okay so good morning uh we are doing monotheism today and I will show you that the first monotheistic religion is Christianity and monism actually marks an intellectual revolution in human history and it really create the conditions for modernity okay the lives we're living today all right so let's get started and um I want to review Christianity and why goo so fast so um if you talk to Christians they have a very easy and coherent explanation for why Christianity would come to dominate Europe okay so let's let's look at the Christian tradition so it's called the Christian tradition which is to say we don't have much evidence that this is true but this is what Christians believe and what they tell each other all right so um in the Christian tradition Jesus came from Heaven to redeem Humanity from our evil ways he sacrificed himself and after he sacrificed himself he started a new beginning in human history he was resurrected and then he went before his Apostles and told them to spread the good news the gospel that he has come and he will return and then he will bring Paradise with him okay so there were 12 Apostles plus Paul and they went all around the world to spread the good news Paul became the Apostle to the Gentiles which meant that um he was trying to bring in everyone into the new religion of Christianity to show their Authority uh and to show that they are actually the true apostles of Jesus they are all martyred okay martydom meaning that you know that they were telling the truth because they were persecuted they went to India they went to uh the lavant they went everywhere to spread the good news and they interacted or they challenged the traditional religious Authority the pagans of that area and so they were killed okay they were stoned to death or they were executed um and after they died their students would continue their legacy okay and these students would become head of the local church they set up and they were they became they became known as the Bishops okay and throughout all this time uh they were being persecuted by the Romans and by the pagans but because of their faith in God and because of the miracle that is God they would eventually Triumph and they would and they would spread for throughout uh Europe and uh the Middle East and Egypt until they became a very dominant Force eventually the Romans said if you can't beat them join them and the first Roman Emperor to convert was Constantine so Constantine uh was the first Roman Emperor to become a Christian himself and then a later Roman Emperor uh would make Christianity the official Rel religion of the Roman Empire and this would create the Catholic Church the Catholic Church um is called so because Catholic means Universal or the one and only and the Catholic church with the creation of Catholic Church you had a new idea called Orthodoxy or right thinking and then so one mission of the Catholic church was to was to combat heresy or challenging Orthodoxy to make sure that everyone stayed on the true path okay and so this is the um official history told by the Catholic church and what Christians believe today but as we discuss in our class historically that's not what happened okay so let's go over let's review what we discuss in this class so Jesus I argued was a religious genius and he his idea would be what we call naism today okay and unfortunately he got unlucky and he ran into the Roman governor of Judea called Pontius Pilate P pilot had a problem he was trying to enforce the Imperial cult and the Imperial cult basically just means to think of the Emperor as God and so think of a Cod of Personality his pictures his statues were everywhere including coins and the Jews hated that because for them that went against their religion okay the first commandment is you should have no God before me Yahweh uh you shall not worship false gods and so punish pilot was having a very tough time dealing with the Jews he threatened the Jews and the Jews said well if you don't if you don't get rid of this religious cult then you have to come kill all of us okay and so P pilot had to back down he lost faith and he killed Jesus he crucified Jesus as basically a middle finger to the Jewish people right but because he did that what he didn't expect is it would make Jesus into a national hero a martyr and so um his followers became called the poor of Jerusalem okay they established a church in Jerusalem and they were supported by the Jewish leaders and they were called the poor of Jerusalem they were led by um Jesus Jesus's brother James the just these people will eventually become the ebionites okay this is important for us because the ebionites will eventually spread to Arabia where they will help develop a new religion called Islam okay so from the imites we will develop a new religion called Islam the poor got a very got along very well with the Jewish people because they just saw themselves as a branch of Judaism as following the law of Moses but in a more um but in a manner that conform to what how Jesus saw World okay then you had a man named Paul and Paul was a Roman citizen and he was part of the Roman Elite and he had a problem he was part of the Jewish diaspora and because of the religious fanaticism in Jerusalem that's was creating conflict between the Romans and the Jewish diaspora the Jews believe the Romans were evil and eventually uh a messiah will emerge from the ranks from the house of David who will lead them in the final Victory against the