Professor Jiang Xueqin | Predictive History, Western Collapse, & The Ivy League Issue

masters almost surely have a plan something there beyond the realm of man and until who was just don't know higher side chatters from the sunshine state i'm greg carlwood and one of the biggest frustrations a lot of us have with conventional geopolitical analysis is repeatedly seen academics and historians that know all the right names and dates yet they have a terrible grasp on true power and the mindset of those who have it and want to keep it they remain ignorant of unadvertised motivation secret packs and occulted belief systems that actually make the gears of the big machine move they assume the goal of benevolent governance rather than complete subjugation and wealth extraction they assume altruism when really they should be thinking unbridled global dominance we're told to never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence but what is the functional difference between an incompetent elite class and an apathetic or even psychopathic one how convenient that our first assumption should be that they mean well even if the data shows us continuing to slide deeper into the red when can we seek accountability based on the results rather than some hypothetical inference that they were at least trying to help well one educator that seems to be bucking the trend in assumed elite ethics and going quite viral for it is today's guest professor Jiang of predictive history he started posting the lectures to his high school students in beijing to youtube in april of 2024 and has seen a meteoric rise in popularity raking up millions of views because he's willing to explain how power really works throughout history on his channel you'll find lectures on damn near everything meritocracy christian zionism geopolitics gnosticism human psychology how societies collapse secret history secret societies the weaponization of culture and most importantly an objective and honest look at empire game theory and cycles in ways that help us better contextualize our own times he also authors the number one rising substack page in world politics again under the name predictive history inspired by isaac asimov's foundation series and the concept of psycho history professor Jiang seeks to start a new global intellectual academic movement that connects us to the past explains the present and even predicts what we can expect in the future through this predictive history lens so let's dive into it the global elite educator psycho history sense maker and china's own harry sheldon professor Jiang welcome to the higher side thank you so much greg yes it is a real pleasure and honor i'm a big fan of what you do and how you do it i'm a real sucker for a nice whiteboard presentation but elaborate on the goal and approach that you take obviously history lectures are nothing new but why do you think yours have resonated so much so thank you so much for inviting me greg i'm a big fan of yours i've been been watching your interviews for the past couple of days but before i answer your question i want to tell a story of how we got to this point because i think your viewers will find it really interesting so i was watching kirk metzger um his live stream and you were on the live stream uh i believe a couple weeks ago you guys were having this great conversation and you would make some great points and i was feeling like yourself how i would love to sit down with you guys and engage in a conversation and then suddenly a person gives you a super chat and on the screen my name comes up and says hey have you guys seen pretty good of history have you what do you think of professor Jiang you know i'm like wow that's interesting and then the next day you email me and says hey i would love to interview you and then i read back immediately and says hey i would love to interview i would love to talk to you as well so it seems as though the universe wants us to be here today it seems as though the universe wants this moment to happen so i'm really excited to talk to you today i've been watching your videos for the past couple of days i love your interviews i love the questions you ask i love your approach i just love the way that you see the universe so i just want to get it out there before uh we begin wow super kind of you and yes i agree that i like synchronicities that happen like that and here we are yeah so to answer your question so i'm trying to i'm trying to sort of movement that re-examines how study is analyzed and presented my concern with history before is that it tells a great story it's very entertaining but it seems incoherent there are different pieces they all seem off in their little silos and so we don't really see history as a coherent narrative about how we got to where we are and where we're going so my thinking is that each time you tell a story you are making certain assumptions about the values about mores of people and so what you can do is you can take these assumptions and extend it forward you can extrapolate them into the future and so your analytical model becomes your predictive model and so what this means is that just by making predictions about the future based on your understanding of history you can test if your understanding of history is correct or not so i believe that within historians ought to be making more predictions about the world in order to test their own models in order to validate and refine their own analytical models and so what i've done is that in the past two years i've told the story of civilization of humanity from the ice age up to the very present the pax americana and so embedded in this analysis are these frameworks of how history moves of how history develops and so based on that i can now make some assumptions or predictions about where we're going next 50 years and so these predictions will then allow me to validate my analytical models so that's the that's the basic premise of what i'm trying to do yes and i think it's going really well if you look at your most popular videos the number one up there million and a half views is you talking about the iran trap and a year ago you kind of broke down the geopolitical strategy between the u.s israel and iran basically laying out well in advance a lot of what has happened in the last year and the motivations behind the actions and where it will go now let's start there talk to us a little bit about the decline of the west which is a huge theme in your work and the geopolitical actions you expect to be taken as this process kind of runs its course if you just look at the grand trajectory of history empires rise and fall there's nothing you can do about it so i believe that america right now is in the decline phase and when it's in the decline phase it behaves in a certain way uh that's erratic that's violent and which is counterproductive and we're very much seeing um this sort of behavior today where america is um heavily in debt economic inequality is off the charts the bureaucracy the political elite it's ossified it is insular and it's stagnant and it's very corrupt and america right now is the empire is overextended it has over 800 military bases around the world it's fighting all these wars both shadow wars and overt wars uh everywhere and as a result we can see that within the next 10 20 years there will be a decline in american power but this decline will be erratic be violent and it'll be very destructive so that's what i see happening right now yes and you have one lecture where you put up three columns and you talk about kind of the stages of a civilization you talk about how in the beginning or in the rise in the good times a civilization is very open and then as things are progressing and going well it gets increasingly bureaucratic because there's more people involved in all the processes and they get very bogged down and then it goes to a stage of authoritarian and to me that resonates a lot because for the longest time we've talked about how nothing gets done in this country because they kind of hide behind the gridlock the left right divide they're like well i mean we just can't get the votes we can't do anything sorry people we can't do anything to raise your wages or help you or give you any relief because we just don't have the votes it's it's the other team and it goes back and forth and yes incredibly bureaucratic and then people get so frustrated they say you know what just bring in a guy to break everything like just bring in a guy to get some shit done and yeah it it's a double-edged sword because our country's not founded on authoritarianism necessarily or the this the idea of one person we try to get away from kingship it seems like that's the american story but yet we get to a point where we're so frustrated with no progress and the bureaucracy that we are almost asking in a problem reaction solution sort of way for someone to cut through all the checks and balances and just get something done for us so i think that model and there are other elements of it but yeah i think you hit the nail on the head with how it's kind of gamed to get us to ask for an authoritarian figure that's right so um you know the classic analogy is of course the fall of the roman republic when you have you know a few patrician families they've monopolized all the resources and the way that they create wealth is by enforcing everyone else to go into heavy debt so one huge issue during the fall of the roman republic was the mobilization of land the patrician class um the erasota class they control and monopolized all the land and everyone else was heavily in debt and we're seeing the same issue in america today where you have you know a few corporations black rock vanguard and they've monopolized all the resources even the land uh even the land itself so you know the average american has become a rentier uh now it's become the rentier economy so it's a very similar pattern in history and as you know during the father roman republic you had a series of crises um and certain individuals that are extremely charismatic they came into power promising to change the system you first have had the gracchi brothers then you had sola then you had julius caesar and you finally you finally had um augustus caesar so it seems as though america will follow this pattern and trump is one of the first great demagogues that that's sort of being propelled into power because of the discontent of the people and he promises very much to um smash the system well that's great to hear that trump's just