According to their own Website, the GREAT RESET has OFFICIALLY BEGUN! LAST YEAR! I have been so busy trying to keep up with all the developments, I completely forgot to keep an eye on these guys. WHO THE HELL DO THEY THINK THEY ARE ANYWAY?? AND more importantly, WHY DO WE ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE making plans, setting agendas, changing rules, laws, and mandates that affect us?? WHY??
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Below is everything that I could find regarding the roll out of the RESET. They sure don’t like to let us in on what they are doing. Pretty self serving besides being self appointed and self governed.
There is an urgent need for global stakeholders to cooperate in simultaneously managing the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. To improve the state of the world, the World Economic Forum is starting The Great Reset initiative. | |
SDI 2020 – 1Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 1:00am – Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 2:00pm CDT
Politics & Society Taking place in the context of the United Nations General Assembly, the World Economic Forum’s fourth and, for the first time, fully virtual Sustainable Development Impact Summit will convene leaders from government, business, international organizations and civil society along with a diverse group of experts and innovators to initiate, accelerate and scale-up entrepreneurial solutions to tackle climate change and advance sustainable development |
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THE CONTEXT
The Covid-19 crisis, and the political, economic and social disruptions it has caused, is fundamentally changing the traditional context for decision-making. The inconsistencies, inadequacies and contradictions of multiple systems –from health and financial to energy and education – are more exposed than ever amidst a global context of concern for lives, livelihoods and the planet. Leaders find themselves at a historic crossroads, managing short-term pressures against medium- and long-term uncertainties.
THE OPPORTUNITY
As we enter a unique window of opportunity to shape the recovery, this initiative will offer insights to help inform all those determining the future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of a global commons. Drawing from the vision and vast expertise of the leaders engaged across the Forum’s communities, the Great Reset initiative has a set of dimensions to build a new social contract that honours the dignity of every human being.
The Great Reset Dialogues
In the run-up to the Annual Meeting, the Forum will host a virtual series: “The Great Reset Dialogues”. These dialogues are a joint initiative of the World Economic Forum and HRH The Prince of Wales. During these dialogues, various key stakeholders will discuss core dimensions of The Great Reset.
Find out more about the Great Reset
Head on a swivel. These bastards are going for it!
Greg Reese: Global Reset is upon us. We have warned you about it and been warned about it for decades. This is the framework we are operating under with the Biden/Democrat Political Cabal that has stolen the government from the people.
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THE GREAT GLOBAL RESET – PART 1
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EPHESIANS 5:11
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
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The Global Reset Part 1(of a 2 Part Series)
Stage One: Trade War against China
On January 30, 2020 the WHO Director General determined that the coronavirus outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The decision was taken on the basis of 150 confirmed cases outside China, and first cases of person to person transmission: 6 cases in the US, 3 cases in Canada, 2 in the UK.
The decision for the WHO to declare a Global Emergency was taken on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland (January 21-24).
One day later (January 31) following the launch of the WHO Global Emergency, The Trump administration announced that it will deny entry to foreign nationals “who have traveled in China in the last 14 days”. This immediately triggered a crisis in air transportation; China-US trade and the tourism industry. Italy followed suit, cancelling all flights to China on January 31.
The first stage was accompanied by the disruption of trade relations with China as well as a partial closedown of the export manufacturing sector.
Stage Two: The Financial Crash Spearheaded by Fear and Stock Market Manipulation
A global financial crisis unfolded in the course of the month of February culminating in a dramatic collapse of stock market values as well as a major decline in the value of crude oil.
This collapse was manipulated. It was the object of insider trading and foreknowledge. The fear campaign played a key role in the implementation of the stock market crash. In February, roughly $6 trillion have been wiped off the value of stock markets worldwide. Massive losses of personal savings have occurred not to mention corporate failures and bankruptcies. It was a bonanza for institutional speculators including corporate hedge funds. The financial meltdown has led to sizeable transfers of money wealth into the pockets of a handful of financial institutions.
Stage Three: Lockdown, Confinement, Closing Down of the Global Economy
The financial crash in February was immediately followed by the lockdown in early March. The lockdown and confinement supported by social engineering was instrumental in the restructuring of the global economy. Applied almost simultaneously in a large number of countries, the lockdown has triggered the closing down of the national economy, coupled with the destabilization of trade, transport and investment activities.
The pandemic constitutes an act of economic warfare against humanity which has resulted in global poverty and mass unemployment.
Politicians are lying. Neither the lockdown nor the closing down of national economies constitute a solution to the public health crisis.
Who Controls the Politicians?
Why are politicians lying? They are the political instruments of the financial establishment. Their task is to carry out the global economic restructuring project which consists in freezing economic activity worldwide. In all major regions of the World, politicians have been instructed by powerful financial interests to retain the lockdown and prevent the re-opening of the national economy.
The fear campaign prevails. Social distancing is enforced. The economy is closed down. Totalitarian measures are being imposed.
The “Herding Instincts” of Politicians
Are corrupt governments acting like “police dogs” with “herding instincts” going after their sheep?
Is “the herd” too scared to go after their “government”?
But there is another dimension. Politicians in high office responsible for “convincing their herd” actually believe the lies which are being imposed upon them by higher authority. The lie becomes the truth. Politicians endorse the consensus, they enforce “social engineering”, they believe in their own lies.
It’s Not an Epidemic, it is An Operation
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (slip of the tongue) tacitly admits in a somewhat contradictory statement that COVID-19 is a “Live Exercise”, an “Operation”: “This is not about retribution… This matter is going forward — we are in a live exercise here to get this right.”
To which president Trump retorted “you should have told us”.
Those words will go down in history.
Imagine you are living in a world that you are told is a democracy – and you may even believe it – but in fact your life and fate is in the hands of a few ultra-rich, ultra-powerful and ultra-inhuman oligarchs. They may be called Deep State, or anything else obscure or untraceable – it doesn’t matter. They are less than the 0.0001%.
For lack of a better expression, let’s call them for now “The Two Families”. The two families have, over the decades, created a “Network of Power”- which contains within it a collection of banks, central banks, corporations, think tanks, foundations and various multi-lateral entities. These two families are the Rockefeller and Rothschild families. The Rockefeller family is based in New York, and the Rothschild family is based in London. Each family has many other super-rich families allied to it. This alliance of families, along with its associated companies, banks, and entities is called a “Network of Power”. Each network of power has a leadership, and this leadership is headed by the wealthiest and most powerful family – either the Rothschild or the Rockefeller family. These two families make the policy, and the rest of the group follows this.
Now, the most talented individuals in each network are promoted to higher positions of authority and influence, becoming heads of companies, banks, foundations, etc. It is THIS GROUP THAT IS CALLED THE DEEP STATE.
These “Two Families” who run our world have never been elected. They have created structures, or organisms without any legal format. They are fully out of international legality – A New or One World Order (NWO, or OWO).
These obscure individuals are running, for example, The World Economic Forum (WEF – representing Big Industry, Big Finance and Big Fame), the Group of 7 – G7, the Group of 20 – G20 (the leaders of the economically strongest nations). There are also some lesser entities, called the Bilderberg Society, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Chatham House and more.
The members of all of them are overlapping. Even this expanded forefront combined represents less than 0.001%. They all have superimposed themselves over sovereign national elected and constitutional governments, and over THE multinational world body, the United Nations, the UN.
In fact, the Rockefellers (namely Nelson) have created the UN to do their bidding. UN Director Generals, as well as the DGs of the multiple UN-sub-organizations, are chosen mostly by the US, with the consenting nod of their European vassals – according to the candidate’s political and psychological profile. If his or her ‘performance’ as head of the UN or head of one of the UN sub-organizations fails, his or her days are counted. Also coopted or created by the Two Families are the European Union, the Bretton Woods Organizations, World Bank and IMF, as well as the World Trade Organization (WTO).
In addition to the key international financial institutions, WB and IMF, there are the so-called regional development banks and similar financial institutions, keeping the countries of their respective regions in check. In the end it’s the financial or debt-economy that controls everything. Western neoliberal banditry has created a system, where political disobedience can be punished by economic oppression or outright theft of national assets in international territories. The system’s common denominator is the (still) omnipresent US-dollar.
We have become enslaved to the two Families. They call the shots on boom or bust of our economies, on who should be shackled by debt, when and where a pandemic should break out, and on the conditions of surviving the pandemic, for example, social confinement. And to top it all off – the instruments they use, very cleverly, are a tiny-tiny invisible enemy, called a virus, and a huge but also invisible monster, called FEAR. That keeps us off the street, off reunions with our friends, and off our social entertainment, theatre, sports, or a picnic in the park.
Soon they will decide who will live and who will die, literally – if we let it. This may be not far away. Another wave of pandemic and people may beg, yell and scream for a vaccine, for their death knell, and for the super bonanza of Big Pharma – and towards the objectives of the eugenicists blatantly roaming the world .Take the latest case of blatant imposture. Conveniently, after the first wave of Covid-19 had passed, at least in the Global North, where the major world decisions are made, the unelected WEF Chairman, Klaus Schwab, announced “The Great Reset”. Taking advantage of the economic collapse – the crisis shock, as in “The Shock Doctrine” – Mr. Schwab, announces openly what the WEF will discuss and decide for the world – to come in their next Davos Forum in January 2021.It will focus on how to rebuild the willfully destroyed global economy.
Among many similar globalist states, The British government is a public-private partnership between government, financial institutions, multinational corporations, global think tanks, and well-funded third sector organisations, such as so called non-governmental organisations(NGO’s) and large international charities. The British government is a division of the Rothschild Empire. Through a labyrinthine structure of direct funding, grant making and philanthropy, the British government is a cohesive globalist organisation that works with selected academics, scientific institutions and mainstream media (MSM) outlets to advance a tightly controlled, predetermined narrative. This designed consensus serves the interests and global ambitions of the two families- and its Network of Power aka The Deep State.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. (President Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17, 1961)
This group of parasites, often misleadingly referred to as the “elite,” exploit all humanity for their own gain and to consolidate and enhance their power. They control the money supply and the global debt, which is a debt owed to them.
Human beings are forced to pay tax which, via government procurement, flows directly to the private corporations they own. War, security, infrastructure projects, education and health care provide profits and are used by the parasite class to socially engineer society. Globally, they fund all political parties, with any realistic chance of gaining power, they own the MSM and spend billions lobbying policy makers. Through think tanks and the actions of “independent” political activists, they directly fund political campaigns in exchange for the politician’s loyalty to them, not to the electorate. Through their tax exempt grant making foundations, they control the scientific, medical and academic orthodoxy.
“Global Governance”
A new stage in the evolution of global capitalism is unfolding. A system of “Global Governance” controlled by powerful financial interests including corporate foundations and Washington think tanks oversees decision-making at both the national and global levels. National governments become subordinate to “Global Governance”. The concept of World Government was raised by the late David Rockefeller at the Bilderberger Meeting in Baden Germany, June 1991:
“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure, one world if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
Rockefeller Foundation’s Operation Lockstep: ‘Under the Guise of a Pandemic, We Will Create a Prison State”.
Right from the horse’s mouth, and is it not right now looking just like a police state?
In other countries they are being arrested (Australia) for peacefully protesting (Canada). Folk are now required to leave their personal contact details if they shop anywhere leaving them open for further visits by Police (if you happened to have been in contact with an infected person even when neither of you knew) and Police are now allowed to enter your premises without a search warrant. All of course in the name of your safety & happening elsewhere as we speak. And based on a crisis that has a death rate of 0.2%, no worse than seasonal flu. This all changed in NZ when draconian laws got passed with nary a protest from anybody except one sole MP.
These people have made no secret of their plans. They’re right there in plain sight if you want to look. The scenario of martial law is described in a futuristic manner in this Rockefeller Foundation document, as a scenario that’s already happened:
“One important — and novel — component of our strategy toolkit is scenario planning, a process of creating narratives about the future based on factors likely to affect a particular set of challenges and opportunities”.
From the Foundation’s statement of purpose: “The Rockefeller Foundation supports work that expands opportunity and strengthens resilience to social, economic, health, and environmental challenges — affirming its pioneering philanthropic mission, since 1913, to “promote the well-being” of humanity.”
Now interestingly, 1913 is the year they passed the Federal Reserve Act & heisted the Federal Reserve which is their private corporation and not a sate banking system… their statement would be better worded “promote the well-being of we the bankers”. In 1913, a Senator, Nelson Aldrich, maternal grandfather to the Rockefellers, pushed the Federal Reserve Act through Congress just before Christmas when much of Congress was on vacation.
This global network of oligarchs is moving towards the final stages of its long held plan to construct a single global system of governance. Often referred to as the New World Order (NWO), it is a collaboration between supranational political organisations, like the United Nations and the European Union, controlled scientific authorities, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), global financial institutions, including the World Bank, IMF, ECB and Bank for International settlements (BIS), globalist organisations like the World Economic Forum (WEF), NGO’s like the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and policy making thinks tanks such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Club of Rome and the Trilateral Commission.
