That meeting and its theme give rise to a number of new theories – we all get microchips for continuous monitoring by a “social credit system” run by a single world government, etc. – and in our 21st century authoritarian era, it’s hard to accuse anyone of fearing movements in that direction.
I think the World Economic Forum is not just thinking in the wrong direction, it is not thinking broadly enough. It is far too limited in its goals, which revolve around bringing world governments closer together and with the United Nations on issues such as taxes, regulations and the Bugbear du jour, climate change.
In other words, The Great Reset is a way to find ways to make life easier for the same people who have led things for the last 400 years – since the peace of Westphalia in 1648, when the modern “nation-state” model we live – was born to do the same things they have done, even with less uncomfortable dissent from arrogant slaves, always and forever, amen.
I think we need a much bigger reset. It is time to tear the whole model of Westphalia to its parts – from cutting it into a public sheep for taxation, its occasional major military and political holocaust, its technocratic mismanagement and its “sovereignty dispute” – and demands. that these parts are self-justifying or must be rejected.
As a panarchist, one of the funniest demands I run into is that I prove how without monopoly in its current form we wouldn’t run into a problem … well, add any major problem we already have. .
They have had 400 years to solve problem X, but have not. As for problem X, the burden of proof should be on them to show how their solution will suddenly, magically start to work when it has never worked before, I don’t have to prove that an untested alternative solves what they haven’t solved.
I don’t expect to see a free society in my lifetime, but four centuries looks more like a generous probationary period for Davos Crowd’s alternative. It is time to move towards greater return.
Factor: Thomas L. Knapp
(Twitter: @thomaslknapp) is a director and senior news analyst at the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism (thegarrisoncenter.org). He lives and works in northern Central Florida.
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