the first of a couple demagogues we might get before it all falls apart yeah so in one of your most popular lectures to get more specific you lay out five predictions for the west in the next five to ten years maybe it takes 20 you know it's more about the trend not the exact speed in which we run through these things but the five are decline of democracy and freedom more authoritarian approaches to things check economic collapse as people have less rights to speak up in the system they also have less will to work and the system collapses they're less vested in that i think we see that with the younger generations in particular and then immigration so they say let's bring in the immigrants to do the work that the people don't want to do and then that results in conflicts and civil war as you say and then the elite will say well now that the people are fighting before they think this through and come for us the real problem let's send them to die in stupid foreign wars and you say that we will see all five of these things happen maybe in a slightly different order but they do kind of cascade at this point in the life cycle you either get war or revolution you say and to avoid revolution the elite will opt for war so what are some recent events that you might cite as evidence that these predictions are well on their way to coming true especially the foreign wars aspect well i mean first of all in american domestic politics you have tremendous political polarization and this polarization creates gridlock so you know today in america they've shut down the government that's one another sign another sign is that for the past few months trump has deployed ice agents into american cities and but the thing is that the rate of deportation under trump it's still lower than that under obama so then you ask yourself so many agents are being deployed but not that many immigrants are being deported well why is this happening and the answer of course is that trump is trying to create a police state you also have the deployment of national guard units um to major cities in america you have massive clampdown on social media right so recently tiktok has been bought by larry ellison we can expect um major changes to the algorithm and so people's ability to express themselves um will be severely limited and um of course yesterday peter hegseff and donald trump spoke to 800 generals and it seems as though it was a pep rally now what was disturbing about about the pep rally is that peter hegseff kept on emphasizing the enemy the enemy the enemy but he was not being specific about who the enemy is there was no objectives being being articulated um there was no timeline um so so it seemed as though america was what is about to go to war for everyone right i mean like if you just said that china is our number one enemy and we must prepare ourselves for our for the 21st century confrontation with china and that's a defining strategic objective america that makes sense or if you said russia or if you said okay our focus is on the homeland but he was being very very ambiguous about who the enemy is and so it seems like a very open-ended process so that to me is very very worrying um and of course donald trump has been saying for for a long time now that these democratic cities the sanctuary cities chicago and and boston and new york city they're actually a threat to the republic because they refuse the authority of the president and so we can see we can expect greater clashes between these urban cities and washington dc moving forward as you know russia and iran have both come out and said that they expect israel to strike iran again next week or two weeks and we can expect that when israel does it does this it will do this with a full support of trump and the pentagon and we can we can expect that uh iran will respond much more violently than in the first war the 12-day war and this will this will lead to a cascading effect where eventually you might see a sustained war where america deploys ground troops you could also see possibly iran closing on the strait of humus which would drag in other uh countries as well and and this could be the beginning of world war three you look at what's happening in europe you know so recently there were the moldova elections where a pro-european party retained power and we can expect more conflict between modova and russia uh france britain and germany have already come up and said that they want their hospitals to be ready for mass casualty events starting next year you have these drone incursions into poland into your natal nations um so i mean all the signs are we're moving towards major global conflicts as well as domestic repression in america yes that's a great summary and i've heard you say when it comes to russia ukraine ukraine there's estimates of over a million dead already and the average age of their soldiers is now 40 or over 40 which is like really not sustainable it basically shows they're out of people to throw at this thing and you say that from there you expect nato countries like france to say okay we're sending people in and now it's on you know at that point you know you got european nations fighting directly with russia and it's not this isolated thing just to ukraine so that's one problem but then i've also heard you talk about the middle east and the game theory of it all and that israel saudi arabia and iran you know three countries that are definitely not aligned they're in opposition to each other but yet they all would benefit from america getting bogged down in the middle east and in particular ground troops in iran which sounds so far-fetched because there's a perception narrative here that trump actually doesn't want war but there's a lot of people in the cabinet and in the deep state that are like foaming at the mouth just dying to get into a war and that would be why he did something like that strike on iran that precision strike on the nuclear facilities it was kind of to say look you've been hyping up this problem i'm gonna do a precision strike to take care of that problem and and keep the conflicts kind of tampered down and then we can say it's done and so there is a perception that trump himself doesn't really like war he'd prefer to just do business different kinds of business and war kind of gets in the way of that business i don't know how true that is but it seems like the american machine is more than just one man regardless of how he might feel but talk to us about that aspect that israel saudi arabia and iran all kind of want the same thing when it comes to america it benefits them all even though you wouldn't necessarily think that on the surface okay so what's happening in the middle east it's very complicated but and it's very easy to reduce it into just an issue of pure economics uh america right now uh is heavily in debt it's 37 trillion dollars in debt and so it needs other countries especially east asia china japan specifically to continue to buy up u.s treasuries so right now the american economy is one giant policy scheme it needs and it needs people to continue to buy up u.s treasuries in order for this policy scheme to continue so it makes sense for america to take control over the entire global oil supply right so if you go in and you control iran and you control the entire middle east oil supply but then you also go into venezuela which has which has been proven to have the world's uh largest oil reserves right so you control venezuela you control iran uh saudi arabia is already an ally well then you can now dictate oil prices to japan and to south korea and to china because you're because their entire economy is dependent on middle eastern oil you can also dictate uh oil prices to europe as well so purely from the economic perspective going into iran makes sense but i think that actually a much deeper um element and it's and it's eschatological what i mean by that is that there are certain religious elements that control the american national security apparatus these are the christian zionists the evangelistic locals you also have the freemasons you also have the mormons you also have the jesuits you also have these religious extremist jews they're all want the uh a war to erupt in the middle east because for them it's fulfillment of biblical prophecy um they have these grand plans uh for the future it's messianic and they think that by initiating a war in the middle east and dragging the entire world to start world war three you will create something called the war of gog and magog in when the war of gog and magog uh emerges then the jewish messiah will return jesus will return you have a world government uh um so different you know um religious traditions have different eschatologies but they all want this war in the middle east in order to fulfill their prophecy it's almost like a script to them and i believe that these different religious elements have been working together controlling the national security apparatus and that's how we got to the point where uh we are today and people will argue listen um i think you can legitimately argue that this goes way back to the founding of america that america was founded in order to achieve this biblical prophecy and it links up with the jfk assassination it links up with 9-11 and this is the culmination of a plan that was a hatch that was hatched centuries ago and as a result they're kind of desperate they're kind of in a rush they're anxious to actually achieve this plan on a very short timeline like the next five to ten years like like it's like they've been running a marathon for 100 days and now they finally see the finish line and the finish line might be up like a steep mountain but they still want to get there even though it kills them so yeah so i i think you can see what's happening in the east from a purely economic realistic perspective but i think that if you really understand what's going on then you need to go deeper and examine the religious eschatological elements so one way to test our theory is look at the al-Aqsa mosque i believe for the next six months to a year that thing will be destroyed and i'm sure you and your listeners understand what this means for the world i mean the entire islamic world will be up in arms um if it destroyed the third holiest site in islam and if you just look at it from a purely geopolitical perspective you don't understand why they would do that but you have to understand that for all these different religious elements destroying that al-Aqsa mosque and building that