Walsh Michael - Against the Great Reset

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ISBN: 978-1-63758-630-3

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Against the Great Reset:

Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order

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Contents

China, COVID-19, Realpolitik , and the Great Reset
By Douglas Murray

The Economic Consequences of the Great Reset
By David P. Goldman

The Shape of Things to Come: The Tyranny of Covid-19
By John Tierney

You Will Be Made to Laugh: Humor Under the Great Reset
By Harry Stein

Green Energy and the Future of Transportation
By Salvatore Babones

The Anti-Industrial Revolution
By Martin Hutchinson

The Great Reset and Stakeholderism
By Alberto Mingardi

History under the Great Reset
By Jeremy Black

Dueling Faiths: Science and Religion under the Great Reset
By Richard Fernandez

What an Artist Dies in Me!
By Michael Walsh

By Mic hael Walsh

What is the Great Reset and why should we care? In the midst of a tumultuous medical-societal breakdown, likely engineered by the Chinese Communist Party and abetted by Americas National Institutes of Health gain of function financial assistance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, why is the Swiss-based World Economic Forum (WEF) advocating a complete re-imagining of the Western worlds social, economic, and moral structures? And why now? What are its aspirations, prescriptions, and proscriptions, and how will it prospectively affect us? Its a question that the men and women of the WEF are hoping you wont ask.

This book seeks to supply the answers. It has ample historical precedents, from Demostheness fulminations against Philip II of Macedon (Alexanders father), Ciceros Philippics denouncing Mark Antony, the heretic-hunting Tertullians Adversus Marcionem and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsches Nietzsche contra Wagner . Weighty historical issues are often best debated promptly, when something can yet be done about them; in the meantime, historians of the future can at least understand the issues as the participants themselves saw and experienced them. Whether the formerly free world of the Western democracies will succumb to the paternalistic totalitarianism of the oligarchical Resetters remains to be seen. But this is our attempt to stop it.

So great is mankinds perpetual dissatisfaction with its present circumstances, whatever they may be, that the urge to make the world anew is as old as recorded history. Eve fell under the Serpents spell, and with the plucking of an apple, sought to improve her life in the Garden of Eden by becoming, in Miltons words, as Gods, Knowing both Good and Evil, as they know. The forbidden fruit was a gift she shared with Adam; how well that turned out has been the history of the human race ever since. High aspirations, disastrous results.

The expulsion from the Garden, however, has not discouraged others from trying. Indeed, the entire chronicle of Western civilization is best regarded as a never-ending and ineluctable struggle for cultural and political superiority, most often expressed militarily (since that is how humans generally decide matters) but extending to all things both spiritual and physical. Dissatisfaction with the status quo may not be universaltimeless and static Asian cultures, such as Chinas, have had it imposed upon them by external Western forces, including the British and the Marxist-Leninistsbut it has been a hallmark of the occident and its steady civilizational churn that dates back at least to Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Pericles, and Alexander the Great, with whom Western history properly begins.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, assaying the inelegant Koine, or demotic, Greek of the New Testament in Beyond Good and Evil , observed: Es ist eine Feinheit, da Gott griechisch lernte, als er Schriftsteller werden wollteund da er es nicht besser lernte : Its a particular refinement that God learned Greek when he wanted to become a writerand that he didnt learn it better. Nietzsche, the preachers son who became through sheer willpower a dedicated atheist, was poking fun at the fundamentalist belief that the Christian scriptures were the literal words of God himself (Muslims, of course, believe the same thing about the Koran, except more so). If something as elemental, as essential to Western thought as the authenticity of the Bible, not to mention Gods linguistic ability, could be questioned and even mocked, then everything was on the tableincluding, in Nietzsches case, God Himself.

With the death of Godor of a godNietzsche sought liberation from the moral jiu-jitsu of Jesus: that weakness was strength; that victimhood was noble; that renunciationof love, sex, power, ambitionwas the highest form of attainment. That Nietzsches rejection of God was accompanied by his rejection of Richard Wagner, whose music dramas are based on the moral elevation of rejection, is not coincidental; the great figures of the nineteenth century, including Darwin and Marx, all born within a few years of each other, were not only revolutionaries, but embodied within themselves antithetical forces that somehow evolved into great Hegelian syntheses of human striving with which we still grapple today.

Wagner, the Schopenhauerian atheist who staggered back to Christianity and the anti-Semite who engaged the Jew Hermann Levi as the only man who could conduct his final ode to Christian transfiguration, Parsifal . Charles Darwin, ticketed for an Anglican parsonage but mutating into the author of On the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man , and all the way to The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms . Karl Marx, the scion of rabbis whose father converted to Lutheranism and, like Wagner for a time, a stateless rebel who preached that the withering away of the state itself was inevitableand yet the state endures, however battered it may be at the moment.

Its fitting that the Great Reset of capitalism is the brainchild of the WEF, which hosts an annual conference in the Alpine village of Davosthe site of the tuberculosis sanatorium to which the naf Hans Castorp reports at the beginning of Thomas Manns masterpiece, The Magic Mountain . completeupon the outbreak of World War I, in which we assume he will meet the death, random and senseless, that he has been so studiously avoiding yet simultaneously courting at the Berghof.

Central Europe, it seems, is where the internal contradictions of Western civilization are both born and, like Martin Luther at Eisleben, go home to die. And this is where the latest synthetic attempt to replace God with his conqueror, Man, has emerged: in the village of Davos, in the canton of Graubnden, Switzerland: the site of the annual meeting of the WEF led by the German-born engineer and economist Klaus Schwab, born in Ravensburg in 1938, the year before Hitler and Stalin began carving up Poland and the Baltics.