Predictive History - The Story of "Civilization", "Secret History", "Game Theory" and more - Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy
Episode Date: February 5, 2026Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy ...
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So good afternoon class.
Today we do death by gerontocracy.
Gerontocracy just means rule by old people.
Last class, we discussed the decline of Western society and civilization
and what's happening.
We discuss the theories.
Today, we will look at what the reality on the ground is.
What the actual trends are?
What are the concrete examples of decline in the Western world?
All right, so let me start with this young man.
His name is Axo Ruda Kubana, and he was 17 years old when last year he took a knife
and he walks into a dance studio in Southport, Britain.
And then he proceeds to stab the little girls inside the dance studio.
And they are 5, 6, 7.
He kills three of them.
He is quickly arrested by the police.
And as you can see, he is a very disturbed young man.
He clearly has a mental illness.
Otherwise, why would he kill kill children?
And he was sentenced to 52 years behind bars.
So he's going to spend the rest of his life in prison.
So justice was done.
What happens next is that all throughout Britain, there are rights.
riots and protests. What happened was that rumors start to spread online about the attack.
They claimed that the young man was an asylum seeker, an immigrant. And because there
are too many immigrants coming to England, everyone's safety is at stake. So as you can
see, these protests were extremely heated. They were extremists.
They were anti-immigrant and ultimately it led to violence between the police and the protesters.
And this is happening all throughout Britain.
Last summer, the country of England burned basically.
Literally burned.
So these protesters were setting cars on fire and they were targeting immigrants in Britain.
Remember that this 17-year-old boy, he's actually not an immigrant.
He was born in Wales to parents who are from Rwanda.
So he is a British citizen.
As you can see, the men who participated in a protest,
they're not sad about what they're doing.
They feel virtuous.
They feel righteous.
They feel proud for protecting their people against immigrants.
So the question for us today is, why is this happening?
Why are all these civil conflicts caused by immigration throughout the Western world?
So this is happening in Britain, but as you know, immigration, United States led to the
victory of Donald Trump in last year's elections in the United States.
A lot of conflict comes from the fact that immigration is happening too fast in the Western
world.
So after COVID, you see this large spike in immigrants.
The other issue is that most of these immigrants are coming from countries in the Middle
East, in Africa, in East Asia.
So it's clear that these people are different from you.
So before there might have been a lot of EU, European immigrants.
But now it's just mainly countries outside of Europe.
So the British people feel as though they're being invaded by foreigners.
The changes, the demographic changes to British society are stark.
So the, I'm not sure if you can see this clearly, okay, but like,
the dark brown are places where in the past five, ten years, the immigrant population
has tripled, has tripled three times, okay?
And as you can see, there are quite a few pockets where immigration is sort of overwhelming
the local population.
So if you go to Britain, there are some places where you feel this is like Morocco or
this is like Rwanda or maybe even Egypt.
Okay, so the British people feel they're under siege.
And this is happening throughout the Western world.
So this is Australia, okay?
So Australia after COVID, huge spike in immigration.
And most of them are coming from non-European countries.
So the greatest spike is in India,
but then you also have China and the Philippines as well.
These are the three major sources of immigrants to Australia.
Same is happening in France, where you're seeing a huge spike in immigration.
And again, most of the immigrants are coming from African or Middle Eastern countries.
And so the French feel as though their culture is being diluted, it's being attacked and invaded.
This happened all throughout Western Europe, the UK, France.
and Germany are seeing a huge spike in immigrants and refugees and so their culture feels threatened
What these what's also happening is a huge spike in inflation. Okay, so this is something called the CPI
the Consumer Price Index which is just measuring the price of basic goods
Like food and shelter. Okay, and as you can see there's a huge spike in prices so as these immigrants are
are coming into your country, you also feel as though your quality of life is getting worse
and worse. It's getting harder for you to afford basic goods like rent and food. It's getting
harder for you to support your family. The major increase is in housing prices.
