Jan 31, 2023·edited Jan 31, 2023Liked by Winston Marshall
Another brilliant piece. Superb comparison as to the guise of “Stakeholder interests” with M.I.A’s censorship. It is deeply concerning how structural changes in power (as a means to solve issues which are described using hyperbole) are deployed to shift from freedom to authoritarianism, i.e. the need to solve a ‘crisis’. Is the individual now redundant or seen as a mere tool? Adam.
Unfortunately here in Australia our bureaucrats will roll out and use as a blueprint such suggestions by these so called elites who dress the impending surveillance style authoritarian measures as being for the good of all. Our current PM is already virtue signalling and globe trotting on those very issues Schwab puts forth. Luckily there are many here awake and pushing back. Great read!!
Jan 31, 2023·edited Jan 31, 2023Liked by Winston Marshall
This was a great read--hit the trifecta of thorough, cogent, and pithy. Who knew it could be fun to read about Schwab and his schemes?
Just FYI, in the state of Texas a lawsuit against ESG is currently underway. Half of US states are suing to halt a Biden administration rule change that allows pension funds for government workers to be invested according to ESG ratings rather than financial return. We can hope and pray that a legal victory on a scale this big would deal a real blow to the ESG racket, at least in the U.S..
Winston, I have not read 'The Great Reset' nor any of Schwab's books, but he has occupied a great deal of my thinking time over the last couple of years. I have had a bit of a lightbulb moment about the 'Great Reset' and what it ACTUALLY means......
When the wealthy become wealthy they need a certain amount of wealth in order to feel so. When the motor car was invented it was the sole province of the wealthy. The working man had to settle for Shanks' Pony (walking) or the Pedal Cycle. When the jet aircraft arrived, that also was the province of the wealthy, with the working man travelling by rickety coach or train to the nearest seaside town if he was lucky. As the twentieth and twenty-first centuries rolled along, more of the lower and middle classes were able to afford as routine things that a couple of decades earlier would have been thought luxuries. Foreign holidays by jet, Automobiles with almost identical function to those of the super-wealthy, and the exact same electronic and consumer goods could be bought by a jobbing tradesman as a member of the aristocracy. One no longer had to apply for a telephone in one's home.
At this point the Davos types started to realise something: What is the point of wealth if the poorest can buy the same things as the wealthy? Something clearly had to be done. It was not practical to expect the wealthy to simply become orders of magnitude MORE wealthy in order to extend the wealth gap.
No, what had to be done was a recalibration of what it MEANT to be wealthy, and what it meant to be poor. The personal automobile was a particular bugbear of theirs. The ability of the striving masses to travel to find better paying work, to travel to assemble and such, was a Pandora's Box they wished they'd never allowed to be open and, once opened, a difficult one to close again. So they came up with the Climate Scam. They need not worry about the old, because they will stop driving by dint of age and infirmity. The middle-class will be taxed out of their internal combustion vehicles and forced into Electric vehicles if they are deemed a worthy member of the managerial class. The working class will find themselves unable to afford the EV (as it was never the intention that they have them considering their lack of charging facilities) and will be forced back into a kind of 'localism' where one works in grinding drudgery for a pittance within cycling distance of one's abode.
The university-educated young, will find themselves utterly brainwashed into believing that personal autos are absolutely unnecessary, having been told that everything one needs is not more fifteen minutes away from one's tiny apartment in the city.
Inflation will inexorably rise, leading to an inability to buy unprocessed produce, leading to good cuts of meat becoming luxuries once again, where they had previously been available every day of the week, and eventually being completely reserved for the elites while the poor consumes insect protein.
Once all this has been achieved, the working man will have been reduced to the standard of living experienced in the 1940's except he will be unhealthier, unhappier, devoid of purpose, lacking in motivation, and bereft of hope. He will be a stranger in his own land.
But all this does not matter to the elites. They will have what they wanted. They will have achieved the order of magnitude in relative wealth that they craved over the uppity lower classes. And they didn't even have to earn a solitary penny more to do so. THAT is the great recalibration of what it means to be wealthy.
Did you mention that the WEF partnered with the UN in 2019 for implementation the 17 SDGS of the UN? Welcome to our micro-managed planet, if these loonies have their way. Major narcissists with god complexes.
This is a disconcerting but fascinating read. It's too tempting to plant your head in the sand and not be on watch against people and ideaologies like these. I teach in a university setting and I see much of this type of indoctrinal mindset in my colleagues. I try to be objective and discerning and not throw the baby out with the bathwater- that is to say, I try to keep what is valuable about progressive thinking and ideology and toss the rest- but it is not easy. I appreciate your objectivity in assessing shareholder capitalism and some of its shortcomings AND benefits, but I agree that stakeholder capitalism is not only flawed but potentially quite dangerous.
Also, thanks for reading those books and distilling them down to some main points here, because I just don't know if I can stand to read the whole things.
Regarding the subject matter, humanity has been here before. This "new" venture is as old as record-keeping. It will eventually self-destruct after killing many.
Spot on. How foolish people were to think of religion as just superstition and that society could function without it. It's as central to human social organization as emotions are to human behavior. In the old days you believed the sun orbited the earth, because the people you trust in positions of authority said it was so. Now you believe that the earth orbits the sun, because the people you trust in positions of authority say it is so. Science didn't change how we form beliefs, it just gave us a better method for detecting false doctrine, and one that only works on a narrow subset of doctrinal questions whose answers can be derived mathematically or experimentally. For everything else we're exactly where we always were.
" … the perennial problem besetting rationalists: science does not tell us how to act." It does if we have a goal. But if you care about morality, you must know why you care. And that's your goal.
