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I am your host and intellectual BFF Jimmy Jirga. Welcome to my YouTube channel. In the last episode, we took a detailed look at the history of China during mediaeval times and the role it played in the development and marketing of financial products aimed at niche markets in sub-Saharan Africa.

In today’s episode, I will take a broader view of history, geography and cultural anthropology, and share with you the many truths that mainstream academia, through its academic touts, has kept hidden from us all these years.

But before I do that, please don’t forget to like and subscribe. Thanks!

Jimmy Jirga’s YouTube channel reminds us of an English knight who was the first to acknowledge the Republic’s potential to be a Trumpian dream

Did you know that in 1182 CE, an English knight in the court of King Henry 1/3rd was appointed the first ambassador to the Sultanate of Cliftonia? The ambassador spent two precious decades of his worthless life travelling throughout the sultanate and wrote one of the finest expositions on the history, geography and cultural anthropology (much like today’s episode) of the region, without ever having been asked to do so by anyone. That is how bored he was.

As a former banker trained in the art of merging and acquisitioning and, therefore, obviously a student of history, I was deeply intrigued by what he found. Did you know that one of the first things he noticed upon his arrival in the fabled city of Aitchisonia was that no resident there paid their due taxes. All Cliftonians were above and beyond the law. As a practising capitalist, this warmed me no end. Not only did my heart skip a beat but my fallopians also expanded as I read the following:

“Cliftonia is a land of entitlement like no other. Here, all are above and beyond the law. No one pays any kind of tax for the lifestyles they sport. It is a Trumpian dream and a Marxian nightmare… a system that is just looking like a wow!”

His book, titled A Land Beyond Sense And Sensibility: A Look At How Parasites Live And Breed, became an overnight sensation, selling like hotcakes in bakeries across the republic. In the commercial metropolis of Grammaria, queues of excited capitalists lined up for miles in front of all manner of bakeries.

Organised by Harry Potter and his Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the marketing campaign for the books was an instant success. Cliftonian diasporas across the world also ordered their copies via courier services which used specially trained vultures to deliver the books.

  Illustration by Sarah Durrani
Illustration by Sarah Durrani

But why did this book, one wonders, become the success that it did? And how come it is not taught in any of the Western universities that we so proudly send our children to?

Before I answer your question, please be sure to like and subscribe! Because your liking and subscribing helps pay my son’s ridiculously exorbitant tuition at Pepperdine University. Thank you!

So, to answer my own question, this wonderful piece of historical fiction is not only ignored in universities in the West but also kept out of the hands of eager little entrepreneurs in Cliftonian institutions of higher learning because of what it represents. As a finance expert, it pains me to say that, even in history departments at universities set up by outstanding Aitchisonian captains of industry and exceptional Grammarian robber barons, no effort has been made to outsource research that can bring such gems into mainstream education.

This book lists how Cliftonian governance, from the very beginning, focused on the maxim “from each according to his inability, to each according to his want”, and thus laid out a path that would decide that land’s ethos for generations to come.

To quote: “Accountants, doctors, dentists, lawyers, and (visual, performing, lens-based, text-based) artists… all professions that insist on describing their work as practice, have become experts on politics, history and theology, as well as on the judiciary and the bureaucracy. They are joined in this great revelation by an exceptionally well-deodorised breed of financial experts, who strongly believe that every political problem is nothing but a management problem at its core.

“And that a good manager, with an iron fist and a rubber glove, can take any institution — be it a school, university, corn flakes factory, news circulation outfit, department of agriculture, high court, supreme court, squash court, or the parliament — and turn it around within 90 days and end not just corruption but also any understanding of ground realities.”

The world, nay the universe, can take so much from these words of truth and wisdom! But how do we help you spread this message across the world, dear YouTube mentor, influencer and viral sensation, you might be dying to ask.

Well, before I answer that query and quench your thirst for real knowledge, please don’t forget to like and subscribe to your favourite channel!

Farid Alvie was born. He currently lives.

He’s on Instagram @faridalvie

Published in Dawn, EOS, October 4th, 2026

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