 All right, I first met Pierrot about eight years ago, and we were both invited to speak at the same conference. And at some point during the conference, maybe in one of the meetings in between, he noticed the tattoo that I have on my fist here. It says, Crom. It's like, does that say Crom? And I'm like, yeah, Conan's God. And so we started talking about Conan the Barbarian and instantly bonded over it. And so I've known him for years. He actually got my book, The Way of Man and Becoming a Barbarian, published in France. Pierrot is one of the biggest authors on survivalism in all of Europe. His books have been published in Turkish, in a bunch of other languages. And so we're happy to have him here, speaking at 21. Thank you. Thank you. Djindobri, I'm sure you figure out it means good morning in Polish. Poland, as you figure out, I'm sure it's a great country. First time I was here, 1993, was my Polish girlfriend. She was in Switzerland. We came here, we visited the whole country. I did a big mistake, not dumping her. That was OK, but not coming here and living here because this is an awesome country. Now the other day when I came here, I was also happy that here no one knows me. Although my books are coming out in Polish in September, but so far no one knows me. And when I arrived, people in the hotel started to come and talk to me. And that usually happens to me every day in Switzerland or France. But I was surprised here in Poland. Of course, it was some of you who didn't know me and say, hey, have you reached Cooper? Say no, he's more handsome than me. So yeah, my name is Piero San Giorgio. I'm Swiss, originally Italian. I've been writing books for the last nine years. One of which has been a super best seller translated into English, Italian, indeed Turkish, Polish, Romanian, Arabic, Russian, et cetera, et cetera. But that's not all my life, of course. Before that, I've worked in about 20 years in the software industry. I made my first million dollars when I was 27. I've been an entrepreneur, I've sold my company, married, four kids. So I've had the life. So it's also based on this experience that I take what I'm trying to explain to you today. So since the dawn of time, of course, survival was paramount for the tribes of men and women and children that lived or tried to live as much as possible in mostly the wild. And in those tribes, because it was the evil patriarchy, who was taking all the risks, planning the future, defending the tribe, defending themselves, defending the women and the children, it was mostly the men, right? And one of the things that are important when you want to survive and prepare to defend your tribe, yourself, your woman is, of course, think about the future, think ahead. So over time, the people who were careless who didn't think, well, natural selection got rid of them because they couldn't pass their genes, because they got caught sleeping by the saber-toothed tiger, or they got caught unprepared by a storm, or they got invaded by a conquering tribe that killed them, killed the man and fucked the woman. That's how it worked. So today, even, we have still natural catastrophes. We still have problems that need to be thought ahead of time. And while in the past, the women were extremely grateful for men preparing and surviving and so on, this is not so much the case today, because after all, who's the biggest hero, who's the biggest savior of all, today it's the nanny state. The state will hand you money, they will help you. So as men, we're not enticed as much as before to prepare for whatever future, whatever risks of the future happens. And yet, I know, because it's for me and it's for everyone I know and I know it's for you, deep down inside, we want to protect our lives, of course, our women, our children, but also our community and our tribe, right? We want deep down inside it. Unfortunately, it's not recognized as important as it used to be. So what I must warn you before I really start to summarize 400 pages of my first book in 25 minutes is that our collective imagination, our collective unconscious has been programmed willingly or unwillingly by the media, by movies. And we think about survival when we look at these movies with catastrophes, you know, an ice age that happens in two weeks or zombies, apocalypse, all these things which may be enjoyable and fun and entertaining, but usually have nothing to do with reality. They have nothing to do with, there may be an insight here and there that is useful. But generally speaking, we really have to deprogram ourselves from this heroic, one man saves the world, global catastrophe happening in two days kind of mindset. It's worse than that to the reality, but it's also more doable. If I have one thing, only one thing that I'd like you to remind from my presentation is just that. Think by yourself. Don't believe what I'm going to say. If you make me happy by reading my books, don't believe what I write in my books. Check the facts. As in everything in your life, take control of it by thinking first by yourselves. If you're here today, it's probably because you're already quite ahead in that process. So don't believe what people say, try, test it and then make your own opinion because it's your life. I'm not responsible for you. I don't give a fuck. I only give a fuck about me and my tribe and the people around me. But I like you. Therefore, I'd like to tell you what I think. OK. Now, this graph is probably the most important graph ever, and it should be on the first page of every news, on front presentation of every news reel every day. It's the evolution of population for the last 12,000 years. It took us more than 10,000 years to reach half a billion people in the world. Then it took from about the year 1,000 to the year 1800 to add another half a billion people. From 1815, it took 100 years to 1913 to add one billion more people in the world. And then one more billion to 1930 and so on. When I was born, 1971, yeah, I'm old, population was about five billion. Now we're eight, more or less. Actually, no one really knows, but we're about eight. So this exponential growth of people is super important because the question is, how are those people actually going to feed themselves in the future? And this is not stopping. We are planning to be 10 billion people by 2050. That's the, and it's done. I mean, if we get to 2050, that's it. We're going to be 10 billion people. So the question is, the question is not, is it too much? Is it not too much? By definition, if they are alive, it means there are resources for these people. The question that comes is, yeah, but how fast are these resources getting consumed? Are they renewable? Yes or no? Do we produce them enough? Yes or no? A lot of people, starting from