So Canada, these past five years, has seen a huge influx of immigrants, and this has caused
housing prices to skyrocket.
The United States, which has a much larger economy than Canada,
the housing prices are pretty stable.
You can still afford to buy a house
if you're a young person in the United States,
not in Canada, okay?
You see this huge spike in Canada.
The housing prices are now unaffordable.
This is a chart that shows you economic growth
as compared to housing prices.
So as you can see in the United States,
housing prices, there's a correlation with
income and housing prices.
This is pretty reasonable.
In Canada, it is not reasonable.
Okay?
So GDP, housing prices is growing like this,
but housing prices is just skyrocketing.
And that's why Canadians feel as though
the Canadian dream of one day having their own house.
It's basically dead.
So one strange thing is that as Canada lets in more immigrants,
and as property of houses grow up,
think that they would build more and more houses.
But as you can see, housing supply, it's pretty flat, even though immigration is going up.
Does anyone know why this would be the case?
Why is it that you have a policy of letting in more immigrants, but you don't have a policy
of building more housing for them?
That's kind of strange, right?
Does anyone, can anyone guess why that would be the case?
Yeah?
Sorry, can you speak in the microphone?
Thank you.
maybe they want to make sure that the housing's not affordable maybe because they want to make more money.
Because now there's like more competition for housing. Definitely, as you said, the prices of
housing was like going skyrocketing and people would make more money. Like people who provide
the housings would naturally real estate people make more money, I guess.
Yeah, that's exactly correct. Okay. So policy is not being controlled by what's best for the
and the people, it's controlled by invested interests
that will make money off the process, right?
So as you say, real estate developers can make money off this process.
But the people who benefit the most are actually property owners, right?
So if you already have a house, if the supply is constant,
but the demand goes up, then you know by it from economic class
that the value of a house increases artificially.
So it's making homeowners very happy.
Okay, and that's why you have this crisis in the economy.
crisis in Canada.
The other issue that's really problematic in the Western world is that as the number of immigrants
goes up, native people, the native population, they're not having children.
So this is Canada where the birth rate, the blue is the birth rate, okay?
It's settling going down, whereas immigrants are going up.
So it's the immigrants who provide most of the new people in the people.
in Canada. In fact, right now, 25%, a quarter of all Canadians, are first-generation
immigrants, sorry, first-generation Canadians, meaning that they're immigrants to the country.
And if you just look at this trend in 40 years time, 50 years time, there'd be very few white
Canadians in Canada. And this is causing a lot of conflict and tension in the country.
So you have these huge issues. Housing is unaffordable. Inflation is going up.
I think tensions are increasing. But the Canadian government still insists on increasing the number of immigrants in the country.
There's no policy rollback where they're like, you know what, let's have a moratorium.
Clearly, our policy is too rapid and we need to slow things down.
In fact, as you can see, they're actually going to wrap up the process.
The goal for Canada, right now the Canadian population is about 35 to 40 million people.
They want 100 million people, 100 million people in Canada by the year 2100.
And guess what?
The majority of these people are going to come from India and probably China.
Okay?
And as we discussed, the percentage of immigrants as part of the total population, it's just
rapidly increasing.
So Australia, it's almost a third now.
In Canada, it's a quarter, in Germany it's a fifth.
And these percentages will go up and up and up,
leading to more and greater ethnic tension
and the immigrant protests within these countries.
As you can see, the number of immigrants come from India
far surpasses that of other countries, okay?
And these are just legal immigrants.
We're not counting in students.
So there are millions and millions of Indian students right now in Canada on student visas.
And they're looking for a path to permanent residency, to citizenship.
And that's what leads to situations like this.
Okay.
You have these viral videos online where you have thousands and thousands of Indian students
lining up for hours and hours because they're applying for a minimum wage job at a restaurant
or at a store.
Life for these Indian students is just terrible.
A lot of them live eight to a room.
There's one room that was meant for one person.
There are now eight students living in that room.
At the same time, what's really interesting is that the Indians are now an extremely powerful political force in Canada.