third temple it is fundamental to achieving the biblical prophecy that they have in mind yes and i think it's so interesting to watch your lectures where you get into gnosticism and the nephilim and the book of enoch is on your recommended reading list for your students i mean i just think it's so odd to see that and to see a chinese high school teacher teaching kids about the book of enoch because it relates to how power in the west operates and sometimes i think it's quite silly that it all comes down to like this book and no one's really sure how much stock to even put in the book and like this it is weird that it drives everything i am curious about the east i mean the east obviously has its own religions i'm thinking more like you know buddhism and that kind of thing as opposed to like uh islam you know that because that's another abrahamic religion but is there anything like that when it comes to the history of power in china or the east and the notion of trying to manifest some old prophecy from some old religious residue of the last couple hundred years is that uniquely western i mean i can't even say western because again we're talking about israel we're talking about iran they're part components of this but in terms of china's history is there any kind of similar parallel situation um so china is in a unique situation because for a thousand years china was isolated from the rest of the world so if you go back and look at world history you know iran the persian empire uh israel egypt europe they were always in conduct with each other they're always in a dialectic with each other and that's why western civilization it is so diverse it is so eschatological but if you look at china china um has these natural boundaries that protect it from too much western influence right so to the east you have the sea to the west you have the himalayas to the south you have the jungles of southeast asia to the north you have the desert so china was able to maintain its distance and its territorial integrity and that's and because of this it was able to develop a bureaucracy that was in charge for thousands of years now bureaucracies don't like religion bureaucracies see religion as a threat because religion has a way of exciting people in unexpected and unpredictable ways yes and so all these and so these all these different religious traditions that existed in china were slowly diluted or you can even use the word lobotomized and so they lost their they lost their almost divinity they lost their connections to the divine and an example of this is how in china we actually don't have that much mythology we don't have that many stories that we tell each other so uh you know in the west every holiday has you know layers and layers of rich mythology whereas in china our holidays like chinese new year's minam festival it's all about food it's all about people getting together and having food it doesn't really go into the past and discuss how we reach this point and the reason why is that stories allow people to have an imagination and that's a threat to the bureaucratic worldview and um as a result for a thousand years there's heavy censorship in china so all these chinese classics that we still read today um they're very they're very much diluted versions of the original um it sort of lacks imagination it lacks originality um it seems very much like a bureaucratic took these stories and the bottomized these stories of their creativity and their originality so um that's the issue in china today yes i really only know one chinese myth and it's the journey to the west story the monkey god because there's a video game based on it that's how i consume these things but let's talk about china a little bit more because you recently tweeted in america you can criticize individuals but you cannot criticize the system in china you can criticize the system but you cannot criticize individuals and i'm curious how true that is and where the truth is compared to the propaganda that we get inside of the american bubble we hear that china is a very restrictive society not a lot of place for criticism of the ccp lots of human rights abuses organ harvesting of the poor and a technocratic social credit control system implemented nationwide or at least in the major cities that our technocrats are trying to duplicate so a lot of times when american independent journalists are trying to say what we should watch out for they're usually saying we want to watch out for what's already in place in china the facial recognition on the street the sending you a fine if you've jaywalked you know there's the complete control how true is that of chinese society like and how much of it is hype and propaganda yeah so i think that in terms of organization westerners are much more effective than chinese you know chinese it's very much about personality politics it's about who you know it's almost like a mafia state it's you have these different mafia organizations at war with each other and that's what occupies most of their political energy in china so there really isn't that much organization there isn't really that much interest in trying to create this authoritarian uh facade um it really much is a facade so they have this sort of stuff but it doesn't work as effectively as you think it it works as i've been trying for the past 30 years and i'll be very honest with you i've been able to think and write and teach as i deem fit and a lot of it is because i choose not to get rich in china so in china if you want to get rich you have to submit your will to the party you have to find a power a powerful political patron that person will sponsor you but then of course you have to become obedient to that person and that's how the system works you're going to become rich you have to play ball but if you don't become rich like me if you're like i don't really care um i just want to have intellectual freedom then china can be one of the freest places in on earth and that sounds very strange and paradoxical but but it is it is true and and you can tell from my essays on sub stack you can tell from my lectures in the classroom as long as i choose not to get rich as i choose as long as i choose not to monetize my fame people will leave me alone in china but if i became a millionaire then people are going to come knock on my door and say hey where's my cut and that's a situation in in china very interesting yes some things you say there sound a lot like america it is a mafioso system to a degree and to get rich here you know yeah capitalism allows you to make some choices and do your own thing uh but also if you want to get really rich i mean you have to play the game and be a part of the system the way they want you to so yeah i mean it isn't really that different so for people who don't really know your background you were born in china in 1976 your family immigrated to canada in 1983 when you were just seven years old your family was poor but you were hungry and desperate enough that yale did accept you you graduated you went back to china and have taught at all age levels and have been pretty active trying to push for education reforms in china i'm curious what reforms you think are needed how would you explain the differences in the chinese education system compared to the west because i assume both have their own distinct processes of breaking people down yeah um you know i'll be honest with you i think the differences are not as stark as i once believed them to be um given what's happened in the western world uh given what's happened in china i think that these two best cultures are sort of converging um so for the longest time in china my uh biggest concern was um the concept of individuality i wanted my students to learn in a way that would inspire them to reach and fulfill their true potential as individuals and that required a concept of your own individual agency basically to believe that you have your own soul and the soul is eternal and it would bring you the light and happiness to make the soul shine in the world okay so that was the concept that i was trying to promote in china and i was trying to do this through many mechanisms so i started china's first public school international program that was modeled um of a american liberal arts college you know we had a 5 000 book english library um we had seminar classes we had a daily newspaper and then the idea was to provide a space for students to develop a passion for learning uh and a sense of their own individual agency that would carry them for the rest of their lives and that didn't really work out because as you can imagine uh parents didn't like that concept parents wanted to micromanage their children and so i really didn't succeed in that field and for the past four years i've been working just as a high school teacher just teaching the great books and that's been very successful so if you work students at an individual level and you introduce plato homer dante shakespeare to them at an individual level then it's almost as though they find a spark in them it's almost as though the entire purpose of the great books uh homer and dante specifically is to remind people that there's a divine spark in them this divine spark will always connect to the higher good i love that you kind of trojan horsed it in you kind of found a way to package it in an acceptable manner and that's a beautiful thing i think that the self-actualization that is kind of popular in the west is probably one of the best features of it and our perception of china is that it's very centralized and very much like find your place as a cog in this machine it's thought of as like an anthill you know everyone has no individualization they are just working for the system and from our perspective that's like terrifying that's like really a terrible way to live because you have no individualized meaning of course our system is trying to stomp it out and makes it like a a really strong current of a river that you have to swim upstream to find that self-actualization and any kind of economic equivalent to it but yeah i think that's super interesting so i like that in several lectures you make it clear that you're not teaching morals or ethics you're not teaching what should be done you're teaching about the world as it is and you're teaching about power and how it really thinks and what it really does you also have said power is really about narrative and that the crafters of the west really did alchemy turning nothing into everything i love that very provocative