Global Meet-Up #3 (New York City): The Eschatology of Capitalism

Thank you so much. It's great to be back in New York City, and tonight there's a lot to discuss. What I want to focus on tonight is the Iran war, of course: why it's happening, where it's going.

The main argument I want to make today is that the war in Iran is not a traditional war that you can analyze from a realist perspective. It's not about resources. It's not about power dynamics. It's fundamentally an eschatological war. And that's the argument I will make to you today.

But it's a very complex argument and I'll go step by step. Okay. So I'm going to treat this as an ordinary day in the school and you guys will be my students, so the general rule is feel free to interrupt. I am working not from rigorous scholarship. I'm working from game theory. So all the ideas that I'll explain to you tonight should be... Okay? If at any point you're like, "You know what, that doesn't make sense," please raise your hand. Please interrupt. Okay. We have a great crowd today. It's packed, and so I'm really looking forward to participation, to debate, to dialogue.

Okay. So that said, let's begin. All right. So let me first explain, in very simplistic terms, the nature of the global economy that we have today. Okay. So there are two main pillars. There is the Middle East, the GCC, and then there is East Asia. And how the current economy works is the GCC provides the world with cheap energy. Okay. So this energy is sold primarily to East Asia, and East Asia of course is the manufacturing hub of the world. So it takes the energy, turns it into manufactured goods, and then it moves over to the west, which consumes these manufactured goods. And this, in very simplistic terms, is how the global economy is structured.

Now there is a particular quirk to this system, and it's all being undergirded by the US dollar as a global reserve currency. So what happens is the GCC sells the energy in US dollars and then US dollars are recycled back into the US economy. Same thing with East Asia, where East Asia will sell its manufactured goods in US dollars, and then it will recycle the US dollars back into the US economy. Okay. And the idea of the United States as a global reserve currency, it is unique in human history and it has been a disaster for the United States as a nation state.

Okay. And there are three reasons why. The first reason is that the United States loses all financial... Okay. So the United States must guarantee the free flow of US dollars, and the United States has created a financial system in order to facilitate the free flow of capital around the world, and this is not good for the United States because you lose financial independence. The idea of this is the Eurodollar system. Now, the idea of the system is all the US dollars start outside the United States, and quite honestly we have no idea how many US dollars are outside the United States.

And so this dollar system actually makes no sense from a national perspective. You have absolutely no idea how many US dollars are in circulation. You have actually no control over how it is circulated. Okay, so that's the first problem with this system. The second problem with the system is... which basically means that in order for this system to work, this global economy to work, the United States has to become the financial center of the world and shift resource extraction and manufacturing to the other parts of the world.

So you hollow out your manufacturing sector. You no longer produce anything. You just speculate. Okay. And we understand the problem with the system. It leads to corruption. Corruption of course just means Washington DC. Washington DC is the most corrupt place on this planet. You get nothing done unless you're willing to bribe Congress people to do what you want. Okay? So corruption is a huge issue. You have inequality, right? So think of New York City. I was in Santa Monica. Santa Monica last week was the most ridiculous place in the world.

Okay, it was just so silly. You have the Pacific Palisades, you have the $100 million mansions, you have Skid Row where they're all on drugs. It's just ridiculous. Okay, inequality, and of course you have debt. Okay, so it's almost like Americans exist in order to go into debt, in order to fuel the global economy. So again, this is terrible for American citizens. Okay, the third thing is just Pax Americana. And what I mean by that is this system is predicated on peace in order for people to trade with each other, right?

So people need free access, free open maritime navigation for the system to work. And the United States must guarantee this free maritime navigation, which means a bloated military budget. Okay. The United States must basically ensure the entire peace of the world, which causes tremendous military pressure on the United States. If you think about it, this makes no sense, because the United States doesn't actually need a military. Okay, I know this is hard for Americans to understand, but the United States doesn't need a military because there's no nation in the world that would actually dare to invade the United States.

Okay. So all that money that goes to the military could instead be spent on things like free college or free healthcare. All right. But the United States, because it is forced to protect global trade and ensure free open maritime navigation, then it needs this $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget. Okay. All right. So this is the world as it is. And as you can appreciate, this is not really sustainable. Okay. And so what we're seeing right now is the system breaking apart because of the Iran war. All right.

So before I continue, any questions about this? Is it all pretty clear?

Okay. So the K-shaped economy is basically the best indicator that the system is about to break down. Yes. So if we don't need this big of a military and we just said that we're going to be spending $1.5 trillion on our military, which is clearly corruption, who is benefiting the most from this corruption? Because it's not like...

Yes.

So in this system the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Okay. All right. Yes.

And so we just have a different paradigm of a different country that in this current world is not the ethnostate, but we have a hallucination that it is.

Okay. So originally the war was between the United States and Iran. Okay. So the United States' strategy going into the war was very simple: decapitation, which means you knock out the leadership and then everyone else, because they love democracy, they love freedom, they love human rights, they love OnlyFans, whatever. Okay, they rebel and then you have a democracy. Okay, that was literally the plan going into the war. Didn't work out. The Iranians are much, much more resilient. The Iranians have countermeasures against the strategy, including closing off the... primarily going to East Asia.

So this creates a bottleneck in your entire global economy, right? This disrupts the model that I previously presented. But not only that, as this war is progressing, the Houthis have been brought into the war. Okay, the Houthis are a huge problem because they control another strait called the Bab el-Mandeb. Okay. And it screws Saudi Arabia. All right.

Hezbollah and Israel are at war. Then Iraq is also at war right now. As you know, recently there's been a Middle East military alliance signed by three countries: Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. Okay. This is Turkey right here and this is Pakistan. All right. So what I think is going to happen is Saudi Arabia sees the Houthis as an existential threat and they will move against the Houthis. They're probably backed by Israel. Israel has military bases over here. Okay, so they've surrounded the Houthis. The problem with this system is the Iranians have figured out that if you have four points of attack, okay, including Hezbollah, which can attack the Shal, the Houthis, which can block the Bab el-Mandeb strait, and then Hamas.

