Secret History #1: How Power Works
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The Alchemy of Power: Deconstructing Scarcity, Money, and Reality
Unlock Professor Jiang’s framework to challenge modern assumptions about money, education, and reality, revealing how power manipulates perception to enforce work and control. Read how historical concepts shape our enslavement to scarcity and the nation-state.
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- Determine if money is scarce: The lecture argues money is infinite; scarcity is an enforced illusion created by power structures.
- Understand human motivation: Poverty and economic crises are intentionally deployed by the powerful to maintain the illusion that work is necessary for survival and prosperity.
- Analyze education's true role: Modern schooling (like that pioneered by Sparta, Aztec, and Prussia) serves primarily to condition obedience to the nation-state, not individual flourishing.
- Contrast happiness models: Ancient happiness focused on collective flourishing ($\text{Eudaimonia}$), while modern focus on individual pleasure renders individuals powerless.
This session introduces a multi-faceted analytical framework designed to deconstruct the accepted realities of money, selfhood, and governance. Professor Jiang challenges core tenets taught in philosophy, economics, and education, offering historical and conceptual tools to expose how power—which he defines as alchemy—transforms nothing into everything by controlling collective imagination.
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Top Comments (10)
Bro real af. He really said "school is for brainwashing" while being a teacher himself.
26:26 “The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep them showing up at those jobs"-George Carlin
I don't see anyone else saying it but that Blackboard is incredible
“The real value is not money but the work we do.” Thank you professor for saying that out loud
Finding this feels like I’ve been channel surfing for ten years looking for something to watch and finally found something.
"Poverty isn't what you do to yourself it's what the powerful DO TO YOU."
When you said "history is the false memory of a nation state " I got chills
If you enjoy this lecture and would like to delve deeper, please read Professor Jiang's Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/the-secret-history-of-the-world-1 Please support Professor Jiang's work: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory
i actually pushed in my chair when i left my desk out of respect for Professor Jiang
This class reminds me of a quote by Mahatma Gandhi: “The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”
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Top Comments (10)
Bro real af. He really said "school is for brainwashing" while being a teacher himself.
26:26 “The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep them showing up at those jobs"-George Carlin
I don't see anyone else saying it but that Blackboard is incredible
“The real value is not money but the work we do.” Thank you professor for saying that out loud
Finding this feels like I’ve been channel surfing for ten years looking for something to watch and finally found something.
"Poverty isn't what you do to yourself it's what the powerful DO TO YOU."
When you said "history is the false memory of a nation state " I got chills
If you enjoy this lecture and would like to delve deeper, please read Professor Jiang's Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/the-secret-history-of-the-world-1 Please support Professor Jiang's work: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory
i actually pushed in my chair when i left my desk out of respect for Professor Jiang
This class reminds me of a quote by Mahatma Gandhi: “The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”