terminology i don't know how far to take it really but elaborate on some of these things for us power narrative and alchemy right yeah so if you look at the source of american power today it's really the idea of the u.s dollar as the global reserve currency and if you ask yourself what is the u.s dollar based on it's just based on faith in america it's just based on trust that the american government will not fall and collapse and not go into debt and default okay that's that's all it is now 1945 you have the bread and woods conference and at that point the u.s dollar was in fact pegged to gold and so before 1971 before nixon declared that the u.s dollar would no longer be pegged to gold you could at any point convert u.s dollar your u.s dollar into real gold and that's what the french did right before 1971 um but after 1971 um they got rid of that system so now it's alchemy it's just pure faith in the american government now it's a bit complicated because nixon did two things that was very important to maintain the value and the authority and the credibility of the u.s dollar okay so the first thing it did of course was to work with saudi arabia to create the petro dollar so saudi arabia would only take u.s dollars in payment for its oil and at that time saudi arabia was the world's largest oil producer so that so the petrodollar was born at that time the other thing that he did that was even more important which people don't really understand is he opened china up to the global system 1972 he visits china in the 80s china slowly becomes embedded into the global financial system right and at this time and people don't don't really appreciate appreciate this america is giving china free technology uh free expertise and free market access right so basically america purposefully intentionally built up the chinese export economy to make china dependent on u.s dollars and this relationship still still continues today china exported its cheap labor in the way that saudi arabia exported its cheap oil to america in exchange they all got u.s dollars and these two things is what underpins the value of the u.s dollar today unfortunately what's happened is that america has uh abused its exuberant privilege and now it is 37 trillion dollars in debt america's never gonna pay off this debt so it's i i'm gonna be forced to default on this debt which is very likely or get china japan to continue to buy up u.s treasuries and obviously if you're china you're reluctant you're reluctant to do so because uh it's a giant ponzi scheme and eventually you're gonna be caught holding the bag so that's an example of how perception drives reality how how the world we live in it's just pure alchemy right people believe that money has value another thing that people don't appreciate is how money is created so uh you know richard werner he talks a lot about this in his book the prince of yen okay so so how how does a modern banking system work well most people believe that if i go and take out a loan five million dollars what comes from deposits money right because some people put in five million dollars of deposit of deposit of money and then you take it out and you go invest it open a restaurant or whatever but what people don't really appreciate is the idea of double entry bookkeeping which goes way back and the idea of double book double entry bookkeeping is that a bank when it loans you five million dollars it creates five million dollars out of thin air it's not taking deposits money and giving it to you it's cutting out of thin air when it loans you that money it's actually increasing its assets so if you just look at chinese banks uh chinese banks have become the some of the most uh largest banks in the world why because it kept on letting money and money out of the system and in the double entry booking system debt is considered assets and so that's something that no people don't appreciate and i think that you know you just explain this to someone on the street that person couldn't possibly conceive what you're talking about and that just shows you how powerful these narratives have become embedded into um the social fabric of today yeah those are really great points i remember when i was first kind of red-pilled on the fractional reserve banking system and it did take a while i was like there's just no way that's how it works there's no way it's that simple and there's no way it's that fragile and yet it seems to be the reality so i heard you talk in one of your recent videos about how when you look at the feedback you get obviously a lot of it's positive but they say some of your weak areas are economics and philosophy so i i hesitate to even bring this up but in terms of the debt that the u.s has i only am bringing it up really because even putin's finance minister brought it up but there is something called the stable coin gamut that it seems like america is going to try and obviously i don't want our system to collapse so i hope it's a little successful but instead of all the oil stuff it seems as if the plan is to move to stable coins and to open up banking to like much smaller tech companies that tech companies can now be the new banks and as long as they hold us dollars again you got to create the artificial demand to supplement the huge supply of the printing of the money so instead of saudi arabia taking dollars for oil it's going to be stable coins now and the goal is to open up banking to the second and third world to individual people because they're going to have an interest yield on the stable coins so you'll be able to as an individual there's a lot of places in the world where if you can get five percent on your money and you can just have even a couple thousand dollars like some people live on a few dollars a day so this kind of seems like a win-win in a lot of ways it of course usurps governments around the world if they get the other government citizens to start participating in such a thing but it seems like this is the plan that if they can get all these fintech banks to pop up and then say you're allowed to issue stable coin but you must keep reserves in us dollars there's some calculations that say in a few years we might be able to get close to 30 trillion dollars parked around the world in tech companies that way i'm curious your thoughts on that plan another reason i think it's a good plan i mean obviously the people who made the problem are not the people whose lap it is in right now so you have to have a little bit of empathy for uh this hail mary but i just think there's a couple of positive aspects to it and one of them is that it might avoid the war that we seem to be going towards based on the need for it it might be like this third rail issue so what do you what do you think about the stable coin gamut that america might be trying to toss out there right so as you mentioned economics is definitely not my song strong suit um so i'll probably be screamed at by economists okay but i have two feelings okay so the first is that let's use a thought experiment let's just say 10 years ago we're in canada or france or germany and we see certain crises on the horizon okay so first is the aging crisis our population is getting older and older we have too much debt um the young people are not as energetic as they used to be okay so you know so we get together different um central bankers or um in the western world and we discuss how to resolve this issue and we come with this great plan okay we call this plan open borders right because what we're going to do is this we're going to import all these immigrants from india from china from the philippines from south america who cares okay but they're young they're 20s great plan because these guys are energetic right and they're going to open restaurants and they're going to be construction workers and they're going to be honest and they're not going to take advantage of our welfare system and they're not going to cause any crime and as a result it's a net positive for our society and it resolves all the issues that we've we've accumulated and so guess what they actually did this okay in britain in france in canada in australia and it's a complete dumpster fire yes all right so i don't know if the stable coin work out or not but i imagine if it comes from a bureaucrat who has very little imagination and who is trying to solve a big problem with a very easy solution i imagine that it'll probably a dumpster fire and you're not giving enough agency to individuals right like if you if you are the game maker and you create this crappy game which everyone loses guess what guys everyone's gonna cheat in this game right so these immigrants who go to canada and expected to work like for minimum wage for 50 years so this old pensioner can collect his pension well it's a copy game for him so why would he be be an honest broker in this game why would he be honest and why would he be hard working when the game is really rigged against him he's gonna cheat he's going to be like you know what i'm gonna give him the system in a way that allows me to win right so the stable coin system it looks great but if you just look at it from the different perspective it screws over the people who buy in into the stable coin right so do you think that they're that when they buy in and knowing that they're they'll be cheated they're going to play honestly i don't they will i i think you i think i don't think you give these people enough credit i think they're extremely imaginative i think they're very spontaneous and they work together very well and i imagine that if they do do this i'm not sure if they will do this but i but look these are bureaucrats who have no imagination it's going to open their face this is a pattern that repeats itself throughout history okay so that's point one point two is we have to remember why america is able to get away with uh being the world's reserve currency uh in the world the answer is it's the sole hegemon in the world if you don't play ball america can come and bomb the crap out of you like it did in libya in syria which did not have central banks by the way okay so america can do that and it sets these examples and everyone just plays along but if there's another hegemon that's emerging like russia or china you want to hedge your bets now you're like you know what i want to invest in america but i also want to invest in russia i you know and in china i want to have a portfolio and um i don't think these american policymakers are aware that we're moving towards a multipolar