This was the former Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, meeting with.
with representatives of the Indian community
because he depends on them for his votes.
In last year's federal election,
22 Indian people of Indian descent were elected to Parliament.
So in Parliament, there's 43 seats.
22 of them now are Indian.
How many Chinese?
How many MPs of Chinese origin?
They're less than 10.
So even though the Chinese have been there longer, and even though they actually do more numerous Chinese than Indians, the Indians are extremely powerful political force.
A lot of it is because Indians come from democracy, so they're very good at debate, they're very good at organizing, they're very good at collective action.
And that's what leads them to excel in the Canadian political system.
At the same time, we're going to imagine that if current trends continue,
if the immigrant population from India increases
and if the Indians continue to amass more political power,
there could be a situation where the Indians take over the Canadian government
in like 20 or 40 years time.
So there's a real risk that in Canada,
that their native population gets replaced by the Indians.
And this is happening elsewhere as well.
Yes, a question.
Like, all the Indian immigrants that you have mentioned, like, it took a part of the Canadian population.
How about the, like, having the risk of Indians took over Canadian, but how about the people that is local in Canadian?
Like, how are they doing right now?
Because we are all focusing on immigrants.
All right, okay.
That's a great question, okay?
So immigrants are suffering, but actually the local population is something to be even more
Because as we discussed the last class the economy is declining and it's pretty rapid decline
So it's harder for young people to find jobs
Especially with immigrants coming into the country right?
Prices are very expensive nowadays so it's very hard for young people to live and work in big cities
So as these immigrants are coming into the country
they're putting tremendous pressure on the local population.
And that's why there's so much ethnic tension
throughout the Western world right now.
So this leads us to a paradox.
If immigrants are making life worse for everyone,
especially young people,
who's the future of these nations,
why is this happening?
So I want you guys to keep this in the back of your mind.
You probably know the answer already
because you know how property prices work, right?
Okay, so let's move on to another topic.
So Canada, like 10 years ago, introduced a new policy called Maid,
call medical assistance in dying, euphanasia.
And the idea here is that if you feel life is meaningless,
if you're depressed, if you feel that you cannot cure your disease,
the government will help you kill yourself.
The government will let you die.
Now, the big question then is, yeah, but 25 years ago,
this was illegal in the world right you suicide was you was illegal if you help someone kill himself
you'd be put in prison this would be basically murder so what's the difference between suicide
and the government helping you kill yourself well there really isn't okay but the government
says there is a difference okay so this is a brochure from the government from the kingdom
explaining you why suicide is bad okay suicide is bad but suicide by government is good
okay and it's really stupid it's disgusting stupid it's disgusting stupid okay what they say is
that if you if you do suicide well you do it alone and you shock your friends and family
but if you do made then everyone knows you're killing yourself and so they won't be so sad
when you die right you kill yourself you might screw it up but if the government does it for you
you won't screw it up because it's it's being facilitated by professionals who know what they're doing
all right if you think this is stupid there's more stupidity to come all right and what this tells us is
we discussed this last class is one major sign of decline in society is the over bureaucratization of
society where the government interferes in everything okay um this is the number of after number of deaths
from euthanasia in Canada.
As you can see, in 2016, it started.
You're about 1,000.
But 2021, it's at 10,000.
Okay?
So the numbers are going up really rapidly.
Why?
Well, because if you want to kill yourself,
they won't stop you.
This is the number of days required
to be approved for suicide.
As you can see in the Netherlands,
sorry, this is Oregon, actually.
This is Oregon, the United States.
Okay, the number of days have been going down,
but it's still like at most a month, okay?
In Canada, they'll do it in like 10 days for you.
They won't even think about it.
They're like, you want to cure yourself?
Do it, man.
Good for you.
Good choice.
Doctors have been trained to not doing harm, right?
Well, and death ought to be the last resort.
But in Canada, death is now the first resort.
If you go to a doctor and say, I want to die,
the doctor said, sure, let's do it, man.
