ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com
The Great Nonsense Of "The Great Reset"
MONDAY, MAR 29, 2021 - 10:20 PM
Authored by Thomas DiLorenzo via LewRockwell.com,
“The Great Reset” is the latest deceptive euphemism for totalitarian socialism that is being promoted by yet another group of wealthy corporate elitists who think they can centrally plan the entire world economy. They are essentially the ideological heirs of Frederick Engels and his intellectual puppet Karl Marx. “The Great Reset” follows in the rhetorical footsteps of such euphemisms for socialism as “economic democracy,” “social justice,” “liberation theology,” “progressivism,” “market socialism” (an oxymoron, like “jumbo shrimp” or “military intelligence”), “environmentalism,” “fighting climate change,” “sustainable development,” and “green new deal,” to mention just a few.
The main figure of this movement is wealthy German engineer Klaus Schwab, founder of the “World Economic Forum,” who champions what he calls “transhumanism,” the integration of nanotechnology into the human body so that humans can be controlled remotely by the state. As Ron Paul has noted, “Included in Schwab’s proposal for surveillance [of every citizen] is his idea to use brain scans and nanotechnology to predict, and if necessary, prevent, individuals’ future behavior . This means that anyone whose brain is ‘scanned’ could have his . . . [constitutional] rights violated because a government bureaucrat determines the individual is going to commit a crime.”
Placed in the hands of politicians, this would create a level of totalitarianism the Soviets could only have dreamed of. In other words, Schwab is reminiscent of that famous twentieth-century German who also fantasized about creating a master race and ruling the world.
This is nothing new, Antony Mueller points out, as eugenics, which was all the rage among so many ruling class elitists of the early twentieth century “is now called transhumanism.” Among the most prominent late nineteenth-and twentieth-century eugenicists were H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Darwin’s son Leonard, John Maynard Keynes, Irving Fisher, Winston Churchill, and Bill Gates, Sr. Bill Gates, Jr. is an enthusiastic funding source for “transhumanism” research and, like his father, is fond of eugenics.
During a recent “Ted” talk Gates, Jr. complained that “The world today has 6.8 billion people . .. that’s headed up to about 9 billion.” Have no fear, he said, because if “we” do “a really great job on vaccines [with anti-fertility drugs? Poisons?] health care, reproductive health services [including abortion?], we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent." That in turn will lower carbon dioxide levels on the planet and address “climate change” as well, said Gates.
Keynes was treasurer of the Cambridge University Eugenics Society and director of the Eugenics Society of London. He called eugenics “the most important and significant branch of sociology” [Eugenics Archive]. Irving Fisher, icon of the Chicago School of Economics, literally wrote the book on the subject, entitled
Eugenics.
When he was the British Home Secretary (1910-1911) Winston Churchill advocated “the confinement, segregation, and sterilization of a class of persons contemporarily described as the ‘feeble minded’” [International Churchill Society]. His stated goal was “the improvement of the British breed”. Accordingly, he supported “compulsory detention of the mentally inadequate”; the “sterilization of the unfit”; and “proper labor colonies” for “tramps and wastrels.”
World Government, Anyone?
Antony Mueller also wrote of how the first attempt to create some kind of global governing institution to centrally plan the world was the League of Nations (1920), followed by the United Nations in 1945 under the leadership of Stalin, FDR, and Churchill. Although Churchill was fond of citing F.A. Hayek, especially T
he Road to Serfdom, FDR was essentially a fascist whose domestic policies differed very little from fascist Italy and Germany, and of course Stalin was a mass-murdering communist.
Churchill was voted out of office and replaced by the socialist Labor Party’s Clement Atlee in 1945. The three “allied powers” of World War II were then led by two socialists and the political heir to FDR’s economic fascism, Harry Truman.
The U.N. immediately created UNESCO (
United
Nations
Educational,
Scientific and
Cultural
Organization) and the
World
Health
Organization (WHO), whose stated goal was to “manipulate human development.” Eugenicist Julian Huxley was the first director of UNESCO who lamented that Marxism’s attempt to create a new type of human (“socialist man”) had already failed because it lacked a “biological component.”
