The Great Reset leftist takes

[DrEvil]

^^The author is a little hypocritical, seeing as he's in favor of the 4th industrial revolution and population control, only not within a capitalist framework. He wants a "socialist" revolution and the creation of a New Man to carry it forth in glorious straight, male fashion.

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Doctor said:
"The author is a little hypocritical, seeing as he's in favor of the 4th industrial revolution and population control, only not within a capitalist framework. He wants a "socialist" revolution and the creation of a New Man to carry it forth in glorious straight, male fashion."
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There were a number of good points throughout... I thought ... maybe you can read it again and explain to me what you saying.

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The Dystopic Great Reset and the Fight Back: Population Reduction and Hope for the Children of Men

Joaquin Flores
November 11, 2020

The Great Reset, the 4th Industrial Revolution, the 4th Turning, the Great Awakening, and Artificial Intelligence. These are the real themes that are shaping the socio-political, cultural, and ideological landscape of our lives in 2020.

The push for lockdown and quarantine towards a Great Reset is increasingly understood by critics as program of mass enslavement and collective punishment, population reduction, presented within the trappings progressive talking points. In our last piece on the Great Reset, ‘Whose Great Reset? The Fight for Our Future – Technocracy vs. the Republic’, we confronted the Orwellian nature of the term itself, showing that the ostensibly technocratic new proposal was being made in a way that appears to short-cut the decision making processes of sovereign states as well as democratic processes within republics.

In the eternal words of the Irish author, Oscar Wilde, ‘Life imitates art far more than art imitates life’.

“That we live in a time where the plans of the elite are more openly and more brazenly spelled out, in fiction, in public mythology, in culture, and are manufactured in a way entirely out of the hands of the vast majority of people whose lives will be forever changed, likely for the worse, is hands-down the real catastrophe of our time.”

There is a strange, if little known fact about the lived lives of prisoners. Now that humanity faces the real daunting probability of a lockdown regime on the flimsy pretext of a virus with a 99.9% survival rate, we need to understand something about prisoners and the Great Awakening. The Great Awakening is the product of how actually imprisoned people respond to imprisonment. Just as a person deprived of vision develops an outstanding sense of smell and hearing, a person deprived of physical freedom develops a profound and reified spiritual or supernatural freedom, which is the awakening. In a strange twist of fate, the more that people are locked down, the more they awaken.

We are caught between two seeming contradictions which in fact reconcile each other. On the one hand we understand that everything happens for a reason and that justice always prevails in the end, and on the other hand we know that the possible destiny that we can have only comes at the cost of tremendous struggle, self-discipline, moral fortitude, and sacrifice. This much is the mindset of the awakened, of the political soldier, in the course of the fight against the Great Awakening and within the age of the 4th Turning.

Censoring Facts, Reifying Fiction

Last month, the father of UK PM Boris Johnson, Stanley Johnson, was caught at a second time in public, not wearing a mask. Was he unaware that there is a highly contagious pandemic, one which affects his age group in particular? Does he not know what is going on in the UK and around the world?

Or does he know something that the rest of us do not? The folly that it may be, it came to be learned that it was Stanley Johnson who wrote the dystopian fiction novel, The Virus, one that describes much of what we are living through today. He is also the author of World Population and the United Nations: Challenge and Response, a non-fiction primer on the subject described in its title. In The Virus,

In both the narrative arc of the novel, and in his own introduction, Stanley Johnson lays out the necessity of a virus in the eyes of an insidious elite to curb population growth. This coincidence with the actual Agenda 21/2030 of the UN on population control, and the commitment of vaccine advocate and WHO beneficiary Bill Gates to decrease world population, is absolutely disconcerting and raises questions about further coincidences that have since arisen. This of course includes the very position that Boris Johnson holds today in managing the real-life version of the virus in Britain today.

But is this a mere matter of coincidence, or not? That question has become the subject of a vigorous debate, with one side of the debate arguing that it is not a coincidence being tremendously censored by social media and effectively barred from giving their side, and the other side being the only voice one hears and sees across social and legacy media.

The fact of this censorship over this question alone appears to lend credence to those being censored, as is often the unintended consequence of censorship, and perhaps the last hope of man.

This is an astonishing example of life imitating art, and now with an increasing public awareness on the relationship between vaccines and infertility, we arrive at the predicate to the film ‘Children of Men’.