That's pretty disgusting.
So like if you see the number of approval rates
have been going way up.
It seems as though they have a quota to fill.
This is 2019, only 75% were approved.
Now it's 81%.
It's almost like they have a quota.
They're trying to kill as many people as possible.
As you can see, this number is the percentage of people
who die because of euthanasia.
This is the Netherlands, which for the longest time
had a very open policy when comes to euthanasia.
And yeah, it's going up, but this huge spike is Canada.
It seems that so Canada's in a rush
to kill as many people as possible.
So who's dying?
Yeah, do you have a question?
So the suicide of Canada is not insinacea?
Is that also a type of insinacea?
No, no, okay.
So suicide is when you kill yourself.
Eiffinacea is when a doctor helps you kill yourself.
Eufinacea means good death.
It means like you will die painlessly.
Okay?
No, no, okay.
Eiffinacea is suicide by government.
government okay all right so why people dying well a alum as you can see most is
actually from cancer now what's interesting about cancer is that it's the most
expensive disease to treat right well that's interesting and a lot of
cancer it's not it's not it's pretty painful but it's not terminal you can
still live with cancer right so it seems as though people of cancer are being
to die because they're a burden on the system which means who's dying who's dying here it's
poor people who are dying right that's this is pretty obvious and this is even more interesting okay
this is the most disgusting part if the government were to prove your death you would think that
there would be a rigorous process right it would be the last option but let's understand why
people are killing themselves and there are two main reasons the first major reason is loss of a
to engage in meaningful activities.
It's because you're not happy.
This is a lame reason to kill yourself.
Okay?
Also, loss of ability to perform activities of daily living.
It's harder for you to go buy groceries.
It's harder for you to walk around.
So again, what's happening is that poor people are dying.
And poor people are encouraged to kill themselves
because the poor are being a burden on the medical system.
And that's the entire basis of euthanasia.
So let me ask you this question.
Why is it that 25 years ago we discouraged euthanasia?
In fact, we legal to conduct euthanasia.
Even if the person was suffering from brain cancer,
and the person was just basically in hell every day,
the government would not allow euthanasia.
Why not?
Yeah?
Maybe because it was like harder to regulate like the procedures to take for euthanasia and because it was like such a new thing
You have no control over what the companies who like provide the service do yeah or like what they do to their
Patients I wouldn't even say patients but like people who purchase their services and also
All because again it's such a novel thing
The procedures involved the medical companies involved maybe what maybe
to me, loopholes.
And it was, if I was the government,
I considered that as a potential danger,
something that may be disturbing to this current system.
Okay, all right.
Yeah, that's a very interesting answer, okay?
What it tells me is that the society you live in
is very different from the society that I grew up in, okay?
Because 25 years ago, when I was younger,
we were taught that every life matters.
Every life is a gift from God.
society, we have to protect everyone, especially the poor, the vulnerable, and the marginalized.
Because that's how we come together as a society.
If we just let anyone die, then how do you know that you'll be protected?
So what mattered back then was about social cohesion, social capital, social trust.
And now what matters is just numbers.
How much does this cost me?
How much revenue will this generate?
So that's the difference in the world today.
Before we cared about social cohesion,
we cared about morality.
Nowadays, it's all just money, money, money.
And this is interesting for us, okay?
Another sign of decline is growing financialization.
We talked about this last class, right?
Well, guess what's happening?
In the star markets throughout the world,
it's booming, okay?
It's booming.
If you're a rich person, you're getting richer and richer.
10% of the population owns 9% of the stocks in America.
Okay, so this is an indicator of how wealthy the rich
have become in the past 20 years.
In the year 2008, if you bought Amazon,
you would buy for $7.
Now it's like $300, okay?
So that just shows you how wealthy the rich have become
due to government policies.
At the same time, when we talked about this last class,
Productivity, real economy, the amount of work you do,
it's going way down.
