00:00When the Burden Wall fell, there was an American State Department official named Francis Fukuyama.
00:06And he wrote a very influential essay called The End of History.
00:12And for decades, capitalism was in a struggle with communism.
00:18And in his essay, Fukuyama argued that with the triumph of capitalism, we've come to the end of history.
00:27Meaning, we now know what humanity most strives for, which is a liberal consumer democracy.
00:37Where people feel empowered to have the freedom to buy whatever they want.
00:43And this, for him, was the apex of human civilization.
00:48And this creates what is called the unipolar moment.
00:52Where America is the global hegemon.
00:56And it creates a world that is heavily globalized, capitalistic, and very individualistic.
01:05And this is a very unique moment in human history.
01:08And we've come, with this war in Iran, to the end of this moment.
01:12So let me first explain the three major characteristics of this unipolar moment.
01:18The first is what I call Pax Americana.
01:22Where American power, American military might, guaranteed peace in the entire world.
01:30And this is unique in human history.
01:32Where the first time, there was a power that was able to dominate the entire globe.
01:39And America was able to do so through three mechanisms.
01:43The first is, of course, its military power.
01:46But specifically, aerial supremacy.
01:49Which is backed up by special forces and the CIA.
01:53So the CIA was able to infiltrate every single government in the world.
01:58And identify who would be loyal to the American empire.
02:03And then promote this person.
02:05If there were individuals that challenged the American empire, these people were promoted or eliminated.
02:10Nations that proved problematic, for example, maybe Syria or Libya, special forces went in to sabotage the economy.
02:19And then aerial power went in to destroy the government.
02:24And so, this created Pax Americana.
02:26Now, what is good about this is that it did bring peace to very problematic regions.
02:31For example, in East Asia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and China, Vietnam, not compete against each other.
02:39They just participated in global economy, which brought tremendous wealth and prosperity to the East Asia region.
02:46This is true also in Europe and South America as well.
02:51So, aerial supremacy.
02:54Then you have some close surveillance.
02:56And basically, what I mean by that is the Internet.
02:58So, we don't know, but the Internet was created not to actually help you communicate and to watch pornography.
03:06It was actually to have a mass surveillance system over the entire human population.
03:12So, that the Pentagon, the military, knew exactly the vibe or the culture, the attitudes, the emotions of each region.
03:23And through social media, through platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, they were able to manipulate certain emotions.
03:30So, the second mechanism is mass surveillance through the popularization of the Internet.
03:36And the third is something called the rules-based international order.
03:40And what this means is American power hid behind multilateral organizations such as the United Nations, such as the World
03:49Bank, such as the World Trade Organization.
03:51And so, people didn't notice that the American empire was fighting everything.
03:57They believed that the world was fair and just.
04:00And through the logic and reason in the debate, they could present their case.
04:04All right? So, for the longest time, this Pax Americana provided peace and stability to the world, which brought tremendous
04:12prosperity.
04:13All right? So, that's number one.
04:14Number two is the supremacy of science.
04:17So, for most of human history, people were religious.
04:20They believed in gods.
04:22But with the rise of Pax Americana, science became the dark religion of the whole world.
04:28All right? So, the last example is COVID.
04:31COVID was ranging across the world, and then they used vaccines.
04:36Now, I teach critical thinking skills.
04:38So, when I first heard about vaccines, I was a bit skeptical.
04:42I said to my friends, who are Chinese and American, I said,
04:45You know, vaccines used to take about 10 years to develop.
04:50And that's when the virus is stable.
04:52And they've been around for centuries.
04:53But this COVID is constantly mutating, and they haven't done enough trial research.
04:59So, is it really safe to take these vaccines?
05:02And whether they were Chinese or American, their response was the same, which is,
05:09How dare you question science?
05:13You are a peasant.
05:15Have you gone to school?
05:16Have you no culture?
05:18Can you not think?
05:19And this shows you how science has become the new religion of the world.
05:26And if you think about it, the scientists that run the world,
05:28They're actually transnational priests.
05:31And science is an international brotherhood.
05:33Where if you're a scientist in China, you're not actually loyal to China.
05:37You're actually loyal to the international order of science.
05:41Because that's how you get promoted, right?
05:42You get published in Nature or Science.
05:44If you win an award, like the Nobel Prize, that's how you get rewarded, okay?
05:49So, you're better off being loyal to the brotherhood of science, rather than your own nations.
05:54And, of course, it is the American empire that controls science.
05:57And the third unique aspect of the European woman is, of course, the universality of the U.S. dollar.
06:05And if you don't think about where, just a piece of paper, you think it's gold.
06:10You think there's value in it.
06:12And not just you, but everyone around you.
06:14So that if you take your U.S. dollars, you know, anyone in the world and buy yourself a villa.
06:19Or enjoy a nice vacation, or fly around.
06:23But not only that, but you aspire in life to accumulate as much U.S. dollars as possible, right?
06:29Is there really a difference between a hundred million dollars and a hundred billion dollars?
06:34There's actually no difference.
06:36You can't spend it.
06:37But you want to achieve as much as possible.
06:40And as a result, you focus your entire life on accumulating as much as possible, okay?
06:46So these are the three main pillars of the unipolar moment.
06:51And again, in the beginning, which was maybe the early 90s,
06:54this led to tremendous peace and prosperity throughout the world.
06:58The problem, though, is that over time, these three pillars started to decay, right?
07:05So, Pax Americana started to itself ignore the rules-based national order, which it self-created, right?
07:13So America started to bond countries such as Libya and Syria without international approval.
07:19Most recently, it went to attack Iran without even asking for the opinion of the world,
07:24without even caring about what the world thought, okay?
07:27So this leads to the idea of hubris.
07:29Maybe the first generation appreciates the importance of collaboration, of consensus.