world and a lot of their assumptions a lot of their calculations are based on a unipolar world and that's why i don't think there's a viable solution to the crises that america is facing right now you know those are fair critiques and anyone who's been involved in crypto thus far knows that several exchanges have already folded because they were being dishonest about their reserves and basically there was a digital bank run you know it's really not any different as uh well we put a lot of stuff out there on paper and people came to collect and we don't have it so we're just gonna shut the doors and sorry guys uh so you know i mentioned you went to yale and i think that's really interesting for a lot of people probably around here a little skeptical of that they probably see that as a red flag as you know because of the way the system the ivy league system is set up and that's a really interesting part of your work so talk to people about your insights into particularly harvard and the ivy league of american schools because some of these thoughts are that it just seems like harvard's been very crucial in particular and has been kind of curating and essentially engineering the true influencers of the american controller class basically churning out psychopaths you could say yeah i mean look if donald trump got into a fight with harvard and yale and the ivy league and if donald trump were to bankrupt these institutions and these institutions were to disappear from the face of the earth i guarantee you that america will um enter the golden age it will make america great again interesting i think these ivy league i believe institutions have been parasites on the american republic they pay no taxes on their endowment they were land-grant universities they get billions of dollars in federal contracts so they're parasitic and then you ask yourself what have they contributed to america well let's go over the um list okay first thing they created is this hunger games education system that that's in america today i mean it's traumatizing young children when i went to yale it was the hug the hunger games like you know i thought that when i got to yale uh it's like paradise i go there it's country club and then i graduate and i become a lawyer and then you know my life is good but it's really the hunger games you go there and from day one they expect you to compete against your classmates because you know yale graduates 1500 students a year but they only need like 10 to succeed because if these 10 succeed they succeed spectacularly and so it's almost like a venture capital firm in that you know you invest a thousand companies knowing that 900 of them will fail but hey you need one or two big unicorns and you're good and you don't really care what happens to the people in these 900 companies that fail so we're almost like disposable tools that yale is using in order to burnish its uh reputation so the first thing that i would say about the ivy league is that it's really the hunger games that that's traumatizing young people in america today second thing is that it's led to tremendous inequality in america if you look at all the wealthy people well they kind of graduate from these um ivy league institutions uh which are private and then they give their money to these ivy league institutions and these ivy league institutions are not interested in helping america they're only interested in improving their endowment and so they let in all these princelings from china they let in all these children of tyrants from africa i mean like these ivy league schools they're they're multinationals they behave like multinationals that's not interested in giving back to america and helping america develop it's only interested in helping themselves um another thing that i will say ivy league is that it's led to tremendous mediocrity among the american elite you look at people like barack obama and jd vance and george w bush they were all credentialed members of the ivy league they they all went went to the schools and then they came out and then they were sort of ushered into positions of power they have no imagination they have no critical thinking skills they have no empathy and no no they have no capacity to reflect listen i know this is going to sound like an extreme statement but i think the ivy league is the ultimate mk ultra experiment that's what i think i think that if you grew if you went to ivy league and you did wellness system now you are an mk ultra mentoring candidate because all you care about okay you are so desperate for approval okay you're so desperate for success and achievement because you're a hollow shell that you will do anything in order to succeed right i mean i i've said this in my lectures but but i think people who graduate from the ivy league and who ascend to the top they're soulless they have no ideas of their own they're only interested in success for the sake of success you know i think you know you go back go back to america in um the early decades you know george washington never went to college abraham lincoln you know went to uh night school and they were great and and that's what i think you know what's great about america because it was a society focused on individual achievement it was a society focused on talent and nowadays it's a the ivy league represents a rigged game in which the winners will always win and the loot and everyone else is is a loser i mean you you with the ivy league the advent of the ivy league with the now that the ivy league has monopolized education um you have the complete collapse of american dream you have the complete collapse of social mobility so i don't mean i honestly don't have anything nice to say about these institutions yeah i find that to be really interesting it's just not an aspect of american culture that really is targeted and highlighted as often as it probably should be and you cover a lot of that history in a video titled death by meritocracy and i was going to bring up the points you're making right now that it really isn't a critique on a true meritocracy you're criticizing a corrupt rigged closed loop of controller class wealthy families that lord over the rest of us that is not a merit-based system that is a private club and a privileged based system and it's a lot like how when people talk about the free market here like let the free market do its thing it's like well come on the free market is pretty rigged so if you really want a free market i will take that bet but that means a lot of the legacy privilege and legacy systems and massive multinational corporations would go away or at least it wouldn't have the same favor that they have so i see like a parallel there but when people are talking about trump trying to institute a meritocracy it's like well of course nothing in its pure form is implemented it's always got all these caveats to it but if not a meritocracy then what i mean i think i support the notion of a meritocracy but what you're criticizing in this video with that title doesn't really qualify that's right yeah so i think that in the past few years america has become a credentialized society and before it wasn't before you know you go back 100 years people didn't want to go to university because they didn't want to be like an egghead there was a deep rooted skepticism of intellectuals in america and that system worked really well i mean i i don't understand why jobs require a college degree certain jobs require college degree right if you are a professor of course you need a college degree you have a phd but most jobs don't require a college degree what you do what i do don't require a college degree if i want to become a teacher i shouldn't go to college i just have to go to a teacher's college which is what happened you know 50 100 years ago so i think that in this past 50 years this is there's been this massive expansion of the tertiary education system of higher education of universities and a lot of these universities have absolutely no business being universities they should be trade schools or they should be professional schools but they shouldn't be universities right and what's happened is that a lot of these universities have become glorified party schools you know kids go there to drink beer and watch football games for four years and you can tell because when you go to these universities what they really brag about is not you know the quality of professors what they really bragged about is the quality of their dorm rooms right and the sports teams i mean like yeah so i think the uh high education system everywhere okay not just in america but also in china it's bloated it's unnecessary and i think that if we go back to a system more focused on vocational training trade schools community colleges that would um that'd be better for everyone in the long term yes great points and another thing that's changed in america is you used to get a job and then your first month or two is training now you get a job and they're like you're supposed to already know how to do the job we're not training you you're working from day one and that system creates a lot of inefficiencies too and people may not realize how sorry go ahead sorry i want to make this point okay so i'm in china and the medical system is staffed by the worst students in china because no one wants to be a doctor in china everyone wants to be a financier or a scientist or a politician but no one wants to be a doctor so the worst kids are you know siphoned into the medical system and what happens is they have two to four years of mentorship and then you know they do five to ten years of an internship and they're fine because being a doctor it's not about how smart you are smart you are it's about how much experience you have how much mentorship you have how much guidance you have and so china has a pretty good medical system even though the students who became doctors were not the best students in in the school and you compare that with the american system so you have a medical system which is bloated expensive and deeply parasitical unfair unjust and it's staffed by you know the the smartest students in in america so so you know the large point i'm trying to make is that most jobs i would say every job does not require you to go through a meritocracy it requires you to be a mentor and apprentice in a proper way if you just do if you just did that then everyone would have access to the american dream yeah great points that's another thing that we don't have as much as we used to as the mentor