Франц Оппенгеймер | Государство, 1907

0:01 Sasha, who is Macedonian, once caught a pirate and asked him, "Why are you robbing people?" And the pirate replied , "Sasha, you and I are kind of colleagues, we do the same thing, but I do it on a small boat, that's why I'm a pirate, and you do it on a big fleet, that's why you're an emperor." This book is dangerous. I don't know why all this nonsense is banned, all this nonsense like Meinkampf, while books that truly shake the foundations of modern civilization are freely available. Nobody is interested in them . Franz Apenheimer wrote it in 1907. This book explains the whole mess we're

0:47 in. It really explains. Not what you were told in school or university or what you're told on the news and TV, but how it really is. Why we ended up where we are. Why, for the last 8,000 years, if you want to live comfortably and have material wealth, you've essentially only had two options. Either create material wealth or take it from those who create it. There's economics, there's politics, and there's no way out of this trap. Wait a minute. What if I do something else? I don't create and I don't take it away; for example, I find something. This did

1:34 happen. This method existed before, 10,000-20,000 years ago. It was called hunting and gathering. When resources weren't within society, but outside it —game, plants—they had to be hunted and gathered. That was true back then, but it's not true now, because the mineral wealth doesn't belong to you, the land doesn't belong to you, the game on that land doesn't belong to you . You own nothing. You need licenses, certifications, taxes to pay, and complex bureaucratic procedures to go through. If you don't comply with them and pay them, you'll get hurt. Even if someone gave you a valuable gift, you still have to pay the lord. Why? Well,

2:20 because that's where it all begins. Everything is described in this book: why and how it all began, how it evolved, and why we ended up in the world we find ourselves in now. Back then, 10, 20, 30,000 years ago, society was built on completely different principles, because it was a hunter-gatherer society. A hunter couldn't sit idle and redistribute and take resources for himself, because there was nothing to take. Food is found in nature; you have to hunt for it. You have to organize together and go out. How are you going to take anything here? You had to organize everything in such a way that the other hunters in the tribe were happy with you. Only under such conditions could you become a leader. If you decide to

3:06 walk on your head, to act eccentrically , to invent some nonsense, if you decide to take, redistribute, live well at the expense of everyone else, taking everyone else, you'll be instantly deposed, and you have no way to defend yourself, because violence is decentralized. All warriors in the tribe have weapons. Everyone is an excellent hunter. It's impossible to terrorize them. How are you going to terrorize your own guard? They'll terrorize you when you fall asleep. The situation changed 8,000 years ago, with the Neolithic Revolution, the Agrarian Revolution. That is, when we learned to create resources within our social groups. And, accordingly, some can work , and that's economics, and others can take, and that's politics. Initially,

3:55 there was no way out of this situation, because those social groups that switched to cultivation, to creating food, they significantly increased their numbers, and humanity's main super-advantage is the pack. Accordingly, the more of us there are, the stronger we are. This life wasn't sweet. It was significantly worse than it was during the hunter-gatherer era because people had to compromise their health, eat less, and get sick more often. Many religions still hold the idea that there was a wonderful Eden, a happy time from which people were expelled. This happy time, when no one

4:42 worked and everything was good and comfortable, was hunting and gathering, where no one oppressed anyone else, where resources were found in the natural world. And, accordingly, you didn't have to work, you didn't have to compromise your health, you didn't have to get sick, because the planet is limited in size, there's a limited supply of any resource, so it's zero-sum. It can't be any more. And in such conditions, evolution kicks in, when species begin to compete with each other and within species for this limited resource. Humanity is no exception. The only thing that has changed is that previously we were competing for a resource found outside our social group in nature. But the moment we started creating this resource—oh, how sweet you are, since you were there and now you're here— that means we'll be competing

5:29 internally. And how can you compete internally if this resource belongs to someone? Someone cultivated it, someone made it. And so society was divided into two categories of people: those who create resources, and those who take these resources from those who create them. This birth trauma was laid down 8,000 years ago. The moment we started producing resources, our society took the path we're on now, where it seems that despite the insane amount of excess technology, we can do anything—we send rockets into space, after all—but there's famine in Africa, and people can't afford mortgages, people can't afford children . So, who, who does all this? Who is it

