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1. 00:05 these are chaotic times these are confusing times perplexing
2. 00:13 we are all baffled we are all puzzled
3. 00:19 we all worried a trifle paranoid perhaps weary cautious
4. 00:28 we’ve been self-isolating long before social distancing and we have been wearing masks of the virtual kind long before the pandemic
5. 00:42 we all reach out and then we retreat approach avoidance and this is because
6. 00:50 the world had become an enigma wrapped in a puzzle
7. 00:56 embedded in a mystery in short we no longer feel at home
8. 01:06 i will try to be of some help here i’ll try to introduce order structure and meaning into the world as it is today and i will
9. 01:18 attempt to do this by studying the way the world had always been
10. 01:26 the immutable unchangeable patterns and rules that govern our universe now
11. 01:33 and always had for millennia we are human beings we have been human
12. 01:41 beings 5 000 years ago we have societies and cultures we have
13. 01:47 had societies and cultures 10 000 years ago there’s nothing new under the sun and
14. 01:55 our internal dynamics may be affected by fads and fashions and technologies
15. 02:01 but they haven’t changed that much it takes millions of years for such changes to occur and we are
16. 02:09 a very young species so i think we can learn a lot by
17. 02:16 studying history let’s start with the fact that politics
18. 02:23 has been with us forever there had been politicians in ancient babylon
19. 02:30 there had been politicians in persia arguing with king cirques there have been politicians
20. 02:39 who surrounded alexander the great who had debated who had
21. 02:46 implemented policies but for millennia until very recently politicians had represented the interests
22. 02:59 of the elites politicians were the long arms the extensions
23. 03:07 they were the employees they carried out the instructions of the elites
24. 03:14 they managed politicians managed the bureaucracies
25. 03:20 what some conspiracy theorists call the deep states the deep state politicians managed
26. 03:28 the bureaucracies the agencies the institutions of governance which
27. 03:34 were required to ensure the smooth running of polities and economies
28. 03:44 and who needed political entities and economies to run smoothly yes
29. 03:52 you guessed it the elites it was all about the elites
30. 03:58 politicians were pawns in a game of chess played by the elites that has been the
31. 04:06 case for well over 10 000 documented years
32. 04:12 in prehistory and in written history politicians were therefore totally
33. 04:19 identified and at the mercy of ruling elites now the identity of the elites sometimes may have changed
34. 04:32 sometimes the clergy were members of the elites sometimes not sometimes the aristocracy sometimes not sometimes only the royal family
35. 04:45 and there were periods in history where intellectuals were actually among the elites like today so the composition of the
36. 04:52 elites who exactly is an insider who is a member of the club that depends
37. 04:59 on the period in history but throughout history there was a tiny
38. 05:05 tiny tiny crust much less than one percent and this tiny sliver of humanity used bureaucracy
39. 05:16 used institutions used the law and used politicians not necessarily to
40. 05:25 accomplish any goals but to secure an environment in which
41. 05:31 goals can be accomplished a favorable environment a stable
42. 05:37 environment sometimes nepotistic sometimes chronist environment networks of patronage it’s true but the emphasis was on stability and a playing field which favors the elites
43. 05:54 at all times and allows them to increase their wealth
44. 06:00 in a linear manner over uninterrupted centuries
45. 06:06 wealth amalgamation wealth creation and the distribution of wealth and the
46. 06:12 transfer of wealth between generations were the main focus of elites
47. 06:18 throughout history and to this very day but something happened something
48. 06:25 happened at the end of the 18th century
49. 06:32 starting with the french revolution the organizing principles of political establishments were challenged monarchies fell apart
50. 06:45 empires disintegrated something was afoot and what had
51. 06:51 happened what precipitated this sudden change was the printing press the printing
52. 06:59 press democratized knowledge and access to knowledge suddenly much
53. 07:07 larger swathes of humanity had access to data
54. 07:13 which previously had been the exclusive reserve and domain for example
55. 07:19 of the church the vernacular bible martin luther king’s bible king james’s
56. 07:25 bible they undermined the authority of the church and the church of course was in most
57. 07:32 eras of history a member of the elite privileged member of the elite
58. 07:38 so this was the first development the second development
59. 07:44 which precipitated the transition from elites to masses the second development was the sheer
60. 07:50 numbers population on earth had begun to explode numerically there were many more people who belong to the masses than people who
61. 08:02 belong to the elites it became much more difficult to control these
62. 08:08 giant clusters of population the black death which had decimated one one
63. 08:15 third to one half of europe’s population only made matters worse as far as the
64. 08:22 elites because we’re concerned because it made labor very scarce
65. 08:29 and it it necessitated a vast transfer of wealth
66. 08:35 from the elites back to the masses back to the people in other words labor wages increased
67. 08:43 dramatically because there were no workers left most of them had died in the black death in the plague
68. 08:51 so the increase in numbers the increase in literacy the
69. 08:57 democratization of science and scientific endeavor and inventions gave rise to the