mentee relationship and just bringing up the chinese medical system is interesting because of course china manufacturing hub of the world that includes pharmaceuticals that includes fentanyl and this kind of stuff and yet in america i think a lot of people who are disenfranchised with the big pharma system are looking to like ancient chinese medicine for more wisdom about the body and and better like processes and more holistic approaches and there's like a old mystical chinese philosophy about the body and healing that a lot of alternative thinking americans are gravitating towards and i just think it's funny that that's the source for the problem and solution in a sense because of the manufacturing but going back to the ivy league people may not realize that as you've pointed out harvard's endowment is 40 billion dollars they're sitting on 40 billion dollars it's invested it's probably making more money even still but they don't share that with america they don't contribute anything or donate that to any systems that that help regular people and calling the ivy league and harvard like a venture capital firm is so good it's almost like the show shark tank where people come up with their pitches of what they might want to be and harvard decides oh yeah we'll take we'll take a shot on this guy and like you say it's just you only need a couple of people to succeed but when they rise the ranks in fame and fortune in america it creates a perception to regular people that i can never get there without going to these schools and yeah it becomes like a marketing thing of successful people go to these five schools and that's it so man i know we are coming to the end of this thing i really just got maybe two big questions for you so when it comes to troubled times a lot of people say that is when the mystics the gurus the the more uh esoterically inclined people need to step up the forecasters you could say they have to step up there's a certain courage in forecasting in chaotic scary times of course power doesn't like it you know if we are using like a harry sheldon analogy from foundation that is it you know the he comes up and says hey empire is gonna collapse and empire says fuck you you're gonna collapse i'm taking you out to the edge of the galaxy and you're gonna die out and then the whole series is about how no that little seed blossoms into something big and the prediction comes to pass even when it's been spoken out to the world that even can't stop it so that's right i am curious about the predictions you have given some of them are some of them are i'd say a little mild even though obviously it's been a huge boon to the attention given to you but do you have predictions that have come to you where you say i can't bring that up i can't go public with that that's too extreme or that's going to drive people crazy is there anything that you just haven't felt bold enough to to come out with that you've gotten from the same mechanism yeah i believe that 99 of humanity will be wiped out the next you know 100 years yeah sorry okay okay yeah uh yeah that's a big one through what mechanism well i mean you have a perfect storm of crises okay including a geophysical event which which might be a mini um ice age but it could also be like a uh polar shift right so so you see the news about this polar shifting right well that has tremendous impact on the geophysical structure of the planet um and so you're going to have you know massive devastation floods earthquakes tsunamis all that you also have a mini ice age that i think is is going to appear you're going to see a lot of extreme weather weather weather events in the winter i think this winter is supposed to be extremely cold and destructive in the united states in in north america you'll have epidemics uh raging you'll have wars raging you'll have revolutions so you know for the next 20 years it's like we're in a cali yoga and there's no escape from it it's just gonna be worse and worse and worse i mean like it doesn't benefit me or anyone for me to say this right it's like okay guys for the next you know 50 years it's just complete hopelessness until about 99 humanity gets ripped out and then maybe after that we can start rebuilding so i've never really said said this before yeah well i'm glad i asked so but this is also a thing a lot of people who have the conscious connection or they get prophetic dreams a lot of it is tragedy and so you'll have people in like the 80s and 90s who have had these recurring dreams of nuclear exchanges and bombs going off and chaos and cataclysm and yet here we are you know here we are 40 years later half a human lifespan what good is it to someone in the 80s to have these prophetic dreams of apocalyptic tragedy and then have it not manifest so i'm not saying you're wrong because i definitely believe in cyclical cataclysms and there's a lot of research being done on resets and who built these buildings really like did they just move in and you know the hope you talk about being taken underground by beings to survive such a cataclysm so like it's in there i i agree but sometimes the timeline the timing of it is so off that it becomes useless information in a human lifespan because if you're talking potentially about something 500 years in the future it means nothing to us today like of course it's eventually going to all collapse there's something interesting about the people who have the consciousness connection oftentimes are being shown tragedy regardless of if tragedy is near or not it's just an interesting pattern i recognize what do you think yeah so um i think absolutely right in that every age will have its prophets will have its mystics who see the future and but they don't really know the timeline because remember in the higher consciousness there's no time and space right so something that could happen a year later a hundred years later they don't know they just know it's gonna happen so they have no sense of the timeline and all they're doing is just telling people what they've seen in my situation what i've done is i've given a series of short-term predictions including destruction of al-Azhar mosque including the us invasion of iran including nato fighting russia and odessa and these short-term predictions are a really good way for me to see if i actually have prophetic powers if my if my prediction models actually do work and if they work out then you should you know maybe listen to me some more but if they don't work out then you know i'm a false prophet and you know i can just go home and you guys can go listen to like kurt metzker or you know like what alex jones alex jones right so so yeah so i you know i i think what's good about the internet is it's a marketplace of ideas and what's uh drawing people to me is the fact that i was able to predict certain events and i continue to make these make big predictions and if these predictions work out well then i think that people should try to understand my my worldview the other thing is that you know i've always been a really shy person i really don't like the limelight like some people thrive in the limelight right like some like politicians like bill clinton i've said i've actually seen bill clinton in person i've actually attended a speech of his and he'll give like a 20-minute speech and he'll be there for another three hours shaking hands with people he's a very social person he just loves that whereas i hate that i hate being in the public i hate you know talking to people it it annoys me it frustrates me so more like you right right so so i've chosen to spoke speak speak out because something inside me said now it's time to speak up you can't hide it anymore uh you have to reveal yourself and you have you have to like tell people what you know and i understand there are lots of risks inherent in this i mean i could be shut down in terms of social media uh because of things i've said uh i could be hunted down by nefarious forces or offering a counter narrative i have three young kids so i'm very protective of my three young kids but you know something something is telling me you have to speak up now because the time has come and wow i i don't know if i'm being delusional but but but but some force is telling me you have to speak up now and you have to reveal yourself and you have to be honest with people don't hide anymore be honest with people and people will understand and you know if they don't understand they will understand because of what's what will come wow i mean this has just become so much more interesting than i even thought it would be because you've opened up about some of that stuff and that is a pattern with some guests i interview like this is a common thing i don't necessarily have it myself but it's happening more and more to people i talk to and it seems like fate brought us together so this is the thing i think we should end on so the predictions are a bit dire sir but you do have this post about what can be done and you write as the world splinters we must hold ourselves together by embracing the ultimate truth love is the unifying force of the universe and our imagination is the animating force i predict that the world will go to hell and many of you ask what can be done first appreciate that as we are in the universe so is the universe in us the ancients like to say as above so below through the intentions of our actions we can alter the destiny of the universe second appreciate that each and every one of us is here for a purpose and we know it because we find delight in moving towards it distress when we move away from it the greeks have a word for when we achieve our teleos purpose edaimonda flourishing we flourish when we love learn and create third start here now commit to your own flourishing at this moment and this moment becomes eternally yours well i'll drink to that but talk to us a little bit as we're wrapping up here about how we can actually implement those insights into meaningful action well so the powers that be their main mechanism of control is your fear and your ego right the entire culture especially in our culture is structured around in augmenting your fear and ego and you have to learn to overcome your fear and your ego if you are to thrive thrive as a human and we're all meant to thrive that's why god created us to flourish uh and but to do that you have to believe in your potential to love and often you know the hardest thing is not to love someone but to forgive yourself some of us have done so much transgressions have committed so much