So we have this absurd situation where the fake economy,
the financial economy, it's going way up,
but the real economy of jobs, of people doing work,
of being productive, it's going way down.
Okay, meaning that we live in a fake world.
And the government responds by lying to people.
People know their lives suck.
People know that basically the economy is in a recession.
That's what the facts say.
The government, and what does the government do?
Well, the government says that, oh, it's not really a recession.
What it really is is a state of transition.
Okay, this is what we call gaslighting.
This is bleeding gas lighting.
Rather than just say, you know what,
the economy's in trouble and we feel your pain
and we're gonna work hard to solve the problem,
They're telling you, no, no, no, it's not black, it's white, guys.
You're lying, your eyes, they're lying to you.
Don't you see?
You're not seeing clearly.
Get new glasses and your life will be a lot better.
That's like literally what they're telling you.
Debt, right?
We talked about this last class as well.
This is U.S. debt.
You can see how the debt is just booming, okay?
So up in the year until the year, 1980, for 200 years, America's,
existence there was very little debt now look at this okay america right now is 37 trillion dollars
in debt that's a government okay the people with the credit card debt with the mortgages they were
17 trillion dollars they're never paying that off so basically the middle class in america it's
finished okay the government has no more resources this is what the client looks like um no one's having
children anymore okay so the world sucks and young people were like screw this I'm
not having kids and this is happening throughout the world Canada is selling its
resources to outside investors okay so oil is a big Canadian resource as you can see a
lot of the big players in Canada are actually American or overseas when it says
Canada it usually means British people so Canadians so mean own their own
resources anymore.
So let's summarize what we've learned today.
Let's look at the signs of Western decline.
You've got higher property prices.
This happened throughout the Western world.
Inflation and lower quality of life.
Higher stock market valuations, which means greater
inequality.
Less real economic growth.
Less and less people are doing real jobs.
Euthanasia for the poor, just killing off the poor people.
Mass immigration, population.
Population replacement, lower birth rate,
greater public and private debt,
bureaucratic gas lighting,
when the government no longer acknowledged
with problems, it just lies to you directly.
And privatization, asset shipping, okay?
So all this is happening in the Western world.
The question now is, why would this happen?
And there are different theories, okay?
And we'll go over some of the major theories.
There's lots and lots of theories.
We'll go over the major ones.
And there's something overlap between these theories
And some of these theories make a lot of sense.
So one major theory is idea of neoliberalism.
The idea of neoliberalism is the belief
that all that matters in society,
all that matters in life is economic growth.
If your society can join more economic growth,
all problems will be solved.
So if your economy runs really fast,
then everyone will be happy.
That's the idea of neoliberalism.
Then you have techno-fudialism,
which is the idea that some big corporations,
usually these tech companies, they want to control the world.
And so they want to turn everyone into slaves.
And if you don't have a house, you don't have your own property,
then you can be controlled by these companies,
okay?
Technical feudalism.
World government, where the United Nations has this conspiracy
to control the entire world,
to destroy national sovereignty and create a world unified government,
okay?
Population replacement theory.
And the idea here is that the problem for governments
in the Western world is that white people are opinionated.
They believe in democracy.
They believe in freedom.
And they're hard to control.
So it's replaced the white people with Chinese and Indians
and Filipinos because Asian people are more obedient, right?
That's the idea.
And again, these are just theories.
I'm not saying they're right or wrong.
And we'll go into these theories later on this semester.
The last reason is bureaucratic incompetence.
The government is just stupid.
Now, there is many overlap among these theories
and there's some validity to all these theories.
But what I want to show you is that there's actually
a much better way to analyze this.
Whenever you have a problem, you always ask yourself,
who benefits?
Who is benefiting from this, right?
So we were talking about housing prices.
Well, clearly, property owners are benefiting from this, right?
So if we took all the groups, okay,
and there's like millions of different groups in society,
we just analyze who benefits from all these trends
that we discuss, the answer you would get is rich pensioners.
These are the people who benefit the most from these trends.