Children of Men depicts a world in global chaos, war, strife, open street battles between members of quasi-governmental forces and various radical and religious cults, a jihadist military push through the streets of Paris, a paramilitary junta, the effects of mass migration, open air prisons, and worse. This has taken hold of most of Europe and presumably the world. This breakdown seems to have been the product of a global pandemic of infertility of an unknown origin. A film from 2008, anyone seeing the film today would instantly recognize the scenes as approximating real-life footage seen on the news in the world of 2020.

The global infertility crisis creates a pervasive sense of insecurity, the impossibility of a stock market, and a conscious sense of impending doom and nihilist response on the part of elites.

Taken together with Johnson’s ‘The Virus’, we can make a rather educated guess how such an outcome would manifest in a reality where life is imitating art: the virus or the vaccine created to the cure the virus, in fact lends towards infertility.

It isn’t difficult to make such a guess, for the reason that, day by day, we see this dystopia becoming our everyday reality. It has become a matter of fact much more than of fiction.

This compels us to approach, soberly, a reassessment of the concept of progress and where it leads

The themes of a virus used as a predicate for both population control and a total social transformation, as we wrote about in ‘Whose Great Reset’, is one which mirrors the effects of war: both in terms of a mass casualty event and the need to ‘build back better’ after an apparent socio-economic collapse induced either by the calamity or by the government’s heavy-handed response.

The Ideological State Apparatus of Technocratic Late Modernity

For any number of years, social critics and public philosophers have raised concerns about the never-ending rise of the technocratic and futurist cult of late modernity. In many ways, this is caught up with the entire ideological project of our epoch, as a left-façade over a technocratic thought-police-state has been weaponized as what Louis Althusser had called the Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) in his landmark text of the same name, “Idéologie et appareils idéologiques d’État (Notes pour une recherche)“.

That we live in a time where the plans of the elite are more openly and more brazenly spelled out, in fiction, in public mythology, in culture, and are manufactured in a way entirely out of the hands of the vast majority of people whose lives will be forever changed, likely for the worse, is hands-down the real catastrophe of our time.

For generations, citizens were bombarded with futurist and technocratic motifs, where people were encouraged to naively project their own goodness onto the aims of political and corporate leaders, and scientists, even while this goodness had not been proven or established. The white lab-coat had become synonymous not only with trust, but with good intentions, and in that sense replaced the priest’s frock and black robe. This has cultivated a fertile soil for the likes of the Dr. Anthony Fauci and his ilk. This has culminated in the now open implementation of a so-called ‘4th Industrial Revolution’, a progressivist framework wrapped within the sociology of Marx but absent its humanism and emancipatory components – a ‘technocratic Marxism of elites’.

The church of the progress myth has characterized much of the socio-political discourse of the last century. It has been one which has prepared several generations to accept the ‘challenges of change’ as a foregone necessity, towards the forging of a ‘brave new world’. It has served as the underlying assumption of the three most impactful ideologies of the 20th century: liberalism, fascism, and communism. So many apple-carts have been overturned along the way towards some combination of those ends, that today there are hundreds of millions of people who have never seen an apple cart with their own eyes.

The Ideological State Apparatus has proscribed that criticisms of real-existing policies, plans, and commitments at the level of the UN, such as Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030, are censored across social media. The censorship itself gives credence to the ‘no coincidence’ side of the present debate, because the aim of global population reduction is not only explicit, but central. The established ideological apparatus proscribes that questioning the agenda is ‘science denial’, and ‘far-right conspiracy’, which are the double-plus ungood thought-crimes of our day. Central to the ideological apparatus were the cultural and political tropes which thematically dovetailed with cultural and supply-line globalization within the framework of first-world service-based economies, itself founded on the premise of planned-obsolescence.

Population reduction however is an open goal of elites and their global governance institutions, and all that is contentious is the idea that the same governments that lied about the pretexts for the wars in Iraq and Vietnam, which then went on to murder millions of innocent people, may be lying again today about the methods they may use towards that end.

And yet the past methods of population control such as warfare of the total war type, are unacceptable for elites today because of the specter of a nuclear holocaust that would also contaminate life for the elites themselves. Johnson is not only aware of this, but is explicit in his introduction to ‘The Virus’. We can also include that war will result in one side or the other being blamed at a time of great collusion between world powers, but yet a global pandemic seems to be an act of god – when in fact perhaps it is the outcome of man playing at god.

The Ideological State Apparatus began to mutate in the late 1970’s, absorbing, deforming and then projecting back onto a society a mutated form of the very same protest radicalism which previously challenged the older Ideological State Apparatus. This new ISA was characterized by a new social morality, which delivered the now pervasive cult of political correctness. This ideological authoritarianism is one where slavery and self-harm are virtue signals, and this cultural shift towards public flagellation made possible the idea that lockdown, quarantine, and mask wearing was a sign of virtue more so than health. Without this change in the ISA over the past few decades, there could have never been a new normal.

