Hillsdale College is one of the few educational institutions
that does not accept state or federal tax dollars.
Consequently, it is free to offer a genuine classical liberal arts
education.
Imprimis is a
publication of Hillsdale College, and contributors adapt their various campus
lectures to the print edition. Last
year, Michael Rectenwald, Chief Academic Officer for American Scholars, published “What Is the Great Reset? (Dec 2021)
The Great Reset a/k/a Agenda 21 a/k/a Agenda 2030 a/k/a New
World Order has been the subject of many linked reports on this blog. The terms still prompt questions and
skepticism, so I am linking to the online version of Mr Rectenwald’s essay;
here’s the opening:
Is the Great Reset a conspiracy
theory imagining a vast left-wing plot to establish a totalitarian one-world
government? No. Despite the fact that some people may have spun conspiracy theories
based on it—with some reason, as we will see—the Great Reset is real.
Indeed, just last year, Klaus
Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF)—a
famous organization made up of the world’s political, economic, and cultural
elites that meets annually in Davos, Switzerland—and Thierry Malleret,
co-founder and main author of the Monthly Barometer, published a book
called COVID-19: The Great Reset. In the book, they define the Great Reset
as a means of addressing the “weaknesses of capitalism” that were purportedly
exposed by the COVID pandemic.
But the idea of the Great Reset
goes back much further. It can be traced at least as far back as the inception
of the WEF, originally founded as the European Management Forum, in 1971. In
that same year, Schwab, an engineer and economist by training, published his
first book, Modern Enterprise Management in Mechanical Engineering. It was
in this book that Schwab first introduced the concept he would later call
“stakeholder capitalism,” arguing “that the management of a modern enterprise
must serve not only shareholders but all stakeholders to achieve long-term
growth and prosperity.” Schwab and the WEF have promoted the idea of
stakeholder capitalism ever since. They can take credit for the stakeholder and
public-private partnership rhetoric and policies embraced by governments,
corporations, non-governmental organizations, and international governance
bodies worldwide.
. . .
Another way of describing the goal
of the Great Reset is “capitalism with Chinese characteristics”—a two-tiered
economy, with profitable monopolies and the state on top and socialism for the
majority below.
. . .
Other developments that advance the
Great Reset agenda have included unfettered immigration, travel restrictions for
otherwise legal border crossing, the Federal Reserve’s unrestrained printing of
money and the subsequent inflation, increased taxation, increased dependence on
the state, broken supply chains, the restrictions and job losses due to vaccine
mandates, and the prospect of personal carbon allowances. . . .
Mr Rectenwald concludes:
Just as Schwab and the WEF
predicted, the COVID crisis has accelerated the Great Reset. Monopolistic
corporations have consolidated their grip on the economy from above, while
socialism continues to advance for the rest of us below. In partnership with
Big Digital, Big Pharma, the mainstream media, national and international
health agencies, and compliant populations, hitherto democratic Western
states—think especially of Australia, New Zealand, and Austria—are being
transformed into totalitarian regimes modeled after China.
But let me end on a note of hope.
Because the goals of the Great Reset depend on the obliteration not only of
free markets, but of individual liberty and free will, it is, perhaps
ironically, unsustainable. Like earlier attempts at totalitarianism, the Great
Reset is doomed to ultimate failure. That doesn’t mean, however, that it won’t,
again like those earlier attempts, leave a lot of destruction in its wake—which
is all the more reason to oppose it now and with all our might.
The rest of this article is here. Mr Rectenwald has defined
what the globalists want.
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