Romans so Paul saw Jesus as an opportunity to basically divorce the Jewish diaspora from uh the M Messianic Jews okay that's why he created uh Proto Christianity because what he believed what he taught is Jesus is the Messiah but rather than a prophet of War he's Propet of peace and so he basically offered opportunity for members of the Jewish diaspora to assimilate themselves into Roman society if you consider yourself Jew a a Jew then you believe in the Messiah who return and fight against Romans but if that but if you believe that then eventually Romans might come and kill you okay so what Paul said is if you believe in Jesus you can still be Jewish because Jesus was Jewish and this is a Jewish religion but you will be part of the Roman Empire now rather than part of just this very parental religion but what's really important for us to understand is most people refuse to follow Paul okay only very small minority people actually follow Paul most people who believe in Jesus were following the aites okay there's also other groups of people who believed in uh Jesus for example the gnostics which we discussed before and also um you had these mystery Cults mystery Cults mystery Cults were the most popular form of religious worship which which meant they were just like small groups of people who practiced the religion secretly and um what made these mystery Cults special was they focus on group religious devotion and worship and they were trying to achieve a sense of Oneness Unity they're trying to be Garian they're trying to be uh anti hierarchical okay and what made them uh interesting was they use psychedelics a lot okay they use drugs a lot in in order to achieve um a spiritual uh sense and a lot of them start to believe in Jesus because um um Jesus could be easily incorporated into a religion okay so you have these different uh early Christian groups around but what we know is that eventually Paul's Group which again is the smallest of these groups would eventually Triumph okay the question then is why why is it that Paul's Church um which was the smallest of all these different denomination of early Christianity why would they early why would they Triumph in the end okay first of all the dominant group were obviously James a just and the poor right well what happened was this from 66 to 73 CE okay the Romans fought a major war with the Jews and over and during this war three things happened okay the first thing that happened was uh the temple was burned down remember the temple is important because it is the site of religious worship for the Jewish people it's the equivalent of Mecca today so when Jews in the diaspora when they prayed they prayed in the direction of the temple well now have a problem because the temple has been burned down so now you have to redefine what it means to be a Jewish person and as it happened Paul had a new definition of what it meant to be Jewish person you believe in Jesus as Messiah rather than make sacrifices at the temple okay second thing that that happened that was very convenient for Paul in the Romans was James and his group were wiped out okay not everyone was killed but the majority of them were wiped out their denomination in Jerusalem was targeted and they were extinguished okay so this is important because remember the major authority figure at this time is James ajust he because he's the brother of Jesus if he's dead there's no more Authority therefore Paul can claim as he does to be the real Authority Okay the third thing is that's important is that basically scares the Jewish diaspora it scares members of the Jewish diaspora and a lot of them now see Paul's Church as a very good alternative they're afraid of what they're afraid that the Romans might Target the diaspora and so to show their allegiance to the Romans but still to to but they still want to maintain the Jewish identity so a lot of them start to join Paul's church not a great deal okay but an increasing number this would just start one of three major Wars between the Romans and the Jews okay there would be two more major Wars and both both Wars a lot of Jews would would get killed a lot would get enslaved and this would drive more participation into Paul's Church okay so a lot of Jews were now joining Paul's church because of these wars the church was seen as an escape mechanism for dibur Jews from these wars okay does that make sense okay all right the other thing about Paul's church and why became dominant is it mirror it mirrored the social structure of the Roman Empire all right so the uh Roman Empire the social structure is called the P familias and this is basically the idea of patriarchy there's one man the father who is in charge of the entire household and the household is basically a small Empire onto itself okay you have the immediate family okay um so you you have the sons the children you also have um the free man okay so these are slaves who are freed to work in the household and then you have the slaves okay so they were in charge of their own household but they also had clients okay the client the patron client relationship in Chinese we call this like TI right so someone who would sponsor your business and the goal of Roman society was to have as many clients as possible because this gave you the idea of fa okay or what what in at that time was called digas digas right social Prestige the more clients you had the more people who obeyed you the more dignoti you had okay so the Paul's church was a