What you've done is you've choked off the entire Middle East. Okay? And also, you know, the GCC saying, "We'll just build pipelines," you know, that's... Okay, because if the drones can attack ships they can probably attack pipelines as well. It's probably easier for them to attack pipelines because they're so huge, right? So the GCC is simply screwed. But it also shows you that because they're proposing to build pipelines, which cost billions of dollars and years to build and they're not really a solution, it tells you that they don't really know what to do.

They're really screwed in this. Okay. Now what's important to also remember is that Russia, regardless of what happens, can always supply Iran from the Caspian Sea, and China, with its Belt and Road Initiative, can supply using railways. And so what's going to happen is that this war has to expand globally. Okay. You have this problem in the Middle East and then it's going to link up with the war in Ukraine and this will be a global situation, and this is going to destroy the global economy. The issue with this is, remember, these countries recycle US dollars back into the US economy, especially Japan, right? Remember Japan has $1.1 trillion of US treasuries. What Japan does for the global economy is provide liquidity.

All right? And so the idea is something called the Japanese yen carry trade. You guys may know what this is, but the idea is it's really the dumbest thing in the world, where the Japanese banks will lend money to Japanese corporations at a 0% interest rate. And the idea is, well, when you do that you are providing liquidity for the Japanese economy, right? Because deflation is a huge problem in Japan. The Japanese corporations are like, well, we could do that, but there's a much simpler way to make money, which is we'll go buy US treasuries at 5%.

Okay, we're borrowing money at 0%. We are getting 5% by buying US treasuries. So we'll take that free 5%. Thank you very much. Okay, and so because Japan does this, what it's really doing is providing liquidity for the world. Okay? And the liquidity, by the way, is about $4 trillion.

The problem with this is Japan gets most of its oil and energy from the Middle East. So the second thing is oil and energy investors are like, maybe I shouldn't put my money in Japanese yen, right? So now the Japanese yen is sinking. And so what the United States is doing is, okay, we need to save the Japanese yen, because if the Japanese yen sinks then the Bank of Japan is going to recall all this liquidity from the world to save the Japanese yen, and this will cause economic collapse in the United States. Remember, 50% of US GDP growth is AI data centers, right? So it's a bubble, so you need this liquidity from the GCC, from China, from Japan.

This war means that these countries will have to be much more nationalistic and so liquidity will dry up, which will eventually cause US collapse. There's just no way around this. Okay? So given the situation, there is a way for the United States to win this war. Okay? And all the United States has to do is two simple things. If it does these two simple things, this war in Iran will end right away and the US economy will be saved. Okay? So the first thing the United States can do is give Iran $2 trillion.

Okay? And this would be a disaster for Iran. So the historical example is of course something called the Plaza Accord. The Plaza Accord happened because Japan at this point in history, the 1980s, was the dominant manufacturing power in the world and the Japanese yen was very weak, which meant that the Japanese were absorbing liquidity from the world. Okay. And this was causing huge problems for the US economy and for the global economy. So the Plaza Accord was an agreement between Japan and the G7 nations, Europe and the United States, that Japan would increase the value of its currency.

Okay. And this allowed Japan to buy property really cheaply overseas. Okay. And so now you've reversed the situation. Before you were absorbing liquidity and now you are transferring liquidity to the world. Okay. And so this was terrible for Japan because it led to 30 years of deflation, stagflation, economic silency, but it was great for the United States, right? So why not just do this for Iran as well? Give Iran $2 trillion. It's US dollars. So they're eventually going to have to recycle it back into the United States economy, right?

They'll buy resources to rebuild. A lot of this, US companies will be allowed to go to Iran to rebuild infrastructure, to sell oil around the world. It's great for everyone, right? So that's number one. Okay, $2 trillion. But there's something else that has to happen, which is contain Israel. Okay. Israel. Yes, I understand. Yes. Okay. But let me finish. Okay. Let's pretend that... Okay. Okay. Israel is a huge problem in the Middle East because they're always going out starting wars, right?

So what you do is say to Israel, we're going to embargo you, no more weapons for you guys, and we're going to sanction you. If that would happen, peace would come to the Middle East.

So this is the question we will examine. What is going on, where the United States, the most powerful country in the world, is not able to protect its own national interests and is only advancing the interests of this, again, really small nation in a desert somewhere, right? And what we've already discussed, the consequences for this war are just tremendous. It's the end of civilization basically, but the United States is still allowing Israel to do whatever it wants. Okay. All right. So the main argument I want to make to you today is this war makes no sense unless you look at it from an eschatological perspective.

This war is meant to usher in the end times. This war is meant to bring in the Messiah if you're Jewish and to have Jesus return if you're Christian. That's the only explanation for what's going on. If you look at it from any other lens, it makes absolutely no sense. Okay, any quick questions? Yes.

Yes.

Okay. Now what I'll try to do is explain how it is that we got to this unique moment in history. So I'll explain to you the history and origin of capitalism. All right. So it is a historical accident. I know that most of you believe that capitalism is just the best way to run the world. But what I want to show you is that in fact it's a convergence of several historical accidents that has created the world that we live in today. Okay. So the first historical accident is Calvinism.

And in Calvinism there's a very important idea called double predestination. And double predestination, the idea is at the beginning of time when God created the universe, he already decided the destiny of everyone. He already decided who is going to go to heaven and who will go to hell. Okay, so double meaning heaven and hell, predestination means it's already been decided. It was a rhetorical response to the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church was able to control people because the Catholic Church could determine whether or not you went to heaven or hell.

That was the source of the power. And Calvinism tried to subvert the power by saying, "No, the church doesn't have this power. Only God has this power and God has already decided." So no matter what you do, no matter what the church says, your fate has already been decided, because at this point in history, indulgences were a huge problem. Indulgences were bribes to the church so that if you're a bad rich person you could basically get to heaven still. Okay. So Calvinism, what's really interesting is it creates a moral dilemma that didn't exist before, which is how do you know if God has chosen you or not?

Right? Before, you would know because the church would tell you if you were selected or not. But now you have to believe if you're chosen or not. And so the way they remedied this is through the idea of wealth creation. Okay. Basically, if you're wealthy it means God favors you. That makes sense, right? But the other thing that's interesting, Calvinism demanded that you make wealth but at the same time also not spend your wealth, because you have to prove you are a good person, right? So you make a lot of wealth but you can't even spend your wealth.

