The average taxpayer may be forgiven for floundering in the post-truth ocean of baffling Orwellian “newspeak.” It's terminology that supports vast changes currently being implemented across the west under the World Economic Forum (WEF) COVID pandemic “Great Reset.”.What's happening?.To many, the order of things seems to be turning upside down — a surrealistic Alice-through-the-looking-glass world, where “logic and proportion have fallen sloppy-dead.” There is no rhyme or reason, no explanation, no plan..There is however, a plan, and to many liberal decision-makers at least, it makes sense.. Schwab great reset quoteKlaus Schwab and his Great Reset rationale. .The “Great Reset” is ostensibly an economic recovery plan devised by WEF during 2020, in response to the global effects of the pandemic. It has however, broader implications for government, society, business, and management of the global commons..According to WEF, “Leaders find themselves at a historic crossroads, managing short-term pressures against medium and long-term uncertainties.”.WEF goes on to describe the opportunity presented by COVID: “As we enter a unique window of opportunity to shape the recovery… the Great Reset initiative has a set of dimensions to build a new social contract that honours the dignity of every human being.”.WEF is saying the COVID-19 pandemic created sufficient global shock to enable implementation of ‘Shock Policy,' a concept described by late economic guru and free-market champion Milton Freidman of Chicago School of Economics fame..Freidman said, “Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”.Intrinsic to the concept is the fundamental truth that human beings are distracted by shock, and therefore more open to change than they would otherwise be if they were thinking clearly. Shock creates opportunity to rewrite the script — as hurricane winds blow your house down, missiles rain from the sky, or a global media ‘infodemic’ convinces you that death from a flue-like virus is immanent..Hence, the WEF “window of opportunity.”.It’s a new world the deciders are planning..At the nexus of understanding is a triumvirate of radical philosophies; communism, “wokeism”, and “post nationalism.”.Communism, of course, is familiar to most — a political-economic system based upon Marxist-Leninist doctrine of collective ownership and organization of labor that by the end of the 1960s had widely failed..Out of the ashes of communism came “post-modernism,” under which the equity-based policies of communism were replaced with identity-based policies — thus, the genesis of “woke-ism”..Post-modernism had to do with the rejection of so-called ‘grand narratives’ — such as progress, modernity, and reason — following WWII. An early proponent, French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard, maintained cultures cohere because they believe in a common and dominant narrative ... such as the Bible, or Koran, or history. If these narratives are abandoned, the opportunity results to create new narratives — like those of the ’cancel-culture’ today..Duke University professor and foremost Marxist cultural theorist Fredric Jameson sees the post-modern world as one in which, “cultures are dislocated and language communities fragmented.”.The rapid increase of globalization during the early 1990’s resulted in a critique of the nation-state, which questioned its continuing validity as a form of political organization … and post-nationalism was born..As global connections grew, trans-national institutions emerged with increasing influence over the affairs of nations. International decision-making bodies now challenge state sovereignty — hence, post-nationalism..This is where ‘wokeism’ enters, as an enabling philosophy (or to some, a religion.).Canada has been referred to as the “first post-national country”, and Justin Trudeau as its ‘woke’ Prime Minister..Shortly after becoming prime minister in 2015, Trudeau told the New York Times Canada had “no core identity,” and that he saw it as the “first post-national state.”.Although a majority of Canadians don’t agree with Trudeau (his Liberal party lost the popular vote during the past two elections, remaining in power only due to the unrepresentative first-past-the-post electoral system that he promised to change in 2015,) his government has continued to rely upon a ‘woke’ narrative to spin identity politics into public policies that largely disenfranchise the majority. The ‘woke’ narrative, whereby identification with a Trudeau-favoured demographic holds advantages over non-membership, serves to break down traditional national social unity — a prerequisite to establishment of the post-national state..And so, the dots connect — communism, to ‘wokeism’, to post-nationalism, all within the context of the Great Reset..If you believe this is all happening by accident, you are mistaken..If you believe in the Great Reset, it all makes sense..If you don’t, it doesn’t matter. ‘Wokies’ aren’t interested in your opinion..‘Wokeism’ doesn’t tolerate dissent..Ken Grafton is a freelance writer.