Conclusion

As we have laid out the surface of the problem and begun to hint at the necessary course of solutions, in Part II we will dig deeper into the problem and flesh out what a just order would look like. In Part II, we will look at the origins of the social contract and the problem of free men versus the growing bureaucratic form, in history. This will set us up to look at why at the philosophical level our present elites have landed on misanthropy and genocide as a human population reduction program, as the best possible solution. Finally we will explain that while a 4th industrial revolution will come either way, that population reduction and slavery is not a necessary component of it. Rather, that it is up to free men to determine what that will look like and we will sketch out its actual functions.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/ ... en-of-men/

Did you already know the bit about Boris Johnson's dad?

Is that creepy, or what?

Last month, the father of UK PM Boris Johnson, Stanley Johnson, was caught at a second time in public, not wearing a mask. Was he unaware that there is a highly contagious pandemic, one which affects his age group in particular? Does he not know what is going on in the UK and around the world?

Or does he know something that the rest of us do not? The folly that it may be, it came to be learned that it was Stanley Johnson who wrote the dystopian fiction novel, The Virus, one that describes much of what we are living through today. He is also the author of World Population and the United Nations: Challenge and Response, a non-fiction primer on the subject described in its title. In The Virus,

In both the narrative arc of the novel, and in his own introduction, Stanley Johnson lays out the necessity of a virus in the eyes of an insidious elite to curb population growth. This coincidence with the actual Agenda 21/2030 of the UN on population control, and the commitment of vaccine advocate and WHO beneficiary Bill Gates to decrease world population, is absolutely disconcerting and raises questions about further coincidences that have since arisen. This of course includes the very position that Boris Johnson holds today in managing the real-life version of the virus in Britain today.

But is this a mere matter of coincidence, or not?

[DrEvil]

Yes, the part about Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson's dad was creepy.

What I meant by my comment is that the author has some very dodgy beliefs. He's one of the people behind New Resistance Evropa (I'm not linking to them. It's the first hit on Google if you're curious). Their platform declaration starts with "Europe for Europeans". Uh-oh. This should be fun. Further down:

Capitalism is a unique historical system which describes social organization within modernity, based upon specific technological and scientific possibilities. Automation and AI, along with 3D printing and the coming Internet of Things necessarily means that capitalism is coming to an end, along with the modern era. A new post-modern system, of the future, based rationally on the new and dynamic productive forces, is not only possible but necessary.

So that's their version of the 4th industrial revolution.

Then:

9) Against Planned Obsolescence and For Economic and Population Planning:

NR stands for a planned economy in harmony with the biosphere as a whole, with a right-sized population, and against the waste of consumerism which is a characteristic of the capitalist form of modernity.

And there's the population control bit.

Bonus content:

10) Sexual liberation:

Under capitalism, so-called sexual liberation can only mean market-place liberation – intensifying gender friction, identity reductionism, which is manipulated by the powers that be.

Feminism and prostitution are two-sides of the same coin – manifestations of capitalism.

A return to the understanding that gender and sex correlate more than 99.9% of the time, and that gender/sex differences are innate biological differences which present no inherent problem and do not require ‘overcoming’.

The promotion of hetero-normative culture is popular and in the best interests – physically, sexually, psychologically, and spiritually – of the vast and overwhelming majority of the population.

The tolerance of homosexual acts, the elimination of the category of homosexuals as a defining identity and the abolition of homosexuality as an abstracted and distinct reality. Government out of the bedroom, homosexuality out of the media.

The media creation of ‘homosexuality’ is explicitly limiting for individuals prone to homosexual acts, creating a false identity based upon tropes, caricatures, and stereotypes. Furthermore it is harmful for the healthy sexual and psychological individuation of youth into adolescence.

The redefinition of social modesty, and its enforcement, and a rediscovery of antiquinarian attitudes towards nudity in art, sculpture, and among people, in the social/public sphere. Popular erotica, and the exhalation of the human form in peak physical condition.

The popularization and education of highly regimented conditioning, sports, and physique training to popularize desirability and greatly increase one’s access to sex as an expression of healthy sexuality.

The encouragement of reserved promiscuity among the youth, provided the youth are involved in socially approved or socially necessary endeavors such as military service, education, and types of labor.

Reductions of communities of mass scale, especially those based in capitalism, will greatly reduce youth alienation and subcultures. Community-based cultures are themselves a ‘subculture’ and fill the basic human need for sub-cultures, which take on deformations under capitalism.

