Beyond the dystopian marketing of the World Economic Forum’s planned “Great Reset” of the global economy, the most striking thing of all is its utter banality. The aesthetic is dystopian and alarming, sure. “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy” goes one line from the WEF promotional video. But it’s nothing we haven’t heard before. The alarming thing here is not the planned erection of some global tyranny – that already exists – but rather the complete failure to address the issues laid bare by the Covid-19 pandemic. Health and human flourishing is glossed over, the whole agenda is aimed instead at addressing a completely unrelated topic – climate change.
A great reset is needed. But not the one being proposed. The pandemic exposed the fragility of the globalist system. The hyperspeed at which an infectious disease can spread into the most isolated corners of the world thanks to free movement and open borders. The fragility of supply chains that stretch across oceans. The folly of outsourcing nearly the entirety of the world’s pharmaceutical production to one region of one country. There is much that needs to be fixed and the Davos crowd has not proposed a realistic solution for any of it.
So what should a Great Reset look like?
First and foremost, addressing the issue of national health. On the level of politics and media, our healthcare debate is focused almost entirely on the question of “who pays the bills?”. This approach simply doesn’t cut it. The reason so few countries were able to adopt a Swedish model of personal responsibility and mild government-level measures was that very few countries have the baseline levels of health among the population that would allow for this. For too long we’ve cut corners (something Davos wants to double down on) by feeding garbage to the masses. Industrial cooking oils have wrecked the health of our people, but hey, it’s cheaper than butter and lard and we guarantee the med-pharma industrial complex a steady supply of customers to boot. If we had a serious political system, we would have already shut down the vegetable oil factories and completely overhauled our food and agriculture policies. Instead, we are fed a steady diet of advertisements telling us that laying on the couch and ordering UberEats is heroism on par with storming the beaches on D-Day (https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-german-ad-20201115-cn4nf2smqzg3zayji7w3ypoacm-story.html). The major change that’s needed here is the complete abandonment of the factory farming model. Factory farms breeding grounds for the kind of zoonotic pathogens that could send us all back into lockdown in the coming years. The meat that comes from animals raised under such conditions contributes to health problems for the consumer. And the supply chains of such a food production model have shown themselves to be highly susceptible to exogenous shocks. Outbreaks in a handful of meat processing plants were enough to cause meat shortages that lasted for several weeks in much of the United States. Traditional agriculture on the other hand has much shorter, antifragile supply chains that hold up under crisis, and the products of such farms promote the health and vitality of the customer. This would even address climate change, as regenerative agriculture would sequester massive amounts of carbon.
We also see the need to return the manufacturing of essential goods to the United States. When we needed N95 masks, hospital gowns, and other vital supplies the most, China hoarded them. Medicine supplies have lagged for the same reason. We must have the industrial capacity to be self-sufficient during times of crisis or we will remain highly vulnerable to black swan events. A comprehensive industrial policy should be developed with precisely this experience in mind.
Whether this was a bioweapon or not, everyone – particularly our enemies – now understand just how much chaos a low-level bioweapon could unleash. The CDC should be reorganized under the Defense Department and placed under USAMRIID leadership. A thorough purge of the public health establishment should be carried out as part of this, and public health bureaucrats made exempt from civil service laws protecting federal employees. Legislation should also be passed giving the President explicit authority to seal all international borders in case of an outbreak of infectious disease.
I could go on and on with this, but you get the idea. It shouldn’t be a radical proposition that a major “reset” of the world economy should address what sent the world economy into a tailspin to begin with. We don’t need to double down on liberalism and alienating transnational capitalism, we need to forge a new path entirely, one that actually takes into account the weaknesses of the system that have been laid bare.
Mr Braddock,
I think I have some insights into the Modern Fabian Doctrine that has morphed out of the intellectual cancer of the criminally false doctrine of so called 'Communism'.
I urge you to read my short blog on growing up in Canada's left in the 70s, watching their concealed Fabian obsessions morph and twist into increasingly abusive justifications, even as they obtained elected offices under this cloud of confusion whipped up by their weaponized nonsense.
http://TowerOfBabel.ca
The same post is also here on my Substack.
Also, I read your article on Kyle Rittenhouse, "America's Trial" - which is how I found you here, I don't have a Twatter anymore :
https://im1776.com/2021/11/20/america-trial/
This is what in fact motivated me to write - at the end of the 7th paragraph, you talk about how the left hates Kyle, and why - and it is all true and correct, all on target, it's just that there is another element to it that is crucial to understanding what this phenomenon of cultural psychosis being seeded into the common culture is.
I'm not sure I have yet found the right words, but the best way I can illustrate it is to say their hatred will always maintain an equilibrium - hate travels in all directions at once, and is always internalized as much as externalized. Just as this hatred can be passively or violently expressed externally, so also will you find it either passively of overtly expressed internally.
I'm not sure that makes sense - doh - but what I grew up seeing as a kid in the 70s, before smart phones, was not only treason, there was a perverse 'psychological' grip these people were in that I had no cultural reference points to describe at the time, as I was raised without God.
It is clear to me now that the only historical cultural reference available to us for what I saw driving people's increasingly bizarre and abusive behaviour, is the ancient idea across all cultures and histories that we call Satan, The Father of Lies.
I'm pretty crazy from all this, and they still have my little brother locked up sticking needles in him after 40 years, a fate I barely escaped at the time myself. My dad was almost Premier of Ontario, but I ran away at 15 in 1980 and was a petty black market character much of my life.
My grandfather brought this poison to Canada, and these ideas will destroy anyone's family, as they have done to millions of Canadians over the past 80 years, an army of intellectual cowards, spewing a bile of projectile judgmentalism, even while self-immolating in supplicant worship to their Dark Lord.
I think I have something very relevant to say, and would be happy to discuss my experiences with anyone interested.
Adam Harry Cassidy
Clayton, ON