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Is the Great RESET a World Economic Forum plan to destroy the economy in order to create the kind of conditions wherein the banks and politicians can easily establish the kind of total control they need in order to turn ALL the frogs Gay, or is it just another branding excercise meant to give the impression that the elites have a plan as everything falls apart? In this video we take an excerpt from Michael Brooks book "Against the Web" as we continue exploring the ideas of Christopher Lasch. Specifically we explore how the dominance of the economic ideas of Paul Sweezy led even the best left critics of the left to embrace "progressive" reforms rather than develop socialism.

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Whose Great Reset? The Fight for Our Future – Technocracy vs. the Republic
Joaquin Flores
October 18, 2020

People living in the western world are in the greatest fight for the future of pluralist and republican forms of governance since the rise and fall of fascism 75 years ago. As then, society had to be built up from a war. Today’s war has been an economic war of the oligarchs against the republic, and it increasingly appears that the coronavirus pandemic is being used, on the political end, as a massive coup against pluralist society. We are being confronted with this ‘great reset’, alluding to post-war construction. But for a whole generation people have already been living under an ever-increasing austerity regimen. This is a regimen that can only be explained as some toxic combination of the systemic inevitabilities of a consumer-driven society on the foundation of planned obsolescence, and the never-ending greed and lust for power which defines whole sections of the sociopathic oligarchy.

Recently we saw UK PM Boris Johnson stand in front of a ‘Build Back Better’ sign, speaking to the need for a ‘great reset’. ‘Build Back Better’ happens to be Joe Biden’s campaign slogan, which raises many other questions for another time. But, to what extent are the handlers who manage ‘Joe Biden’, and those managing ‘Boris Johnson’ working the same script?

The more pertinent question is to ask: in whose interest is this ‘great reset’ being carried out? Certainly it cannot be left to those who have built their careers upon the theory and practice of austerity. Certainly it cannot be left to those who have built their careers as puppets of a morally decaying oligarchy.

What Johnson calls the ‘Great Reset’, Biden calls the ‘Biden Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution & Environmental Justice’. Certainly the coming economy cannot be left to Boris Johnson or Joe Biden.

How is it that now Boris Johnson speaks publicly of a ‘great reset’, whereas just months ago when those outside the ruling media paradigm used this phrase, it was censured by corporate Atlanticist media as being conspiratorial in nature? This is an excellent question posed by Neil Clark.

And so we have by now all read numerous articles in the official press talking about how economic life after coronavirus will never be the same as it was before. Atlanticist press has even run numerous opinion articles talking about how this may cut against globalization – a fair point, and one which many thinking people by and large agree with.

Yet they have set aside any substantive discussion about what exists in lieu of globalization, and what the economy looks like in various parts of the world if it is not globalized. We have consistently spoken of multipolarity, a term that in decades past was utilized frequently in western vectors, in the sphere of geopolitics and international relations. Now there is some strange ban on the term, and so we are now bereft of a language with which to have an honest discussion about the post-globalization paradigm.

Technocracy or Pluralism? A Fight Against the Newspeak

Until now, we have only been given a steady diet of distancing, of lockdown provisions, quarantining, track and trace, and we have forgotten entirely about the fact that all of this was only supposed to be a two or three-week long exercise to flatten the curve. And now the truth is emerging that what is being planned is a new proposal being disguised as a ‘great reset’... continues:

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Like so many other "crises" that preceded it, the Covid-19 "pandemic" has provided fertile territory for the authoritarians who seize any opportunity to destroy freedom and liberty under the false claim of "keeping us safe." The PATRIOT Act passed after 9/11 was supposed to do the same thing: keep us safe by targeting the terrorists who wanted to kill us. But as we learned from Ed Snowden shortly afterward, it was a lie. The PATRIOT Act was designed to view us as the enemy, to be spied on, tracked, and harassed. The Covid "crisis" and coming vaccine will be the same. Will Americans resist? Also today, more Covid Hypocrites - from Austin to California. And an LA County mayor claims anyone without a mask is a "domestic terrorist."

kelley » Wed Dec 02, 2020 5:46 pm wrote:The man named Peter Turchin, who's featured in this piece, has an interesting hypothesis:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... re/616993/

"The fundamental problems, he says, are a dark triad of social maladies: a bloated elite class, with too few elite jobs to go around, declining living standards among the general population, and a government that can’t cover its financial positions . . . Of the three factors driving social violence, Turchin stresses most heavily 'elite overproduction'—­the tendency of a society’s ruling classes to grow faster than the number of positions for their members to fill."

There's something to be noted which is lacking in the piece. It's about elite conduct in a general social sense. When ethics are monetized and codes of behavior are commodified, as is the norm in coporate America, a contradiction is created between the individual's disdain for the merely transactional and the collective desire to earn profits. This is a bigger problem than the widespread failure of leadership which characterizes our common plight. What it eventually shows is that, in the long term, contradictions such as these are unsustainable. If there's a fundamental issue to be addressed in the US today, it would revolve around the recognition of the paradoxes this willful blindness creates.

My hope is this may resolve itself generationally, over a limited amount of time in which such solutions may be found.