London and the British Empire (aka the Rothschild Empire) is one prominent tentacle of the emerging global governance system. It has capitalised on the COVID 19 crisis to create the conditions for a new global economic and political model. While COVID 19 appears to be a nasty strain of the common coronavirus, New York and London has spun a fake narrative about the disease to further the interests of its globalist, oligarch masters. Managing a response to a pandemic is merely the deceptive justification for the planned re-engineering of society.
In partnership with Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the BMGF, the WEF were chief architects of Events 201 which plotted, in quite precise detail, the global lockdown and the world’s media response to a global coronavirus pandemic. Event 201 was staged merely a matter of months before a global coronavirus pandemic broke out. Both the government lockdown and MSM response have proceeded exactly as they predicted. Do note that the three entities named above are all within the Rockefeller orbit. This whole pandemic, or should we say, “scamdemic” is a Rockefeller operation and NOT a Rothschild operation. But, the Rothschild Empire has gleefully jumped at this opportunity to bring about changes in the economic, social, political and financial world of those countries that fall within their control. It is remarkable that there are still so many who accuse any who point to this long standing New World Order plan, extensively documented and spoken about by political leaders for generations, of being so called conspiracy theorists. One wonders if these people can read.
Referencing the COVID 19 opportunities, one of the founders, and current executive chairman, of the WEF Klaus Schwab recently wrote:
A sharp economic downturn has already begun, and we could be facing the worst depression since the 1930s. But, while this outcome is likely, it is not unavoidable. To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism.
Capitalism requires a reset because the model of closed shop crony capitalism, operated by the global parasite class for centuries, has reached the limits of growth. Therefore they need to create a new economic paradigm ( the Great Reset) both to further centralise and consolidate their power and to fix their failing business model.
Mind you, it’s all connected. There are no coincidences. The infamous Agenda 2021 which coincides with and complements the so-called (UN) Agenda 2030, will be duly inaugurated by the WEF’s official declaration of The Great Reset, in January 2021. Similarly, the implementation of the agenda of The Great Reset began in January 2020 with the launch of the corona pandemic, which has been planned for decades with the latest visible events being the 2010 Rockefeller Report with its “Lockstep Scenario”, and Event 201 held in NYC which computer-simulated a corona pandemic.
The Great Reset, as announced by WEF’s Klaus Schwab, is supposedly implemented by Agenda ID2020. It is more than meets the eye. Following the official path of the UN Agenda 2030, the ‘implementing’ Agenda ID2020 – which is currently being tested on school children in Bangladesh – will provide digitized IDs possibly in the form of Nano-chips implanted along with compulsory vaccination programs, will promote digitization of money and the rolling out of 5G – which would be needed to upload and monitor personal data on the Nano-chips and to control the populace. Agenda ID2020 will most likely also include ‘programs’ – through vaccination – of significantly reducing world population. Eugenics is an important component in the control of future world population under a NOW / OWO.
The ruling elite used the lockdown as an instrument to carry out this agenda. Its implementation would naturally face massive protests, organized and funded along the same lines as were the BLM protests and demonstrations. They may not be peaceful – and may not be planned as being peaceful. Because to control the population in the US and in Europe, where most of the civil unrest would be expected, a total militarization of the people is required. This is well under preparation. The WEF-masters are confronted with a real dilemma. Their plan depends very much on the dollar supremacy which would continue to allow dishing out sanctions and confiscating assets from those countries opposing US rule; a dollar-hegemony which would allow imposing the components of The Great Reset scheme, as described above.
A Breakdown of ‘The Great Reset’ and The New World Economic Order
One of the main themes of the article was the WEF’s ‘Strategic Intelligence Platform’, which the organisation describe as ‘a dynamic system of contextual intelligence that enables users to trace relationships and interdependencies between issues, supporting more informed decision-making‘. When you look into Strategic Intelligence, one aspect to it that quickly becomes apparent is how each global issue and industry intertwines with one another.
So it is little surprise then that the WEF have devised through their Strategic Intelligence platform ‘The Great Reset‘. What this entails are the seven leading objectives for achieving the reset.
In no particular order these are:
- Shaping the Economic Recovery
- Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Strengthening Regional Development
- Revitalizing Global Cooperation
- Developing Sustainable Business Models
- Restoring the Health of the Environment
- Redesigning Social Contracts, Skills and Jobs
Added to this is a mix of global issues and industries woven into ‘The Great Reset‘ agenda.
As mentioned, all these subjects intermix throughout Strategic Intelligence. The distinction comes in the fact that the World Economic Forum have identified ‘The Great Reset‘ as the one issue that can bind all these other areas of concern together to try and bring about an economic and societal ‘New World Order‘.
So much so that when announcing the initiative in June, the WEF confirmed that the reset will be the theme of its annual Davos meeting in Switzerland come January 2021. In previous years the WEF have only published details of an upcoming theme a few weeks before the meeting takes place. This time, however, they have given over six months’ notice, which suggests the level of significance that the WEF have placed on ‘The Great Reset‘. Having ascertained the seven main objectives and the plethora of industries and issues tied to them; let’s now get a sense of the motivations behind the reset from those who are calling for it.
As many are aware, using crisis as an opportunity to bring about major economic and societal change is a notorious strategy of global planners. And every so often some of those planners suggest as much. The Prince of Wales, who fully endorses the Great Reset, said that ‘unprecedented shockwaves of crisis may make people more receptive to bigger visions of change‘. When the Great Reset agenda was unveiled, one of the other leading proponents was IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. She declared it of ‘paramount importance‘ that a future return to economic growth must encompass a ‘greener, smarter and fairer world‘. There is no need to wait, said Georgieva. The world must act now.
One of the most important takeaways from Georgieva’s intervention was her admission that ‘the digital economy is the big winner of this crisis‘. We have seen this already through the exponential growth in central banks discussing the issuance of their own digital currencies and using Covid-19 as a reason to reinforce calls for a new global economic ‘architecture‘. The unproven fear of cash being a transmitter of the virus, along with people relying on contactless payments and online transactions, has no doubt contributed to her outlook.
The implication is that without a vaccine the world will be unable to return to any sense of normality, particularly in terms of open interaction with your fellow man. Only with a vaccine and supplementary treatments can there be a ‘fully fledged recovery‘.
All over the Western world ever since 9/11 there have been incremental steps towards what many liberty advocates would call a “police state”; a system in which governments are no longer restricted by the boundaries of civil liberties and are given the power to do just about anything they want in the name of public safety.
In countries like Australia, which claim to value Western democratic principles of liberty and rule by the people, the perception is that civil rights are codified into the legal framework just as they are in the US.
However, there are some glaring differences and issues; specifically, Australian citizens (like many European citizens) have absolutely no means to compel their government or the elites that influence their government to limit themselves.
It is these nations, in which the populations have been mostly disarmed and pacified, that any agenda for tyranny will first be established. But we will get to that in a moment. Make no mistake, there is a very OPEN and easily identifiable agenda on the part of globalists to establish a heavily centralized police state system in every country they are able. This is not “conspiracy theory”, this is conspiracy fact.
For many years now there have been numerous analysts, economists and geopolitical experts in the alternative media that have predicted and warned the public about the globalist strategy of “order out of chaos”. In other words, the ultra-wealthy power brokers that hold influence over most governments on Earth seek to “reshape” the existing social order through the creation of crisis and disaster. By engineering public desperation, they hope to lure us into accepting restrictions on our freedoms that we would have never considered otherwise. The goal of a single global economy and government has been spoken of by elites time and time again, yet it is still to this day called “conspiracy theory” or “paranoid delusion”.
Scientific Study: ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Are the Sanest Of All
I could quote these elites and their organizations all day long, but I’ll cite a few choice statements to make my point.
As former Deputy Secretary of State under Clinton and Council on Foreign Relations member Strobe Talbot wrote in an article for Time Magazine in 1992 titled ‘America Abroad: The Birth Of The Global Nation’: In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.
And how about one of my favorite revealing quotes from Trilateral Commission member Richard N. Gardner, former deputy assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations under Kennedy and Johnson. He wrote in the April, 1974 issue of the Council on Foreign Relation’s (CFR) journal Foreign Affairs (pg. 558) in an article titled ‘The Hard Road to World Order’: “In short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion,’ but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.”
Members of globalist foundations and think-tanks like the CFR have inhabited nearly every US government office and presidential cabinet for the past several decades. This includes the two dozen or so CFR members in Donald Trump’s cabinet. Draining the swamp? Not going to happen.
The easiest method for the globalists to get what they openly say they want is to either conjure a crisis or exploit an existing crisis in order to “erode sovereignty”. The current pandemic fits this plan perfectly, but before sovereignty can be eliminated on a national level they need to undermine sovereignty on an individual level first.
To be continued in Great Reset Part 2.
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Actions within the US and nations allied to the US suggest an accelerated attack on personal liberties is at hand. There are sister foundations to the CFR in many other countries.
For example, in Australia they have the highly embedded and influential Strategic Policy Institute, which has been consistently advocating for complete centralization of government power in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Their stated plan is to concentrate policy administration in the hands of a new “commission” or “department” made up of the “brightest minds”. This commission would not be tasked with getting Australia back to normal, but convincing the public to ACCEPT the “new normal” beyond the pandemic.
The ASPI enthusiastically heralds the idea in an article titled ‘Coronavirus Response A Chance To Reimagine Future For Australia’:
“The agenda of such a department now is not about getting Australia back to normal after the pandemic. It’s about re-imagining what Australia can be and how we can thrive and prosper in our future beyond the coronavirus and in light of drought, bushfires and climate change. “Think about the kind of new economy we can have after the forced, rapid adoption of dispersed home working and schooling through digital means. We can be the leading digital economy the prime minister desired before the pandemic, not by 2030 but much earlier.”
This reminds me immediately of the post 9/11 push to rapidly remove constitutional protections while the public was blinded by fear and confusion. As US globalist Rahm Emanuel would say: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
The ASPI reveals the true agenda, which is the complete federalization and unilateral implementation of law without public approval. The plan is to do this by exploiting the pandemic event to its full potential and then applying the rapid societal changes in government structure. This will then be carried on long after the coronavirus disappears in the name of the economy, welfare programs and so-called “global warming”. The pandemic response is just a means to an end, and the end fame is total dominance of the population.
Australia Is A Full Scale Pilot Test for The New World Order
Several journalists and content creators have noticed that Australia looks like the most totalitarian police state that has existed in recent history. It has become a full-scale pilot test for the elitists to see how well they can implement the New World Order.
I focus on Australia and the surrounding regions in particular because this seems to be the place where globalists are enforcing technocratic policies first. Or at the very least, they are test-running their strategy and using Australians as guinea pigs.
When the ASPI says they plan to keep the pandemic changes in place well after the virus is gone, they aren’t just talking about shifting into a digital economy.
Right now in the Western World, Australia and New Zealand are slamming citizens with perhaps the most draconian measures yet. These are policies that the elites want to introduce everywhere, but they are going full bore in Australia, and it just keeps getting worse.
In various areas of Australia “Level 4” response measures have been enforced for at least the next six weeks, including curfews, strict mask policies including people being forced to wear masks OUTSIDE . Residents are not allowed to travel more than 3 miles from their homes and only one person from a household is allowed to leave at any given time.
Citizens violating these rules are subject to $10,000 fines or arrest. And, yes, people are being arrested simply for not wearing mask or being too far from home.
In New Zealand, the situation has become worse. While Australia has been using quarantine facilities to force people considered high risk to isolate, NZ quarantine camps are now fully under the control of the military, and ALL citizens who test positive or are suspected to have Covid can be separated from their families and placed in the camps, which are hotels converted into prisons.
It is the complete erasure of personal liberties all because of an increase in cases which has amounted to a mere 525 deaths in Australia and 22 deaths in New Zealand.
The elitists are using Australia to test out these authoritarian measures, such as getting the public used to a police state in which the military and police both patrol the streets ready to commit violence against other humans for refusing to quarantine when not sick or not wearing their New World Order issued face mask.
“These guys know full well what they are doing. They are psychopaths, but they aren’t stupid. The politicians are redistributing both wealth and power away from the public and consolidating it into their own hands.
We are in big trouble if we cannot get the military and the police who are committing violence on behalf of the tyrants to realize what they are doing to humanity. All of this is over 17 new cases of COVID-19. This absolutely horrifying that people continue to buy this scam. “Heavy-handed tyranny and oppression is happening everywhere,” If you don’t think this is coming to the United States or in your own country in the form of a second lockdown, think again.
The media has been preparing us for a “dark winter” and a “second wave” since the first false wave happened. Don’t’ live a life terrified (they enslave you with your fear), but make sure you know what’s going on. The best preparedness plan includes one of awareness of this situation we’ve found ourselves in today.
