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0:00Today, we are going to discuss some
0:02extremely controversial topics.
0:04And because this is going to go on
0:06YouTube, there's certain words I cannot
0:09say.
0:10So, just a warning you, I will write
0:11down these words, but I will not say
0:13them because if I do say them, then I'll
0:16get censored on YouTube.
0:20Today, we are going to look at how evil
0:22triumphs. Why is the world so evil?
0:26And there is going to be a lot of
0:30extremely disturbing topics we're going
0:34to discuss.
0:35Um but you're mature, and it's important
0:38that we discuss these topics in order to
0:40understand how the world works.
0:43So, let's just start. Um
0:46and we will do a lot of speculation and
0:50theorizing in this class. So, do not
0:52take this as gospel. Do not believe this
0:55is the truth. The entire point of this
0:57class is to help you develop the
1:00theories and the ideas to better
1:03understand the world. These are tools.
1:05Okay, this is not truth. This These are
1:06tools. All right.
1:08So, the first question I have for you is
1:10what What is happening in Israel?
1:13Right now, as you know,
1:14Israel is
1:17besieging, bombarding Gaza. You might
1:20have seen the videos on social media. It
1:23is disturbing. It is terrible what is
1:26happening. The word that is happening
1:30The word that we use for what is what is
1:31happening in
1:33Gaza is this word. You are not allowed
1:35to say this word on YouTube, but that is
1:38the intention.
1:41What I will argue though is that the
1:45truth is far more disturbing than this.
1:49What is really happening in Gaza is a
1:52ritual
1:58sacrifice.
2:02And this happens quite often in human
2:07history.
2:09If you go back and you look at the real
2:11history of humanity, this happens quite
2:14often. Some of the most um
2:18famous examples are the Aztecs.
2:23We've dug up temples of the Aztecs, and
2:26inside the temples are thousands and
2:29thousands of human skulls.
2:32So, before they went to war, they
2:34practiced human sacrifice. They would
2:37commit mass murder of their enemies in
2:40public. So, the Aztecs were really
2:43famous for this.
2:44The Phoenicians,
2:47uh specifically the Carthaginians,
2:49uh we will discuss some later this
2:51semester, but the Phoenicians were also
2:52famous for a particular type of
2:54sacrifice, which is
2:58child sacrifice.
3:04The Romans
3:07wrote histories
3:10insulting the Phoenicians for practicing
3:13this sort of sacrifice. But, the Romans
3:15themselves
3:17practiced human sacrifice.
3:19What they would do is that after every
3:22major war, they would capture all the
3:24major leaders of their enemies, and they
3:27would parade their enemies through the
3:30streets of Rome.
3:31This is something called a triumph.
3:33At the end of the triumph, they would
3:35gather enemies at the Temple of Jupiter.
3:38Jupiter is their god. And then, they
3:40would strangle to death
3:42their enemies.
3:44That's sacrifice. That's human
3:46sacrifice. They didn't call it that,
3:48okay? And they sort of disguised it, but
3:50we know for a fact that they did do
3:51this.
3:52So,
3:54the question for us is
3:56why is it
3:59that this happens? Why do the Aztecs do
4:01it? Why do the Phoenicians do it? Why do
4:03the Romans do it? And why is it today
4:05the Israelis do it
4:06in
4:08Gaza? And remember, okay?
4:11Um what
4:13the Israelis are doing is quite horrific
4:16because it is really ritual of
4:19sacrifice. Why? Because 47%
4:22Oh, almost half of the population of
4:24Gaza is under 18 years old.
4:28So, the majority of people who are
4:30getting killed are in fact children.
4:33What is most striking or blatant about
4:36what's happening in Gaza is that we can
4:39all see it for ourselves.
4:42And it's almost as though
4:44the Israelis want us to see it and want
4:48us to hate them.
4:50Right? You can see over the world
4:53popular opinion is turning against
4:55Israel. You have these popular protests
4:57all around the world protesting what is
5:00happening in Palestine.
5:04If they really want to do this, right?
5:07There are actually much more effective
5:10ways of doing this. For example, you
5:13could just poison their water.
5:16Or you could
5:18poison the air so that everyone in Gaza
5:22gets a
5:24fast cancer, right? We have the
5:25technology to do this.
5:27So, so Israel could do it this secretly
5:32and no one would talk about it. And in
5:3520 years time, 30 years time, the
5:38population population of Gaza would all
5:40be gone. It would be a very secret
5:43right? Instead,
5:46they choose to do this in front of the
5:49world.
5:50And my argument to you is that this is
5:53intentional.
5:55They want the world to hate them.
5:58Because
5:59by doing this, they create the ultimate
6:02taboo.
6:04Right? It we find this disgusting and
6:06contemptuous, so the entire world will
6:09unite against Israel.
6:11But guess what?
6:13That's what their religion wants.
6:16In the
6:18extreme form of Jewish eschatology or
6:21the religion,
6:23they believe that at the end of the
6:25world, Israel will fight the entire
6:27world and God will help Israel triumph
6:30in the end.
6:32So what's really happening in Gaza is
6:35that there are extremists within the
6:38Israel government who want to accelerate
6:40the process
6:42of the end of the world where Israel
6:44will face
6:45the world. And if you think about it,
6:48the entire idea of this ritual sacrifice
6:51is to unite the Israeli population.
6:57And what's extremely disturbing and
7:01horrifying about it is that this works.
7:07Why? Well, let's use an analogy. Okay?
7:10The analogy is this.
7:14In Chinese history,
7:16the most popular military stratagem is
7:19to fight with a river behind your back.
7:22You guys have heard of this strategy,
7:24right? Where okay,
7:26um an army is losing, okay? It's it's
7:28being scattered by the enemy. So what
7:31the general does is forces the army to
7:33retreat to a river. And now with a river
7:37blocking your escape, you have a choice.
7:40You can either drown in the river or you
7:43can fight to the death.
7:45And most soldiers will choose to fight
7:46to the death. And so, at this point, the
7:50soldiers are unified. They're
7:52galvanized. They're energized. And then
7:54they find a surge of energy to go and
7:56destroy their enemy. Okay, this is the
7:58most popular military stratagem in
8:01ancient Chinese history. And guess what?
8:03It's the same as
8:05Israel doing this right now in Gaza.
8:09It's the same logic.
8:13Yes, you you have a question?
8:15So, what is the river for the Israel?
8:19Like Yeah, that that that's a good
8:20question. What's a river right here,
8:21right? The river is a taboo, right?
8:23What's the worst thing you can do in my
8:26society?
8:28Killing children, guys.
8:30Right?
8:31So, there's no exit for Israel. You
8:34either go all the way or the world comes
8:37and destroys you anyway.
8:40And in fact, what's really interesting
8:41is that if you go online,
8:44you will see Israelis going around the
8:47world and causing trouble everywhere.
8:50They're going to start fights. They're
8:52they shout death to the Arabs on public
8:55buses in the Western world.
8:57It's intentional. They want to unite
9:00themselves by dividing the world, by
9:04angling the world.
9:06Okay?
9:07Does that make sense? All right. So,
9:10this is all very disturbing. And I want
9:13to slowly unpack with you to reveal to
9:16you how this works. Okay? So, uh to do
9:20this, what I'm going to do is I'm going
9:24to use a thought experiment.
9:28The thought experiment is this.
9:30Let's just say
9:32that there's an island. We don't know
9:33where the island is,
9:35but it's an island.
