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CELEBRATING 24 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Top stories of 2022<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong>
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by<\/em><\/span> WorldTribune<\/strong> Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span>, January 12, 2022<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The idea of a \u201cGreat Reset\u201d can be traced back to 1971, when Klaus Schwab founded the European Management Forum, now known as the World Economic Forum (WEF).<\/p>\n

Last year, Schwab and Thierry Malleret, co-founder and main author of the Monthly Barometer, published a book called \u201cCOVID-19: The Great Reset\u201d. In the book, they define the Great Reset as a means of addressing the \u201cweaknesses of capitalism\u201d that were purportedly exposed by the Covid pandemic, Michael Rectenwald, Chief Academic Officer of American Scholars, said in a speech published last month<\/a> by Hillsdale College\u2019s Imprimis.<\/p>\n

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Klaus Schwab \/ Video Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thus, far from being a conspiracy theory, \u201cThe Great Reset is real,\u201d according to Rectenwald.<\/p>\n

That said, conspiracy theories about the \u201cReset\u201d abound including the widely-held assumption that it was to have begun with the election of Hillary Clinton as president in 2016.<\/p>\n

Related<\/span> \u2014 Davos club: Klaus Schwab introduces Xi Jinping at \u2018Reset\u2019 forum starring Fauci<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, January 18, 2022<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Schwab had argued in a 1971 book \u201cthat the management of a modern enterprise must serve not only shareholders but all stakeholders to achieve long-term growth and prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll stakeholders\u201d could mean the entire human race or it could refer to those deemed worthy, i.e., the elite members of what comedian George Carlin referred to as the  \u201cClub.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an often-quoted monologue, Carlin referred to a rigged system: \u201cIt\u2019s a big club and you ain\u2019t in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schwab and the WEF \u2014 an organization made up of the world\u2019s political, economic, and cultural elites that meets annually in Davos, Switzerland \u2014 \u201chave promoted the idea of stakeholder capitalism ever since. They can take credit for the stakeholder and public-private partnership rhetoric and policies embraced by governments, corporations, non-governmental organizations, and international governance bodies worldwide,\u201d Rectenwald said.<\/p>\n

Related<\/span>: Does Klaus Schwab have a mole in the post-2016 GOP?<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, April 7, 2022<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Rectenwald, the author of numerous books, has taught at New York University, Duke University, North Carolina Central University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Case Western Reserve University.<\/p>\n

The following is adapted from his talk delivered at Hillsdale College on Nov. 7, 2021, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on \u201cThe Great Reset\u201d:<\/em><\/p>\n

The specific phrase \u201cGreat Reset\u201d came into general circulation over a decade ago, with the publication of a 2010 book, The Great Reset, by American urban studies scholar Richard Florida. Written in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Florida\u2019s book argued that the 2008 economic crash was the latest in a series of Great Resets \u2014 including the Long Depression of the 1870s and the Great Depression of the 1930s \u2014 which he defined as periods of paradigm-shifting systemic innovation.<\/p>\n

Four years after Florida\u2019s book was published, at the 2014 annual meeting of the WEF, Schwab declared: \u201cWhat we want to do in Davos this year . . . is to push the reset button\u201d \u2014 and subsequently the image of a reset button would appear on the WEF\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

In 2018 and 2019, the WEF organized two events that became the primary inspiration for the current Great Reset project \u2026<\/p>\n

In May 2018, the WEF collaborated with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security to conduct \u201cCLADE X,\u201d a simulation of a national pandemic response. Specifically, the exercise simulated the outbreak of a novel strain of a human parainfluenza virus, with genetic elements of the Nipah virus, called CLADE X. The simulation ended with a news report stating that in the face of CLADE X, without effective vaccines, \u201cexperts tell us that we could eventually see 30 to 40 million deaths in the U.S. and more than 900 million around the world\u2014twelve percent of the global population.\u201d Clearly, preparation for a global pandemic was in order.<\/p>\n

In October 2019, the WEF collaborated with Johns Hopkins and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on another pandemic exercise, \u201cEvent 201,\u201d which simulated an international response to the outbreak of a novel coronavirus. This was two months before the COVID outbreak in China became news and five months before the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic, and it closely resembled the future COVID scenario, including incorporating the idea of asymptomatic spread.<\/p>\n