6:14 ? And the answer is always like, "Well, that's inflation, what are you saying? What if the nomads came, killed everyone, took everything, what's that? " Well, that's just a natural phenomenon. This world is full of hatred and evil. The evolution of violence has been gradual. If in the beginning it was very straightforward, well, monkeys just come, kill everyone and take everything. It was often, you know, ethnic crime. Some pigs or some creators of Normandy say: "You are now our food, you now owe us, we will rape you here, kill you, and you owe us." Why? Well, because come here. Why is it clear? Whoever feeds the girl, it means he does everything else. That is, if

7:01 some bandit controls violence against a certain group of people, what do you think this group of people will say about this bandit? Will they say, well, you know, he's completely lost his mind ? No one will say that. There are no fools; they'll kill him. That's why everyone keeps quiet. That's why we're conformists. This is a prerequisite for human survival. If you try to be too clever and talk too much, well, those who control the violence will give you a hard time. The system is asymmetrical . Look at this crap. If someone grows resources, say, a farmer, and someone else slaughters people, say, a warrior, the farmer can't kill the warrior, but the warrior can kill the farmer. Food

7:47 can't kill a predator. So predators inevitably impose their rules, inevitably begin redistributing, and inevitably begin to walk on their heads . Initially, violence was direct. They'd come, look at this village, and see, yeah, there are material goods. They've grown some grain there, they have animals there, they have beautiful girls there. So, they just attacked, slaughtered everyone, raped, took everything they wanted. This went on for a while. This was the first level, but then the goodies appeared, the resource appeared, let's rob them. Then one of those degenerates, I mean among the bandits, came up with this model called tribute. Why do we constantly take risks? Some of our brothers are getting killed. Let's present them with some kind of bill. They will give us a

8:35 certain amount of virgins, food, grain once a year, once every two years, and we won't kill them for it. Why should we pay you tribute? Well, because that's where the tax comes in. Come here, we're your protection. That was the third level. Most often, it wasn't those who lived among these people who did all this, but outsiders. They sailed in and created some kind of Normandy there. They slaughtered all the locals and said: "Now you owe us. Why?" Come here. Because. Or some pigs sailed in and said: "Now we owe us this , we owe this, we owe this." Outright violence. Then they simply came, killed everyone, took everything, and galloped away. The second second level. Ah, tribute. Third level. One of these

9:20 degenerates thought: "Why are we leaving at all? Why are we leaving?" Everyone is here, look, there are beautiful women, there is food, we can force everyone to work for us. Why force them? Well, because we have violence, we have swords, we can do it, but they can't. They have a plow, and we have a sword. So let them work. So we constantly leave, come back, and this is some kind of lack of stability. After all, we need stability, the bandits decided. So, the nomadic bandit turned into a sedentary one. That is, instead of leaving, he simply sat down in this village among these people and said: "That's it, I'm here, like, whatever I say, you will do. Go, bring, serve, take away all this. Come on,

10:08 give me the virgins, the food, all this ." Who opened their mouth? Come here. >> So, the first systems of domination on the planet arise. What is a system of domination? This is when a well-organized minority exploits an unorganized majority. A well-organized minority, but some bandits, some ethnic criminals from the north or the south. Why should I give it to you? Why should I work for you for free? Come here, I'm going to hurt you. In 106, the Norman Conquest of England takes place. William the Conqueror. Some guy from the future France sailed to England, conquered it, and said, "Now you all

10:54 owe me. Bring me this much." He created a bureaucracy, forced everyone to learn French so they could speak a language he understood, and made English a second-class language. And so on. So who is William the Conqueror? He's a supposed hero, a supposed conqueror. What is Normandy? It's the Cordmans. So these are his ancestors, a degenerate, the ethnic criminals of the north who didn't want to work. They sailed to the French coast and began robbing, raping, and murdering the local population because they didn't want to work. They only wanted to rob and kill. That's the only thing they could do. Then they realized they were so happy there that they didn't want to leave. And they settled down there. So, well, they