Maltus in the late 18th century, theorized that if the resources consumption, therefore, the people grows exponentially, you have to have resources production also growing exponentially, at least at the same level. And he predicted that it would not happen. So he was wrong, at least for the moment, because obviously the resource production did increase with industrial revolution, with the harnessing of coal power and then oil. We managed to move stuff, produce incredible amounts of food, of energy, and move it around the world to today's globalized world, where we can have avocados, mangoes, any time of the day and night, everywhere in the world. Amazing consumption of energy today to provide us a quality of life that even kings of 100 years ago would never dream of. I mean, every one of us here has a life better than the one of kings of a few centuries ago, much better, with less pain, with incredible medical treatments. Our teeth, except for British, are great. And yeah, dentistry has not improved since the Middle Ages in England. But that's OK, now I'm joking. But our quality of life is just amazing. Imagine your life a thousand years ago. OK, but the question is, can this continue with resources? So it's not about theory. Let's look at the data. And of course, I can look at this very detailed analysis in my books. But we see that the oil, which is the most important resource that we have today available, because this is what produces food. This is what moves food and goods across the world. Well, we start to see decrease of production over time. So country by country, region by region, oil field by oil field. And I got this data from geologists in the oil companies that I used to sell software to. Well, we see that the production starts to decrease. So then you have to say, well, then are we finding new discoveries? Well, when you look at the data, you find that we almost have no more discoveries of oil since, well, the peak was 1964. But since the 1980s, the new discoveries of oil are insignificant compared to the growth of our consumption and demand. So what this means is that the reserves are decreasing. So if you discover less and you still consume more, eventually you deplete your reserves. So of course, there has been some new technologies that enable us to seek a little bit more oil in the 2000s, in the last 20 years, this famous shale oil and with the fracking technologies and so on. But this only buys us a little time. So one fact is, eventually we are running out of this. It doesn't mean that there's no more, but it means that it's going to be very expensive to reach it and very energy-intensive to extract and use it. Does it mean it's the end of the world? No. Does it mean that we can't find other technologies? Maybe, but we're not sure. And what is for sure is that the world's demand for energy because of growth of consumption keeps increasing. Asia, India, Africa, everyone wants to live like an American. Of course, because everyone sees on TV the highest levels of consumption. And because of our mimetic brain, we want the same. We want the same cars. We want the same fake boobs, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, for our wives, we want the same kind of consumption that we see on TV. And from the village in the suburb of Nairobi, Kenya, to the cities of China, to the cities of Latin America, everyone wants the same and wants to consume the same. So we see growth in demand for energy, for goods, and therefore food and transport. And this is huge. And I remember traveling. I worked five years in Africa. And Africa is when I started to go there, I can remember my cognitive dissonance because I was expecting to go into very poor places. And that's what we still receive from the media. And there are some very poor places. But you go into cities like Lagos, like Nairobi, like Johannesburg. These cities are huge. And they consume. And there's trucks bringing food. It's just the same as Los Angeles, London, with differences, of course. But the consumption levels are starting to be really Western-style and great and people. And people want to have fun and go out at night. The consumption is just immense everywhere in the world. It's mind-boggling. And when we start to look at the depletion of resources, you can take every single raw material source of energy that exists or that we need. And you see the same kind of graph that we are consuming most of what there is. And now the reserve starts to drop. And this is a process that has already started a decade ago for most materials. Some we have still for longer. But some we're getting really short of. Copper, iron ore, bulk seed. And then you have to see the quality. Because people say, oh, but we have coal for 200 years. Yeah, but it's low-quality coal. It's not the high-quality coal. The same as for oil, we have the cheap oil that you find in Saudi or in Nigeria. Well, it's decreasing very fast. You still have expensive oil, such as the one you get from tar sands and with fracking technologies. But it's more expensive. And then you have the Arctic oil, which we still need to go and exploit. But it's going to be very expensive. So add to this the fact that our food production is extremely dependent on energy and on mechanization and transportation, where today we have in Western countries one or 2% of the people that are feeding 98% or 99% of the others. And you need fleets of trucks of ships that carry all this food to your supermarket in the city. Young people, especially children today, if you don't teach them where food comes from, if you don't take them to the countryside, they don't know. They have never seen a cow or a field. They think food grows in the supermarket. They have no clue. And my generation still lived in the countryside a lot. And I remember my grandparents working in the fields. And I'm not that old, but today no one does that. The problem of intensive agriculture to feed 8 billion and growing people is that we're destroying the soils. So that's another resource that is decreasing its fertile land because of lack of water and the destruction of the soils. Lack of water is very acute in Southern Europe, in America. Colorado River sometimes doesn't even reach the ocean anymore, same in China. I think it's the Yellow River doesn't arrive to the ocean anymore. The Nile has a problem everywhere in the world where you need water. It's not so much human consumption, but it's to grow food. You have big stress on water supplies and water quality. Without water and destruction of land, we're actually starting to see that the growth of the productivity of the fields across the world has reached a plateau and is starting to decrease. So once again, how are we going to feed so many people without such a