hierarchy as well Mal on the P familias okay so at the at the top was the bishop okay and the bishop was in something called Dogma which is like how Jesus is to be understood this is important because the problem with most early Christians is they were egalitarian which meant that you could have your own interpretation of Jesus but in this church which is hierarchal only the bishop or the person in charge had the right interpretation and you had to follow his interpretation and this allowed the church to scale out into other churches right but much more important importantly after you reach a certain size it made sense for the church to participate in the patron client relationship of the perto familias which meant that they would now invite a local Aristocrat to become the bishop and if that would happen the local Bishop would then convert his entire network and become Christian right and and the the Aristocrat would agree to do this because it allowed him to more quickly scale out and expand his Patron client Network the church became a mechanism for him to expand his social network and political power eventually Christianity would reach a point where it actually challenged the authority of the emperor himself right because remember throughout history the nobility was always in conflict with the king the emperor and now that the nobility was able to better organize because of the structure of the church the emperor saw it as a problem so there were some persecutions local persecution not not Global not emperial persecutions of Christians there were some local persecutions of Emperors because of the power struggle right but eventually emerged an emperor named Constantine and he had fought a very bitter Civil War in order to reclaim uh the the throne and as we know from our history from our reading of History great Kings always want to introduce new religions to consolidate their their their Authority okay so think of um King David introducing the new religion of Judaism think of um Augustus introducing the inad to the Roman people okay so Constantine wanted to introduce a new religion to unify the Empire and to consolidate his his authority and that became the Christian religion that's why he converted to become Christian and so he began to sponsor the be beginning of something called the Catholic church and guess what he was the first pope the or the head of the Catholic Church the first head of the Catholic Church okay but now that you have a Catholic Church you now have the idea of Orthodoxy okay Orthodoxy and that's a problem because remember throughout this history there are many Divergent forms of Christianity and so the Catholic Church became began a process of eliminating all its competitors until it became the the most dominant but the problem with Orthodoxy is that a lot of Christian history is made up this is made up on the spot and so there are lot of contradictions the major contradiction one of the major problems in Christianity is okay um Jesus came from Heaven to sacrifice himself right so what is the relationship between God and Jesus like who is Jesus real okay and this is a fundamental problem in Christianity it was it was fun fundamental problem back then and it still remains a fundamental problem today okay so throughout this time there have been different solutions different theories proposed to solve this problem what's the relationship between God and Jesus there's also something called the Holy Spirit which we haven't really discussed okay but think of the Holy Spirit as the expression of God on Earth so when God wants to do something on Earth for example he wants to move this table he does it through the Holy Spirit okay so the H holy spirit is the expression of God on Earth it's what interact with when we pray we pray to the Holy Spirit rather than rather than to God okay so there have been major different theories proposed to explain the relationship between god um the Holy Spirit and Jesus okay so let let's look at them the first theory is called modelism modelism and it's the idea that God Jesus and the Holy Spirit of the same being but they are in different modes okay so the metaphor is think of water if it's really cold water becomes ice if it's really hot water becomes Vapor now water ice and Vaper are the same being but they're in different forms and that's the idea of modalism Jesus God and the Holy Spirit are the same thing but they expressed differently in different times okay but this is logical but this creates a problem because if you actually read the Bible you will see some passages where Jesus prays to God right that doesn't make any sense because why would you pray to yourself all right so it's not it's it's a theory but it's not a great Theory another theory that's popular is called partialism partialism and the idea is that God Jesus and the Holy Spirit are parts of a higher being so think of the ocean right there's one ocean that covers the entire planet but has different parts for example there's a Pacific Ocean there's the Atlantic Ocean there's the Indian Ocean okay and that's the idea here where God Jesus and the Holy Spirit are just parts of a higher being but then the question then becomes then what is this higher being okay so again this makes sense it's not a great but it's not a great Theory okay the last Theory I want to talk about is the idea of arianism and Iris was created by by um a religious teacher named Aras and his understanding was look if God created Jesus