The rupture

This is a term that Mark Carney used earlier this year at the World Economic Forum to describe the state of the world where an old order, Pax Americana, was dying out and a new order is replacing it. I want to describe what the rupture is and how it explains the world that we are living in today. Basically I want to go through some of the major events of the past week and try to use a model or a framework to explain why things are happening the way they are.

Global crises

Let’s go over some major crises that the world is facing as of right now. Number one, of course, is the war in Iran. Even today, we don't know why this war started. And we have absolutely no idea what the goals of the Americans are and how this war could possibly end. We do know that this war is causing massive disruption to the global economy. Also, what is very worrying is how this war is escalating. Right now the war has extended to Yemen and now the Houthis are at war with Saudi Arabia and its allies including the UAE, Pakistan, and Turkey.

This war is expanding regionally and at some point it could even link up with the war in Ukraine to create a global war. Right? So initially this war was between the United States and Iran. Remember the United States wanted to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. And now this war has extended regionally in a way that could cut off Middle East energy from the rest of the world. And this would not only lead to higher diesel prices, which is already happening, but could also lead to a global famine. It is a catastrophe, and we don't even know why this is happening.

This is the first major crisis. Second major crisis is how the world is turning right.

We've gone from left to right and the example of course is Brazil. So, earlier this week there was a presidential election in Brazil and Lula was the incumbent and he's been in politics for decades. And he's helped relieve poverty in Brazil. He brought millions out of poverty in Brazil. He's very popular. And then his opponent Flávio Bolsonaro is the son of Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest and the Bolsonaro family is known for being extremely corrupt.

There are rumors that Flávio Bolsonaro is depraved. He has a lot of sexual problems. And what is also known is that he's also very corrupt. He's engaged in bank fraud and other stuff. The poll suggested that Lula would win easily against Flávio Bolsonaro, but when it actually happened, it seemed as though Flávio Bolsonaro could have won in the first round. He could have almost gotten over 50% in the first round. He didn't, so he's going to a second round. But everyone expects him to win. And so, this is surprising for a lot of people. But not only that, but throughout Latin America, you're seeing a lot of countries shift rightwards.

Meaning that they have become very pro-Trump and pro-Israel and very nationalistic. So why is this happening? That's the second problem. The third crisis is the US–Canada trade war. We are in Toronto and so this is something that impacts us directly. We don't even know why this war started, right? But Mark Carney believes that this is a war for Canada’s sovereignty. Basically, the United States wants to control who Canada can trade with and so this initiated the trade war. But this is expanding, right? This week there were the elections in Quebec. I just came back from Quebec and the Parti Québécois won a minority government and they promised a third referendum of independence. Before the election, The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, reported that Republican operatives were in Quebec and Alberta helping secessionists plan out their electoral strategy.

So it seems that this trade war is expanding and there are different points of attack, right? So Trump wants Quebec and Alberta to secede from Canada. We know the geography of Canada. So if any one of these two provinces secedes, Canada is done for, right? You just basically split Canada in half. Mark Carney is imposing tariffs strategically against the Americans in key battleground states for the midterms because he wants to inflict pain on voters so that they vote Democrat during the midterms. This is not just a trade war. It's also a political war. And so why is this happening? That's another question that we have. And then of course there are the Gen Z protests.

And they're happening throughout the world. Earlier this year, there were the protests in Nepal. Now we're seeing major protests in India where millions of young people are out in the streets in India demanding the resignation of the election commissioner. Then in France, you have lots of young people who are not going to school and instead protesting in the streets. And you probably have seen footage from France. It is pretty violent. And the problem is there doesn't seem to be an offramp for these protests. It's almost like the French Revolution over again. In fact, they're using a lot of slogans from the previous revolutions of the past. They're talking about rebuilding the Paris Commune. This is another major issue that is happening. So, there are lots and lots of these issues and today I want to present to you a grand unified theory as to why these things are happening. My argument to you is that they are all linked together.

How the world is constructed

To appreciate what's happening, we need to figure out how the world is constructed. And in school, what you're usually taught is that everything flows from the people, right? We live in a democracy. And so what happens is that people have norms and values. And then these norms and values become translated into law. In Canada, we call this common law, right? Common law. And this common law becomes the basis of our government, which then builds our society, which includes schools, the media, the popular culture. Then we have a military to defend our rights and our freedoms.

And this is traditionally how we understand democracies to function, right? Everything comes from an expression of the values and norms of the community. This is often called social contract theory. This comes from, of course, Jean-Jacques Rousseau who said that a society is people of their own free will coming together to surrender their freedom in return for rights from the government. The freedom to life, liberty, happiness. This is what you're taught in school and this is a theory that is most commonly accepted.

What I want to show you tonight is that this is wrong and this is the opposite of what really happens in reality. I don't have enough time to show you from first principles how this works, but I want to present you a model of the world and then apply it to current events to see if we can better explain why things are happening the way they are. Again, this is what you're traditionally taught. This is all wrong. In fact, the truth is it's the opposite. It's the opposite system.

Plato’s allegory of the cave

To understand this, I want you to understand Plato's allegory of the cave. And Plato's allegory of the cave is a metaphor for how all of reality is constructed. The metaphor is this. Imagine a million people all lined up in a cave, a dark cave. There's no lighting. They are all seated and chained to the floor and their necks are shackled so that they can only stare forward and they're looking at a blank wall. Again this is just a thought experiment.

It's a metaphor and this is how they grew up. This is the only thing that they've known. They can only stare at the blank wall. Behind them is a great fire. A great fire. And then surrounding this great fire are people. We don't know who they are. They're called they. In the Republic written by Plato, they're just called “they.” Honestly, it doesn't really matter who they are, but they are different from us in that they're free to roam around.

And what they want to do is control us by projecting a reality on the wall so that we focus on this reality and obey whatever they tell us to be true. What they do is they take puppets and project these puppets, the shadows, onto the wall. And so now people are looking at the wall and they're seeing a movie. Now these are just shadows. These are just puppets. But this is the only thing they’ve known. What they instinctively try to do is try to figure out how this reality works. What they do is they create language, right? Language to give names to the shadows and then from these names you can create myths or stories of who these shadows are and how they got there.

And what then they do is they specialize amongst themselves to figure out what they should all do in order to better understand this reality. So some become poets or writers who create the language for this reality. Some become priests who take this reality and create a religion to explain this reality. Some become teachers who teach this reality to young people. And after a while, and again, no one knows how they got there. No one knows how these shadows got there. But after a while, they come to believe that this reality, which is all just a matrix or simulation, is the only reality that exists. And they're so convinced it's the only reality, they will kill anyone who says, "Guys, it's just a shadow on the wall. It's all fake." I want to take this metaphor, this allegory, and apply it to our reality and explain how the reality that we live in actually works.

Layers of power

Now what I'm going to do is apply this and show how our reality is essentially just a simulation. The people, “they,” who control the puppets: we don't know who they are, but there are three types of people. They are the occultists. The occultists are just people who think they are in connection with God. Then you have secret societies, Freemasons, Jesuits. And then you have the families. They're often called the Illuminati. Doesn't matter. Again, we don't need to know who they are. All we need to know is this is a structure of power, of an alliance between three forces. The occultists, the families that rule the world, and the secret societies.

Then in order for them to imprison us, they have enforcement mechanisms. These enforcement mechanisms include the mafia, they include intelligence agencies, and they can include the military. That's the second layer where they're now able to imprison us or chain us into the cave. Now, what they need to do is project shadows onto the wall to distract us. To capture our imagination. And they do that initially by creating a religious system. Paganism or whatever. And then paganism of course went to and became monotheism. And monotheism today is expressed in terms of money. Transnational capital. So there are different organizations working together to print money. They include the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, City of London, BIS, just lots of these financial organizations. J. P. Morgan. Again we don't need to go into specifics. I'm just showing the layers at work. And then once you're able to print money, then you have a global economy, right? And this is where the corporations come in. Corporations, global economy.

This is how reality itself is created. But again, they're trying to create shadows on the wall to fool us, to control us. What they do is they create abstractions and we believe that these abstractions are the ones that are really controlling us. So above the global economy are multilateral organizations like the UN, the World Bank, the IMF. We think that, “Oh, these are the ones that actually control us because they're a collection of nation states.” Rather than us believing that it is these societies that control us we believe instead that we are controlled by nation states. And then in order to indoctrinate us into the system, what happens is that we create schools, media and culture.

And these three things together, they're trying to just focus our attention and make us believe that this matrix, this hallucination, the simulation is real. And so I'll give you examples of this. For example, we know as a fact that diamonds are worthless, right? But when you watch movies, diamonds are the most valuable thing. There are lots of movies that involve diamond heists, right? Where these criminals will spend years trying to figure out how to steal diamonds, right? If you play video games like StarCraft or whatever, the highest rank is not gold, not platinum, but diamond.

But again, remember, diamonds are absolutely worthless. So that's what popular culture does. It lies to you. And this is no different, guys. New York Times, BBC, CNN, they're all lying to you. They're all trying to indoctrinate you into certain ideas. And then of course from school, media, and culture you create norms and values and the legal system. This is actually how reality works.

Reason and emotion

And what this entire system is doing, it's trying to enforce certain values onto us and deny other values. So in very simple terms, what the system is trying to teach us is: reason is superior to emotion. All of the culture, all of schooling, all of the media is trying to teach us that reason is always superior to emotion. And one example is something called intelligent design, right? Intelligent design is where some Christian fundamentalists believe that there's a God who had a blueprint for the universe. Right? Now, in school, you're taught that these people are idiots. The truth is Darwinism.

And this is not just taught in schools, but it's propagated in the media. So, one of the most popular Hollywood movies is called Inherit the Wind. I'm not sure if you've seen it, but it's about the Scopes trial where a teacher was trying to teach Darwinism and he was put on trial for teaching against the Bible, right? And Clarence Darrow became the hero because he defended the teacher's right to teach the truth and teach people away from ignorance.

Our entire society is structured to teach us that reason is good, emotion is bad. But if you break things down and ask yourself what is reason, what is emotion, then you come to a pretty troubling economy. Let's look at what reason and emotion really are. If you look at reality and ask yourself what reason really is, it is capital, money, right? So if you're a business person, what is reasonable? You take business from anyone regardless of race, regardless of religion.

Just reason, right? Because you're here to make as much money as possible. Capital entails the free movement of people, goods, and ideas. This would also argue for the open society. The open society is essentially liberalism, individuality, progress. Things like women's equality, things like immigration, open borders, take anyone and everyone. Multiculturalism. And what is emotion? Emotion is anything that gets in the way of the free movement of money, ideas, and people. And they include religion and spirituality.

They include nationalism. They include family and community. They include prejudice. Tradition. This is the real struggle of modernity. How to remove people from God and have people embrace capital. So, if you look at the school system, if you look at popular culture, if you look at the media, it's always telling us that spirituality is bad. Materialism is right. Right? If in school you ever say that Darwinism is wrong, you'll be labeled insane.

If during COVID you ever said, "I don't really trust vaccines," you're an anti-science bigot. Right? So, nationalism, family, community, prejudice, tradition, they're all bad things. What's good is multiculturalism, diversity, liberalism, individuality, equality, women's rights, all that.

Reason, rules, and elite overproduction

For most of our lives, the system has been extremely beneficial. It's led to tremendous prosperity and peace in the world. That cannot be denied. The problem is that any system will ossify over time. It will break down. And this system has broken down over the past few decades because what's happened is reason has given way to rules. The idea is we're meant to be reasonable people, right? Which meant that we are meant to exercise our own judgment, to have empathy, to show good judgment.

Now we're not supposed to exercise our reason. We're just supposed to follow the rules, right? The classic example of course is COVID. If you just use your reason, you would know maybe it's not a good idea to enforce the vaccine mandate on everyone now. But they're like, "Nope, the rule is you need a vaccine to get into the restaurant or the hospital or board a plane." So that's one major thing that has happened in our society where reason has broken down into rules. Another major transition is community to the individual.

So if you go back to the 80s and 90s, if you asked a young person in Canada, in Toronto, “What do you want to do when you grow up?” That person will most likely say, “I want to contribute to my community. I want to help Toronto prosper.” Today if you go into a high school they will say, “I want to become a social media star like me. I want a million followers on Instagram.” Me. So that's another thing that's happened.

And the third thing that’s happened is innovation has become a bureaucracy. Maybe in the 80s and 90s there was lots of entrepreneurship. Young people were very energetic. Now you have too many bureaucrats. I think over 10% of Canadians work for the government. It’s a very nice job. It’s tenured. You don’t have to work hard. You get lots of benefits. Society has broken down. Again, the open society, multiculturalism, liberalism: these are all really good ideas for their time. But what’s happened in the last five years is this system has broken down into just bureaucracy, right? A stagnant, corrupt bureaucracy.

And the question then is: why does this happen? Why is it that all systems eventually have to break down? And the answer is Peter Turchin proposed the idea of elite overproduction. And so over time as a society, you have too many elite. They all want to have the power in society and as a result society ossifies and breaks down. And this is the time we are living in. We're living in a time of elite overproduction and this is what best explains all the conflicts that are happening in the world. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to put all this together and apply it to our reality and I'll show you how the rupture is happening and what this will eventually lead to.

The elite and the counter-elite

Let's go back to our original model, right? You have the secret societies, “they,” who control everything. Then they create these different abstractions, the global economy. But then you have the intellectual class. The intellectual class, who work in the schools, the media, New York Times, BBC, popular culture, Hollywood, they all exist in order to protect the status quo. That's why they get paid so much money, guys. Right?