And therefore, we can suspect that they're the ones
behind these trends, okay?
So let's go over them.
Property prices make sense, right?
Because they're old, they have houses.
They probably have two or three houses.
So they want to see the property prices go up.
Higher stock market values just make sense because they own the more stocks.
You feed nation for the poor, it makes sense because they want good medical care.
If poor people are standing in line, that's a problem for them, right?
So just kill the poor people and they'll have better access to healthcare.
Right? If that frees up the healthcare system, mass immigration means cheap labor.
If they're old, they're seven or eight years old, they need gardeners, they need cooks.
They need nurses.
right immigrants are you guys going do you guys want me gardeners and cooks and
laborers you don't want want to be so we have to bring in immigrants and everything
else okay inflation and my growth lower birth rate gasoline it doesn't really
affect them doesn't make sense so all these trends someone are really good for
these pensioners and the rest doesn't really affect the pensioners and that's why
we can assume for analysis that's a rich pensioners who are most responsible for what's
going on. Does this make sense to you guys? All right. So how can we understand this?
Well the problem that we're facing is never in human history have we had so many old
rich people before. Okay? And you can see these trends where in the year in 1900 people
who are 75 in older were just a small fraction of society.
We can see how fast they're growing, okay?
60, over 6 years old, really growing really fast.
There's a problem because if they keep on living,
they accumulate more and more resources,
which creates a lot more inequality.
Now, I'm not saying that all old people are rich.
In fact, that's not the case.
If you just look at statistics,
you will find that wealth is pretty much
even disputed, distributed,
distributed among demographics, okay?
So there are young people with a lot of money,
but there are more old people with money.
So there are lots and lots of old people,
the purple or old people who are poor.
I'm not saying that old people are the problem,
saying that old rich people are the problem.
Their problem because they want their pensions.
The pension systems in all societies
made assumptions about old people.
The major assumption that they made
is that old people would die, right?
So for example, in Canada, when they first create the pension system,
the retirement age was 65, and they expected people to die when they were 72.
So you have five to seven years of a good pension, okay?
Guess what, guys, they're not dying, right?
And that creates a huge problem with your pension plan.
And you can see how these liabilities are going up over time.
These are teachers, and as you can see, the liabilities are going way up.
Why is this happening?
It's happening because it's something called
Assumption changes, okay?
So two assumptions are being made.
First is that old people will die.
Well, they're not dying.
The other assumption is that if you put money in the start market,
it will year by year improve, right?
The problem is that there's volatility in the stock market.
It goes up and goes down.
And the smart people make money of dumb people.
Guess what, guys?
Okay, I'm going to ask you a question.
In finance, where do the dumbest people work?
You guys know?
In finance, the dumbest people work where?
They work in pension funds.
Why?
Because it's a boring job.
You just sit there and do nothing all day.
So these pension funds are constantly getting ripped off
from investment banks where the smart people are.
Okay, so if you look at all investment vehicles,
pension funds have lost the most money.
and this has created huge issues within government pension funds throughout the world.
Okay?
So as you can see, there's volatility in returns in the pension fund.
Okay, when you put the money in, the returns would differ year by year, and that screws up your model.
If you're a young person, do not put money in the pension fund.
Why?
Because the value of the pension fund is going dressed dresly down.
When you grow up, when you mature and you retire,
Guess why guys there's no money in the pension fund for you because all that money is gone. Why?
Because there are too many retirees and none of workers. All right so back in the year 2001
you had a problem you got 7.6 retirees for every 12.7 workers. This is you basically the ideal
is one to three so one pensioner three workers that's a healthy pension system.
Now you have more pensioners okay than you have workers. This is a huge problem. This is a huge problem.
These pensions will all go bankrupt in 5 to 10 years time.
At the same time, as I said, old people are not dying.
In fact, old people are coming to dominate society.
This is America.
You can see how people who are 85 in order.
Whoa, look at this.
Look at this.
The aging crisis in America is huge.
But it's not just America, it's everywhere.
