“The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world .” - Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Note: I didn’t intend for this to be so long, and I’m truly embarrassed that I spent so much time analyzing such nonsense, but alas, here we are…
Today, I will take my writer’s privilege to address a rather uncomfortable reality, and that is that there are many members of ‘the elite’ who revel in moments of crisis in order to reshape the way in which the world works. As the infamous Rahm Emmanuel of Chicago once said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” It seems that 2020 has conditioned most people — let’s call them the sheeple — to view our Covid world as a net positive. Before immediately thinking of 2020 allowing for people to explore their creativity, to find more time for their hobbies, and perhaps to ‘reduce our carbon footprint,’ let’s actually focus on the real meat of the story: the struggle for power.
Throughout history, we have seen evidence of every government seeking power for itself; it seeks such power by controlling the people within the confines of the property — the land — which it has seized for itself. It builds up propaganda and a narrative of nationalism, unity, ‘economy,’ and patriotic duty in order to really cement the idea that its land is “the people’s land” and that “we are all in this together.” In response, as the Brits like to say, “what a load of bollocks.” All the while, there are the hacks, the shills, and the Deep State apologists, who play their ‘useful idiot’ roles. Fortunately, 2020 has further exposed the size — and scope — of this group. Think Christine Lagarde, George Soros, the Clintons, Bill Gates, and all the people you can think of that push this agenda of global government. They tend to be the ones that are praised in ‘polite society.’ According to Tom Woods’ ‘index card of allowable opinion,’ these people are doing the Lord’s work. Bollocks.
This year, a lesser known name from the group, at least to me, has appeared: Klaus Schwab, the founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum (organization that puts on the well-known, if not infamous, Davos in Switzerland).
For years, this ‘gentleman’ has been pushing forward an agenda pertaining to what he has coined, “The Great Reset.” As far back as 2014, Schwab at Davos said, “What we want to do in Davos this year in this respect is to push the reset button.” He is purposefully ambiguous when it comes to specifics when he is interviewed, but there is a clear strategy and agenda present in what the World Economic Forum (WEF) calls “The 4 building blocks of the Great Reset”: Mindset, Metrics, Incentives, and Connection.
Mindset: Though there is much misdirection and statements full of platitudes, the implication is clear. Reference is made to both Thomas Piketty (a French “economist” known for proposing a progressive global wealth tax) and Rutger Bregman (a Dutch author who is a proponent of Universal Basic Income as well as a 15-hour workweek) as people we can turn to for ideas. Okay.
Metrics: admission that GDP is not the data elixir it is espoused to be. Obviously the WEF would never refer to Mark Skousen’s Gross Output, since the focus of Skousen’s metric is on providing economic insight, as opposed to pushing forward a more sinister agenda. No, instead they make a mention of alternatives already available, and they even include a link! What are these alternatives? Among others: “Gross National Happiness,” “Happy Planet Index,” and “Green Gross Domestic Product.” These sound like metrics proposed by the likes of AOC. As Skousen would say, “You blew it!”
Incentives: Literally no substance here other than to say we need to change business incentives. They essentially argue that shareholder value doesn’t suffice. I’m guessing taxes on oil and coal are in order, as well as perhaps grants and subsidies to the super power generating sources of energy, like wind and solar!
Connection: A strange final point. A good one, but of course the WEF muddles its point and pushes forward its agenda in a clear manner. It includes this sentence at the end: “Finding ways for technologies to harmonize, not polarize, and for us all to make deeper, more meaningful connections with each other and with the natural world will reduce the distance that allows us to see our fellow human as we truly are: not ‘other’, but just like us.” On its own, this sentence is just fine. But it is preceded by calls for the elimination of anonymity and to bring ultimate boogie man — climate change — into the fore.
You can summarize Schwab’s views in the same way you can summarize any of these Deep State, Bilderberg-type personalities. Once you understand how they think, their statements and their actions become quite predictable.
Schwab on the Covid response:
“There was also strong cooperation between governments and business, to secure the funds needed for vaccine development and distribution… Looking forward, such virtuous instincts can become a feature of our economic systems rather than a rare exception.” - Klaus Schwab, Time Magazine, 10/22/2020
Pardon me for asking, but are you kidding me? For a world suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, how are people not screaming at the top of their lungs when the founder of the World Economic Forum is suggesting that not only is FASCISM a feature we’ve seen much of in 2020, but that it is here to stay. He even refers to the 2020 reaction to Covid as “virtuous instincts.” As Benito Mussolini, perhaps world history’s most well known fascist, once said, “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
As Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute stated at a lecture at the Mises Institute:
“Most people now think of fascism as involving goose-stepping troops and death camps and dictators in funny hats, things like that. But corporatism, the economic program of fascism, actually had a much longer life than the death camps and the dictators in funny hats, at least in Europe. Elements of it have shown up in many different parts of the world, and continue to show up and even to thrive and oddly enough, in the United States, what I call quasi-corporatism has thrived and continues to thrive.” - Robert Higgs, Mises Institute, 10/11/2005
There is far too much content to include in one post, but for further reading about the questionable events leading up to The Great Reset, below are some very interesting, quite shocking links:
Event 201 - A Global Pandemic Exercise: October 2019 event hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
“Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development: Lock Step”, pg. 18: May 2010 report produced by The Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network
So what’s the point? The point is, as usual, if the majority is on one side of an issue — particularly if they form their opinions based off of what Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, or Chris Cuomo tells them — you should probably explore the merits of the other side of the issue. And then double down.
Regards,
John