70. 09:03 copyright and patent laws gradually power
71. 09:09 was seeping away filtering out from the hands of the elites
72. 09:15 down to the masses and a new layer was created between the elites and the masses the middle class the middle class aspired to join the elites but belonged
73. 09:27 psychologically culturally historically and societally belong to the masses
74. 09:34 the middle class was a bridge between the masses and the elites and the elite elites
75. 09:41 saw an opportunity here to co-opt the middle classes so they introduced dreams and fantasies
76. 09:49 the american dream the american dream was about members of the middle class becoming
77. 09:56 members of the elite the elite in other words became socially mobile now you could be born on the wrong side of the tracks
78. 10:07 and end up in a mansion or president of the united states so degrees of social mobility and social
79. 10:14 freedom were introduced into the system by the elites as a way to compromise the middle class
80. 10:22 and control the masses via the middle class because you see the masses hated the
81. 10:28 elites always always the masses wanted to kill the elites and very often did
82. 10:35 the muscles once masses wanted to destroy the elites because the masses were perniciously and virulently and
83. 10:42 viscerally envious of the elites they wanted to remove the object that created these frustrations in envy they wanted to literally assassinate the elites and in the french revolution and in the russian revolution they did
84. 10:59 copiously but the masses did not hate the middle class the masses saw a reasonable chance an opportunity to join the middle class
85. 11:10 in a variety of ways by for example via education via learning a trade or a skill
86. 11:18 apprenticeship so the middle class was an outlet it was a steam valve because it
87. 11:25 it enabled the illusion because it was an illusion it was a lie it enabled the illusion of social mobility and it allowed the elites to use
88. 11:39 one part of the muscles against another divide and conquer the middle class
89. 11:45 became the trojan horse of the masses became the fifth column
90. 11:51 the middle class betrayed the masses they were traitors as the fathers of
91. 11:58 communism had correctly observed the middle class chose signs
92. 12:04 and it chose the elites and it went against the masses
93. 12:10 so there was a three-pronged war going on the elites and their cohorts the middle
94. 12:16 classes against the working classes the masses
95. 12:23 so for millennia politicians also had to choose sites and until very
96. 12:31 recently they had chosen the sides of the elites then as the middle class had expanded
97. 12:37 they chose the side of a middle class but there was not much difference between siding with the elites and siding with
98. 12:43 the middle class the middle class was the where the emissaries were the extensions of the elite
99. 12:50 they were like the poor cousin cousins of the elite they belong to the elite family they
100. 12:57 were on their way to becoming elites some of them did so politicians didn’t have a hard time choosing between elites and middle class they were one and the same but they were definitely against the
101. 13:08 masses the founding fathers of the united states of america ostensibly allegedly the greatest
102. 13:15 democracy on earth detested the mosses they were terrified of democracy
103. 13:21 that’s why they created the electoral college they firmly believed that mass democracy
104. 13:28 leads to tyranny and history bore them out hitler was an elected leader
105. 13:36 on a much lesser note so our bolsonaro so is so was donald trump
106. 13:44 the masses the masses gravitate towards strong men
107. 13:52 they end up via the process of mass democracy creating tyranny and so
108. 14:00 the founding fathers were terrified of the masses and they created a non-representative democracy
109. 14:08 and as the as the politicians were trying to constrain the masses by
110. 14:15 collaborating with the middle classes and the elites the masses were becoming more and more
111. 14:22 restless because they were becoming more and more numerous the masses had to compete for scarce
112. 14:29 economic resources and these scarce economic resources were hogged
113. 14:35 where monopolized were devoured by the middle classes and the elite
114. 14:41 income inequality reflects the fact that the vast majority of wealth assets
115. 14:49 and income is owned by something like one percent of the
116. 14:55 population and that something like 70 to 80 of population go to bed hungry
117. 15:02 or destitute or desolate have no meaning and purpose in life
118. 15:08 and are subjected to mass fantasies mass manufactured fantasies
119. 15:14 and so as the 18th century bled into the 19th century industrial
120. 15:20 revolution the industrial revolution leveraged the masses to create consumer goods
121. 15:28 and other modes of transport and communication and so on construction for the middle
122. 15:35 classes so the work of the of the working classes the proletariat in marx
123. 15:41 in marx in marxian terms marx systems the work of the the labor of the working
124. 15:47 classes had been converted into consumer goods of the middle classes
125. 15:54 and permanent capital assets of the elites and the working classes resented this
126. 16:01 hence socialism hence communism hence nazism hence fascism
127. 16:09 these were all movements of the masses movements of the working classes in
128. 16:16 short for 10 000 years or let’s say for 9800 years the elites were in control they created bureaucracies and they let
129. 16:27 politicians run the bureaucracies in the last 300 years a middle class
130. 16:35 had been created it emerged from the masses and it reverted to the elites it collaborated with the elites
131. 16:42 it compromised itself by collaborating with the elites and the elites were fine with this