growth in yields for land productivity and the energy to produce the food and to carry it around? So another byproduct of this massive growth of consumption is that you have a lot of shit to take care of after you consume, from plastic to your garbage and so on. And that's something I've saw. And it's very sad indeed in many countries. You don't see it in Western Europe. You don't see it in the big cities of America. But as soon as you get outside in the periphery, you see that we're turning the world into a huge garbage dump. Some of the cities have literally mountains of garbage in the suburbs. And the suburbs, I don't mean the suburbs like in the US where you have a lot of houses. I mean, really the areas that are outside the cities and trucks just dump tons and tons of garbage. And you have to add to this the pollution, pollution of the air, pollution that all this industry produces. Now in Western Europe, we are not producing anything anymore. So we don't have that pollution anymore. We've outsourced it in China, in India, in Africa, in Latin America. But globally speaking, we are destroying ecological niches. And that means that the systems that provide the animals and all the insects that enable food production in reality are being destroyed. And we are polluting oceans and overfishing them to scales that are almost beyond the renewable in many cases. Not to mention the deforestation that you see. And you see species decreasing. Now fuck climate change. If you are going to get poisoned by pollution and there's no more food growing. I mean, they talk about spying the sky, change of climate, maybe in 100 years. And I'm old enough to have seen no climate change in my life. And they used to talk about glaciation when I was a kid. And now it's about, oh, we're going to die in food. No, I think it's bullshit. Well, I don't really know. But I smell bullshit. However, what I know, because I've seen it, is that we are destroying environments all over the world, especially far away from our eyes in the Western world. And this is going to have an impact on the food production and the number of animals that exist. And we already see an impact. Because in the countries that global consumption and local mismanagement has turned into shitholes, you start to have people who cannot feed themselves. And this has increased in the 70s. Now, while global poverty has actually decreased, we start to have pockets of overpopulation and really food supply problems. And usually, when people are starving, they fight for resources. And when they fight for resources, they get angry and stupid. And when they get angry and stupid, they get caught by the stupidest of ideologies. Usually, it's socialism, but sometimes it's something else. I'm trying to be politically correct. I don't know about the censorship. But anyway, or they move. If you don't have any resources, you don't have perspective, you move to places you think that you will have. So you start to have these massive invasions of people moving from one place to another. And this is just the beginning. This is just the beginning. And I was saying this 10 years ago, and people were saying, ah, but come on. Then you had the invasion of 2015. And we are paying for it, which is amazing. And which brings crime, which brings terrorists in London. One knife attack every hour. It's crazy. You have tensions. And of course, you start to have the problems of multiculturalism. Multiculturalism means multi-racism, means multi-conflict. This is why in Poland, you have any terrorism in Poland? No. So politicians and leaders say, don't worry. We're going to solve all these problems by growth. That's what they sell when they want to be elected. I'm going to do this. I'm going to spend money. This is going to bring growth. I will increase programs. And with me, you're going to have less unemployment. We're going to create jobs. How are you going to create jobs with less energy in the future with less resources and with more and more uneducated people growing in the world? They have a solution. It's borrow money. Actually, they don't even borrow. They create it. They create it from thin air. I take the example of what is still the number one economy in the world, well, at least financially, the United States of America, the debt, the borrowing of money has just kept increasing. And you think that from 2008 to in the last 10 years, there's been more money created in the US than in all the history of the country. Have you seen a doubling of airports, roads, bridges in America in the last 10 years? No. This money has been created from thin air and it's been using to keep the economy growing and afloat. When I did my first research for the books, in 2008 and 2009, you needed to invest $3 to create one additional dollar of growth of GDP in the country. Now we are at $14. You need to invest $14 in the economy to get one back. Anyone who's an entrepreneur knows that this can't continue. And this is just the national debt, $24 billion, sorry, trillion, $24,000 billions. Imagine that. You can't. No one can. In debt. But you have to add the companies, the public, the credit cards, the student loans. When you add all together, you're close to $1,000 trillion in debt, impossible to be reimbursed ever. So one day, this is gonna collapse. Now are they going to do it hard? Like Germany did in 1947, year zero as they call, where suddenly they said money is worth zero and we issue a new one. And if you had money, fuck you. Are they doing that? Or will they manage this badly and create hyperinflation? I must say I was wrong in my analysis in 2011, because I was expecting this to happen very soon, but it still hasn't. It means that people are really dumb to believe that the money is still worth something. But until there is energy, if you believe a fantasy, you can keep believing it. So it's continuing. And just to give you perspective, the debt of America today is much higher than any time in the past that they had wars compared to the GDP. So it's not just absolute numbers that are incredibly insanely unsustainable. It's if you compare them to the gross of the economy, because some people say, yeah, but the economy now is much more big, is much more solid than in the past. Yeah, but the debt is even bigger in proportion. So you have to take that into account. So usually it ends up as very bad. This is not new. It happens thousands of times in history. You can go back to Roman Empire, and it's very well documented, how they debased currency, and it contributed to the collapse of the currency over time, and people borrowing the real silver coins, because the ones that were circulating were bad, were full of copper. Well, printing money is just as bad on a bigger scale. Germany in the 1910s