This is the system and as I said, it's stagnating. It's corrupt. It's ossifying. And so the elite want to maintain this system and when that happens you have a counter elite who want to destroy the system and create their own system. So you ask yourself in the system what is the central power? What is a central organizing power? And it's the power to print money. So almost no one understands this principle but money can be created out of nothing. How do they print money? By issuing loans, right? So when you go to the bank and say, "Hey, I need to buy a house. So can I take out a mortgage for a million dollars to buy an apartment or condo in Toronto?". It'll cost you $10 million to buy a house, but a million dollars to buy an apartment, right? Where do you think the money comes from? Most people think it comes from depositors, right? No, guys, it comes from nothing.

They just press a keyboard, they press a key, and the money is just printed out like that. That's how they print money. This means that the banks have all the power in society. The cartel of private banks controls the world. And this includes Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, City of London. They are the ones who control the society. And so now there's counter-elite. And these are AI companies, the oligarchs. The tech bros, AI companies.

And so for them to win out, they must steal the power to print money from the bankers. And how do they do that? Through a mechanism called digital currency and digital ID. Digital currency and digital ID. Because with digital currency and digital ID, when you take out a loan, you don't have to go to TD or Canada Trust to take out the loan. You can just borrow from Google or Apple. Right now, they're the ones with the power to print money and control reality.

That's what they want. What’s happening in the world today can be simplified into a struggle amongst the elites to control the nature of reality. Who gets to print money? Is it the banks or is it the tech companies? Right now of course with digital currency and digital ID you actually don't need US dollars. When banks print money, they need a global reserve currency. But tech companies don't have to do that. They can just print out their own stablecoins, right? Their own bitcoins. Something called stablecoins.

This is it. Once you understand this, then everything else follows because if I'm the tech companies and I want to steal from the bankers the power to print money, I need to destroy the entire edifice of power in the world right now. This means not just they. I need to go after these guys but also the intellectual class as well. The universities, Harvard, Yale, I need to destroy them. The media corporations, BBC, New York Times, I need to destroy them. The old institutions of culture and power, Hollywood, I need to destroy that as well. Because I need to put in place my own set of intellectuals to justify digital currency and digital ID.

In other words, if I want to rebuild the world, I first need to destroy it. I need to destroy the US dollar. I need to destroy the petrodollar. I need to destroy the intellectual class. Then once that happens, then it's possible for me to replace the bankers with stablecoins or digital currency. Now that we understand this, let's use this to explain what's happening in the world right now.

The Iran war, the petrodollar, and AI

The first problem of course is the Iran war. Why do they start this stupid thing? And why are they losing it? They didn't know they were going to lose it. If you think about this, you can never ever get to an answer unless you change your perspective that says, "What if they went into this war knowing they would lose it and they wanted to lose this war?" You're like, "That makes no sense." Let’s use this framework to explain this. So, what's happening? Saudi Arabia, the GCC, it's a basis of the petrodollar.

The petrodollar is very simple. It's a basis of the global economy. Saudi Arabia sells cheap energy to the world for US dollars. Then Saudi Arabia takes these US dollars and puts it back into the US economy, right? Because there's actually no place for it to store its dollars except in US Treasuries. Right? And this becomes the basis of the petrodollar. And this is great for the Americans because they're able to live an extravagant lifestyle, right? Because they're able to basically print money. They're able to borrow money really cheaply. Unfortunately, this has also led to a $40 trillion debt. A $40 trillion debt.

This money also drives innovation in the United States because all this liquidity is what drives the AI system, right? So, Saudi Arabia basically sells this oil to East Asia which then makes manufactured goods for the world. East Asia and Saudi Arabia, the GCC, invest all this money back into the United States so that everyone can live a pretty good life. Well, if you’re middle class. This system worked really well. And now, because of the war in Iran, this entire system is breaking down. Saudi Arabia can no longer export oil. So, East Asia can no longer basically fuel its manufacturing industry.

The money is no longer going to America. So, what's happening is the US Treasuries are getting harder and harder to sell because you have fewer and fewer buyers, right? This could possibly create a sovereign debt crisis in the United States, meaning the United States defaults on the loan. It is also going to cause the AI bubble to pop at some point because OpenAI is not profitable. They’re basically a Ponzi scheme where they just take billions of dollars and then buy a lot of compute. So it's a huge Ponzi scheme. It's a huge bubble. Two major consequences: the sovereign debt crisis collapse.

You have a sovereign debt crisis in the United States.

Another problem is the AI bubble collapses, right? You're like, "Wait a minute here. This is really, really bad." But what if all this is intentional? What if all this is part of a master plan to shift from fiat currency to digital currency? And it's the AI companies that want this to happen. You're like, "Oh, wait a minute here. The AI bubble burst." So let me explain the logic here. The sovereign debt crisis happens. The US dollar is no longer the global reserve currency, right?

Because you can't trust the US dollar. Now what do you use? What do you use? Do you use Chinese yuan? Probably not. Do you use Russian rubles? No. What are your options? Your only option is something called stablecoins, right? Who runs the stablecoins? The tech companies. Right? Stablecoins you can buy from Apple, you can buy from Google, you can buy from J. P. Morgan, doesn't matter. But it's a way to still do global trade when the US dollar global reserve currency collapses.

But then you have the AI bubble, right? Once it collapses, well then these companies go bankrupt. No, they don't. They don't go bankrupt. In fact, they become profitable. Now, look, if you're an oil company and you actually don't have to pay for the cost of infrastructure, the oil rigs, right? You make a lot of money. AI companies are the same thing where now they have to pay for compute, the data centers, which cost them a lot of money. There's no way for them to make money with data centers, right? But if the AI bubble were to burst and the economy in America goes into recession, then the government will have no choice but to bail out these AI companies. How? By nationalizing the data centers and taking a stake in these AI companies, which is exactly what happened after the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, right?

Congress and the White House got together and said, "We have to bail these guys out because they're too big to fail." Same thing would happen right now. What happens is the power of the government goes into these AI companies. The government takes a stake and then these AI companies become profitable and with the power of government, they're now able to issue stablecoins to replace the US dollar. Right? They win. Who loses? The bankers lose. Why? Because they have too much collateral in the GCC. If the global economy collapses, these banks go bankrupt because you're too leveraged overseas, right? How much money have they loaned to Saudi Arabia, the GCC?

The banks collapse, the AI companies are ascendant. They take over Washington, DC. Washington, DC nationalizes the data centers and gives a lot of liquidity to AI companies and gives these AI companies the power to print stablecoins. And you're like, "No, no, no, wait. That's just the US. China won't go for this. Russia won't go for this." Well, watch what happens in November. Next month, China, Russia, and United States get together at APEC in Shenzhen.

And this will be the first time in a long time when Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin are in the same room together, right? And what do you think they'll discuss, guys? AI, right? AI is both a threat as well as a promise to humanity. If we don't put guard rails on AI, AI may destroy us. But if China, Russia, United States were to get together and create an AI global governance board, then AI could benefit all of humanity, right? That could happen in November. If it does happen, this theory is correct, right? Also, when they say AI governance, what they're really talking about is digital currency, stablecoins.

They don't really care about AGI or ASI. They don't care about that crap. All they care about is digital currency. The power of these companies, private companies, to print money, right? Before private banks have the power to print money. Now, these private companies want to wrest the power to print money from these banks. So that explains the Iran war.

The US–Canada trade war

How about the trade war, right? US–Canada trade war. What's happening there? Well, what is Canada? What Canada really is is a resource colony for the City of London. So remember the war is between the AI companies and the banks. City of London is the epicenter of the global banking system and the City of London controls Canada. Canada is basically crown land, right? Basically what Donald Trump wants to do is partition Canada and then basically take it over, right? Mark Carney represents the City of London. He does not work for the Canadian people.

He works for the City of London. The guy's Goldman Sachs. Then he went to work for the Bank of Canada as governor. Then he went to the Bank of England to be the first foreign-born governor of the Bank of England. A guy like that works for the City of London. And that's why this past year Mark Carney has been talking about the rupture because he intuitively understands what's happening. The private banks are being pushed aside. The AI companies are taking over. That's why he calls it the rupture and that's why this trade war has started. And that's why Trump has operatives in Quebec and Alberta to divide Canada up.

Does Canada have a chance in a trade war? No. It does not. Because in a trade war, if the United States is the consumer and Canada is the seller, it's not really a fair fight.

Brazil and elections

This also helps us explain what's happening in Brazil. So when you read the news, read the New York Times, what they would tell you is a major reason for what happened in Brazil is that the Brazilian evangelical population increased in the past 20 years. Maybe 20 years ago it was about 8%. Now it's about 20%. And you know what? These religious Brazilians, they only care about one issue, the return of Jesus, right? They care about Israel. They're Zionist. They're Christian Zionists. And that's why Bolsonaro won. What they will not tell you is this. What they will not tell you is that the Brazilian social media companies are all controlled by the United States. You understand? Facebook, Meta, Google, YouTube, they're all in Brazil. And what are they doing? They're tweaking the algorithm in order to create election results that they want to create. That's why you're seeing this massive rightward push in Latin America because these AI companies are trying to create something much more nationalistic, which benefits the bankers.

Another way to test this is right now there’s an election in Toronto, right? Olivia Chow and Brad Bradford. Who do you think is going to win? Right now the polls say Olivia Chow is way ahead, right? By eight points, 10 points, right? I think Brad Bradford will win. My guess is he will win because he’s been a pretty outspoken Zionist.

Gen Z and AI

So then this gets us to our final topic, which is the Gen Z protests. Why is Gen Z happening? Why are these protests happening? Well, because you're afraid of AI, right? In France, the students are saying, "We don’t learn anything in school and we're afraid of being replaced by AI." What is AI? The great fear is that AI will become AGI and just eliminate humanity or dominate humanity. I've already told you guys that's not the goal. The goal is to create digital ID and digital currency.

What AI is doing is it is revealing this matrix and hallucination. What it is showing the world is this: these high school teachers, these lawyers, these doctors, these university professors, this intellectual priest class that we have to maintain the simulation—they’re full of shit, man. And how do we know? Because the shitty ChatGPT is able to do what they’re doing, right? That is the main attack vector of these companies: to destroy the priest class that legitimizes the banking cartel. That’s what’s happening in the world. This is the rupture at work.

Testing the theory

So that's a theory. But what's really important for us is always to test our theory against reality. So if this theory is correct, then we should see certain things happen over the next few months. I will now paint you a picture of what should happen if this theory is correct. There are three major events that will happen within the space of a month.

The first major event is the Alberta referendum. So, as you guys know, on October 19th, the people of Alberta will go to the polls and vote whether or not to put secession on the ballot. And right now, maybe 20 to 30% support a vote for independence. In theory, on October 19th, this ballot should be defeated. In theory. Then you have next in late October, October 27th, the Israeli elections. And in theory, and again in theory, Netanyahu should be defeated.

That's the second thing to look out for. The third thing to look out for, the most important of course is the US midterms in early November. US midterms. And here they are predicting a Democrat sweep. The Democrats take both the House and the Senate. So on all three of these things, I'll be honest with you, I have no idea what's going to happen. I have no idea what’s going to happen. From my perspective. All these things, all three of these things in theory should go a certain way. And if the Alberta referendum is defeated, if Netanyahu loses the Israeli elections, and if the Democrats sweep the midterms, then in theory, everything I said tonight is just wrong.

So, these are three things to look out for. If my theory is correct, let me show you a sequence of events. First thing, the Alberta referendum. Regardless of what happens, Donald Trump will say this was rigged. And it is possible Alberta votes to have a vote to secede. If that were the case, then you can blame the social media algorithms. Remember, after the Parti Québécois won a minority government, who came out and said, "Hey, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Quebec should separate”? Elon Musk.

Why would he do that? I mean, why does he even care about Canada, right? So, it is entirely possible the AI companies rigged the referendum in a way that allows Donald Trump to come in and say, "This was unfair. Let me send peacekeeping troops to make sure you guys have a fair election." I think that the referendum is something that's really important. Donald Trump will interfere in some way. The Israeli elections. I think Netanyahu will win. Netanyahu is key to the plans in the Middle East.

You need Netanyahu to stir things up. I think Netanyahu will win. If he loses, then I'm wrong. The US midterms are interesting because if you look at the midterms, there's so much dark money being spent on the midterms, especially by the AI companies. Elon Musk is spending about $90 million. Marc Andreessen, his partner Horowitz, are spending, I think, $100 million. Meta is spending $50 million. So much money is going in the midterms, right? And what are they doing? They are rigging Congress and putting people in place for an eventual AI bailout. I don't care. Watch what happens in Congress. The issue is not whether the Democrats win or the Republicans win. That doesn't matter.

What matters is how many incumbents are replaced in elections. Because you're trying to pave the ground for Congress to bail out the industry over the next few months. This is what I think: watch these three major events.

A possible sequence of events

So let me give you a timeline of what happens if these three things are true. Well the first thing to watch out for is the Anthropic IPO. Anthropic wants to list publicly in November. I think early November, right after the midterms. Right now they want a $2 trillion evaluation. They want a two trillion valuation and to raise about $100 billion guys. They're not worth $2 trillion. Everyone knows this. There's no way they're raising that much money. In which case you can expect the IPO to be a failure. And if it's a failure, this might trigger an AI bubble collapse, right? Because all these companies are linked together. If the Anthropic IPO collapses, then Anthropic is no longer able to buy data centers and compute, which means that Oracle's in trouble, which means that Broadcom is in trouble. It's a Ponzi scheme. Everything collapses.

But then what should happen is Congress is like, "Nope, we've got to bail these guys out." So, Congress and the White House get together and bail out the AI industry. And again, this is probably a Democratic Congress working with a Trump White House. And then the news media will be like, "Look how great US democracy is. The Democrats and Republicans working together to save American democracy." Great. Another thing to watch out for of course is the APEC summit where President Xi of China, Donald Trump of United States and President Putin of Russia get together. I almost guarantee you that the three will meet at this conference and they will announce a global AI governance board.