132. 16:48 because the middle class had always been small and they you know the elites threw them
133. 16:54 some crumbs to make them feel good and encouraged fantasies of social mobility and riches and you know the american dream and the middle middle class was happy and the elites were happy and then in the last 100 years
134. 17:07 the masses could take it no more and we started to see mass movements
135. 17:14 mass movements which had all the hallmarks of religions secular religions and which were founded
136. 17:21 on ideology ideology is the poor man the ignorant man’s
137. 17:28 philosophy it’s basic it’s demagogic it’s not very sophisticated
138. 17:37 you don’t have to have to have too much brain to comprehend it it has it’s prescriptive it tells you
139. 17:43 what to do and it’s dichotomous it’s black and white thinking there’s the enemy and
140. 17:50 there’s you there’s us and them so ideologies are a poor ignorant men’s philosophy
141. 17:59 and of course ideologies had quickly transformed into religions secular religions with secular saints secular rituals just have a look at any may day parade
142. 18:11 in soviet russia or in china to understand what i’m saying in north korea today so the masses
143. 18:18 reacted to their enslavement by the elites and later on by the traitors the middle class they reacted
144. 18:31 with mass movements with mass ideologies and they tried
145. 18:38 to uproot to dislodge
146. 18:44 the elites at first so the first impulse was kill the elites
147. 18:50 and they did physically they killed the elites they decapitated them they shot them
148. 18:58 but then the mass movements change course mysteriously
149. 19:07 sometimes they change course because they became the establishment the communists became bolsheviks and
150. 19:14 bolsheviks ruled russia so there was no need they became the elite the new elite the nomenclature so in some cases mass movements were
151. 19:25 compromised by their own success the nazis which were an outlier
152. 19:33 outside outcast political movement had become the rules of germany
153. 19:39 same with the communists in russia and so same with the fascists in italy the fascists were or the leaders of of the fascist movement including mussolini were actually communists
154. 19:50 gerbils was a communist all mass movements have very close affinity and so
155. 19:58 when they came to power they became the establishment and they did not want the masses to
156. 20:04 continue to be rebellious they did not want the masses to identify
157. 20:10 them as the new elites and then to attack them as they had attacked the old elites so a new
158. 20:17 consensus had emerged the masses now didn’t try to kill the elite
159. 20:23 they didn’t try to beat the elite they tried to join the elite they demanded a part of the spoils they
160. 20:30 demanded a re-division and redistribution of wealth and we and we came up with the income
161. 20:36 tax the income tax is the elite’s way of redistributing some of the wealth some of the money back to the poor
162. 20:48 it was a concession by the elite on the surface because if you look at
163. 20:54 the numbers most of the money most most of the tax money including the latest
164. 21:00 the latest relief packages covered 19 relief packages most of the money goes actually to the
165. 21:07 middle class or to rich people and to companies enterprises corporations not to poor
166. 21:13 people so it was a soap it was a confabulation it was a lie but comfortable lie
167. 21:20 so distributive taxation socially progressive taxation was the
168. 21:28 way that the elites allowed the masses to share in some of the benefits the welfare state was born as a way to contain the masses and convince them
169. 21:39 that the elites are going out of their way to make life happier and richer
170. 21:47 in every possible way suddenly there were mass institutions of culture and art available museums opened their gates
171. 21:56 to the masses which never happened before so
172. 22:04 this is where we were [Music] this is where we were in the 1960s
173. 22:13 by the 1960s all monarchies and all empires had crumbled in slow motion
174. 22:20 this slow motion was accelerated after the first world war when the inefficacy incompetence
175. 22:27 and sheer stupidity of the elites was exposed the malevolence
176. 22:34 the the the real conspiracies the i mean the underbelly the simi side of the elites was exposed
177. 22:41 glaringly in the first world war and a whole generation of young men was decimated so after 1918 and well into the end of the 1960s empires fell apart
178. 22:53 and monarchies vanish vanished the masses started to make demands and
179. 23:01 by now the masses were no longer no longer homicidal they no longer wanted to kill the elites
180. 23:07 they have tried this it didn’t work the masses had discovered something about themselves they are not good at
181. 23:14 governing the masses tried communism the masses tried fascism the masses tried nazism it didn’t work
182. 23:23 well the masses even tried labor governance labour parties in various parts of the world from italy
183. 23:29 to the united kingdom it didn’t work well either masses are not built to govern
184. 23:36 they don’t have the internal intellectual capital they don’t have a tradition of governing and they don’t have the necessary skills and knowledge etc etc they also are not well connected
185. 23:47 governance is about networking is about leveraging social capital the masses didn’t have this
186. 23:53 so by the 1960s the masters had realized that they need the elites and they need
187. 23:59 the middle class to provide them with an environment where they as masses can survive somehow
188. 24:07 and even potentially be socially mobile and join the middle class and so the elites and the masses
189. 24:15 struck a truce and armistice there was a tense tense equilibrium