Industrial waste, capitalist ‘medicine’, and anthropogenic environmental toxins are the primary cause of the recent explosion of extreme hormone imbalances and damaged endocrine systems. These in turn have given rise to the illusion of non-binary gender, or gender reversal syndromes, in the population. In turn, this has been reified into pseudo-identities which tear communities apart.

A healthy, balanced, sex-positive culture, which is critical to the development and expression of European man’s creative impulses, especially necessary after the end of industrial labor.

If someone told me the above came out of Nazi Germany I would have believed them.

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DrEvil wrote:
"What I meant by my comment is that the author has some very dodgy beliefs. He's one of the people behind New Resistance Evropa (I'm not linking to them. It's the first hit on Google if you're curious). Their platform declaration starts with "Europe for Europeans". Uh-oh. This should be fun. Further down:"

Thank you for this. I find it to be interesting, intriguing and far beyond my level of expertise, unfortunately. Some of what I read sounds good. Other parts ... not too sure about ...

All in all, could what he writes be considered a "leftist take"?

[dada]

I would say no, from the left the great reset is an advertising campaign, and nothing new.

The left criticizes technocratic control by globalist elites as a fantasy narrative. The article takes the fantasy seriously, is basically an argument over slogans. Like saying, "my slogans are catchier than the great reset, and so will sell more and are therefore better." This has nothing to do with critique from the left.

[DrEvil]

DrEvil wrote:
"What I meant by my comment is that the author has some very dodgy beliefs. He's one of the people behind New Resistance Evropa (I'm not linking to them. It's the first hit on Google if you're curious). Their platform declaration starts with "Europe for Europeans". Uh-oh. This should be fun. Further down:"

Thank you for this. I find it to be interesting, intriguing and far beyond my level of expertise, unfortunately. Some of what I read sounds good. Other parts ... not too sure about ...

All in all, could what he writes be considered a "leftist take"?

Some of his underlying ideology shines through in the article, for instance:

On the one hand we understand that everything happens for a reason and that justice always prevails in the end, and on the other hand we know that the possible destiny that we can have only comes at the cost of tremendous struggle, self-discipline, moral fortitude, and sacrifice. This much is the mindset of the awakened, of the political soldier, in the course of the fight against the Great Awakening and within the age of the 4th Turning.

This aligns perfectly with NRE's platform.

He says he's a socialist, but he's a socialist in the same sense the Nazis were socialist, meaning, not really. He's peddling what he calls the fourth way, incorporating ideas from the far left and the far right, and I suspect part two will lean more heavily into that. His fourth way claims to be a new way to organize society, but reading their platform it looks like it would just end up as the love child of Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. Sourcewatch calls him a neo-fascist, and I think that's as good a label as any.

[dada]

You know, if your elites are really in control of anything, then why does the corporate arm of mass production need to sell you on the notion. Maybe they aren't really so very elite, afterall.

So what, the corporate arm of mass production must be the elite. Because there must be an elite, so you say. I'd say we've already established that the elite is not really so very elite. It's only where the elite is established, within the corporate arm of mass production, that elite control is accepted.

[dada]

Accepted in the sense of accepted to be real and not utopian fantasy. Which is to say elite control is only possible in a cultural black hole, and rejection of elite control is not the same as rejection of elitism. The one takes the utopian fantasy to its conclusion, the elitist objection. The other takes discussion back to the mass production of class and economy in consumer societies.

[dada]

Critique of the great reset from the left raises a question: is mass production of comsumers and their culture possible outside of the modern state of industrial machinery, or is it just the economy of all states in expansion, or empires, since time immemorial.

Is empire possible without the mass production of the trappings of empire, the craftsmen reproducing the shields and engraved insignia, the outfitting of the armies, and the material support of the surrounding society or societies, the food and raw materials.

The left then, says yes, mass production is possible without the modern state of industrial machinery, and the consumer state in expansion, or consumer empire, is not only not possible without mass production, it is itself mass production economy.

And thus it has always been. So the "old fashioned thinking in words of unaffiliated agency" on the Bill Gates thread takes the exact opposite meaning here.

[dada]

Just to be clear, or maybe put what I mean here in a different light, I've been speaking as the voice of consumer mass production. Just not dead mass. Mass thought to be composed of the rarest, hylian material, and the extremely rare hylian consumers as composers, the mass production of the non-material world in the light of the mind, also called 'in the rarest, hylian words.'

[dada]

So maybe we could say that mass production consumer culture expands due to lack of exposure to cultures it opposes, which is all of them. The cultural idea being economized through lack of exposure. Lack of exposure like saying, "you don't understand my words because you haven't been exposed to the culture from which they come from. So we are basically speaking in two different cultural languages.