9:37And there's no escape from the island.
9:38And on the island, there the center is a
9:41hill and it's safe. But everywhere else,
9:44you have these flesh-eating monkeys
9:47roaming everywhere.
9:49Okay? The problem is that on this
9:51island,
9:52uh the resources you need to survive,
9:54trees, food, and rivers, the monkeys are
9:57there. Okay? There's one safe spot in
9:58the in the center, but everywhere else,
10:00if you want resources, you have to go
10:02fight these monkeys. They're
10:03flesh-eating monkeys. They want to kill
10:05you. They want to eat you. And there's
10:07an infinite number of them.
10:10Now, let's just say that one day, for
10:12whatever reason, okay, we don't know
10:14why, but 100
10:16men aging and they range from 15 to 65
10:20years old, okay?
10:21They are mysteriously transplanted onto
10:25this island in the safe spot.
10:28They come from different countries. They
10:30do not speak the same language. They are
10:32of different ethnicities. They are all
10:35poor people in their countries. They
10:38don't have much education.
10:40So, they're there and they realize
10:43quickly that the situation is utterly
10:45hopeless. There's no escape from this
10:47island.
10:48These monkeys are everywhere and they
10:51are tough
10:52warriors.
10:55And
10:56the situation looks bleak. They don't
10:58even speak the same language. They don't
10:59have a common culture.
11:02So, at this point, you would imagine
11:04that they would feel hopeless and just
11:07lie down and die.
11:09But in reality, what happens is the
11:12opposite. What happens is that in this
11:15hopeless situation, they find a drive, a
11:19purpose,
11:21a spirit to fight for each other.
11:25And what will happen really quickly,
11:27okay, and this is really interesting, is
11:29the first thing that they will do is
11:32they will develop a common language.
11:37They don't speak the same language. Some
11:38speak Chinese, some speak English, some
11:41speak Spanish, some speak Russian, it
11:42doesn't matter. They will very quickly
11:45develop a common language.
11:48And then what they will do is with this
11:50common language, they will start to tell
11:53each other stories
11:55of where they come from.
11:57And then these stories will become a
11:59common
12:01myth. A founding myth of why they're
12:04here.
12:06And they come to believe that God has
12:09chosen them to save the world, and
12:12that's why they're here.
12:16Then what they will do is
12:20with this new religion, they will start
12:21develop rituals
12:23to reinforce this religion.
12:26These rituals include sex.
12:31Okay? So these men will have sex.
12:34And the reason why is create intimacy
12:36and bonding
12:38among them. And there'll be a lot of
12:40religious rituals as well.
12:42Another thing that they will do
12:45is pick a leader. There's a hundred of
12:46them, they need a leader to organize
12:49them.
12:50And so we can imagine that during the
12:54leadership election, everyone gets up to
12:56speak. Now, the man who's 65,
12:59he is wise. He has experience, he has
13:02strategies. So he delivers a very
13:05powerful speech, inspiring everyone, and
13:08telling people how they can survive
13:12against the flesh-eating monkeys, okay?
13:13So he's really smart.
13:15Then suddenly you have a man appear
13:17who's 15 years old or 16 or 17, okay?
13:20He is not articulate. He has no ideas.
13:23What what he does is this, he stands in
13:26front of everyone
13:28and he's bold and he's brave and he
13:30looks at everyone without saying a word.
13:33He shows them his hand. Okay? He shows
13:35them his hand. Then from his pocket, he
13:38takes out a knife.
13:40Okay? And then he cuts off his hand
13:44in front of everyone.
13:47And he does not cry. He just looks at
13:49everyone
13:51as though nothing happened.
13:52Let me ask you this question.
13:54Who does everyone pick to be their
13:55leader?
13:56The second person obviously, right? The
13:58man who has shown sacrifice and
14:02commitment and devotion to everyone
14:04else.
14:05The old man has ideas and he will become
14:08the advisor
14:10to the leader, but the leader is the man
14:14who is most willing to die for everyone
14:16else.
14:18And so in this situation, the bravest
14:21among them will come and emerge as the
14:25leader.
14:26And as such,
14:28what will happen is
14:31that these people, these men, will
14:34become extremely inspired and devoted.
14:37Even though they are weak, they will
14:39learn to become strong.
14:41Even though they are poor and
14:44uneducated, they will learn to be wise
14:46and clever and strategic.
14:49They will rapidly transform themselves.
14:53And ultimately, what will happen is the
14:57idea of cohesion.
15:00Cohesion like brothers, cohesion like a
15:03family. They will understand each other
15:04even though they're different from
15:05different cultures, even though they
15:07have different backgrounds. They will
15:08understand each other better than they
15:10understand their own children and their
15:12own wives.
15:14And this cohesion will lead to something
15:16called synchronicity.
15:19Synchronicity.
15:21Synchronicity is when people
15:26act in unison together. Okay? So, a very
15:30simple example of synchronicity is a
15:31sports team, right? When you watch a
15:34soccer match,
15:36how is that soccer soccer team able to
15:38work together? Well, because of
15:40synchronicity, because their minds are
15:42alike. It's what we call a hive mind.
15:47And this allows for something called
15:49telepathy.
15:50They're able literally
15:52to think and act as one.
15:56So, let me give you an example of this.
15:58Let's just say one They're like these
16:01men They're sleeping, but one of them
16:03wanders off to collect wood.
16:05And then he's attacked by monkeys.
16:08It doesn't matter if he screams because
16:09he's too far away.
16:10Would his comrades know that he's in
16:13danger?
16:15They would.
16:17Okay? And the example here is
16:19let's just say you're a mother.
16:20And you have children, okay? And one of
16:22them goes off to France
16:25on vacation.
16:26But then, while he's in France, he gets
16:29hit by a car and is hospitalized. Would
16:32you as a mother know that he that your
16:35son is in danger?
16:36Would you feel it?
16:37He hasn't called you.
16:39You don't know about this, but in your
16:40heart would you know it?
16:42The answer is yes, you would know it.
16:44You would feel something is wrong. You
16:46would get on the phone and try to call
16:47your son.
16:49You would
16:49You can't reach your son, you would call
16:51the police. Okay? You don't know what's
16:53happening, but something in your heart
16:55is telling you,
16:57"I need to get in touch with my son."
17:00And that's how the hive mind
17:03works. That's how synchronicity works.
17:06Let's look Let's look at another
17:07example. Let's just say that one day
17:10you There's 10 of you and you're off
17:11collecting wood.
17:13And then suddenly you're attacked by 100
17:14flesh-eating monkeys. There's a bridge
17:16that you've created, okay? It's a rope
17:18bridge. Nine get across the bridge, all
17:21right? But you're the last person, okay?
17:24And all the monkeys are about to descend
17:27on you.
17:29And you know that if the monkeys get
17:31across,
17:32your comrades are dead.
17:34So, what you What do you do in the
17:36situation?
17:41Yeah, you you cut the rope, okay? You
17:43die. You don't think about it.
17:47You just kill yourself because what
17:49matters is not your life, what matters
17:51is the family, what matters is the team.
17:56And we know all this because in war,
17:59what often happens is in trench warfare,
18:02the other uh the enemy will throw a
18:04grenade into the trench, right? There's
18:07not enough time to get that to pick up
18:09that uh grenade and throw it away. So,
18:11what soldiers do is they will jump on
18:15the grenade and absorb the explosion,
18:18thus killing himself. It happens
18:20instantaneously. No one thinks about it,
18:23you just do it because what matters is
18:26saving your comrades.
