{"id":232741,"date":"2021-04-26T08:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T08:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=232741"},"modified":"2021-04-28T07:36:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T07:36:43","slug":"the-great-reset-and-klaus-schwab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=232741","title":{"rendered":"The Great Reset and Klaus Schwab"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Solway \u2013 American Thinker Dec 5, 2020
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Klaus Schwab, the chief proponent of a global project called the \u201cGreat Reset<\/a>,\u201d may be the most influential \u201cintellectual\u201d in the world today. A former member of the UN Advisory Board on Sustainable Development, he is the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) that meets annually in the Swiss resort town of Davos.\u00a0Business Insider<\/em><\/a>\u00a0explains, \u201cEach year, business leaders and heads of state give lectures and speak on panels about topics ranging from gender equality and venture capital to mental health and climate change.\u201d\u00a0And as the WEF\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0states, \u201cThe non-profit organization\u2019s aim is to engage the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cGreat Reset,\u201d a term coined in a\u00a02011 book<\/a>\u00a0by economist\u00a0Richard Florida and wholeheartedly adopted by Schwab in the context of the United Nation\u2019s\u00a0Agenda 2030<\/a>\u00a0for sustainable development,\u00a0proposes to determine\u00a0\u201cthe future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of the global commons.\u201d It\u00a0presents itself as a humane and compassionate means to inaugurate a beneficial root-and-branch transformation of the social, economic and political structure of the world\u2019s \u201coperating systems\u201d: capitalism, the free market and democracy.<\/p>\n

Practical capitalism is to be supplanted by what Schwab calls \u201cstakeholder capitalism\u201d in which the private sector is tightly controlled by government (otherwise known as \u201cfascism\u201d). The free market is considered unfair and skewed to the advantage of a piratical business class exploiting the world\u2019s poor and hungry. Democracy is regarded as an inefficient political arrangement relying on the incapacity of the\u00a0demos<\/em>\u00a0to understand its own best interests or to command the intricacy of integrated governing structures and processes.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Great Reset will remake the world \u2014 in Schwab\u2019s words, \u201cto create a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable world going forward,\u201d all the platitudes neatly packed into one sentence. Private property deforms the natural relations between human beings and must be abolished. Private transportation will not be allowed. \u201cContrary content\u201d in the printing or production of materials will not be permitted, at the cost of access to social media and Internet domains. Fossil fuels will be replaced wholesale by Green technologies. Home gardens will be outlawed. The Christian faith will be gradually suppressed (as is happening today). Vaccines will become mandatory.<\/p>\n

Society will become \u201ccashless\u201d and all standard monetary transactions replaced by digital currency and governed by electronic means, which can be cancelled by reigning authority at the slightest provocation. Debts will be forgiven and creditors will face the prospect of bankruptcy. The middle class and small entrepreneurs will be wiped out. Commerce will become progressively \u201ccontact-less.\u201d<\/p>\n

The United States must be neutralized via social isolation, lockdown-induced poverty, and facemask conformity and passivity. Constant surveillance will be employed to ensure compliance. The human being will be \u201cenhanced\u201d through biosecurity, synthetic biology, implantable microchips, cortical modems, nanobots, genetic editing and designer babies. Everyone will be equal, everyone will be secure from the ravages of competition, risk and chance, and\u00a0everyone will be happy<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 as they are today in the political template for the Great Reset, Communist China and its\u00a0fascist business model<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So here we are. Schwab is a canny manipulator and knows how to turn a perceived catastrophe to his advantage, in\u00a0his own words<\/a>\u00a0\u201cto break glass in case of an emergency.\u201d He has understood that the most effective enabler of the Great Reset has been the pandemic panic unleashed by COVID-19, which has taken the planet by storm, reduced entire populations to abject terror, led to massive lockdowns and personality disfigurement brought about by mandatory masks, and promoted the reign of political despots, ignorant leaders, hired-gun health officials and left-wing organizations like the W.H.O.,\u00a0The Lancet<\/em>, and innumerable others. As Prince Philip, a WEF member,\u00a0mused<\/a>, \u201cWe have a golden opportunity to seize something good from the crisis,\u201d which may \u201cmake people more receptive to big visions of change\u201d and reset the global economy toward \u201csustainability\u201d \u2014 the buzzword\u00a0du jour<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Indeed, COVID is a more powerful persuader even than \u201cclimate change<\/a>,\u201d since virus panic works immediately but climate panic \u201ccan only follow with a time lag.\u201d Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a committed Marxist and an\u00a0admirer<\/a>\u00a0of Schwab, is also on board.\u00a0Addressing<\/a>\u00a0the United Nations, Trudeau asserted that\u00a0\u201cThis pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to re-imagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Rex Murphy writes in the\u00a0National Post<\/em><\/a>, \u201cthe word that should trouble us most in all of this is \u2018imagine\u2019\u2026. \u00a0Is it really a good idea to place economies under the servitude of amateur imaginations? You cannot dream an economy (although it is very possible\u2026 to kill the one we already have).\u201d Trudeau, with no genuine university education to speak of and the beneficiary of a large family trust fund, is adept at bafflegab and empty abstractions. His mullings originate in\u00a0The Communist Manifesto<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and John Lennon\u2019s treacly \u201cImagine<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even the Pope is a passionate believer in the Great Reset, though knowing Francis\u2019s affiliation with\u00a0Liberation Theology<\/a>, this comes as no surprise. As the Pope\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in a recent interview,\u00a0\u201cWe need change. The pandemic brought our organizational and developmental models into a crisis; it exposed many injustices, the troubling silence and social and health failures, subjecting a great number of our brothers to the processes of social exclusion and degradation.\u201d Typical fare.\u00a0One recalls\u00a0the Pope\u2019s 2014\u00a0message<\/a>\u00a0to Schwab urging \u201can openness to the transcendent\u201d from which \u201ca new political and business mentality can take shape, one capable of guiding all economic and financial activity within the horizon of an ethical approach which is truly humane\u2026 I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth and not ruled by it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, attendees of the Davos conference number among the wealthiest people on the planet, including Bill Gates, George Soros, Prince William, Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan Chase CEO),\u00a0Jack Ma<\/a>\u00a0and many others, who fly in by private jet and have no problem with membership fees ranging up to $620,000 per year and chalets that go for up to $140,000 per week.\u00a0These great benefactors of suffering humanity received the Pope\u2019s \u201cdivine\u00a0blessings on you and the participants of the Forum, as well as on your families and all your work.\u201d That\u2019s a pretty good gig, if you can get it.<\/p>\n