And this goes against human intuition, because historically when we make a lot of money, the first thing we do is spend on our friends and family, right? Because we take this wealth and we transfer it into status for ourselves in a community. And that's what intuitively we did in the past. But now Calvinism breaks this cycle and says, "No, no, no. If you make a lot of money, you also have to save it, which basically means you have to invest it." And this is weird, okay? But this basically creates capitalism.

You can't spend your money. You can only save it. And because of this concept, you now have a new entity in the world called the Dutch Republic. And what the Dutch Republic would do is take people's savings and then start these enterprises around the world that led to a spice monopoly. And at this time in history, spices are the most valuable thing in the world. And the Dutch Republic, because of Calvinism, now becomes the wealthiest region in the world and they create really the world's first idea of a middle class.

Okay, this leads of course to something called the Dutch Renaissance. The problem with this is the Dutch Republic used to be part of the Habsburg Empire and now that they're so wealthy they're constantly being invaded. So you have all this money. You have to protect this money in order to get to heaven. How do you prevent the Catholics from coming and stealing your money? Okay. This led to something called the Glorious Revolution. Okay. 1688, Glorious Revolution. This is the second historical accident.

So the Glorious Revolution is really a marriage of the dominant Protestant powers in Europe at this time, which are England and the Dutch Republic, right? So with the Glorious Revolution, what happens is the Dutch Republic now transfers their gold, their wealth, to England. Why? Because England is an island protected by the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy is invincible, right? So it's really the best place to store your money. The Glorious Revolution then leads to the chartering of the Bank of England. Okay, this is the third historical accident.

The Bank of England, 1694. The Bank of England is unique in history because it's run by merchants, right? Historically, merchants would lend money to kings for their wars. The problem is the kings could die. They could lose the war or they could be like, "Screw you. I'm the king. I don't have to pay you back." Right? So this was always a huge problem for these merchants. The Bank of England solved this problem because they're lending money not to the king but to Parliament. Okay? So basically the Bank of England, and again it's so weird if you think about it.

It is a private bank that is guaranteed by the people of England. Okay? Now you're lending money not to the king but to the English nation, which basically means that as long as there's one Englishman alive, that person has to pay you back. All right. So it's a really weird system, but this creates our modern financial system. The Bank of England model of course will be copied with the Federal Reserve. Okay, so the Federal Reserve system in the United States is modeled on the Bank of England system.

Now this system is great because what it allows is basically infinite financing. So the example is the Napoleonic wars, when England was trying to fight Napoleon for dominance in Europe and England lost six times. It only won once, but England only needed to win once because it has infinite financing. No matter how badly Napoleon defeated them on the battlefield, England could just print money and say, "Okay, we'll bribe you Prussians or Russians to go fight another war." Okay? And so the Bank of England basically creates the British Empire.

Okay? So capitalism, then what happens of course is these ideas will then spread to the United States and create the American empire. All right. So these are all historical accidents. Calvinism was an accident. Glorious Revolution, Bank of England, United States. These are all historical accidents. Okay. But once you have these accidents in place you now have to explain them. You have to create a philosophy or religion, a bureaucratic system in order to manage these accidents. Okay. So now I'm going to explain to you how they did so. But are we clear so far?

Yes.

Yes.

If you think about it, these two things are actually a structural... You guys live in the United States. You think this is the most normal thing in democracy. Of course you have private property. But actually, if you think about it logically, it doesn't make any sense, because private property basically means an oligarchy, right? Democracy means rule by the people. So the people choose, if they vote to say, you know, we want to redistribute wealth, they should be allowed to do so because it's a democracy, right? But private property, the idea of private property is it is an inherent and inalienable right given to you by God.

Therefore, you are not allowed to touch each other's private property. Okay? So we have this system as a response to the Bank of England, because the Bank of England is private property, but it's guaranteed by the people. So how do you alleviate this contradiction? By saying to people, well, we have a democracy. Okay? You choose to respect each other's private property. Does it make sense? Okay. So this is a contradiction, but this arose because of the inherent contrary nature of the Bank of England.

All right. Another contradiction that arose at this time is that reason and emotion were distinct. You guys don't appreciate this, but this is actually a revolution in human thought, because if you look at every other culture before, reason came from emotion, right? The idea that you could think independently of your emotion was ridiculous to everyone. Go read the Greeks, go read the Chinese. In every ancient civilization the heart and the mind are aligned. In fact, in China we say the heart is the mind. Okay, you think of your emotions, and all the neuroscience tells us that is true.

Okay, our memories are essentially emotions and our memories become the units for our thinking. But so the question is, why did they come up with this silly idea that again is counterintuitive, the separation between reason and emotion? And the answer is because of what reason means. Okay, reason in this formulation actually means capital, and emotion means family, tradition, nation, community. Okay, does that make sense? So in order for capital to win, it's transnational capital, there has to be a free movement of goods, people and ideas, and whatever obstructs the free movement of capital is inherently bad, and they're labeled as emotions.

Okay, does that make sense? All right. So again, we think these things are just intuitive. But if you think about it logically, it makes no sense, and they came up with these formulations as a response to the distinct nature of capitalism at this time. Yeah.

Whereas before in human history we saw them as one and the same. Okay. So in order to promote the system of transnational capital you need both a public layer as well as a secret layer. Okay. The public layer is just what we call philosophy, and the three main philosophies that developed in order to justify the system are empiricism, skepticism and utilitarianism. Okay, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, John Locke. Okay, I won't go too much into it, but there's a secret layer to all this. The secret layer is Freemasonry.

All right. Freemasonry is the religion of reason. If you read Freemasonic texts, whether it be Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma or Manly P. Hall, they use a phrase over and over again. It's the idea of a holy empire of... What is this? It's a holy empire of capital. Okay. So again, this is really important for us to appreciate. Reason in their eyes is capital. All right? And this created a... in human cognition, because before, if I met someone I might be like, okay, where are you from, right? That's the first question I would ask you: what community are you part of? Right now I might be like, how much money do you have? You understand. Okay, again, this is the United States, so you think this is the most intuitive thing, to judge people by how much money they have. But historically we judged people by the community that they come from.