The CLADE X and Event 201 simulations anticipated almost every eventuality of the actual COVID crisis, most notably the responses by governments, health agencies, the media, tech companies, and elements of the public. The responses and their effects included worldwide lockdowns, the collapse of businesses and industries, the adoption of biometric surveillance technologies, an emphasis on social media censorship to combat \u201cmisinformation,\u201d the flooding of social and legacy media with \u201cauthoritative sources,\u201d widespread riots, and mass unemployment.<\/p>\n

In addition to being promoted as a response to COVID, the Great Reset is promoted as a response to climate change. In 2017, the WEF published a paper entitled, \u201cWe Need to Reset the Global Operating System to Achieve the [United Nations Sustainable Development Goals].\u201d On June 13, 2019, the WEF signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations to form a partnership to advance the \u201cUN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.\u201d Shortly after that, the WEF published the \u201cUnited Nations-World Economic Forum Strategic Partnership Framework for the 2030 Agenda,\u201d promising to help finance the UN\u2019s climate change agenda and committing the WEF to help the UN \u201cmeet the needs of the Fourth Industrial Revolution,\u201d including providing assets and expertise for \u201cdigital governance.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June 2020, at its 50th annual meeting, the WEF announced the Great Reset\u2019s official launch, and a month later Schwab and Malleret published their book on COVID and the Great Reset. The book declared that COVID represents an \u201copportunity [that] can be seized\u201d; that \u201cwe should take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to reimagine our world\u201d; that \u201cthe moment must be seized to take advantage of this unique window of opportunity\u201d; and that \u201c[f]or those fortunate enough to find themselves in industries \u2018naturally\u2019 resilient to the pandemic\u201d\u2014think here of Big Tech companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon\u2014\u201cthe crisis was not only more bearable, but even a source of profitable opportunities at a time of distress for the majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Great Reset aims to usher in a bewildering economic amalgam\u2014Schwab\u2019s stakeholder capitalism\u2014which I have called \u201ccorporate socialism\u201d and Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has called \u201ccommunist capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

In brief, stakeholder capitalism involves the behavioral modification of corporations to benefit not shareholders, but stakeholders\u2014individuals and groups that stand to benefit or lose from corporate behavior. Stakeholder capitalism requires not only corporate responses to pandemics and ecological issues such as climate change, \u201cbut also rethinking [corporations\u2019] commitments to already-vulnerable communities within their ecosystems.\u201d This is the \u201csocial justice\u201d aspect of the Great Reset. To comply with that, governments, banks, and asset managers use the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) index to squeeze non-woke corporations and businesses out of the market. The ESG index is essentially a social credit score that is used to drive ownership and control of production away from the non-woke or non-compliant.<\/p>\n

Another way of describing the goal of the Great Reset is \u201ccapitalism with Chinese characteristics\u201d\u2014a two-tiered economy, with profitable monopolies and the state on top and socialism for the majority below.<\/p>\n

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Several decades ago, as China\u2019s growing reliance on the for-profit sectors of its economy could no longer be credibly denied by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), its leadership approved the slogan \u201csocialism with Chinese characteristics\u201d to describe its economic system. Formulated by Deng Xiaoping, the phrase was meant to rationalize the CCP\u2019s allowance of for-profit development under a socialist political system. The CCP considered the privatization of the Chinese economy to be a temporary phase\u2014lasting as long as 100 years if necessary\u2014on the way to a communist society. Party leaders maintain that this approach has been necessary in China because socialism was introduced too early there, when China was a backward agrarian country. China needed a capitalist booster shot.<\/p>\n

Stripped of its socialist ideological pretensions, the Chinese system amounts to a socialist or communist state increasingly funded by capitalist economic development. The difference between the former Soviet Union and contemporary China is that when it became obvious that a socialist economy had failed, the former gave up its socialist economic pretenses, while the latter has not.<\/p>\n