190. 24:22 between elites and muscles let’s recap before we continue for a long period for
191. 24:28 the longest period of time the elites ruled unfettered unchallenged
192. 24:34 elites and only elites were in charge politicians were the long arms of the elites
193. 24:40 and they managed the bureaucracies on behalf of the elites then masses began to rise for a variety
194. 24:46 of reasons that i had mentioned and the mass the first thing the masses did they killed the elise and the masses over a period of 200 years came up with their own institutions their own their own
195. 24:58 religions their own ideologies their own solutions and the masses tried to take over from
196. 25:06 the elites they had narcissism they had communism and the masses discovered it’s not working they are not equipped
197. 25:12 to govern they need the elites the intellectual needs the financial elites
198. 25:18 the hereditary elites they need elites so what the masses did they co-opted
199. 25:24 they they kind of negotiated a truce or an armistice or cohabitation
200. 25:31 of co-existence with the elites and and the agents of the elites the middle class
201. 25:38 and this is where we were in the 1960s the masses began to assert their power
202. 25:45 and the masses formed at first in the 1930s and 40s they formed chaotic oculocrisis oculocrisis
203. 25:53 mob rule nazi regime was an ocular crazy mob rule and they created clock races
204. 26:01 and they executed millions of tens of millions actually of people including large parts of the elites it
205. 26:07 didn’t work so by the 1960s everyone everything froze the elites
206. 26:13 were where they were the middle class was in the middle middle class and the masses were awaiting everyone was in this tense tense stand up stand down like
207. 26:25 what’s gonna happen next everyone was frozen by the lights like a deer with headlights you know the elites tried
208. 26:35 desperately because they realized that things were going the wrong way for them they looked to the to the west and they
209. 26:43 saw decapitated decapitated noblemen in france they looked a bit to the east and they saw a royal family bullet riddled in russia they looked
210. 26:54 further and they saw the labour party taking over in the united kingdom the earth was shaking the elites were terrified
211. 27:01 the elites were absolutely terrified there was a yellow scare there was a red scare so what the elites tried to do they
212. 27:08 introduced a variety of fiction a variety of pieces of fiction a variety
213. 27:15 of narratives a variety of stories a variety of movies movie scripts and they try to
214. 27:21 sell the masses on these movie scripts so one of these movie scripts is liberal democracy every four years you
215. 27:28 get to tell us who will be in the elite the elites told the masses you have power you have the power you decide who will be a member of our club which
216. 27:39 of course is utter nonsense democracy is a sham it’s a sham it’s also an exceedingly bad idea
217. 27:46 because democracy led to adolf hitler and not comparing but democracy led to
218. 27:52 donald trump democracy is a horrible idea the masses are not built to govern they don’t have the
219. 27:58 qualifications the knowledge the capacity the mentality nothing masses should not never ever vote
220. 28:06 but the elites were so terrified so panic-stricken that they introduced universal suffrage
221. 28:14 universal suffrage universal voting and they included minorities such as women
222. 28:20 and ethnic minorities and so on so forth in this sweeping universal suffrage in this sweeping universal democracy and the second idea the second idea that they had introduced
223. 28:31 was the nation state so elites tried to subdue the masses to subjugate them
224. 28:39 to control them to manipulate them to channel their energy to derive maximum
225. 28:45 benefit from the masses by on the one hand giving them
226. 28:51 ill illusory freedom illusory mobility illusory
227. 28:58 power like democracy you know democracy and if you if you study and if you work
228. 29:04 hard you’re gonna become rich the american dream and democracy these were these were the great levelers the idea was to level the playing field egalitarianism in other words but it
229. 29:16 became malignant under egalitarianism later on with technology we’ll talk about it so this was the idea of the elite the
230. 29:24 elites introduced liberal democracy and the second idea that elise introduced was the nation state nation
231. 29:31 state is a very new invention it’s less than 200 years old nationalism nationalism and democracy
232. 29:39 these were the tools of the elites to subjugate manipulate and control the masses and
233. 29:45 both ideas were ludicrous there were shams there were utter unmitigated nonsense there’s
234. 29:52 no such thing as race there’s no such thing as nation and there’s no such thing as democracy
235. 29:58 this is total psychotic hallucination
236. 30:04 and this sham was an effort to structure the surging mobs to control them
237. 30:12 to prevent the inevitable decapitation guillotines in the square riots in the
238. 30:18 capital on january 6 the elites didn’t want this to happen the elites didn’t want donald
239. 30:25 trump to happen the elites didn’t want hitler to happen except a few industrialists
240. 30:31 and so the elite elites introduced liberal democracy and they introduced nationalism very often put together
241. 30:39 and it backfired it backfired because to the shock of the elites
242. 30:47 the masses wholeheartedly adopted and embraced democracy adopted
243. 30:55 and embraced nationalism the elites became immersed
244. 31:01 in this augmented reality that the sorry the masses became immersed
245. 31:08 in this augmented reality the masses adopted democracy lovingly
246. 31:16 and they regarded democracy as a way to break into the citadel of the elites the masters adopted nationalism lovingly