Right?
So by the year 2040, you have 65 million people in America,
who are over 65.
You have 15 million Americans who are 85.
And guess what?
These 15 Americans, most of them are the ones
who control America.
So they dictate policy.
And again, this is happening throughout the world.
Okay, it's particularly stark in Japan and Germany.
But this is happening throughout the world.
And this leads us to the idea of gerotocracy.
Okay?
This is Joe Biden, President of the United States,
and this is Mitch McConnell, who has head of the Senate.
They're both retired now.
Okay, but they were both in their 80s,
and they were the two most powerful men in America.
He can't walk straight, okay?
Whenever he walks, he trips.
This guy is even worse because, look at this.
The guy's brain dead.
The guy is literally brain dead in public.
Okay?
He'll be like, and like, no matter what you do,
he's like, this is brain dead, okay?
The guy's, this is a brain freeze.
The guy should not.
be one of the most powerful men in America,
but he is.
That's the world we live in,
because he will not give up power.
This is Diane Feinstein.
She died in office.
She was 90 years old.
She was 90 years old and she was still working
and she died in her office.
And she was a senator in the United States.
These people are literally fighting for life.
They refuse to give up power.
They only give up power if they die.
This is the US Senate, again, the most
powerful political institution in America.
These are people who are above the standard retirement age
which is 662, okay?
This guy's 90 years old and he's still working.
90 years old and he's still working in the Senate.
And he doesn't want to retire.
Chuck Grassley.
What does it mean to have a world run by old people?
Now, maybe in school, maybe you've been taught,
that old people are wise.
They're tolerant.
They're generous.
benevolent no no no guys no the difference between these three generations young
mature and elderly are pretty stark you're young you're rebellious you want to
change a system if you mature you want things to move slowly okay but if you're
elderly you're reactionary means meaning you don't want anything to change if you
change anything they get upset and slap you that's reactionary young people
are creative mature people want growth but other people care first and foremost about
safety. Young people are open-minded, mature people want consensus, meaning they want everyone to get along,
but other people are stubborn. They want things their way. So we are now living in a gerotocracy,
which is ruled by elderly people, okay? So we're going to live in a reactionary, stubborn system,
only concerned about the safety of these people. And so what does that mean? Well, it means that
the world will go into lockdown.
When there's a virus, guess what?
We're all gonna have to shut down
because old people are afraid of catching germs.
It will also lead to a police state.
Okay, now police state does not mean that
there'll be terrible police coming to beat us up.
In fact, you know, if in real life,
most police that you meet are really, really nice people,
but you'll have no individual freedom.
Okay, so let me give you an example.
this so in Canada my Chinese move to Canada and she bought a house and her son is very naughty
and her son was so naughty that she wants to slap him but she knows that in
Canada you can't really slap children even in private right so she goes on online
and asks everyone can I slap my child and everyone's like you can't do that because
if you do that your neighbor should report you to the police but what you can do
is report your child to the police.
Tell the police your child is naughty
and they'll come and help you discipline your child.
In fact, you can get the police to come every single week.
They like that.
This is what we call a police state, okay?
Intrusive government interference into your personal lives.
Oh, and lots of surveillance, okay?
Wherever you move, you'll be tracked.
Whatever call you make, you'll be tracked.
In 2003, Britain, Britain,
and passed something called the Online Safety Act.
And the idea is, if you say anything bad online,
you can get arrested.
So the freedom of expression is being limited.
This passed in 2003 in Britain,
but I assume it passed everywhere in the Western world.
Digital currency.
The idea of digital currency is the idea of financial repression.
So they're trying to eliminate cash because with cash is freedom.
You can do whatever you want with cash.
You can buy whatever you want.
for how much you want with cash.
But with digital currency,
all your transactions will be limited and monitored.
Okay?
So in the future,
you will not be able to buy video games
because that's bad for you.
Oh, microchip implants, guys.
Right?
Isn't that great?
