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Game Theory #13: Epstein’s World w/ Professor Jiang Xueqin (Transcript)

Editor’s Notes: In this thought-provoking lecture, the speaker uses Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” to challenge our fundamental understanding of modern global power structures and the “collective hallucinations” that shape our reality. By examining the intersections of intelligence, finance, and elite networks, the video explores how entities like the U.S. dollar and emerging technologies act as mechanisms for wealth extraction and social control. The presentation further delves into the controversial “Epstein files” and high-level political connections to illustrate a complex web of transnational influence that dictates global events and conflicts. (March 17, 2026)

TRANSCRIPT:

The Three Questions

PROFESSOR JIANG XUEQIN: Today, I want to look at three questions. Why did this war between United States and Iran start? How will this war end? And what will happen after this war ends? And to answer these three questions, we need to discuss the nature and structure of our reality.

Our World as a Hallucination: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

The first thing you need to understand, which is very hard, is that our world is a hallucination. It’s a collective fantasy.

So to understand this idea, let’s look at Plato’s allegory of the cave. In this cave, we’re deep inside the earth, and it’s dark. There’s some light coming in, but not much. And we’re all chained in a line together. There’s about a million of us. We’re on the floor, and we’re chained to the ground, and we can’t really move. We can’t get up. We can’t move around. Even our necks are shackled, so we can’t turn around and see the world around us.

So there’s about a million of us all sitting down and staring at a wall together. And this wall is blank. Behind us is a great fire, and there are people around this fire. We don’t know who they are, but they are free to move around. And what they do is this — they take puppets and then they reflect the puppets onto the wall, creating shadows. And we’re mesmerized by these shadows because before we’re staring at a blank wall, and now there are these moving shadows.

And we think these shadows are real because we don’t know any better, so we give them names. We give them names, and we create a language in order to tell stories about these shadows. And this becomes really our collective reality. So another way of saying this is that reality is a collective consciousness, which is really a hallucination.

Consciousness as the Source of Wealth

There are certain things about this reality that we need to keep in mind. First of all, what’s really important to understand is that what creates this reality is our consciousness, our imagination, our perception — not anyone else, us.

In other words, the wealth in the society is our consciousness. The amount of thought we put into something. So let me give you an example. Let’s just say that I were to ask you to make a vase to sell on the marketplace. While you’re making this vase, if you are listening to music, if you are chatting with a friend, if you’re not fully conscious and focused and attentive about making this vase, it won’t be very good. But if you are completely focused on creating the most beautiful vase you can and you’re not distracted by anything, then this vase will be beautiful and therefore more valuable in the marketplace.

So in other words, it is our conscious attention that creates wealth in this world, and it’s really money or capital that extracts and stores our consciousness and turns it into wealth. It’s a really important concept that most people don’t understand, but you need to understand this if we are to understand the nature of reality itself.

This reality is structured to extract our consciousness in order to create wealth for the elite — for these people.

Historical Mechanisms of Wealth Extraction

Historically, there have been different mechanisms that you can use in order to extract and store wealth. You have maybe religion. Think of pyramids. Pyramids in Egypt are able to focus your attention and motivate you to do certain actions — to engage in religious worship. Temples — that’s one form of capital.

Another form of capital, of course, is the idea of stories. Homer. Homer is the father of Greek civilization because he wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, which is able to focus people’s attentions and drive them to great things. Then, of course, in today’s world, you have the Bible.

And the main mechanism to extract and store wealth in today’s world, of course, is the US dollar. But there’s another force that’s being created in order to replace the US dollar, and this is called artificial intelligence. So what we’ll discuss later on is that there’s actually a war going on for the soul of humanity, for the human consciousness — between the US dollar, the old world order, and artificial intelligence, the new world order.

The Nature of Elite Power: Manipulation, Not Force

The second thing that I need you to understand is that these people — we don’t know who they are. But what we do know is that they don’t force us to do anything. There’s not enough of them. The way they maintain power is through manipulation and trickery and deception.

We know this because in Plato’s cave, one day for whatever reason, one person decides, “I feel as though this is not the real world. I feel as though there’s something outside this cave.” So he or she starts messing around with the chains and realizes these aren’t chains — these are just like ropes. And there’s this chain around my neck, it’s like a ribbon. And he doesn’t know why he does this, but he does do this.

And when he does this, they don’t even care. Like, “Whatever, man. Do whatever you want.” So he releases himself.