then that means god came before Jesus which means which means God has to be superior to Jesus okay so God is a higher being than Jesus Jesus is still great but God is the superior being okay and again not great okay but it makes sense all right so there's this huge controversy as to the nature of God and the nature of Jesus and so what Constantin does is in 325 CE he orders all the Bishops of the Roman Empire to converge in a place called nessia okay the C of nessia and during this conference they have to figure out what the nature of God is okay so these are all the bishops from the various churches and the four major churches of course are Rome Alexandria Antioch and jus M and they're all there trying to figure out what the nature of Jesus and the Holy Spirit and God are okay and this is a solution and this is a solution that even today no one really can figure out okay but but this is a solution there are three beings God Holy Spirit and Jesus they are not the same thing they're separate they're not equal okay these are three different entities but they're all God okay this called The Holy Trinity and this is the major idea underlying Christianity Today God G Jesus and holy spirit are not the same thing they're not equal but they're all God okay this is called the godhead all right so let's try to figure figure out what's going on here why why do they pick this Theory okay first of all what we what we need to understand is these first three theories modalism partialism and ironism are really stories okay they're stories of who God is this the godhead is an equation Okay now what's the difference well in a story you can personalize it you can put yourself into the story and you can talk to God and therefore you can interpret the story The the way you want to interpret it and therefore you can argue about the story with others right that's what stories do but you can't do that do that in an equation like how do you put yourself into this equation you don't belong anywhere right the system is closed off to you you're excluded from it you can't enact with the godhead therefore you cannot argue here you understand there's no room for argument there's no room for interpretation and argument okay there's no room for debate that's the first major advantage of the godhead you cannot debate anything because there's nothing to debate you either accept it or you don't accept it there's no in there's nothing in between okay second thing um is before we understood Faith as something that you experience personally you can talk to God you can feel God but with a godhead it's something that you have to believe okay you have to believe in miracles which forces the idea of Faith as blind obedience yeah do you understand faith is something that you have to before the godhead Fai is something that you have to experience for yourself now now Faith is just blind obedience you have to accept this as it is you have to memorize it okay it's like mathematics when you go to math class you're not asked to figure out why the proofs work you have to just memorize the proofs right and the third thing about the godhead is it's exclusionary meaning exclusionary just means that you can't put any other theories in here now if you look at these three theories moralism partialism and nism you can actually put them together okay they're not contradicting each other they're not fighting against each other they're different but you actually put them together whereas with this equation it's exclusionary it cannot you cannot put any other theories into it and you cannot put this into any other theories all right and so what this means is this if you put these three things together something that you have to accept you cannot debate it something that forces your blind obedience something that is exclusionary okay it creates a new idea in human history called monotheism okay monotheism and this is a new new radical idea in human history never before could we imagine something called monotheism there before there were some religions with one God right but this one God would also interact with other gods or this one God would create new Gods but the idea of monism is there's only one God and that's it and this is radical in human history so let's try to figure out monism okay and by the way monism it's I think it's a very hard idea to understand so it's okay if we don't really understand it today but over the next few months as we explore the impact of monotheism on society we'll we'll have a better understanding of okay all right so let's look at monism the first thing understand about monism is if we memorize this formula and you're forced to memorize this formula your understanding reality changes okay and there's only one way to understand reality that makes this true the understanding is this God is nothing and everything okay does that make sense there's only one way that reality is structured that makes this statement true God is Holy Spirit and Jesus but God is Not Holy Spirit and Jesus and the understand of reality is God is nothing and everything okay meaning God is everywhere and nowhere at the same time meaning that God is all reality what this tells us is this symbols become reality okay the symbols of reality the represent representation of reality becomes conflated okay into reality itself and then if we do that this creates three new ideas that become the underlying basis of modernity okay and these three new ideas are capitalism science and the