and 1919, 1920s, they had the hyperinflation. And you had people buying bread with kilos of money, piles of money to buy the simplest things. Yugoslavia, just before the war, had also a big, before it exploded. They had lots of hyperinflation. And I lived personally in Zimbabwe for a while, while the crisis was 1997 to 1998. And I've seen what happens when people don't trust the money and the government fixes prices and no one wants to sell, because they don't want to sell into the local currency. They only accept foreign dollars or something. Well, people go insane. There's no more food. People starve in the streets. It's pretty impressive. I've seen lots of shit in Africa, I can tell you. And usually, this brings down the real economy. And then you don't have production. And then you have unemployment, which you should add to today's situation, where in Europe, for example, it's a bit less so in the US. But still, we don't produce anything anymore. Even if you have large brands, everything is produced elsewhere. So we're in the service world. And the service world is extremely dependent on government handouts, on jobs that are dependent on the finance. And if the finance goes bad, well, you'll have big, big, big time on employment. And this, of course, is something that people don't like. And of course, we're still in the system, because we live in a fraudulent system where you have a sort of socialist system for the very, very, very powerful companies and rich people. They're not dumb. They know that the government will help them, they buy politicians so that the politicians bail them out when there is a problem. So you have this weird system where while we are very liberal, and it's a good thing, and I mean that as an economic liberal definition, we have a system that is almost communist for the very wealthy and very rich. Not that it's bad to be wealthy. I think it's great. But you cannot have a system that people agree with when if you fail as a bank, they bail you out. But if you fail as an individual, you go to jail. No, no, no, no, no. This smells very bad. This will make people angry. And it is making people angry. And we're in Europe. We know how corrupt the governments of and especially the ones of the European Union are. This looks like still rich, but very much like the Soviet Union. And I remember the Soviet Union. And my friends of my age in Poland and in Romania and in Eastern Europe, where I also worked a lot, they remember very well how corrupt and how inefficient the system was. And they all tell me, European Union, it's exactly the same thing. And I look at the names and say, well, it's the same people. It's only the sons of the people who used to be at the time. So usually when things go bad, there is one solution. And you take people's focus into something else, which is usually war. And war has two advantages. Today, one is to take focus of people away from their problems and try to stick them together. Although I'm not sure how it works today in such a multicultural, multi-ethnic world. But there's another one, which is to go and grab resources. Now Zimbabwe is not a really interesting democracy. Have you seen any military intervention to go and save Zimbabweans in the last 20 years? Not really. But had they had oil, you need to bring democracy there immediately. Oh, how bad they are. Iraq, Libya, Syria, all countries where there is oil. When you cannot control them, when you cannot bribe them, you invade them. Nothing new. This is what empires did since the dawn of empires 10,000 years ago. And if you have to lie to get the war done, it doesn't matter. And you will do it. I'm sure you still remember that, even if some of you are young. Now believe me, when you're on the receiving side of American democracy or any empire, really, it sucks. You die by the millions. And you move away to other places. And you destabilize other countries. Before, after. It's never good. And this is key because it's part of the moral element of our societies. We used to believe. And in some cases, we used to be the best morally. We used to be the, we had flaws. There was slavery 200 years ago. But we fought against slavery. And we were the first ones to remove it. There was imperialism. But we decolonized. And at some point, we said, yeah, look, we're great. Look how white knighting we are compared for everything, if I take an analogy. But doing wars to grab resources. And it's not us. It's not you. It's not Americans. It's not the British. It's not the French. It's the elites that rule. But we have to face the people that have been bombed and have been humiliated, who come to our countries. And they don't make that difference necessarily. So they hate the fuck out of us. Not all. But that tension is existing. And we have to realize it's true. And I'm not saying I love everyone, kind of. But I'm not against people. But I have to realize that we have to recognize the reality of the world. It's that there's a lot of people. There are billions of people who don't like us. And actually, they don't like each other. No one likes each other in most of the world, in fact. And these tensions are growing. And you can feel them. You can see them in the last 10, 15 years. They are growing. And they're sometimes in France, sometimes in America, sometimes in Greece. And they grow, and then they get down, and then they grow bigger, and they come down. And now it was in France this year. And so the police is more and more hard on them. The police state, the surveillance, is stronger and stronger. And we have more and more intrusion and removal of our freedoms. And being born in the early 70s, I was in this window of time, 1970s to the 1990s, where you really had freedom. You could joke about everyone about anything. You joke about handicapped people, Jews, blacks. You had racist jokes, but you did it together with them. And they had jokes back. And this is how you create brotherhood. This is how you create friendship, when you can joke, when you can say things and say, hey, you look stupid. Or, oh, OK. And they say, well, no, you look stupid. And then you laugh, you have a beer, or a drink, or something. I get along with people. I used to work in Israel, in Saudi, simultaneously. I mean, in Africa. I get along with everyone, because I can joke, and I have open-minded. But today, this is not allowed anymore. Today is everyone on his own, and because you're not allowed to talk and joke, then the hatreds start to happen, because we are breathing, first of all, there are differences. But on top of the difference, you create the hostilities, you create these tensions. And you increase them instead of making them smaller. And the government's intrusion in our lives make this even more difficult. We're all