Modern life is not chaotic — it is engineered. In this lecture, Professor Jiang explains how anxiety became the operating system of contemporary society. Far from being a personal failing or a cultural coincidence, anxiety functions as a deliberate technology of control: a way to discipline populations, extract productivity, and stabilise an economic order that no longer needs our labour, only our attention. From debt and inequality to the collapse of community and the rise of transnational elites, this talk reveals how the architecture of global capital uses insecurity as its most reliable fuel. Anxiety keeps individuals compliant, exhausted, and competing with one another — while power concentrates above the level of nations, hidden in networks that resemble modern “secret societies.” This video explores the deeper logic behind a world that feels increasingly unstable: why we are richer than ever yet more anxious than any civilisation in history, why fear has become a political resource, and why the system depends on keeping people one step away from collapse. 🎓 Lecturer: Professor Jiang 📅 Recorded: 2025 📖 Full Lecture: ⚖️ Educational & Copyright Disclaimer This video is for educational and informational purposes only. It contains excerpts from a publicly available lecture, edited and transformed to highlight key ideas. All rights to the original lecture remain with the original creator. Lecture Hall credits all sources and exists to make academic knowledge more accessible to a wider audience. #Capital #Anxiety #Power #Philosophy #LectureHall #PredictiveHistory