Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed)

Predictive History
Aug 22, 2025
8 notes
8 Notes in this Video

Kantian Perception: Reality as Constructed Imagination

Philosophy Epistemology Kant
01:10

Immanuel Kant, described as the greatest philosopher in Western history, developed this framework for understanding how humans perceive reality. His ideas form the foundation for understanding how power structures manipulate consciousness.

Money Creation Through Banking: Creating Value from Nothing

Finance Banking MonetarySystem
07:30

Merchants historically engaged in finance to facilitate trade, eventually becoming wealthy enough to establish banks. These banks traded in gold, issuing receipts that evolved into modern banking. Chinese banks like Bank of China became world’s largest through this money-creation system.

Artificial Scarcity: Poverty as Control Mechanism

Economics SocialControl Poverty
21:45

Powerful people who control banking systems create and maintain poverty not as an unfortunate outcome but as a deliberate strategy. Parents unknowingly reinforce this by telling children to work hard to avoid becoming poor.

Individual vs Collective Happiness: The Historical Shift

Psychology Community Individualism
29:15

Throughout most of human history, people across all societies understood happiness collectively. If someone became wealthy, they held feasts for entire communities. Chinese villagers who succeeded in cities returned to share prosperity. Modern individuals focus on personal happiness through money, power, freedom, and relationships.

Polytheism vs Neuroscience: Which Worldview Empowers?

Religion Psychology Eudaimonia
34:20

Ancient polytheistic societies understood humans as subject to powerful, capricious gods controlling fate, fortune, anger, and pride. Modern society adopts neuroscience and psychiatry as authoritative frameworks, with scientists replacing gods as figures people must obey.

School as Brainwashing Tool: Preparing Citizens for War

Education SocialControl NationState
44:30

Three war-focused societies first introduced mandatory free public schooling: Sparta (3,000 years ago), Aztecs, and Prussia. These military powers pioneered systems later adopted globally. Parents unknowingly surrender children to institutional brainwashing.

The Nation-State as Constructed Identity: False Memory Implantation

NationState Identity History
52:10

Modern citizens identify as Chinese, American, French rather than by local communities. Throughout most of history, people identified by specific places like Beijing, Haidian, or Changzhou, recognizing they had nothing in common with distant strangers who happened to share language.

Power as Alchemy: Turning Nothing into Everything

Power Alchemy Monotheism
55:40

Power structures achieve what alchemists throughout history pursued: turning lead into gold, nothing into everything. Monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) originated this transformative capacity through introducing concepts beyond human experience that must be implanted through brainwashing.