I believe the reason Australia and New Zealand have been targeted with this level of restrictions first is because they have been almost fully disarmed and have no means to defend themselves from government overstep. Another important point to note here is that both Australia and New Zealand are countries that are within the Rothschild orbit. Along with another Rothschild country, Israel, we find the highest levels of government heavy – handedness in imposing hard lockdowns. Why are the Rothschilds imposing such heavy lockdowns in their countries? The UK is also about to enter a period of harder lockdowns. Is it because Britain and the Rothschilds need to show New York that they are so obedient? Or is it because of Brexit and the impending peace deals in the Middle East between Israel and some Arab countries?
That said; I see signs that similar measures will be attempted in the US as well.
In states like New York, there are low-key programs to set up Covid checkpoints stopping and checking vehicles coming into the state. This is where heavier restrictions start. First, checkpoints will be established in the name of keeping infected people out of a state or city. Then, those same checkpoints will be used to keep people from leaving a state or city. Then, checkpoints will be set up at random to test people for fever or symptoms of illness. If allowed to continue, the natural progression of checkpoints is to terrify the population into not traveling anywhere for any reason.
Like in Australia and NZ, people will effectively be imprisoned in their homes. At this stage, bringing in laws or executive orders punishing people for leaving home will be easier; they will have already acclimated to being trapped at home anyway.
Furthermore, elites and globalists within the US are calling for hard lockdowns for at least six weeks, just like the Level 4 lockdowns in Australia. Federal Reserve member Neel Kashkari recently asserted that Americans are saving more, thus they should be subjected to hard lockdowns “because they can afford it”.
Virginia is planning mandatory Covid vaccinations, even though vaccines for SARS like viruses have proven impossible to develop in the past, and rushed vaccines have a history of harming or killing people rather than protecting them. Set aside the issue that giving government the power to force citizens to inject anything into their bodies is immoral.
What’s next – Covid camps? Well, yes, unless Americans make a hard stand. Mainstream media outlets have been suggesting this strategy for months. The Washington Post applauded the use of forced isolation camps in other nations and asks why the US has not yet used them beyond ports for foreign travelers?
The reason is this: Many Americans will not go along with such measures, and will use force (in-kind) against anyone trying to lock them up because of a virus that is a moderate threat at most to a small percentage of the population. That said; don’t assume that the establishment will not eventually try it here. They will. Be ready when they do so. Look to the actions in places like Australia and NZ and ask yourself, am I willing to go along with that? And if so, for how long?
Following the 2008 banking collapse, while the people were forced to suffer austerity to bail out the banks with a form of highly selective crony socialism, the parasite class simply carried on piling up the debt. In the Basel Capital Accords III, supposedly designed to stop the wild market speculations of banks which caused the collapse, they effectively reduced the liquidity (capital reserve) requirements for banks, allowing them to lend even more.
This process of allowing banks to create FIAT currency out of nothing has inevitably led to a global debt of approximately $260 trillion, which is more than three times the size of the planets GDP.
However, this is small potatoes compared to the scale of the financial products derivatives market. Estimated to be somewhere between $600 trillion to more than $1 quadrillion. While some say this is only the notional amount of the debt tied up in derivative contracts, the fact remains this is all debt.
Cumulatively, there isn’t enough productivity on Earth even to service the interest on these debts, let alone pay them. Ultimately this is debt owed to the two families who control the world’s system of central banks. It is a Mickey Mouse system allowing monopolists to seize assets using their own funny money.
While the power to create all FIAT currency, out of nothing but debt creation, has afforded them immense economic and political control, 2008 demonstrated that their usury fraud can, and certainly will, collapse. Hence the Great Reset. Responding to a pandemic, or saving lives, has nothing to do with it. The process of transition, laid out by the WEF as the Great Reset, builds upon the sustainable development goals of the U.N’s Agenda 2030. Founded upon the generational eugenicist ideology of the Rockefeller family, the new global governance system will be a technocracy.
While Technocracy, rule by technocrats appointed or elected for their particular expertise, may sound appealing to some, the model proposed relies upon the destruction of nations states to be replaced by a distant global technocratic order that serves only the interests of its founding oligarchs and financial benefactors.
This technocratic system was outlined in 1974 by former US ambassador Richard N. Gardner, member of the CFR and the Trilateral Commission, in his article The Hard Road to World Order:
“Never has there been such widespread recognition by the world’s intellectual leadership of the necessity for cooperation and planning on a truly global basis. Never has there been such an extraordinary growth in the constructive potential of transnational private organizations – not just multinational corporations but international associations of every kind in which like-minded persons around the world weave effective patterns of global action.”
The global COVID 19 crisis is a catalysing event which has been misused to bring about the Great Reset. In order to convince the people to comply with their orders, governments and the media has inculcated the population into a state of fear. In other circumstances this would have been impossible without significant revolt. Terrorising the public was essential to convince them to believe that the State had to remove all their rights and freedoms in order to keep them safe.
Initially deceiving the public that the “emergency measures” would be temporary, further behaviour modification was then used to force people to comply with a lengthening list of totalitarian regulations. The objective was to move people towards passively accepting the dictatorship of a surveillance state re-branded as “the new normal.” Thus far, it appears most people have been sufficiently frightened to meekly accept their enslavement. Throughout the Great Reset transition, the public face of the globalist project has been Bill Gates. However, while Gates has used his wealth to seize control of global public health policy, he is just the current front man for the Rockefeller Empire. It is the technological possibilities presented by the 4th Industrial Revolution which the architects of the world order are capitalising upon.
For example, while there is no evidence that COVID 19 can be spread by handling cash, the MSM have repeatedly floated the idea.
Pilot schemes, such as the BMGF backed West African Wellness Pass, are already underway. By linking biometric identification, along the lines of the BMGF funded, Rockefeller and U.N backed ID 2020, with cashless payment systems, all transactions can be centrally controlled in the rapidly approaching cashless society.
When your biometric identity includes your vaccine immunity status, there will be no necessity to legislate to make vaccines “compulsory.” Thus avoiding any contentious public debate. As long as you fully comply with your orders, you will be allowed controlled access to social and economic activity.
Systems like immunity passport and vaccine certificates will be used to control freedom of movement, the right to work and to access services and the community. As described by Rockefeller’s New World Order spokesman Bill Gates: Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it.”
While vaccines may not be compulsory you won’t realistically be able to participate in society, employment, run a business or receive benefits, without the appropriate vaccine or immunity status.
The BMGF have already invested more than $21 million in an MIT project to create a microneedle vaccine delivery system that will inject a reactive die under the recipient’s skin which can then be scanned by a reader. This pattern will act like an indelible bar code tattoo, enabling the global authorities to monitor and control your whereabouts and behaviour.
Having complete control over the testing and attribution of disease status affords the Biosecurity State the power to potentially remove and detain its political enemies and dissenters without trial.
This quarantine policy in New Zealand, Australia and Israel is designed to maintain the level of fear and accustom the population to dictatorship. It also appears to be a provocation that may encourage insurrection and revolt. With a monopoly on violence and the use of force, violent uprisings invariably benefit the Authoritarian State. It allows them to claim legitimacy for an even more oppressive “crack down.”
Thus far, the global response to COVID 19 has deviated little from the Rockefeller’s suggested Lockstep scenario in their 2010 report Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development.
While New Zealand is the first nominally democratic state to raid family homes and remove people by force, it certainly won’t be the last.
World economic activity will be administered by biosecurity States and based upon sustainable development goals. This new, centrally planned, global economy will be restricted only to permitted businesses. Prior to his departure as governor of the Bank of England, in lockstep with the Great Reset, Mark Carney warned that companies that don’t follow the correct sustainability policies “will go bankrupt without question.” In other words, lines of credit, without which business cannot hope to function, will be limited only to those who adopt the approved polices.
This new economy will have very limited employment. Carney’s successor Andrew Bailey has already stated that it would be important not to keep people in “unproductive jobs” and that job losses, as a result of the COVID 19 crisis, were inevitable.
The preposterous spin of the bankers and carefully chosen economists that western economies will simply bounce back from an unprecedented 20% drop in GDP is absurd. With official unemployment more than doubling in a single year, these numbers are merely the tip of a very large, looming iceberg.
This will, as ever, disproportionately impact the lowest paid, with analysis suggesting that more than 50% of those at risk of unemployment are already in jobs paying less than $20 per hour.
These are the unproductive jobs and livelihoods Bailey wants to get rid of. Across Europe and the Americas staggering levels of unemployment are seemingly unavoidable. With the same pattern common to many developed nations, the social, economic and health impacts of this are almost beyond comprehension. Many have long been warning that the toll taken by the Lockdown response to the supposed COVID 19 pandemic will be far worse than the disease itself. This awful prospect is becoming increasingly apparent.
It is important to recognise that the global lockdown response was a political choice made to create the economic condition for the Great Reset. It was not unavoidable, and there is no evidence that lockdowns make any difference to COVID 19 mortality. South Korea, Japan and Sweden did not impose full lockdowns and all have better COVID 19 outcomes that the UK or the US.
This is the price we will all pay for the two familys’ determination to bring about the Great Reset and change the world’s economy and society to one centrally planned and controlled absolutely by them. They are currently spending billions globally on propaganda to convince us to accept their “new normal.” They require our consent if their plans are going to work. This means, in order to scupper them, all we need to do is refuse to comply. While peaceful protest is an important unifying right, ultimately it is what we do every day that will make the difference. Yet all we need to do in order to defeat it is refuse, en masse, to follow its orders.
Unfortunately, many governments are among those throwing everything at convincing us to believe their frankly ridiculous, scientifically illiterate, COVID 19 propaganda narrative. We only need wander to the local supermarket and witness the faceless, muzzled majority to know the deception is working.
We are faced with an existential choice. We can either give up any childish pretensions that we live in a free and open democratic society that values liberty and plurality of opinion, and accept the fascist dictatorial rule of a global technocratic parasite, or we can exercise conscious resistance and refuse to comply with the orders of the State.
While Lockdown policies originate at a global level, by looking at how governments have implemented them, and the deception they have used to convince the public to accept them, the true nature of the scamdemic can be revealed.
The ‘Great Reset’ Is Coming Like A Bullet Train
Indeed, no industry or business will be able to avoid the impact of the changes ahead. Either they adapt to fit in with the Great Reset agenda (assuming they have the resources to do so), or they will not survive.
It is your smaller companies and independent run businesses that are faced with ruin, opening the door to a new era of mergers and acquisitions that will further erode consumer choice and competition.
Global media coverage of Covid-19 has characterised it as a deadly virus that kills with impunity, and without the antidote of a vaccine could devour communities whole. They admit that Covid-19 is ‘one of the least deadly pandemics in the last 2000 years‘, and barring something unforeseen ‘the consequences of the virus will be mild compared to previous pandemics.’
WHO said that Covid-19 ‘does not constitute an existential threat or a shock that will leave its imprint on the world’s population for decades‘. The truth of the matter is that it is the measures imposed in the name of Covid-19 that have caused widespread economic destruction, not the virus itself. That distinction is one that mainstream outlets in particular refuse to engage with. It is the old cliché of dominoes falling. Once one falters it sets off a chain reaction, which was evidenced back in 2008 when Lehman Brothers collapsed. The scale of change that globalists are calling for through the vehicle of a Great Reset, which by definition is global in nature, will require the implosion of the current world order to lay the foundations for a new world order. The old must make way for the new. And the one method for how that could be achieved is through increased kickback against interdependence. Sustained crises offer many opportunities for global planners.
The potential for a contested U.S. election, an upcoming no deal Brexit and warnings of ‘vaccine nationalism‘ are three eventualities that if brought to bear could be exploited and used to advance the cause for a Great Reset. I would say that the further the world appears from collaboration and cooperation, the more people are going to call for those very same things if they become increasingly desperate.
Let’s keep in mind though that so far it is only global institutions like the WEF that are promoting the initiative, not national administrations. When it starts to permeate politics is when you know the agenda is advancing. But what exactly will the economic and societal conditions be when the Great Reset becomes part of the global conversation?
Have what we have seen up to now been enough to compel people to call for change on a global scale?
Already ‘solutions‘ like Universal Basic Income have been touted. But as yet there is not a widespread clamouring for change. But that time is coming. Whether it be in the name of Agenda 2030 (aka Sustainable Development), The Green New Deal or The Great Reset, it would amount to largely the same outcome – the subjugation once and for all of national
Fearful people are vulnerable. Fear pulls the energy out of our bodies and minds, lowers the capacity of our immune system and increases the chances that we get sick, both physically from any disease, not just Covid, but also mentally. Indeed, we have barely seen the tip of the iceberg. The WEF admit, almost with a certain satisfaction, it seems, that millions of jobs will be lost and continue to be eviscerated at breathtaking speed, and that millions of small and medium size enterprises will be gone forever, that only a few will survive, namely the globalized conglomerates.