nation state before we didn't have these three ideas capitalism science and the nation state but now we do because we have come to believe that symbols are reality we have come to believe that God is nothing and everything okay so let's ex let's let's look at this okay what is the underlying basis of capitalism money right okay so let's talk let's talk about money okay because I think money is the best way to understand this idea that God is nothing and everything so you and I go back in time and we ask the people there what is the basis of wealth in your Society and they might say gold or silver and we ask why is that the case why is gold and silver the basis of wealth in your society and they say well because gold is beautiful you can make jewelry out of it also it's very hard to get gold if they go M it and it's very hard to mine it and also it's rare okay so you're like okay that makes sense yeah gold can be the Bas of wealth okay now let's imagine some people from a thousand years years ago they transport they they uh to our classroom okay and they ask ask us the same questions what's the basis of wealth in your society and we say money and then they ask what is money and then we say well money are you know paper that the government prints and then they're like okay but that but wait wait wait wait that makes no sense because the government can print as much money as it wants we're like yeah that's right you like but and how do you how how can you trust the government how can you trust the government not to print like 20 trillion today how how can you trust them to behave itself we're like we don't know and and they're like then why do you think money is valuable do you understand okay so why do we think money is valuable because we have we believe money is God because money is nothing and everything because the symbols have become reality you understand okay now the question then is why do we believe this crap why do we why do we believe money is God why do we believe money is valuable because the power monism is that it destroys other realities okay it crowds out realities the first is it symbols reality second is that it crowds out realities because before in human history we believe there were many realities there was a spiritual reality there were many spiritual realities and in the in those realities money didn't really matter okay but now with monism we've destroyed those other realities only the mature reality exists but not only that but for monotheism to work it has to expand until becomes true it's a self self filic prophecy okay so aggressive expansion aggressive expansionism not only will expand but it has to destroy those who criticize it okay so in society you are not ever allowed to ask question wait what if money has no value because the government can print as much money as it once you are not allowed to ask this question you're not allowed to think of this question you're not allowed to imagine the possibility of this question okay so that's what monism is there are three main characteristics of monism that has enabled it to create the world that we live in today okay first is it destroyed the idea of symbols symbols are now reality okay money does not represent wealth money is wealth second is the idea that it has destroyed all realities except for the material reality that we live in today you are not allowed to think of spiritual realities in school we do not teach the idea of a spiritual reality even though in our hearts we know it must exist the third is the idea of aggressive expans expansionism it is always expanding because only by expanding can it be true and that's why the two major monistic religions of our time Christianity and Islam are so violent okay they're the source of most major Wars throughout human history right so we think capitalism science and the nation state all really good things okay but why let's look at science science only concerns itself with the material reality so you can't see it it doesn't exist but then this creates a problem because science refuses to engage in hard questions okay one question that I think is very interesting is what is thought what is consciousness how do we think and science the response of science all to all these questions is don't think about it it's not a problem and you're like wait a minute Consciousness is what makes us human we can't figure out what Consciousness is then we will never know what it means to be human and science responds is a human being are just the sum of biological parts right you are you are just your brain and your head and your eyes your arms put together because that's what what we can measure but the question of what is consciousness how do we imagine things how do we understand things science doesn't know and it refuses to engage in this problem all right one more point about symbols so one thing that you're taught in school which is not true is we're so much more sophisticated than ancient civilizations because ancient civilizations had these superstitious beliefs like Gods okay like Apollo and Athena and like obviously don't exist so the fact that these ancient humans believe they exist demonstrates how stupid they are but here's the thing if you go back to these societies and you were to analyze thoroughly how they understood apoll and Athen and other gods you would understand that they didn't actually believe these Gods existed okay but they beli these gods were metaphors and symbols for forces in nature that