Okay. The god that they worship, who their fathers are, who their parents are, right? Okay. So this is the idea. Okay. Freemasonry was developed in order to better organize, structure and manage capitalism secretly. Right? Because remember, the idea is democracy is just a facade created in order to fool people to agree to let bankers run the world. Okay. But you need a real management system, and this real management system is called Freemasonry. All right. Okay.

Okay, so you see all this massive migration to the United States and into Europe. You're like, well, who's doing this? And the answer is it's capitalism, guys. Okay, capitalism demands a free movement of people, goods and ideas. And so if you try to stop them, then they see you as an enemy. Okay, but let me use game theory to explain what's going on. All right, so transnational capital is the most powerful force in the world, and so if you go against transnational capitalism, you will be destroyed. Okay. And if you look at the movement of human history for the past 200 years, it's been the triumph of transnational capitalism.

Okay. So the first example is the French Revolution. The Enlightenment is really the expression of capitalism, the political expression of capitalism, right? What does the Enlightenment call for? The Enlightenment calls for the free movement of ideas, people and goods, right? Okay. The Enlightenment leads to what? The French Revolution. Then what happens? You have the rise of communism. Now, what's really interesting is if you talk to these Freemasons, they think communism is the best thing in the world. Why? Because communism is a triumph of human reason above emotion.

Right? Communism demands that you put the public good, the reason, above family, community, emotion, love, nationalism. Okay, that's what communism is. So if you look at the past 200 years, 300 years, it's been the relentless march of human reason, of capital, but taking different guises, taking different forms, whether it be the French Revolution or communism or capitalism. Okay. All right. Does that make sense? All right. So let me explain what's been happening. Okay. So I say Freemasonry is the organizing system behind capitalism. But what does that mean?

Okay. So transnational capital means capital across different nation states. Okay. When you do that you have a problem. And so what they realized is if you're able to solve three problems you will triumph. Okay. The first problem is information. Second problem is infiltration. The third problem is coordination.

So the classic example is the Rothschilds. The Rothschilds had their family spread out in the different capitals of Europe, including Frankfurt, where they're from, but also Paris, London, and one story that stood out is the 1815 Battle of Waterloo. So the British and the Prussians fought Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo and of course Napoleon lost. Now the Rothschilds had agents to monitor the battle. When the battle was decided, the agent got on a corvette, which is a fast ship, and sailed across the English Channel and told the information to Rothschild three days before the public knew.

Okay. During these three days, there was a wild panic because, for the reason, we don't know who did it, but there are rumors going around that the British had lost the battle. All right. Okay. So this is the idea of information, infiltration and coordination. Information means how do you access information quicker than other people. Infiltration is how do you put agents into certain places that allow you to access sensitive information, and coordination is how do you work across different nation states in order to break the game in your favor.

Okay? And the best way to do this is through secret societies. Now at this time in history there are maybe three transnational forces in Europe. They are of course the Freemasons, they are the Jesuits and they are the Jewish diaspora. Okay. And eventually what they realize is, well, you guys, we could just work together, right? When you combine the Masons with the Jesuits and with the Jewish diaspora, you get an organization called the Illuminati. All right. The Illuminati. All right. So the best way to understand this is, okay, I'm not saying they're planning this out.

Okay. What they are doing is this. Okay. There are different organizations, and they all have a range of certain behavior. Okay? There are people within the Catholic Church who are pro-transnational capital, people who are against transnational capital. What I'm saying is that secret societies are a convergence point of these different organizations, and because they're able to coordinate secretly together, they will always win out. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So I'm not saying that most people are part of a secret society.

I'm saying if you choose to be part of a secret society, you will be at a greater advantage than if you are not. Okay? If you're just a government bureaucrat, you'll just be a government bureaucrat for the rest of your life. But if you're part of a secret society and you're a bureaucrat, then your friends will help promote you in the bureaucracy. Then you'll be given investment opportunities. Then your children will be allowed to go to the most elite universities. Okay? So it is to your advantage to join the secret society.

Okay. All right. Does that make sense, guys? Yes.

So what I mean by that is if you're so excited and you're like, you know, we're here to make a lot of money and enjoy ourselves, you won't do as well in the long term as, we're here to serve God and we're here to bring God to our world. We're here to usher in the end times. Okay? And there are certain reasons why. The first reason is if it's eschatological, it's a script that you can play out over centuries. If it's not eschatological then it usually revolves around a charismatic leader, who when he dies the organization devolves. Okay, that's the first thing. It can span centuries because it's a script. The second thing is that you can have more people participate in the movement, right? You can scale it out if it's eschatological. And the third thing is people tend to be much more energetic when they think, oh, I'm going to bring about the end times. We are going to take the world to paradise, right?

This is a jihad. Okay. So societies that are eschatological tend to do better than secret societies that are not eschatological. Okay? And specifically, secret societies that practice the Cabala do the best. All right? The Cabala. So now what I'm going to do is explain to you the Cabala. Okay? So if you know Freemasonry, if you read books like Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike, they're very open about the structure, and what you'll recognize is Freemasonry tries to be the religion of reason. It tries to absorb all the best practices of every single religion out there and come up with, you know, the empire of reason.

And so maybe at the bottom levels you'll have Pythagoras, the Egyptians, but as you go up, the highest level, it's the Cabala. Yes.

It isn't like, you know, the Freemasons had an epiphany which is like, oh my god, reason and emotion are separate. No, no, it was a response to a problem that they had. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, so the Cabala, what was the Cabala? Okay. And again I want to be concise. Okay. The Cabala. It is an understanding of how the universe works. Okay. Why are we here? Where are we going? Where did the universe come from? And what the Cabala says is that God is the will to bestow.

Okay. He's God, right? He's all generous and he wants to share himself with others. Problem is there's no one to share it with. So to know itself, to complete itself, God creates Adam Kadmon. Okay. The first man, the cosmic man, and Adam Kadmon becomes the will to receive. Okay. But if you're the will to receive, you see things purely from an egotistical perspective, which means you don't really appreciate why God wants to give you anything. So you reject God's gift. And when you reject God's gift, the universe breaks.

