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[00:00:00] Are we an empire? [00:00:01] >> I think we've been an empire for a long [00:00:03] time. And I think that because um are [00:00:06] you familiar with what happened in the [00:00:07] year [music] 1913? [00:00:09] >> What happened [00:00:09] >> under the presidency of Woodro Wilson? [00:00:12] It's a very pivotal year. There's three [00:00:13] [music] things that happened that year. [00:00:15] You know, a lot of people be familiar [00:00:16] with the Jackal Island meeting that [00:00:17] created the Federal Reserve. That [00:00:19] happens in 1913. [00:00:22] And the Federal Reserve Act is passed [00:00:23] over the Christmas break when the [00:00:26] Warberg family, who's one of the German [00:00:27] banking families, is there, the [00:00:28] Rockefellers are there. And they [00:00:31] basically decide that they want to prop [00:00:33] [music] up a central bank because they [00:00:35] want to protect their own assets because [00:00:37] if you look at the Federal Reserve, it's [00:00:39] not Federal and it's not, you know, it [00:00:41] doesn't have any reserves. It's [00:00:43] basically a a cartel and it's owned by [00:00:46] member banks. [music] And a lot of the [00:00:48] member banks are banks you're aware of. [00:00:50] And the bigger investor in [music] them [00:00:52] is the biz with bank of international [00:00:54] settlements in Basil. So it is really a [00:00:57] cartel of banking. So they establish [00:01:00] this thing in 1913. The other thing that [00:01:03] passes that year is the 16th amendment [00:01:05] for income tax because now if you have [00:01:08] this bank, you have to have a way to [00:01:10] [music] fund it, right? And they're [00:01:11] going to fund it by taxing people. They [00:01:12] had tried taxes after the Civil War to [00:01:15] this extent [music] and it didn't last [00:01:16] very long. But the income tax amendment [00:01:18] sticks. The other thing that passes is [00:01:21] the 17th amendment and this gets almost [00:01:24] >> this is not even drawn up by government. [00:01:28] >> The other thing that passes that year [00:01:29] which no one seems to talk about and [00:01:31] this actually would have been pivotal [00:01:32] during co the 17th amendment makes it [00:01:35] [music] so senators are no longer [00:01:37] selected by state legislatores. They're [00:01:39] selected by popular vote. [00:01:47] Why does Rome still matter for today? [00:01:50] >> Well, I think when you look at it, as I [00:01:52] said earlier, history doesn't repeat, [00:01:54] but it does rhyme in a lot of ways. And [00:01:56] I think if you understand patterns that [00:01:59] happen in history, you can understand a [00:02:00] lot of what's happening in your world [00:02:02] today. Because I think [music] we look [00:02:03] at modern politics and we see the things [00:02:06] that are happening and we try to say, [00:02:08] "Okay, well, if we just make this [00:02:10] solution now, it'll solve it." The Dow [00:02:12] is over $50,000. I don't know why you're [00:02:14] laughing. You're a great stock trader as [00:02:16] I hear Raskin. The Dow is over $50,000 [00:02:20] right now. The S&P at almost $7,000. [00:02:25] And if we look at earlier empires, [00:02:27] [music] especially Rome, it's something [00:02:28] that those short-sighted solutions often [00:02:32] don't fix things. [00:02:39] >> [music] [00:02:45] [music] [00:02:46] >> Ptorian guard actually auctions the [00:02:49] [music] empire to him. So he pays a [00:02:52] certain price and he gets to be emperor [00:02:53] and after around 80 days they kill him. [00:02:57] [music] [00:03:02] >> Who's they? the Ptorian Guard because [00:03:04] they had become the power behind the [00:03:06] throne and they're responsible for [00:03:08] killing somewhere around 17 [music] [00:03:10] different emperors that we know of. You [00:03:12] know, if they weren't happy, they might [00:03:14] kill the emperor and this happens on a [00:03:15] number of occasions. [00:03:20] [music] [00:03:21] >> So, is this like a shadow government? [00:03:27] >> So, with the Ptorian Guard, where do [00:03:30] they get their decision-m FROM? [00:03:31] >> SWORD. GIVE ME A SWORD. [00:03:34] >> She the sword. [00:03:35] >> Are they of the people? [00:03:38] >> So they are the [00:03:38] >> are they the pulse of the people or are [00:03:40] they strictly a shadow government? [00:03:43] >> So they were originally the private [00:03:45] bodyguard of the emperor Augustus [00:03:47] >> and they just become the protector of [00:03:48] emperors. [00:03:49] >> Mhm. [00:03:49] >> They wouldn't have cared what the people [00:03:51] thought. They would have cared about [00:03:53] being so close to the wheels of power. [00:03:55] [music] [00:03:55] >> What are the people thinking of all of [00:03:57] that? Do the people even matter at all? [00:04:00] In Roman history, one of the biggest [00:04:01] missing pieces that we have is [00:04:04] what did the regular [music] people do [00:04:06] during their lives? Because for them, it [00:04:08] was survival. They were worried about [00:04:10] flooding. The Tyber River would flood [00:04:12] every year. They were worried about [00:04:13] [music] disease. They were worried about [00:04:15] dying from random things. They were [00:04:17] worried about being able to pay for [00:04:18] things. They didn't really have time to [00:04:21] care about those things. And as you get [00:04:23] into the later empire, a lot of them [00:04:25] would have never even seen an emperor. [00:04:27] Their life is just so drastically [00:04:29] different than those that have money or [00:04:30] those that have political power. They're [00:04:32] just worried about survival. [00:04:35] >> Centralization of power, emergency [00:04:38] authority becomes permanent. [00:04:40] >> Rome had an oral constitution. And when [00:04:42] a crisis arose, [00:04:44] they would alter it to handle the [00:04:46] crisis. But the problem is once you do [00:04:48] that, you don't go back. And if you look [00:04:50] at that with a lot of things we've [00:04:51] experienced, [00:04:53] the war on terror or 9/11 or a lot of [00:04:56] these different things that happened, [00:04:58] the Patriot Act has dramatically changed [00:05:00] our lives. [00:05:02] [music] [00:05:05] Rome was very similar in a lot of ways. [00:05:07] An emperor gives away citizenship [00:05:09] because he needs to handle the treasury [00:05:11] or Christians are being persecuted [00:05:14] because they want to bring back the [00:05:15] peace of the gods. So they're trying to [00:05:17] handle whatever is there right now [00:05:19] because they couldn't think in the [00:05:20] future, right? Because especially [00:05:21] [music] in the third century, these guys [00:05:23] are living such a short period of time. [00:05:25] They're thinking about what do I have to [00:05:27] do to live? [00:05:34] And we can see that now with each crisis [00:05:37] altering how we operate, right? You look [00:05:39] at even with a lot of the the woke stuff [00:05:42] that's happened, like the verbiage we [00:05:43] used to use, we can't use anymore. [00:05:44] That's what I was kind of getting at in [00:05:46] the Bible is a lot of the woke stuff, [00:05:47] [music] a lot of the gender stuff, a lot [00:05:49] of that was all happening in Rome. [00:05:52] Correct. [00:05:56] [music]