could influence our Our Lives okay does that make sense okay so for example take the idea of hatred and Vengeance well hatred and Vengeance would become m manifested in Gods like stri life okay and Nemesis okay Nemesis strife and the Ancients believed this was a better way to understand the world they understood that these forces were so powerful that we couldn't really control them therefore we must be conscious of these forces and control them better ourselves and unfortunately today we believe that because these gods don't exist they're just symbols then hatred invention don't really exist either they're just states of mind they're just emotions and you can just you can just pretend they don't exist and then you're fine okay the word we we use for this is positive psychology right have you studied positive psychology it's the dumbest idea in the world okay it's the idea that if you think you're happy then you're happy whereas the Ancients thought that these were external forces and have to work hard to tame them or to understand them and I think the Ancients had a much more thorough and thorough and nuanced understanding of reality than we do okay another idea that we don't have today is evil right the Ancients okay [Music] struggled with the idea of evil what is evil where does it come from and was a very popular book um at that time is something called The Book of Enoch The Book of Enoch explains why there was a great flood remember in the Bible there's this flood that wipes out Humanity on Noah survives right so the Book of Enoch tells a story of why God had to destroy the world so after God created the world um his angels called the Watchers saw humans and they thought that humans were stupid and evil so they came down to better manage us okay but then they start to lust after after woman and they start to have children with these women and the and these created Giants okay called the ephem the nefem okay sorry NE neim and these are giants and so we humans just fought saw them as like Gods so remember the Epic of gilam mas well gilam Mas was a nefem and so we start to make make sacrifices and pay tributes to these Giants but over time these Giants became more and more greedy and so they start to devour us and fight amongst themselves and so now God up in heaven he recognizes his problem and so he creates a flood to destroy these neem these Giants okay so now they're wiped out but because they are because they are born of angels they are Immortal and so they become these evil spirits these evil spirits that roam around the earth okay and they try to create chaos there's one great king called Solomon King's David's son and he discovers these evil spirits and he captures them with a ring but these evil spirits recognize that we as human beings are all flawed so they tempt him with a beautiful woman and Solomon wants to have sex with her but she says to have sex with me you must worship my God and so Solomon agrees and he becomes um become he becomes controlled by these evil spirits now after monism after the Catholic Church they banned The Book of Enoch because obviously if you're a powerful person you don't want you don't want orinary people thinking that you can be tempted by evil if you're an evil spirit you're going to go tempt powerful people right because it is the most advantage to you and the powerful people are most easy people to tempt because they love power right so so today we're not we're not allowed to ask the question e about evil where does evil come from why are people evil you're not allowed to think of think it okay so monism is crying out different realities and possibilities from us and we live in a world that I think is I think we live in a world that even though we are much more wealthy and technologically advanced we are much less sophisticated than um than in historical times all right so let me conclude by summarizing what we discussed and explain what monism is and the consequences on our lives because of monism okay okay so the first thing is back throughout most of human history we humans believe that gods are everywhere every day we're interacting with Gods because we believe in spiritual realities okay so and again gods are metaphors so this is premar this is Martyr now what do we believe we believe that money is God we structure our lives around the idea of money why do we come to school to get good grades so that we can get a university why because we need a job to make money why because buying things will make us happy okay that's what everyone believes God is money money is God and the ultimate consequence of this for in our lives is life is alienating think about the number of depressed people in the world depression is a new idea it didn't exist before think about the number of people who live depressing Lives who are unhappy who are angry who are who just hate themselves in their lives okay second thing that we believe throughout most most of human history is spiritual reality is real okay there's a higher plane there are higher Dimensions there are the spirits who roam in these Dimensions when we die we will enter these spiritual Realms and therefore we must prepare for entry into the spiritual Realms by living spiritual lives on Earth okay spiritual reality is real now today we only believe that material reality is real and only material reality is real when we die we're nothing we came from nothing we live our lives then we die we become nothing that's pretty depressing okay