Noumena vs. Phenomena and the Secret History of Power #predictivehistory

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]possible, right? You would arrange to fight the enemy on a battlefield.

[00:00:03]Whoever wins this battle would win the war. That was how traditionally wars wars were fought for hundreds hundreds of years. When a century something happened, which is that the state, the nation state, they have the capacity to have a lot of people, millions of people. And so the state could always replenish its forces on the battlefield.

[00:00:19]And so now what you had to do was you had to destroy the state's capacity to produce to manufacture. Okay? And this is really so the point is to kill as many civilians as possible before you want to kill as many soldiers as possible. But in the 20th century war, mainly World War II, you're trying to kill as many civilians as possible. But in the 21st century, it's different because you have nuclear weapons now and there are too many people. So it is impossible for you to kill everyone. And if you use nuclear weapons, then others will use nuclear will use nuclear weapons on you. Okay? So now in the 21st century, our goal is to use the population against the state to turn the civilians against the government by sowing as much discord and descent as possible within society. And you do that through economic sabotage, right?

[00:00:56]Economic strangulation. Okay. So that's the argument I will make to you um today. The first thing I want to look at is why is it that we have 8 billion people? 8 billion people are living on this planet. And for most of us, we think this is a tremendous achievement.

[00:01:09]If you think about it, it's not nice because there aren't that many resources to share. There's not that much that much space. In fact, if it were not for fertilizers, we would only be able to support 1 to two billion people. So how do we get to a stage we have eight young people in this world and most of us are are not very happy with the state affairs. Okay and scientists will tell you it's because of the second revolution. It's because of this revolution in technology and understanding that's allowed us to progress. That's not true. Okay. The real reason is because of the nation state and the nation state it is a revolution in politics that came to us because of the French revolution. All right. So um the main architect of the French revolution his name is Jeanjac Rouso. He was he was not French. He was actually um Swiss. But he's important because he developed a theory that underpinned the French French revolution called social contract theory.

[00:02:01]Before we didn't really think about what the individual's relationship with the state was basically you're born into community and you just did what tradition and custom and family asked you to do. But Jean Jo was the first to say no we are born free because God gave us freedom. So why do we choose to surrender freedom in order to join a community? Okay. And so his theory is that we join society to become more free.

[00:02:24]So by ourselves um um we together okay all of us together we create something called a common will and think of this as democracy.

[00:02:37]Democracy is basically idea idea that to make a decision we just vote and then whatever comes whichever's majority wins. For example, we might debate whether we go to McDonald's or Pizza Hut. Okay, there's three of us. If two of you say let's go to Pizza Hut, we go to Pizza Hut. That's a democracy for genre. So, this is not a good system because we should strive to be higher than we are. We should strive for total freedom. That's the idea of the general will. Okay. The common will is who we are. The general will