247. 31:25 they saw it as a way to leverage the power of the masses and take over and redirect
248. 31:32 the body politic the elites inventions twin inventions twin shams twin
249. 31:38 deceptions twin illusions of democracy and nationalism backfired on them backfired on them the
250. 31:45 great unwashed the hoi polloi the masses they leveraged democracy they leveraged democracy they used it they put in the white house
251. 31:59 their own men donald trump for example the latest example and
252. 32:05 the same in the philippines duterte and the same in brazil the masses discovered the power of the
253. 32:12 vote the power of a vote was supposed to be a piece of fiction no one had it voted i mean look at voting numbers
254. 32:19 look at voting raids throughout history no one used it no one until recently recently the masters fell
255. 32:25 in love with the voting process and this is why still the vote or steal the election is
256. 32:32 such a potent hashtag because the masses are really emotionally invested
257. 32:38 emotionally invested in the vote they regard the vote as their weapon and they don’t want
258. 32:45 anyone to take away this weapon from them to steal it as they see
259. 32:52 at the same time technologies emerged you remember that
260. 32:59 the printing press actually concealed
261. 33:05 allowed the masses to congeal to cohere to become a single entity the printing press this allowed ideas to be disseminated words to be diffused the printing press
262. 33:18 created the glue that held multitudes together and then recently we had a similar
263. 33:25 technological revolution of similar magnitude the new technologies computing technology social media the new technologies allowed for
264. 33:36 disintermediation the new technologies removed the layers of middle-class agents of the elites
265. 33:44 the new technologies removed publishers so now you can publish books but by yourself the new technologies removed
266. 33:51 editors so you have unfettered access to to news fake and real
267. 33:57 the new technologies removed everyone that stood between you and power the new technologies empowered
268. 34:03 the masses everyone today can be a television producer a book publisher a newspaper a
269. 34:10 journalist etc etc everyone today with a minimal investment
270. 34:16 can be anything and this is empowerment which is
271. 34:22 of unprecedented proportions it took away it took away the gatekeeping functions
272. 34:29 of the elites the elites controlled what you had read what you had learned what you were
273. 34:35 exposed to what you saw the elites via the middle class
274. 34:41 middle class editors middle class publishers middle class television producers middle class anchors middle class everything the elites controlled
275. 34:52 your world your cognitions the elites controlled your found fund of
276. 34:58 knowledge they elites decided how ignorant you’ll be and now they have lost this via these
277. 35:06 new technologies these new technologies disempowered the elites these technologies are a transfer of power from the elites to the masses in an unbridled way
278. 35:19 and this allowed the masses to stage populist schools there’s no other way to describe it
279. 35:25 populist schools all over the world this allowed the elites to take over the
280. 35:31 levels of states and establishments either to reserve to the elites so twitter revolutions for example twitter revolutions flash mobs uh
281. 35:44 opposition figures dissidents encryption devices that allow you you know via vpns and so on
282. 35:50 allow you to operate in hostile political environments these all this disempowerment of the
283. 35:57 elites their technological allies and the middle class is of astounding historical implications this has never
284. 36:09 happened before there have been rebellions of masses there’s been the spartacus rebellion
285. 36:15 there has been the 1905 uh revolution in russia there have been many cases where the masses had risen and rebelled even the hebrew slaves
286. 36:26 left egypt there was a rebellion of the masses rebellions of masses are documented
287. 36:32 throughout history but they were short-lived they were sporadic they were point-like they were meaningless and they were
288. 36:38 absolutely hopeless they were more a statement rather than a movement
289. 36:44 the new technologies the new technologies coupled with one main one vote
290. 36:51 gave the masses the first real chance of power the first real chance it’s self-governance and control and self-enlightenment they’ve had this
291. 37:02 chance in the 1930s and 40s but they botched it the masses had a first shorted power through communism through fascism
292. 37:14 through nazism and they failed they failed miserably and so for 60 years 70 years the masses had retreated because they had this traumatic
293. 37:25 experience the masses said when we get to power we end up with adolf hitler when we get to power we end up with joseph stalin we get to power we end up with mao
294. 37:38 so better keep away from power because when we we have power we end up killing each other better keep
295. 37:45 away from power so for 70 years there was the masters were in a post-traumatic condition
296. 37:51 following the mass ideologies and mass movements of the first half of the 20th century
297. 37:57 but now they have recovered plus they had forgotten the new generations know very little about stalin and hitler
298. 38:04 and the great depression and all these things and the new generations don’t read books
299. 38:10 so now the masses are ready for a second attempt a second attempt at taking power
300. 38:19 and it unfolded in the last 20 years all over the world putin is a man of the
301. 38:25 masses oban is a man of the masses nikola groeski in macedonia was a man of the masses bolsonaro in brazil duterte in the philippines
