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predictive_history_Secret History 4- How Evil Triumphs

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Summary

The lecture, titled “How Evil Triumphs,” posits that evil succeeds through the intentional, public breaking of societal taboos, which creates powerful, cohesive groups. The speaker begins by controversially framing the ongoing conflict in Gaza not as a war but as a form of public ritual sacrifice orchestrated by Israel. This act, witnessed globally via social media, is compared to historical examples like the human sacrifices of the Aztecs, the child sacrifices of the Phoenicians, and the ritualistic killing of enemies by the Romans during their “triumph” ceremony at the temple of Jupiter. The speaker argues that the Israelis intentionally court global hatred to unite their own population and fulfill an extremist Jewish eschatology where Israel, with God’s help, will ultimately fight and defeat the entire world. This is likened to an ancient Chinese military strategy of fighting with a river at one’s back to galvanize troops.

To explain the mechanism behind this, a thought experiment is presented: 100 men from different backgrounds are stranded on an island and forced to unite against a common enemy. They develop a language, a founding myth, rituals, and a leader chosen for his willingness to self-sacrifice. This process creates extreme group cohesion, leading to a “hive mind,” synchronicity, and even telepathy. If returned to society, this group would become a secret elite, controlling power from the shadows. Historical analogies for such cohesion are found in Sparta, whose brutal education system (including murdering slaves called Helots) forged elite warriors like Leonidas at the Battle of Thermopylae, a story depicted in the movie 300. This system was copied by Thebes with its Sacred Band and later by Macedonia under Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great.

The lecture then uses game theory to argue that the most effective way to coordinate secretly and win is through “transgression”—the breaking of taboos. The greater the transgression (from pranks to theft, incest, and murder), the stronger the group’s cohesion and the more “divine energy” is released, empowering the participants. This is how secret societies allegedly gain and maintain control.

Finally, a deep philosophical framework is offered to explain this “divine energy.” Drawing on Immanuel Kant’s idea that we perceive a filtered reality (phenomena) rather than objective reality (noumena), the speaker introduces Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s concept of the “Geist” (spirit) as the true reality. This is linked to Plato and Gnosticism, which describe a supreme divine source (the “Monad” or “the One”). The purpose of life is to return to the Monad. Plato suggested this path was through knowledge, while Dante Alighieri proposed it was through love. Messengers like Jesus, Plato, and Dante remind humanity of this purpose. Evil, in this model, is the denial of this spiritual world. Powerful groups use transgression to align with darker forces within the Geist, achieve synchronicity, and maintain their power by promoting a materialistic worldview through institutions like science, keeping others trapped in the material “prison.” Different religious traditions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, are noted to have similar conceptions of this spiritual universe, suggesting a common origin for these ideas in the Geist.

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