evil that we embrace the demonic forces we've been traumatized as children and so we feel as though the only salvation are these demonic forces and what we need to believe is that this spark in us it will never go away because the spark is the vine and the spark connects us to the vine but it also means the vine in us so if we continue to do evil we continue to stress the divine becomes more corrupt and that's actually the goal of the powers that be to corrupt us so so it's corrupt the divine and so it's within your power to save god and to save yourself but you just have to like let learn to forgive yourself and believe that you can be your own salvation and redemption and that's the hardest thing to do actually loving someone is not is not hard but forgiving yourself is the hardest thing in the world and that's why jesus was so important jesus was an important revelation because now you have this external force that could forgive us but jesus jesus will only take you part of the way to go the full way you have to embrace your own individuality you have to believe the divinity within you and that's the hardest thing to do in the world once you do that then you change the world for the better i love it awesome well professor this has been a real treat you've tapped into something that is really resonating with people me included and i congratulate you on the success what's next what should we tell people about following you going forward if they had a good time here yeah so um i have two ways uh that i communicate with the world my first is my youtube channel predictive history so i upload all my lectures to that channel there are lots of like channels that like counterfeit me that like you know take my material into clips i'm not associated with them i'm okay with sharing my message and i actually thank them for making my lectures much more digestible but please remember that i only have one official channel in this predictive history okay so so so you can watch that all my lectures on youtube i also have a sub stack that you can subscribe to um in which i write essays and it's it's a pretty diverse group of essays but sometimes i write about geopolitics as well and i'm focusing a lot on geopolitics because i'm afraid that we're headed towards war in the middle east um i think it's very likely that america will attack iran in the next few weeks possibly next week sooner so those are the best two ways to get in touch with me i also have a twitter account um you can follow me on twitter at shue chin jiang but but um yeah but my sub stack and my youtube channel are the best ways to um follow my work awesome and if people have a hard time spelling the twitter handle i'll put it in the show notes so you can just click and follow man amazing stuff just uh i'm all charged up for the day but thank you so much and take care right great thanks so much greg it was lovely to talk and uh let's try to do this again sometime yes indeed well hallelujah take me home country roads now that was something i know professor jiang is getting a ton of attention and i'm really thankful that a pretty odd little synchronicity brought us together i told you guys that i've kind of felt like i'm in flow for the first time in many years i even cited that kurt metzger interview where he had me on his show in the list of reasons to do the charlie kirk solo examination i don't even want to say solo show it was only 45 minutes but it was a deep dive into the available material at the time and it became the biggest flood of new subscriptions that i can remember at least since covid probably further back than that and one of the recent thc clips that the clip makers used was from the plasma show but it was a clip about manifestation and i saw comments on there that manifestation is bullshit the kids in gaza can't seem to manifest their way out of the situation manifestation is a lame new agey first world rich persons kind of mindset easy to manifest when you have everything you know these sorts of comments that you hear on the subject and i do get that mindset i have definitely been in the mental state of fuck all that everyone's out to get me i can't seem to get ahead and if any magic really worked then it would work for me but yet how often do we actually hone in on an intention and direct that intention and then actually follow through and act on messages in our intuition oftentimes we ask for something and then it comes to us in the form of an intuition or a lead we should follow and we don't take the advice well what else can you do but these things are probability enhancers is another factor so if you're living in a war zone that's probably going to be a war zone for a long time well in that case it's not about one person's will and meditation practice resulting in the end of the war although maybe that can happen but it would be more like being in tune with the deeper parts of yourself and then something in your awareness tells you to cross the street and then you listen to that voice and then the building you just walked away from is hit by a rocket to me that's a better example of how it could work in that scenario but i'm only bringing this up because in mine i did this research on charlie kirk and then i planned to talk about it as a guest with kurt metzger and it didn't really go that way so then it's this unused material up in my head and then i asked the universe on my way to the studio for guidance just as an experiment and i get there and the guest who'd already confirmed doesn't show up like it's very weird that they wouldn't show up because they already said see you tomorrow talk to you tomorrow like i've since spoken with them and it's fine but something in the universe moved that out of the way and then an inner voice said hey sit down record this thing clear out all this information from your head and grab all the links and the screenshots you've had and put it out there and nine out of ten times i would say no i'm just gonna take the day off and we'll try again on the next one i love to do that and the subs flooded in because i basically listened and took it a step further and then that brings us up to date professor yang a guest who i'm really interested in having on from beijing who's going super viral which again i usually wouldn't even ask i'm like oh you either just did rogan or you're getting too much attention i'll wait till it dies down and then i'll ask because that's just how i kind of operate but this particular guy happens to be a fan of kurt metzger of all people and is listening when i'm the guest and then a super chat references him in the show and that nudges me to ask for an interview the next day to which he agrees and then here we are i only say this as an example of how it works i don't really like to talk about myself too much but i guess for a long time i've been talking to guests for 15 years and they have all these wild stories about listening to their intuition and i'm like oh i don't get messages well i think i maybe learned a little bit better recently how to hear that message and i'm all jazzed up about it i hope that happens for everyone but it's like oh that was it i guess i have noticed that in there but i never bring it to the forefront and give it my attention and now that i have like wow action results how funny it's like this time i just channeled jim carrey and yes man and had this string of fulfilling events happen and it's basically the grand finale to that loop to have this interview as far as i know the loop could continue but then if someone were to ask me how it works i would just repeat what all the guests have said have clear intentions ask for guidance and then act on the intuition listen really closely listen deeply it is subtle and i have missed it a lot but i didn't this time and the charlie kirk thing has gotten even crazier that it almost deserves a part two but i don't want people to think i can't be more creative than that and return to that well again it looks very desperate but the more people dig into this and share the results and the more i see on it the weirder it does get the more i lean towards theater but something stops me from committing to that idea overall as i said i don't think they have a problem killing a guy but when you see crisis actors across multiple events emerging in this event and you see how far back some of the relationships go you do have to wonder maybe there is a mafia-like concept of a made man even among enemies look at the past and so often they don't really kill a leader who lost in war they send them to live in exile because you don't lose your life even when you're beat if you're part of that elite huh there is some truth there but sadly i don't think i'll ever fully understand it and i don't know if charlie kirk was a disposable pawn to them or an actor playing a crucial role it seems like a big loose end to have him out in the world unless of course there's a place out in the world where there's a guarantee that they won't be found that all these sorts of people go to a valhalla of a certain sense anyway back to this interview and not to launch right into a plus pitch but if you heard the full two-hour show then this is even more fascinating when professor jang talked about the mystical methods from which he gets his predictive protocols or at least some of them one of the streams of insight he gets that helps him come up with these pretty accurate predictions at least so far i did not expect his story to have that dimension to it because he does seem very logic based in his assessments and even he said that but i just was so happy to hear him share that stuff and now we can confirm that he is in fact a modern mystic and a proper forecaster a proper vessel for prophecy i also didn't expect to hear him bringing up elite communication with dark beings or utter the term lizard people but that's the way it went it was great that he was aware of our format and i think he strategically opened up to some of that stuff in the second hour so i don't want to put him on blast too much for some of those things he said his words should speak for themselves but plus people know i'm not just blowing smoke or they would lose their trust in me and so i'm saying that genuinely there are checks and balances here true checks and balances and i was really impressed with his comments on china too i definitely can be kind of weird sometimes i'm very skeptical of power and power networks and relationships and following the money and all that stuff but i can also be very naive and