302. 38:36 donald trump in the united states they’re all people of the masses they’re
303. 38:43 all representatives of the muscles in the centers of power in the swamp in the swamp of the elites
304. 38:52 and of course the elites had no intention to take this lying down and they are going
305. 38:59 to react and we’re going to discuss this reaction a bit later but before we do this
306. 39:06 we need to understand something about the repertory of the elites how do the elites
307. 39:12 co-opt the middle class how do they subjugate the masses what are the secret tools signaling and
308. 39:20 messaging that they deploy when they succeed to regain and retake power because the elites have been have been challenged thousands of times throughout history and they never ever failed numerous movements rooted in the middle
309. 39:38 class for example in 1848 rooted in in the in the masses for example in the 1930s there have been numerous challenges to the elites to the power structures
310. 39:50 numerous challenges and the elites saw them off they elude the elites
311. 39:56 succeeded to suppress eliminate destroy and reverse
312. 40:02 every challenge ever thrown at them the elites are very creative sometimes
313. 40:08 they come up with with sham sham concessions such as democracy
314. 40:14 sometimes they come with a unif unifying narrative such as nationalism maybe i’m elite maybe ramas but we belong to the same nation sometimes they have many ways and the elites are not
315. 40:26 a conspiracy the elites are not a coordinated bunch they don’t pick up the phone every morning and coordinate actions the elites have common interests and that’s enough common interests
316. 40:38 dictate common causes of action common behaviors common cognitions common emotions common
317. 40:45 derision of the masses common contempt common hatred common everything when you have common interests with someone you don’t need to talk to them you’re both likely to act the same way
318. 40:57 and so the elites are are a diffuse mass they’re like more
319. 41:04 like a cloud you know they’re more like a cloud and they’re diffuse mass that permeates
320. 41:11 every crevice and nook and cranny of society and they have common interests above all
321. 41:17 the interest of stability and self-preservation so that they can increase enhance their wealth and transfer it to the next generation that’s the main interest of the elite
322. 41:28 the selfish gene and so the elites use a variety of psychological manipulation techniques on the masses via the middle class
323. 41:39 the mediators the intermediaries other middle class for example middle class intellectuals
324. 41:46 middle class intellectuals write all the influential books and come up
325. 41:52 with all the amazing captivating ideologies that the masses adhere to unthinkingly
326. 42:00 but the middle class is operating on behalf of the elites whatever they say whatever they do whatever they write
327. 42:06 is intended to preserve the system very few intellectuals are real subversives they are not even when they sound as though they are rebellious and subversive they are not they are hyper
328. 42:18 conservative the middle class is much more conservative than the elites and all philosophical systems were
329. 42:25 invented by the elites in the middle class to subjugate the masses all religions have the same purpose exactly to keep the masses in check so religions
330. 42:36 and philosophical systems they can be divided into three options there are three ways of going about it
331. 42:43 one the psychotic school magical thinking and misperceiving internal objects as
332. 42:50 external and the most famous example is of course god god is an internal object it’s a confabulation it’s a concoction it’s a piece of fiction and yet the elites with the middle class
333. 43:02 had succeeded to convince the masses that god is an external object it’s really out there and what does god
334. 43:09 tell the masses support the elites support the current the existing order don’t rebel be good be good boys be good citizens pay your taxes work
335. 43:20 hard for the elites because if you work hard someone in the elite is getting richer
336. 43:28 religions are instruments of the elite to control the masses via magical thinking opium
337. 43:36 the second school is the narcissistic school entitlement rights obligations
338. 43:42 hubris the narcissistic school mistakes external objects and symbols
339. 43:48 for internal ones so for example the rule of law it’s like the law is something outside
340. 43:55 you and the law has its own existence then the law must prevail the law must rule but if you have a
341. 44:02 close look at the law the law is a manipulative tool of the elites to take whatever you have enrich themselves and then preserve the wealth against your rage and transfer it to the next generations to their next generations the law
342. 44:22 is confiscatory the law is exclusionary the rule of law is a code word for stagnation so the narcissistic school lets you believe that there is something outside you which is bigger than you
343. 44:39 more important than you and demands your sacrifice i mentioned the law there’s also the nation the nation is an invention of the elites of course so it gives you the sense that
344. 44:52 you and you belong that you accepted that you’re part of the club that you’re a member of a club you have you feel entitled different you have rights you have obligations and it caters to your grandiosity you no longer feel a member of the great
345. 45:08 unwashed elite masses you feel an otto almost member of the elite because you
346. 45:16 both belong to the same nation and both of you are subject to the same laws i have a surprise for you laws are for
347. 45:23 masses never for the elites no member of the elite is subject to any law and when i say any law i mean any law the last solution of the elites on how
