Posted on 01/16/2023 8:30:47 AM PST by Robert DeLong
(NOTE: This series originally appeared in The Daily Wire.)
When I began researching this series for The Daily Wire a couple of months ago, I scarcely knew the depth of the rabbit hole into which I would descend. What started as a straightforward article about the octogenarian German engineer Klaus Schwab and his brainchild, the World Economic Forum, an organization he has chaired since its founding in 1971, soon took on increasingly complicated dimensions involving academic papers on world governance and population control, UN reports on poverty, discussions of data and transhumanism, numerous conspiracy theories, world leaders, billionaires, obscure think tanks, and gargantuan ideas with egos to match them.
Where to begin?
Oscar Wilde once said that a map without Utopia on it wasn’t worth consulting.
Utopia, it was long assumed, lay in the distant past. The Hebrews called it Eden. A garden of innocence and spiritual perfection until man spoiled it. The Greeks, too, looked backward. With a kind of law of entropy at work in history, Plato and centuries of successors believed that the further one went back in time, the more perfect things became until one reached a Golden Age at the dawn of civilization. He spoke of a city called Atlantis. Some, taking his allegory seriously, tried to find it, having no more success than Pizarro in his vain and bloody search for El Dorado.
But it was with the Renaissance and Thomas More, who gave us the word Utopia—of Greek construction, it means “no place”—that a seismic shift occurred. No longer was the perfect state a prehistoric city (or cities as More conceived it) representing the highwater mark of a lost civilization, but it was very much in the present—and in the future. Henceforth, “Utopians” possessed by the idea of eternal progress and the perfectibility of human society if not humans individually, would seek to build it.
There arose in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment a spate of utopian visions for the betterment of man. And, then, with the human degradation of the Industrial Revolution, came the greatest—in body count—utopian vision of all: Marxism. Promising to sweep away injustice, hunger, poverty, and suffering, “scientific socialism” gathered up adherents, especially the young, who, in the post-The Origin of Species (1859) world, were looking for a new religion to replace the old one.
Victorian novelist and critic Samuel Butler, who saw better than most the logical flaws in Charles Darwin’s epoch-defining work, also saw the inherent dangers of megalomaniacs and their undeliverable promises of paradise. In his anti-utopian novel Erewhon (1872)—an anagram of “nowhere,” a play on the very definition of Utopia—Butler warned of the temptation to surrender freedom to clever philosophers who would convince them that their institutions were unjust and that they alone could fix them.
Butler needn’t have bothered.
The promise of a perfect world, and the intellectuals of the day said it was possible, was far too alluring. And, so, the competition to build it was on. But unlike More’s and Plato’s imaginary creations, these would-be utopias were all too terrifyingly real. At the same time that Lenin was building his utopia on the millions of Russian dead, Henry Ford was planning his model city (modestly named “Fordlandia”) in the interior of Brazil. Certain that progress was as much a constant of the universe as the laws of thermodynamics, the twentieth century saw roughly half of the world wrecked by merely that promise.
I’ll just keep my thoughts to myself.
The Lear jet leftists expect to form the core of the global Inner Party. There they will continue to enjoy the finest foods and most advanced gadgets the world has to offer — while deciding your fate for you.
If you work very hard and show unwavering loyalty, you may be permitted to join the global Outer Party. You will be allowed occasional servings of meat - and air conditioning on a rationed basis.
The rest of us will eat insects and swelter — for the good of the planet.
I suppose that a reverse mortgage would have been the ticket for her.
Are you sure you posted this is the correct thread? Because it makes no sense whatsoever. 🙂
Yup. Wrong thread
Jet Setter Elites? No Vaccinated Pilots need apply!
It’s happened to me also. 🙂
**I’ll just keep my thoughts to myself.**
That’s probably wise. Don’t want to be in the first wave of freedom lover cleasing by the self appointed gods.
Only if they were vaccinated by Saline solution. 🙂
It’s surely a frustration for these old elites; they are not physically attractive (maybe never were except to their mothers). Time is running out for their rapidly deteriorating bodies. Used to living high, doing anything they desire. Their attitude seems to be: “If I can’t have it, then nobody else should be able to have it”.
Avoid alphabet groups early morning visits. 😲
Bookmarked
SPJNK.
The articles on the WEF and Kraus Schwab don’t touch on the narcissistic hunger for power of the members and the danger that they pose. If you read Red Handed by Peter Schweizer, you understand the drive for power by the Men of Davos, which is epitomized by the Chinese style government and economic system, which they hail as the best and most successful system in the world.
There is an article ot today about the Rocky Mountain Institute , the call to ban gas stoves and their ties China. It has been the goal of the WEF to get the world off of the oil standard, almost since its inception. It is China’s goal too. It is the basis for the Great Reset, not for the prevention of Climate Change, but to knock the US economy out of the top spot in the world and destroy American culture at the same time.
The Great Reset is just the new name for the Agenda 21, now called, The Agenda 2030. it has nothing to do with making the world a better place to live, it I simply a narcissistic power grab. The men of Davis aren’t just hypocrites, they are narcissistic psychopaths.
If I was president, I would declare War on Switzerland, and drop a nuke on davos.
The Tangled Government Web Behind the Push to Ban Gas Stoves
This is a good intro to what is really going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9lHWAy7vuk
Anything to do with Yuval Noah Harari will explain a lot in plain English.
These people will explain it in terms of curing disease, allowing people to walk again, feeding the masses, ect, but it all will end up with hacking humans to gain control of them. Democracy and free will will be over and you will answer to the hive mind and central command. You will eat bugs and commit suicide on command to support world domination. Freezing in the dark will be an act of patriotism to serve the world system of global climate control.
The time is nearer than anyone thinks and will drop before anyone can stop it. Covid 19 was just a trial run to see how many would volunteer to give up their freedom without troop involvement. Look at the churches that volunteered to shut down even with the First Amendment. How many would volunteer to give up their guns if the government was trying to feed a starving sick people and distribute healthcare worldwide? People actually believe men can have babies and girls can be men today. Romans 1 calls this a "debased or a reprobate" mind.
Time is getting shorter than you ever believed. Read what Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Klaus Schwab, Soros, Tim Cook, and others are saying, keeping in mind that DARPA, Pfizer, and other large corporations support the same things.
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