Currently,
transnational globalists are pushing for a “Great Reset.” It helps to
understand what’s coming at us if you remember that the globalist’s
mindset is akin to a zookeeper’s. Currently, the zookeepers have their
animals safely confined but there remains a modicum of hope that the
animals can liberate themselves.
First
some context. History is replete with ideologies that seek to save
people either from themselves or a foreign contagion. Until recently,
this impulse, as the 20th-century shows, has taken the form of political
ideologies.
For
those espousing Marxism, the ideology sought to cleanse a people from
the errors and machinations of the past. When the new ideas prevailed,
even if only briefly, the alleged salvation from historical, social, and
economic maladies required a reset of just about everything. More often
than not, the reset was accompanied by a sea of blood and violence. The
objects of salvation (the people) often died, ended up in the same
circumstance, or worse off.
I’m, of course, referring to communism, fascism, and national socialism. Some will say, what about capitalism?
Whatever
the ills of capitalism, it behooves one to consider the alternatives
offered during the 20th century. Some have said that history is just one
damn thing after another. Others say the history is the same damn thing
after another.
In any case, the intellectuals of modernity (see Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society)
decided that people left to their own devices will get in the way of
humanity’s salvation. Their solution is global governance that will
closely manage all human activity. Saving humanity is yesterday’s
solution. Saving Planet Earth from humanity is the ticket. Enter the
zookeeper.
In
a zoo, the animals/life forms are confined. Their diet, reproduction,
interaction with other species, consumption of resources, etc. are
carefully managed, depending on the zookeeper’s management goals. When
the kept animals’ illness, infirmity, or age becomes a liability, they
are eliminated.
In
the 21st century, COVID has given the intellectuals and their political
and media lackeys the ability to turn modern life into a giant zoo.
Whatever the coronavirus’s root cause, the ruling elite have
passionately embraced its usefulness as a tool to reorder societies and
economies across the globe.
I
may be wrong, but I do not recall a time when the world’s governments
acted in such remarkable uniformity. The virus-instigated collapse of
the extant infrastructure (i.e. jobs, income, mobility, access,
distribution, manufacturing, agriculture, etc.) has been blindingly
swift. The obvious question – “When will things return to normal?” -- is
one that is regularly answered by the authorities – they won’t. The
ruling class intends to give the “new normal,” aka “the reset,” its best
shot.
The
future the ruling class contemplates is one in which both “rights” and
privileges will be granted only to those people who comply. Global
mobility has plummeted, enforced confinement is mandated, jobs have
vanished, goods are becoming scarcer, surveillance is omnipresent, and
non-compliance is punished. We will be told that this is all for the
greater good. The elite have turned the world into a zoo, with
themselves as keepers and the rest of us as the animals that must be
trained or destroyed.
The
power to command and control human activity is off the charts. The
impulse toward totalitarian rule is as old as dirt. Those with the power
to attempt it have always done whatever it takes. The good news is that
the animals in this new zoo are the most innovative, creative,
adaptive, and resilient creatures on the planet. There’s still a chance
they can bust out of the joint.