348. 45:34 to subjugate and co-opt the masses is the schizoid school
349. 45:40 withdrawing from the world and shunning reality altogether and this is a solution this is the
350. 45:47 preferred solution of the elites they give you mass media they give you soap operas they give you reality tv they give you the internet they give you all these things because they want to
351. 45:58 push you away from reality they want to get you addicted they want to condition you
352. 46:04 they want you to forget about reality because reality is the elites the reality is 99 of the world is owned
353. 46:11 by the elites when i say elite i mean a few thousand people and so they don’t want you to pay
354. 46:19 attention to this they want your eyeballs they don’t want you to have intimacy because any minute you have intimacy is a minute lost to zuckerberg and facebook and zuckerberg’s pocket they don’t want
355. 46:33 you to say anything subversive or controversial or politically incorrect or
356. 46:39 and if you do they cut you off even if you are the president of the united states they want you to live in a confabulated
357. 46:47 fabricated nonsensical counterfactual fallacious fantasy world
358. 46:54 they want you to inhabit a dreamscape they even give you opioids to ascertain that this happens
359. 47:03 this is the schizoid solution in any given period of history one of these schools is on the ascendant
360. 47:10 and the other two are on the defensive the elites experiment with one of these
361. 47:17 three solutions the psychotic solution the narcissistic solution in the schizoid
362. 47:24 solution and some sometimes some periods in history the psychotic solution is the dominant
363. 47:30 solution so people believe in gods and religions and angels and i don’t know what else some other periods of history the
364. 47:36 narcissistic solution is on the ascendant and so people believe that they can
365. 47:42 become rich and powerful and and and so on and so forth because they are sold on an american dream or
366. 47:48 some kind of dream and at other periods of history the schizoid solution is dominant and the other two are a bit recessive in our post-modern world the two
367. 48:00 dominant solutions are alternately narcissism and schizoid
368. 48:06 what happened with the pandemic the pandemic didn’t create a single trend the pandemic didn’t didn’t render anything different or new what
369. 48:17 the pandemic did was shine a bright light on reality it forced us to confront
370. 48:24 reality first of all there was a massive transfer of wealth from poor people to rich people
371. 48:31 billionaires in the pandemic had increased their wealth in a single year by 59
372. 48:38 why did they take this money from you of course they took this money from you poor
373. 48:44 people had transferred their wealth to the richest people on earth that’s the first effect of the pandemic second effect all the sham and fake
374. 48:57 narratives that the elites were selling you free speech human rights civil rights
375. 49:03 democracy and other they are now taking away from you
376. 49:09 because it doesn’t serve them right right now so you realize that these were not natural rights this was not something god given
377. 49:22 free speech free association free demonstrations and protests free
378. 49:28 anything is the gift of the elites is given to you by the elites
379. 49:34 and can be taken away from you at any minute none of it is yours not your property
380. 49:41 not your freedom not your speech nothing it all belongs to the elites
381. 49:48 they deluded you into thinking that you own these things because there is a law
382. 49:54 because there is a nation because there’s a community because it’s common destiny they lie to
383. 50:01 you because there’s democracy and you have influence over the proceedings and you have power they
384. 50:08 lied to you your brain did and they took advantage of this and now in the pandemic you see a suppression of free speech and the elimination outright of the vast
385. 50:20 majority of human and civil rights and cast into sharp relief
386. 50:27 like under a huge projector you see who is in charge and who is in charge are
387. 50:36 technologies owners of technology companies finance and
388. 50:44 to some extent but it’s extremely limited um other types of businesses so business
389. 50:53 the corporate world especially multinationals international banks international technology companies they’re in charge
390. 51:00 they’re the elite this is the nexus these are the elites most of them are billionaires and so
391. 51:06 these are the elites they rule you and control you had it been different 200 years ago of course not international bankers have ruled the
392. 51:13 world during napoleon’s time it’s the same elites the same elites
393. 51:19 ruled babylon the same the people with money the people with technology they ruled the
394. 51:25 world always 10 000 years ago the people who invented the agricultural revolution the people who came up who came up with
395. 51:31 the industrial revolution mining mine owners factory owners
396. 51:37 these are the elites these have always been the elites they shape-shifted to deceive you they
397. 51:43 pretended to introduce members of the middle class into the exclusive elite club this was
398. 51:49 intended to deceive you give you false hope that one day maybe you can belong
399. 51:55 it’s a deception no intellectual is member of these elites
400. 52:01 they co-opt they kind of collaborate with certain intellectuals they adopt certain intellectuals they elevate
401. 52:07 certain intellectuals to make these intellectuals feel that you know they have real power somehow to move the muscles who cares about the muscles the muscles can move left and can move right
402. 52:18 they’re useless they’re useless because ultimately the elite is there even when the masses