Another brilliant piece. Superb comparison as to the guise of “Stakeholder interests” with M.I.A’s censorship. It is deeply concerning how structural changes in power (as a means to solve issues which are described using hyperbole) are deployed to shift from freedom to authoritarianism, i.e. the need to solve a ‘crisis’. Is the individual now redundant or seen as a mere tool? Adam.
Unfortunately here in Australia our bureaucrats will roll out and use as a blueprint such suggestions by these so called elites who dress the impending surveillance style authoritarian measures as being for the good of all. Our current PM is already virtue signalling and globe trotting on those very issues Schwab puts forth. Luckily there are many here awake and pushing back. Great read!!
This was a great read--hit the trifecta of thorough, cogent, and pithy. Who knew it could be fun to read about Schwab and his schemes?
Just FYI, in the state of Texas a lawsuit against ESG is currently underway. Half of US states are suing to halt a Biden administration rule change that allows pension funds for government workers to be invested according to ESG ratings rather than financial return. We can hope and pray that a legal victory on a scale this big would deal a real blow to the ESG racket, at least in the U.S..
https://www.fox28spokane.com/25-states-sue-biden-administration-over-federal-esg-policy/
Winston, I have not read 'The Great Reset' nor any of Schwab's books, but he has occupied a great deal of my thinking time over the last couple of years. I have had a bit of a lightbulb moment about the 'Great Reset' and what it ACTUALLY means......
When the wealthy become wealthy they need a certain amount of wealth in order to feel so. When the motor car was invented it was the sole province of the wealthy. The working man had to settle for Shanks' Pony (walking) or the Pedal Cycle. When the jet aircraft arrived, that also was the province of the wealthy, with the working man travelling by rickety coach or train to the nearest seaside town if he was lucky. As the twentieth and twenty-first centuries rolled along, more of the lower and middle classes were able to afford as routine things that a couple of decades earlier would have been thought luxuries. Foreign holidays by jet, Automobiles with almost identical function to those of the super-wealthy, and the exact same electronic and consumer goods could be bought by a jobbing tradesman as a member of the aristocracy. One no longer had to apply for a telephone in one's home.
At this point the Davos types started to realise something: What is the point of wealth if the poorest can buy the same things as the wealthy? Something clearly had to be done. It was not practical to expect the wealthy to simply become orders of magnitude MORE wealthy in order to extend the wealth gap.
No, what had to be done was a recalibration of what it MEANT to be wealthy, and what it meant to be poor. The personal automobile was a particular bugbear of theirs. The ability of the striving masses to travel to find better paying work, to travel to assemble and such, was a Pandora's Box they wished they'd never allowed to be open and, once opened, a difficult one to close again. So they came up with the Climate Scam. They need not worry about the old, because they will stop driving by dint of age and infirmity. The middle-class will be taxed out of their internal combustion vehicles and forced into Electric vehicles if they are deemed a worthy member of the managerial class. The working class will find themselves unable to afford the EV (as it was never the intention that they have them considering their lack of charging facilities) and will be forced back into a kind of 'localism' where one works in grinding drudgery for a pittance within cycling distance of one's abode.
The university-educated young, will find themselves utterly brainwashed into believing that personal autos are absolutely unnecessary, having been told that everything one needs is not more fifteen minutes away from one's tiny apartment in the city.
Inflation will inexorably rise, leading to an inability to buy unprocessed produce, leading to good cuts of meat becoming luxuries once again, where they had previously been available every day of the week, and eventually being completely reserved for the elites while the poor consumes insect protein.
Once all this has been achieved, the working man will have been reduced to the standard of living experienced in the 1940's except he will be unhealthier, unhappier, devoid of purpose, lacking in motivation, and bereft of hope. He will be a stranger in his own land.
But all this does not matter to the elites. They will have what they wanted. They will have achieved the order of magnitude in relative wealth that they craved over the uppity lower classes. And they didn't even have to earn a solitary penny more to do so. THAT is the great recalibration of what it means to be wealthy.
THAT, is the Great Reset.
Did you mention that the WEF partnered with the UN in 2019 for implementation the 17 SDGS of the UN? Welcome to our micro-managed planet, if these loonies have their way. Major narcissists with god complexes.
Excellent article!
This is a disconcerting but fascinating read. It's too tempting to plant your head in the sand and not be on watch against people and ideaologies like these. I teach in a university setting and I see much of this type of indoctrinal mindset in my colleagues. I try to be objective and discerning and not throw the baby out with the bathwater- that is to say, I try to keep what is valuable about progressive thinking and ideology and toss the rest- but it is not easy. I appreciate your objectivity in assessing shareholder capitalism and some of its shortcomings AND benefits, but I agree that stakeholder capitalism is not only flawed but potentially quite dangerous.
Also, thanks for reading those books and distilling them down to some main points here, because I just don't know if I can stand to read the whole things.
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Lucid, well-written. Thank you.
Regarding the subject matter, humanity has been here before. This "new" venture is as old as record-keeping. It will eventually self-destruct after killing many.
Spot on. How foolish people were to think of religion as just superstition and that society could function without it. It's as central to human social organization as emotions are to human behavior. In the old days you believed the sun orbited the earth, because the people you trust in positions of authority said it was so. Now you believe that the earth orbits the sun, because the people you trust in positions of authority say it is so. Science didn't change how we form beliefs, it just gave us a better method for detecting false doctrine, and one that only works on a narrow subset of doctrinal questions whose answers can be derived mathematically or experimentally. For everything else we're exactly where we always were.
Just curious, Herr Schwab, doesn't own a white cat by chance does he?
" … the perennial problem besetting rationalists: science does not tell us how to act." It does if we have a goal. But if you care about morality, you must know why you care. And that's your goal.