And then what should happen is the war in Iran will escalate. Again, they're using this war in Iran to destroy the entire global economy. If they destroy the entire global economy, they screw over the banks because the banks have collateral in these places. If the GCC falls, if Ukraine falls, a lot of these private banks go bankrupt. And this prepares the ground for the introduction of digital ID and digital currency into the world. Again, this is a theory. I have absolutely no idea if this is correct or not. And we'll know over the next three months. It will only take three months to test this theory out, if this theory is correct or not.

Questions and answers

Digital IDs and operating systems

Audience question:

You are talking a lot about the digital ID stuff and the cryptocurrency. That's cool. Have you been paying attention to how they're slamming it into the operating system layer? So anyone that wants to use computers in the near future is going to have to digitally identify to even install anything.

Professor Jiang:

Yeah. So if you look at society and just everyday life, it's crazy how they ram stuff down our throats, right? So AI agents are becoming much more commonplace even though I'm not really sure how useful AI agents are. When I went to the airport in United States, I couldn't go to the check-in counter. I couldn't actually see a person. I was told to go to a checkout counter and just deal with the AI. When you're no longer allowed to go check in, you have to do it digitally nowadays.

What’s happening is, first of all, everyone is being conditioned to deal with the software, the AI, directly. Also, your job is no longer to do your job. Your job is to just train the AI to do your job. Again, what they’re trying to do is they’re trying to collapse the global economy, collapse just the infrastructure of the global economy, so they can replace it easily with their digital currency and digital ID.

So, that I think is just very very common and they're being very aggressive about it. Not just AI, but also in California and Texas they have Waymo, they have Flock cameras. So AI has just become much more intrusive. I think the patterns are pretty clear. But the problem is again, the real challenge is how do you replace the banks? Right? Because the banks have the power to print money and that’s the power you need in order to really control the world.

Starlink and network states

Audience question:

Do you think Elon Musk’s recent announcement that Starlink will be a major mobile provider in the States is part of the counter elites attack on they?

Professor Jiang:

Yeah. So, Starlink, it's really interesting. Again, what they're trying to do is they're trying to create their own complete infrastructure. Starlink is a way to replace the undersea cables, right? It's an alternative to undersea cables because if you think about what the internet is, it's just undersea cables. So, there’s a struggle amongst these companies to wrest the power of digital infrastructure away from the nation state to themselves.

So a very interesting trend is you have these tech bros like Peter Thiel. They talk about the idea of a network state. What is a network state? Network state is basically a corporation becoming a nation state. So rather than us having a democracy, we vote in the government which is not very efficient. Instead, we’ll have a company control us. And this company will be much more efficient. And that's what they're thinking of.

Because if you're like Google or Meta or any of these tech companies, OpenAI, you're a company, but your existence depends on your relationship with a nation state, and you hate that. And you don't want to be controlled by Washington, DC. You don't want voters to muck things up. You don't want voters saying, “You guys are taking away our water and electricity, so let’s ban data centers.” They don't want that crap. It's just too costly.

It's too inefficient. What they would rather do is just build their own nation state. Or take it over. If you can't take it over, then build your own one. And that’s what we're seeing throughout the world. In Argentina, Peter Thiel moved to Argentina. Why did he do so? Because he wants to take parts of Argentina and create his own network state. And so that's what they're trying to promote. And it's proof of concept where once they have something up and running, it will show everyone how much more efficient corporations are compared with government, right?

Governments are slow bureaucracies. Corporations are monarchies. They're very efficient and they're trying to promote this right now: the network state.

Automation and an export economy

Audience question:

So I'm in the automation industry and I'm just on the ground floor and I see what's going on. There's a huge boom for automation equipment, manufacturing equipment and that kind of also ties into the dollar wanting to be tanked because that also helps with the export economy situation for the US. I see all these connecting. So what are your thoughts on that?

Professor Jiang:

What is your question?

Audience follow-up:

Automation: do you think they’re trying to purposefully tank the dollar to pivot to an export economy? Now, through automation, they need materials. You’re going to get material inflow and you’re going to get products, and you have to export that to the world. Is that going to improve the middle class of every other—and we’re just going to be funding their lifestyles now, the opposite of what’s been going on, right? Because there’s now a demand for our exports.

Professor Jiang:

There are different concepts at work here. The first concept is onshoring. Onshoring is basically, “Let’s take back the manufacturing sector.” We subcontracted manufacturing to China and East Asia for too long, but we need to take this stuff back. Otherwise, we become too dependent on China. That’s onshoring, and they’ve been trying this for the past five years. It does not work. It doesn’t work for a variety of reasons. The first reason is your entire economy, the United States, it’s geared towards financialization. Most jobs that are profitable are in the financial services industry. They’re not in manufacturing.

It’s going to be very hard to find a young man to go and work at a factory that pays $30, $40 when he can just gamble on cryptocurrency, right? The financial services industry is too strong in Washington, DC. You have very few young American men who want to actually work in these factories. And no matter how you do it, you’re not as competitive as China is, right? China has absolutely no regard for environmental and labor protection. It doesn’t care.

So you cannot beat China in terms of cost efficiency. So onshoring does not really work. Second is the idea of automation. Automation is just replacing your workers with robots. Just streamlining your manufacturing process. And in theory, that makes a lot of sense. But there's a problem with automation that people don't appreciate, which is automation requires a global supply chain. And what I mean by that is if you want to build robots you need certain elements and these elements are scattered around the world. You need lithium, you need copper, you need silicon and there's no country that produces all three together. And I’m only talking about the most basic ones. There are thousands of different components that you need in order to create robots. And lithium is found primarily in the lithium triangle which is South America. China produces about 60% of the world’s silicon. Copper is found in Chile, Peru, these places.

It’s a global supply chain that you need. Automation in a time when global supply chain networks break down, automation becomes too expensive actually. You're actually just better off if you think about it importing illegal immigrants. It's a much more cost-effective solution to manufacturing. Onshoring doesn’t really work. Automation doesn't really work. What will happen? And the answer is that these corporations will become much more dominant across different nation states and these corporations will work together to build their own independent global supply chain. Right? So Starlink is an example of this, right? Where they can no longer trust nation states to control the global supply chain because these nation states are too unstable, too volatile, right?

So corporations will come and work amongst themselves and that’s, I think, another output of the APEC summit in November where you will see corporations emerge in China, United States and Russia and they agree to work together much more closely. It's already happening. But I think that this will become much more clear and blatant as global crises become much more persistent.

Stablecoins and the major countries

Audience question:

You said that China, Russia and US might start governing the stablecoins in the future.

Professor Jiang:

I didn’t say that. The companies will control the stablecoins.

Audience follow-up:

But there might be some kind of organization that will do it, right?

Professor Jiang:

Right. No. So you look at the US dollar. It’s a cartel of private banks and organizations scattered around the world that agree to use the US dollar as a global reserve currency. Same thing with stablecoins where you will have a committee, a governance board of different companies getting together and agreeing on the protocols for stablecoins.

Audience follow-up:

How can that change the dynamic between those major countries, between the US, Russia, and China?

Professor Jiang:

One thing that you guys need to get out of your head is the nation state. It's an illusion. It's a matrix. It doesn't matter. Russia, China, United States, Canada, these are all just illusions. They're just conventions. What matters are the political forces operating within the nation state. For example, you have in the USA, Russia and China a war between the elite and the counter elite. Who represents the elite? The financial people, right? Finance. Who represents the counter elite? The AI people.

And so this is that dynamic that's happening throughout the world. Now the financial people have been in power for too long and they've created an edifice of power. So for AI to become dominant, it needs to work with other powerful factions in order to destroy the system of finance we have today. And so what's happening is an alliance between three forces. Nationalism, technology, and religion. This is the Grand Alliance that is trying to topple the financial people. And so in order for these people to topple the financial people, what they need to do is control the levers of government in these nation states. So, it was this force, nationalism, technology and religion that brought Trump into power.

And what Trump's trying to do is he's trying to remake the power structure in Washington, DC. But in other words, he's trying to fight the deep state. But to do that, he needs more time. He needs a third term and possibly a fourth term. So that's Trump. But you see the same dynamic happening in Russia and in China as well. Now what is the main advantage of the financial people? The main advantage is they work globally together.

They're able to work globally together. And so guess what, guys? The Chinese elite, the Russian elite, the American elite, they're best friends. The idea of this nation state struggle, it's all meant to confuse you, meant to focus your attention somewhere else where the real action is the Chinese elite, the Russian elite, the American elite, they all send their kids to the same schools. They all go to the same parties. And they all intermarry together. That's the structure of power today.

So in order for Putin, Xi, and Trump to win out against the financial global elite, they need to work together and install new power centers in their own countries. And the best people to install in their countries are the AI people, the corporations. So that's what's happening, right?

Breaking the shackles in the cave

Audience question:

You talked about how one reality in Plato’s cave is being replaced by the other reality. That’s how I understood this.

Professor Jiang:

Imagine Plato's cave, right? And the elite are shining these puppets on the wall. What's happening is first of all these elite are getting kind of lazy. So they're sleeping on the job. They're not really doing a good job. They're just getting old. The people are bored by the shadows on the wall. “You know what? This is something we've been looking at for the past few decades. There must be something bigger than this,” right?

They’re getting anxious. And so there's another group of people who are like, “You know what, I can probably do a better job of projecting reality. So, let me replace these old people.” But to replace these old people, I need to get the people, the prisoners on my side. I need to get them to revolt, right? That's why you see these Gen Z protests around the world because they're trying to create political momentum to replace the status quo.

Audience follow-up:

But ultimately the people will still remain in shackles and look at the different reality in Plato’s cave.

Professor Jiang:

That's how reality works.

Audience follow-up:

My question is more: what could help get rid of the shackles? And is it possible that through this rupture which will lead to further wars and further suffering and further unrest that more people may be asking a question: “Why are we here, and what is ours to do?” And when you talk about us having free will and we can decide and not be compliant and focus on how we are and what our state is and our love towards the neighbor and how we are with others.

Is it possible that understanding and the wish to be in contact with the spark may spread towards more people?

Professor Jiang:

Great question. I think we're all in agreement that we are at a major inflection point in human history. And I think that most people around the world will agree the next 10 years will be a turning point in human history and we will argue about what will happen after this major cataclysm that is going to impact our civilization. So there are three possibilities. The first possibility of course is that the AI people win out. And we'll have new masters but over time we'll forget. Because we'll die and our children will grow up with AI and they'll never know a period when there was no AI just as we grew up in a time when everyone uses money and we never remember a time when there was no money.

So that's one possibility and that's certainly the possibility that Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos they're fighting for. Another possibility is just social collapse because the war between the financial global elite and the AI nationalist people leads to complete disaster. Because both sides are too strong and they end up destroying each other. Now, there's a third possibility and this is something that a lot of people also aspire for and it’s something called the messianic age. The messianic age.

This is a third possibility. This is definitely a possibility that a lot of religious fanatics are fighting for as well. You look at what happens in Israel. Yeah. I mean, we can say they're just Nazis, just evil people, but if you actually meet their leaders, if you look at who's actually in command, they really believe that the world needs to go to shit before people awake to reality. The question then is you have a million people in chains. They're in a little cave. They’re in the cave and you want them to leave the cave. You want them to see the light.

But they don't want to because they're used to the cave and they're too scared to go see the light. And the answer is: how do you get them to break all the shackles? You make the world into the shittiest place possible? You make it impossible for them to stay there. I know this kind of sounds kind of crazy, but there are literally people who are religious fanatics, Zionists or Christian Zionists or whatever. They believe that the only way to force the coming of Jesus, the only way to awaken humanity into the messianic age is by destroying the world and forcing people to open their eyes and break free of their chains.

So these are the three things, three possibilities ahead for humanity in the next 10 years. The question then is: is it possible for us to create a new world? Because historically in all three of these situations you get the same crap. Right. The AI: now you have a new elite creating a hallucination matrix. Same thing. You have the Bronze Age collapse. Bronze Age collapse. But what happens after the Bronze Age collapse? A new society is created and we get back to the same old same old. The messianic age.

Yeah, you might have the world go to shit, but all that happens is that these religious fanatics take charge and once they're in charge, they're no longer interested in the messianic age. All they're interested in is accumulating more power for themselves. So, historically, no matter how you do it, you get up to the same situation, which is the situation we are in today. The question then is: how’s it possible that over the next 10 years humanity creates a new chapter in its history? Humanity is able to break the cycle. The answer is I think that we have to choose to act. And this is something that's hard for people because people are so used to criticizing or complaining. But if you really want to change the world, you have to act.

You have to make sacrifices. You have to commit to a new possibility. And so my theory and this is something that I'll discuss more so over the next few months is the future depends on our children and we have to commit to our children because I think our children and not just my children not just your children but every child comes from the source comes from a monad and has direct connection. So if we're able to create an education system that fosters the child's spirituality then it's possible we unleash tremendous spiritual powers that the child has, that is latent in a child and this could include telepathy.

This could include prophecy. This could include a lot of things. We don't know unless we try it and what I want to do for the rest of my life is try to build a society or build a network of societies that counter the network state. The network state is I think a very strong possibility and I want to show that there are some other possibilities including spiritual communities.

Audience follow-up:

You want to be Professor X.

Professor Jiang:

Yeah, or prophet. Again, I don’t know, right? But I think we came into this room, we all came for a reason. We may have different reasons, but I think we all came for a reason. We’re all looking for a better future for ourselves, our community, our family.

Classical education

Audience question:

I have no questions specifically. I think I want to agree with you, but I want to come from a more philosophical and practical perspective. I think that one of the biggest wars ever fought in humanity was the war against education. It's not really talked about a lot, but if you study the history of education from the Latin word educa, it means to reach out. And as a growing young person, I struggled with the current system of education. I did well in it, but I couldn't understand why I was punished for reaching out.