The topic for the 2021 Davos conference, which has been postponed from January to the summer, is, naturally, the \u201cGreat Reset\u201d and the expedient arrival of the pandemic. So COVID it is. In his July 2020 book\u00a0COVID-19: The Great Reset<\/em><\/a>, co-authored with\u00a0Thierry Malleret<\/a>, Schwab regards the virus as a providential pretext to remake the world\u00a0and unleash a \u201cfourth industrial revolution<\/a>\u201d that, as we have observed, will eliminate private property, restrict travel and establish a surveillance state in which everyone is chipped and monitored. The authors admit that COVID-19 is not \u201can existential threat\u201d and that it is \u201cone of the least deadly pandemics the world has experienced in the last 2000 years<\/em>,\u201d but surreptitiously convert it into a pretext for unprecedented social and economic change. The lockdowns are a way of softening up the population to accept a global techno-fascist revolution presided over by a club of billionaires, their political adjutants and chosen \u201cexperts,\u201d and UN mandarins. Schwab\u2019s books make this clear.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, Schwab takes to task \u201csome rich countries endowed with sophisticated health systems and strong assets in research\u201d that will be perceived to have failed their citizens. He targets their \u201csocial fabric and socio-economic system\u201d as the \u201creal\u201d culprit guilty of \u201cfailing to guarantee economic and social welfare for the majority of citizens.\u201d This is true, but not in the way Schwab intends, for it is precisely the draconian measures these countries have imposed that have ruined their economies, helped to unravel the social fabric, and caused needless suffering and unnecessary deaths.<\/p>\n

Klaus Schwab is a dangerous man. One must admit he deploys the technocratic jargon and terminology \u2014 what I call the \u201cgerminology\u201d \u2014 to perfection, and can be quite convincing. But that does not make him right. It makes him sinister and portentous.<\/p>\n

Looked at from an anamorphic perspective, as has often been\u00a0noted<\/a>, Schwab bears a certain\u00a0resemblance<\/a>\u00a0to Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the arch-villain in the James Bond movies who is the founder of the criminal organization SPECTRE. (As Dr. Evil in the\u00a0Austin Powers<\/em><\/a>\u00a0parody, the resemblance persists.) \u201cThe firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army,\u201d Blofeld boasts in\u00a0You Only Live Twice<\/em><\/a>, \u201cYou can watch it all on TV. It\u2019s the last program you\u2019re likely to see.\u201d Transpose to Schwab and there may be a bathetic truth to his gasconade. Anyone who has seen the film\u00a0X-Men: Apocalypse<\/em><\/a>\u00a0will have met another of Schwab\u2019s doppelg\u00e4ngers, the grisly revenant En Sabah Nur, who is about to bring destruction on the earth. \u201cEverything they built will fall,\u201d the ghoul exclaims. \u201cAnd from the ashes of their world, we\u2019ll build a better one\u201d \u2014 the filmic source of the lying slogan adopted by some of our politicians, \u201cBuild Back Better.\u201d Others see hints of\u00a0Star Wars.<\/em><\/p>\n

In any case, one must be prepared for what is impending. It\u2019s not a joke and it\u2019s not an unanchored fantasy. It is happening as we speak. The time has come to implement the Great Reject before we experience the Great Regret. It makes sense to consult the tainted oracle and I would suggest looking into one or two of his books, whether the aforementioned\u00a0COVID-19: The Great Reset<\/em>, the earlier\u00a0The Fourth Industrial Revolution<\/em><\/a>, or the most recent\u00a0The Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/em><\/a>. For all his rhetorical sleight of hand, polished demeanor and public acclaim, Klaus Schwab is nonetheless a wannabe nabob and a rather ridiculous little man, but as we know from history, preposterous people can sway multitudes and cause unprecedented havoc and suffering. They may be the object of justified ridicule, but they must also be taken seriously. Klaus Schwab is no exception.<\/p>\n

David Solway\u2019s most recent book is\u00a0<\/strong>Notes from a Derelict Culture<\/strong><\/em>, BlackHouse Publishing, London, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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