11:41 agreed with another local lord that they wouldn't go there, and he wouldn't go to them. And, accordingly, they turned into Normandy. William the Conqueror is a descendant of the corresponding degenerates of the north. He couldn't stay there. He thought he should sail to England, cut up people there, kill them, rape them, because he really didn't want to work. He wanted to live at someone else's expense. They sailed and conquered. What were they doing there? But he began to create a structure there. He began to create a bureaucracy. First of all, he was interested in how many people were there, the food supply, what it was like, how much of this or that they produced, how many of them they robbed, how much they could rape. Now you're starting to see the institutions of a modern state emerge. That is, you need a bureaucracy to keep records, you need

12:27 an army, you need some kind of security system. And now you need a church that will explain to the locals why this degenerate lives so well at their expense. Why? Well, because he's God's viceroy on earth. God gave him permission, anointed him, so He didn't anoint you, but He anointed him, so come on, bring the money. What were you trying to figure out? All these gangs of iron-clad gangsters, what were they doing? What were they doing, some kind of creative work? What were they doing? They were robbing society and killing each other. That's the kind of happy life they lead. Bandits. But nothing can be done about them. Why? Because they're in a high castle behind high walls. What can you do about them? They have swords, they're clad in iron, all these riffraff. You can't do anything

13:13 to them. I mean, if you're a creator, if you're a farmer, if you're involved in manufacturing, what can you do to a professional knight, all clad in iron, all festooned with weapons, of whom there are many, who are better organized—they're still hiding in the castle. What can you do to him? You can't do anything until the appropriate technologies emerge that will force them, up there in that high castle, to think up some new story, to pull the wool over their eyes. The institutions of the modern state don't arise in the interests of the people; they arise in the interests of bandits, they arise in the interests of lords. One of the most important of these institutions is the institution of propaganda. And the church occupies a leading position here , because the church was popular for a long time in Western Europe. Why?

13:59 Because it was a tool for the kingdom. It explained to people why they should toil for the lord. Because the Lord is God's anointed on earth. You owe him. Why? Well, because the church anointed him. Do you understand what an interesting system this is? And who controls the church? Why do you decide who gets anointed? And here, God has already suggested it to us. Do you understand what kind of system this is? It's a very interesting story, my friend. What actually happened in our civilization, no one teaches anyone anywhere. The Reformation. And what is the Reformation? I remember the Reformation in school. What is it? Well , some Martin Luther or something about indulgences, that the puzzle doesn't fit together if you don't understand that there is a struggle for power. The

14:47 puzzle doesn't fit together if you don't understand that there is a Roman Catholic Church that appoints who will be in power in the respective lands. And, accordingly, separatism begins in these lands. They say, "What the hell? Why does he decide? I'm here myself. Like, I have some guys here too, I want to rob them, I don't want to listen to the Pope." And a conflict begins. The Protestants, what were they protesting against? Against God? No, they were protesting against the Roman Catholic Church, against the centralized authority of the church. They protested . The gangsters say, "We don't want you in charge. We'll be the asses here ourselves." Reg. Why did the Reformation happen? Why did the Protestants appear? Why were new lands being developed? Why was there a Thirty

15:32 Years 'War? Why did the Bolsheviks destroy churches? My God, are they atheists? No, it's a struggle for power . The Church is an institution of power , so this institution became unnecessary. And after 20, 30, 40 years , when a new generation was told hello and candy, then religion seemed to work , and it began to be encouraged. Essentially, all key conflicts, all of human history, revolves around the struggle to redistribute resources. The struggle for power. And what is a struggle for power? Power lies with a well-organized minority, and the task of redistributing and taking resources from a poorly organized majority. This is called a system of domination. And for a long time, it was called that: domination, domination, domination, lord. A village obeys a lord. A county