Neo-Malthusianism and the Birth of “Environmentalism”
[S[ocialism . . . is . . . the society that must emerge if humanity is to cope with . . . the ecological burden that economic growth is placing on the environment . . . . [C]apitalism must be monitored, regulated, and contained to such a degree that it would be difficult to call the final social order capitalism.”
– Robert Heilbroner, “After Capitalism,” The New Yorker, Sept. 10, 1990
The above quotation by socialist economist, the late Robert Heilbroner, was written in the context of an article that lamented and mourned the worldwide collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. The great debate between capitalism and socialism was over, he said, and Ludwig von Mises was right about socialism all along, said a man who had spent the past half century promoting socialism in his teaching, speaking, and writing. But do not despair, he told his fellow socialists, for there is one more trick up our sleeves, namely, the Trojan Horse of achieving socialism under the guise of “environmentalism.”
The basic strategy was then, as it is now, to constantly frighten the gullible public with predictions of The End of the World from environmental catastrophe unless we abandon capitalism and adopt socialist central planning. This has always been the one constant theme of the environmentalist movement (not to be confused with the
conservation movement which is actually interested in the health of the planet and the humans who occupy it) since the 1960s. It ignores the fact that the twentieth-century socialist countries like the Soviet Union and China had by far the worse environmental problems on the planet, orders of magnitude worse than in the capitalist countries.
In 2019 the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) published “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions” by Myron Ebell and Steven Milloy. The study is a compilation of reprints of newspaper and magazine articles that illustrate the seemingly never-ending false scare stories spread by the “environmentalistS” and their media puppets. The real founder of the modern environmental movement was entomologist Paul Ehrlich, not Rachel Carson, author of the widely-cited novel,
Silent Spring. Ehrlich was supported by a group of wealthy socialists known as “The Club of Rome.” His book,
The Population Bomb, was incredibly successful, selling millions in just a couple of years, warning that the entire world will soon be destroyed by capitalism unless it is ended NOW and “severe” regulatory measures are taken.
The first article displayed by CEI was from the November 17, 1967
Salt Lake Tribune announcing that Professor Paul Ehrlich of Stanford said the “time of famines” is upon us and will be “disastrous” by 1975 because of over-population. Such talk was a resurrection of the hoary, thoroughly-discredited Malthusianism of the nineteenth century, cloaked in the words of “modern science.” Birth control may have to be made “involuntary, said Ehrlich, and accompanied by “putting sterilization agents into staple foods and drinking water.” The Catholic church needs to be “pressured” by government to support his, said Ehrlich, who became one of the most celebrated, rich, and famous academics of the twentieth century.
The
New York Times quoted Ehrlich on August 10, 1969, as predicting that “unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam n 20 years.”
Ice Age Hysteria of the ‘70s
Global cooling that would create a new ice age was the next scare tactic. An April 18, 1970
Boston Globe article quoted “pollution expert” James P. Lodge, Jr. as saying “air pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the next century.”
Ehrlich chimed in, naturally. An October 6, 1970 Redlands, CA
Daily Facts article quoted him as predicting that “the oceans will be . . . dead . . . in less than a decade” because of pollution caused by capitalism. And they will be frozen over. A July 9, 1971
Washington Post article quoted a Dr. S.I. Rasool of NASA and Columbia University who said that pollution will cause an average temperature drop of as much as ten degrees that “could be sufficient to trigger an ice age!”
On December 3, 1972 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sent a letter to President Nixon predicting a “global deterioration of climate” never before seen by “civilized mankind” that would lead to a new ice age.
A January 29, 1974 article in
The Guardian was headlined, “Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast.” This was followed by a June 24, 1974
Time magazine article warning that “telltale signs are everywhere” that we were already in a new ice age. Global cooling hysteria was still alive and well in 1978. A January 5, 1978
New York Times article was headlined, “International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere.
Pivoting on a Dime: Global Warming Hysteria
By 1988, after more than a decade of warnings of a new ice age unless capitalism is destroyed failed to produce the desired result, many of these same “scientists” and bureaucrats all of a sudden began warning of an earthly apocalypse caused by global
warming. The “greenhouse effect” of pollution was discovered/invented, with nationwide warnings like one in the June 24
Miami News declaring that “’88 On Way to be Hottest Ever as World Temperatures Up Sharply.”
