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\nThe public still has the will and the ability to organize resistance through protests, labor actions, and civil disobedience. Such resistance is essential for anyone who doesn\u2019t wish to live in a dehumanizing and nightmarish dystopia.<\/p>\n
The Great Reset Is Real<\/a><\/p>\n Communicable diseases have always shaped civilization. The consequences of an epidemic can last for centuries, and the outcomes of many wars have hinged on viral and bacterial infections. Smallpox, for instance, played a central role<\/a>\u00a0in the European conquest of the New World. During the American Civil War, nearly\u00a0two-thirds<\/a>\u00a0of soldiers\u2019 deaths were caused by diseases like dysentery and typhoid.<\/p>\n The spread of the bubonic plague through medieval Europe presents one of the clearest examples of how an infectious disease can alter the course of history. By\u00a0some estimates<\/a>, the Black Death killed\u00a030 percent to half<\/a>\u00a0of Europe\u2019s population. The plague severely shrank the peasant workforce,\u00a0boosting<\/a>\u00a0its labor power. Attempts by the nobility to curtail this trend only fueled turmoil and peasant revolts. With reduced agricultural output, the merchant class gained influence at the nobles\u2019 expense, setting the stage for the transition away from a land-based economy and the eventual disintegration of the feudal system.<\/p>\n From 2020 to 2022, we have witnessed an attempt to engineer a reversal of this historical development. Covid-19, a disease many orders of magnitude less deadly than the plague, has been deliberately exploited by ruling elites to bring about a neo-feudal order. This regression has so far been marked by diminished quality of life, sharply increased inequality, and the erosion of personal freedoms and civil liberties. Plans for digital IDs and central-bank digital currencies may further accelerate these developments, and the result will be total domination of a property-less underclass by ultra-wealthy elites and their expert class of technocratic clerics.<\/p>\n Much has been made of the World Economic Forum, its cartoonishly villainous chairman, Klaus Schwab, and the infiltration of various governments through its \u201cYoung Global Leaders<\/a>\u201d program. The focus on this particular group of actors is useful for illustrating how coalitions of financiers, corporations, and unaccountable nongovernmental organizations shape global policies. Schwab\u2019s pet slogans\u2014<\/em>\u201cthe Great Reset,\u201d \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution,\u201d \u201cYou will own nothing, and you will be happy\u201d\u2014<\/em>are now a sort of shorthand for the effort to impoverish the world population and technologically expand elites\u2019 control.<\/p>\n This agenda, however, doesn\u2019t need to be tied to one particular organization or group of leaders. Elites\u2019 desire to subjugate the rest of the world isn\u2019t a \u201cconspiracy theory,\u201d but a pattern of class conflict evident from world history. The outcome of this conflict, now raging across a tangible battlefield as well as a digital one, will determine the shape of the world to come.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As mainstream outlets signal that it is acceptable and even\u00a0funny<\/a> to criticize Covid policies, the question arises: Why is there no public reckoning over the astounding failure and massive harms of these measures? The answer is that these policies had little to do with the virus in the first place. Now that the Covid narrative has become a liability for elites, the pandemic is \u201cending,\u201d but the \u201creset\u201d agenda underlying the pandemic response remains very much in play. Unless it is met with defiance, this agenda will be a decades-long process\u2014one that began with lockdowns and vaccine passports and will continue with the proliferation of digital ID systems and central-bank digital currencies.<\/p>\n We have been encouraged to view the phenomena of the past two years as the natural outcomes of a pandemic, but most were actually part of a broader scheme to undermine the middle and working classes, normalize \u201cpapers, please\u201d societies, and end the fiat currency system as we know it.<\/p>\n In 2019, central bankers were determined to \u201crethink<\/a>\u201d the global economy, as a\u00a0Financial Times\u00a0<\/em>story summarized at the time. Covid was blamed for a global financial crisis in 2020, but this crisis was already in motion in 2019 when a\u00a0meltdown<\/a>\u00a0in the market for short-term loans between banks prompted the Federal Reserve to inject\u00a0hundreds of billions<\/a>\u00a0of dollars into the financial system to stave off a full-blown liquidity catastrophe. Lockdowns imposed in March 2020 conveniently bolstered\u00a0financial assets<\/a>\u00a0and monopolistic giants at the expense of taxpayers and small businesses; Amazon\u2019s profits soared, while nearly\u00a040 percent<\/a>\u00a0of American small businesses went under by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n During this same period, investment firms like BlackRock have been buying entire neighborhoods of\u00a0single-family homes<\/a>, a move with the potential to price thousands of families out of entry-level real estate. This is significant, because home ownership, already\u00a0trending downward<\/a>, was once the engine of middle-class prosperity, allowing families to consolidate and pass on wealth.<\/p>\n In the developing world, meanwhile, literacy and poverty trends, once improving, shifted into reverse. The United Nations predicted that deaths from lockdown-induced starvation and malnutrition\u00a0would exceed<\/a>\u00a0Covid deaths globally. To this day,\u00a031 million<\/a>\u00a0students have still not returned to school in the developing world, which coincides with nearly 100 million people being pushed into\u00a0poverty<\/a>, and a dramatic rise in\u00a0child labor<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0illiteracy<\/a>. Through it all, the wealth of the world\u2019s billionaires grew by\u00a0$5 trillion<\/a>.<\/p>\n It isn\u2019t difficult to see how increasing desperation, ignorance, and instability can make the global population easier for elites to control. Along with these economic and social shifts came political transformations that subverted liberal-democratic norms. Although there is much concern about the potential development of a social-credit system in the West, many people don\u2019t realize that a precursor to social credit has already been tested on us: the vaccine passport.