The reader will start thinking, ‘what will happen to me, my family, my business, or work – my children, their education – there will be an endless row of “what will happen”, leading to despair, to angst and anxieties – all kinds of pathologies. Pathology begets pathology. Big time. More energy is sucked out of our bodies and minds, more gullibility instilled in our brains – you want to belong, you don’t want to be discarded like all those men and women who have lost their jobs, their livelihoods – who will get sick of loneliness in social distancing isolation – and may even get the covid disease, if they don’t wear a mask. You want to wear a mask. The media’s fear campaign has scared you. And when you wear a mask, you also belong. Never mind what it does for or against your health, you want to look the same – like everybody wearing masks. Wearing a mask is like a ritual that eventually allows you to belong to the masquerade. Because, have you seen how non-mask wearers are looked and sneered at, as if they were lepers or criminals?
You want to adhere to the rules – but silently and with inherent hope you look into an uncertain future – a hope of a better world, of a return to The Normal you know. There, at the horizon, hope is still glimmering like a fading sunset. And you want to race towards that horizon, a horizon that is ever moving away from you – as horizons are known to do.
Being segregated and separated from the believers for non-obedience is the stick. Now comes the carrot. If you behave and obey the rules, you will be eligible for a vaccine – one of about 20 or 30 (maybe more) currently being developed by a myriad of different laboratories and countries. It’s the Russians, the Americans, the Chinese, the Cubans, the French, the Africans – it’s impossible to keep track of them, let alone trusting them.
Some of the vaccines are designed to genetically modifying your DNA forever – meaning, if the vaccine leaves a lasting damage, the damage will indeed be lasting, can never be cured. It may also be transmitted as a modified genome to your children and following generations. But you don’t mind. You want to get out from under this oppression, this health tyranny. You go: PLEASE-PLEASE gimme the vaccine!
And then, they tell you, once you are vaccinated, there is a chance that some of what you are used to may go back to “normal” – meaning some things will become “normal” again. But by and large, the WEF authors, the servants of the Rockefeller Empire, tell you also that you better get used to a new normal. They never tell you actually what the new normal will exactly entail. But they tell you what’s wrong with the current world order of consisting of a collection of sovereign nation states and what the New World Order – all under One Government – would address. But they don’t say how and by whom – and what the new role of We, the People, will be, of those who survive the imploding cataclysm. It may be close to slavehood.
But, it’s never too late. We have the power of will and solidarity, if we reenact it, to stop this cataclysm in its tracks
First you attack and kill, then you offer salvation to the survivors – and kill at the same time, by the tools of salvation, and along the way, you divide to conquer. Divide the pandemic believers from the non-believers; divide between the mask wearers and the mask protesters, divide between those who believe that “social distancing” is the answer, and those who know that social distancing accelerates the disease and eventually the process of dying. They create an ambiance of animosity and conflicts among those who were friends.
The 5G existence and further development is necessary for surveillance and control of humanity, by digitizing everything, including human identity and money.
It will be so simple, no more cash, just electronic, digital money – that is way beyond the control of the owner, the truthful earner of the money, as it can be accessed by the Global Government and withheld and / or used for pressuring misbehaving citizens into obeying the norms imposed from above. You don’t behave according to our norms, no money to buy food, shelter and health services, we let you starve. No more travel. No more attending public events. You’ll be put gradually in your own solitary confinement. The dictatorial and tyrannical global commandeering by digital control of everything is the essence of the 4th Age of Industrialization – highly promoted by the WEF’s Great Reset.
The Political Side of Covid
Then we have Covid “The Political Operation”. This type of Covid phenomena relates to the manner in which a modestly-lethal respiratory pathogen has been inflated into a perennial public health crisis in order to implement economic and societal changes that would otherwise be impossible.
This is the political side of Covid, which is much more difficult to define since it relates to the ambiguous agenda of powerful elites who are using the infection to conceal their real intentions. Covid is a vehicle the Rockefeller Empire is using to launch their authoritarian New World Order.
Others think it has more to do with Climate Change, that is, rather than build consensus among the world leaders for mandatory carbon reductions, global mandarins have simply imposed lockdowns that sharply reduce economic activity across-the-board.
This, in fact, has lowered emissions significantly, but at great cost to most of humanity. Covid restrictions have triggered a sharp uprise in suicides, clinical depression, child abuse, domestic violence, alcoholism and drug abuse. The list goes on and on. Also, it has left economies everywhere in shambles, increasing unemployment and homelessness exponentially, while setting the stage for massive famines in undeveloped countries around the world.
Even so, key players in the Covid crisis – like Bill Gates – continue to marvel at impact these onerous restrictions have had on emissions. Take a look at this excerpt from a recent post at the Microsoft founder’s blog: “You may have seen projections that, because economic activity has slowed down so much, the world will emit fewer greenhouse gases this year than last year. Although these projections are certainly true, their importance for the fight against climate change has been overstated.
Consider what it’s taking to achieve this 8 percent reduction. More than 600,000 people have died, and tens of millions are out of work. This April, car traffic was half what it was in April 2019. For months, air traffic virtually came to a halt. To put it mildly, this is not a situation that anyone would want to continue. And yet we are still on track to emit 92 percent as much carbon as we did last year. What’s remarkable is not how much emissions will go down because of the pandemic, but how little. In addition, these reductions are being achieved at, literally, the greatest possible cost. If you want to understand the kind of damage that climate change will inflict, look at COVID-19 and spread the pain out over a much longer period of time.
Isn’t it curious that Gates has spent so much time calculating the impact lockdowns have had on carbon emissions? And look at how precise his calculations are. Gates’ interest in these matters is not merely speculative curiosity. He and his fellow elites are conducting an elaborate science experiment in which we – mere mortals – are the lab rats. What Gates says is, if reducing economic activity isn’t going to work, then we have to find an entirely different solution, like reducing the size of the population. Isn’t that the only logical conclusion?
Yes, it is. So, the Great Lab Experiment of 2020 (Covid) has a lot to do with population control; thinning the herd. But population control is just a small part of a much more ambitious plan to restructure the global economy, vaccinate everyone on the planet and dispose of those niggling civil liberties to which Americans have become so attached.
The elitist strategy has been dubbed the “Great Reset” which refers to the World Economic Forum’s Covid Action Platform, a program that aims at restructuring “economic and social foundations” in a way that best suits the interests of “stakeholder” capitalists.
Here’s a clip from their press release:
“COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing, but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying. There is good reason to worry: a sharp economic downturn has already begun, and we could be facing the worst depression since the 1930s. But, while this outcome is likely, it is not unavoidable. To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism…”
The level of cooperation and ambition this implies is unprecedented. But it is not some impossible dream. In fact, one silver lining of the pandemic is that it has shown how quickly we can make radical changes to our lifestyles. Almost instantly, the crisis forced businesses and individuals to abandon practices long claimed to be essential, from frequent air travel to working in an office….
Clearly, the will to build a better society does exist. If it sounds like our illustrious leaders want to remake society from the ground-up, it’s because that’s exactly what they have in mind. And they’re not even trying to hide their real intentions. They say quite bluntly: “the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions.” That sounds a lot like marching orders and, indeed, that’s exactly what they are – orders.
But how do they intend to affect these dramatic and revolutionary changes? Why Covid, of course.
They’re going to use Covid to make fundamental changes to the existing system, including accelerating privatization (“stakeholder capitalism”), merging governments into a unified global regime, intensifying the elements of social control (via mass electronic surveillance, intrusive contact tracing, security checkpoints, lockdowns, internal passports, biometric IDs etc.) and taking whatever steps are required to introduce a tyrannical Brave New World.
It’s all there in black and white; they’re not even trying to hide it. In their own words, the “Great Reset” depends on the Covid Action Platform.
In order to “build a better society” we need to “make radical changes to our lifestyles” including reductions in “frequent air travel, and working from home rather than going to working in an office”.
The statement also makes clear that the obliteration of millions of jobs and small businesses was not an accidental casualty of the Covid lockdowns, but the planned demolition of business and workers these elites consider ‘non-essential’.
There it is from the horse’s mouth: The glorious Biosecurity Slave State is emerging right before our very eyes and we just thought we were in another Great Depression rounded off with a pandemic.
So, when we talk about Covid the “Political Contrivance”, we’re actually referring to the vehicle that elites have settled on to transition the country from its present condition to a full-blown “lock-down” police state. Covid is the smokescreen that’s being used to conceal the maneuverings of the Rockefeller Empire who want to implement their Grand Plan for humanity.
Rockefeller Foundation’s Operation Lockstep: ‘Under The Guise of a Pandemic, We Will Create a Prison State’
So, if everything feels chaotic and upside-down at the present time, don’t be alarmed; it’s all by design. The more muddled and turbulent the world becomes, the easier it is to get people to submit to moronic activities like wearing a face mask every time you leave the house.
Looking back to April of 2020, we probably should have anticipated where all this was headed, after all, Henry Kissinger, announced what to expect in an op-ed he posted in the Wall Street Journal. Here’s what he said:
“The reality is the world will never be the same after the coronavirus. To argue now about the past only makes it harder to do what has to be done…” (NOTE – Is Kissinger clairvoyant? How did he know the “world would never be the same again”?)
As Kissinger clearly states, globalization is still alive and well among the Davos heavyweights who now see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put their plan into action.
Parts of Australia and New Zealand are already under de-facto martial law while PM Boris Johnson is adding another 2,000 cops in London to enforce his Covid mandates. Everywhere in the western world, freedom is collapsing faster than a corrugated lean-to. Do they even see the train-wreck just ahead? At this moment in time we are standing on a precipice with the state attempting to push us over the edge. Once over that edge, there will be no coming back.
The global universal lockdown has already devastated and will continue to do so for years to come, our economy, jobs, businesses, livelihoods, society, social cohesions – you name it – what we called “normal” is gone, gone forever. This is the trick: Nations, mostly developing countries, who “play ball “will get money, aid money, loans and grants from the IMF, World Bank and other similar globalized institutions, to work towards achieving these goals. But – under the condition that they follow and submit to the Great Reset. The aid is a tool for further enslavement of the Global South by the Global North. Undeniably, this may lead to a division towards two or more powers – the globalists and the nationalists or the patriots.
Geopolitics
Let us be under no illusions, this is a carefully planned operation. There is nothing spontaneous or accidental. Economic recession is engineered at national and global levels. In turn, this crisis is also integrated into US-NATO military and intelligence planning. It is intent not only upon weakening China, Russia and Iran; it also consists in destabilizing the economic fabric of the European Union (EU).
The present lockdown of the Western world and much of the Third World is an attack on China. Here is how it works:
- Slash Chinese export earnings. The Chinese economy is heavily export-oriented. Seventeen percent of all China’s enormous production is shipped to countries that now, either cannot afford imports, or whose buying power is reduced from months of massive unemployment. What remains of Chinese exports will fetch lower prices. This comes after China’s export market to its largest trading partner, the U.S., was slapped by 10 to 25% import duties, beginning 2018.
- Bankrupt the Chinese Belt and Road projects. The Chinese export of capital (Belt and Road) for railways, waterways, dams, ports, power stations and other infrastructure improvements in 138 nations in the world is estimated at three trillion dollars. These projects are expected to be paid for by user fees. Because many Third World and other countries may be unable to repay those loans, China’s losses could be in the trillions.
- Attack Chinese commerce world-wide. To halt Chinese competition especially in electronics, companies such as Huawei and TikTok are banned in the U.S. and Britain, and the Chief Financial Officer of Huawei is jailed. Chinese scientists and students are deported, while American sanctions against Iran and Venezuela are designed to cut petroleum exports to China.
Of these, by far the greatest damage to the Chinese economy has been the lockdown; that damage will increase as world economies decline. This economic vacuum will put an extraordinary strain on the Chinese export industries and banking system.
There are two more major areas of attacks:
Military: The U S. has sent an enlarged fleet, including two aircraft carriers, into Chinese coastal waters. Australia is now building a base on a forward island confronting China, Japanese and Korean militaries have been beefed up and Japan may allow nuclear weapons on their territory. The U.S. has increased its military spending especially on advanced and nuclear weapons.
Chinese defense against such threats will be a military buildup costing an additional two or three hundred billion a year. This buildup entails a shift from peace-time capital and consumer goods to the military sector—a serious economic drain.
Propaganda: Hostile measures taken against China will be dressed up as the fight for “democracy,” “openness,” free trade,” “free enterprise,” “justice,” “rule of law,” “international rules,” “human rights,” “anti-terrorism,” “reform,” “anti-corruption” and “anti-communism.” We, especially North Americans, should expect human rights stories from Hong Kong and Xinjiang, yearly memorialization of the massacre at Tiananmen Square, documentaries on persecutions of Christians, Buddhists, the Dalai Lama and… don’t forget Tibet. And what about Chinese pollution that could destroy the planet? And what about the Chinese Communist Party, the most execrable, dangerous, evil organization in the world, towards which people of the West should direct an Orwellian hatred?
These attacks come at an inopportune time. China is embracing large scale automation requiring large capital outlays, while at the same time suffering natural disasters including the swine flu, widespread infestation of the dreaded Fall Army Worm, and devastating floods and droughts.
