Good morning, YouTube. So, I know that you flocked this channel because I am such a sunny and optimistic person. I bring cheer in a world of gloom. You may face some difficulties in your life, but you know that when you watch my videos, I I'm going to tell you how great the world is. Unfortunately, today um it's all going to be doom and gloom.
I'm going to talk about how the western world um is going to collapse and there's nothing anyone can do about it. So, let me start with a concrete example. I live in Canada and um these past few years I've just seen Canadian society um get worse and worse. A lot of the issue uh is this relentless immigration these past five years. Millions of people have come into this country seeking a better life.
Unfortunately, they congregate in only a few cities where there are economic opportunities. And as a result, housing prices have gone up, inflation has gone up, cost of living has gone up, but wages have been stagnant or depressed because of the surge in cheap labor. And in Toronto, if you're not making at least $100,000 uh a year, it's very hard to get by. And quite frankly, most are not making that kind of money and most are struggling. So, crime has gone up, homelessness has gone up, drug addiction has gone up.
Um, it's a very dire situation in Canada. Now, it's easy to blame the immigrants and um I don't think the reason um are the immigrants. I myself am immigrant. So, um maybe I'm biased, but I will say that um we came over in about 1983 and my dad was a high school teacher in a village in Canada. Uh sorry, we were my my dad was a high high school teacher in our village back in China.
And we were really thankful for opportunity to come to Canada and we felt really blessed because life back in China was just terrible. Um it's really hard for anyone today to imagine the poverty in China back then during the cult revolution. But let me give you a concrete example. 15 years ago, my dad came to visit me in Beijing when I was working as a high school administrator and he bought an entire duffel bag, a huge duffel bag of toilet rolls, 24 uh toilet rolls. And the reason why is toilet paper was considered the ultimate luxury back in our village um during the cult revolution.
And so maybe he wanted to give these toilet rolls to all the all his relatives and show everyone that he's made it in can in Canada. Well, the problem was that um he had a very hard life in Canada as most recent immigrants do. He was a dishwasher for his entire life. And as a dishwasher working in restaurants and bars, he encountered a lot of racism and humiliation. So, let me give you a example.
Um, one day my dad and I went to a supermarket to buy some butter. We couldn't find the butter because the supermarket was just huge. So my dad, she saw a clerk wearing his uniform, his um white uniform. And my dad asked him, "Sorry, sir. Do you know where the butter is?" Okay.
I mean, his English isn't that great though, but it was pretty easy to understand what my dad wanted. The store clerk looks at him briefly and says, "Sorry, I don't work here." Okay, so that's a sort of humiliation that my dad face every day. as a new immigrant in Canada who didn't have any status and whose English wasn't very good. Um, we were very poor in Canada. We could have easily qualified for welfare, but we didn't we didn't apply for welfare because we didn't know welfare existed.
Um, I remember late at night my dad would sneak out across the street and pick up some sofas or chairs that the neighbors had discarded and they would become our furniture. My dad cut my hair. Um, so believe it or not, but when I was younger, my hair uh was actually worse than it is today. And so the kids made fun of me. Um, I had bad hair, uh, uneven hair.
My mom bought me clothes from bargain outlets, so they were crappy clothes. They weren't Nike or Adidas that that the other kids were wearing, and I smell bad. So, understandably, the um, other kids teased me. I was very unpopular. So, I focused on school.
I focused on uh, getting out of poverty. And through hard work, I went to Yale University on a full scholarship. And that opened new doors, new vesters for me. And so I I really achieved the Canadian dream. And um if it weren't for Canada, if it weren't for Yale, I wouldn't be able to make YouTube videos.
Um so I'm very thankful uh for Canada and for um for Yale. So, um, again, we're really thankful for the opportunity to come and but the reality is there's just too many immigrants coming into uh this country. And what that's and what's really happening is even though you may have some short-term economic GDP burst, ultimately you're degrading the social capital trust and cohesion of Canada. Ultimately, um the Canadian identity has always been fragile and all this massive influx of immigrants is making the identity much more fragile which is in the long term going to affect uh Canada's capacity to work together to innovate to be resilient uh to be cohesive as a society. Um right now a quarter 25% of Canadians are um foreignb born first generation immigrants like myself.
So if there if there were ever a referendum and um Canadians could choose whether or not to join the United States voluntarily, most of these um immigrants would immediately say, "Let's join the United States because there are more economic opportunities." Um so in the long term, I don't see Canada staying together. I think Canada will ultimately be be dismembered by the United States and be absorbed into the American Empire in the next 20, 30 years. I I don't think Canada right now can be a sustainable uh nation. Now, it's really easy to blame immigrants for all of this, and most Canadians do, in fact, blame immigrants because that's what uh they encounter every day. They encounter immigrants not being able to speak English, not following the rules, cutting in line.