For mass production consumers, lack of exposure is sold as a lament, for products that are felt to deserve more exposure to mass production. Also sold as a judgement of social merit for words. Words lacking exposure are overlooked, or not taken so seriously as words with mass exposure.

So maybe now we see a bit more clearly how the elite mass production consumers are about as elite as apple pie, and that elite just means super rare, and definitely not found within mass production consumer culture, but in cultures which it lacks exposure to. Then maybe it's fair if we say, lack of exposure is economy in mass production, and overexposure is culture in mass production.

To describe what I mean by "elite" just meaning super rare and cannot be found in mass production consumer culture, there's the case of the royal we. I use the "royal we" when I'm thinking sometimes, but there is a lower case we, and a We, with a capital W. The lower case we means "me and you" or "all of us." We with a capital W stands for "me, myself and I."

When I write on paper or screen, "we" is always capitalized in my mind, but written in whatever way is grammatically correct at the moment.

Imagining the capital We, though, produces the possibility for other lower case words to be capitalized. So from imagining the capital royal we, now I imagine all the words beginning with w as capitalized. The words beginning with w can be said to resonate more closely with the imagined royal We than words beginning with the other letters. But all letters have the potential of imagined capitalization, of course.

Imagining the capital royal we sounds silly, but its first effect, on other words beginning with w, makes it a useful excercise. Like the who, what, where, when why group. And then how somehow resonantes in the first effect of imagining the royal we, even though it doesn't begin with the same letter. Like it has an invisible w. But since the w is invisible, it can't be capitalized. If there were a silent w, it could be capitalized. And so we see the strange effect of how the h in the word "how" becomes capitalized instead.

So maybe we could call the excercise, "raising royal questions through imagined capitalization," or studying the differentials between the social, royal we in lower case, and the we with imagined capitalization only seen in the mind, representing the royal We in the sense of me, myself, and I.

Sounds pretty fancy. Differentials looking smart. Maybe just, "the resonantly magical effect of imagined capitalization on the grammatically correct field."

edited to add "the silent w," and correct an apostrophic oversight.

[dada]

So as we say "lack of exposure is economy in mass production, and overexposure is culture in mass production," maybe we can also say that the cultural forms that mass production consumer society opposes are cultures in which overexposure to mass production culture is economy, while lack of exposure to mass production economy is culture.

Overexposure as economy appears counter-intuitive to consumers of mass production culture, where economy is in lack.

[dada]

Overexposure to mass production consumer culture as economy through cheap product surplus overspill. In thought cultures with lack of exposure to the mass culture's economy of thought.

But now I'm thinking of the matter of ecology. For the mass consumer, ecology has its roots in the preservation of dead matter, the conservation of the environment of mass production. And preservation of the human species always seems to imply "breeding program."

The ecology of the thought consumer isn't then a "return to nature," but the preservation of living thoughts, not sought in the resonant network of dead mass but in patterns of thought culture, alive in the study of figures and forms.

So the thought consumer thinks of the Thinker statue in the world of dead matter and does not see a reflection of itself to be narcissistically consumed with, but is always consumed by thought, seeing itself only through symbolifying with reflections of hearts consumed in fire.

[dada]

The left takes on the great reset by using the old living/dead world paradigm, as opposed to the terminology of "woke," and "awake to the matrix." Woke is awake in the dead world, and the "taking of the red pill" is awaking to the dead matrix. The blue pill-taker is asleep in the dead matrix.

For the living, what is "alive" in the dead world is always dead. In the living world, death is only a part of life, and so cannot really be said to be truly dead. To be truly dead, like Dracula's wish. To live in the dead world.

So for the mass consumer, life is in dead mass, and death is in thought, as in matrix paradigms. For the living, the living/dead world is thought to be the paradigm of reality.

[dada]

The living/dead world paradigm takes a funny turn after concluding that whatever can die can never be truly alive. Now anything that can become garbage was already garbage to begin with. Mass production is seen as the mass production of garbage, and garbage is the natural state of the dead world of mass.

Which brings the thought back to the George Carlinism, "The function of the human species is to produce plastic," but from the other direction. It now says that dead mass is always garbage and especially plastic. To the living, the dead world itself is the delivery system of garbage in plastic containers, delvered directly to the mass consumer's door. The living world is also a delvery system, but the situation is reversed, the thought consumer delivers plastic thoughts in garbage containers, from the recycling plant, to the world envisioned, with cities and villages not found on any map.