not scared. It's not the world. But we all apprehend the fact that we could have our YouTube channel disappear like that, or books on Amazon not be de-published. I mean, what the fuck? One day there's going to be a guy who takes a gun and goes to YouTube and make a massacre. I mean, this is stupid. This is not how you manage a society. And yet, this is what's happened in the last 20 years. We have increased something that looks very much like George Orwell's 1984. And it's worrisome, because I used to like my 1970s and 1980s world. You had fun. You could talk with these people. You could joke. You really had this idea of brotherhood between people and between nations and between cultures. And you could discover people. Then there was no racists in the 70s and 80s. I mean, it was great. Now it's everywhere. And now everyone is a Nazi, which is also incredibly stupid, because then you devalue the terms and you devalue the history. Anyway, in my opinion, but again, think by yourselves, and I'm summarizing, we're getting to a dead end. This is not going to survive very long. This society cannot continue very long. Now I predicted that the moment of greatest danger starts in 2020. We're getting near, am I right? Am I wrong? Did I predict it too soon? By five years? By 10 years? I don't know. But certainly, I believe that there is no way we can change this direction. It will have to reboot. It will have to collapse. Now there's three ways to do that. Let's assume it does happen. And we're going to see what it means. There's three ways you can approach problems like that in life. The first one is to say, OK, let's be zen about it. So maybe society will say, OK, we have to reboot everything. Fine. We shake our hands. We roll up our sleeves. We work. Or we get completely shocked and scared. And like the proverbial rabbit in front of the flashlight, you freeze. You're in the fight or flight mode. You also have frozen. And people will not know what they do. They'll say, oh, there's no money. There's no food in supermarkets. What can I do? Or people become really upset. I don't know. I've not been there. And what I can see, however, is that we're not civilizations. And I should include really most of the world in that. We're not civilization of responsible citizens. We're consumers. We're just taxpayers and consumers. Most of us are clueless about most things in life. We have no mentors. I mean, not you in this room. But generally speaking, people have no mentors. Education is mostly done by TV instead of the family. And then you go to the indoctrination that the school is, and they inject you some crazy stupid ideas, conformity to be in a way that the powers like you to be, and obedience, and no more information. That's why you don't study history anymore. It's just propaganda. It is 1984's world that we live in. We live in little boxes. We travel in little boxes. We work in little cubicles boxes for what? Spreadsheets on a computer. We don't really know what we actually do for work. This is why I left the industry at some point. Because they asked me too much bureaucratic stuff. I say, in business I was kind of a special forces guy. I go open a market. So fuck the rules. I open the market. You don't ask the people who jump in Normandy to make a status report every two hours about where did they jump and what did they do. No, you go and take the fucking objective. And you kill as many as the motherfucking enemies that you can, in my case, was the competition, of course. But when the company says, oh, no, no, you cannot sell this this way. Yeah, but I brought you $2 million in three weeks. Oh, no, but you didn't respect the rules. But fuck the rules. You want the money or not, because I can keep it. Oh, no, no, that's not right. We're going to have to fire you. Well, first of all, I'm going to sue you. Then you can fire me. But this is not the way men want to work, by the way. Rules and regulation. You have an objective, so you're going to take it. No wonder you have so much depression in the workplace. We eat stuff that comes from boxes. And that is crap. And it's funny, because people say, oh, did you watch the zombie, the latest zombie flicks? I love movies. And I say, I don't need to watch zombie movies. I can take the bus in the morning. We already are zombies with our phones. And I'm a bit old school for that. So it doesn't work. So this system, I think, is unreformable. And it's not going to change. Forget revolutions. Forget changing the world. It's not going to happen. Look at Black Fridays. If you want to have a, you want to vaccine yourself against humanism and against the beauty of mankind, just humankind, go to a Black Friday. And you see the zombie apocalypse is already here. People are just insane. And it doesn't mean they're bad people. It's just that this is the way we've ended up programming. And Charles Bukowski wrote in one of his books that the world would not end in a nuclear bank. Maybe it will, I don't know. But that was an interesting sentence. And comma, it will end overflowed by a notion of shit. And I found that this was typically Bukowski's interesting prose. And by the way, all of what we do today, we do it on credit. Because we want things now, instead of the proverbial, you work, and then you buy stuff that you need. No, you buy what you want, and you do it on credit. And so people get enslaved by credit. Because debt is something that you have to pay tomorrow, which means you have to work tomorrow. And infinite debt means infinite work in the future, which means slavery. This is why they want you to be indebted. It's a great system. So it's not going to work. And because we're here among great men, think of what men used to be in the generation of my father. So they used to be great men, even on how they look. Today, as we say in French, it's n'importe quoi. I don't know how you translate this in it's nothing. It's strange. Even the alphas, they look like shit today. And as a woman, you can still see them in Poland, and in Czech Republic, and in Romania, and in Russia, and in China, and in Japan. Woman used to be woman. Today, it's like an early 20th century prostitute. It makes no sense. So no wonder people are also failing in their mind, and you have so much depression. Anti-depressants are at the all-time high consumption in the world. 