In the sense that education in my mind for it to be useful must not be servile. It must in its own self satisfy the soul of the person. Studying it because you can now graduate from sensory feelings and then to be able to trust truth and fact and to be able to reach where the known, the knowing, and the unknown is now one. And I studied the history of education and I realized that education for it to mean to reach out means that it's like the universe is waiting for you to ask the question and to give you the answers. But I realized that what happened over time, it’s really like the First World War, was that there was this huge fight against classical education because classical education was not applied. It’s not servile. It’s the soul of the man first before application.

And I really do believe that one of the ways that we can save the world is to take an unorthodox approach to remind people about classical education, which is, I think, education of the soul where people shouldn't design themselves to make things. I read an argument that said because we've forgotten how to educate, we’ve now lost the republic. I really think that, to agree with what you said, I watched when you said something about the age of the prophets and if you look at society like Canada, you need to be weird to be a prophet. And I understand this as an immigrant. What am I doing here? Because I really do believe that we need a new idea. I just want to make an apology for classical education.

Professor Jiang:

The rupture, what is the rupture? I think what's really driving the rupture is that we as a civilization have lost our connection to God. We are screaming for a reconnection to God. The historical example is the Protestant Reformation. Why did it happen? It happened because the Catholic Church said you have no connection to God because you are of sin. If you want to connect to God, if you want to talk to God, you have to go through us, the Church. Only the Church can give you salvation and redemption.

And for centuries, people accepted this. But there are always these weird people, these prophets who were like, "Screw that. I'm connected to God. We're all connected to God." And that's what led to the Protestant Reformation. Now what you don't know is in the Jewish world, in the Jewish diaspora, the same thing was happening. It was called Sabbateanism. And this is one of the most misunderstood things in history. First of all, most of you have never heard of this thing, Sabbateanism.

Second of all, the history around it is purposefully designed to fool people. So, if you are Jewish, you're taught about Sabbatai Zevi and how in the year 1666, he declared himself the Messiah of the Jewish people and about a third of all Jews in Europe followed him and believed he was a Messiah. But then he betrayed the Jewish people by converting to Islam. And so they destroyed Sabbateanism. But what they don't tell you is even after 1666 when Sabbatai converted to Islam, there were still a lot of Jews who followed him, who believed in him.

And the answer is: why? And the answer is because Sabbatai Zevi’s message and what they have disguised or hidden from the Jewish people is his original message is we're all connected to God. You don't need the rabbis. You don't need the law, the Torah. Because at this time, the rabbis and the Catholic priests, they were all saying the same thing, which is, “We all fell from grace. Therefore, God has left us. And if we want God to return, we have to follow the law. We have to avoid sin. We have to obey the Torah.”

And Zevi says, “Screw that. God would never abandon us. The problem is we've lost faith. We've lost a connection. So we must embrace God. How? By ignoring the law. Do not let the rabbis enforce these silly laws on you. For example, you must rest on the Sabbath. Who cares? You cannot eat pork. Who cares? All this is superstition. You know in your heart you're connected to God. So focus on that and that will lead you to your salvation and redemption. You are your own salvation and redemption.”

Now, why is this important? Because we today are doing the same thing to our children what the priests and the rabbis did to their people at this time. When you go to school, what are you taught? You're a blank slate, right? You know nothing. What I will do is I will teach you habits of mind and work. And then with these habits of mind and work, you become a really smart person. And then we will teach you critical thinking skills which you will need in order to be a successful employee.

That's what you're taught in school. And this is all wrong. First of all, you're not a blank slate. First of all, you have an imagination and you have an intuitive understanding of things. I know cuz I have three kids. And if you have kids, they all have their own personality. They have their own interpretation of the world. It's not our interpretation, but it does not mean it's wrong. And critical thinking skills: it is not analysis. It’s reduction. It's categorization and reduction.

And what the imagination is is synthesis. Again, if you have children, you know this: children are always putting things together. But in school, you're always taught to reduce things to the fundamental parts. Man, woman, man, woman, right? Black, white, brown. Kids don't do that. Kids see the soul in people, in animals. Kids have a divine connection to God. And so what we're doing in schools is first of all, we're denying children God. When we deny children God, it becomes a lobotomy.

Why? Because creativity, imagination, empathy come from this connection to God. And the way to enforce this lobotomy is something called the meritocracy. Why is it that if you don't do well in kindergarten, you go to a bad school, but if you do well in kindergarten, you go to a good primary school, then you go to a good high school, then you go to a good university, you get a good job? Why? Because it's to enforce this antihuman education system that we have. I would go even further than you and say that the school system we have today, it's pretty evil.

It's designed to be evil. Because it's designed to make people believe the cave we're living in is the only reality. And so that's why I want to focus on children in schools because I want to destroy the system and create a system in which children from day one are taught that you're divinely connected. You have an imagination. You have intuition. You have creativity. You have all this. And this is the greatest gift that God has given to you. And so what we will do is we will nurture these gifts and harness your true potential. Again, it's interesting because if you look at MKUltra, they were trying to do the same thing. They were trying to figure out: these children must have some special latent ability like maybe telepathy, whatever. And so let's try to induce that out of people and how do they do so? Through trauma. MKUltra, MK Monarch are these mass experiments conducted by the government.

In order to induce trauma in children in order to maybe provoke some latent gifts in people. And 99% failed but who cares? And look I hate to say this but if you look at these very famous politicians often they're the products of these MKUltra experiments. So my theory is that Kamala Harris—where was her mother working? McGill University, right? Where was the site of MKUltra in Canada? Montreal, right? At a hospital right next to McGill University.

I don’t know. Again, I’m not saying anything, but they were doing these experiments, and if you look at the Jeffrey Epstein files, he was saying the same thing, where they were trying to use trauma in order to get the children that they could program and control. I’m saying, rather than use trauma, why not try love, man? Wouldn’t that be better? Would love basically make them more special? And the problem with love, of course, is you can’t control the children you program. The point is control, and that’s why you use trauma as opposed to love. Honestly, they say that MKUltra, MK Monarch are these fringe CIA experiments, right?

No, no, no. They were run by the top doctors and psychiatrists at that time and they were extremely influential and you can imagine that their prodigies, their researchers were then embedded into the upper echelons of our education and scientific medical apparatus, right? That would make more sense. These were not fringe people. They were the elite. And these elite, what they were doing to these children is no different from what Epstein was doing to the children as well, by the way.

Youth organizations and transnational capital

Audience question:

So, I'm getting extreme deja vu as we're sitting here eating steak like that scene in the Matrix. The steak is very good. It's pretty happy here. I hope we don't get unplugged. But my question is with this need to educate the youth, something I grew up with was service groups like Scouts Canada and I know other service groups seem to be lacking in their publicism in the world. And you also mentioned the big J and so that's the farthest end of the spectrum. And so in terms of transnational capital, when I think about Jeffrey's stuff, TerraMar comes to mind. And when I think about other things that are currently active, there's things like the Sea Org, also training the youth. And so is that an example of early transnational capital training children in what's not really a secret society, but it's a society with secrets kind of thing?

Professor Jiang:

Look, if you look at any society, any culture, the elite have always been obsessed with children. It doesn't matter what country you are, doesn't matter what time you are, there's always been an elite obsession with children. We see that manifest in Jeffrey Epstein. But there are lots and lots of other examples. Even Divine Comedy, I taught Divine Comedy, Dante. He was talking about pedophilia, right? Because in hell he had a lot of his friends and these were the leading aristocrats of Florentine society. They were burning in hell. Why? Because they were practicing sodomy against children.

These are homosexuals and they were doing bad things to young boys. This is a very common thing and people don't appreciate how common this is. It's common in our society but it's been common throughout all of human history. And the question then is: why is it that the elite are obsessed with children? And I think there are different possibilities. The first possibility is control and love. If you're the elite, you have so much power, right? But what you really want, what you really lack is love. Honestly no one loves you. You can't really trust anyone around you, right? So you're a billionaire. You’re like, “Well, I can sleep with any woman I want, but actually it's a pain in the ass,” right?

Let’s say I’m a billionaire like Elon Musk. Has he had any successful romantic relationship? No. He can’t find one. It's annoying. You’re a billionaire and you can have anything you want. You can have Amber Heard. You can have 13 kids, but you cannot have love because you know your kids don't love you and you know your wives don't love you, right? It's really annoying. What do you do? Well, one solution is you find someone who could love you and that's often a child who has actually no experience in life. That child could be like 12 or 13 or 14. That's what Jeff Epstein was doing, right?

Right? They were sex trafficking these children because they wanted these children to love them and if they didn't love them then screw that. Let’s find another one. So that's what I think was happening on Epstein Island. These people like Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, they got anything in the world except true love, right? If they dated a model, supermodel, there's no way that supermodel actually loves him, right? But children, young children who are impressionable, there's a possibility that this child will love him for himself because that child has actually no conception of who you are. So that's one possibility. They’re just looking for love. Another possibility is the idea of adrenochrome.

Which is to say that young people, children when they're afraid, they're able to emit a special hormone that adults cannot emit. And this chemical adrenochrome is a drug. It makes you young. It makes you energetic. But whether this is true or not, what is true is that children are connected to the divine in a way we are not. They're innocent. They're soulful.

And there's a special innocence to them. And being with them, you can harness that innocence and make you extremely energetic. And I know because I'm a father. I'm like 50 years old and never before have I worked so hard. I'm giving three-hour lectures. I'm running on Substack. I'm doing podcast interviews like four hours. Why am I working so hard? Because I'm inspired by my children. Now, if you're elite, you're like, "Well, that's too hard of work." But can I harness that somehow really quickly?

Well, maybe adrenochrome. Who knows? But they do know that children do have a special energy to them and it's really about harnessing them. And the third thing is this trauma, right? And so let me explain. If you are the elite, you need your children to inherit your power. The problem is your children may lack your killer instinct, right? Your children may not even want the power. The way to basically get the child ready to inherit power whether he's a prince or whatever is by traumatizing a child because trauma creates disassociation and disassociation as you guys know it’s a special power because you just don’t feel any stress. Look at Donald Trump. The world hates Donald Trump, but guess what? He disassociates. Doesn’t feel anything. Doesn’t care. So a stress tolerance is a special power of the elite and you have stress tolerance because you are traumatized as a child. And it’s really important because you're traumatized as a child you have a natural urge to traumatize children as well.

1. Control + love.
2. Adrenochrome. Children → connection to the divine.
3. Trauma.

I would say these are the three possibilities and quite honestly they are probably all true.

Raising a child through the coming crises

Audience question:

So maybe transitioning to a lighter side of kids. I'm about to be a father any day now. My wife is super pregnant. So, I'm looking down the barrel of the future and seeing these wars of major nations having issues with the energy and also the fertilizer crisis that nobody really goes really deep into. Now I'm just trying to project out: what do my next 10 years, 15 years of raising my kid look like and what does their future look like? Maybe a little bit more long term.

Professor Jiang:

First of all, congratulations on being a father. It is the greatest gift in the world. The first thing that you need to have when you have children is faith. You cannot plan too far ahead. You can't be like, "How do I get my child into a good school and how do I pay for a good university? What kind of job will my child have?" If you do that, you'll drive yourself crazy. You'll drive yourself, your wife, and your child crazy. The first trick is faith. Faith that your child came with a purpose and it's really about trust in the child, let the child do whatever he or she wants.

And faith also is understanding that the child knowingly came to our world, knowing what's going to happen. You can't be like, "I feel bad for bringing my child into this world because things are breaking down." No, you have to have faith that the child knew already what's going to happen and the child came to this world. Why? Because there's a lot of spiritual forces out there that are like I want to come to a world where things are breaking down. Why? Because that is the easiest path to wisdom. I don't want to come to a world where everyone's happy and comfortable because what's the point?

Why am I coming here, right? I'm probably happier being a spirit up there than being like a happy person down here. I want to come to this world because I can experience things that I cannot experience up there. And these things include pain, suffering, trauma.

If your child is born to you today, your child has made a conscious decision to come here to experience wisdom that he or she cannot experience anywhere else. You have to have faith in that. And then once you have this faith then everything else follows because just trust and love your child and then everything will work out the way it should. So yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with Sneako and I met a lot of streamers. A lot of streamers and I said to Sneako, "You’re kind of different because when I talked to Sneako, I feel he's really trying to learn. He asked me a question and he's open-minded and he's willing to admit he's wrong."

And I said, “I think you are like this because your parents really love you and this love has given you tremendous courage. And this makes you unique in the world of celebrities, because look, the reality is most people choose to pursue wealth, power, and fame because they're really unhappy people. It's not because they're like, "I really love fame, power, and wealth." It’s often just: my parents don't love me and I want to prove myself and I was traumatized as a child and I was bullied as a child and so I want to prove myself and so I'm going to accumulate all this celebrity in order to make myself feel loved.”

In which case they are pretty evil and they are pretty dishonest and all they're interested in is accumulating more celebrity. The only thing you can do as a parent is to love your child unconditionally and everything else, don’t worry about. But once you do that, once you love your child unconditionally, then the child grows up to be a pretty good person who will do pretty good things because loving a child unconditionally is actually a lot harder than you think it is.

Audience follow-up:

How do you escape the school system instead of sending them through that system?

Professor Jiang:

You're absolutely right. Look, the reality is all society is pretty evil and it's structured in a way to make sure the child does not feel love, right? Because if the child is not loved, the child is going to buy things. The child is going to work hard to obey authority. So, there are many tricks that they use in order to make the child feel insecure. The easiest thing they do is this. They take the child away from you when the child is too young.

Kindergarten: I saw this on Joe Rogan, so I'm not sure if it's true or not. But he said something really interesting, which is: the Prussians created kindergarten because they had a problem. The problem was: the soldiers would not kill other people. They would take a gun and they would point it at a person and they would purposely miss because they didn't want to kill their enemy because they were loved and they didn't want to inflict pain on other people. They didn't care if it was an enemy. They don't want to kill other people. The Prussians resolved this issue by separating the mother and the child very early. And when that happens, the child feels anxiety, but so does the mother.