James Hansen of NASA warned in the
Lansing State Journal on December 12, 1988 that Washington, D.C. would “go from its current 35 days a year over 90 degrees to 85 days a year” and “the level of the ocean will rise” by as much as six feet. “Rising seas could obliterate nations,” a “U.N. official” informed the Associated Press on June 30, 1989. In reality, as CEI points out, is that the number of 90+ degree days in Washington, D.C.
peaked in 1911 and continues to decline.
By 2000 the mantra of the global warming hysterics included predictions that “snowfalls are now just a thing of the past,” and “children just aren’t going to know what snow is,”
The Independent announced on September 12, 2015, quoting another environmentalist “expert” from the University of East Anglia.
By 2013 “the Arctic will be free of sea ice” predicted James Hansen in 2008, as reported by
The Argus Free Press of Owosso, Michigan. In the same year Al Gore informed us that “the North polar ice cap would be gone,” as reported by the Associated Press on June 24, 2008. For such predictions Massachusetts Senator ed Markey designated Hansen as “a climate prophet.”
The renowned atmospheric scientist Prince Charles told
The Independent on July 9, 2009 that “the price of capitalism and consumerism is just too high.” The planet will be destroyed by 2017 if capitalism is not essentially destroyed immediately, said the mega-wealthy prince whose preferred method of travel is by gas-guzzling Rolls Royce and private jet.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown outdid the prince by informing
The Independent on October 20, 2009 that “we have fewer than fifty days to save our planet from catastrophe.”
When New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez publicly announced in 2019 with perfect certainty that the world will end in in twelve years, she was referring to a 2018 United Nations “study” of “climate change” that said the same thing. The world will likely end in twelve years, said the U.N. bureaucrats, unless the U.N. is given vast new governing powers over all countries of the world, and vast sums of additional tax revenue.
NONE of these widely-touted and celebrated predictions came true. Birds did not even disappear from the planet as predicted in
Silent Spring. capitalism was
not replaced by worldwide socialist central planning; so the environmental “scientists” pivoted on a dime once again and adopted the language of climate
change. It now does not matter whether the climate’s temperature is increasing or decreasing;
either will cause a “catastrophe” that can only be avoided by replacing what’s left of capitalism with some kind of worldwide socialist central planning, they inform us.
A quarter of a century of “climate change” hysteria has still not led to the desired result. The next step in this more-than-a-century-old political crusade for worldwide socialism, therefore, is “The Great Reset.”
The Great Nonsense of The Great Reset
Klaus Schwab holds doctorates in engineering and economics, although he seems ignorant of the most elementary economic concepts when he contends that the entire world economy can somehow be stopped by a god-like hand, push-button style, and “reset” and “built back better,” one of his favorite slogans. He is the founder of the “World Economic Forum,” touted as an organization that promotes “Public-Private Cooperation.” As Ayn Rand once said, however, whenever the private sector “partners” with government, government is always the senior and controlling partner.
Schwab seems totally unaware of how the institutions of capitalism have
evolved over the centuries by ingenuity and efforts of millions and were not magically set or reset by any single man or government committee. Money evolved on the free market and did not originate from governmental edits. Even language
evolved, and was not invented by any government bureaucracy. There is no recognition at all in any of Schwab’s books that he understands (or cares) anything about the spontaneous order of markets, the importance of private property and free-market prices, the economy-smothering effects of government bureaucracy, or the economic reasons for the inevitable failures of socialism. Like all other socialist ideologues, he does not even bother to address the critics of socialism as he blindly makes his case for
world socialism. It
can work, he insists, if only
he and his corporate elitist comrades could be in charge.
The “logic” of The Great Reset can be stated in a syllogism:
1) Socialism has failed disastrously everywhere it has been implemented;
2) Everyone knows this;
3) Therefore, what the world needs is more socialism on the biggest scale ever.
Schwab is an engineer and believes that world society can be socially “engineered” by corporate elitists like himself. The Soviets would label this kind of thinking “scientific socialism.”
Part 1 of 2
www.breitbart.com
