The German Will to Power by Jiang Xueqin | Predictive History

THE GERMAN WILL TO POWER: GERMAN CIVILIZATION, THE PRUSSIAN EMPIRE AND ENLIGHTENMENT

Challenging the sense of inherent superiority of Anglo-American civilization, Jiang Xueqin gives an insightful lecture about German civilization, the Prussian Empire and Enlightenment Philosophy. In this country, there is a fixating fascination with the era of the Nazis, because it is the story of the Post-War World we live in. It is this political age’s mythology, and Hitler is the Satan of this mythology (The World War II Consensus is Collapsing – Jonathan Pageau). However, this lecture takes us to the era before World War I. It is part of a larger lecture on four great civilizations fighting for global dominance, and this lecture focuses on the “Unity of Will” of the German civilization and its distinction from Anglo-American civilization.

Jiang Xueqin explains that we do not know much about German civilization, because of their defeat in World War II and the control of the history of the world by the Anglo-Americans. He continues to highlight the prejudice of the West against the Prussian state, and the great thinkers to emerge from this civilization, despite being considered a “militaristic nation.” Interesting is the decline of the Prussian Empire with the subsequent rise of the American Empire (The Decline and Fall of the American Empire) during and after World War I, along with the assumption of superiority given to Anglo-American civilization. This lecture leads into Immanuel Kant and is highly relevant to the current conflict between Iran and Israel-U.S. in how each define the conflict in terms of a civilizational struggle.