Okay? And so now you have the separation between us and God. So the purpose of the universe is to come to an enlightenment so that we're able to receive God's gift. This could mean spiritual alchemy. Okay. All right. And that is the Cabala at a very general level. There are radical factions who read the Cabala and they interpret it literally, okay, through the lens of the... And so they take this idea that the entire purpose of humanity is to seek reunion with God. And they use the Bible as a script or as a plan.

And they interpret it literally, which means to say they want to seek reunion with God by acting out God's divine plan as told in the Bible. Okay. And what this divine plan basically means is, okay, well, the Jews must first return to Israel in order to fulfill the covenant between the Jews and God. Then the Jews must build the Third Temple as a resting place for God. And this will initiate the war of Gog and Magog. And when the Jews are most in need, then God will come and save them and save the world.

Okay? Because what we... of God means is opening your heart to God. And this means to repent. Okay? So this is how they interpret, and again I'm talking in very general terms, but this is how they interpret their role literally. Okay, this is why we're seeing what is happening in the Middle East. Why are the Israelis committing genocide in Gaza like that? That's just insane. You don't have to do that, guys. Okay, but they're perfectly doing it and they're doing it in 4K. Why? Because they want the whole world to see this.

Because they want to initiate the war of Gog and Magog, which will force the Israelis to come together. Okay, that's why antisemitism is growing in the world, and this will force the world... of Gog will force the Jews to repent and turn to God and then the world will end. Okay. And then they can build the Third Temple. This is why it's happening. So I want to explain why the Cabala is so powerful, and it's so powerful because there's a sexual desire that the Cabala unleashes, right? Because it's sexual, the idea of reunifying with God. Okay, we were part of God, we left God and now we will become one with God again. It's a sexual union, and that excites people.

Okay, I hate to say this, but have you guys seen Pete Hegseth give press conferences? When he's talking about the war, it's almost like he's having an orgy. Okay, he's having an orgasm. Okay, and it tells you this guy's been reading the Cabala a lot. I'm serious. These guys who are committing genocide like Pete Hegseth, they literally see it in sexual terms, like, you know, we're so close to achieving the end times. We are so close to becoming one with God. Okay. They're excited about it.

All right. Okay.

So the example I have is, you guys remember this Muslim who killed these two Christians outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC? Do you guys remember that incident?

He was completely powerless. He was a pain in the ass. But honestly, who cares? They spent $30 million to get rid of this guy. Then you have, you know, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, right? $30 million spent by AIPAC against him, and then $60 million total against him. So they're fanatical, right? You're like, is it really worth it? You might have like five people in Congress who are against Israel. Everyone else is for Israel. The map still is in your favor, right?

They don't care. If one person, we don't care who it is, that one person is against us, we'll go after that person and make sure he or she can never be in Washington. Okay. So it's fanatical. Yes. Did you have a...

Okay. Does that make sense? All right. All right, guys, we can be all that. Okay. But let me finish my point. Okay. So I'll do one more section, which is, okay, we have a question, which is, okay, you've got these crazies in these secret societies that want to usher in the end times, but this is bad for transnational capital, right? And the answer... and so what I want to show you now is actually if you're transnational capital you like these guys. Okay, so we're seeing an alliance between transnational capital and messianic secret societies. And this is why we live in the world that we live in.

All right. So let me explain to you why, as a capitalist, I actually like these guys. All right. So one thing to keep in mind is capital has no value in itself. Capital is a tool for me to extract your energy, your attention, your consciousness. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So if I'm a traditional capitalist and America is so wealthy, rich, right? So filthy rich, right? I'm in New York City. Maybe the average family here, I'm saying hypothetically, each family has a million dollars. That means the kids don't have to work, right?

But if the kids aren't working, then the system breaks down. So I need to create a condition where people are forced to work. So capitalism creates wealth but it also must destroy wealth at the same time. It doesn't make sense, right? And the best way to destroy wealth is through war and revolution. All right. So this is how capitalism will work, and again I'm not saying this is a plan, but I'm saying this is the nature of capitalism to do this. All right. So I'm the United States, and it's the wealthiest country in the world and all the capital is here.

But this has led to moral, social and political decay, right? Too much debt, too much corruption, too much inequality. And now I can't invest in the United States because I can't get any returns, right? What do I invest in in the United States, AI data centers? There's no return in that. Okay? So this war in the Middle East, which will usher in Pax Judaica, this is the best investment opportunity for me right now, right? Because imagine, okay, maybe 5, 10 years down the road the Middle East is destroyed. Well, it's good for me, because if you're destroyed I can now rebuild. Okay, so coming here I took the New York subway and I was like, wow. And you guys have to take this every day, man.

That's going to tell. And I'm like, okay, what do you do with the New York subway? Because it's going to cost you a fortune to renovate it, right? And it'll take you forever to renovate it. So your only solution, if you're a capitalist, is to burn it down, right? Is that the cheapest way, the most effective way to renovate the New York subway? You just burn it down first, right? Otherwise it's taking like 50 years and billions of dollars, $200 in order to actually make it modern, right?

It's just cheaper and faster. Just burn it down. But if you want to burn down the New York subway, you probably have to burn down New York City as well, right? But I'm telling you this, this is how these guys think. How do I get the best return for my money? And the best return for my money is to invest in places after war, after destruction. Okay. So they moved their capital to Israel, to Pax Judaica, and a lot of this capital is also going to Argentina, Australia, Ukraine, the Mediterranean.

Okay? So basically places that are virgin territory, right? And it's all being anchored by Pax Judaica. Does that make sense? All right. So when the money shifts away from the United States, you have economic collapse. Economic collapse leads to civil war. Now New York City is burned down. The New York subway is burned down. Which means what? Which means now I can invest in a new subway system. So now after maybe 10, 20 years, my capital can return to the United States. Okay. So another way of saying this is the only way for capitalism to work is a constant cycle of destruction, revolution and war.

Without these things, capitalism cannot work. Okay, it doesn't make sense. So you think, okay, well, these cabalists are crazy, but these capitalists are kind of crazy too. So, okay, that is it. I look forward to your questions. Okay. All Well, we'll do a fireside chat first, right?