Is it possible that the Anglo-American financial elite had the power to convince nations worldwide to lock down? Well, they control the UN, WHO, the world organs of mass media, worldwide military deployment, world finance, and the Dollar Empire’s elaborate political, drug, crime, financial, propaganda and cultural networks. Euro-oligarchs collaborate (usually) with this system.
What do they hope to achieve?
We can put aside the easier answers like “world domination,” New World Order, corporate greed, financial control, 1984-style mind control, surveillance state. It is much more fundamental: The world Dollar Empire, and its predecessor British Empire, have ruled much of the world for 400 years. China has emerged as the most powerful challenger to that Empire. If China cannot be destroyed, the Dollar Empire will be vanquished.
Ranked from most desirable to least, here is what I believe the Western merchant-bankers hope to gain.
Most desirable: A regime change in China, whereby the government is overthrown in favor of a Dollar Empire vassal regime. A revolt of the Chinese people against a government that has lifted 800 million people out of poverty is very unlikely. However, military force is not out of the question. Foreign Affairs magazine, (September-October, 2020, p. 156) wrote: “By upgrading their already substantial capabilities in this domain [unmanned submersibles], the United States and its allies would highlight the possibility of a maritime blockade of China.”
Next best: To convince China to adopt financial and political measures amenable to Dollar Empire domination. In the words of former Goldman Sachs banker and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr., (Council on Foreign Relations newsletter, 5/19/20):
China must move to a “market-driven economy, improve corporate governance, and develop efficient, well-regulated financial markets that earn the respect of international investors, so that Beijing can eliminate capital controls and turn the RMB [renminbi] into a market-determined currency.”
In other words, de-regulation, lifting of capital and bank controls, opening the Chinese currency, the renminbi, to international speculation, “free trade,” “free markets” and IMF and WTO conditionalities, designed to open the huge Chinese economy to Dollar Empire looting—as occurred in Russia in 1992-1998. But the Chinese have found a recipe for national success (industrial capitalism), and that fire-belching dragon, the Chinese Communist Party, guards the gate against renewed imperialist looting.
Least: The Dollar System can achieve the third level of options: a combined economic (lockdown, sanctions, trade and financial war), military (NATO, Five Eyes, 7th fleet) and political (ethnic/jihadist subversion, drugs, propaganda) attack on the Chinese economy. That will retard China’s growth and reduce its world power.
Instead of strife, bloodshed and terrible destruction, why don’t the Western financial elite join with China in solving the world crises of poverty, refugees and war; why not together explore the frontiers of medicine, science and space? While China might be amenable to collaboration with the West, the oligarchs of the West are locked against it. After all, it is they who created the poverty, refugees and war, and it is they who have spent the post-WWII years dismantling industry, sending much of it to China.
China is a successful, developing economy; the West is an unsuccessful, deteriorating economy. China is based on industrial capitalism; the West is based on merchant-banking capitalism. China invests its capital in industrial plant and equipment and infrastructure; the West invests in financial instruments.
The Chinese seek increased industrial and agricultural production to satisfy people’s needs. The Dollar Empire steals the wealth of nations to create speculative profits. The Chinese system creates capital. The Western system destroys capital. The Chinese System never has financial crashes; the Western System suffers devastating crashes rescued by levies on the population. Chinese industrial capitalism raises the living standard of the population; the West’s financial capitalism lowers the living standard.
This is “end game” for the governing oligarchy. This is their Armageddon. In the death throes of their 400-year-long reign, they will impose a desperate economic, financial and social reorganization which the World Economic Forum calls the “Great Reset.”
One of the world’s most prominent merchant-banker organizations, the World Economic Forum, issued a report, titled:
“This is Now the World’s Greatest Threat—and it’s Not Coronavirus”
“Affluence is the biggest threat to our world according to a new scientific report.”
“True sustainability will only be achieved through drastic lifestyle changes.”
“The World Economic Forum has called for a ‘great reset’ of capitalism in the wake of the pandemic.”
With lockdown-caused destitution, unemployment, lack of food and shelter for hundreds of millions of people worldwide, one would expect that the WEF would be satisfied that “overconsumption” had been sufficiently curbed. However, they know there is still substantial wealth in the American and European middle classes that can be tapped for the post-lockdown economy. They have big plans to get rid of that “overconsumption.”
The first task is to reduce unemployment, now probably 25 million long-term jobless in the U.S. Make-work projects will be “green” and “sustainable” (low technology). This will be paid for by taxing the middle class.
The second task, their true and ultimate agenda, is to create an all-out war economy—the final attempt to terrify the East into submission. This will bring extreme austerity and repression.
The World Economic Forum chieftains could not be more pleased. Changeover to “green” sustainability would bring a great reduction in “affluence” by heavily raising the price of energy making everything, from agriculture to industry to transportation, grossly more expensive. Furthermore, to pay the “huge amounts of money to be spent on recovery,” will require heavy tax burdens, or social services spending cuts. The Western populations will not be told their sacrifices are made to thwart China and collapse world industry, but rather, made to “save the planet.” The theory of the Green Revolution is that the West will continue to dismantle its industry to meet climate deadlines while China will be forced, by world public opinion, to follow suit.
The “Green Revolution” will soon dissolve into a total war policy. Sacrifices imposed by the “final solution” military buildup against the East (Russia-China bloc) will strip the remaining wealth of the people. Taxes, inflation, interest rates, will rise as the nation is deprived of health care, education, public services, pensions and Social Security. The “global warming” foe will turn into the Yellow Peril foe.
Totalitarian destruction of our freedoms will be as dreaded as those of Hitler Germany. Free speech will be considered a security risk, neighbors will spy on neighbors, and thousands will disappear or be assassinated. Race riots will be used to “divide and conquer.” Electronic spying will be ubiquitous, as will be preventive detention. All the police state measures used against foreign populations by the military, State Department, intelligence agencies and hired mercenaries and drug mafias, will be turned against Americans. Our next article is also in 2 parts, and is titled “America’s Geopolitical Opportunity in the Post-Covid Era”. In here, we will explain America’s game-plan for achieving its Fortress America Plan, and then engineering the blow-up of the Middle East. These are the steps needed to launch a global war – or World War 3, or, more appropriately, the 3rd Battle of Eurasia. It would be necessary to have a map of the globe when reading this article. Stay tuned folks!
OnWednesday, 3 June 2020, while the rest of the world was preoccupied with a pandemic, a looming global depression and race riots throughout the US and other major cities around the world, the WEF quietly announced their Great Reset Initiative. The announcement came in the form of an online meeting streamed to 600 attendees at 14:30 Central European Summer Time. The meeting was hosted by HRH The Prince of Wales and Klaus Schwab, Founder & Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum.
Other presenters included:
- Kristalina Georgieva, Chairwoman and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, who made $1-trillion available in lending capacity, with conditions including “a greener, smarter, fairer world” ($24b has already been allocated to developing nations in Africa and Western Europe);
- António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations;
- Caroline Anstey, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pact and past Managing Director of the World Bank;
- “Ajay” Singh Banga, the President and Chief Executive Officer of MasterCard, who said during the meeting that “The idea of looking ahead really requires us to put cynicism away and start thinking about constructive participation. You’re welcome to have a point of view and you’re welcome to have a discourse, but being an armchair critic is really not acceptable.”;
- Sharan Burrow, the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation and a former President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions;
- Victoria Alonsoperez, UN Young Leader and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ChipSafer, a patented platform to electronically track cows remotely and autonomously;
- Ma Jun, Chairman of China’s Green Finance Committee and co-chair of the G20 Green Finance Study Group, an initiative of the People’s Bank of China, the Bank of England and the UN Environment Programme;
- Juliana Rotich, venture partner with Atlantica Ventures and Founder of Ushahidi, a crowdsourced data gathering platform, who said during the meeting that, “There’s an opportunity to centre the reset on those who are most vulnerable, those on the edge where it only takes something like a pandemic to slide into poverty.”;
- Bernard Looney, Chief Executive Officer of BP;
- Bradford Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer of Microsoft;
- Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics;
- Feike Sijbesma, Honorary Chairman of Royal DSM, a Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living company, and a member of Unilever’s Corporate Responsibility Committee;
- Adrian Monck, Managing Director of the World Economic Forum;
Additional Links
- Press release
- WEF Great Reset portal
- The WEF, joined by Prince Charles, will hold a series of Great Reset dialogues for the remainder of the year.
Brief Analysis
Given the duration of the call (just over 1 hour) and the carefully worded statements made by the presenters, there were very few details provided. Here is a brief summary of the key takeaways:
- A massive post-COVID economic stimulus is required and the IMF has pledged $1T. Early recipients are all developing nations. As is usually the case with the IMF, there will be crippling requirements and conditions for the debt relief and emergency financing (not disclosed on the call);
- The Great Reset focusses on new social contracts (not defined on the call or in the transition map);
- There is a focus on “the digital divide” with an intent to bring underserved communities online.
Considering the timing, high corporate representation, lack of government representation and the relative lack of media coverage, the event raises all kinds of questions. During the call, participants raised frequently the need for trust and Prince Charles said, “the imagination and will of humanity will need to be captured.”
However, a cursory look at the comments below the YouTube version of the livestream show that the WEF has a long way to go to build that trust:
The WEF announcement confirms one of 4 postulates I’ve been developing since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic.
A postulate is a statement used as a basis for reasoning, discussion and making sense of the unprecedented changes and events unfolding. Constructive disagreement — where we raise concerns, dialog around them and resolve them — is how we progress with making sense of current events.
With that as context, I’d love to hear your responses to these postulates.
- Postulate 1: Civilization — as it has progressed since the Agricultural Revolution — has overshot the carrying capacity of the planet. As a result of — and because of the globalized nature of the human species — we are in late stage civilizational collapse. If our species is to survive, a systemic reset of our human systems is required.
- Postulate 2: Considering how fragile our human systems are, it is natural that the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic triggered a series of system resets (colloquially referred to as “the new normal” in mainstream media).
- Postulate 3: There is a tension between two significant factions to birth their widely differing versions of a systemic reset. One is the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) — espoused by WEF, technologists and multi-national corporates — and the other is the Global Peoples Revolution (GPR) — championed by numerous activist and grassroots movements.
- Postulate 4: The 4IR systemic reset is further ahead and far more organised than a GPR systemic reset. If successful, a 4IR reset will replicate many of the design flaws of our current human system.
A Question to Ponder
Is there a third, middle way between 4IR and GPR that incorporates the best of both for the betterment of humanity?
I don’t have any answers (yet), but the question is worth pondering.
How Will The Great Reset Affect Me?
That’s a complex question, because it will affect your family, your business and your world in ways that we cannot even imagine. The answer is not immediately apparent after spending many hours navigating the WEFs Great Reset transition map (requires registration):
[Edit: the following four screenshots were added on June 4th, 2021 to add further examples of the WEFs Intelligence Portal.]
What I can say is that this announcement is a big deal. While the changes they’re considering will affect developing nations first, those in developed nations will start feeling the impact by the middle of this decade.
“The next five to seven years are going to be the most extraordinary time in the history of the planet. Literally. The question becomes, of course, how do you deal with that and where is it going?” — John L. Petersen, President and Founder of The Arlington Institute, March 2020
We certainly are living in interesting times.
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·Apr 18, 2020
“Something is happening here but you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” —Bob Dylan, “Ballad Of a Thin Man”
The official SARS-CoV-2 account goes something like this:
First documented at the end of December 2019, the novel coronavirus emerged naturally from bats and spread with pace in January 2020, as China was about to celebrate New Year. The epicentre of the disease was the city of Wuhan, particularly in and near a live animal market, which was subsequently closed. By January 30, 2020, COVID-19 (the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2) had been declared a global health emergency; on March 11, 2020, it was declared a global pandemic, resulting in most nations imposing shelter in place restrictions.
The outbreak was entirely unexpected and no-one could have predicted the extent to which it would impact the entire planet.
That’s the official account, but there are so many inconsistencies that many are now referring to COVID-19 as a #plandemic.
If you’re not familiar with the common tactic of using war or natural disaster as a political distraction, you might enjoy the 1997 movie, Wag the Dog. If you’re not familiar with the equally common tactic of using Hegelian Dialectics (more commonly known as Problem-Reaction-Solution), you might enjoy this rather old — but entirely applicable — 7min extract from G. Edward Griffin’s 1973 book, The Capitalist Conspiracy — An Inside View of International Banking. (While the whole documentary is worth watching, the relevant extract explaining Problem-Reaction-Solution is from 26:14–34:02):
Very simply, from Nero burning Rome to Hitler burning the Reichstag, power-hungry leaders through the ages have manufactured crises in order to present the public with situations where their previously-incomprehensible solutions all of a sudden “make sense”.
Questioning the Official COVID-19 Account
With that short history lesson as background, here are reasons to question the official COVID-19 narrative. We’re intentionally not providing our own answers to these questions. Feel free to explore the links included so that you can make your own informed decisions.
- If the pandemic was so exceptionally surprising and unexpected, what is the value of more than a dozen pandemic studies, conventions and simulations over just the last 4 years? Why did Anthony Fauci specifically predict that “there will be a challenge in the coming administration in the area of infectious diseases” in a keynote address at Georgetown University in January 2017? (skip to 3:25 for the statement).