30% of men, 40% of women in America, I believe, in France, it's certainly actually France is the highest in the world, are consuming anti-depressants. Remove the anti-depressants by the way very fast, and you will have an interesting surprise of mental collapse and mental fall down. So the system goes down, I think. The problem is the consequence. Because we are such an intermingled world of just-in-time production and supply chain and delivery that if the system collapses, you start to have more and more of the production and delivery of goods that fall down and stop. And if that happens, you have panic. Like it sometimes happens when you have natural catastrophes. And if the panic grows, then things have to stop. The hospitals, they can't operate independently forever. After one or two weeks, you have no more supplies. Actually, after a few days, you have no more supplies in hospitals, in supermarkets. And then people start to be treated on the streets, in the schools, in the stadiums. And then, eventually, the power stops. And if the power stops, oh, we go in the dark. And we go really in the dark. I'm not saying this will happen. I'm saying the chances of this happen starts to be very, very big. And if we go in the dark, well, then it's somewhere we have not been into since the fall of Rome. So I'm not going to, I don't want to scare you so much. And now it starts to good news, the good part of the presentation, to summarize. But we can study this when other civilizations did collapse. The Mayas, the Vikings, in Greenland, many cases, Rome, the Soviet Union. And we see that, yes, poverty increases when this happens. People suddenly find themselves with nothing. Because a big flat screen TV without electricity or without a society that works, it's meaningless. You have more and more violence, more and more crime. You have gangs who suddenly find themselves in their natural habitat, who take power. And eventually, they will become the new government. That's a longer story. You have militias that set up, like in Yugoslavia. Like everywhere, there is tensions. Eventually, people group in militias, of course. And people move because they want to be with people in areas where they don't get hunted down by the militias or by the gangs. So like in Yugoslavia, like in the partition of India and Pakistan, like every time there's been the creation of Israel, every time you have some major shift in the population, you have people moving, and this is dramatic. It's tragic. And most of the time, they end up in refugee camps. This is very dangerous to be in a refugee camp. And when things are really bad, you can count on one thing to happen. The great exterminator of humanity that has been around and waiting for the last 100 years, but has been always here, always among us, which is illness. And once in a while, when we're weak, when our immune systems are down because of war, because of fatigue, of illness, the illness comes and the virus hits. And then you have, after World War I, 60 million people killed by the Spanish flu. And you have the plagues. And you have all these things are coming back. It will come back if we get into this scenario. So I'm painting a dark scenario here. And once again, think by yourselves. It may not go to this level. But it could. So the question is, as men, we're supposed to think about the future, hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Because if nothing happens, it's like insurance. You don't cry because your insurance on your house hasn't worked because the house didn't burn. You're happy that you have insurance, but you're happy that your house didn't burn down. But just in case, you want to have some money on the side. You want to have some clothes ready to go because if your house burns down, you want to be able to take care of you and your family for wild insurance pays and while you can get into a new house and so on. Well, what if civilization burns down? You want to have something on the side to be ready for be safe and feed yourself and your family and your groups of people that you like and restart eventually. So my idea was this idea of a sustainable autonomous base, which I explain in my books. But the basic thing is whether you live in the countryside, in a suburban house or in the projects, or in a very small, small, non-common place like a boat or I've seen people in caravans and things like that. There's seven things you need to think about to be autonomous. Think about how you get your water. Do you have enough to store it, to filter it? This is where I live. I have fountains. I have many sources of water. But you can filter water. You can store it. You can use it wherever you live. So think about water. First element, very important. Second element is food. You have enough food at home to sustain for yourself and your family for a while. And how long? One week, two weeks, three weeks. Then after a while, you probably need to think about how about you're going to produce your own food. Food of quality and food that is nutritious for you. Not everyone can have a garden, of course. This is my garden. But this is the food I produce. It's super good. It's super tasty. I do small quantities. I'm not 100% self-sufficient. But I learn how to do it. So you can do it on a balcony and learn. It's the skill that matters. You don't need to have your farm necessarily today. But it's something that you learn how to do. Again, some of the food I produce in my house, my farm. And then you can have your animals. So you can increase step by step. And you can hunt or fish. And indeed, you can store some of the food that you need in case you have bad times. Third element is health and hygiene. How can you ensure that you have the best immune system in case of problems, that you are fit as possible? This is my big problem. I love food too much. How you can maintain a level of hygiene that is enough? Not too much, but good enough so that you don't get the silly infections and silly things. Not too much, because you need to get your immune system ready to fulfill. So this is why it's great when kids play on the ground and they get filthy and all that. After that, you clean them. But it's good that they play in the dirt. Have good dental hygiene, of course. Avoid contaminations, if possible. Get feed, you know all that, because this is also part of being a great man. And I think develop your, for a great immune system and a great health, develop also the mind, the spirituality that goes with, in my case, I do meditation a little bit. I don't look like a guy who does meditation, but I do once in a while. And it's really great to focus on being equilibrated, not be angry, not have fear, and so on. And yes, you can have some medication and learn how to treat some of the problems, medical and health problems that you may have. Number four is energy. Produce what you need, but learn to need very little. So I have solar panels in my farm. But in reality, what do you need electricity for? OK, if you want to really please your wife, have the dishwasher running and the washing machine. But that's it. Then you have a little bit of electricity. You don't need a lot of electricity. Today, we