So the Chinese system, the problem with the Chinese system is that it's not transnational. It's only within a certain ethnic network, so it's much more limited in scope. The other issue with the Chinese secret societies is they're not eschatological. They're political, but they're not eschatological.

Because you needed resources to build these highways and skyscrapers. So capital allowed China to buy these resources from Australia, from South America. Because at that time, 2008, there's an agreement between the Bank for International Settlements and China to increase the value of the Chinese yuan, which allows China to buy up all these resources, and this infrastructure spending has really hollowed out the Chinese economy, because this infrastructure spending has led to corruption, inequality and debt as well. So China's basically done, and there's really no real growth potential for China, and that's why transnational capital is shifting from the United States and China to the Middle East.

Right? Again, if I'm a capitalist, I'm a trillionaire, I'm always looking for a place which will grow. And I think the United States and China are in the same boat. They're both empires in decline.

And if there's not enough food, guess what's going to happen? There's going to be famine in the countryside. This is what happened during the Great Leap Forward as well. So I'm not very optimistic about China. And So you're saying that there will be kind of things.

AI is not just a surveillance tool. What AI is, I mean AI will help us as humans achieve full enlightenment, right? So imagine a microchip implanted in your head, Neuralink, right? That's always telling you the right thing to believe. And if we're able to synchronize all of human consciousness, then that would lead to paradise, right? Because all biases, all prejudices, all negative emotions will be wiped out from the world. Okay. So that's what's happening. AI is not necessarily a revolution. AI is just the fulfillment of capital.

And Israel represents capital and Iran represents religion. So this is a contradiction and only one can win out over the other, but it's impossible for one to defeat the other. I mean the idea of the United States sending in ground troops against Iran, it's going to lead to a quagmire that could go on for decades. But if you're a capitalist, you don't really care, right? Because all you're looking to do is extract as much energy from people as possible. And war does that. You know, war makes people anxious.

It makes them work harder. So the war in the Middle East, it's a perfect investment opportunity if you're a capitalist. And again, guys, I'm not saying this if you're a millionaire, okay? You don't matter if you're a millionaire. I'm saying this if you're a trillionaire, okay? If you're a trillionaire, then the war in the Middle East is a perfect investment opportunity.

And the question is, is there an alternative to this? And the alternative is the return to religion. So countries like Iran and Russia present a direct threat to capitalism. So they call this Duginism actually. Dugin, who proposes, who basically says capitalism is the antichrist system. All right. It's the beast and it negates all that is good in humans, and it includes family, community, emotion, emotions like love. Okay. So this is really the great struggle that humanity will face over the next 50 years, and this struggle is represented by the United States versus Russia.

So whatever force that stops the advent of reason, the advance of AI is fundamentally against God and therefore the antichrist. Okay. Does that make sense? That I think is a subtext of what he's saying.

What's the other?

This is a disaster for the American economy. Therefore, Trump has no choice but to nationalize data centers, right? And why would you want that? Because now you socialize the losses and privatize the gains, right? The data centers cost you a lot of money and they're hard to implement because of community reaction, but if Trump and the United States government comes in and nationalizes these data centers, they are now military installations. Now you have eminent domain. Now the communities can't complain, right? And data centers are the main cost of AI companies.

So you want the bubble to burst so that the federal government can come in and save your ass and then... Yeah. Right. Does that make sense?

They're all financing each other, and as long as they agree to not burst the bubble, the bubble won't burst. What is the mechanism that will burst this bubble? And the answer is, well, they'll make something up. I mean, there are all sorts of pretexts, but these seven will agree at some point to burst the bubble and it will be collusion, and they are actually already... if you just watch the news, okay, so many news articles about this bubble's going to burst, this bubble's going to burst, right? They're already laying the groundwork. It's predictive programming, that's what it is.

You focus on being kind, open and generous with the people around you, on, you know, getting to know your neighbors. I was at the Pacific Palisades in LA. It was the most ridiculous, because they live in these $20 million to $200 million mansions and they don't even know their neighbors. I was talking to my friend. He's like, "Oh yeah, Steven Spielberg lives down the street." Like, "Well, are you guys friends?" Like, "No, I never met the guy." They live like three houses down.

I never met the guy. Oh, and Adam Sandler. Yeah, he's my next door neighbor. Never met the guy. Never seen the guy. It's so... Yeah. Anyway. Yeah.

I actually don't see it as a battle between JD Vance and Donald Trump. I see Donald Trump as trying to navigate opposing factions, right? That's why JD Vance is still around, because JD Vance works for Donald Trump, right? It was Donald Trump who picked JD Vance, and it's Donald Trump encouraging Donald J to write a book and go on his book tour, right? JD Vance has been on a lot of podcasts, and honestly I think how politics works is if JD Vance were really against Trump, Trump would have, you know, I mean there are lots of things Trump could have done, but I think Trump is a sort of person who tries to maintain as many options as possible, and JD Vance is maintaining an option for...

That will be a very good bellwether of where things will be headed. I think there'll be a compromise of some sort. I think that things will turn around for US-China relations. Okay. So we'll finish these questions and then we'll open up. Okay.

I think AI is a dead end. I think there's a limit to AI, and the reason is AI is completely dependent on the global supply chain, right? So you'd be able to access rare earths, lithium, silver really cheaply from around the globe. But if these supply chains are breaking down, then it's very hard to take AI to the next level. And you ask yourself, in a time of global disruption, is AI really the best place to invest your money? So I think we've basically reached the peak of AI and I'm not very optimistic about where AI will take us.

It's an act of imagination. And you could also say Satan doesn't really exist. What is Satan? I mean in my own conception of the universe, only the monad exists. And evil is something that we conceptualize to explain the world we live in. But you know, Dante would say the fundamental principle of the universe is free will, and if we're imaginative, real imagination comes from a place of love. So it's almost impossible to be imaginative for evil purposes.

Okay. What do you think the role of an artist is during this time?

Okay? Your soul, the soul in you, the spark in you that was dormant for such a long time because things are so comfortable, it's now begging for answers. And so I think this may lead to a spiritual awakening and an evolution of humanity. But this is something that is not obvious at some point, because this is something that we have to seek together, and together we will build the...