- What is the link between the medical pandemic and the systemic failure of the global economy? Who knew about this crisis before it was announced? Why did more than 1,300 CEOs resign in 2019, amidst record stock market highs? Who was accused of insider trading prior to the pandemic?
- What is the link between Event 201 (2019/10/18 in New York), the 2019 Military Games (2019/10/18–27 in Wuhan) and the announcement of the outbreak on 31 December 2019? Why did the US Government provide a $3.7 million grant to Wuhan Institute of Virology?
- Why do official sources claim that there is no vaccine and no specific antiviral medicine to prevent or treat COVID-19 when a French doctor, who has been working on coronavirus for more than 25 years, already has a proven, un-patented, cost-effective cure?
- Why have lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu — which proved conclusively that high dosages of plain old bicarbonate of soda was surprisingly effective at stopping the virus if administered early enough — been entirely ignored?
- Who exactly is Dr. Anthony Fauci and what campaigns has he been involved with previously (specifically Ebola, SARS, MERS and HIV)? Why is there a petition to have him indicted? Does he support IA2030? How does the COVID-19 pandemic support the attainment of IA2030 goals?
- What is the PREDICT Project? Is there any link to the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
- Why did the US Government patent SARS in 2007 (US 7220852 B1) and Ebola in 2012 (US 2012/0251502 A1)? What other viruses have been patented by the US? Is SARS-CoV-2 patented?
- Why can you not sue a medical practitioner for malpractice if your case has anything to do with COVID-19? What is the PREP Act and why was it made effective as of February 4, 2020?
- What is the link between this pandemic and the 2010 Rockefeller Foundation publication Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development, which predicted a mandatory wearing of face masks, and body temperature checkpoints?
- Why is government secrecy growing during the coronavirus pandemic and why is the public excluded from the COVID-19 policy-making process?
- Which reliable data sets have been used to provide the forecast fatalities, and why have the initial forecasts consistently been reduced by factors of 10 or more?
- Why has Bill Gates, whose mission is to impose genetically modified organisms and digital dictatorship, been given so much airtime leading up to and during this pandemic?
- What similarities are there between the US Government response immediately after 9/11 and their response to COVID-19? Which countries have curtailed individual freedoms in response to COVID-19?
- How was Sweden’s response different to most nations and what was the result?
If indeed, there are valid reasons to question the official COVID-19 narrative, it makes sense to explore what the possible outcomes might be, both planned and unplanned. That is the topic of upcoming articles.
If you’ve missed our introduction to the series, you can find it here.
·Apr 18, 2020
A SENSEMAKING SERIES
We mapped and summarised widely differing potential outcomes. What do YOU think will happen post-COVID-19?
By Norie Huddle
, Michael Haupt and The Sensemaking Collective
In a strange fashion, the coronavirus pandemic has done humanity a huge favor — by showing us with immense clarity the many structural weaknesses in our social and economic systems.
During the past month, as over 100 nations have put themselves on lockdown, our various delivery systems — many of which are global —have been halted or slowed down greatly, trillions of dollars have been created out of thin air mostly to save specific industries from collapsing, and a growing number of economic experts are now warning us that the world faces the potential for an economic collapse worse than that of 2007–2008, or perhaps worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Actually, the truth is that many of us have known (or at least have suspected) for decades that our social and economic systems are failing to solve basic problems adequately. But now, with the current pandemic shutdown impacting about a third of humanity, many of us are using this time—away from the myriad distractions of our normal busy lives—to consider what a massive systemic reset might look like. And, to consider what we would like this systemic reset to look like.
Both positive and negative scenarios have been popping up all over the internet—a wildly different array of “stories” about what our post-COVID-19 world might become.
We’ve first taken a step back from this range of stories to look more deeply at the process whereby stories are created and adopted, to then be turned into projects and programs and, ultimately, into new social organizations and even into entirely new civilizations.
To begin we feel it is important to make a critical distinction between “reality” and “our stories about reality.” This distinction is not frequently made in public discourse but it is a distinction that will make ALL the difference in how well different people and groups will be able to discuss our quite different perspectives (stories, narratives) and then work together collaboratively to create better and more lasting solutions to the many persistent basic problems humanity has faced over the millennia—ignorance, fear, poverty, hunger, disease and war.
Reality vs. our Stories About Reality
So, first, what IS “reality”?
ALL THAT IS. Reality is huge. Indeed, “All that is” suggests that reality is infinite and eternal, endless in time and space. After all, if we imagine an end to reality, then what’s beyond that end?
Next, in contrast, what are our “stories about reality”?
Each one of us has a unique “window” through which we look out at the world and Cosmos (and inward into ourselves) and through this “window of perception” we experience the vastness of reality. We humans are “meaning makers” who attempt to make sense of reality in an ongoing way. Thus, we walk around making up stories about “what is reality” with the objective of avoiding pain and seeking security and pleasure.
Our stories are deeply influenced by our past experiences and how we’ve processed and integrated those experiences, creating an overall framework that shapes the meaning we each give to our stories. This “sensemaking” applies to each story we create about “reality” as well as to the total integrated body of our personal stories about reality.
But here’s the rub: we humans also have a very strong tendency to believe that OUR stories about reality ARE reality. We argue over whose stories are the REAL stories. We fight over our different stories. We even kill each other over our different stories.
The core distinction that can dramatically change our lives is this: REALITY is completely different from our STORIES ABOUT REALITY. If we can begin to make this distinction, we can begin to listen better to others whose stories about reality are very different from ours. We can explore WHY they hold their stories. What events in their lives led them to embrace these stories? What are the facts that underpin their stories? For that matter, what are the facts that underpin our own stories? How do we know those facts are accurate?
A highly regarded researcher at Stanford University, Dr. John Ioannidis, has written extensively about the pervasiveness of poor scientific research—the very research that is used to justify specific programs and approaches for mitigating the current pandemic as well as, more globally, for deciding how we want to redesign our social and economic systems.
In an article from phys.org that is well worth reading, Ioannidis recommends asking the following questions about any research claims:
- Is this something that has been seen just once, or in multiple studies?
- Is it a small or a large study?
- Is this a randomized experiment?
- Who funded it?
- Are the researchers transparent?
We believe that it is a top priority to speak the truth the best we can and to get our facts right—so that, together, we can build all of our future programs, systems and civilizations on a solid foundation.
With this objective in mind, we will present a series of articles that introduce different “stories about reality” that relate to the COVID-19 “story” as well as explore the implications of these very different stories in reshaping our future. We will also raise questions for those who have adopted each specific story or narrative, questions we would love for them to address.
As an experiment in “gathering the voices,” we would love to hear from YOU—your insights, ideas and questions for each of the different narratives presented. And, we’d love to know your vision of the future you would like to see.
Once the COVID-19 dust settles, we’ll publish the lessons learned, including your voices and insights. Hopefully what we learn through this “gathering of the voices” will help us to face future crisis situations more effectively. We’ll acknowledge everyone who helps to improve the collective learning.
While our individual actions have significant impact on the eventual outcome we will create, together we can do what no one of us can do alone. We sincerely believe that COVID-10 has given us a defining moment in human history. Please help us build and shape the story that can best help us move forward to create the future we all dream of deep in our hearts and souls.
Disclaimer
These articles in no way provide medical advice of any kind whatsoever. Please contact your health care provider if you need any medical assistance or advice. While we don’t wish to downplay the reality and severity of COVID-19, this pandemic is much more than a physical health issue — it is a test of our ability to think rationally. If you agree, please take 10 seconds to share this series with those you love.
Narratives Matter
Three friends were sailing together, each on their own sailboat: a pessimist, an optimist, and a realist.
Halfway through their journey, the wind died down and their boats stopped at sea.
The pessimist immediately thought: “It is over. I’m going to die here.” Little by little he surrendered to the situation.
The optimist, without worrying, said: “Everything is going to be all right. There is no need to be afraid. The wind will return soon and we will be able to return home.”
The realist remained quiet, observed the situation and thought: “Well, in fact, it does seem unusually calm. If it takes a long time before the wind returns, we will more than likely run out of food and water and we will not arrive back at the shore before nightfall.”
The realist stopped, observed, meditated, reflected, silenced her thoughts and observed that although there was no wind, there was a sea current flowing towards the shore. She paddled her boat towards the current, which carried her boat back to shore and she arrived safely, well before dusk.
The pessimist and the optimist are still at sea.
The moral of the story? Narratives matter.
Particularly during times of uncertainty and chaos, what matters most is the story running through our heads — our individual and collective narratives. These times call for sensible, logical realism, rather than optimism or pessimism.
“A virus can change the fate of the world; power has nothing to do with being tiny or giant. Power is something related to the power hidden within you.” — Mehmet Murat ildan
The Possible Outcomes We’ll Explore
- No Reset: The official Coronavirus story, a return to Business-as-Usual (and Questions We Must Ask).
- Reset 1: A decades long depression —article coming soon.
- Reset 2: Government-issued basic incomes and significant loss of personal freedoms —article coming soon.
- Reset 3: A grassroots-driven abundance income and a shift to thrivability for everyone — article coming soon.
- Reset 4: A left-field option we cannot see just yet but is emerging — article coming soon.
- Conclusion: What we can do to avoid options we don’t like and attract options we do like — article coming soon.
Why Mapping Possible Outcomes is Important
“In uncertain times, maps provide hope, confidence, and the means to move from anxiety to action.” — Deborah Ancona, MIT School of Management
A small military unit was sent on a training mission in the Swiss Alps. They did not know the terrain very well, and suddenly it began to snow. It snowed for two days. There were large drifts everywhere, and it was hard to see through the clouds and blowing snow. The men considered themselves lost. They were cold and hungry, and panic began to spread through the unit as they thought of what would become of them. But then one of them found a map in his pocket. Everyone crowded around trying to figure out where they were and how they could get out. They calmed down, located themselves, and plotted a route back to their base.
The men didn’t always hit the landmarks they thought they would, so getting back involved still more sensemaking. They got help from villagers along the way, and shifted their path when faced with obstacles. And then, when they finally got back to base camp, they discovered that the map they had been using was actually a map of the Pyrenees and not the Alps. (Adapted from a poem by Miroslav Holub, subsequently popularised by Karl Weick in his 1983 paper, Misconceptions About Managerial Productivity.)
There are at least two important morales to this tale:
1. When you’re lost, tired, cold, hungry and scared, even the wrong map can help you get moving—but if the map is wrong, you will need more information than that map to get you to your destination; and,
2. The map is not the territory—again, the “story about reality” is not the same as “reality”—but the more accurate your map is, the more effectively you can navigate the territory and the better will be your chances of reaching your destination.
Given a choice, we would all select the best map possible. Yet the soldiers in the story were able to survive using a map of an entirely different terrain because the map encouraged them to move, because they had a clear image of their destination, and because they were flexible enough to make course-correction when, as they moved forward toward their destination, they encountered new information that didn’t correspond to their map. In short, they paid more attention to the REALITY they encountered than to the map.
In sensemaking, the map is only a starting point. To get to your destination, you absolutely must pay careful attention to the actual terrain you’re traveling through and incorporate that new information into your strategy for reaching your destination. If you do this, even the wrong map is useful in sensemaking BECAUSE IT GOT YOU MOVING. However, the wrong map will NOT get you to your destination.
Another important feature of sensemaking is that you need to have a strong vision for what your destination is, even though that vision, too, particularly if it is a “destination” for the kind of society we want to create, will be modified and will become more detailed as we learn and grow as human beings. Thomas Jefferson, author of the revolutionary document, the American Declaration of Independence, made this observation that has important meaning for us today as we look forward to improving the design of our social and economic systems:
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.” —Thomas Jefferson
The COVID-19 “map” currently being promoted to the public by the mainstream media invited a lot of questions. For one thing, it is a map that is being promoted in a rather hysterical fashion which does not help us use the parts of our brain that support logical thinking and good analysis—in other words, the “millions and millions are gonna die” does not encourage a calm and thoughtful approach that will yield high quality sensemaking of the terrain we are now moving through.
Sensemaking is an emergent individual and collective activity — a process of continuously examining evidence as it is continuousy showing up. Sensemaking is the act of “patterning” information, of generating and testing “low level hypotheses” for what is the most accurate “story about reality”—making these ongoing assessments even as we move forward to take the most reasonable action we see that we can take at this time.
Sensemaking is a journey, not the destination. Sensemaking is a conscious way of beingof assessing information and then acting—sometimes tentatively and hopefully with genuine humility. After all, we may later be shown to have made really ineffective actions based on completely faulty data.
Sensemaking is not about finding the one “correct” answer that everyone should adopt or be shunned by all humanty; rather, sensemaking is about holding a continuous and mutually respectful conversation with the shared objective of the participants to find an ever greater approximation of “what is true.” Sensemaking calls for each one of us to listen carefully to each other (and to ourselves—”do I really believe what I’m saying or am I just repeating what I’ve heard on that TV show?”). Sensemaking requires us to explore honestly and authentically our underying assumptions and biases, with the willingness to change these if we see “a better way,” another assumption that better describes the terrain we’re moving through.
