This is the first paid-subscriber live stream from a former academic (turning 50 soon) who left his teaching job in China to become a full-time independent educator on YouTube and Substack. He covers geopolitics, literature, the occult, and education reform for a global audience of ~584 concurrent viewers. The stream has three parts: personal updates and future plans, a current-events analysis with slides, and a Q&A drawing from chat and his Substack comments.
Personal Updates and Plans
Leaving China: He has spent ~30 years in China and is planning to leave permanently, citing frustration with the education system and a desire for a stable long-term home for his three children. His wife (Chinese) supports the move. He will spend the next year scouting locations before settling.
Travel itinerary: He plans to visit North America (Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Nashville) in August, followed by Japan, Malaysia, Germany, and Russia. He wants to hold paid-subscriber meetups in these cities and asks viewers to suggest venues.
Teaching ambitions: He will continue on YouTube and in-person seminars. Upcoming courses include:
A Dante seminar (starting in two days, hosted at the Yale Beijing Center, four hours/day for two weeks; he hopes to eventually teach Dante in Florence).
A course on the occult/esoteric traditions (Crowley sex magic, Kabbalah).
A course on future school / education reform — his blueprint for an ideal school community.
A close-reading course on Orwell and Shakespeare.
Japan interest: He has never visited Japan but is a fan of Japanese culture (anime, Final Fantasy 7, Akira Kurosawa, and the manga One Piece, which he promises to read). He plans to lecture on Japanese culture and possibly start a school in Malaysia.
Germany and Russia: He is a fan of German civilization and Russian geopolitics (Alexander Dugin’s Foundations of Geopolitics). He will participate in a video panel organized by Dugin later this month and wants to explore Russia’s Orthodox mystical traditions.
Malaysia: He discussed visiting with a previous stream partner to explore starting a school and promoting education reform.
Public recognition: He notes he has become recognizable in Hong Kong and London, which he finds moving. He avoids large public lectures now for safety and privacy reasons.
No media company: He has no interest in incorporating, managing staff, or chasing profit. His stated goal is to produce great content for the next 50 years and to start an education movement (game theory, creative history, great books) worldwide.
Current-Events Analysis
Candace Owens in Russia: He takes credit for predicting (on a prior stream) that Owens — supported by the Catholic Church — would go to Russia to foster Catholic-Orthodox reconciliation. Owens has now announced plans for a long-term visa and to bring young Catholics to Russia. He sees her as an important bridge-builder between the U.S. and Russia.
Albania protests: He corrects a prior claim that Albania’s protests were not organic. He acknowledges Albanians are genuinely angry about land being taken for a development project on Sazan Island. He praises the ~150,000 protesters but doubts they will win, given the strategic importance of the island.
Seven Frankus vs. Jews: He explains that the Seven Frankus (a secret society) survive by hiding behind Jews and promoting antisemitism as a smokescreen.
Iran war escalation and ceasefire: A U.S. Apache helicopter was shot down in the streets of Homs (possibly a false flag akin to the Gulf of Tonkin incident), followed by U.S. bombing of two Iranian reservoirs and Iranian retaliation against GCC nations and Israel. He predicts an MOU may be signed soon but will not last, as the U.S. cannot agree to extend peace to all proxies (Lebanon, Gaza). He expects the war to shift toward targeting civilian infrastructure (power plants, bridges, railways, water) as munitions run low.
AI bubble: He argues the AI market is a bubble. Examples: Nvidia is worth more than India despite not manufacturing chips; Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire; SoftBank is borrowing against its own stock. He expects financial collapse and advises against stock-market investment.
Singapore and Ireland at risk: Singapore’s wealth depends on global trade, which is declining. Ireland’s economy is essentially corporate money-laundering for companies like Apple. Both are vulnerable in a deglobalizing world.
SpaceX: He questions how SpaceX can be worth more than Meta when it hasn’t reached the moon. A viewer notes SpaceX’s prospectus identifies AI and data centers — not launches — as its biggest market, which he finds unpersuasive.
Mark Carney / Canada: He views Carney as a servant of transnational capital (City of London). He predicts Canada will eventually be absorbed into the U.S., starting with Alberta, then British Columbia and Saskatchewan, leaving Ontario isolated.
Cults as intelligence tools: He argues that intelligence agencies use cults (Mormons, Scientologists were CIA cutouts) to infiltrate foreign societies and blackmail politicians. A viewer’s claim that Japan funds Korean cults strikes him as plausible.
Disclosure Day movie: He found the recently released alien-disclosure film terrible and attributes this to Spielberg’s ego-driven creative control. He is skeptical that any elite conspiracy to acclimate people to aliens can succeed because the conspirators have too much ego to coordinate.
Trump administration purge: He argues that competent, independently minded figures (Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., Thomas Massie, MTG, Lauren Boebert) are being sidelined because Trump demands obedience. He predicts the administration will decline rapidly and that Trump will seek a third term because leaving office would mean prosecution.
Tulsi Gabbard’s document release: She is releasing files showing the U.S. government funded biolabs in Ukraine before leaving at the end of June. He frames this as part of a Washington civil war between factions.