And then this anxiety translates into a self-hatred that can then be used against the enemies. So if possible definitely one parent should be at home if possible. I understand the economy sucks. But if you make that sacrifice, I guarantee you this will be a life-changer for your child to make sure that one parent is always at home and also to delay sending a child to school full-time. Maybe half the day. But don't send a child too early to school. Take your time and just spend as much time with the child as possible to build that emotional security.

And this is something I’ve learned having three kids.

Is the spiritual world perfect?

Audience question:

You said in lectures before and today also you said that we, as you think, in your view, come here, because we can have different experience, new experience that we could not have in a spiritual world. And also you said before that you think that the spiritual world is perfect. Why do you think it's perfect?

Professor Jiang:

I don't think I've ever said the spiritual world is perfect. The spiritual world, you don't have a body. If you don't have a body, you can't feel pain. You can't feel unhappiness. You don't really feel anything without a body. So that's the spirit world. But with a body you can feel things you can't possibly feel anywhere else. Pain, you can have sex. So it's a different experience. Yeah.

The monad and the spiritual world

Audience question:

Might be a stupid question, but the monad: Do you think it's part of the spiritual world or it's beyond your view?

Professor Jiang:

So that's a really interesting question. Because it's really about how you frame the monad in our lives. So there is a common understanding that the monad is the source right and then from the monad emanates other dimensions and so we are maybe in a dimension far removed from the monad. That's one way to frame this. But another way to frame this is these dimensions are infinite but they're always conjoined together. The monad is still with us as long as we look deep in ourselves. And that's something that the occultists believe: all these dimensions are intertwined together. There is no separation.

And your consciousness is splintered across these infinite dimensions. So through meditation, through deep reflection, you're able to connect back to the monad.

Population, aging, and collapse

Audience question:

Professor, you mentioned the cycle in history: the civilization ends, the new idea comes in. But the factor here that we never had in the past is the 8 billion population, the exponential increase with the technology. The second is the old people, they do not want to die. They know about this power change, the power decline, and the new empire comes in. It takes 200, 300 years. They wanted to accelerate so that they will remain in power. Do you think that this time civilization will end or the new idea will come in, or will this remain as is?

Professor Jiang:

Yeah, that's a great question. Yeah, so there are a lot of factors that we have to think deeply about. The first as you say is the aging population and the aging population is probably going to accelerate collapse. Why? Because let's imagine the economy collapses, right? The government has no more money. What does the government do? Well, in theory, the government should let old people die. The opposite happens, right? Because the old people have all the money and the local power and the status. What happens is the old people retreat into gated communities and the cities, Toronto, they burn down.

Everyone's left fighting for the resources because all remaining government resources are transferred to the elderly. This would only accelerate collapse, which means that nation states or communities that have fewer elderly people are more likely to survive than nation states that have too many elderly people. So Canada is completely utterly screwed. There's no way around it. I don't care how much resource Canada has. I don't care how big Canada is. If you have a large population of elderly people, you're screwed as a nation. And there's no way around it because they have all the political power. So whatever solution there is to any crisis will benefit the elderly and hurt everyone else. And the classic example of course is COVID, right?

Why did Canada lock down? Because the elderly demanded it, demanded society lock down because they are afraid of infectious diseases. Right? These two words, “infectious diseases”—elderly people are just afraid to death of germs. And that's why Canada locked down. That's why Canada had some of the harshest responses to COVID. Even though quite honestly they didn't really work, right? You took the COVID vaccines, you still got COVID, man. And now no one talks about COVID.

The first thing we need to recognize is the elderly will screw over the world in order to live a year or two more years. But not only that, but you also have a phenomenon you didn't really have before in human history, which is the billionaire class. And the billionaire class is a huge problem because guess what? If you’re a billionaire, you want to live forever, right? And again, they're going to warp social policy in a way that benefits them. So all this medical research is going to go into longevity. It's going to go into immortality. It's going to go into organ transplant. They are going to build their own network states, their own Elysium.

I’m not sure if you guys have seen the movie Elysium, right? Maybe in Patagonia or wherever. The bunkers, whatever. And then because they absorb so many resources, that's going to screw everyone over. That's the second factor. The third factor as you point out is the 8 billion people. Guys, this is a lot of people. And when there is famine in Africa, guess what happens? They all come to Europe or they try to find a way to North America, right? So all these crises brought about by the elderly and the billionaires, they will be most salient in the poorest countries which will probably be South America and Africa and East Asia.

Then this will force mass migration that will overwhelm other societies. When this starts happening, it happens really quickly, right? And also, yes, I know it's scary to think that people will die, but people get desensitized really, really quickly. And again, the problem is the elderly and the billionaires who have all the power, they will live in their own bubbles. So that they won't even know the streets of Toronto are burning. They won’t know, they won't care. They'll just live in their own world. I mean, I know elderly people in their 80s and 90s.

They're basically brain dead.

And it's just the weirdest thing in the world where the brain is no longer functioning, man. But the brain is like, “I need to live another day longer. I don't care how much money I have to spend, but I want to live another day longer.” the purpose, the meaning of life is gone, but the will to survive is still there. And it's a really scary thing. And I’m like, “What’s the point, man? You've had a good life. When you die, you go back to the Monad. That’s a pretty good deal.”

But they just won't let go. And I think that's just the curse of power. Once you have too much power, you want control. You need to control everything. And that means staying alive as long as possible.

Africa and resilience

Audience question:

I was going to ask another question, but you mentioned Africa and I have a question. I think I’ve watched all your lectures, and there is a resounding statement that you make about regions that eventually win out. I think you mentioned Qin and Han dynasty once, when you talk about the fact that it’s usually the poorest people—there are certain characteristics of people that eventually win out. I’m trying to put these two things in parallel. Let me describe Africa. I’m Nigerian, right? And we have the youngest population in the world. For instance, right now, I know how to make food.

I had a farm growing up. If Western civilization collapses, I know how to make food from grain. I still know the process. Within Africa right now, in Nigeria, for instance, we never grew up depending on the government. I don’t know what a pension is. My parents just had their businesses. We don’t really burden the government. And there’s a new trend that started happening recently. I always ask a very fundamental question: why would a billionaire build refineries in Africa to make fertilizers within the region? With the conflict happening in Iran, one of the counterplays that has happened recently is that you have certain billionaires building refineries in Africa to make fertilizers within the region.

And we don’t have a water stress problem. A fundamental Nigerian person does not look at the whole concept of being old and all of that. We also are not pro-migration, as most people would think. There is this new thought amongst young people to return back home because the West is not really digestible from where I’m from. It does not offer—it’s oversocialized.

One of my biggest challenges in Canada is that people are oversocialized. There is an expectation for you to think alike which I don't agree with. I was the president of grad students at McMaster. I was president of engineering at McMaster. And one of the biggest challenges that I had was I offered new thoughts and they was not accepted. Again by my skin color I'm also not very digestible. So we are realizing that wait a minute, we in this region are self-sufficient. You mentioned mercantile ideologies of what's going to happen when globalism ends where people will retreat back in their regions. Now looking at most of the things that you've mentioned that would make a region win out or survive during crisis, I struggle to see how we are in trouble in Africa. I struggle to see how if globalism ends or Hormuz closes how it will gravely affect that. I wasn’t going to ask this question. I was going to ask you personally.

But you mentioned it now and I’m not asking this question because I'm trying to defend Africa. I'm just trying to understand how would it happen because we have fundamental biological, social advantages that don’t exist anywhere else in the world. A good example would be we are family first. If I have money, it has to go to my siblings first. We still pay black taxes. My mama can have a business, but I feel an obligation that as her son, I'm supposed to watch her as she's growing up. It's fundamental. They say in Nigeria that if you want to know that a man is rich, you have to go look at the siblings and the wife.

So there is a culture that we grew up with that does not exist anywhere else in the world. But whenever Africa is described, it’s described in a handwavy way like we are helpless. I want to kind of understand: is it an understudied problem or is it an inferred problem?

Professor Jiang:

What you said really helped me better understand Africa and so I will make some certain comments about Africa. First of all, the history that we're taught in school is almost completely wrong. It has to be completely wrong. First thing is there had to be ancient civilizations going way back. There had to be. I’m talking hundreds of thousands of years because if you go to Antarctica, there are places you can't go and there are rumors that there are pyramids in Antarctica.

You go to the Grand Canyon, United States, there are rumors that there are Egyptian pyramids near the Grand Canyon or some Egyptian architecture in the Grand Canyon. And so I think that this globalized world that we live in has appeared throughout human history. And I think that logically speaking is if Africa is an important part of our world then Africa has always been an important part throughout human history. That's point one. Point two is throughout human history there has always been an exchange of ideas where Africa was not isolated. Africa was trading with everyone else and there were ideas that had to be exchanged and we'll never know the true impact of African civilization on humanity and I think this is one of the great injustices towards Africa. The third point is my major issue with Africa.

Right. And this is just based on my ignorance, right? But my issue is one of colonization where the western European powers have established a system over the past 200 years where they colonize Africa. Meaning that not only do they extract wealth, right? Because they're able to co-opt the elite. Where are the Nigerian elite? Probably in London somewhere. And so their incentive is to try to steal as many resources as possible for the City of London, transfer this wealth overseas.

But it’s not just money and value, it's also ideas. It's also narrative. It's also intellectual capital. This is a huge problem because historically if you look at how great societies emerge, they usually have a messianic figure born of the region who is divinely inspired by God. And that person either through poetry or through action or just through exceptional leadership is able to unify his or her people and then lead his or her people to glory. But if the elite are being manufactured elsewhere and they're not native to the land, then it's hard for Africa to emerge.

That's my concern. I think if Africa were to be left alone, then I think that African people would be really resilient. But because the elite their material interests lie overseas, then I think that they will just continue to exploit the African people. And I don’t know what the solution to that is.

Poets and ideas in Africa

Audience question:

This is very interesting because I want to provide a local thought. I’m someone that grew up—I was raised in classical studies. My uncle was a priest, a Catholic priest. My mom’s brother was a monk, and he was a physicist. He would always tell me that the goal of a being is to think and to be able to understand and observe the world.

This is important because a good example in contrast would be, let’s say, what is the most civilized city in the world? Let’s say New York, where people are very materialistically oriented. As the world is oversocialized, money does not trump the African social order. Money doesn’t mean anything. It would mean anything in the global system of things, in terms of politics, but we still maintain a social order. For instance, right now, if I have more money than my other brother, it means nothing. If he needs to see me, I need to go back, right? This means that there is a local force that is fighting against this too much interest in materialism. We’ve already made a mistake, which happened maybe in the 1700s. By the time the Portuguese arrived in Benin, a city in Nigeria, we already had civilization, but they brought religion as an offer.

Now, that is specifically one of the questions I wanted to ask you because you drew a line. I have always thought all my life about Plato’s allegory of the cave, and my biggest issue with it was I’ve always thought poets to be on the right side of the universe. How then could poets be co-opted by “they” to be able to provide this idea? Because I already know that everything about human history is ideas. If you look at it: Plato, Socrates, then 800 years later you have St. Augustine, 400 years later Aquinas. And they kept producing this ideology. A classical example right now would be, I’m sure you talked a lot about utilitarianism, about Jeremy Bentham. You could see that Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian theory goes side by side, for instance, with Nozick, arguing again in political thought whether people should be liberal to own whatever. How do you make better poets? Because I really believe the biggest issue we have in Africa is that we had poets that were able to put people good ideas.

“They” can co-opt poets to generate ideas that can do bad things to people and keep them in shackles. It makes me wonder: is poetry bad? And if poetry is bad, how can we make good poets? Because I believe that if we can make good poets, this is how we can save Africa.

Professor Jiang:

Right? So, let me make some certain points. Number one is that unfortunately the global elite has been co-opted by western culture, right? Because in order to access the best education, you have to learn English. And when you go to schools that teach English, you are indoctrinated in a curriculum. And as I said at the very beginning of this lecture, this curriculum is meant to indoctrinate you. It's not meant to educate you. It's not meant to liberate you. It's meant to indoctrinate you in a certain way of seeing the world. And you believe that this way of seeing the world is right and good. What? A worldview that is materialistic, individualistic, liberal.

Certainly I for most of my life believed this was a good thing and I went to China hoping to promote these ideals to young people in China. Only these past four or five years have I really changed my attitude. This system, this curriculum, this education, it’s very powerful. It's a seductive way. And I think it's very hard if you are a human being to escape this indoctrination. That said, I do believe that poets are divinely inspired. I have a theory about the world. The theory is that, there's a world, there's the soul, and there's a spirit.

And there are entities in all dimensions and these entities communicate with each other through different forces. The poets are people who channel the spirit world and communicate the spirit world through language. Meaning that does not matter the culture, does not matter the time, you'll always have poets. But maybe they are described differently. So we think of poets as people who write poetry, right? Historically that's not true. Poets sing poetry, right? Poets are singers. They sing and this music is able to connect them to the divine. So unfortunately our very conception of poetry is much more limited than ever before. I think someone like Kanye West is a poet.

Audience follow-up:

He's a poet.

Professor Jiang:

Exactly. A lot of these singers are poets. And they're divinely inspired. They channel, they don't create, they channel. And in every society you will have these poets regardless of your time and culture and location. Doesn’t really matter. Poets will always be around because the spirit world always needs to communicate with our world. Unfortunately what's happened is as I said at the very beginning of this lecture the education system that we have today it's designed to break off this connection. It's meant to mediate, curate, and control the connection right? Our children: there are so many poets who could be born of our children but because of our school system because we take them away from their parents at a very early age and we indoctrinate them in complete nonsense, they lose this connection to the divine and therefore they cease to become poets. And so that I think is the great challenge for our society: how do we harness the power of poets for good?