18:28And this is what happens.
18:32Okay?
18:34A synchronicity develops where it's
18:36almost as though you're able to reach
18:38read each other's minds.
18:42And they keep on doing this for like 10,
18:4420 years.
18:46And then suddenly, okay, let's continue
18:48our thought experiment. Suddenly,
18:51you are transported
18:54back
18:56to the real world. As though nothing
18:58happened, but you have memories
19:00of what happened.
19:04Okay, does that make sense?
19:05Okay? You've experienced 20 years of
19:09hell on Monkey Island.
19:11You've developed the capacity to work
19:14together.
19:15You have a hive mind. You're really
19:17energized. You're really inspired.
19:18You're really driven. You have a new
19:20religion
19:22all to yourself.
19:24Now, suddenly, you're all trans-
19:26transported back to your
19:29real world, your old life.
19:32Okay? Now, what would happen? What would
19:34happen is that the hundred of you would
19:37want to come together again, right?
19:40And you would share your experience,
19:42your rituals, your religion with your
19:44children and your grandchildren. And
19:47quickly, over time, what will happen is
19:49that
19:51you guys will conquer the world.
19:55You will become the secret elite.
20:00The world is yours. There may be
20:02presidents. There may be famous people,
20:06but secretly, you're the ones who are in
20:09control. Your children, your
20:11grandchildren, your great-grandchildren
20:13will inherit this legacy, and they are
20:15the ones who truly control power in the
20:18world.
20:19Does that make sense?
20:21All right. Yeah, question here.
20:24Like if we
20:26Like if
20:27when the time if this person really
20:29transferred back to the real reality,
20:32what if that time already have a elite
20:34leader that like you are just a peasant,
20:37but not
20:38a leader? Okay, yeah, that's a good
20:40question. I've already told you this,
20:41okay? On the surface, there are leaders,
20:43but the real power are you guys.
20:46Okay? And I'll explain why. All right?
20:48Now, um what's also interesting is that
20:53um while you're on this island, you will
20:55develop certain rituals that are very
20:58strange, but are important if you want
21:01to maintain unity. Okay? So, for
21:03example,
21:04one strange ritual is
21:06the funeral ritual.
21:11The funeral ritual.
21:12Um
21:14the idea here is that when someone
21:16sacrifices himself, you have a huge
21:19funeral to celebrate with that person.
21:21And this may involve you cutting that
21:23person into different pieces and eating
21:25that person.
21:27Okay? But you you you will develop
21:28really strange rituals.
21:31Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. So,
21:33I'm I'm going to answer your question.
21:35Uh why are these guys in charge and not
21:36the real leaders of society?
21:39But first, I want to give you some
21:40historical analogies to this. Okay? How
21:45do you know that what I'm saying is
21:46correct?
21:48Well, let's look at certain analogies of
21:49his in history.
21:53All right.
21:57So,
21:58Sparta.
22:01Sparta is one of the most famous mili-
22:04military societies in world history.
22:06Sparta is a city-state in ancient
22:09Greece.
22:10And you may have heard of Sparta.
22:13Um a movie about Sparta was made called
22:15300. I'm not sure if you guys have seen
22:16the movie 300.
22:18But 300 is really about 300 Spartan
22:21soldiers who are fighting millions, not
22:25millions, but hundreds of thousands of
22:27Persian soldiers. Persia is invading
22:29mainland Greece. They fight at a place
22:31called Thermopylae.
22:33The Battle of Thermopylae. And this is a
22:35a pass
22:36into mainland Greece. The Greeks have to
22:38hold this position if they are to
22:40prevent invasion.
22:41Okay? 300 Spartan soldiers, backed by
22:44thousands of other Greek soldiers, make
22:46a last stand in this pass.
22:49They are overwhelmed by the Persian
22:52invasion and rather than run, like most
22:55people, the 300 soldiers make a final
22:57stand. Their leader is Leonidas
23:01and he tells them, "We will fight to the
23:03death.
23:04They all fight to the death
23:06and they're all massacred.
23:07And the Persians
23:09take Leonidas' head, cut it off, and put
23:11on a on a pike to warn the Greeks we are
23:14merciless.
23:15Eventually, Greeks
23:17um inspired by the sacrifice of
23:19Leonidas, they will repel invasion and
23:22destroy the
23:24um invaders.
23:25So, how do we get this culture?
23:29Okay? Well,
23:31the education system of the Spartans is
23:34really interesting. It's really
23:36disturbing, actually. So,
23:39young boys at age five and six, they're
23:41taken away from their homes.
23:44And they are put in a school run by
23:46older boys. Okay, so so the older boys
23:48are maybe like 10, 11.
23:50And so, what happens, as you can
23:51imagine, is the older boys beat the crap
23:55out of the younger boys, okay? From day
23:57one, there's no education. They're not
23:59learning anything. All that's happening
24:00is the older boys are just beating the
24:02crap out of the younger boys.
24:05But because this is happening, we call
24:06this like hazing, okay?
24:08This happens actually a lot um among
24:11fraternities and sports teams.
24:14They're When they're getting the crap
24:15beaten out of them, it builds
24:18solidarity. It builds brotherhood. So,
24:21these young boys who are five and six,
24:23they learn to love each other because
24:26only by helping each other can they
24:28survive the brutality.
24:31Okay?
24:31Then what happens is when they learn
24:33when they become 11, 12, 13, when they
24:35hit puberty,
24:37this is really interesting, they become
24:38mentored, okay? Mentored
24:42by an older soldier, an older Spartan
24:45soldier, who's maybe 28, 29, 30. But he
24:49has a family.
24:51They become lovers.
24:54They have sex with each other.
24:56And this builds group solidarity. Okay,
25:00so during hazing phase, these young boys
25:04learn to trust each other.
25:07They learn how to bond with each other.
25:10Uh during the mentorship phase, these
25:13young boys learn to think like in a hive
25:17mind, okay? They learn to be part of a
25:19larger group.
25:20Then when they
25:21um turn 18,
25:24they um
25:25graduate, okay?
25:27And in order graduate,
25:30what they do is this.
25:31They have a mission.
25:33So, the Spartans um have slaves called
25:35helots, okay? These are just people that
25:37they've conquered and who are now work
25:39as slaves in the fields for them, okay?
25:41They're like serfs.
25:43So, there are lots of rules governing
25:45the helots. An important rule is curfew.
25:47So, if it's dark at night, you cannot be
25:49outside the house.
25:51If you are outside the house at night,
25:53you could be
25:55um executed, okay? So, to as a
25:57graduation mission, these young soldiers
26:00hide in the fields at night.
26:02Okay? They hide in the fields and they
26:04wait for
26:06the sun to go down. So, it's now dark.
26:09And they look for helots to come back
26:11because they're late. And what they'll
26:13do is they'll sneak up behind the helots
26:15and cut their throats.
26:16Okay, this is basically sacrifice.
26:21Okay, human sacrifice.
26:23So, the Spartans did this as well. It's
26:24a very common thing.
26:26And what this does is it builds
26:30group cohesion leading to synchronicity.
26:34Only there are thousand thousands of
26:37city-states in Greece. Only Sparta did
26:40this.
26:41And it made everyone think Sparta was
26:43disgusting. Everyone hated Sparta.