07:35But the second generation, the children are arrogant.
07:38They're hubris.
07:39They want to enjoy their power.
07:41So that's problem one.
07:42So privacy of science, religion, basically it becomes a religion in itself, orthodoxy.
07:47So that science does not become the main engine of innovation in the world.
07:52It becomes the main engine of orthodoxy or suppression.
07:58That's why for the past 20, 30 years, we've seen very little in terms of technological innovation.
08:05Don't tell me Silicon Valley is a center of innovation in the world, okay?
08:09All they do is make food delivery apps.
08:13It's been a long time since we've seen massive innovation in the world.
08:17What we've seen in these past 20, 30 years is the scaling out, the popularization of innovation, right?
08:24Where American technology is spread throughout the world, especially in China.
08:27We have not seen actually major innovation in science itself.
08:31And the third thing, the university of the U.S. dollar leads to printing dollars, okay?
08:38Or just basically corruption.
08:40Where because America is able to print as much U.S. dollars as it wants to find its corruption, it
08:47does so, okay?
08:48So the U.S. dollar has lessened in value.
08:51And what this means is basically it's made inequality worse.
08:55It's made corruption worse.
08:56It's made people very lazy.
08:58If you're a young person, you're like, you know what, no matter how hard I work, I'm still screwed in
09:03the end.
09:04Because the boomers, the older generation, have so much more money than I do.
09:08I can never catch up.
09:09So I refuse to play this game.
09:11Either I refuse to play this game, so I quite quit, you know, tumping, lie flat, or I gamble.
09:17I pray that if I put a million dollars in Bitcoin, it'll go up to $10 million.
09:23Or a stock market, or a sports betting, okay?
09:26That's why in America, gambling has become so popular, all right?
09:31So this has led to today, basically, all right?
09:35So we shouldn't see this war against Iran as just a decision of one person, Donald Trump, or the machinations
09:44of a country, Israel.
09:46Really, this war in Iran is happening because we've come to the end of the unipolar moment because the American
09:54empire has become corrupt, self-indulgent, lazy, arrogant.
09:59So with the end of the American empire, with the end of Pax Americana, we are shifting towards a new
10:06world.
10:07And this new world, some will survive, most will not, okay?
10:11Because this is true throughout history where whenever it declines and the world water is shifting, where there's a paradigm
10:17shift, people are forced to make a hard choice of either adapt or die, all right?
10:23So let me show you how the world needs to change if it is to survive.
10:29Basically, what has happened is we have to move from an emphasis on efficiency to resilience.
10:36That is the main goal in the future.
10:39Today, it's really about how to make things as cheap as possible and get it to as many people as
10:46quickly as possible to make as much money as possible, okay?
10:49The idea of efficiency, generating as much profit as possible.
10:52The idea of resilience is to appreciate that there will be a series of crises.
10:56And what you need to do is focus on adapting and surviving these crises, okay?
11:04So for a nation, for a community to survive in the future, there's actually three major changes.
11:10If you're able to make these three major changes, you will survive.
11:14If you do not make these changes, you will be eliminated, okay?
11:18It will be survival of fitness.
11:20All right.
11:21So the first thing you need to do is move from materialism to spirituality.
11:25Right now, the entire world, these nation states, the population, what matters is your material well-being.
11:35If you are driving a car, if you have a house, if you have enough food to eat, then you
11:42should shut up and obey because we're doing their job, okay?
11:45But in the future, governments can't do that because they don't have resources to go around.
11:49If the government has to make you believe that what matters is your happiness, your well-being, your spirituality.
11:59And that usually means a renewed focus on religion, okay?
12:03That's the first thing.
12:04The second thing is to move from the system of individuality to community.
12:07All right, and what this means is today what you're taught in school, what you're taught in society is what
12:13matters is you, me, okay?
12:16The ego.
12:16If it's doing well for me, it's good.
12:20I don't actually care about other people.
12:21In the future, you have to focus on building a community, on helping others.
12:27And the last major shift is from the old to the young, okay?
12:32And this is very simple, and this is actually the hardest thing to do, which is like, today, most countries,
12:37especially the wealthy Western industrial nations, are controlled by the baby boomers, the elderly, the gerontocracy.
12:44They have all the money, they have all the power, but for society to thrive in the future, this power
12:50needs to shift to a younger generation.
12:53Ideally, maybe in their 30s, okay?
12:56The younger, the better.
12:57And you think this is easy to do, it's not.
13:00Because, first of all, these baby boomers have access to the best health care in the world, they have a
13:06lot of money, and they really enjoy living.
13:09And they're also really selfish, okay?
13:11So this is actually the hardest problem to solve for most Western societies.
13:16How do you transfer power from the old to the young?
13:20And, quite honestly, historically, we've never, ever faced this problem before.
13:26Never!
13:27Because the old simply don't live that long, okay?
13:30Now, baby boomers are living to at least 100 years old.
13:33So they have another 20 years ahead of them, empowered.
13:37Meanwhile, the young cannot develop the experience and expertise in order to lead the nation.
13:43So whichever nation actually is fixing out this problem first, how do you get the old and get power to
13:49the young, then we'll most likely thrive in the new world that's coming.
13:54And if you were to ask me which nation would most likely achieve this first, I would say Japan.
14:01And the reason is very simple.
14:02Because Japan, in Japan, this problem is the most pressing.
14:06They are the oldest population, they have the oldest population in the world.
14:10And so they need to resolve this issue really, really quickly, okay?
14:14And maybe in the next five, ten years, then I think that Japan will actually resolve this issue.
14:19But it may be the only nation that's able to resolve this issue because it's so difficult.
14:25You love your grandparents.
14:26Do you want to see your grandparents die?
14:28Of course not, okay?
14:30You're going against human, biological nature.
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