16:21 obeys a count. Domination, power, domination. But now, instead of the word "domination," they use the word " state." Why? Well, so that the hamsters don't get too worked up, so that they can be explained that this is, you see, bro, we're all moving toward a bright future, you know? Of course, in the past, there were dark, difficult times, but then religion came along, and religion explains to you why you have to pay this lord. Because he's God's viceroy on earth, God's anointed one. Then nationalism came along. Why should I obey you and do what you say? Well, because it's in our common interests, and I don't own anything. I'm simply a conduit for our common interests,

17:06 because everything belongs to the people, or everything belongs to God. Well, that's the whole story. Essentially, it's a simulator that says you don't own anything, but I decide who is anointed and who isn't, who owns it and who doesn't. The next stage in the evolution of these stupid fairy tales is socialism, communism, and democracy. These are also stupid fairy tales, because they don't change the essence. Why is this system like this? I don't like this system, because you went to the polls, you voted, because that's what democracy is, my dear. So, somehow, for some reason, I can't afford this democracy of yours, like health insurance. Why can't I afford a house? It's so expensive. And why is the money I earned losing value? I've

17:52 already given you a huge chunk. Why am I giving you a ton of money? And the fact that I have less and less left is somehow getting worse. You have inflation, my friend. We have nothing to do with this. What do we have to do with this? We are your inflation, not ours. How are you going to fight this? That is, people are basically cognitive conformists, those who were very clever , they were physically killed for thousands of years. The lords killed them. Those who said, like, we don't like this, let's split it equally. No, you fool, we can't. What, split it equally? What do you mean, we didn't conquer you for equal shares. People are going into power. Why? It's conquest. If you replace the word politics with the word conquest, then a lot of things in this life will become clear to you. Of course, over time, brainwashing models changed. The

18:38 creative class came up with new technologies, and these new technologies did not allow society to be controlled by the old systems of violence. Well, there sits a lord in an iron castle. What are you going to do with him there? They arrived in a crowd , killed and knocked down all the dissenters, did what they wanted, took them, subjugated them. At some point, the creative class came up with an idea . What did they come up with? Invented saltpeter, invented gunpowder, invented bombs. Where are you? Come here with your knights. You hid in the castle. Where will you hide? You can't hide. But they don't want to work. They are not designed to work and cooperate. They are designed to redistribute, to take what belongs to others. There is an economic level, where people create something, the creative class, and then there is a political level, which in

19:24 one way or another comes up with little schemes, they wanted to help, there is all this stuff, like there is justice. They love that word. I even want to film a story about the most terrible word in the world: justice. All under the name of justice, so many people on the planet have been slaughtered. And somehow, in the name of justice, it always turns out that the Crusades started, they slaughtered a bunch of people, and in the name of justice, somehow the Roman Catholic Church, most importantly, stood on the lands. That is, it's a question of power. Power. Why should I obey you? Well, because we are from God. There's this Assyris, you know, all this history. I am God's anointed. What? What are you, anointed? I'll anoint you now. It stopped working , especially when new ideas appeared,

20:10 when new weapons, new technologies appeared. At the beginning of the 20th century, nationalism was very popular in Germany, in Italy, in many other places, the national idea. And the national idea is a stronger idea than the international one, but I don't want to go there now. It will be too difficult. That is, it's like we are for everyone, you are for the people, you are part of the people. Okay, but there is no people. Is there someone who decides for the people? Well, yes, I will decide, but we are all for the people, so you will pay me, because I am from the people, and everyone else is not from the people. Well, you see, all this, democracy is the next stage. Like, what is this? What is this? What is this anyway? Well, because you chose that I didn’t choose anything. What did I choose? You showed me two bodies

20:55 of some elderly people, like you said I chose someone. I didn’t choose anyone . No, you don’t understand. You went to the elections. If you went, that means you chose. What do you mean? Ah, well, so what next? Well, then bring the money. Education, history, culture, science, everything is so saturated with this monstrous system of domination of some over others for the sake of economic exploitation. We believe in non-existent things, like, say, money, legal entities, or laws, things that do not exist in the material world. But when we start believing in this as a large group, it starts to work. But for us to even begin to believe this, there needs to be someone who controls the violence in our social group, someone who occupies