are crazy, because we have computers, TV, and you don't need a lot. Maybe the fridge. And at worst, make your own. Make your own energy. Cut your trees. Make your heating. This is a very large topic that I explain very deeply in the books, but at the worst, you have very rudimentary energy that is OK for you. Number five is knowledge, skills, but also what makes our civilization, whatever is yours, by the way, the literature, the music, the stuff that you want to keep with you for the next generation, and what you teach the next generation. As the guy who says often, oh, what kind of world we're living to the next generation? Well, fuck that. What kind of generation are we living the world? Are we raising our kids to be real good men and women? Or are we relying to the states to make them slaves? No, no, no. We have to take care of our children and of the new generations. And learn the skills, the manual skills. You can be a banker. You can be a salesman. But learn how to plumb, how to put electricity. How to make all this yesterday was a great example on that. So yeah, number six is defense. I was hesitating to put this image or this one. Since it's a man's conference, we'll keep this one. Defense is about recognizing that not only do you have the right to defend yourself and your family and your people, it's your duty. Because if you don't, whoever attacks you will attack someone else after you. Whether it's a burglary or a murder or whatever or rape, your job is to stop the fucker. And it's your duty. And your duty is above the laws. So some people say, oh, but we cannot do the laws. Fuck the laws. You defend yourself. I'm not saying that you have to kill people. No, I'm saying you defend yourself and you neutralize the aggression. By any means necessary. But you neutralize the aggression. The law, in fact, agrees with that when you actually look at the law in most countries. Now, some countries are less of a regress like in the UK that you have almost no rights to do. But in most of the countries, you can do a lot of things. Now, can you guess who said this sentence? I do believe that when there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Gandhi, exactly. I'm happy you say that. So countries today like Switzerland, like Israel, like Russia, like China, they still agree with this idea. We don't take any fuck. If they fuck with us, we'll fuck back 100 times bigger. This is how it should be. Gandhi understood that. Smart guy. So you think about where you live. You think about physical defense. You think about the environment, the neighborhood. Again, it's a big chapter in the books. But you learn how to defend physically against people. Protect your zone. Try to understand body language. Understand where you go, where you don't go, how you diffuse the escalation of violence when necessary, and how you accelerate it when necessary. Learn martial arts. I do Sistema and Muay Thai. But you can do a lot of other things. You have Krav Maga, you have so many things. Jiu Jitsu, you have MMA, you have some. And get to learn how to use the most efficient tools that there are, which are guns. Long guns, handguns, whatever. And remember that the state wants you to be disarmed. I think this picture was done here in Poland 70 years ago or more. But the state wants you to be disarmed because who's killing people in history? Is it mass murderers? Is it Ted Bundy? Yeah, they kill a little bit of people. But who kills people is the state. It's the state who commits genocide. Usually, socialists. National socialists, or in this case Mexican socialists, the Soviet socialists, the Vietnamese or the Cuban. I mean, the list is long. About 100 million people killed in the 20th century by the socialist state around the world. And so we need to realize that the armed citizen is the only guarantee against tyranny, the only one. It's not democracy. Democracy is a byproduct of the armed citizen. This is something that very few countries understand, but it's fundamental. So eventually, you have militias. Like in Kurdistan, they had all this shit for the last 10 years. Well, they armed themselves, and they found militias. So eventually, this is what's going to happen. And number seven, very important. This is where it's going to be where the next presentation is going to be mostly about, I believe, is the social link, the social bond between people. Because here's a secret. You're not going to survive alone. For a while, yes. But eventually, you need to survive as a tribe, at least as a family. But you have to group yourself with your neighbors, with your friends. And it will happen over time, but you could prepare that now. And it means that you have to think, like we used to think when there were villages, when people were living in small communities. We're living in cities today. In the city, you have the anonymity. This is why you can do a pickup artistry, right? Because no one will recognize you after that. But do that in a small village. If you're a pickup artist in a small village, the father of the girl will come to you and beat the fuck up. And if you start again, they cut your balls off. Any culture throughout the story of humanity. In the city, this doesn't happen. Because, hey, who cares? You go and you dance. I've seen the, I mean, I've never been one. But I know how it works. And yeah, you can do that in the village. But on the other hand, people stick together against the foreigners, the people from the next village. And but this mentality is something we need to get back, because we have lost it. And that means the bonds of friendship, the having, drink, sharing. And today, what I see great in these conferences is that you have a sense of bond. You have a sense of brotherhood between men. And it's between men. You don't care about women friends. It's irrelevant who cares. But you have friendship between men. And you protect the women. And you get back the ideas of celebrating and realizing the cycles of nature. Because this is the base. This is what keeps you alive. It's understanding the environment that is around. This is what ecology used to be about. It's not about, oh, save the planet. No, no, no, no, it's about understanding that you see it in the spring. You harvest in the summer. You prepare for the winter in autumn. And you rest in the winter. And repeat. Otherwise, you die. This is how the people in at least the northern hemisphere think. And it's very important. And celebrate. The harvest is done. Yeah, we have a big party. And that's where you meet women and so on for the winter. And so on and so on. I'm not saying we have to go back to middle ages. No. But we have to understand that we live in a fragile world where everything is uniform. We need to reinvent complexity and reintegrate