Uh they they they watch the news and see immigrants uh committing crimes. They see immigrants um rich immigrants buying up these expensive property and making life miserable for everyone. So it's really easy to blame the immigrants, but ultimately we need to understand why this immigration is happening. And it's happening because of the baby boomers. The baby boomers want three things.
They want um their pensions to be paid. They want quality free health care. And they want the property prices to go up. Basically, they want the Canadian economy to keep on growing and growing and growing regardless of the uh consequences. Now, in order for the economy to grow, there are three main mechanisms to accomplish this.
Uh the first mechanism is to exploit resources because Canada really is the wealthiest country in the world. It has abundant almost infinite uh resources especially fresh water which is what the world is going to need in the next hundred years. So Canada is extremely wealthy place and it can choose to exploit and export a lot of these resources. Okay, that's the first solution. The second solution uh which is much sustainable is to unleash the entrepreneurial energy of the Canadian people uh to encourage uh more um entrepreneurship more and more privatization to reduce the regulatory state uh to reduce the red tape.
Okay, that's the second solution. The third solution is um immigration. Let's let in more immigrants. Let's let in the rich immigrants to uh pour cash into the economy. Let's let in poor immigrants so that they work as slave labor for Canadian corporations.
So of these three solutions, the Can government went with the third solution, increase immigration. Now, a lot of people out there believe that this is a conspiracy that there's this global international conspiracy out there to dilute national identity um to destroy the idea of the nation state to reduce uh the white gene pool. Um this is all a world economic forum white replacement theory uh conspiracy spearheaded by the Jews. And quite honestly, if the people in charge were this smart, were this well organized, the world wouldn't be in the mess that it is today. Um, you'd be surprised by how idiotic, by how uh incompetent the people in charge are.
So, let me explain to you why immigration is increasing not just in Canada, but also throughout the western world. Okay? So to understand this we need to understand the framework of the Canadian Canadian nation. Why does Canada exist and what does Canada do? Well Canada has some certain um unique characteristics.
First of all it's a vast nation with almost infinite wealth uh surrounded by two oceans the Pacific and the Atlantic. And so Canada does not have like natural predators as they would in Europe. Canadians grew up in a time of relative peace, uh, safety, and security. Um, the problem though is that Canada shares a border with the world's most powerful empire with with history's greatest empire, uh, America. And um so in order to prevent conflict between Canada and United States, the last major conflict between Canada and United States was the war of 1812.
To prevent the conflict um there's almost an implicit agreement between the people of Canada and the people of America. Canadians first and foremost are not ambitious. If Canadians were ambitious then uh Canada would be at war with America and America would have absorbed Canada into the American empire uh a long time ago. So Canadians the first um the core characteristic of the identity is lack of ambition in order to maintain peace and stability with uh America. And if and if you're not ambitious, then you're not going to industrialize, which means that you're going to maintain and safeguard the environment.
You'll use some of the environment, but you'll but you'll make sure it's self-sustaining. So, in other words, Canada is almost like a resource bank for the American Empire. Uh the American Empire when it needs can always draw on the infinite resources of Canada. And so um because of its lack of ambition, there are two main drivers of the Canadian economy. The first, as I said, is um resource exportation, but sustainable limited resource exploitation.
But the main driver of the Canadian economy is immigration. Um Canada allows rich corrupt um families to come to Canada to hide their wealth. Canada also welcomes cheap uh labor uh poor immigrants like my father to come to Canada to do all the work so that Canadians can enjoy their life on uh drinking beer drinking molins a terrible beer by the way um by the uh cottage and because of this economic framework three major religions have developed in Canada to sustain this economic framework. The first religion is environmentalism. So can Canadians love the environment.
They believe it is their duty, their inherent duty to protect and love trees. Um that's the first religion. Second religion is multiculturalism. Uh the belief that diversity is good mainly because white people love ethnic food. When white people think multiculturalism, they think ethnic restaurants, Mexican food, Chinatown.
Uh and so they love they love multiculturalism. But if immigrants um become politically ambitious like the Indians, no, you can't have that. Um so uh that's why Indians are so derided in Canada because the Indians are actually politically active and effective. And if but hey, if they didn't stick to making samosas every day, Hadians would love them. Um, so in a multicultural society, what's really important is to be an open society and not have a distinct cultural identity.