Because the poets that are promoted are probably not poets, right? They are just ones that speak the official narrative. But if you’re speaking the official narrative, then you’re not a poet, right? Again, Kanye West is a poet, right? Who spoke the truth, who was punished for it, and he's like, "Screw you. I'm still going to speak the truth." That's what a poet is. And so, if society doesn't move forward, then you need more of these people, and they need to be nurtured and protected. So, I'm not sure what the situation is in Nigeria—the intellectual elite. Are they truth seekers? Are they? Well, that's a problem. Yeah. That's my concern.

Is the earth hell?

Audience question:

So, do you think the earth is hell?

Professor Jiang:

That's a really good question. So, if you look at most religions, they do believe earth is hell. They believe that we're here to learn some spiritual truths and then we go. We do our penance. It’s meant to basically armor our spirituality. And we're only here for a short life, so it's not too bad. There's one religion that believes something very different, and it's called Judaism. And what makes Judaism very distinct is that it's a very temporal religion. So if you’re a Christian, if you're a Catholic, if you're a Hindu, if you're a Buddhist, if you're a Muslim, you're taught that this world doesn't really matter. You shouldn't get too involved in this world because this world is hell. This world is of Satan. And you can never defeat Satan in this world. But just avoid sin.

Practice your religion and then you will be granted access to heaven upon your death. That's what most religions teach. Judaism is a temporal religion meaning that the point of this world is to redeem it to make it ready for God's arrival. It's very different. But the idea is that God is infinite. God seeks to be everywhere. But God also seeks to know itself. And the only way to know itself is through experimentation, through error.

So God created this world and created us in order to make this world ready for God. And how do we do that? By redeeming this world and cleansing it of sin. And how do you do that? Through love, through education, through social justice. The Jews are the chosen people because they are the divine representatives of God and they're here to educate all of us in order to redeem the world. Now God asks Jews and asks Gentiles different things. Gentiles meaning non-Jews have to follow something called the seven Noahide laws. Seven Noahide laws but the Jews must seek redemption.

Redemption basically is to humble yourself before God and to always obey God and to love God so that God can love you unconditionally. The Jews don't believe the world is hell. They believe the world can be heaven because it's the only possibility. Something else that's really unique about the Jews is whereas other religions teach that spirit is superior to body, the Jews believe spirit and body are co-equal. If the body was pointless, you wouldn't feel any pleasure from the body. Right?

So in most eschatologies you're taught as a Christian that at the end of days the body will be discarded and the spirit will be free. But in the Jewish eschatology it's really interesting. They believe that at the end of days the body and the spirit will be redeemed together. So you will feel infinite pleasure. You'll be able to feast. You’ll be able to have sex. But you’ll also be able to feel the love of God.

And at the end of the days once sin is defeated we can do no wrong. So these are two contrasting opinions. I think the Jews are right. I don't see the logic of, you come here and you don’t do anything, you commit no sin, then you go back to heaven. That makes no sense to me. I think we came here for a purpose and the purpose is to make a better world and maybe it is impossible.

Maybe we'll never succeed. But unless you act in the belief that you matter and that you can create a better world, there's really no point to your existence. Right? I'm like, why am I working so hard knowing that the world will collapse one day knowing that we could possibly all die? And the answer is it doesn't matter what happens to the world. What happens is my action. I have to live my life as though I do matter and this world does matter and that's what makes for a better world. I don't buy the idea that this world is hell. I also don't buy the idea that this world is controlled by Satan. Maybe Satan does rule the world, but that gives me a responsibility to work harder to make for a better world. And I hate to say this, but the reason why Jews are so successful in the world is they're forced to work harder than other people because of their religion.

We can say a lot of bad things about Jews, but there's no doubt in my mind that first of all, Jews work really, really hard. That's number one. Number two is they're really, really curious people. They have tremendous deep intellectual discussions. The third thing is they work well together, they cooperate really well together. They look after each other. And I think that, if all of us were like that, if all societies were like that, then that would lead to a better world.

Do poets create or channel?

Audience question:

When you were answering the question about poets, you said that they don’t create, they channel their, let’s say, ideas from the spiritual world. I’m asking about it because I thought that, in your view, creation is something that is unique for our world. Are we channeling it from the spiritual world, or is it unique to our world?

Professor Jiang:

Yeah. So poets. There are two things that make poets special. The first is beauty, meaning they sing a song right and a song is beautiful. But the second thing is truth. So these are the two things that make poets poets. Kanye West, right? When he sings, why do 70,000 people go to his concerts? Because not only is what he sings beautiful, but it's also truthful. It speaks to the human heart. And then you ask yourself, how is this possible? The answer is it has to come from the source.

Because otherwise it makes no sense. Beauty and truth have to resonate with us, right? It has to connect with us. If it was just individual, then it should connect with only yourself. It should not connect with other people. And so the beauty and truth happen when you connect to the monad. Because a monad connects with all of us. And what poets do is they channel the source. And the source is basically fire and then they speak the truth verbally.

They don't write it down. Don't think it. They just speak it. So when Kanye West is singing a song, he's just channeling. When I am talking to you guys, I am also channeling as well. I do use my own personal experience and my personal examples, but what I'm really doing is channeling. That's how creativity happens. You never create, you channel. You're always channeling. If you create, you suck.

Paul, funding, and the speaker’s mission

Audience question:

This is going to be an interesting proposition. It’s a question, but I’ve inspected your life a bit. I think in one of your YouTube lectures, “The Organization of Evil,” I liken your life journey with that of Saul, that is Paul. But this is my argument. One of the things that you mentioned, that you were concerned about, was: how did Saul fund that journey? How was he able to pay, have a secretary, and spread the gospel?

But when I also inspect your own life, I see this being a question in the future. I mean, you can imagine that you talk about how you were once a high school teacher. I remember that particular part of the video. You now say, “This is the last time I’m going to be here in class. I want to go and teach the world.” And the way you did that was to have Founding Members and Substack fund that. If this is not common knowledge to the entire population, to the world, you can imagine that 100 years later, 500 years later, they’re probably going to say, “Oh, Jiang probably was spreading propaganda because who was funding that?”

If there are people like us that really believed in Paul at the time they were, funding the mission, I don't see how that is a good argument that Paul was working as a, double agent for the Jews and, the Roman Empire. I wonder how you can reconcile that.

Professor Jiang:

You’re exactly right. I am now on a journey around the world to connect with people like you and to first of all understand you guys better but also to spread certain messages and that's exactly what Paul did. What is the difference between Paul and myself? Paul, I've argued before, was a double agent for the rabbis and for the Roman authorities. And I don't work for anyone. First of all, how can I claim that Paul was a spy? And how do I explain how I'm not a spy? Because who's funding me? Who's encouraging me to go around and talk to a lot of people and so first of all I've said this in my lecture. Even though Paul was a double agent he still saw himself as on a messianic mission. Because otherwise why would you work so hard? Yes he was getting funding from the rabbis and the Roman authorities. But he saw that as a means to an end.

And the means to the end was to spread the message. The message of the church. So that's my first point that Paul did see himself as a messianic figure and he had a mission to spread the truth. Where Paul and I differ and why I think that Paul did have an agenda and where he probably had sponsors is Paul was focused on organization and hierarchy. And messaging. Don't believe yourself. Don't believe Jesus. Believe in Paul. Believe in the church. My message is the complete opposite. My message is believe in yourself, you will find the way.

My job, my mission is to ignite that spark in you. That spark in you to want to raise your child to be the best father possible and to help improve society. It may not be there and it may not work but it's my mission to help ignite that spark and the only way I can do that is I think at a human level. Rather than me making videos and me just running on Substack, I have conversations with you.

And that’s just how these things work because a spark must inspire another spark. It can't be done through the internet. I have throughout this entire journey refused to set up an organization. I don't want to set up an organization. A lot of people have propositioned me and said, "Let's set up an organization." No, that would be the opposite of what I want to do. I mean, given my fame, given my status, I could easily start a $100 million multimedia company, right? Easily. Podcasts, lectures. I could go on a global tour and I could make a lot of money that way. Instead, I'm like, "No, I’d rather have intimate conversations with people." And that I think is a major difference between Paul and myself.

Audience follow-up:

That is a satisfying argument.

Professor Jiang:

Yeah, I'm not trying to create an organization and I don't want to create an organization because that would defeat the purpose of this entire endeavor. So remember how before I was saying how Vess asked this question: there are three possibilities, right? And the only way out of our mess is if we commit to our children. If we create a secret society, we could possibly win, but we end up in the same spot as today. Just the people are different. Who cares? The same structure. And I think that if we really want to change the world then we need to harness the spiritual creative powers of our children through love.

Religions and the value of this world

Audience question:

I just want to comment on something that you mentioned, that most of the religions, actually all except Judaism, think of this world as it doesn’t matter, and it is said it’s the exile, the fall. I can see how that’s true in their institutionalized incarnation and not necessarily so in the original intent of people who brought about it. Even in the Sufi saying:

I was a hidden treasure, and I loved to be known, so I created worlds visible and invisible.

Or:

God so loved the world that he gave his only son.

That all suggests to me that there is something really valuable going on here in this world, that even the infinite was compelled to take the form.

And these conditions, as you mentioned, if everything was here nicely flowing, it would be boring. But also, if we wish to work on being capable of loving or being capable of forgiving, how do you practice forgiveness if there is nothing to forgive? How do you practice kindness unless you try to be kind to someone who is really irritating you? It’s all kind of suggesting that there is more wisdom about the value of this world, broken as it is, than we may be aware of.

Professor Jiang:

You’re exactly right. But your point I want to expand on, which is: in its original form these religions taught something different. Let's look at the example of Jesus. The thing about Jesus was that he was an ordinary person and what he taught in his actual gospel. Not what we have from the Bible. But I would say there's some core messages to his gospel. The first is: God is with us.

God is always with us. It’s just we ourselves choose to turn to him or not. So money, materialism is what makes us turn away from God. And spirituality, generosity, love is what allows us to turn back to God. It's always our choice. And he's not going to make you do anything, right? What he says is if you hear, hear. So it's your choice. That's why he spoke in parables because if you hear, you hear. If you don't hear, you don't hear. But it’s your choice.

This is important because he was denying the authority of the Jewish elite, right? The Sadducees and the Pharisees because from their perspective, God could be only accessed through the Torah or through sacrifice or through the temple. The high priest had the most direct access to God. So Jesus was a revolutionary who taught us no, we're all equal in the eyes of God. That's the first message. Second message is, and this is really important, is God forgives you.

So you must forgive yourself, right? Jesus spent most of his time with who? The sinners, right? The lepers, the people ostracized, marginalized, forgotten by society. At this time, if you're a sinner, maybe if you're a prostitute or you were a thief, right? Or even a tax man, you were basically ostracized by society. No one wanted to talk to you. And Jesus says, "No, God forgives you because God loves you. If you truly love yourself, then you would forgive yourself. If you truly were able to love and forgive yourself, then you could love and forgive others.”

And the third message is we are one and the same. We're all connected to God. Just because you're rich or powerful or more famous does not mean you have a more direct connection to God. This is a revolutionary message because at the time in history if you donate more to the temple well you had a more direct connection to God. Right? Now these three messages are important because guess what in all times all poets and prophets taught the same three things regardless of the religion.

But all three of these things threaten the status quo because they are revolutionary messages. Right? If we are all one and the same, why do we have to have authority? Why do we have to have schools? Why do we have to have police? Why do we have to have powerful people? We are all one and the same. If God is with us, then why do we need religion, right? If God is with us, just pray to yourself. Just talk to God yourself. You don't need to go to church, guys.

And the message, God forgives you, so you must forgive yourself. It's like, then why do we have laws? Why do we have a concept called sin? Now this is interesting because these three messages are probably messages that every revolutionary religious figure taught in the early stages but then became transformed over time. Again, I'm doing a lot of research into Sabbateanism, Sabbatai Zevi. I guarantee you a third of Jews at that time followed him because he taught these three things.

Muhammad, I guarantee you when he was alive, he taught these three things. I guarantee you all these major religious prophets and poets, they taught the same message because these three messages are fundamental eternal truths. And the struggle for us is to realize the truth of these three messages and live our lives accordingly.

Sabbatean-Frankism, sin, and power

Audience question:

Professor, in your previous lecture, you mentioned Sabbatai Zevi. He actually told people, basically, doing sin is good, do not follow the law of Moses, which helps the Jews to basically go through the other religion. Just make sure that the faith is there with God. There’s no problem to do the sin. Now, you also mentioned that this makes them powerful. You also gave the example that if you wanted to kill someone, you probably can’t, but maybe people like Peter Thiel, some of them, they can do this. That makes them superpower.

Now, does this encouragement of doing the sin make them powerful because it’s unique? Not everybody could do that. The second is, if that’s so, then we are saying to spread the message of love. I would say that love and emotions will make the person always weak, but the people who can make the sin, they will always be one step ahead and be powerful. How would you say that?

Professor Jiang:

First of all, my lecture was on Sabbatean-Frankism. This is Sabbatai Zevi, but then you have Frank, and Frank changed Sabbatai Zevi’s teachings by a great deal. Sabbateanism by itself perceives sin as wrong, right? Because he objects to the concept of sin, right? Because if you look at these three things, God is with us, God forgives you, and we are one and the same, then sin is a concept that fools us or prevents us from seeing these three fundamental truths. And that’s why he was like, “I’m not going to not eat pork, because why do I care? Why would God care if we ate pork or not?” Zevi believed: why would God care if you were a Muslim or Christian or a Jew? Who cares, right? He wanted to do away with organized religion. Then Jacob Frank came along and said, “If God is with us, if God forgives us, and if we are one and the same, then maybe we should strive for power,” right?