so what this means for our society is facts matter more than truth in school you learn facts you don't learn truth it doesn't make sense in science class you're learning facts you're not learning truth there's a huge difference facts are things that happen in the world truth is how the world works there's a difference you don't learn how the world Works in science class you just learn things that happen in the world that happen to be true right the last major consequence is this premodern we believe that slavery was the worst evil okay if you believe in spiritual realities and you believe that when you die you will just Ascend to the spiritual realm then you want to live your best life on Earth you don't want you don't want to be a Slave but now what are you taught you're taught dying death is the worst evil the worst thing that can happen to you is dying and death because when you die you become nothing so what does this mean it means we are all slaves okay if you're afraid of dying you can't live your best life life you're not going to take risk you're not you're not going to ask questions you're not going to explore we are all slaves every one of us because we are afraid to die okay and you think about it monotheism oh sorry monotheism is what creates the world we live in today and what and what and how and and it explains why we live the lives we do today all right now what's important for us to understand is this is not an instant change okay this is something that will have to be fought over for about a thousand years because monotheism this godhead it is such a strange idea that people refuse to believe it this is a minority religion at that time but again because this is a religion that must expand it will eventually Triumph and create the world we live in today but only by killing millions and millions of people in these religious wars so from the first day from the day the Catholic church was built it was engaging in Crusades and inquisitions against people who refuse to believe in this Orthodoxy right okay so I know this was a lot to take in all right but are there any questions that you have that's right okay so um I'm I argue that we are less sophisticated than before because before everyone was very intuitive and very imaginative meaning that they could imagine themselves living in different realities at the same time right there's a physical reality that you experience but then there's also this high dimension the spiritual reality that you could feel okay so for example um if I were to fight with you okay if we had a fight I would experience that but I could also see maybe this God behind me pulling my strings and the god behind you pulling your strings as well okay so when you read The Iliad uh there are all these other realities that exist on top of each other the reality that we live but also the a higher reality where the gods negotiate amongst themselves and again this is a metaphor a symbol for the structural forces that govern the universe does that make sense all right so so when I mean sophisticated I really mean much more in itive and much more imaginative than uh than we are today okay what made us lose the ability to imagine right okay well um it's these three things really capitalism science and the nation state right do you understand because with capitalism what it teaches us is that money is the only good the highest good so it crows on other things like for example um love of each other interconnectedness right if you if you are a mother who loves your child guess what it doesn't matter but if you think about it the most beautiful thing in the world is a mother loving her children but because of capitalism we're taught that doesn't exist because you cannot financially exploit it you can't measure it okay then you look at science science is the ultimate religion because everyone believes it has to be true it's objective but what you will learn um next semester okay we won't do this semester but we what what we will learn next semester is the idea of objectivity okay objectivity it doesn't exist and this is something proven okay this is something that Elite scientists know but which no one else but like which we don't really understand object objectivity doesn't exist all right in fact what Elite scientists now know and this is a very strange idea we will explore next semester is the universe reality it is a collective um it is a collective hallucination do you understand we we'll Le this next semester okay but the idea is that the universe is what we imagine it to be it doesn't exist on its own does that make sense okay but we believe it exists on its own because of science right so when you go to science class you think you're learning the truth prove but you're actually learning a religion that um hinders you from imagining other realities okay and of course the nation state the nation state now is like God right who are you well you're you are a Chinese citizen but before we didn't think like that we just saw ourselves as members of a community and it could be a global Community okay and you could have many identities but now if you're a Chinese citizen you're not an American citizen because you're in competition with each other does that make sense so these are the three underlying ideas of the reality we live in today and this wasn't true before okay I so this a hard hard idea to understand but next semester become clear and clearer okay any any more questions okay all right so um good