Um, and this is and and this has created a lot of problems in Canada. It'll create further problems in Canada. And the um um third third major religion is bureaucraticism, right? Because if you don't have your own ethnic identity, if you don't have a core ambition, then you need a regulatory state, a bureaucracy in order to maintain everything together. Um, you need people to tell you what to do.
And Canadians worship authority. Canadians are extremely obedient. Canadian Canadians um uh believe experts know everything. Okay. So because of these three religions um there are three distinct characteristics about the can Canadian individual.
Okay. Um what are Canadians really good at? Well the first thing is Canadians are really good at following the rules from birth. Canadians believe that they must obey the rules. The worst thing that can happen is if they break a rule.
Second um thing that the Canadians really are are are really good at um is being polite uh to other people because in a multicultural society you don't don't want to offend everyone. Um but I but I will say that I have noticed in my most recent uh trip to back to Canada, Canadians um are no longer so polite. um they're much more passive aggressive than before because of the dire economic situation that Canada is in right now. The third thing that Canadians are really good at, in fact, probably the best in the world at is being mediocre. Okay, Canadians absolutely have no ambition.
In fact, they hate ambition. I remember in high school because I was poor and I wanted to go to Yale, I was extremely focused on grades. And so my teachers, the word they use for me is ambitious. I'm an ambitious individual. That's essentially a curse word in Canada.
But I will say this, Canada, I mean, if you can just conceptualize heaven on earth, it would be Canada, right? Extreme wealth, um extremely generous uh government benefits. Uh no one will go will will go poor, no one will starve in Canada. Um no wars, just complete peace. It's almost heaven on earth.
And here is an opportunity for people to achieve udeimmonia, right? Udimmonia is is the Greek term for flourishing. here in here is opportunity for Canadians to contribute intellectually to development of humanity uh because they have the resources, they have the time, uh they have the security. No one no one else does. And so you would expect this tremendous outpouring of human creativity in Canada these past 50 years.
In reality, Canadians have for the past 50 years chosen to shut off their brains. Okay? And Canada is an extremely complacent nation. It's almost like everyone's on V on um Prozac or something. This is this is Prozac Nation.
So, um Canadians are extremely mediocre. Um, I I think that after Canada becomes dismember dismembered and joins the American Empire, maybe a generation afterwards, Evans going to forget Canada ever existed because Canada has made absolutely no contribution to uh to the world. Canada um doesn't really matter in the world and Canadians are very happy do not matter in the world. So um so now we can understand if your three religions are um environmentalism, multiculturalism and bureaucratism. Well then there's only one solution for you, right?
Because you can't exploit resources because of your religion of en environmentalism. You can't encourage entrepreneurship because of your religion of aircraftism. Right? You don't want to reduce the regulatory state. um you don't want to promote individual initiative.
Um so the only solution available to you is mass immigration. Okay. Um and again a lot of it is driven by the baby boomers. So now let me explain to you why baby boomers suck. And they suck for um three main reasons.
The first is that they're the most selfish generation in human history. Second is that they're going to be the longest living generation in human history. And the third is that um they want to maintain the empire. All right? So, let me go uh through each one by one.
Baby boomers are selfish. Everyone knows this. Um they had the most luxurious life. Um but but the problem is that if you always lived a life of uh comfort and security and prosperity, you become a selfish individual because you think you deserve all this. Okay.
The other thing is that the baby boomers have a religion and it's an achievement. It's an ethos of achievement and accumulation. The more the better. The bigger the better. Uh, the more money I have, the better.
The longer I live, the better. I'm I need to accumulate and accumulate and achieve and achieve in order to signify my value, my my worth and um their greed, their selfishness is destroying the environment, it's destroying the economy and ultimately it's going to kill their children. Okay, so that's the first thing. Uh, baby MRS are extremely selfish and that by itself is not really a problem. The problem is they're not dying.
Um um and I can understand why. Okay. Because I because at home I I'm living with my dad and my dad is in his early 80s and as I said previously he's had this terrible life. Uh 10 years ago he got diagnosed with Parkinson's. Five years ago he had a bad fall while using the um uh bathroom.
and now he's paralyzed. Um um and we really fought 5 years ago. That was it. Um he had he had a few months to live, but he's still going. And so he has Parkinson's.
He's basically paralyzed. Um and he's living his best life. All his life he's worked slave wages, minimum wage, and now he's collecting a very generous pension from the Canadian government. It's free money for him. He has access to the best health care.
Honestly, if we had to pay for the health care, we couldn't afford it and he he would have died five years ago. But now, because it's all being paid by the Cany government, um he he spent six months at a really nice hospital with his own room. Every day, a a physical therapist comes to the house and helps him regain some um some muscle control um and does some cleaning for him. And really um it's his best life and his in his house. He has his own house and because of all this immigration he's seeing the property value go up.