Taiwan (KMT): The new KMT chair, Jung Li-wen, is charismatic and from a political dynasty. She wants Chinese diaspora to have the same influence in the U.S. that Jewish people have. He responds that the key difference is Jewish mutual solidarity, which he says Chinese lack.
China’s economy: He states the Chinese economy is in very bad shape, with the government now preventing reporters from discussing it. He will elaborate in future streams.
China-North Korea: Xi Jinping visited North Korea for the first time since 2019. He interprets this as China using North Korea as a “pitbull” to threaten Japan and South Korea, forcing Japan to ask China to restrain Pyongyang — giving China leverage. Japan is remilitarizing because the U.S. wants to retreat from the Asia-Pacific, and China cannot challenge Japan directly without pushing Southeast Asia into Japan’s co-prosperity sphere.
World Cup: He predicts Iran will be the Cinderella story of the World Cup, overperforming and rallying global anti-American sentiment, humiliating the U.S. on the world stage.
Boomer Hell: He discusses his Substack article on how baby boomers control politics (largest demographic, wealth, status), protect their pensions and healthcare, send young people to war, and cling to imperial delusions. He calls this “Boomer Hell.” He acknowledges the deeper problem is that powerful people of all ages refuse to give up power.
City of London / resource colonies: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are losing value as resource colonies. The City of London is offloading them to the highest bidder (Chinese, Americans, Israelis, Qataris). Chinese buyers are purchasing overvalued real estate at large discounts as a way to move capital out of China.
Chinese billionaires in the U.S.: He warns that Chinese billionaires with U.S. assets will eventually be targeted — arrested and their assets confiscated — in any U.S.-China conflict, just as Japanese Americans were interned in WWII.
Japan and South Korea demographics: Low birth rates reflect the unattiveness of Confucian societies for young people. He predicts war will reverse this by making childbearing a patriotic duty.
Elite bunkers: Some elites are building bunkers (e.g., Peter Thiel in New Zealand), but he questions whether their guards, pilots, and staff will remain loyal in a collapse scenario.
U.S. infiltration of the world: He claims only four nations remain uninfiltrated by the U.S.: Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea — and the U.S. wants to destroy all four.
Firms like Appco, Edelman, Brunswick: He sees them as influence operations that infiltrate elites, help officials launder money, and get their children into Yale and Harvard — the same function Jeffrey Epstein served.
Trump’s future: He believes Trump will never leave office voluntarily because a Democratic administration would prosecute him and his family. He expects a third term.
Aliens / spirits: He believes spirits (a spectrum from demons to angels) exist and have been acknowledged throughout human history (Hinduism, animism, shamanism). Modern materialist society uniquely ignores them. Through practices like DMT, ayahuasca, or meditation, people can communicate with these beings. Consciousness is a microcosm of the universe; mastering inner self leads to mastering external reality.
Kabbalah and creativity: He argues Kabbalah is a key reason Jews dominate storytelling, media, and Hollywood. He wants to democratize Kabbalistic education so everyone can unlock their creative potential — the shared dream of Homer, Dante, Jesus, and Plato.
Sufism vs. Kabbalah: He plans to compare them, suggesting Kabbalah drew on earlier esoteric traditions including Sufism, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism, applying them to the Bible.
Occult and suffering: From an occult perspective, souls have a telos (purpose, per Aristotle) but can be blinded by the information overload of “school.” The soul is eternal and reincarnates (samsara), so a child’s death from leukemia, while tragic, is not final in the grand scheme.
Trump mind control: He argues control is subtle — Fox News programming, Sean Howard Lutnick, Susie Wiles, and others whisper advice so Trump believes every idea is his own. Direct orders provoke rebellion; nudging preserves the illusion of autonomy.
Greater Israel and demographics: He suggests the small Jewish population is not an obstacle under Kabbalah: a priest-warrior class of ~10 million Israelis could rule over ~100 million controlled laborers (e.g., from India) managed by AI — analogous to the British or Roman empires.
Writing a book: He plans to write a book on the Russia-U.S. conflict, which he sees as the defining struggle of the next 20 years.
Mamdani in NYC: He sees Zohran Mamdani as a potential Democratic presidential contender in four years, citing his impressive mayoral record. The real test will be how he handles ICE raids on undocumented immigrants.
North Korea: He expects North Korea to create maximum chaos because it has nothing to lose.
UK tipping point: He agrees the attempted beheading in Belfast signals a tipping point toward civil war in the UK, driven by economic hardship, immigration, and public anger.
Population decline: War will initially cause rapid decline, then create social mobility and incentivize larger families as governments and families seek to replenish numbers.
Personal philosophy: He repeatedly emphasizes that the solution to chaos is self-education, listening to one’s heart, discovering one’s telos, and taking personal initiative. The universe will “bend to your will” when you commit to self-improvement. He urges trusting yourself, consuming a wide range of sources, and keeping an open mind.
Closing: He thanks the ~584 live-stream participants, apologizes for technical and pacing issues, promises moderators and better scheduling next time, and announces he will hold emergency live streams for major breaking news now that he has left his school job and can focus fully on Substack.