Thus, in its essence, sensemaking is about our collaborating to create the most accurate emerging story about reality—including collaborating to create the most inspiring story we can imagine about our desired future reality.
This is the approach we’ve taken in writing this series of different “stories” about COVID-19. Since new information is coming out daily, we’re “building this airplane as we fly it.” One of the authors of this series, who had the opportunity in the early 1980s to interview legendary inventor, Buckminster Fuller, was powerfully impacted by this piece of advice from him, “Love your mistakes. If this isn’t true, what IS true?”
In this series we will summarise a number of different “stories about reality” or “maps” of COVID-19 and show how each points toward a different set of actions….which in turn will lead to quite different potential futures.
Sensemaking of all these outcomes will help us gain greater clarity about the different stories, different players and different agendas. Sensemaking will also help us see where we lack information and perhaps, too, where information is seriously flawed. Sensemaking will also help us see even more clearly where our current social and economic systems are failing us.
And finally, we believe that sensemaking of these very different “stories about reality” related to COVID-19 will help us find our bearings during chaotic times, so that we can move forward with greater confidence, ease and grace. Working together in a collaborative spirit to create the most accurate possible map, to help us navigate the challenging terrain ahead will enable us to act more consciously, which will in turn empower us, individually and collectively, to catch the gold ring.
“From one citizen to another, I beg of you: Take a deep breath… and think deeply about what you want to put back into your life post-coronavirus. This is our chance to define a new version of normal, a rare and truly sacred (yes, sacred) opportunity to get rid of the bullshit and to only bring back what works for us… This is our chance to define — on our own terms — what this world will look like in 5, 10, 50 years. It’s the biggest chance we have ever gotten. And the best one we’ll ever get… But only if we resist the massive gaslighting that is about to come. It’s on its way. Look out.” —
Thank you for sharing your wisdom, insights and visions for the most positive future possible, that serves all beings.
·Mar 12, 2020
Signs of systemic breakdown (& breakthrough) are the clues to watch for
By Dr. Anneloes Smitsman (Ph.D., LLM) & Michael Haupt
“Man’s general way of thinking of the totality, i.e. his general world view, is crucial for overall order of the human mind itself.”~ David Bohm
Now, more than ever, it’s important to think clearly and calmly.
The COVID-19 recently declared pandemic has been emotionally challenging for many. It has changed day-to-day life in unprecedented ways and will continue to have impacts on our interdependent worlds for a long time to come. These are some of the disruptions and changes we’ve seen:
- Several nations have closed schools and universities in a bid to stop the spread of the virus;
- China experienced widespread quarantines enforced by drones, Italy entered an unprecedented countrywide lockdown, with Denmark and other European nations soon to follow;
- Working from home has been encouraged by all the major tech companies and many government agencies;
- There has been widespread cancellation of public events globally;
- There are even claims that the outbreak is creating chaos within science itself;
- There have been factory shutdowns with disruptions across the supply chain;
- Stock markets globally are plummeting, with trading intermittently suspended on some;
- The Baltic Dry Index (which measures freight rates for grains and other dry goods around the world) is at its second lowest point in 10 years.
“This is not just a public health crisis, it is a crisis that will touch every sector — so every sector and every individual must be involved in the fight.” ~Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization
Clearly business-as-usual is under threat, and some may say that coronavirus could be a blessing in disguise for the serious societal transformations many have been advocating for.
How can disruptions to business-as-usual be viewed as progress?
A useful comparison is the metamorphosis from a caterpillar to a butterfly.
“A caterpillar can eat up to three hundred times its own weight in a day, devastating many plants in the process, continuing to eat until… the crisis of overeating, fatigue and breakdown allows them to develop, gradually replacing the caterpillar with a butterfly.” ~ Elisabet Sahtouris
What the human species is experiencing now is the crisis of over-consumption and over-extraction, resulting in fatigue and breakdown. Despite the pandemic, there is always a chance for breakthrough — if we allow for it.
What can we learn from this viral situation?
If we consider COVID-19 in isolation from larger patterns that have been building up towards this situation, we may miss the opportunity for a deeper systemic reflection. These are some of our reflections.
On 22 December 2019 we hosted — as part of our EARTHwise Tipping Point System — an online webinar that we called The Golden Decade Celebration: the Point of No Return. We initiated this webinar with the foresight that 2020 would see the accumulation of major events and tipping points. We foresaw that these events would shake our worlds to their core.
What we anticipated is now unfolding, and it won’t stop with COVID-19. This virus is part of a much deeper collective immune crisis, since we have refused to listen to the deeper messages our planet has been alerting us to with increasing urgency. We have observed patterns, which call for a pause for how we move forward or inward.
COVID-19 affects the lungs. The lungs of our planet were deeply impacted (and still are) by the Amazon fires and the huge fires in Australia at the turn of the decade. In Chinese medicine, the lung organ also represents the emotion of grief. We have barely grieved the loss of life in these vital areas of our planet.
If we consider the emergence of a virus as a deeper systemic immune response, we can start to consider how our planetary lungs and our human lungs connect. Instead of focusing on shut-down and fear of infection, what might happen if we were to focus on strengthening our immune system by supporting the health of our planetary bodies and collective lungs? Naturally this approach will require a very different kind of leadership than that demonstrated by national and world health authorities.
Transition leadership pays attention to these patterns and initiates a transformational change process that focusses on health, healing, and immunity. This also includes making space for grief and emotional consciousness.
What might a more sensitive response to coronavirus be?
Let’s start by listening more deeply to what our bodies and our planet might be telling us by reflecting on the following questions:
- What we can learn from this virus beyond the practical commonsense health precautions?
- How can we develop our transition leadership competencies as a collective immune response for times of urgency and crisis?
- How can we develop compassionate wisdom responses in the face of danger and fear?
- How can we develop a place of inner calm and clarity while going through such turbulent times, as part of strengthening our immune systems?
Project 2030
You made it to the end! If you’re interested in helping us solve some of the planet’s grand challenges with our ambitious Project 2030, please check out the overview, and invite others to do the same.
Postcards from 2035
Have you come across Postcards from 2035? It’s a series of profoundly simple interlinking ideas describing life in a highly desirable society, where everything and everyone is advanced, happy, intelligent and problem-free. It’s a blueprint of the world we need to co-create. Here’s what that world could look like.
·Apr 26, 2019
An early draft
This is an early draft of an attempted framework to map all regenerative initiatives. See 2050 Game Plan for the final version.
Introduction
“Each movement has its strengths and its limitations, which leads to the following proposition: collaboration that interweaves and amplifies the best that each has to offer is our best chance of creating the more beautiful, healthy, and just world we know is possible. We honestly can go further together, and we must — through a movement of movements created at a higher octave; a movement of movements (MoM) birthed from a whole new level of unity-in-diversity, so as to be capable of recreating humanity.”– Jordan Luftig, Chief Learning & Purpose Officer at Twin Peaks Family
There is a sweeping desire to collaborate to create a better world. If we are to succeed, humanity desperately needs to find a way for the commons to unite. The thousands of world-positive initiatives underway are simply too fragmented right now to achieve the kind of scale and impact required. To get to the unprecedented level of Collaboration required will need a vision and framework that aggregates and converges the best grassroots solutions and makes them available globally, as open source innovations, for anyone, anywhere to freely use, modify and improve on.
Design Global, Build Local.
Another way of saying this is, “A Global Grassroots Open Design Foundation, tasked with collating the best of the best grassroots initiatives for a better world, makes detailed documentation of these initiatives freely available for implementation in other grassroots locations.”
This must be a grassroots initiative: top-down solutions from existing players too entrenched in the status quo cannot and will not facilitate the required changes in the limited time the planet has available.
We will kickstart the complex and lengthy process in three major tranches:
- Open sourcing and promoting innovations that support a better world (global work, coordinated by an Open Design Foundation);
- Revitalising and stimulating local micro-economies in the form of agroforestry and rewilding bio-economies (local work, overseen by Innovation and Peer Production Community Cooperatives);
- Educating the commons on demand-side reductions (inner work, through a process of learning about Deep Humanity).
The mission of the Open Design Foundation (ODF) is to bring clarity to — and accelerate adoption of — regenerative innovations and help ensure a safe and responsible transition to a new HOS. The mission of local Innovation and Peer Production Community Cooperatives (IPPCCs) is to awaken the sleeping giant of the commons by inspiring idling resources to join together in the largest collaborative initiative ever undertaken: implementing regenerative innovations at scale to bend the curve of human activities currently threatening Planetary & Urban Boundaries. IPPCCs are essentially community cooperatives which serve the local community and feed their innovations back into the ODF.
We can no longer wait for top-down solutions to wicked problems. It is up to us, the people of the world, to come together in ways not previously seen, to create the world we all know is possible. No one group or initiative holds the answer. The answer lies in collating the jigsaw puzzle, of which every initiative is but one piece of a complex, unified and interweaved solution.
This is an extremely high-level map and framework for a Movement of Movements, which we believe will get us to a thriving 2050 and beyond. The map summarises what grassroots communities might do to reboot and upgrade their entire OS, ultimately leading to a new OS for the planet.
The approach is not just a compilation of ideas. Each meta-theme from the map is derived from two or more decades of hands-on experimentation by a global movement of activists and educators that is taking shape as we speak. The map is merely a synthesis of what we believe are the minimum meta-themes for meaningful metamorphosis.
Comments, feedback, criticism and debate are welcome and encouraged.
Note that any examples quoted in the text below are merely samples from the multitude of initiatives underway. Much further research is required to build and populate the tools mentioned in this essay. If there is an obvious omission or an example that better suits the discussion, please reach out with suggestions.
Structure
The map is organised under the following main themes:
Introduction
0. Understand the Meta Coordination Framework
1. Map All the Problems (MoP — Map of Problems)
2. Map All the Regenerative Innovations (MoR — Map of Regeneration)
3. Collate All the Learning (MoL — Map of Learning)
4. Open Source the Solutions (MoS — Map of Solutions)
5. Gamify Social Transformation (MMOG — Massively Multiplayer Online Game)
6. Track All Progress (TaP)
How to Navigate the Map
Acknowledgements
(Tapping any heading will scroll you directly to that section.)
0. Understand the Meta Coordination Framework
“It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” — Charles Darwin.
The human condition today should not be surprising. The circumstances we must face are the same circumstances any species faces as they mature from adolescence into adulthood. Understanding this context provides clarity when facing seemingly insurmountable challenges. Organisational structures — and the way societies have managed to get things done in the past — have evolved just the way that all species evolve i.e. they undergo an increase in complexity. The Meta Coordination Framework includes an introduction to the TIMN model and Meshworking, potentially the next way that humans globally will coordinate.
Understand the Meta Coordination Framework
Part 0: Getting to 2050
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1. Map All the Problems (MoP — Map of Problems)
“If we could first know where we are… we could better judge what to do and how to do it.” — Abraham Lincoln
There are existing structures and frameworks being used to track progress toward a more sustainable world, from a planetary perspective, down to cities, down to rural areas. Each has its pros and cons, and together this collection of models represents a robust framework within which to create a new operating system i.e. if all of the problems listed are solved in a new OS, we will have been successful.
Map All the Problems
Part 1: Getting to 2050
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2. Map All the Regenerative Initiatives (MoR — Map of Regeneration)
“To truly hope, we must be able to articulate clearly and compellingly what it is that we’re hoping for. One of the most rebellious things that we can do is to articulate our own, radical vision, to organize around that vision, and to build real alternatives that embody it in our daily lives.” — Farhad Ebrahimi, Iranian poet.
Our rebellious vision is an entirely new, regenerative Human Operating System, made up of a weaving together of the best of the best regenerative initiatives.
Regenerative is defined as any process of renewal, restoration, and growth that makes ecosystems resilient to natural fluctuations or events that cause disturbance or damage.
Map All the Regenerative Initiatives
Part 2: Getting to 2050
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3. Collate All the Learning (MoL — Map of Learning)
“We had to undergo, as part of our evolutionary learning curve, every event in our personal and collective histories in order to bring us to this very point in time, ready for the next step in our unfoldment.” — Sally A. Ranney, The Trust Frequency
It’s important that all findings (specifically results) be fed back into an academic network, freely accessible to all, so that knowledge gained in one part of the world can quickly spread to other parts of the world. We call this the Map of Learning.
Collate All the Learning
Part 3: Getting to 2050
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4. Open Source The Solutions (MoS — Map of Solutions)
Many of the challenges we now face have been created by the problem of patents and proprietary innovation, which concentrates wealth in the hands of the few. Open source development allows innovation to happen at the grassroots level, without the risk of ownership of ideas. We track all of these solutions in a Map of Solutions.