He's seeing himself get getting wealthier and wealthier. If you're a baby boomer who's been taught that what matters is achievement and accumulation. Why would you give up now? Right? As your life gets gets better and better.
Why would you give it up now? So even though you know he's bedridden all the time I see him cling to life. Um, and I can understand why because he's been through so much crap and now he can really begin to enjoy himself. This is really heaven on earth for him. So, he doesn't want he doesn't want to die.
Okay? But it's not just him. It's the entire generation of baby boomers, millions and millions of them. And in Canada, they're they're a quarter of the population. So, they control all the political power.
They control all the wealth. And therefore, they can dictate government policy. I have a friend in New York City, a very famous um person, extremely wealthy, like tens of millions of of dollars, and she's 90 and she has Alzheimer's and she can't walk mo most of the time she's um sleeping. She's semicoma basically. And I I thought, you know, any day now, she could die.
But I've been thinking that for the past 10 years. And one day I asked my cousin who's a doctor, listen, if you're 90 years old and you're senile, you have Alzheimer's, you can't get out of bed, but you have unlimited wealth, how long can modern medicine keep you going? Like how long can you survive? He has and she has like four full-time caregivers to make sure that you know she is taken care of. And my cousin, the doctor said to me, she can go on for another 20 years at least, another 20 years at least.
So these baby boomers aren't dying. Okay, so the baby boomers have captured all the wealth of society. Um, and they refuse to share any of it because of their achievement ethos and they're not dying. So um, but but then there's actually a much bigger problem which is that baby boomers are wedded to the idea of empire. Last year I was in Brooklyn uh visiting some some friends.
I got invited to a uh party and they and this party was full of China experts. So apparently every China expert in in the world is from Brooklyn. So um after COVID when they were forced out of China they had they all returned to Brooklyn. And so I met all of them at this uh party and I was talking to one lady very very very wealthy comes from a very powerful family and I uh and she was a baby boomer and I um and I talked I discussed with her we were talking individually oneonone I was I I said to her privately my fears about the American u political system I said my fear is that given the trajectory of American foreign policy which which which is like extremely non-existent. I said there's a danger that America could be fighting wars on three major fronts.
America could be fighting simultaneously Russia, Iran, and China. And then she looked at me and said, "That's fine. We're America. We're in we're with the indispensable nation. We can do this.
We can take on all three and defeat all three. Does not matter." Okay, that's the arrogance of empire. All right, so let me give you an image of what empire is. And for this image, I'm going to draw on the play the bakai from Ubides. If you have not read Ubupes, you must read Eupites, one of the greatest playwrights in human history.
So he wrote uh the play the Bakai about the year um 400 uh BCE. This is this is like um after the Pelipasian war when Athens the Athenian Empire which had become basically a mafia state basically decided to go to war against the entire world and thousands and thousands of the young people died in these wars of empire. And so uh Urbes wrote the Bakai almost as a critique of empire. And so the ending of the Bakai goes like this. Um there's a religious festival in the mountains and these women are all drugged out.
Okay? They're hallucinating and as part of the religious festival they sacrifice a man who's the king of thieves uh pantheus. And so what they do is they capture him. They rip him apart. Okay?
They physically rip him apart. They rip up the limbs. They rip up the legs. They dismember him. And the person who rips um off his head is actually his mother, a gay.
And after she does this, she becomes ecstatic. And she ticks the head and she runs back to the city of thieves. And she proclaims to the citizens, "Look at what I've done." And she's holding uh the head of her son Pentheus in her right hand. And she's saying to everyone, "This is a lion's head." You see how brave, you see how powerful, you see how virtuous I am for fighting a lion and ripping his head off. And then everyone looks at her a gas.
They don't believe that she that she can't see the truth. And so finally her father, Catmiss, um has to tell her, "I gave that's not a lion's head. That's a that's the head of your son. So that's what an empire is. Okay, if you want to know what an empire is, remember the image of a mother holding the head of her son and proclaiming the world, look how brave, powerful, and virtuous I am.
An empire is a system where the old sacrifice the young for their glory. Okay, that's what an empire is. And that's what the baby boomers want. They grew up in a time of the Pax Americana. They don't want to see it die in their lifetimes.
They rather burn down the entire empire. They rather sacrifice their own children and their grandchildren than to lose the idea of empire while they're alive. Okay. So that's why the baby boomers have basically told the American government to launch these wars around the world to save the Pax Americana because that's the system they grew up in. That's the system they want to die in the Pax Americana.
the Anglo-American Empire. They want to feel virtuous, powerful, and strong. Okay? And they don't care if they have to burn down the world in order to do so. And so the question then is what can we do?