And you've already said that Israel has a high birth rate, you know, three children per woman. But the demographic of Israel going forward, most births are towards the Hasidic Jews or the Palestinian Israelis, the Arab Israelis, right?

They're moving to Argentina. The reason is they don't like the messianic mess, right? So rather than fight them, which would lead to civil war, it's like, screw this, we'll just move elsewhere, right? So they're moving to Argentina, they're moving to the Mediterranean, they're moving to Australia, these places. But what this means is that if these people are leaving, okay, people from Tel Aviv are leaving, that means that Israel becomes even more messianic, right? The settlers have even more power. And so I see Israel transforming from a democracy to a theocracy in the next few years.

I think this election in October will be very telling and it'll be very interesting to see what happens. But the idea of a democracy can't last. Okay. For Pax Judaica to take shape, what has to happen is you have to have a priest class, the theocracy, and you bring in millions of immigrants from India and they become basically your slave class, and that's what they want, and that's what they want to...

Okay. And one of them actually is India. I think the others are Ghana and Nigeria. Okay. So yeah. Right. Thank you for your lecture. I'm interested to learn more about how Kabala was co-opted by the West, because from my understanding it was developed in Andalusian Islamic Spain and then spread out into Christian Europe, and now it's influencing the occult and secret societies. So how did Kabala become part of Christian Zionism? And what other occult strains do you think should be studied, both to understand the world and as an alternative to create something new?

And it should have been extinct many, many decades ago. It's a very small movement and now it's everywhere. Okay, it's in Ukraine. It's very close to Putin. It's very close to Trump. Javier Milei in Argentina, he's actually a Chabad Lubavitch member. Okay. So from their perspective, it's a miracle. Okay. It's divine how they were able to survive such persecution and now grow and become so powerful, and they believe they did so because of their understanding of the Cabala, but their understanding of the Cabala is also messianic and they call for the end times.

Okay. And they're so energized. I mean the history of the Cabala, sorry, the history of Chabad, it is so mesmerizing if you actually go deep into it. Okay, so I'll tell you one story. Have you guys ever asked yourself how Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire? Because Facebook is not an original idea. There are lots of Facebook-like concepts around at that time. Why did Facebook come to dominate social media? And the answer is Mark Zuckerberg was able to take Harvard intellectual property, because Facebook is Harvard intellectual property, and he was able to ignore Harvard privacy rules, right?

Because with Facebook, you shouldn't be able to access that person's face and address and personal details, but they were able to do so. So where did Mark Zuckerberg get this power? Okay. Well, when Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard, he was part of Harvard Chabad, which is the campus offshoot of Chabad. He was a freshman when he joined Harvard. The two seniors who were part of Harvard Chabad at the time were Natalie Portman and Jared Kushner.

It's actually a very messianic story, because who in the Bible couldn't have children and then asked God for a blessing and then had a child? Well, it was Abraham and Sarah, who had Isaac, right? And then Abraham sacrificed Isaac to God. But it was also the prophet Samuel's parents who couldn't conceive. So they begged God and said, look, if you give us a child we will make this child your servant, and then they conceived and had Samuel, and then Samuel became the prophet who anointed King David.

Okay. So if you know the Bible you know that when Mark Zuckerberg tells his story it's coded language. It means he's a servant of God. All right. If you look at what he's doing, creating the metaverse, why would you do that, right? So there are a lot of really strange things about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, and you can't explain it just using venture capital sense. For example, why does Mark Zuckerberg have complete control over the company? Why as a venture capitalist would you allow a 19-year-old, 20-year-old to have complete control over Facebook?

You guys know this, right? He doesn't have majority equity, but he has majority control. He has certain shares that give him total control of Facebook. Why would you allow that to happen, right? So there's a lot of strange things behind Facebook. Okay, now why do I say this? Because in 2016 what happened? The Cambridge Analytica scandal happened. What's the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Basically this company was able to access 50 million Facebook users' personal data and then create microtargeting that allowed the Trump team to sway the election in their favor, right?

You guys know this, right? Okay. Head of Facebook was Mark Zuckerberg. Who was head of the Trump social media team responsible for this microtargeting?

And I didn't have a travel letter, and there's a real fear that I missed my flight, and I think before, maybe five years ago, I would have been really anxious, but I told myself, okay, if I get into the United States it's because someone wants me here, if I don't get in it's because the one that doesn't want me here. So I'm trusting the universe more, right?

You know, you can't connect back to the monad if you don't actually believe in the monad, and I think that in the future, because of all these calamities, those who are spiritual in nature will be most able to survive the coming crisis. And the Chinese people are not at all spiritual. The Japanese are, but the Chinese are not.

I mean the guy's brain did not function, but he was able to finish his term, right? I mean in the year 2020 we had a bet, is Biden able to finish his term given his medical ailments? And I think most people would be like, no, he won't be able to finish his term, and Harris will be the first, you know, female president of the United States. I think most people would say that, and people who knew his predicament would say that.

But he finished his term. So I think it's hard to appreciate how, once you're in that position, whether you're Putin or Xi or Trump, you never want to let go. You want to cling on until they snatch it from you.

Okay. So for me, it's just satisfying to think that there's a monad. And so I just went through life not being able to answer a lot of questions, and the monad helps me answer all the questions, and emotionally in my heart I believe it's right. Right. Because at the end of the day, you can only trust your heart. You can only trust yourself. And anyone who tells you not to trust yourself, trust the science, well, that person is probably Tony Fauci, right?

And you shouldn't trust the guy.

It leads to dexterity, but it's the opposite. It actually leads to fragility. And so if there's one problem that arises somewhere, it cascades across the entire world. And look, again, I hate to say this, but you've got 8 billion people and their only resources are enough to support two billion people, and this includes water and food, right? So what are people going to do? You have kids and you're in Africa and there's not enough food and water. What do you do? Well, you migrate, right? You migrate.