26:47But it kept Sparta unified. And And And
26:50Sparta into the dominant military power
26:53in Greece at that time.
26:56Okay?
26:58What happened then is Thebes, another
27:00city-state
27:02in
27:04um Greece, they would copy the Spartan
27:06Spartan system, okay? But they made it
27:08voluntary. So, if if So, in Sparta, you
27:13have to be an elite to be part of the
27:15system.
27:17But in Thebes, anyone could join the
27:18system.
27:20Okay? And they called the system the
27:21Sacred Band.
27:26Um of 300 soldiers. And they were,
27:29again,
27:31lovers, okay? But this is really
27:33important for you guys to understand. At
27:34this time in history, there's no concept
27:37of homosexuality. It was perfectly
27:39permissible. No one cared if you had sex
27:42with
27:44men or animals or whatever, okay? It was
27:47not a big deal. This comes much later,
27:50in modern times. Back then, this was not
27:52considered homosexuality was not
27:53considered a concept. Okay? If you're
27:55out in the field, if you're out at war
27:57for like years and years and there's no
28:00women around,
28:01you're going to have sex with other men.
28:03It's a very natural thing to do.
28:05Okay? Doesn't mean you're homosexual,
28:06okay? So, the Sacred Band of Thebes
28:08became the dominant military power
28:12after Sparta, okay? It's called the
28:14Sacred Band.
28:15And they were like the
28:17um vanguard. They were the spearhead.
28:19They would be the first in battle. And
28:21they were so ferocious that their
28:23enemies would run away, okay?
28:26Then what happened is that Macedonia
28:30would
28:31copy the Theban system.
28:35Um who's the most famous Macedonian in
28:37the world? Do you guys know?
28:39Which Macedonian is the most famous ever
28:41in human history? You know the name, but
28:43you may not know he's Macedonian.
28:45Alexander the Great, okay? His father is
28:47Philip II.
28:50Philip II is the one that actually built
28:52the greatest army in the world, the
28:54Macedonianian army. And it was Alexander
28:55the Great, his son, who would take this
28:57army and conquer Persia. Okay, we'll
29:00learn this later on.
29:01But, Philip II learned learned all this
29:04from Thebes.
29:06And at first, Macedonia and Thebes were
29:08allies, but Philip II was very
29:10ambitious. So, then he started to
29:12want He wanted to conquer all of
29:13mainland Greece.
29:15And in 338
29:18uh BCE, at the Battle of
29:21uh Chaeronea,
29:23Macedonia fought against the combined
29:25might of Thebes and Athens.
29:27And Macedonia destroyed Thebes and
29:30Athens, okay? Because Macedonia
29:32basically copied the system from Sparta
29:34and Thebes.
29:35At this point,
29:37Macedonia should have destroyed the
29:39entire Theban and Athenian army.
29:42But, when all was lost,
29:44the Sacred Band,
29:47they stood in the middle of the field.
29:49And they blocked the advance of
29:51Macedonian charge
29:54so that everyone could escape back into
29:56the cities.
29:57They did not fear death. They welcomed
30:00death.
30:01Okay? For them, what mattered was honor
30:04and sacrifice.
30:07And that's
30:09how you create
30:11the greatest army in the world.
30:14Okay? Does that make sense? So, these
30:17historical analogies
30:19give credence to our thought experiment.
30:23Okay.
30:24Now, we're going to look at a question,
30:25which is, okay,
30:28why does this system work?
30:33Okay, so let's do game theory.
30:38Game theory.
30:40Game theory is just a study of how you
30:42how to win games, okay? It's a very
30:44general thing.
30:45So, let's do a thought experiment and
30:46just say there's about a million people
30:48in the world, okay? There's a million
30:50people in the world
30:52and they're all trying to win the game
30:56against each other, but only only one
30:58can win.
31:00Well,
31:01according to game theory, the best way
31:03to win a game is by
31:05Does anyone know?
31:07Cheating, okay?
31:09Cheating. If you follow the rules,
31:11you'll never win the game. You have to
31:11cheat.
31:12And in this game, the best way to win is
31:16by
31:17coordinating with other people, right?
31:21Because everyone's playing by himself.
31:22So, if you can work with other people,
31:24then that gives you a huge advantage
31:26over everyone else, right?
31:28The problem with this is the moment that
31:31people start coordinating, it forces an
31:33arms race of coordination. So, maybe
31:36these two are going together.
31:38These four now are forced to work
31:40together, which now forces these five to
31:44work together.
31:45Okay?
31:46So, if you are the first to work
31:49together, you're get you get screwed in
31:51the process.
31:53So, if you cheat, you have to cheat
31:55secretly.
31:58Okay? You have to coordinate without
32:00people knowing you're actually
32:02coordinating together. You have to
32:03conspire secretly.
32:06Okay? And there are different ways to
32:08collaborate secretly. So, let's let's
32:11look at examples. So, family is one
32:13example, right?
32:15Of coordination. Endogamy.
32:17Another example is religion.
32:21Um if you're a leader,
32:24right? If you um have a similar race,
32:28ethnicity,
32:31you have a sim- similar language.
32:34Okay? So, these are examples of how you
32:36you you you you you you you you you you
32:36you you you you you you you you you you
32:36you you you you you you you you you you
32:37you you you you you you you you you you
32:37you you you you you you you you you you
32:38you you
32:39The problem is that
32:41these are all obvious to people.
32:45Which forces them to do the same thing.
32:49Okay?
32:50But there's a strategy
32:53that you can use that allows you to
32:55coordinate secretly and defeat all your
32:57enemies. And this strategy is called
33:00transgression.
33:07Transgression.
33:09The breaking of taboos. The breaking of
33:10social norms. The breaking of social
33:13laws.
33:14Transgression.
33:16Okay? So, let's study this concept.
33:25All right. So, the idea is that
33:29um the theory is that
33:32the greater you transgress, okay? This
33:34is the level of transgression.
33:39The greater your cohesion
33:42which leads to synchronicity.
33:45Okay? That's the theory I want to
33:46propose to you.
33:48All right?
33:49So,
33:50transgression, I mean it's it's a very
33:52simple idea. You're breaking the rules,
33:55right? You're cheating. And therefore,
33:57everyone wants to put you in prison.
34:02Which means that the only way that you
34:03can survive is if you keep the secret
34:06among your group.
34:08Right? Which forces cohesion. Does that
34:09make sense?
34:11All right? And we see this in all
34:13aspects of society.
34:15Right? So, the most basic form of
34:18transgression is just joking
34:21or pranking, right? So, for example,
34:25you guys,
34:26six of you,
34:28decide, "You know what? We're going to
34:29play a joke on the school. We're going
34:31to cover all the rooms in with toilet
34:33paper.
34:34It's a joke. It's a prank.
34:36But obviously
34:38you don't want to get caught because the
34:40school will punish you.
34:42And this joke and this prank will make
34:45you more cohesive, right? Because now
34:47you have a secret among amongst
34:49yourself. And if anyone betrays
34:51you, you're all screwed.
34:53Right? Does that make sense? That's the
34:54logic.
34:57Um the other thing that's really
34:58interesting is that
35:01when you transgress, when you break a
35:02taboo, you feel
35:04empowered.
35:07You feel liberated.
35:09And it becomes addictive.
35:14Right? You fill the school with toilet
35:18paper. You're like, "That was a lot of
35:20fun." Why was it fun? Because
35:22you broke the rules. You feel, "I'm more
35:25powerful than my teacher."
