK?
You can be focused on learning, on developing yourself
spiritually and intellectually and emotionally.
You can be focused on reading books, on asking questions, OK.
And if you do that, you'll be fine.
So stop worrying about secret societies, stop worrying about
the end of the world, and just focus on your own personal
transformation, OK? All right, one more question.
Is related to the Chinese students he might He said that
how do you think Chinese students who are currently
studying in the United States will be perceived in the future,
while Chinese people discriminate against US American
students in the future? Look the reality.
Is that the age of realization is over?
The idea that Chinese students learn English, coping on plane,
go to America, sort of study for four years and come back and get
a good job, That era is over. And quite honestly, I'll be
honest with you, I don't even know why Chinese students do
this in the 1st place. OK, again, I think a lot of it
has to do with the fact that China is not a real nation
state. It's just a projection mirage
created by the global economy, but I mean.
I mean Chinese students. Now are focused on getting the
degree in America. It's just a piece of paper.
Chinese students don't care enough about an education, about
learning. OK, that's that's a great myth
about Chinese students in this world where Chinese students are
the best in the world because Chinese students love learning
and are disciplined. That's not true.
Chinese students are extremely extrusively motivated.
They care about the grades, they care about the degree.
Once you take that away from Chinese students, Chinese
students don't even know what to do.
They play video games everyday. They just sit around and do
nothing. OK, So if Chinese students are
to thrive in the future, they need to learn passion.
They need to learn interesting motivation.
They need to love learning for itself.
All right, OK, All right, so that is it.
Thank you for the midterm and I will see everyone the week
after. OK, so we're taking a break next
week.