Well, you think about it, there's nothing we can do because, as I said, the baby boomers are the most dominant political group in the Western world. They control the political system. They control the financial system. They can control the cultural system. They and they're our parents.
They're the people um we we love and honor and cherish. I I'm not going to say to my father, "Hey, Dad. Um you're paralyzed. Um your life doesn't have any meaning anymore. And maybe it's time for you to rest in peace and and so that the um um rest of the world uh the young can have their place.
So one metaphor that I think best describes the world we live in is rat utopia. Uh rat utopia are series of experiments conducted by James B. Cahun in the 60s and 70s and this was a time of growing abundance in the world and this this is the first time in human history when we escaped scarcity the promise of scarcity. So you want to to um look at what would happen if we looked if we lived in a world of um abundance. So they created these experiments, these colonies where rats were allowed to live in a world of abundance.
There were no predators. Uh there was unlimited water and food. And what happened each time he did this experiment and no matter how he tweaked the experiment, the result was the same. What happened was the social hierarchy uh that governed the rat colony um collapse and Kahun calls this the behavior sync and very quickly the rats start to cannibalize each other. Um they start to engage in all sorts of uh brutal activities um and um as a result everyone died out.
Okay. So no matter how James P. Kahoon constructed this this experiment uh ultimately it led to the collapse of of the rat colony and the extermination of all the rats. And he struggled with this all his life and he could never he could never really find the answer as to why this was happening. And the only thing that he could hypothesize is maybe water can be infinite.
Maybe security, food, luxury, maybe all can be provided infinitely. But one thing that is not infinite, one thing that is a zero sum game is the idea of status. And it's in it's we are ingrained or sorry it's the desire for status is inherent to us. We strive for status. So, normally in the state of nature, um, rats will fight each other for status.
And the rats who lose, they'll run off somewhere else and they'll build their own colony or they'll they get killed by natural predators. But in an enclosed environment where the rats can't run off somewhere else, then they're forced to constantly fight each other over and over again for status. Peter Turchin, the social scientist, has a concept for this. It's called elite over production. Societies collapse over time because too much elite is being produced and ultimately they will um fight each other for the limit positions of power and status.
And so we're living in rat utopia. And quite quite honestly this is why uh young people now refuse to have children. It's not just because the economic opportunities for young people uh are very limited. um are very pessimistic and they are the real reason is the baby boomer boomers refuse to give up their status. Think about the politicians in Washington DC.
Um I mean like um many of them their brains aren't even functioning and they're still there. Um and so um we live in a time of rat utopia. But again, these people are the ones who gave us birth. They're the ones who nurtured us, the ones who we must honor and cherish. So we can never ever blame the baby boomers for what's going on.
We blame the immigrants or we blame the Jews or we blame the deep state or we blame Trump or we blame Justin Trudeau, but we never blame the real culprits who are the baby boomers. Okay. So the question then is what can we do? And so I think the only thing we can do is tell the truth. We owe it to ourselves.
We owe it to our children to let them know the truth. It was not the immigrants who destroyed the West. It was not Putin or Trump or Trudeau who destroyed um the West. It was not the Jews. It was us because we became selfish, lazy, and corrupt.
That's the real reason why the west is dying and the real reason why no one can do anything about it. Okay? Because we refuse to omit the truth uh to ourselves. But the least we can do is tell the truth to our children. And that's why I do what I do.
Okay. So, uh again, apologies for today. I'm sorry. I'm sorry it's such doom and gloom. Next week we go back to uh the regular programming of just cheer.
Okay. Um no, I'm I'm not going to ever be optimistic about the world because there's no reason to be optimistic about the world. Okay. So, next week I'm going to preview um my the next academic year of classes I'll be teaching. I'll be teaching three new classes uh the secret history of of the world.
So I'll be going into the nexus of finance, intelligence, and religion. It's going to be a really interesting class. I'm really looking forward to to teaching it. I'm really looking forward to sharing with you. I'll also be teaching the great books.
I'll also be sharing I'll also be teaching game theory. Okay. So in my next video next week, I'm I'll be sharing with you previewing preview these three uh classes. Um if you like what I do, if you please support my work by uh supporting me on buy me a coffee, the link is below. Uh if you want to be part of my community, the Britive History community, please join my Discord server uh this week start um I've started a Substack and um if if you want to join my Substack, the link is uh below as well.
So in my substack um I'll be going into solutions for how we can rebuild a better world, how we can work together to build a better world after the world collapses. Okay. And uh that's it for today. I'll see you guys next week. Thank you so much for uh today and I look forward to next week.