Open Source The Solutions
Part 4: Getting to 2050
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5. Gamify Social Transformation (MMOG — Massively Multiplayer Online Game)
Unprecedented social transformation, initiated from the grassroots level, appears to be the only hope for the kind of change in behavior required, at scale.
A growing cohort of gamers, activists and changemakers have been inspired by two key initiatives:
1. Buckminster Fuller’s World Game
2. Jane McGonigal’s 2010 TED talk Gaming can make a better world.
A second important aspect in social transformation occurred with the introduction of Bitcoin and complementary currencies, which allow forms of incentive outside of capitalism.
By gamifying and incentivizing social transformation in a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) Game, we can engage vast numbers of individuals to engage in a game of “bending the curve”. The rules of the game are established by the existing Map of Problems, all the way from global to local.
Gamify Social Transformation
Part 5: Getting to 2050
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6. Track All Progress (TaP)
This is a Call to Action for the largest grassroots initiative ever undertaken: Tracking Progress to an entirely new Human Operating System that works for all humanity and every living species. This initiative goes way beyond net zero emissions or water quality or poverty reduction or human rights. Early research is required to determine the best way of gathering the data and determining objectives.
Track All Progress
Part 6: Getting to 2050
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The Business Opportunity
Part 7: Getting to 2050
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How to Use the Map
The accompanying mindmap was created using Wisemapping. You can watch a tutorial video if required, but the main points are:
- Click and hold your mouse to drag the area you’d like to focus on into the centre of the map
- Zoom in and out using the zoom buttons (top left hand corner of tool bar)
- Each node has a Note to explain in more detail. Either hover over the Note icon on the left of each node or click on the Note icon to open in full screen.
- Some nodes have a link to an external website which provides even more detail. Either hover over the Link icon on the left of each node to see a preview or click on the Link icon to open the website in a new window.
·Oct 15, 2018
Despite huge leaps in progress, humanity still hasn’t found what we’re looking for — here’s why.
[Edit — 30 April, 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 created a sooner than expected chance to realise Society 4.0. To keep up with the pace of changes, we launched The High Ground Report, a situational assessment of “the new normal.”]
There is no question that human progress over the past 12,000 years or so since the Agrarian Revolution has been profound. As a specie, we have made immense leaps in development and we are surely maturing. And yet issues such as ecological and social disturbances are forcing humanity to find new ways of coordinating our activities at planetary scale
across geographic borders, political divides and ideological chasms. This search for what’s missing creates tension and we see the symptoms of this tension played out on the daily news, in every country.
The path toward what Charles Eisenstein calls “the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible” is littered with uncertainties, externalities and unintended consequences. If we are to get there, collective decisions must be consciously made in order to progress toward a new type of world society. There is a general consensus among critical system thinkers that a global, sovereign society is inevitable — if we are to avoid specie extinction.
“We are in the early stages of the formation of a new type of world society which will be as different from today’s as was that ushered in by the Industrial Revolution from the society of the long Agrarian period that preceded it.” — Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, The First Global Revolution, 1991
This essay first considers some of the macro activities humanity is undertaking to lay the foundations for this world society. Finally, it considers what’s missing and — more importantly — what those who care, can do.
Social & Ecological Macro Activity
Vast armies of activists have informally coordinated under the general guidelines of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. Paul Hawken refers to this movement as Blessed Unrest and says that this is:
“…the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location, and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Like nature itself, it is organizing from the bottom up, in every city, town, and culture. It is emerging to be an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide.” — Paul Hawken
The significance of this movement lies in its self-regulation. The movement provides evidence that humanity can coordinate at scale, without external pressure or incentives.
Technological Macro Activity
The World Wide Web laid the foundations for a more connected world and changed forever how humanity gets stuff done. More recently, the 10-year old Bitcoin whitepaper inspired a tsunami of what Stuart Kaufmann calls “adjacent possibles.” The ideas presented in that paper inspired thousands of initiatives united by common desires to:
- dismantle inefficient and often dangerous hierarchies,
- disperse power concentrations to the edges,
- dispose of central data repositories and give individuals control of their digital identities and personal data,
- distill ideologies of the commons and re-imagine value exchange and governance in more transparent, trustful ways.
In addition to the emergence of blockchain and crypto, there have been noteworthy advances in data storage and retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Virtual and Augmented Reality and Internet of Things.
The significance of these developments permit us, for the first time, to glimpse the possibility of what Buckminster Fuller envisaged in the 1960s: a single control panel for Spaceship Earth.
Geopolitical Macro Activity
At the macro-level — in other words intentionally ignoring the noise played out in national media — what we are witnessing globally is tension between the two dominant human organising systems that have helped humanity mature from Agrarian civilisations to City civilisations:
- Communism, which sacrifices interests of the individual to the collective, mostly overseen by a dictatorial state, and;
- Capitalism, which sacrifices interests of the community to the self-importance and independence of the individual (with even corporations legally defined as individuals), mostly overseen — allegedly — by the invisible hand of the market.
The significance of this tension is a slow yet growing realisation that, given our technological progress, new organising systems for humanity are a very real possibility.
Collective Macro Activity
Collectively, these macro-activities humanity has engaged in demonstrate the profound creativity of humanity. If one were to remain purely objective and ignore externalities, our achievements since the Industrial Revolution eclipse the massively complicated and hugely demanding effort required to erect the Great Pyramids.
Natural World Exploitation Macro Activity
Despite — or perhaps because of — our relentless progress, our planet is nearing the limits of its carrying capacity. The vast energy production, distribution and consumption — based almost entirely on fossil fuels — required to achieve this level of creativity and production has dire consequences, and some say we’re already in overshoot. In addition to our wanton extraction, the results of global waste production and distribution could end up being the largest artefact of the Industrial Revolution, a rather sad state of affairs.
Alongside the externalities of our activities, both capitalism and communism have resulted in concentrations of power, leading to gross inequalities and a world in which millions lead lives that are at best sub-standard and at worst miserable. The extremes of both late-stage capitalism and communism are placing the very structures of our complex societies at risk.
Societal Collapse
In his book, 1177 BC: The Year Civilisation Collapsed and accompanying lecture, Dr. Eric H. Cline, Professor of Classics and Anthropology at The George Washington University, lists the General Features of Systems Collapse as:
- Collapse of the central administrative organisation;
- Disappearance (or more specifically, withdrawal behind various types of barriers — build a wall, anyone?) of the traditional elite class;
- Collapse of the centralised economy;
- Settlement shifts and population decline.
Each of these features are playing out in various parts of the planet, leading some to believe that the complex societies we have built are at risk of collapsing. Without denigrating our sincere social & ecological macro activity, perhaps it is time to admit that something is missing and we’d better get comfortable with this idea, so that we can effectively plan what we do next.
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” — William James
What’s Missing for Humanity at a Macro Level?
To understand what’s missing, we first need to define 5 high-level concepts.
[Side Note: These concepts are a shameless summary of a number of riffs Daniel Schmachtenberger, Co-Founder and Director of Research at Neurohacker Collective, has recently engaged in. My apologies to Daniel if I’ve misrepresented his core ideas. These are complex topics, and in the interests of brevity I’ve included only the briefest of summaries. You can find links to the discussions in the Reference section at the conclusion of this essay.]
Concept 1 — Evolutionary Theory
The idea that the inhabitants of any ecosystem have the option to either compete for or cooperate over scarce or dwindling resources. This choice is a repeating pattern witnessed in the evolution of all living species over billions of years and has been repeated again and again in humanity’s evolution. Cities are an example of collaboration and wars are an example of competition. Elisabet Sahtouris has posited that competing for resources is the hallmark of juvenile species and collaborating is the hallmark of mature species.
Evolutionary Theory has a number of characteristics:
- It is an unconscious process — at least as far as humans are concerned — in that no-one is designing (the way we usually understand design) how evolution occurs;
- It is a slow (in human terms) yet highly parallel process (many activities occurring in different parts of the ecosystem simultaneously);
- It has a high failure rate (many species have gone extinct), but the species that survive enjoy a high level of complexity;
- Evolution is self-organising, meaning that wounded creatures or damaged ecosystems heal themselves without external tinkering (think of a forest after a forest fire).
Concept 2 — Micro-Rivalry, Macro-Symbiosis and Power Symmetry
The idea that Nature does not select for individuals in a specie nor does it select for entire species. Rather it selects for self-stabilising ecosystems, in which there is relative power symmetry between the strongest and weakest of a specie. Lions hunting buck are an example of micro-rivalry and the healthy coexistence of prides of lion and herds of buck on a large savanna are an example of macro-symbiosis. The strongest lion is only marginally more powerful than the next in line and the weakest buck is only marginally weaker than the one above.
A rogue specie (or subset of a specie) can kill an entire ecosystem, at which point the rogue specie itself dies out and recovery can happen. Considering all living species, power asymmetry (imbalance) is highest in the human specie — the SDGs refer to this as ‘inequality.’
Concept 3 — Systems Theory
The idea of an interdisciplinary and multi perspectival domain which brings together principles and concepts from ontology, philosophy of science, physics, computer science, biology, engineering, geography, ecology sociology, political science and economics, among others.
In general, our education systems focus on specialisation (Law, Economics, Arts, Journalism, etc.), which is why the world has so few system thinkers. Leading system thinkers (past and present) include Béla H. Bánáthy, Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum, Fritjof Capra, Peter Senge, Richard A. Swanson, Debora Hammond, Alfonso Montuori, Ilya Prigogine, Francisco Varela, Humberto Maturana, Russell Ackoff, Anthony Stafford Beer, Peter Checkland, Robert L. Flood, Michael C. Jackson, Edgar Morin and Werner Ulrich, among others.
Concept 4 — Evolution of Technology
The idea that in the past, technology referred to the creation and use of tools to help humanity accomplish increasingly complicated tasks in their daily lives, where life itself is defined by a competitive worldview. As the human specie matures — and if we are to choose the option of collaboration with all other species instead of competition (Evolutionary Theory) — a new form of technology is required. For the first time, humanity is reaching a level of maturity which allows us to consider the design, creation and use of anti-macro-rivalrous, complex, closed-loop systems that restore power symmetry and evolve the human specie in a manner more aligned with the evolution of other species, who do not employ technology.
Concept 5— Evolution of Ecosystems vs Evolution of Technology
The idea that the driving ethos of the evolution of technology (driven by competition) is diametrically opposed to the evolution of ecosystems (defined by collaboration).
- Ecosystems → Unconscious Unfolding → Complex Systems → Comprehensive Loop Closure → Slow, Deliberate Adaptation
- Technology → Conscious Design → Complicated Systems → Open Loops → Move Fast & Break Things
The Question Again: What’s Missing?
Now that we’ve looked at the 5 essential concepts regarding humanity’s evolution, we can return to the question of what’s missing, or what’s the next natural step in our evolution?
, in Why Blockchain Needs Sci-Fi Right Now, asks the question:
“What will the world look like when large groups of people can coordinate and collaborate without the mediation of a central authority?”
This is, in essence, the central ethos of the blockchain community and some of the more engaging governance discussions can be found here and here and here and here and here and I’m sure many other places too.
As fascinating as these discussions are, what becomes immediately apparent — particularly if you’re not directly involved in the technology space and have a penchant for how Nature operates — is the complete absence of any mention of biomimicry, or more specifically, what lessons we can learn from the evolution of our specie and Nature in general.
If I were to add a few simple words to Mally’s question, it would be:
“What will the world look like when large groups of people can coordinate and collaborate as Nature does without the mediation of a central authority?”
Think of the efficiency of coordination of an ant colony, a bee hive, a murmuration of starlings, an Amazon Jungle… all operating without leaders, without voting, without capitalism, without democracy, without communism, without any form of organising system as humanity understands them.
This is what I believe is missing in discussions about the future of human governance: a deep understanding of how Nature has done this over billions of years, and what lessons we can learn from her.
What’s Next?
As I write this, I’m about to board a flight to SFO, where we’ll be presenting to the Institute of Evolutionary Leaders one possible way of including the principles of Nature in discussions about human governance. If you’re in the Bay area on October 18th, I hope you’ll join us.
If you can’t join in person, stay tuned. Exciting developments are unfolding.
Want Updates?
To keep up with the pace of changes post-COVID19, we launched The High Ground Report, a situational assessment of “the new normal.”
Thanks for reading. Claps are always appreciated — it helps more people stumble across what we’re doing.
Stay grounded, stay curious!
With thanks to the following conversations and writings, which have been helpful in cohering my thinking:
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’s discussion with Steven Kotler: Navigating the Upper Limits of Human Potential in an Interconnected World, specifically starting at 31:15 and ending at 53:45;
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’s discussion with Schmachtenberger: Meta Existential Risk;
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’s Rabbit Hole, specifically Environmentalism Steven Kotler Style and his innovation forum, Equilibrium, which brings environmentalists and technologists together;
- Annemarie Abbondanzo, who was the first to calculate a value for Ecosystem Services;
- Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West;
- And of course the fabulous late night conversations I’ve enjoyed with co-conspirators
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, which we now affectionally refer to as GEM Calls.
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