You join bands of pirates, bandits, because that's the best way to survive. Then you become an army, right? Then you try to overwhelm the defense of Europe, which leads to wars. This is what happened during the Bronze Age. The migration is going to be a huge problem in this world over the next 10 years because there's not enough food to feed people. Famine is going to be a huge issue and this will lead to war. This is not World War II. This is a breakdown of... and you know, when this happens, when people don't have enough to eat, human decency goes out the window.

Okay? I don't care that you're a human being. You have food. You have water and I need it from you so I'm going to kill you. It's dog-eat-dog, right?

I mean, imagine the amount of change we've had these past six months. It's been crazy, and so the pace of change, the acceleration, is just off the charts. So I can't tell you what the world will be like over the next 50 years, because every year will be different. But I can tell you to reclaim your spiritual heritage, to remember that you do come from a monad, that each of us comes from a monad, but most of us choose to forget that because it's just easier for us.

Everybody my age is currently being propagandized to hate Israel, to hate America. How are they going to use us as a tool to work for them?

So yeah, you're like, right now there's no way I go to war, but five years from now things could be very different.

Okay. So it's an act of faith. Having a family is an act of faith. And so if you just say, well, I mean, if I do a cost-benefit analysis, I should have a family, you get nowhere. But if you're like, you know what, if I have a family, if you do that, then what happens is, oh my god, now I must do what is necessary in order to raise a family. Then you manifest it and then your life becomes different.

And the question then is, okay, how can we reconcile this with the monad, and what Dante would say is that if the monad truly loves us, the monad's gift to us is free will, so you can choose to do whatever you want. You can choose to create this world that we live in, which is very technologically advanced, materialistic, but which has led to tremendous human suffering. Okay, we choose to do this or we can choose to create another world.

Okay, but for the imagination to truly be effective, there has to be complete freedom. So I think that to say, you know, these people are evil and they are manipulating human events for the wrong things, that's not what the monad would say. The monad would say, if these people can choose to do these things, you can choose to do other things as well. And even though they seem to have all the power, your imagination is a true power. So if you have faith in your imagination, then that will be your light.

Okay.

It leads to financial speculation and then you have to invest a lot in the military, right? So no one wants to be the global reserve currency, and so I think by default there'll be a basket in place. Already you have these European banks saying, you know, we'll start using the Chinese be more. So I think the US dollar will still be around because it's a default option and there's no other alternative, and so it's not that the US dollar will be replaced, it's more like you have total global economic collapse, right? So the currency is no longer relevant because nations are no longer able to trade with each other.

So I think the stupidity and the arrogance of the leaders today is just beyond anyone's imagination.

So how much importance would you place on personal and familial gardening and plant cultivation as a way to survive what is coming?

But they literally believe this and so they choose to put their heads in the sand. So when that happens, they'll just break down mentally and then they'll just die.

I felt traumatized because of my childhood in Toronto and my education at Yale. I just was very angry and depressed at the world. I was like, why am I here? What purpose does it serve anyone for me to suffer like this? There can't be a god, because no god would be this evil to make me suffer. I just felt like my life was just pointless and there was no god. There couldn't be a god because it was so chaotic. But now looking back at my life, I felt like the only path to my own personal enlightenment, my own personal salvation, was through this path. You know, if I really wanted to open my eyes and see the truth, I needed an intense period of personal suffering and personal questioning.

And there's really no other way, right? I mean, how am I able to be so creative? And I think that my creativity comes from these decades of personal trauma. And I'm not saying personal trauma leads to creativity. Okay? I'm not saying that. I'm not saying to traumatize your kids, man. Okay? I'm not saying that. But I'm saying we all came for a purpose and this purpose determines a lot of things that happen in our life. And you know, I think that I came with a specific purpose of trying to enlighten others, and that means first of all seeking self-enlightenment, and that can only be done through personal tragedy and personal trauma.

So I don't know why these things happen to people, but I would say if they look deep within themselves they will find a deeper meaning behind all these tragedies. I think a lot of people in this room, and I know certainly for myself, have gone through something traumatic that made them ask more questions about the world, and that's what opens them up to your ideas.

And what others do and think doesn't really matter to me. But because I had this passion for truth seeking, that's allowed me to reach many people when the time is appropriate. So I would just say do what is right in your heart. And what is right in your heart is to pursue the truth. Because I could imagine myself working a job I didn't like, saying things that I didn't believe, even though that's what most people do. But that's why I've been poor my life, because I'd rather be poor than live the lie.

So a lot of things are just a personal choice, and what others choose I think is not really relevant. Okay. Sorry, so, but someone at the back.

If you have to behave good in order to go to heaven. So my question would be, how do I overcome that bridge of me going to people and saying, hey, there is hope, there is love to share? I don't know if I make myself Yeah, I understand.

His or her own telos, and he or she is going to seek a path that is right for him or her, and you can provide some support, but you cannot actually direct the child in the way that you want. And if you try to control the child, it's going to lead to a lot of unhappiness, because the child will be unhappy and the child will make you unhappy. So one thing that I've learned to do is basically trust the child and let him or her seek the path that he or she wants.

And so my child who's eight, he doesn't speak any English, because, well, I mean, he doesn't want to learn.

And a lot of the reason why is when I do things I don't like, I can't sleep. So the most miserable six months of my life was when I was working for the United Nations in Afghanistan. And if you ever worked for the United Nations, okay, it is like the best job possible. It is the easiest job possible because, like, no one actually does any work and you're there collecting a huge paycheck, and, you know, they give you this blue, and it feels really good. But I couldn't sleep, because I knew that what I was doing came at the cost of the local Afghan people, because the local Afghan people were, like, starving.

And I was making, like, you know, six figures a year, and I was having, like, you know, lunch at a restaurant that was five stars, and so I couldn't live for myself. I mean, I literally could not sleep the entire time. I was grinding my teeth. I had anxiety. So after that, I just learned, like, I'd rather suffer than betray myself. And I think that's actually true for everyone. It's just, like, maybe others have a higher tolerance than I do.

Okay. So I knew this because you could see it, and so I couldn't sleep at all, and I was so relieved after I quit.

So you know, this is just a phase, a stage in our lives, and we are eternal. Our souls are eternal, and when we come back at a later stage we will be much more enlightened. We will be much happier, and we won't have to go through the same process again.