21:42 a higher place in the hierarchy. Someone needs to say, "This is how we now believe in this God. This is how we now speak this language. This is how we now have this kind of money." And the majority, without thinking, obey. And this is not a bug, but a feature of our civilization, because if we had argued with each other for too long, our civilization would not have been possible. But this is a feature; it creates this unpleasant side effect, because the system of domination cannot evolve into something else, because there is a selection of suitable candidates. To want to get to the top, you have to be hungry. You have to be a conqueror. You have to want to rule, to

22:27 control other people. If you are a creator, you are not drawn to that. You are not drawn to that. Just like 8,000 years ago, if you grow grain, you don't feel like going out and robbing people, taking their grain. You're in a different place; you're interested in creating. But if you're mentally nuts and you crave power, you want to dominate—what is that? What are you doing? You'll, of course, tell stories in your common interests. I'm doing all this for you, comrades. I understand. But everyone always tells the same story. Well, 300-400 years ago, there was no need to tell such stories. They simply slapped everyone on the head and killed all dissenters. But now technology has developed to such a level that open violence doesn't work well. That's why we need a story. We need populism, something like democracy , justice, everything good, everything

23:14 bad, everything for you, comrades. Elect me, and I'll do everything well. They, of course, tell all this. They are motivated by the desire to get a very high position. For what? in order to benefit, to redistribute one way or another. But it's not like that over there, they have it all in one go. It's just that here we have different mechanisms everywhere. I'll tell you again, the mechanisms are a little different, but the meaning is the same. Exploitation of man by man. Redistribution exists one way or another. It existed both in the Soviet Union and in capitalist America. It exists both now and then. It has always existed for the last 8,000 years. Because narrative is not used to make our lives better and brighter. Narrative is used to justify domination

24:01 . The lord tells you: "So nothing belongs to me, everything belongs to the people. Wonderful." He says: "But I don't own anything at all." Look, I have no property rights to myself, no yachts, no planes, nothing. Wonderful. But under your direct control are hundreds of planes, boats, cars, everything you can imagine. Legally, you can draw anything you want. What really matters is who holds the reigns, who wields power. They're not rushing in to make society better. They're rushing in because they're politicians, conquerors. They need to seize power over society to feed off it. It's always been that way. It's just that the narrative has changed now. Give it back because we have democracy. And if you don't give it back, well, they'll take everything from you, confiscate it , and jail you. Well, the idea is that you'll give it back anyway. When I was

24:46 studying at the institute, I was regularly brainwashed with social contract theory. This is the main theory of the origin of the state. Its essence is this: people voluntarily renounce their rights to the lord so that he can bring order to their society. Imagine the situation. Some degenerate, covered in blood, comes along. Ethnic crime, some grumpy guy shows up, and you're like, "And here he is, all covered in guts, covered in blood, with a sword." And you're like, "Come on, come on, I'll be dependent on you to maintain order." What do you think of the social contract theory? Do you even believe in it? How often do you see someone calling someone else to power and saying, "Let me give up my power for you?" People always fight for power. All these states and systems of domination exist to gain control over

25:32 the food supply and live off it. No one will just give up their food supply. There are no fools. They compete for it , that's why there are wars, that's why there is political struggle, there is a political process, it's a conquest. So, it's some group of people who have organized themselves, some political party, and they are fighting for what? For dominance over society. Why? Well, their life will be better. They will gain control over the food supply and will have a wonderful existence. If you think that it's not like that in the US or Europe, then you are very much mistaken. There is regulation there too . And those who are affiliated with the regulator, they feed themselves, they impose monopolies, they impose high prices. Research the question of why in the United States there is essentially a monopoly on health insurance, and