35:27Then so you keep on doing more more of
35:30this stuff, right? Then you might be
35:32like, "Hey, let's go to store and steal
35:34a candy." That candy may cost $1,
35:37nothing, right? But you try it
35:40and you are terrified. You're seized by
35:43doubt. You're seized by fear.
35:46Sorry. So um this is the
35:49um sound that tells us that we should go
35:51on break. But but again, we don't go on
35:52break in this class, okay? So I
35:53apologize. We're not We're not taking a
35:55break. We keep on going, okay? But
35:57that's what the sound is.
35:59Okay. So
36:01um
36:03you're terrified because your mother,
36:05your teachers, everyone told you
36:07stealing is bad.
36:09Right? But when you actually go and do
36:11it, how do you feel? You feel energized.
36:14You feel liberated. You feel empowered.
36:17And if your friends who are with you how
36:20the friends becomes much more unified,
36:23much more cohesive, much more
36:24synchronized. Does that make sense?
36:26And now you want to like, let's break
36:27more rules. Let's see what happens if we
36:29break more and more rules. And you keep
36:31on going because it's addictive. And
36:33ultimately, there's a transgression that
36:37is the ultimate taboo, which is what?
36:41You guys know?
36:42Yeah, right? This.
36:48Right?
36:51Can you think of a more
36:53worse transgression than this?
36:56That's why they do it.
36:57Because it feels empowering. It releases
37:00energy. They do it because they believe
37:03that when you do this, it releases
37:05divine energy.
37:07And when you when you actually do it,
37:10okay? I'm guys, I'm not telling you to
37:11go do this, okay? Please do not do this.
37:15Okay? And please remember, okay? This is
37:18evil. We should not be doing this.
37:20But,
37:21when you actually go and do it, those
37:24who can do it, they feel as though they
37:26are now
37:28inundated. That now they are now filled
37:32with divine energy.
37:34They found the secret of the universe.
37:37They found the ultimate power in the
37:39world.
37:40Another transgression, which is not as
37:43bad, but pretty bad, is the idea of
37:47incest, right? And there are secret
37:50societies out there, guys,
37:52that do this.
37:54And you know what, guys?
37:56I I hate to tell you this, okay? But
37:58they do it in public in front of
38:00everyone else.
38:01Because that creates both group unity,
38:05synchronicity, and it releases, in their
38:07minds, divine energy.
38:10They've now access to
38:12God.
38:15If you want to know what secret
38:15societies do,
38:17well,
38:18um yeah.
38:21This and this, okay?
38:24And again, this is only a small group of
38:25people. But now we know why these people
38:28control the world. Because they're able
38:31to keep secrets. Because they're more
38:33motivated than everyone else.
38:35And they're able to work together
38:38in a way that allows them to achieve
38:40ultimate power.
38:42Do these leaders you see, right? These
38:45leaders you see, they are puppets.
38:48They are just a face. The real power are
38:51the secret societies that practice these
38:54rituals. And again, I'm not saying this
38:56is the truth. I'm just saying this is a
38:58possible theory about how the world
39:00works, right? Because this is a class of
39:03speculation. It's a class of theory.
39:06Don't think this is the truth, okay? But
39:08you can think about how this works and
39:10ask yourself,
39:12does it explain the world?
39:15Okay?
39:17All right. So, having explained this,
39:19what I want to do now is go into the
39:22deep theory as to why this is happening.
39:26Okay? So, if you talk to these people
39:28and they're honest with you,
39:29they they'll tell you that when we do
39:31this, we access God and God gives us
39:33divine power. Because they're
39:35superstitious and they're stupid.
39:37Okay? Just because they're the elite,
39:39just because they're powerful people,
39:40does not mean they're clever. In fact,
39:42they're kind of stupid if you actually
39:43meet them. Right? But um I'm going to
39:45explain how this system works.
39:48And when I do it when I explain to you,
39:50it will make sense.
39:52Okay, but are we are we clear so far
39:54about what's happening, guys?
39:57All right? I know this is disturbing and
39:59I know
40:00I I'll probably get banned on YouTube
40:02for this, but it's important that that
40:04that we do this, okay? All right. So,
40:06now I'll explain the theory as to why
40:08this is happening. How is a
40:09transgression is able to unleash divine
40:13energy?
40:14Okay.
40:15So,
40:16um
40:17Kant.
40:18We will look at some major thinkers.
40:21And
40:22um they're really deep thinkers and
40:23we'll go deep we'll go more into them
40:25this semester, but I'm going to
40:27introduce them, okay? So, Kant.
40:29Remember from the first class, Kant had
40:32a theory of how the world works.
40:35There is no objective reality that we
40:37see, okay? So, before the assumption was
40:41that we just absorb reality. Okay? But,
40:45Kant says that we are active
40:47Sorry. We'll we'll we'll wait for this.
40:55So,
40:57Kant says that we are active
40:58participants in reality. How? Well,
41:00because our brains are filters.
41:03We add space and time to reality. Space
41:06and time does not exist outside of us.
41:09Okay?
41:10So, the objective reality is called
41:12noumena.
41:14Okay? The things in themselves. Do not
41:16worry about these names. But, this is
41:17the objective reality.
41:19What happens is that through our
41:20filters, we interact with the noumena
41:23and that creates something called the
41:25phenomena.
41:26The things that we see, the phenomena.
41:31Okay? And that's the world we know.
41:33The noumena we can never ever know.
41:36That's the theory of Kant. Okay? And
41:39this has been confirmed by neuroscience.
41:42So, this is basically the most accurate
41:45model of the world that we have.
41:48The problem though is that Kant's
41:51conception of the world creates three
41:54questions.
41:55Okay? The first question then first
41:57question is, what is the noumena?
42:01Kant says we can never know it, but we
42:03still want to know it. Okay? That's the
42:04first question.
42:06Second question then is, who gave us
42:08these filters?
42:10Right? Where do our filters come from?
42:12How do our minds work and who created
42:14our minds in the first place? That's the
42:15second question. The third question is
42:19if we are all seeing the world for our
42:22own lens, how do we know that we're
42:26seeing the same world?
42:29How do our perception of the world align
42:31together?
42:34Okay?
42:36So, Kant creates these problems. Hegel
42:40who comes after
42:41Kant, Frederick Hegel by the way,
42:44he proposes a solution to this, to these
42:46three problems. And what he says is
42:48this.
42:49And this is really important for us to
42:51understand is the noumenal is the Geist.
42:54The Geist is
42:57hard to translate. We usually translate
42:59it to mean spirit.
43:02Okay? So, what Hegel is saying is that
43:05the spirit world is what creates the
43:07material world.
43:10We are just a shell. What really matters
43:12is the spirit world.
43:14Now, it's really important to understand
43:16the concept of the Geist, okay? And
43:17again, there's it's German, but there's
43:19no actual English translation for it.
43:22So, it's best to see Geist as a
43:25combination of three words
43:27that derive from Geist, okay? These
43:29three words are
43:32ghost,
43:35geyser,
43:37and gist, okay?
43:39So, these two English words
43:42are derivatives of the German word
43:44Geist.
43:45Right? Most words in English are
43:47actually German in origin. Sorry, not
43:49not most words, but many words, okay?
43:51All right. Ghost is just a parallel
43:53reality that exists alongside us, right?
43:55A spiritual world.