The Great Reset represents the development of the Chinese system in the West, but in reverse. Whereas the Chinese political class began with a socialist political system and then introduced privately held for-profit production, the West began with capitalism and is now implementing a Chinese-style political system. This Chinese-style system includes vastly increased state intervention in the economy, on the one hand, and on the other, the kind of authoritarian measures that the Chinese government uses to control its population.<\/p>\n

Schwab and Malleret write that if \u201cthe past five centuries in Europe and America\u201d have taught us anything, it is that \u201cacute crises contribute to boosting the power of the state. It\u2019s always been the case and there is no reason it should be different with the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

As if the economic and governmental resets were not dramatic enough, the technological reset reads like a dystopian science fiction novel. It is based on the Fourth Industrial Revolution\u2014or 4-IR for short. The first, second, and third industrial revolutions were the mechanical, electrical, and digital revolutions. The 4-IR marks the convergence of existing and emerging fields, including Big Data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum computing, genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. The foreseen result will be the merging of the physical, digital, and biological worlds, which presents a challenge to the ontologies by which we understand ourselves and the world, including the definition of a human being.<\/p>\n

There is nothing original about this. Transhumanists and Singularitarians (prophets of technological singularity) such as Ray Kurzweil forecasted these and other revolutionary developments long ago. What\u2019s different about the globalists\u2019 vision of 4-IR is the attempt to harness it to the ends of the Great Reset.<\/p>\n

If already existing 4-IR developments are any indication of the future, then the claim that it will contribute to human happiness is false. These developments include Internet algorithms that feed users prescribed news and advertisements and downrank or exclude banned content; algorithms that censor social media content and consign \u201cdangerous\u201d individuals and organizations to digital gulags; \u201ckeyword warrants\u201d based on search engine inputs; apps that track and trace COVID violations and report offenders to the police; robot police with scanners to identify and round up the unvaccinated and other dissidents; and smart cities where residents are digital entities to be monitored, surveilled, and recorded, and where data on their every move is collected, collated, stored, and attached to a digital identity and a social credit score.<\/p>\n

In short, 4-IR technologies subject human beings to a kind of technological management that makes surveillance by the NSA look like child\u2019s play. Schwab goes so far as to cheer developments that aim to connect human brains directly to the cloud for the sake of \u201cdata mining\u201d our thoughts and memories. If successful, this would constitute a technological mastery over decision-making that would threaten human autonomy and undermine free will.<\/p>\n

In terms of the social order, the Great Reset promises inclusion in a shared destiny. But the subordination of so-called \u201cnetizens\u201d implies economic and political disenfranchisement, a hyper-vigilance over self and others, and social isolation\u2014or what Hannah Arendt called \u201corganized loneliness\u201d\u2014on a global scale. This organized loneliness is already manifest in lockdowns, masking, social distancing, and the social exclusion of the unvaccinated. The title of the Ad Council\u2019s March 2020 public service announcement\u2014\u201cAlone Together\u201d\u2014perfectly captures this sense of organized loneliness.<\/p>\n

In my recent book, Google Archipelago, I argued that leftist authoritarianism is the political ideology and modus operandi of what I call Big Digital, which is on the leading edge of a nascent world system. Big Digital is the communications, ideological, and technological arm of an emerging corporate-socialist totalitarianism. The Great Reset is the name that has since been given to the project of establishing this world system.<\/p>\n

Just as Schwab and the WEF predicted, the COVID crisis has accelerated the Great Reset. Monopolistic corporations have consolidated their grip on the economy from above, while socialism continues to advance for the rest of us below. In partnership with Big Digital, Big Pharma, the mainstream media, national and international health agencies, and compliant populations, hitherto democratic Western states\u2014think especially of Australia, New Zealand, and Austria\u2014are being transformed into totalitarian regimes modeled after China.<\/p>\n

But let me end on a note of hope. Because the goals of the Great Reset depend on the obliteration not only of free markets, but of individual liberty and free will, it is, perhaps ironically, unsustainable. Like earlier attempts at totalitarianism, the Great Reset is doomed to ultimate failure. That doesn\u2019t mean, however, that it won\u2019t, again like those earlier attempts, leave a lot of destruction in its wake\u00ad\u2014which is all the more reason to oppose it now and with all our might.<\/p>\n

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