If we’re all one and the same, then maybe I should be emperor. Because traditionally most prophets have taught that, “Hey, if we’re all one and the same, then we should all be poor.” And he’s like, “Why can’t we all be rich?” Right? Obviously, he’s talking to his followers. Frank made a lot of changes to this idea, but basically his main change is: if God forgives you, then it’s good to seek material wealth and power, right? Because, I mean, why else would these things exist unless they were meant to be obtained, right?

But the core idea, which is that God is with us, God forgives us, and we are one and the same: this is a powerful message. It attracts a lot of people. At this time, Sabbateanism would diverge into two major branches. The first is called Hasidism. You guys know Hasidic Jews, right? These are people who believe these things. God is with us, so we should celebrate the world, and through celebration we can bring God closer to us. But then you have also Frankism, and people don’t appreciate this. What happened was that Sabbateanism split off into two major branches.

Hasidism for poor Jews, and Frankism for rich Jews. Hasidism is like, “Doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor. As long as you celebrate, God will be with you.” Frankism is like, “Well, it doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor. Let’s just be rich then.” And it doesn’t matter what you do in order to get rich. What’s important is you believe that you are worthy of becoming wealthy. As you can imagine, Frankism became very popular among the elite Jewish families in Prague and in Warsaw, and especially among the European nobility, the Rothschilds, all the elite Jewish families.

But really the appeal is a lot of Jews were just disgusted with rabbinic authority because these rabbis were coming out with these very complex Talmudic explanations for things. Who cares, man? I should be able to feel God, right? There’s a desire to want to feel God, and they want to do away with the Talmud and rabbinic authority because they were like, “This is so complicated. Who cares about these dietary laws? And on the Sabbath, you can’t touch an elevator? What? What is that? What is this crap? Who cares?”

And the same process is happening today. I mention all this because it’s happening today, where people are like, “Do I really need a PhD in religion to know how the Bible works? I should be able to read the stuff intuitively and understand it myself if it’s truthful,” right? I think a similar dynamic is happening today, where you’re going to have this tremendous backlash against authority. We’re already seeing it happening, right? Where maybe before COVID, a scientist: “Oh my God, PhD. Wow, I should listen to this person because he’s smarter than we are.” But now you’re like, “Is the doctor really qualified? Do these scientists really know what they’re doing?” I think we’re seeing a similar shift.

Do we choose to come into this world?

Audience question:

When you were answering the question about the kids today you said that the kids, and everybody comes into this world by their own will.

Professor Jiang:

Their own choice.

Audience follow-up:

Choice.

Professor Jiang:

Yeah. Not will but choice.

Audience follow-up:

Choice. Why do you think that we are coming here by our own choice?

Professor Jiang:

I have three kids, and all three of my kids are just really, really different, and my wife can’t, and I can’t explain it. For example, my middle child, he’s 5 years old, and he said to my wife, when I go to Beijing, he wants to set up a stage in the yard and make me sing. He’ll charge an admission ticket for 500 RMB, which is 100 Canadian. I was having a discussion with my wife: first of all, why is he so accurate about my value, right? He knows that if you can get me on stage to sing, people will pay good money to come see me sing, make a fool of myself. How is he able to so quickly and precisely figure out my value, and how is he able to exploit my value? Because my wife and I don’t do this.

When I give speeches, when I go on podcasts, I don't charge anyone anything, even though I could theoretically charge a lot of money and make a lot of money for myself. But I don't do that because I think that it's wrong to charge money for knowledge. But my son who's five years old who is born of me, he's completely different. And then my wife is also the most anti-materialistic person you will meet. We don't buy stuff.

We don’t have any property. We refuse to spend money on ourselves. We spend a lot of money on our children. And so it's confusing to us how we have three kids. They're all very different and they’re not all like us. And I think it's because they come with their own purpose. So my middle son, the 5-year-old, he probably came to be rich, to be part of the ruling elite. My wife and I joke that he's a lizard person.

And at first I was not happy about this. I don't want my child to be a lizard person. We tried many different techniques to try to discipline him. And I was abused. I was hit by my father when I was young. And so I made a point of never ever being violent with my children. But he drove me insane. I first tried to, scold him, reason with him. Didn't work. I tried to lock him up in the bedroom for five minutes. Didn't work. And I tried to threaten him.

Didn't work. I hit him. Didn't work. Nothing worked. And I realized that if he didn't get his way, he didn't mind being dead. He had no will to survive. It's like, I have to get my way. I have to achieve my goal or I don't want to live. I came here to this world to be rich, to be powerful. And that means doing it my way, me being in control and I refuse to submit to your authority. And if you make me submit to your authority, I'll run away. And he's run away from home many many times.

He was really serious about it. So we’re like, “Let’s not mess with this guy.” He's 5 years old and he's basically forced both my wife and myself to submit to his will. And so I think they come for a purpose and they are here to achieve their purpose no matter what. And if they don't achieve their purpose, they’d rather be dead.

Audience follow-up:

And that's why you think that there’s free will in our world, right?

Professor Jiang:

Yeah. I think we always choose. We always have free will. An example is: Why am I so certain that I'm not in danger? I talk a lot of trash about the lizard people. Would the lizard people get pissed off at me? And the answer is, well, they can only cause me harm if I were to sign a contract with them. If they come to me and say, "Listen, you're a really smart guy. We're going to give you $100 million." I'm like, "Sure." Right. But what condition do you want? And they’re like, “No, no condition. We just like you, man. We’re just friends.”

I’m like, “Fine, I’ll sign the contract.” And then I keep on talking trash about them. They come and say, “Hey, I thought we were friends,” right? So, it's free will, but you also have the free will to sign a contract. If you sign a contract with them, you break their contract, then they can kill you. But if you don't sign a contract with them, then they can't do anything about you, right? So, think of Satan and Jesus, right? There's this book called Paradise Regained by John Milton where Jesus was in a desert. He was tempted by Satan. But the only thing Satan can do is tempt you. He can't actually kill you or do anything against you. But he can tempt you, right? But if you resist, there's nothing he can do about it.

A contract with the devil

Audience question:

Why do you make a contract with the express intention of betraying the contract? Shouldn’t there be more games to be played? Say you agree to fiddle for the devil, but you always knew you could win. Isn't that like an American folklore thing where Johnny's so good he beats the devil?

Professor Jiang:

Yeah. So there's actually an epic poem called Faust by Goethe which talks about this, where Faust, who desires all knowledge, signs a deal with Mephistopheles, the devil. And at the end when it's clear that the devil has won, because you can't beat the devil, God intervenes and saves Faust. And so the idea is with enough faith, God will always save you. But I don't know how true that is. But it is commonly accepted amongst certain elite—because Goethe was part of the Illuminati, Bavarian Illuminati—that as long as they had enough faith and if their pursuit of knowledge was pure, then they could do anything in order to pursue knowledge because God sought creativity.

And Faust was doing terrible, terrible things to people, but that's okay. And the example is from the Bible. So, if you're Jewish, who are the two major most influential figures in the Bible, do you think?

Audience follow-up:

Noah.

Professor Jiang:

Maybe. Well, most Jews would say Moses, right?

Audience follow-up:

Yeah. Moses.

Professor Jiang:

In some tradition, Moses is the most important figure from the Bible. But as you read the Bible, there are two people that God loves beyond anyone else. They are, right?

Audience follow-up:

King David.

Professor Jiang:

King David is number one. And who's number two? Do you know? Jacob, right? Because why? Because Jacob gives the name to Israel, the chosen people. So, Jacob is the most important patriarch because he's the one who fathers the 12 tribes of Israel. And King David is the most beloved of God. But if you go into the backstory, it's really complicated. Moses is pure. He follows God. He's going to do anything in order to please God.

And how did God treat him? Not very well, man. Right? It’s like Moses took his people out of Egypt and they were moved to a promised land. They did something stupid which is worship the golden calf and God said you can't worship idols. You can’t actually present me as a golden calf. But that was not Moses' fault. That was not his fault. Because Moses was in the mountain getting the ten commandments from God. So Moses was completely innocent. But Moses was punished.

And Moses said to God, "Oh, I've spent decades, 80 years following you, serving you, and I've succeeded in your mission, which is to bring your people out of Egypt into the promised land. I only have one request before I die, which is to set foot on the promised land. That's all I want. I just want to die in the promised land." And God said, "Nope. Nope. You're not getting that." “But hey, I’ll let you see the promised land, but that's it. But that’s about it.” That's kind of weird, man. How is it that you are without sin, you're completely loyal to God, right, and then God’s like, “Screw off.”

David, on the other hand, is completely different, right? David did nothing but sin. Look at all the evil things he did in the Bible. The most evil of course was to bed Bathsheba and then kill the husband Uriah the Hittite. What happened to David? He became God's best friend. But not only that, Jacob is also problematic, right? Because Jacob lied and cheated.

Audience follow-up:

To get the blessing.

Professor Jiang:

Yeah. Against Esau.

Audience follow-up:

And the birthright.

Professor Jiang:

Right. That was wrong. Then what happens is he goes off and finds the love of his life, Rachel. And then God says to Jacob, "I will now make you the father of Israel." And that's kind of weird. Why is it that the most heroic figure in the entire Jewish tradition, Moses, he's kind of punished for being a good person? You have Jacob and David rewarded for being bad people. And this goes back to your question which is: in the eyes of the elite, sin makes this world interesting. God is interested in creativity. God is interested in knowing itself and God is incapable of sin. So God relies on us to sin. But we also have to redeem ourselves. And if we do that then God will always forgive us.

Audience follow-up:

Yeah, but it seems like a competition now to see who can be more evil for the longest and then say sorry. For instance, Richard Dawkins going all atheist forever if I'm getting the name right. And then in the last second converting, is he the superman then that said no to God and then the last second woke up and therefore he's the most loved because—

Professor Jiang:

Yep.

Audience follow-up:

He was the rudest.

Professor Jiang:

That’s right. There’s a very famous video of Rebbe Schneerson, who’s the leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. He meets a convert, a convert to Judaism, and the Rebbe says to the convert:

You are the most beloved of God. God loves you, the convert, more than me, the Rebbe, who served God his entire life.

And this has to do with the idea that only if you go into darkness can you actually see the light.

So that’s what they believe. This is the very basis for Sabbatean-Frankism and that's why Sabbatean-Frankism is so popular amongst the elite regardless of your religion. Because it provides you with theories, ideas that appeal to your instincts. So if you are a wealthy person, you want to enjoy life, you want to have different experiences, but you cannot enjoy life while committing sin. Right. And the organized religion says that if you sin, you'll go to hell.

Whereas Sabbatean-Frankism is like, “No, sin is the path to God.” It is, right?

Audience follow-up:

That lets you break your chains in the cave.

Professor Jiang:

Exactly. Exactly. Right. Again, if you are part of the elite, this is a really appealing religion. Much more appealing than an organized religion and that's why I said that it effectively conquered the world.

Why do billionaires want to live forever?

Audience question:

So regarding these billionaires, trillionaires, do you think they're trying to live forever because they're trying to avoid facing God? What do you think is their ultimate fate?

Professor Jiang:

So there are different theories. And I'm not a billionaire. But I think for them it's just control. They're obsessed with control and they have so much control and they think that death is the ultimate hurdle to their full control. And so they don't really know why they're doing it. They just want to live forever and they refuse to die. Again, I have these rich friends and I swear they're in their 90s and they're senile and they won’t die and they're not all religious and they're not actually part of the elite. They're rich, they're famous, but they're not like billionaire rich and they just won't die. And I think that what happens is over time the power, the money, the fame makes you a control freak and you just want to hang on even though you don't even know why. I was in Montreal. I met a couple of cancer doctors and they say regardless of the cancer, regardless who the patient is, the patient is always afraid to die.

And the doctor's like, "Why are you afraid to die? What's keeping you here?" And the patient's like, "Why didn't you ask me that question?" But the person doesn't know why he or she is afraid. I think it's just fear. Maybe it's fear of confronting God or fear of losing control, whatever. And the other thing that the cancer doctor told me is the people who are most afraid to die are the wealthiest people.

You have people who are rich in their 90s who just absolutely refuse to let go. And I’m like, “What’s the point, man? Your body hurts. It sucks to be older, right? Your body hurts. Your mind is no longer functioning. You're asleep like 90% of the time. What’s keeping you here?” And it's like they just refuse to let go. And I think this is something that's happened throughout human history. I think that the elite have been like this. The problem is that today we have the technology and the medicine to keep them alive forever.

And I mean with modern technology with these ventilators and all that they keep on going for a long time. I mean I asked my cousin who works in hospital I've got this friend who’s 90 years old and she's senile. She doesn't get out of bed. She's basically a vegetable. How long could she keep on going if she wanted to? And it was easily 20 years.

Easily 20 years. If money is not an issue, then 20 years is not a problem.

Audience follow-up:

If you’re trying to live forever, though, don’t you basically build the mountain from Enoch where you're just sitting there being bored until the end of time?

Professor Jiang:

I don’t think there’s a rational explanation for what’s going on.

Audience follow-up:

But won’t boredom get them eventually? Won't they get bored and kill themselves after a thousand years?

Professor Jiang:

No.

Audience follow-up:

What if you experience everything in this realm?

Professor Jiang:

I don't think there's a rational logical explanation for why they do what they do.

Audience follow-up:

But that would make sense.

Professor Jiang:

I don’t think these people are rational. I think if they were rational, they wouldn’t become billionaires because you’ll be like, “Why am I doing all this evil? Enough is enough.” Eventually you’re like, “Well, I mean, $100 million is pretty good, right? Maybe I should stop being so evil.” But no, they keep on being evil. I think after you reach a certain point, you just become deranged.

Peter Thiel clearly is deranged, man. Why are you going around talking about the Antichrist? It's not a good look, but he's obsessed with the Antichrist.

Audience follow-up:

And he's talking about bad stuff. He's being a bad boy and then he can redeem himself at the end.

Professor Jiang:

Yeah, but I don't think that’s how they think. I just think they're just deranged. They're delusional.

