Understanding Events and Contexts

Love him or hate him, Prof. Jiang (as he is commonly called) has become an internet sensation in recent weeks. I first discovered Jiang sometime in January as mentioned in this post. In that post too, I have mentioned my own reservations about his opinions (secret societies etc.) but it was his lectures and the E*stein files that made me come to realise about the shadowy world. Some would probably say outrght, he is a conspiracy theorist and he could have done better if he does not allude to secret societies that 'influence' the events of the world. Indeed within the Muslim psyche, humans are not that all-powerful and that only God is Omnipotent, leaving unaccoutable degrees of freedom for the (unexpected) events of the world, but yet events that are subject to human agency.

In Jiang's predictive model, eschatology plays an important factor (if not the most important) and this makes his model non-scientific (and hence subject to criticisms and even ridicule). Jiang however has described eschatology as an inter-generational script that many human agents play out to. As such, it becomes an extremal factor (parameter) that Jiang uses for his game-theoretic approach (see here; the coordination part of the universal law of game theory). At times, I wonder how he comes up with such formulation (creativity?). Today, for instance, I kearned abut his three rules of geopolitics:

• The strong (nations) respect each other and they prey on the weak.
• One must 'fight' to prove that 'one' is strong.
• The weak (nations) do not work well together and that the weak must ally with the strong.

Now these seems to resonate with what we observe 'naturally' in the world but they do not necessarily follow a particular 'logic'. Are these phenomenological rules and if so, what makes up its fundamental theory?

While maintaining some scepticisms on his predictive history theory, I am actually more sceptical with those criticising him. Targeting him as non-white betrays only bigotry. Today, I stumbled onto an interview of Jiang by Jay Shapiro, which I think is more level-headed and I would recommend it for people to watch.

Disclaimer: By making this post, it does not mean I am obsessed with Jiang. I do listen to many other podcasters and commentators.