Comment on the toon:
This is a riff on “The Great Reset,” and the man on the carton is its main proponent, Karl Schwab, cofounder and executive director of The World Economic Forum. Every year the highly influential WEF holds an invite-only annual gathering for world leaders and the billionaire class in Davos, Switzerland.
In the spring of 2020, Schwab began to enthuse how the COVID pandemic offered an opportunity to digitally remake society through a “Great Reset” involving distance learning, remote work, automation, biotechnology and so on.
This is now old news in pandemic time, with its ever-moving goalposts. Yet with the Great Reset now well underway, it’s still remarkable how media outlets and big online platforms continue to dismiss skeptical talk about it as conspiratorial blather, even though Schwab himself cowrote a book in June of 2020 with that very name, explictly tying it to a pandemic still in its infancy.
The book itself is a rather pedestrian technocratic tract, and as an insomniac I looked forward to curling up with this 280-page sleeping pill. I didn’t find much in it that reads like a Bond villain diary, actually. Schwab’s previous public statements are a bit more cinematic. “What the fourth industrial revolution will lead to is a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identities,” he told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on May 13, 2019. Tranhumanism, in other words.
From the World Economic Forum website: “The central premise of transhumanism, then, is that biological evolution will eventually be overtaken by advances in genetic, wearable and implantable technologies that artificially expedite the evolutionary process.”
Things are happening fast on the transhumanism front, and in measures to contain a pandemic that is now endemic. Less than a year ago, even alternative/progressive media either dismissed reports on the items below as outrageous conspiracy theories or ignored them completely. Yet confirmed predictions are the best support for any theory, and these ones are now ho-hum mainstream news items:
Mass experimental gene therapy technology under emergency authorization, bypassing animal trials.
Coronavirus “gain of function” research as possible source of a Sars-COV-2 “lab leak.”
Vaccine passports tied to digital ID systems.
“Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal,” Schwab observed last year. “The short answer is never.” But not to worry, the billionaire class has always been about empowering the underclass. So raise your glass of Grape Reset Kool-Aid and drink up, proles!
Cheers!
(For more unhinged, tinfoil hat lunacy on this topic, try here.)
Hey Geoff, I too read that book and came to the same conclusion. Pedestrian, except for the lengthy quote from Yuval Noah Harari, warning against the very same 'reset'. Anyways, things are heating up in the 'Conspiracy' department. Whoever said that they don't happen is a fool or a liar, or both...because we are now living inside one.