43:57That's the first concept. Geyser is just
44:00a force that is exploding or becoming or
44:05expanding.
44:06Okay, so this Geist is constantly
44:07expanding and becoming.
44:10Geist just just means the essence of
44:13things, the core of things.
44:15Okay? So, the real truth in the world is
44:17the Geist. Not what we see, but what is
44:22invisible to us. Okay, so that's the
44:24idea of the Geist. Does that make sense?
44:26Now, the Geist we can answer all three
44:28questions. The noumena, the real world,
44:31is a spiritual, not a material world.
44:36It's the Geist
44:38that gives us these filters.
44:40And because we're all seeing the world
44:43through the Geist,
44:45we see the same world.
44:47Okay?
44:50So, now this creates another problem,
44:53which is
44:54where did the Geist come from?
44:57What is the Geist?
44:59Okay? And here we will look at
45:03Plato and Dante.
45:06Okay? So, um
45:10um again, this is a really deep theory,
45:13and we'll go more deeply into this as
45:16the semester um
45:18moves, but I just first want to
45:20introduce the idea to you right now,
45:22okay? So, this comes from Plato
45:25and a religion called Gnosticism.
45:31Okay? The Gnostics. Uh Gnostic just
45:33means knowledge.
45:35Okay.
45:36Um so, in the beginning, the Big Bang,
45:39the force
45:41is the monad
45:44or the
45:46uh
45:46the one.
45:48Okay, there are different names for this
45:49thing.
45:50Or nous.
45:52Just think of this as a supreme god,
45:53okay? The Big Bang.
45:55The the the force
45:57all the like like the the the sun
46:00almost, okay? The spiritual sun of the
46:02universe.
46:03The Nous works by breathing. When he
46:07breathes, he vibrates his divine power.
46:11And through this, he creates new beings
46:14called dyads.
46:16Dyads are just pairs
46:18of
46:20um
46:22forces, okay? These dyads then create
46:24different realities.
46:26All right? So, different realities are
46:27being created through this inaction.
46:29And eventually, you reach Earth.
46:34Okay?
46:35So, in other words, what Plato and
46:38Gnostics are telling us is that the
46:40Geist
46:43is a multi-layer,
46:46multi-dimensional
46:48world
46:49that we access all the time.
46:53Okay?
46:54Does that make sense?
46:56And the Earth, what we see, it is just
46:58the the most outer shell
47:01in this
47:04universe.
47:10Is this clear to you guys?
47:12All right. So, now
47:15the question then is
47:18what is the purpose of life in the
47:21world? And what Plato says is that the
47:24purpose of life in this world is to
47:27return
47:28to the monad.
47:31Okay? And guess what, guys?
47:33This is actually the
47:36um framework for a lot of religions,
47:38including Hinduism, right? And Buddhism.
47:40This This is what the Hindus
47:42and the Buddhists believe as well.
47:45Nirvana is to return to the monad. I'm
47:48not sure if you guys have studied
47:49religion before, okay? But that's the
47:51idea.
47:52So, what Plato says is that through the
47:54pursuit of knowledge, philosophy, the
47:57love of knowledge, you can return to the
48:02monad.
48:03Okay?
48:05Um Dante
48:08and we will study Dante in depth
48:10later on, okay? But Dante has another
48:12solution.
48:13What Dante Dante says is that the monad
48:17the monad is love.
48:20Okay? And the monad, because he creates
48:23things, his divine spark emanates
48:26throughout
48:28the universe.
48:29Okay? So, there is a divine spark in us.
48:33And this divine spark is called love.
48:36So, we are able to love
48:40people, mothers love children,
48:44you love each other because of this
48:45divine spark in you. And the more you
48:47love,
48:49the more you return to the monad.
48:52Okay? So, Plato says, pursue knowledge.
48:55Dante says, pursue love.
49:00Okay?
49:03So, now the question is, okay, this
49:06sounds all very good,
49:09but
49:11why does evil happen in the world?
49:14Okay, what's the source of evil?
49:18Right? That's interesting, okay. You
49:20have you have this theory of the
49:22universe, but then the question then is,
49:24why do people do bad things then?
49:27Why is there sacrifice in the world? Why
49:32why are people doing all these bad
49:33things and not only getting away getting
49:35away with it, but they're also
49:37controlling the world?
49:39That's a big question, right?
49:41So,
49:42um
49:43for Plato, the answer is very simple.
49:45This world doesn't matter. Who cares if
49:48they control this world? It's a fake
49:50shadow world.
49:52Ignore them. Just focus on the pursuit
49:54of knowledge because that allows you to
49:56be one with the monad.
49:59Okay? Who cares about this world? Give
50:01them what they want. Give them their
50:03power, their fame, their money. Who
50:05cares?
50:08Dante's answer is actually very
50:10interesting, okay? That's That's Plato's
50:12answer. It doesn't matter. This world
50:13doesn't matter. Who cares what happens
50:15in this world? It's a prison anyway.
50:17Dante actually proposed something
50:19different. He says this.
50:21If the monad is love,
50:25love is trust.
50:27So, the monad loves us
50:30and as a result, the monad gives us free
50:33will.
50:34Now, free will can lead to bad things,
50:37for example, this world, but he has no
50:39choice in the matter.
50:40Because for him to interfere
50:43means to take away our free will. And
50:45that's And free will is his greatest
50:47gift to us.
50:48Okay?
50:50But, now and then, what he will do is he
50:53will send messengers to our world to
50:56remind us that there is a divine spark
50:58in us and we can activate it and achieve
51:01a greater consciousness. And these
51:03messengers are
51:06Plato,
51:07Dante,
51:08right?
51:09Jesus,
51:12right?
51:13Does it make sense?
51:14So, now and then the monad will send
51:17um poltergeist, okay? The monad will
51:20implant ideas in these people who will
51:22then
51:24tell us the truth.
51:26It But, it's our choice whether or not
51:27to believe it because the monad has
51:29given us free will.
51:31All right, so
51:32for Plato, what's important is the
51:34pursuit of knowledge. For Dante, what
51:37matters is the pursuit of love, to love
51:40each other unconditionally.
51:42Okay?
51:43Um and that's what they tell us.
51:47What this system also tells us is that
51:53the powerful
51:56want to deny the system.
51:58Right? Because if they control Earth,
52:01the fake world, they want to make it as
52:03real as possible.
52:05Does that make sense?
52:07That's the source of the power. The
52:09belief that the only thing that matters
52:10is the material world, the prison that
52:13we live in.
52:17And that's why we have
52:19science.
52:21Right? Science is negation of the
52:23spiritual world
52:25and the validation of the material
52:27world. If you cannot see it, it must be
52:29fake.
52:31Right?
52:33Okay? So, that's how power works.
52:37Now,
52:38transgression
52:41works in this model because
52:43transgression allows the powerful to
52:47align to a certain part of this
52:51universe, okay? Because in this
52:52universe, there are evil forces as well.
52:56Does that make sense? So, for example,
52:58the metaphor is think of the internet.
53:00Right? Well, there are millions and
53:02millions of websites. And through
53:03transgression, by doing the same evil
53:06act, what the powerful have done is
53:08they've locked onto the same website.
53:11Right? And because they've locked on the
53:12same website, it allows for
53:14synchronicity. It allows for them to
53:17commit
53:19uh to think
53:20alike and to behave the same way.
53:25Okay?
53:26All right. So,
53:29that's the general theory.
