Prof Jiang’s Predictive History and other lectures Secret History #1: How Power Works
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Feb 5, 2026 A lecture traces how power shapes official narratives and turns paper promises into real influence. It explores money creation, banks, and the rise of central banking. The talk examines how elites manufacture scarcity, use schooling and religion to shape obedience, and contrast individualist and collective worldviews. Themes include geopolitics, predictive models, and the political uses of poverty.
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Reality Is Shaped By Imagination
- Immanuel Kant: we never access objective reality; we perceive phenomena shaped by our minds.
- Mr./Prof. Jiang argues reality is imagination and training imagination improves how we think.
Banks Can Create Money Out Of Nothing
- Banks create money by issuing claims (receipts/loans) beyond their reserves, effectively expanding the money supply.
- Central banking and interbank cartels institutionalized this power to create money out of nothing.
Poverty Is Enforced Scarcity
- Money is an infinite numerical construct controlled by power, not a scarce natural resource.
- Mr./Prof. Jiang claims poverty exists because those in power refuse to issue unlimited money and instead enforce scarcity.