26:18 it's paid for by the government, with taxpayers' money. What the hell is this ? What is this? Why is it like, doctor, I'm a doctor, someone has a problem, I want to help, but I can't. I can't help for free, I can't help at a low price, I can't help the person because they'll revoke my medical license. This lord, he forbids me from working with people and imposes some very complicated permits on me. And I have to provide services at incredibly high prices, which are inflated, which let me in. As a result, all of society suffers. They can't afford good health insurance because it's super expensive, and alternatives are prohibited. What? Who created this? The lord created it. It's clear that he's not alone. It's clear what it is. Take any country, look at

27:04 what's inside, and it's a complete disaster. Everything's there, it's all the same good old-fashioned exploitation, the exploitation of man by man. That is, you can create something, or you can seize a regulator and force it to create a monopoly. And monopolies are most often created when people think, "Look at Rockefeller, he created Oil, he's supposedly a monopolist, so they broke up his company." He created a monopoly, but he lowered fuel prices tenfold in the process of developing his business. He made life much easier for people, unlike the lords who, say, saddled you with health insurance that you can't refuse. The US Medical Association is the only one. They, accordingly, impose

27:50 rules and standards and impose high prices. It's impossible to avoid. So, it turns into private business, because Rockefeller is economics. The US Medical Association, where they bring in the dough, where they've pushed one service at a very high price through lobbying, that's the state, that's the political level. And when people say, " It's wonderful there," yes, it's absolutely wonderful. It's clear that the initial base was larger than in other societies, so there's more to plunder, huh? But ultimately, it always ends, although that's a different story . How many countries do you know that have existed for more than 300 years? Just don't tell me about Egypt. I'm talking about a system of government based on certain rules that don't change. This is easiest to track through a new constitution. Which country has the oldest constitution on

28:37 the planet? It is the oldest system of government on the planet. And it's not Egypt, my dears. I'll tell you which countries. The oldest country on the planet is the United States. It has the oldest constitution. And now, apparently, everything is falling apart at the seams. Social contract theory works, but not in the way people think. This theory explains and convinces us that our party is right, that we're moving in the right direction. Yes, we're dependent, yes, we can't open our mouths, because we ourselves wanted it. There's a social theory. Society itself wanted order. Are you against society? You're not against society, are you? God's viceroy on earth, right? Why should I obey? Well, because I'm God's anointed. And then they talk about social contract theory. All these theories exist to control the population. A well-organized minority.

29:22 And with the help of these theories, a poorly organized majority controls. It's not that everyone consciously understands this. It's just that the system stabilizes itself in this way, most often unconsciously. Those people who carry out management, bureaucracy, violence in the interests of the political level, they do it unconsciously. They simply do what they are used to doing. They do it the way it suits them, the way it benefits them . That is, when some official or some cop or some employee takes a bribe, they don't think about, "Oh, I'm exploiting you, society," they do it because they're used to it. What I'm telling you is so natural for them. No one thinks about it. It just happens that some people are smashing and paying, while others are just sitting there robbing. You can't force people to obey with a sword these days,

30:08 because there are pistols, there are firearms. You see, the old methods of coercion don't work. That's why the lords are always inventing new systems of persuasion and coercion. Sure, you don't have quitrent or corvee labor now , but you do have income tax, you have mortgages, you have currency depreciation due to inflation. So, different mechanisms, but the essence is the same. There are beneficiaries, those closest to the lord, the political level. And then there is the rest of society—they're the food supply. A system where some people fight others to gain control is called the theory of violence. The violent theory of the origin of the state. This is what Franz Apenheimer describes in his book. That is, the whole world, the

30:53 majority of scientists on the planet, especially lawyers, believe in a stupid system. John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are examples. That's the theory of the social contract. It's like people came up with this idea: "Ethnic crime, some degenerate from the north, he's sailing in covered in blood." And they're like, "Let's become dependent on you because we have no order. You're such a good guy. That can't happen." But the state is necessary; it protects. Yes, it protects from two things. First, from well-organized crime. These are other lords, other foreign states. And it protects from poorly organized crime within the state—ordinary bandits.