53:32And again, this is all speculation. I'm
53:34not telling you this is true,
53:36but I'm giving you a framework to work
53:37with to better understand why things
53:40happen. We're just speculating. We're
53:42using our imagination here.
53:44Right?
53:45I know this is a lot, but Kant, Plato,
53:47Hegel, Dante, we will go much more
53:50deeper into over the semester. I just
53:53introduced these ideas
53:55now.
53:56Okay. Questions, guys?
54:02Okay.
54:03You You had a question from last class,
54:04right?
54:05Right. So So So So can you ask a
54:06question from last class and I'll answer
54:07it first?
54:12All right. From last class you mentioned
54:14that um the ones that control society
54:16are those old pensioners, right? Because
54:19they get revenues from the youngers and
54:22they control the society.
54:24Um in our society I do see signs or
54:26phenomena that um the government are
54:29sort of helping the old pensioners by
54:31creating more um say entertainment or
54:35facilities that benefit them.
54:38So why is that? Is it possible that the
54:40the government also benefits benefits
54:43from
54:44old pensioners' actions or is actually
54:47the governments are controlled by old
54:49pensioners?
54:50Yeah, I mean we did we discuss this last
54:52class, but it's the pensioners, they're
54:54old people who control society, control
54:57the culture, who control government.
54:59Right? Because in China, from the first
55:01day you're taught to respect your
55:02elders, right? You're taught that old
55:04peop- elderly people are worth um
55:08emulating, they're worth they're worth
55:10studying from, they're they're what's
55:12most precious about our society. So it
55:13makes sense that the government would
55:15create policies to most benefit
55:18the elderly.
55:19Okay? That's That's That's just the
55:21structure of Chinese society.
55:23Respect for the elderly.
55:25Okay?
55:26Thank you. Any more questions, guys?
55:28Yep.
55:29Um Amber has a question.
55:30Yeah.
55:32Um so I was just thinking about the
55:34model and I think
55:35>> The monad. Uh yeah, this model that we
55:38have on the board. Um, so, like you
55:40said, the existence of evil is
55:45if you don't mind repeating yourself.
55:48Oh, yeah. So, what is evil? Yeah. Okay,
55:50in in the system. Okay, so, um, in this
55:53system, what is evil is the denial of
55:57the system.
55:58Okay? Okay. So, because the monad is the
56:00truth, it's love, right? So, the closer
56:03you move to the monad, that's what's
56:05good. The further you move away from the
56:08monad, that's what's evil. Right? So, at
56:10the very end of this model is Earth. So,
56:13the more you embrace material world,
56:15the more you
56:17deny the spiritual world, that's what's
56:20evil in this in in this model. Okay.
56:23>> So, for Plato, the what's good is the
56:26pursuit of knowledge. And what's evil is
56:28the pursuit uh, the denial of the of
56:31knowledge, which includes, by the way,
56:33art.
56:35Right? Movies. Because movies are just
56:39a shadow of the shadow world. We live
56:42The world we live live in is fake, and
56:44movies, all they do is
56:47depict this fake world, then it makes
56:49things worse.
56:51Mhm. Okay? And Dante,
56:54uh, whatever
56:55um, allows for more love is good. What
56:59allows for less love is
57:01bad. Okay.
57:02>> Okay? Um, so, just to add on to that.
57:04So, what if, um, like we mentioned
57:07earlier, sacrifice sacrifice can be
57:10considered as a way to unite people. It
57:13creates cohesion. Yeah. And with
57:14cohesion, it unlocks divine energy
57:16because you're accessing a part of this
57:17model. Okay. Yeah. Does that make sense?
57:20Mhm, yeah. Right? And And that's why, as
57:23you're doing this
57:25sacrifice, they're worshipping a certain
57:27god.
57:28Uh-huh. Right? So, sacrifice is part of
57:31their religion. It's not done
57:32independently.
57:35They have a religious framework for the
57:37sacrifice.
57:38And that's why they do it.
57:40Right? They don't do sacrifice for
57:41personal sacrifice. They do sacrifice
57:43um as a consummation of their religion
57:47because that's what their religion
57:47demands of them. Mhm. Right? And because
57:50they worship a god, they sacrifice these
57:52people to send to this god. Okay. Right?
57:56So, they're accessing a part of this
57:57model, which is a lower
58:00part, okay?
58:02>> And there are there are evil beings in
58:04this model as well, right?
58:07But but they go lower.
58:09Okay. So, by
58:11I'm trying to
58:13So, by
58:15being evil, we're like doing the bad
58:16deeds, we get as long as it creates love
58:20in Dante's theory, it gets us ultimately
58:22closer to the To the monad, yes.
58:25But the evil now that we perceive is
58:27constructed by our current society.
58:29So,
58:31Yeah. So, what Dante is saying about
58:33current society is that our society is
58:34first and foremost anti-love. It does
58:37not allow for people to love each other.
58:39So, for example, school, right?
58:41>> Mhm. So,
58:42um without school,
58:44your parents would just care about your
58:46happiness. Mhm.
58:48But because of school, parents
58:51care about your grades
58:52and whether or not you get into a elite
58:54American college Mhm. and whether or not
58:56you get a good job.
58:58And so, the parents deny your free will.
59:02They deny your agency.
59:05And as a result, you don't feel loved.
59:10Okay?
59:11So, that's what Dante would argue. Our
59:13society
59:14is anti-love
59:16because
59:17the society is constructed in a way that
59:20does not allow for normal human
59:23relationships to flourish. Mhm. Right?
59:26In a normal relationship, your parents
59:28would just let you do whatever you want.
59:30I would think, you know?
59:33But because they're like, "No, no, no.
59:35If I let you do whatever you want, you
59:37will not do well in school, and you
59:39won't be able to get a job, and then
59:40you'll become
59:42I don't know, unemployed and a drug
59:44addict. Who knows, okay?"
59:46Right? That's how they think.
59:48Does that make sense?
59:49>> Yeah.
59:50So, the denial of free will is
59:52anti-love, and therefore it's evil, and
59:56maybe it limits Yeah, it limits you from
59:59getting closer to Monad. That's right.
1:00:01Okay, great. Exactly. Thank you.
1:00:03Yep.
1:00:06But just like the uh what Amber mentions
1:00:09that this world is anti-love, but what
1:00:12is the purpose of like not letting us
1:00:15get closer to the Monad?
1:00:17Well, you That's a good question, right?
1:00:19Why are they doing this? Because the
1:00:21people in power want to stay in power.
1:00:24Right? Because what they're doing it
1:00:27goes against the Monad.
1:00:31But
1:00:32they want to stay in power. So, they
1:00:34gain like benefits such as power by
1:00:37disobeying the Monad and letting others
1:00:42like disobeying the Monad because they
1:00:43can keep their power. Okay, so so let so
1:00:46let let let us be very clear, okay? This
1:00:48is really important.
1:00:50Different people will interpret this
1:00:52model in a different way.
1:00:54Okay? In their conception, the Monad's
1:00:57the evil one.
1:00:59Their god's the good one.
1:01:01They're liberating us from the Monad by
1:01:03making us more focused on the material
1:01:05world.
1:01:07Okay? Does that make sense? But the
1:01:08reality is that
1:01:11they were able to get their power
1:01:13because
1:01:14they were They had a religion that
1:01:16promoted transgression, which allowed
1:01:18them to coordinate well together. And
1:01:20now that they have this power, they need
1:01:22to rationalize why they have this power,
1:01:25and they need to develop systems to
1:01:26maintain this power. That's why we have
1:01:28the world we live in today. Does that
1:01:29make sense?
