Posted on 07/06/2022 9:07:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
PART I: THE PROBLEM
The Great Reset was first concocted at the World Economic Forum in Davos by its founder Klaus Schwab as a way to assemble together global success stories like himself. His idea apparently was that grandees who have done well for themselves could do even better for the rest of us—if these anointed could just be unbound and given enough power and authority to craft rules for nearly eight billion of the planet’s ignorant.
A word of caution is needed about the pretentious and supposedly benign signature title of the Great Reset project. Assume the worst when the adjective “great” appears in connection with envisioned fundamental, government-driven, or global political changes. What was similar between Lyndon Johnson’s massively expensive but failed “Great Society” and Mao’s genocidal “Great Leap Forward” was the idea of a top-down, centrally planned schema, cooked up by elites without any firsthand knowledge, or even worry, how it would affect the middle classes and poor. So often, the adjective “great” is a code word of supposed enlightened planners for radical attempts at reconstruction of a society that must be either misled or forced to accept a complete overhaul.
When “great” is applied to a proposed transnational comprehensive revolution, we should also equate it with near religious zealotry. “The Great Reset,” after all, in all its green and “woke” glory, with all of its credentialed and “expert” devotees, is still a faith-based rather than scientific effort. Its spiritual predecessor was perhaps the eighteenth-century “Great Awakening” of Protestant evangelicalism that swept the eastern seaboard of colonial America in reaction to the secularism of the Enlightenment. But this time around the frenzy is fueled more by agnostics who worship secular progressive totems such as Al Gore or Greta Thunberg.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanmind.org ...
This is from the Victor Davis Hanson contribution to the book.
VDH ping
Victor Davis Hanson is one of the smartest people in the world.
“The Club of Rome was founded in 1968 at Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy. It consists of one hundred full members selected from current and former heads of state and government, UN administrators, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe.[1] It stimulated considerable public attention in 1972 with the first report to the Club of Rome, The Limits to Growth. Since 1 July 2008, the organization has been based in Winterthur, Switzerland.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome
“In 1970, Peccei’s vision was laid out in a document written by Hasan Özbekhan, Erich Jantsch, and Alexander Christakis. Entitled, The Predicament of Mankind; Quest for Structured Responses to Growing Worldwide Complexities and Uncertainties: A PROPOSAL. The document would serve as the roadmap for the LTG project.”
“In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill. In their totality and their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which must be confronted by everyone together. But in designating these dangers as the enemy, we fall into the trap, which we have already warned readers about, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention in natural processes, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself.”
It just keeps getting worse. Now the proponents of “the new world order” in the Netherlands who have adopted the green/climate control hysteria as a religion have formulated new rules that will eliminate approximately 30% of all the farms in the Netherlands. They want nitrogen levels reduced by 50% so much of the nation’s livestock will have to be eliminated.
Leaving aside the absurdity of insisting on massive nitrogen reductions when 87% of the air we breath is nitrogen and the devastating affects this will have on the nation’s farms the more frightening issue is what it will do to food supply. Apparently the globalists don’t want people to eat.
There are riots and huge demonstrations going on in the Netherlands right now blocking highways, etc. So their shelves are emptying even now as products can’t get to market.
Many people will not survive the WEF, globalization, one world central government, new world order.
Nitrogen in normal atmosphere is 78%, not 87%.
Another must read article from Mr. Hanson. Read it slow and chew each bite. Gems follow!
A word of caution is needed about the pretentious and supposedly benign signature title of the Great Reset project. Assume the worst when the adjective “great” appears in connection with envisioned fundamental, government-driven, or global political changes.
What was similar between Lyndon Johnson’s massively expensive but failed “Great Society” and Mao’s genocidal “Great Leap Forward” was the idea of a top-down, centrally planned schema, cooked up by elites without any firsthand knowledge, or even worry, how it would affect the middle classes and poor.
So often, the adjective “great” is a code word of supposed enlightened planners for radical attempts at reconstruction of a society that must be either misled or forced to accept a complete overhaul.
Like I said, a slow thoughtful read is needed. He states out loud what we all know and think.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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Yes, thanks, I transposed those two numbers.
Thanks for the post. That was great information.
When the world is running down. You gotta do the best with what’s still around -—Sting / Police // circa 1985 or so.
ACTUALLY-— Sting 1980
It's very good to hear VDH mention the most effective approach ever devised by socialists to undermine capitalism. A writer of his influence is helping to shine light onto a process most Americans are unaware of, while suffering daily from its consequences.
“ Apparently the globalists don’t want people to eat.”
Bond: “Do you expect me to talk?”
Goldfinger: “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.”
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