31:40 Accordingly, some kind of system of organizing violence is essential, because without it, those who are better organized will come and impose their rules. Essentially, this is what happened 8,000 years ago. That is, those systems that didn't have their own system of violence were conquered by conquerors, bandits who had a good system of violence. If you don't want to be conquered, then you must have a system of violence within you, you must have an organization, because an organization is stronger than no organization. No one argues with this, but there must be no exploitation and violent redistribution. It's one thing when a system exists to respect and

32:27 protect the rights of its participants, and quite another when a system exists to violate their rights, to rob them. All the existing systems on the planet are located here. That is, they didn't arise to protect people's rights; they arose to oppress their rights and redistribute their resources. A system of domination gradually destroys its bearers. They want more and more power, they draw out more and more resources. This ultimately depletes the food supply. It stops reproducing, degrades, and dies out. Fresh forces, fresh bandits, take its place and organize their own new system. And so this process continues endlessly. A system of domination isn't what promotes social development in the long term.

33:14 It's what always kills society. So we see the emergence, the rise, and the decline of empires. Why is this such a strange situation? Because domination always grows, power always grows, and it's zero-sum. If someone's power over someone else within the system grows, then so does everyone else's, and dependence grows. When a person can no longer function normally in such a system, they simply refuse to live, exist, or reproduce. And, in general, this is where our civilization is now. The creative class, people, society— periodically sense that something is wrong. There are a lot of videos about how capitalism has changed. It's a standard narrative, like capitalism has stopped working. Guys, this isn't

34:01 capitalism, this is good old banditry. There is no capitalism. It's an old Jewish story that doesn't work and never has, because it's not the one with the money and capital who controls things. It's the one who holds power, who will take capital from those who have it. And that's how it's always been historically. There is no capitalism. It's a story. It's a narrative that became popular for what purpose? To seize power. You can consider yourself in good old feudalism , because in feudalism, the tools of production weren't up to you. That is, the feudal lord controlled everything in your life, but it was easier for him to extract money from you through the

34:47 land, because you grew something on Earth. But the point isn't that the land was the resource. Violence has always been the resource. Understand, violence is always the resource. Neither capital, nor the tools of production, all this nonsense—it's nonsense for seizing power. A narrative invented by certain people, and then other people picked up on it to seize power. There's a feeling that something's wrong with civilization, that something's not quite right. Why is everything so difficult? Why could the older generation afford housing, a family, and all the rest, but I somehow can't? They're told, "Well, because of capitalism." No, because the lord has eaten fish soup. He always eats fish soup. And after that, life becomes very difficult. Whether in the Roman Empire

35:33 or in the Soviet Empire. It always works this way. It's clear that people don't like the system. They want change for the better. And they say, "We don't like this tsar. We don't like this feudalism. Why am I a serf? Why is all this right? It's always been this way." Those people who, under the slogan of justice, begin to fight for power in the system, these people are always conquerors at their core. No one else can win. Do you understand? Fodder cannot defeat a predator. The plow cannot defeat the sword. If someone is motivated to participate in the political struggle and process, they are a conqueror. And to defeat everyone else, they must kill them, or at least outshine them. But they must, they must be the best conqueror of all. Now we

36:18 call them politicians. They lead, gain power, and they must be like, "Oh, well , now I'm here for the little people, I want to give up my power, it's impossible." The selection took place in favor of those guys who most wanted to dominate society. Yes, comrades, does it hurt? We'll get rid of these old ones, and everything will be fair and honest. It always happens like that . They always do everything fairly and honestly. But somehow it turns out that they have power, and we have analogies. It's not about the system changing. It's the specific beneficiaries that have changed. Well, the French Revolution is a very interesting topic. I really want to make a story about it. Do you even know why Napoleon was such a successful guy? Napoleon, the Carsican monster, conquered the entire continent. How is that possible? No one could, but Napoleon did. Do you know