1:01:32Okay? Does that make sense?
1:01:34They're powerful, they want to maintain
1:01:36the power, so they will think of new
1:01:39ideas that allow them to keep this
1:01:41power, even if it means denying the
1:01:43truth, okay?
1:01:46And and again, guys, this is a theory,
1:01:48no one knows if this is true or not.
1:01:50I don't know.
1:01:54But like what you just mentioned that
1:01:57monad has two meanings to
1:01:59either
1:01:59>> No, no, no. The monad does not have two
1:02:02meanings. It has one. It has different
1:02:04names, but one meaning.
1:02:06Okay, this is really important for you
1:02:07to understand. There are different names
1:02:09for this, but it is the sun.
1:02:11Okay? The divine sun, the source of all
1:02:13life. So, Plato defines monad as
1:02:16knowledge, and Dante defines monad as
1:02:19love. No. No, no, no. Okay,
1:02:24listen, okay, you have to get this
1:02:25straight, okay? This is everything,
1:02:28okay? Love, knowledge, everything, okay?
1:02:31The question that Plato and Dante are
1:02:34debating is how do you return to the
1:02:36monad?
1:02:38Okay? So, for Plato, it's the pursuit of
1:02:39knowledge that allows you to get closer
1:02:41to the monad. For Dante, it's the
1:02:43pursuit pursuit of love.
1:02:45Okay? But this is the one and all, the
1:02:48infinite and eternal.
1:02:50What Plato would say is that this is the
1:02:52perfect.
1:02:54This is the immutable. It will never
1:02:55change. And it's the eternal. It's
1:02:57always been there, and it will always be
1:02:58there.
1:03:00Okay? It's really similar to Buddhism,
1:03:01right? It is exactly Buddhism.
1:03:04>> looking at the same thing. It's like
1:03:05more spiritual aspect of
1:03:08the world and like the ultimate end of
1:03:11things. It's more like abstract concept.
1:03:14It's not something physical that we can
1:03:16interpret as one thing or another.
1:03:18>> Yeah, this is exactly what is in
1:03:20Hinduism, okay? So this is really
1:03:21interesting how different religious
1:03:23traditions
1:03:25working in different localities have the
1:03:27same conception
1:03:29of the world, of the universe. And
1:03:33can we can we get someone else an
1:03:34opportunity to to speak, please? Okay?
1:03:36Can can can someone else ask ask
1:03:38question?
1:03:40Like like like I know I know you're
1:03:41enthusiastic, but sometimes you want to
1:03:44step back and absorb the idea, okay? So
1:03:48so you've asked a lot of questions, but
1:03:50go home, think about this some more.
1:03:53Okay? Does that Does that make sense?
1:03:55Okay. Does Does anyone
1:03:56want to else want to ask questions?
1:04:00Okay, one more question, okay?
1:04:01One more So like just to confirm that
1:04:05Okay.
1:04:06Uh Plato and Dante just like gives us
1:04:10the way to approach monad, right?
1:04:16Okay.
1:04:17Um can can you ask the question again? I
1:04:18I I I don't Like I want to confirm that
1:04:21Plato or Dante they because they don't
1:04:24Plato said that to learn knowledge and
1:04:26Dante said to pursue love, so they gives
1:04:30the way to let to let us approach monad,
1:04:33right? So the monad in the conception of
1:04:35everything is the same, okay?
1:04:38It is a source of everything.
1:04:40Plato and Dante are proposing different
1:04:43ways to to become closer to the monad,
1:04:48right?
1:04:49For Plato, it's like spend your entire
1:04:50life learning mathematics, specifically
1:04:52geometry.
1:04:54Because he thinks that geometry is
1:04:55really the language of of the universe,
1:04:57the secret language of the universe.
1:04:59Dante says, "That's too hard, guys.
1:05:02That's not intuitive."
1:05:04Like for Play- Plato's an elitist,
1:05:06right? Plato is like only if you come to
1:05:07my school and you learn geometry, sacred
1:05:09geometry, will where access heaven.
1:05:12Donny is like, "That makes no sense. The
1:05:15monad would not create a system which
1:05:17only the elite the chosen could access
1:05:20him. The monad, if he truly loves
1:05:22everyone, will give everyone the
1:05:23capacity
1:05:25to reach him. And that capacity that
1:05:28that is accessible to everyone is love,
1:05:31right? Doesn't matter who you are,
1:05:33you can all love.
1:05:35But
1:05:37quite honestly, there are there are not
1:05:38that many people in the world who can do
1:05:39calculus, right?
1:05:42Right? So, Plato's like, "You have to do
1:05:43calculus." Plato is like and Donny is
1:05:45like, "That's just ridiculous.
1:05:47That's the most ridiculous thing in the
1:05:47world."
1:05:50Okay?
1:05:51Does that make sense now?
1:05:54Okay.
1:05:55Um any more questions, guys?
1:05:59It's like, why is that like a lot of
1:06:02other like religions and, you know,
1:06:03Plato or like Dante, they came to the
1:06:05same realization of monad? Like, why is
1:06:08that? Like, it's from different places
1:06:10in the world, different regions, but
1:06:11like, why do they all have kind of the
1:06:13same thing about wisdom or like
1:06:15knowledge in general? Yeah. So, so
1:06:19um that's a really good question and the
1:06:22answer is the geist, right? The answer
1:06:25is where do our thoughts come from and
1:06:28where do our thoughts go? Do you really
1:06:29think that it's our brain that produces
1:06:31thoughts?
1:06:32Why is it that with the same brain,
1:06:34right? Same neurological neurological
1:06:36structure,
1:06:37but we have different ideas?
1:06:40And why is it that I have so many ideas
1:06:41and you and others have limited ideas?
1:06:45Well,
1:06:47like biologically, we cannot explain it,
1:06:49okay? We've never explained it. So, if
1:06:50you if you study neuroscience, one thing
1:06:52they will never ever ask is, "Where do
1:06:53our thoughts come from?" Which is weird
1:06:55because that should be the most basic
1:06:57question, right? That's the first
1:06:58question you ask, but they never ask
1:06:59that. Why? Because they cannot answer
1:07:01it.
1:07:02And the answer, the possibility is the
1:07:04geist exists and our ideas come from the
1:07:06geist.
1:07:07And we think of ideas, it goes back into
1:07:09the Geist.
1:07:11Right? It's a ghost. It is with us and
1:07:13it's not with us.
1:07:15There's just like a big system out there
1:07:17that everything comes from there and so
1:07:19all of these things will go back there
1:07:21eventually. Is exactly. Exactly. And and
1:07:23that's and and that's why and that's how
1:07:26we can explain why all these different
1:07:28religions have the same conception of
1:07:31the universe.
1:07:32Because they're getting this conception
1:07:34through inspiration, right? Through
1:07:36communication with the Geist.
1:07:40Right? Does that make sense?
1:07:43Okay.
1:07:46I I think that makes a lot more sense
1:07:47than oh, the synapses in our brains, you
1:07:50know?
1:07:51They fire together and they hit and like
1:07:53oh, we have an idea.
1:07:55I don't know.
1:07:57Okay.
1:07:58Okay. All right. So, great. Uh we will
1:08:01continue this next class.
1:08:03Okay.

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