complexity. But not complication. Complexity is relationships are complex. The way you live and the way you manage your friendships are complex. You need to embrace that. As Dimitri Olof, a friend and writer, says, you need to collapse often and collapse quickly and soon. You don't wait. You don't wait forever. It doesn't mean that you live in a hut in a cabin in the woods. That's also a mistake. I always say plan A, plan B. Plan A is you have a career. You get the best career, the best man that you can be, the best job, the best money that you can have, the best woman, and so on and so on. But plan B, if shit hits the fan, you have another plan. And the more these two things are harmoniously working together, the better. So simplicity. So in the end, the choice of yours, you can slob on your couch just as woman or anything else in life, jobs and whatever. Or you can be prepared. But it doesn't matter. The idea is that those who will survive are those who will create the world of tomorrow. So I'm not a pessimist. I'm not black-pilled. I'm super happy because whatever happens, the world of tomorrow will be the world that is created by the men who will survive. And my instinct tells me there's not going to be SJWs and feminists and socialists and all that crap in the world of tomorrow. Because by definition, this is what kills the world. What makes a world thrive, it's great men, great women, complementing each other according to your morals. And I'm not a moralist. I'm certainly not someone who says, do this, do that. But this is the harmony that makes the new world. And by definition, this is what's going to happen. The question is, are we going to be part of it? Are you going to be part of it? I hope I will. I hope my children will. And I do everything for that. And that is what I hope the woman around me recognizes me for to be as a positive. It's not easy because we live in a world where they get money anyway by the state. So you have to work hard, and you have to work most importantly for you first. So as we all say, be the best man you can be, also works in this situation. So with that, I thank you very much. And I'll be here now for the next two days to take any questions and have any chat with you. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Piero, we have time for two questions right now. If you guys have questions in the audience, you can raise your hand and come over to him. Any questions? If not, we will go on a break. Richard, there you go. Oh, of course he does the Brit. Fucking brat. Brad Cote. Brad Cote here. So one of the things you were talking about with the political correctness in telling jokes, there's a Slovenian philosopher called Slavoj Žižek. He said in the Yugoslav army, the way for dealing with that for Serbs to serve alongside Croats and Bosnians is you had to tell jokes about your culture. You'd have to say the dirtiest, most foul joke about how awful your culture is in order to move forward. Do you think that's a useful discipline that maybe we should bring back? I think that this is something that, by the way, the British, which have, in my opinion, the best humor in all of the world and the different cultures from Monty Python to have this great self-depreciation humor. I mean, they're not self-depreciation in other things, but in humor, they know how to make fun of themselves, not taking yourself seriously, and it's very important. Jewish humor as well is very, very interesting. I mean, I've heard the most anti-Semitic jokes coming from in the synagogue, not even from Jewish people, but in the synagogue while there was the last one, they were saying to me, according to women, this was three weeks ago, I was going to the bat mitzvah of my niece and the guy was saying, oh, you know, I'm divorcing and all that, but my wife wasn't Jewish, but, you know, and he was saying, you know, any woman that divorces becomes automatically Jewish, okay, why? Because it's never her fault and she never apologizes. So this is untellable as a joke if I wasn't saying it to me, but the guy, you know, so, but what does it mean? It means he recognizes some of the flaws of his culture and he's joking about it, so he's basically saying, you know, I don't take that as too serious, so it's okay. In Africa, I can tell you, I've heard the most unrepeatable jokes between themselves and I was like, even in the 90s, I was saying I could not repeat those, but it's okay and then you, because, you know, one of my, let's say, brother-in-arms is an African pan-African nationalist. He wants Africa to be African and with Africans and he doesn't want Africans to go to Europe, he wants them to develop the countries where they are from, where they're born and he says the most vile jokes about the intelligence and the penis size and, but because of that humility, that showing, you know, you show your vulnerability, well, between men, because if this woman doesn't work, you know, it's a hand that is given to you when you shake that hand and you say, well, you know, it doesn't matter because we also do, you know, in Italian we pass time and in Switzerland, we're like obsessed with money and saving and order and I am like that, and in the end, we're human, we're brothers, we are different, yes, we have different and we respect the differences as to be who they are and yes, we are different and it's great because this is how you learn. I've learned lots of stuff from Africans, I hope they've learned lots of stuff from me, but I've learned some amazing stuff, some I don't use, some I do use, so everyone can teach everyone if you have, well, almost, but if you learn and if you have this openness, but it doesn't mean you are open completely, you share, but there's a limit, you know, you don't give your daughters to be fucked like that, all right, hold on a second, you need to show your quality as well, but maybe going off track, but it's very important, I believe, at least it's my culture from the 70s and 80s. I know that for young people who are in the room today who are born in the 2000s, this is not usual, this is weird, this is a strange culture coming from America where you heard my feelings, you cannot say anything, fuck the feelings. But I understand that young people, they don't have the fuck you money and the self confidence that I have or my generation have, maybe. I understand that it's hard for them and say, well, if I say a joke like that at work, I lose the job and I say, well, fuck the job. If you lose the job because of that, it's not worth it, but then I have to remember, yeah, I'm 47, I made a lot of money, okay, that's why I say that, but the young guy at 23, he can't, I understand, but it's fucked up world. That's all it's time we have, give it up. Thank you, sir. Thank you.