Can we fail our purpose?

Audience question:

Regarding my last question about our choice to come here: if I understood it right, we’re coming here knowing that we can fail, for example, our purpose?

Professor Jiang:

No, you come here with a purpose.

Audience follow-up:

With a purpose.

Professor Jiang:

Yes. Before you come here, you have a purpose. You want to achieve something.

Audience follow-up:

And also we know that we can fail it, right?

Professor Jiang:

Yeah.

Audience follow-up:

Basically if you came into this world and died as a child, you just failed your purpose, right? I mean, it’s just a possibility, right?

Professor Jiang:

Yeah, but then you come back again. It’s infinite.

Are we the same soul?

Audience question:

Do you think we're all the same people having the same experience? The same soul? Are we the same soul? All experiencing different bodies at the same time?

Professor Jiang:

That's a really good question. I don't have an answer because we think beyond time and space. So beyond time and space everything is true. So yeah, we are one and we’re all the same but we're also separate. We're all different. So they're both true at the same time.

Audience follow-up:

We're derivatives of the one.

Professor Jiang:

No because you're beyond time and space, right? So there's no physicality. Difference and sameness are the same. We're all united together, but we're all separate. So, there are infinite possibilities and they are true at the same time.

What happens if this world ends?

Audience question:

Do you feel like we’re in a lighter part, as Dante says some parts are lighter than others? I know society’s bad, but are we as humans in a good light spot? Do you think we’re going to keep going despite all these bad things that we talk about?

Professor Jiang:

What you need to appreciate is that this world is just a possibility and it's just a world amongst infinite worlds. And so what happens to this world doesn't really matter. And we have bodies but these bodies are husks. What we truly are is consciousness. And this consciousness it exists across infinite dimensions. It exists beyond time and space and it's always connected to the monad. So if this world were to end another world would be created.

The example is, if you look at all traditions, they talk about the great flood, right? For some reason, every single culture has a mythos around the great flood, which is a reset of civilization, right? It is entirely possible that we do something stupid and we all die in a nuclear war, and we’re like, “Well, this is the end of humanity,” right? No, because our consciousness is still around. Maybe 100,000 years later on, when the fallout from the nuclear war dissipates, we’ll come back. Maybe our bodies will be different. Maybe we’ll take different forms, but our consciousness will remanifest itself in this world, and this will keep on going.

Audience follow-up:

And if it’s infinite, there could be more than one of us happening at the same time. If infinity is that great, that large, would there ever be a possibility that two monads compete?

Professor Jiang:

No, there’s only one monad.

Audience follow-up:

In all of infinity, there’s only one monad? That’s a pretty big bound on infinity.

Professor Jiang:

There's only one monad. Yes.

Audience follow-up:

That is the definition I guess.

Professor Jiang:

That's why it's called a monad. If there are two, we call it a dyad. Yes.

H-1B restrictions and the midterms

Audience question:

Professor, the elite and financial or transnational capital, as you said earlier as well, they would like to have cheap labor. Same as Europeans as well, they would like to have cheap labor so that they can have more money. Same, I guess, for the AI or tech, Silicon Valley, as well. But recently, or interestingly, the Trump administration announced that there will be H-1B visa restrictions for the Indian people.

Do you think that it’s just because of the elections that are coming, the midterm elections, or is it something Trump wants to counter the elite, or he wants to go against them?

Professor Jiang:

I think it’s just election. J. D. Vance announced yesterday, I think, that Microsoft would lose access to the H-1B visa program, and it’s right before the midterms, right? That’s kind of strange. But I think that for these tech companies, Indian labor is very important, right? They won’t stop.

Globalism and a healthier society

Audience question:

This current system and globalism has sort of achieved transcending our race, nation, language, religion. But at the same time, we’re not living in a healthy society. How to achieve the same thing, I mean, all of those aspects in our world, in another way, a healthier way? Is it possible, and what do you think about it?

Professor Jiang:

We need to appreciate something. All technological progress is a byproduct of three forces. They are globalization, so just trade, times specialization, so basically each nation state focuses on what it’s good at, comparative advantage, times population growth.

Technology ↑ = globalization × specialization × population growth.

This is the formula that explains technological progress. Why is it that we have AI? It’s because each nation state specializes in something, and then globalization connects these nation states, which allows us to grow the population and then have technological improvement. This is the formula that drives technological progress. And something that people have never asked is: why is technological progress a good thing? Why does it matter if you can fly tomorrow to the Maldives and then, in the Maldives, work from there using Wi-Fi, and then using ChatGPT, you can get ChatGPT to do the work for you? Why is this a good thing?

Right? Because we also know that in this world people feel much more lonely, feel much more disconnected, feel much more depressed. The cancer rates are skyrocketing, depression rates are skyrocketing, young people refuse to have children. So why is this a good thing? And unless we answer this question, it's really hard for us to move towards a solution. But we also know that historically there is a solution and it’s something that people are going to fight for and it's the reconnection to God. An individual connection to God and defiance of society.

People are going to wake up and say, “God is in me. I am in God, and that’s what makes us human.” So we are moving towards a spiritual awakening. Unfortunately the powers that be the elite most fear this spiritual awakening, right? That's why they killed Jesus.

Free will, heaven, and hell

Audience question:

I have a hard time reconciling because you mentioned that Jesus said three things, right? One was that God is with us.

Professor Jiang:

No, I simplified that.

Audience follow-up:

Simplified, right? In the simplified version, right? But the last one is that we are all one and the same. I have a really hard time reconciling that because what’s the point of having the inferno, let's say, if not to separate us? And that's a really hard thing that it's hard for me to reconcile. That’s my first question. The second question is in this war that you speak of where the AI—

Professor Jiang:

Let me answer your question first. You ask a really good question: if we’re one and the same, then why is there hell? Why is there heaven? The answer is we are all one and the same, but we always have free will. We are a sum of our choices and actions. We all have a connection to God. God loves us all equally, but our actions may lead us astray from God, in which case, the further we become removed from God, the more hell we suffer.

Think of the case of the billionaires where they want to live forever but as Daryl points out that's hell, right? You want to live forever in this really old body and your brain's not functioning and you've seen everything but you won't leave. That's hell. So heaven and hell is something we choose based on our actions. And we are allowed to make these actions because God loves us. If God loves us, God trusts us to make our own decisions which is free will.

Audience follow-up:

Just to follow up, in this model of free will, then you don’t believe in providence per se, where everything is predestination, you know why you’re here? I mean, where everything is God’s will per se, because that’s another part that I kind of run into problems with. Let’s say God creates us all equally. But then ultimately, if we are, as depicted, the sum of our choices and we are judged by it, how does that correspond with God’s will?

Professor Jiang:

Yeah. So that's a really good question. So in the Jewish tradition this is how they reconcile it. The course of human history has been predetermined. It is our choice how fast we want to go. Right. It's our choice to accelerate the process or move slower in the process. But the course of events has been predetermined. The end, the very end is reunion with God. It's just entirely your choice whether you want this to be a really fast process or a really slow process.

So obviously you would want this to be as fast as possible. But it's your choice of how fast you want to go.

Audience follow-up:

Could it also be just on the individual level, our choice or our capacity to align with God's will or not?

Professor Jiang:

Exactly.

Audience follow-up:

Right. In the free will.

Professor Jiang:

Right? Exactly. If you align with God's will, that's heaven, right? You move away from God's will, that's hell. But that’s your choice. But according to this theology, these are the only choices that really matter. Ultimately your choice is as Vesson says, do you want to align with God's will or do you want to defy God's will? You defy God's will then you obviously worship Satan.

Can the old guard prevent an AI bailout?

Audience question:

And then I guess my second question in regards to the whole AI versus the finance people, right? This is basically a war, a struggle for power.

Professor Jiang:

Yeah, it is literally a war. Right.

Audience follow-up:

And because you related the Iran war. You related the attack on the preaching class, right, through AI and whatnot. And then lastly is they’re going to I guess attack the financial system by crashing it and then getting a government bailout by inserting agents in the government, stuff like that. Right. I don't know if you heard recently they tried to pass—I think it's called the GENIUS Act.

Professor Jiang:

The GENIUS Act. Yes. Yes.

Audience follow-up:

Professor Jiang:

There are two acts. The GENIUS Act and the CLARITY Act.

Audience follow-up:

The CLARITY Act. The GENIUS Act was passed, and then the CLARITY Act was the more recent one, right? Where they’re trying to regulate basically stablecoins as a financial instrument for people to deposit into, to create better yields for savings, which takes away one of the banks’ more lucrative ways of—and that failed, right? It didn’t. What’s stopping, in this war, the old guards from breaking this plan, where the Anthropic IPO crashes the market and then the bailout doesn’t come, right? Because obviously these forces, as these metaphysical beings, are smart, but the agents themselves are not that smart, right? The people in the government, they can be bought off. That comes down to money on the government level, and the old guard still have money. Sure, Elon is a trillionaire, but there’s hundreds of trillions of dollars in the system, right?

What’s stopping the old guard from preventing this plan?

Professor Jiang:

First of all, there is a war going on. Second of all, this war as you point out, there's a lot of back and forth. So, it's not just the AI people can do what they want. The old guard, they are fighting back and there's a lot of resistance. For example, Mark Carney is responding to Trump by trying to create a trade bloc between Europe and Canada, right? So, Mark Carney represents the old guard. Trump represents the new guard, the counter elites.

But it’s not just Carney. The reality is that most powerful people in the world are part of the old guard. As I point out, the old guard, it’s a global network. The old guard, they’re supported by the universities, Harvard, Yale, by the legacy media. There’s a lot of power behind the old guard, and the reality is that most of the world’s elite, especially the baby boomers, are part of the old guard. This conflict, there’s going to be a lot of back and forth, and it’s not entirely certain who will prevail. As I point out, there are different possibilities. One possibility is that the AI people win out. But another possibility is this war leads to complete global collapse because the old guard will refuse to give up power. What I also said is there are certain events that are going to come up.

And these events are going to give us a clue as to who's winning this war and how this war might turn out. Again, things to watch out for the midterms, right? And then the Alberta vote is very important. Then you have the APEC meeting. Then you have the Anthropic IPO. There are a lot of things. But you’re absolutely right in that there's no certainty that the Anthropic IPO fails and there's a massive AI crash that they'll be bailed out. There's no certainty. But what I said is if my thesis is correct then there will be a bailout.

Audience follow-up:

It's looking very likely. It is looking very likely.

Professor Jiang:

Well, I don't see how they don't do a bailout, because AI is 50% of GDP growth, right? You're talking like millions of jobs. And so I'd be very surprised if Congress and the White House did not work together to bail out these AI companies. And honestly if you just look at social media, if you look at the media, they are signaling a major AI bubble burst. Why would they do that?

Speaking the truth with courage

Audience question:

How can someone train themselves to speak? I mean, I know that you can say study classical studies, but you are literally a new idea, and this is not simple. Most people will perceive you as a YouTuber. I don’t see it that way. I actually do believe that you were a teacher, right? But it takes courage. How do you, in oneself, when nobody is there—how do you train yourself to be able to get comfortable speaking the truth? Get comfortable doing uncomfortable things. This was very uncomfortable for me to come here. And get comfortable knowing that there’s going to be persecution possibly coming. You might say, “Oh, I didn’t sign a contract with them,” but you and I both would agree that when ideas become powerful, “they” will step in. What do you do to stay confident and brave to keep pushing forward in a position of truth?

Professor Jiang:

That's a great question and my answer is whenever I do these meetups, I feel more confident and I feel more inspired and I feel more encouraged because I think that everyone in this room is here because you were drawn here. You had a compulsion to come here. It's like a spark of light was ignited in you. You’re like, “I have to meet this person. I have to be here and hear his message.” And I've been through a lot of places on this tour.

I've been back in North America for the past two and a half months and I've been to a lot of cities and I've done many different meetups. I've done lectures. I've done dinners. I've done discussions and debates. And first of all, I am surprised by the range, diversity of people. I mean, just look at this room where everyone's coming from a different background, different religion, different belief, different ethnicity, different education levels. Just the diversity is just incredible.

That's point one. Point two is I'm surprised by the number of people who appear. I've done meetups and I’ve only limited them to paid subscribers of Substack but I’m still able to draw 40 to 60 people in each event. And so there's this real hunger amongst people. I'm sure if I would just open those publicly, I could possibly have thousands of people. I'm not going to do that because it's dangerous. But I'm sure I could get thousands.

And the third thing is: I have fans wherever I go regardless of the city regardless of the place I'm always going to run into someone who’s like, “Oh, I know you from YouTube and thanks for what you’re doing.” The fourth thing is the phrase that keeps on appearing whenever I run into people is, “Please keep on doing what you’re doing. Please, we need it.” So that to me is very inspiring. And so I feel there's a global awakening happening. I feel that sparks of light are being drawn to me and that empowers me, that liberates me, that gives me the courage to do what I’m doing. So, it’s almost like I don't have a choice.

I'm in the situation. I don't know if the situation is actually a good thing or a bad thing. But it's just where I found myself in my life. And so I feel a compulsion, I feel an urgency to continue what I'm doing and enlighten more people. And the other thing is I'm surprised also by how fast this is going. It’s shocking to me cuz my YouTube channel has been around for maybe a year.

Yeah, maybe two years at most. And so I started YouTube in May 2024. Yeah, May 2024. And for the first year I had at most 500 subscribers but I kept on going because it's like I need to keep on going. And then this past year alone, it's gone from 500 to almost three million on YouTube. And that's just YouTube. This does not include other social media platforms. I feel as though I have a mission because I can't explain otherwise: why else would I be so popular? Why else am I in this position? It's because the monad wants me to do something. I'm just going to intuitively figure out what the monad wants me to do and just go do it. And that’s the only thing I can do.

But again, it's just being with you guys, having these conversations, that gives me faith and hope.