403. 52:24 did take over for example in communism in nazism nazism was a corporate i mean was
404. 52:31 immediately compromised by corporate industrial interests
405. 52:37 so so was fascism and communism communism fell prey to the managerial
406. 52:43 class who is the managerial class people with money people with technological skills
407. 52:51 so the pandemic revealed to us how powerless we are and how powerless we’ve always been and
408. 52:59 the pandemic of course has geopolitical implications as well it has accelerated the decline of the
409. 53:06 united states and restored the historically dominant eurasian landmass
410. 53:13 throughout human history the dominant power was china contiguous china not the united states
411. 53:21 the united states and the west it’s an aberration aberration established by refugees
412. 53:27 criminals privateers pirates and so on
413. 53:33 the entire so-called western civilization is founded on crime it’s founded on persecution is founded
414. 53:41 by outcasts and outliers it had not not show no chance in the world to survive
415. 53:47 500 years which is the length of western civilization is nothing in historical terms it’s a bleach it’s a
416. 53:53 glitch it’s a it’s a blip it’s not nothing and it’s ending western civilization is ending it was an experiment by outliers and outcasts and
417. 54:06 the elites are going to eliminate it it took them 500 years which is shocking in itself but they’re going to eliminate western civilization the old powers the
418. 54:17 historical powers which is china and its extension russia the eurasian table is rising up again as it had done for thousands of years long before there was any concept of the
419. 54:28 west when europe was a big swamp russia today is providing weapons not only to
420. 54:35 serbia but to nato allies like turkey russia had cast itself as an important diplomatic force
421. 54:41 in the middle east not only in syria but even in countries like israel russia is emerging as technological and
422. 54:47 scientific power both for good vaccines and for bad hacking
423. 54:54 but russia is a minor player russia is china’s extension he just doesn’t know it yet china
424. 55:01 is now pivoting from a strictly economic superpower to a military superpower that’s where
425. 55:08 the game begins that’s where the game is afoot as my friend charlo holmes would have said russia is purchasing critical infrastructure the belt the road silk road critical infrastructure
426. 55:20 everywhere greece africa latin america you name it chinese are there
427. 55:26 lending buying selling establishing building it’s a chinese world china’s soft power
428. 55:34 has surpassed the united states in terms of lending to sovereigns online social media payments and retail
429. 55:41 platforms and propaganda china’s gdp is nearly the same as the united states
430. 55:48 and the entire european union block what can small countries do
431. 55:56 small countries cannot afford to surf the wrong geopolitical wave small countries must strike a neutral
432. 56:03 stance between east and west even if it means that small countries have to postpone certain supranational aspirations like joining the european union
433. 56:15 small countries should adopt the swiss model and welcome everyone and i think the united kingdom was a
434. 56:21 harbinger and a pioneer of this approach with brexit small countries should
435. 56:27 redirect themselves and embrace industries which do not render them dependent on either superpower
436. 56:33 services green agriculture medical tourism offshore banking coding back office operations you name it this is small countries what can you do as a member of the mass
437. 56:45 opt out do not collaborate do not be a slave just walk away
438. 56:54 nothingness adopt nothingness not it’s wrong to advise you
439. 57:01 to go back to a totally imaginary past where men were men and women were women
440. 57:08 and families were families and nations were nations there was never ever such a past it was all
441. 57:14 an illusionary facade ocuspokus perpetrated by the elites they had deceived you
442. 57:23 it was a magician’s sleight of hand it was never real it was a decoy jordan peterson’s vision
443. 57:30 is a decoy the guy is delusional this was never
444. 57:36 such a thing the world the kind of world they described in this sense he’s indistinguishable from donald trump make america great
445. 57:43 again i don’t know when america was great it was like the um
446. 57:50 illusion or hallucination of of a britain that had never existed in the 19th century
447. 57:56 these are these are psychedelic experiments by the elites on your mind
448. 58:03 to defeat the elites the masses must walk away not walk away from jobs you need to live
449. 58:11 you need to eat you need to drink you need to raise a family i’m not i’m not advocating uh becoming a
450. 58:17 lone wolf in a forest walk away from the dream denounce and renounce the fantasy stop participating in the race minimize
451. 58:29 consumption damage them fight them back with their own weapons democracy
452. 58:38 is a sham don’t participate consumerism is an addiction don’t
453. 58:46 consume the rat race is designed designed to keep you too busy to think
454. 58:54 don’t quit the rat race focus on you
455. 59:02 they want you to focus outside that’s why they had created these technological platforms social media and so on so that you are so much outside your mind that you are not
456. 59:14 aware they reduce your awareness they they hypnotize you they sedate you
457. 59:21 they entrain you these are pernicious sick brainwashing tactics do not willingly
458. 59:28 succumb don’t go into the mental asylum of the elites willingly and extend your hands for the
459. 59:36 straight jacket fight back fight back by not fighting fight back civil disobedience passive resistance
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