Before you had cell phones,
then you had facial recognition,
and in the future you have implants,
microchip implants.
Immigrants, lots and lots of immigrants
because poor people,
sorry, rich pensioners need help.
They need nurses.
They need laborers. They need governors.
They need people to mow their lawn.
So you have massive immigration coming into the country.
Oh, but good news, okay?
It'll be easier for you to study in America from now on, right?
Today, Trump announced he wants 600,000 Chinese students to go to the United States.
Right?
Before you guys were worried about not getting your visas and getting denied at the border.
Don't worry guys. They want you to go United States because you guys are the best labor, okay?
You're cheap, you're obedient, and you're studious, and you're young.
Okay, so this is the plan to let in more Chinese students into America so you guys can take care of elderly people.
It's not great? Good news, right?
Oh, lots and lots of prisons, guys.
Okay, because elder people are afraid of criminals and also prisoners are
Free labor. Is that great?
Oh, and one more thing.
War after war after war.
All right?
This is what it means by death by gerontocracy.
This is what it means to live in a world governed by elderly people.
Other people are probably happy to send young people to die
for their glory.
All right. Okay.
Pretty depressing, but don't worry.
Things will get even more depressing as we go along.
All right.
All right, good, any questions?
Are you guys clear? Any questions?
Yeah.
For the above that you said that elders controls the society
and wants like they exploit young people,
but is there a way that young people could like overthrow or
having a method to solve this?
Yeah, that's actually a great question.
So what can young people do about this?
And the answer is nothing, okay?
And the reason why, and this is really important,
is that young people are biologically ingrained
to respect the elders, right?
This is true throughout nature.
Even young animals will respect their elders.
So, do you want to go kill your grandparents?
Probably not.
So there's nothing anyone can do about this.
This is just the unfortunate state of affairs.
old people are people we are biologically trained or wired to respect and obey
and that's why they can send us to wars and we'll go fight wars okay does that make
sense all right yeah so what happened after the rich pension elders dead like
what about their money okay all right that's a good question okay so as you
you can see from these charts eventually there'll be a pension crisis where there are too many
pensioners and not money well guess what the old people are the major political force in society
they dictate policy so what will happen is that money will be diverted from elsewhere into pensions
where schooling right public schooling uh health care um everywhere basically okay but that but the pensioners will
want that money and pensioners first of all they're powerful but they also have a lot of
free time on their hands to make trouble for everyone and also because respect are the elderly
right okay do you want to deny health care and pension to your grandparents so everyone
will be for this there's nothing we can do about it good question but like people
human's life have a limit like what will happen after like
They all died because they are just,
although they are elders and those rich pensions,
they are still generations of human.
That's a really great point, okay?
So the idea is that what happens when they die off?
Well, they're not dying off, okay?
They were supposed to die at 72.
Now they're living to like 100.
Modern medicine is incredible.
I have a friend who's like 90 years old.
She's like literally brain dead.
Okay, she's like literally brain dead.
She's 90 years old, but she's filthy rich.
and she has access to the best healthcare.
So I asked my friend, who's a doctor, like,
if you're filthy rich and you want to keep on living,
how long could modern medicine keep you going on,
even though you're vegetable?
And he said to me, 20 years, 20 years,
20 years of being vegetable, but she has money,
so, and if she wants to keep on living,
then she can do that.
Okay?
And that was not available before because of,
because of scarcity, right?
Because of lack of technology.
But nowadays, because of abundance,
because of technology,
old people can live as long as they want to.
And also, what this chart tells us that
when the green goes away, the red becomes the green, right?
So you'll always have a society
where the elderly are in control.
Does that make sense?
Unless, of course, there were maybe, I don't know,
a catastrophe, a nuclear holocaust, who knows, okay?
But yeah, but given the way things are,
the trend is that old people can control Saudi for a long time.
Because if there's a war,
is that old people who die, it's young people who die.
Okay, but good question.
Okay, any more questions?
Okay, great, so we'll continue this next class.
Okay, thank you.