37:04 why? Because they came up with a new narrative. They started requisitioning citizens to die for free in the war. If before Napoleon, before the French Revolution, in order to raise an army, a lord had to pay mercenaries a ton of money. When the French Revolution happened, they said: "Well, now it's free in the name of the republic, son." And Napoleon had an army of 750,000, 800,000 heads, for which he didn't have to pay. Well, for the most part, he didn't have to pay. But here are the results of why we had the 1917 revolution. A huge number of educated people in the empire understood that they didn't like this system, to put it mildly. At that time, the development

37:49 of technology, the development of printing, the development of European ideas—all of this also stemmed from the French Revolution. This idea that you can cut off the head of the previous leader and take his place. It came from France. There is always some internal sense of injustice, limitations, that something is going wrong. More often than not, this hatred is channeled by regulators into some kind of nonsense. It's inflation, it's the economy, it's a terrorist or something else. Well, like, the main thing is to direct you. It's not me, it's someone else. And who, if not you? At some point, redirection stops working. And that's what happened in 1917. Other conquerors appeared who picked up on this discontent. Lenin used to say that he said everything

38:36 they wanted to hear. Land for the peasants, work, men for women, women, men, he said, he was a populist. You can tell the crowd whatever they want. In general, tell them whatever they want. Once you seize power, you can do whatever you want to them. They won't do anything to you. That's why Lenin told them everything, everything the people wanted. But, of course, he didn't give it. What he said there, that any cook can run the state, that he gave power to cooks. They killed each other for power. That is, for the first 20 years of the Soviet Union, they killed each other, like they were such good guys. Human conformism works in such a way that they say: "That was a good man, that one, but they're

39:22 murderers, you know? They killed each other. Look at Trotsky with an ice pick in his head." A good guy. In general, they are conquerors. That's how their brains work, like, for the sake of power, they'll do anything. They won't stop. They want to stay there forever. In order to develop and do anything, there needs to be a man with a plow, not a man with a sword. That is, there needs to be someone from the creative class, but someone from the creative class can't defeat someone from the political level, someone fighting for power. Why? Well, because a man with a plow can't defeat a man with a sword. Because someone who is motivated to fight for dominance and power over society is stronger than a creator, who is simply not motivated. He doesn't have that motivation. He's not

40:07 interested in that. He's interested in creating something. He's not interested in dominating people or taking things from them, because he's the one creating things. They have different approaches, you see? And it turns out that our system constantly gets caught in this death loop. That is, love grows , some kind of anger builds, technology develops. At some point, bam, there's a revolution, a coup, someone kills someone, the government changes, and everyone's like, "Oh, that's it, Independence Day, now we'll get on with our lives." How did you become independent? From one bandit and become dependent on another. And it's been like this throughout history. For thousands of years, when someone tells you that the system of domination created education, healthcare, or some technology? No, no, no. It's always the

40:53 creative class that creates, it's always society that creates. A lord can take someone from the creative class under his wing and then take credit for the achievements. Or he can direct enormous resources to solving a problem . But even in this case, yes, there will be a result, but it will be ineffective. Just like, say, NASA can make rockets, but it makes them poorly; it makes worse rockets than SpaceX, which is a private company, because Elon Musk is part of the creative class . Well, mainly because it's also affiliated in many ways. It receives contracts from the government. I don't want to go into that now, but the point is that in terms of rockets, NASA is a private company, while NASA is a state-owned company. The state does things poorly, the lord does things poorly, and the creative class does things well, privately. And this

41:39 applies to absolutely everything. If the regulator simply took its 10-20%and that's it, and didn't interfere with anything else, we would have been living on Mars and flying to other planets long ago. The problem isn't that they take things away. The problem is that they take things away and regulate everything, preventing people from collaborating everywhere. People can't cooperate, interact, resolve their issues, because they have to get 10,000 permits and approvals for everything. In other words, people aren't allowed to cooperate and interact. And this inevitably leads to the destruction of the food supply, as has always happened throughout human history. So, yes, there must be a system, but the system should help, not

42:26 destroy. Everything is designed in such a way that for 8,000 years the system has always destroyed. Think about it. That's all I have for today. Thank you for your attention. I wish you good luck, success, and may the force be with you, friends.