trusting when it comes to individuals i know there's people in the audience who think yeah when you trusted that guy that guy or you didn't challenge that guy i know exactly what you mean it is a strange combination for a person but i do try to think things through and before this one i kind of thought well professor jiang's material is super interesting and we have a lot of it being him teaching the conspiratorial undercurrents in the west to westerners you know through the vehicle of these recorded lectures i mean he's literally talking to chinese high school students but the popularity he's found online is mostly with westerners learning about their own system that's great it's also probably not material that the ccp would object to at all so i plan to ask him more about china and i wasn't sure how it would go i thought those answers might be a little more tame but they weren't they were very insightful and it is a different culture yet so many strategies of their own elite work in the same way so there were some unique insights there for me for sure i hope he didn't put himself at risk to pass along those insights you just never know how to separate the propaganda from the reality knowing that totalitarianism is in season in vogue and you know you don't trust any elite necessarily but you know your own system is demonizing every other one out there and pretending that it's 10 times worse when maybe it's only twice as bad we know the old phrase find out who you're not allowed to criticize and you'll see who's really in charge i think depending on where you are there's different answers to that but he did mention some topics that he hoped we would get into when we were off the air and that we didn't and it seems like we're both pretty excited about getting together again and i'm sure that people will respond well and we'll cover those topics then you got to get to know someone before you bring up some of this stuff you know you really got to ease your way in so now that we're well acquainted i think we can just rip the band-aid off and go right for the wound definitely shoot him a message or give him a comment or something to say you enjoyed this interview we want to keep it top of mind i want people to know that he was heard i want him to know i want guests to know that they were heard and enjoyed here so that's important but these do seem like frightening times in a lot of ways i mean my life is kind of going great right now same with most of the people in my circles i do know a few people crashing out i know a few people with trump derangement syndrome letting him take up every square inch of their mental social and emotional space but those are outliers when i look though at the next five to ten years out the geopolitical arc the economic arc that is what makes me nervous i'm doing good now but my kids won't even be in high school when we get through some of this stuff i'm really worried about what their coming of age years will look like but i have to acquiesce and say hey this is their life to live they chose this time as i chose this time they chose to have me and their mom as their guides and they will do what they're going to do all we can do is create sanctuary for them and do our best to keep the world out there at bay and guard the sanctity of our inner circle we'll see how it goes i saw a great meme of a guy in a gas mask in a mad max like scenario and he says hey buddy i know it's really hard out there i know it's really tough right now okay but in the second panel he says but it's going to get a lot worse and that's just so funny to me that is the general sentiment right now so you do have to preserve your energy and you don't want to waste it on the run up two big things you know this is a sacred time if you think big things are coming don't waste the good time beforehand just worrying about them what will be will be so the predictions in this one did get a bit dire towards the end as predictions often are we have so many people with apocalyptic dreams and visions of nuclear holocaust and all this sort of stuff and it's a damn near consistent thing that if you're looking for people who are getting those messages they're usually doom and gloom i think you could even say that chris blood so they're looking at a time when the ladies said that's about easter of this upcoming year sure usually it is about some profound tragedy but if this stuff comes from a realm without time then maybe there's not a lot of value in assuming it's going to happen now or in our lifetime that seems to be the consistent thing profit says i get these messages they come with insights that make those messages more interesting or seem more accurate or potent or worth listening to and then there's this big culminating event at the end of their predictive narrative and then that thing doesn't happen and then everyone forgets about that person i'm not saying professor jiang falls exactly into that archetype but i will say that that archetype is out there and it's something to think about and you know for him to try to avoid and for people to consider when assessing a situation or just information that comes from that way it's really not about the person they're a conduit but information that comes from that sort of source tends to have that stuff built into it i don't know all right well what are you going to do about a war i don't know i don't know anyone who cares about fighting anyone i think everybody wants to just live their own life but yet it's interesting that we have no control the train seems to be running right off the tracks well outside of our ability to influence it much just on the momentum so again just be the best port in the storm for other people and hone in on the handful of things that you can control that dictate your highest order of happiness and fulfillment and put the extra mental energy you have into that less screen time more me time right put that on a shirt so powerhouse guest fun synchronicity that put me in the current of the insanely powerful flow right now that is professor jiang and help more people hear about it that's really all i can ask in higher side news i mentioned an email notification system for the tv tier people and that is probably about another week away some more testing to do before we really launch it but it is close other than that trying not to spend unnecessary money and resist the temptation to constantly meddle in the system instead of just being happy and satisfied with what we have so i really don't hear very many complaints the engine is running well and i should just let that be okay in the last episode with richard willett another one that i knew would keep the great reviews coming strong and the rating trend high as it has been and i was right 4.8 pretty much the a plus around here there's always someone who wishes we were talking about pyramids or aliens or some unrelated topic to whatever it was but still if you can please 90 to 95 of the people who rate a show with this diverse of a topic spread it's a win i would also be surprised if we weren't right up there with a 4.8 again today but the people will let me know i'm sure all right kind of going to keep this moving because i have a big interview tomorrow and i want to make sure i'm fully ready to crush it and the day is already getting away from me but as for the meetup calendar let's take a look at what we got okay we're looking at october 8th in dayton ohio riverscape metro park the coal bitter collective and then october 9th the very next day new haven connecticut at three sheets and then october 17th elkin north carolina at the rail yard and october 27th we got one at volks bar in berlin germany okay getting together in berlin i do hear about some rough stuff going on in the news there it seems very easy to get a knock on the door over your social media posts these days in germany probably a good time to find the others i would say and then november 5th there is one happening in oakland although it looks like they didn't fill out all the details but remember remember the 5th of november and remember to go in and fill that stuff out so people know exactly where the meetup will happen november 8th woodstock virginia at the woodstock brew house and november 10th gail breath ale house again in eden terence auckland new zealand really great higher side meetups.com anyone can make an event and get a local gathering together you know over a hundred thousand people listening what 10 people who want to actually use the calendar it's fine but if you heard about an event near you and you want to go please rsvp so the host knows what to expect i've gotten lots of great reports over the years since we've been doing this that usually you can depend on a handful to a dozen people showing up in most major cities and then you keep everyone's info and then they become either your new regular hangs or at least a strong network of good people to know in troubled times so check it out all right just so happy to get this episode out there i felt a real kindred spiritship with professor yang and i just i love the guy he's awesome i look to look forward to doing it again if we get the chance but that is it for me i'm sure very few people need me to remind them to check out predictive history i'm sure you already have in one form or another but we got youtube sub stack and you can find him also on twitter and it seems like he's gone about as viral as anyone can so this is one where i'm on the lucky end of being able to put this out but it is what it is i'm riding the wave sign up for plus if you like what i do ad free and action-packed five full two-hour interviews every month and an archive that goes back 15 years for as low as eight bucks sign up with the links in the show notes and cancel any time though i do hope to keep it at a high level so you don't anyway i'm out of here i've done my part your move global chess game players geopolitical conflict engineers and agents of the archons your fucking move do you feel feel betrayed by the ones you're told to trust well you know you don't get much help from the ones that beat you up like a dog that don't obey we're just left to lick the wounds they say that it will be okay and the cycle continues because we don't seem to care purposes really is an awful trade but what are you gonna do parents may leave the lies so the cycle continues because it's all about me ones that come after can try to get themselves free we never have we sometimes have the mindset right really tempted hard to truly go so again