<\/p>\n Since the Covid vaccines didn\u2019t stop transmission (as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky\u00a0conceded<\/a>\u00a0in August 2021), a vaccine card only served as a token to demonstrate that the bearer held the right opinions or, at least, believed the right experts. It was never a plausible mitigation measure, and its real purpose was to punish the unvaccinated for political impurity. Although binary and unsophisticated, this is similar in practice to a social-credit score that can blackball citizens. In Canada, for example, unvaccinated people weren\u2019t\u00a0permitted<\/a>\u00a0to travel on trains or planes\u2014<\/em>precisely\u00a0one of the punishments<\/a>\u00a0that can befall individuals who find themselves on the Chinese Supreme Court\u2019s list of \u201cdiscredited\u201d people.<\/p>\n Western ruling classes also mounted a rudimentary exercise in the seizure of financial assets. When Canadian banks\u00a0froze accounts<\/a>\u00a0connected to the truckers\u2019 Freedom Convoy protest, it was evidence of the financial industry\u2019s willingness to quash dissent. This was done not only in the interest of the state, but also that of the banks, which are deeply entwined with vaccine passports, digital currencies, and digital IDs.<\/p>\n The International Monetary Fund is now\u00a0promoting<\/a>\u00a0central-bank digital currencies in developed and developing nations. The Fed is currently considering issuing a\u00a0digital dollar<\/a>, and\u00a0Apple<\/a>\u00a0is planning to roll out a digital driver\u2019s license. China has\u00a0launched<\/a>\u00a0a digital currency, and\u00a0Jamaica<\/a>,\u00a0Zambia<\/a>, Kenya, and\u00a0India<\/a>\u00a0are likely to follow suit. The UK government has signed a contract with multinational accounting and consulting firm\u00a0Deloitte<\/a>\u00a0to develop a new digital-ID system, and Canada is planning to roll out digital IDs at the\u00a0urging<\/a>\u00a0of the Canadian Bankers Association. Meanwhile, Wall Street firms are strategically expanding their foothold in\u00a0blockchain<\/a>\u00a0investments.<\/p>\n The move toward digital IDs and central-bank digital currencies is part of a broader economic shift. Corporations are already subject to\u00a0ESG<\/a>\u00a0(Environmental, Social, Governance) ratings, so their behavior can be shaped to suit the priorities of financial institutions in the name of \u201cdiversity,\u201d \u201csustainability,\u201d and other abstract values. Not only can ESG scores be used to dissuade investors from decentralized cryptocurrencies like\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>, credit agencies have also started using ESG scores to\u00a0alter credit ratings<\/a>\u00a0for corporations. The ruling class is thus using ESG to promote a specific agenda that can manufacture sweeping societal changes. This is effectively what \u201cstakeholder capitalism\u201d means: Businesses aren\u2019t being reoriented to serve the interests of communities, customers, or workers, but to serve the ideology of elite stakeholders on whom companies are dependent to maintain their stock value.<\/p>\n Stakeholder capitalism is supposedly being advanced with combating climate change as a main motivation. Yet the plans of entities like the WEF involve ever-growing reliance on digital services and data storage. The data centers necessary for such plans already have carbon footprints\u00a0equivalent<\/a>\u00a0to that of the aviation industry, and their energy usage is only expected to expand. This makes climate change more of an excuse to assert control, rather than a plausible motivation behind ESG ratings. The reason executives like BlackRock CEO Larry Fink push stakeholder capitalism is because it allows the financial industry to supersede shareholders\u2019 immediate interests in favor of an ulterior long-term plan.<\/p>\n So what is this long-term plan? If a digital ID and central-bank digital currencies are used in tandem with ESG principles, banks and governments will have the ability to fully blacklist noncompliant citizens. Profitability is no longer the only goal\u2014the goal is also to change the way economic transactions occur in the first place, so that they become closer to a form of bondage than to monetary exchange. Instead of sums of money, a bank account would come to represent tokens that could be turned on and off based on good or bad behavior. The vaccine passport and the crackdown against Covid dissent served as a test run for this model. But the inability of unvaccinated people to access a gym or a bar will pale in comparison to the types of punishments that can be meted out through such a system, not just for members of a political opposition, but for their families or anyone who dares to help them.<\/p>\n Data-based arguments about the efficacy of lockdowns, masks, and vaccines have in many ways served as a distraction from the larger political significance of what has transpired. A scientific or medical understanding of Covid can only go so far, because so little of the pandemic response has had any scientific validity. For much of this fiasco, we have been encouraged to disbelieve our own eyes and to discount observable evidence in favor of patently absurd propaganda. Now that this spell has been broken, many have been left wondering what will come next.<\/p>\n Covid policies served as temporary tools to swell the power of the ruling class, but the same ends can equally be achieved through war, climate initiatives, or other state-declared crises. As the idea of a \u201cGreat Reset\u201d continues to be dismissed as a conspiracy theory, governments, central banks, and NGOs are becoming ever-more explicit about their plans. Any new supposed emergency can be manipulated by financial institutions to initiate systems of total control. Once fully realized, these systems may be impossible to combat. Yet as the Canadian truckers\u2019 convoy illustrated, this move is a massive gamble for elites. The public still has the will and the ability to organize resistance through protests, labor actions, and civil disobedience. Such resistance is essential for anyone who doesn\u2019t wish to live in a dehumanizing and nightmarish dystopia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BLUF: The public still has the will and the ability to organize resistance through protests, labor actions, and civil disobedience. Such resistance is essential for anyone who doesn\u2019t wish to live in a dehumanizing and nightmarish dystopia. The Great Reset Is Real Communicable diseases have always shaped civilization. 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