So, over the weekend, I interviewed someone from the World Economic Forum and asked them who’s running the world. The full interview is dropping this Sunday for the Super Bowl.
It was not what I was expecting. You’re gonna love it.
Who’s gonna win the big game, by the way? Taylor Swift or the baby-faced kid?
Anyway, I figured we’d revisit the WEF’s most current evil plans in preparation for the interview.
The Great Narrative
As we all know, every year WEF founder Klaus Schwab hosts occult martial arts tournaments and is in league with demonic fighters from other dimensions— a sort of “Mortal Combat,” if you will.
Schwab is also promoting a new world order in a literary sequel to “The Great Reset,” called “The Great Narrative.” The book is broken into four solutions: 1) economic, 2) environmental, 3) social, and 4) technological.
Here’s his reason for writing:
“Times of unprecedented change, with major economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological challenges that coincide and amplify each other, require unprecedented action.”
“In COVID-19: The Great Reset, published in July 2020, we raised the curtain on these issues. The Great Narrative places a cast of possible solutions to them on centre stage. What the epilogue to our human saga will be will depend on which narrative prevails.”
The Economic Manifesto
“The Great Narrative is a hybrid between an essay, a manifesto and a light academic précis.” — Klaus Schwab
Many economic solutions in “The Great Narrative” sound like communism. The government owns everything; you own nothing. If you’re unhappy about it, there’s the Ministry of Love to show you the right way.
The book addresses several ugly economic truths:
Post-COVID, we see a V-shaped recovery in most global powers, but no recovery in emerging markets — Mexico and Brazil, for instance.
Economic growth is slowing across the board.
Rampant inflation.
National currencies are competing with cryptocurrencies.
“The Great Reset” was about eliminating private property by transitioning to a rent-centered economy like a giant Airbnb; the “Great Narrative” is about promoting multipolarity instead of unipolarity. Multipolarity means ending the current US hegemony, which leaves room for new players like China, India, developing African nations and the EU.
“What we have to confront is a deep, systemic, and structural restructuring of our world, says Schwab. Politically, the driving forces for this political transformation, of course, is the transition into a multipolar world.”
Environment: The Greatest Problem?
“ ESG criteria “will remain a fiction”? until an effective global carbon tax is imposed, consistent ESG standards are implemented, and a set of broad-based regulations penalize bad behaviour.” — The Great Narrative
Much of the “Great Narrative” focuses on the environment.
Despite knowing about global warming for 50 years, Schwab claims we fall short of our collective commitment to reducing our carbon footprint.
“The Great Narrative’s” solutions are as follows:
To force all corporations to adopt Environmental Social Governance standards (ESG) through top-down authority.
Normalize ESG so that people won’t work for a company that doesn’t promote it or buy from a company unless they are ESG compliant.
Move from an economy of consumption to an economy of sharing.
As I read the book, I wondered: “Don’t the environmental goals clash with the economic ones?”
Indeed, they do. It’s like planning for college while enlisting in the military. There’s also no guarantee that an ESG company will outperform a traditional one — and they could hurt the poor and middle class through higher energy prices, as they did in Germany.
I’m not against prioritizing the environment. But capitalism, with its many, many flaws, has lifted more people out of poverty since the year 2000 than in the entire history of humanity. So it’s not evident that a global “sharing” approach will help the poor… or the environment.
It might harm both. Something to consider.
Society: The Biggest Challenge is Inequality
“The Great Narrative” sees many problems with society, such as a lack of trust in public institutions being historically low and a disconnect between the value of a job and the pay, leading to an increase in inequality.
And social unrest is erupting because of this inequality.
It’s hard to disagree with any of that. Movements like “quiet quitting” and “anti-work” reached a fever pitch last year. Something broke inside of us post-pandemic, like Christian Bale in American Psycho.
“The Great Narrative’s” solutions are as follows: “a broader, if not universal, provision of social assistance, social insurance, healthcare and basic quality services… in addition, a critical aspect of a new social contract pertaining to liberties and freedom, at least in democratic countries.”
Universal basic income. Eh. What do you think?
Is this the only way out?
Tech: Civil Liberties Will Vanish ‘to Save Society’
“Sometimes the same technological change can be regarded optimistically by some and pessimistically by others.” — Great Narrative
There are 700 million CCTVs in China. Smile for the government.
“The Great Narrative” lauds technological innovation like AI, automation, the Internet of Things, biocomputing, and blockchain — but also says these things might destroy privacy and civil liberties and that they want that.
At least they’re honest.
Final Thought
“The Great Narrative” is astonishing because it relies heavily on interviews with 50 global thinkers, most from US and UK-based institutions. This bias towards the Western world has led to a one-sided perspective and a clear political left-leaning ideology in the book.
That said… I think many of the problems outlined in the book must be addressed.
Yet the whole “we face multiple existential crises and need top-down control faster than ever” narrative is a quick ticket toward fascism.
The Ford Foundation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Open Society Foundations, Young Global Leaders. There are thousands of think tanks like the WEF that the internet has yet to discuss. The WEF is the most popular because they’re the most vocal.
While “The Great Narrative” is thought-provoking, it should be taken with a grain of salt, like everything the WEF does.
I hope you’re ready for that interview on Sunday, kids!
Well written. It brings up important topics.
The problems presented are real. The welfare of all people is important.
It's the solutions that are offered by authoritarians like Schwab and leftists that are scary. The control they desire makes me weep for future generations that have not been taught to question things and analyze possible outcomes of 'solutions'. Binary thinking is worse than ever.
Young men like you offer me hope. Your skepticism and questioning is healthy. Government in and of itself is necessary. Cooperation and a stable set of rules are required for a democratic republic.
Leftist authoritarians have a lust for power and a deep contempt for ordinary people who don't want to be ruled over by entitled elitists. The United States has been the biggest obstacle to European and Asian socialist/communist demagogues. People like Klaus want nothing more than for the US to be destroyed.
These people must be exposed for the fascists they are. Not for me, because I will be long gone before their evil plans come to fruition. But your generation faces the real possibility of moving backwards into a world of 'Big Brother'.
Keep fighting like Hell against such a dystopian future, Isaiah...
Excellent article. Even handed.