The Great Reset

The great reset is an idea much touted by the media and their political and economic backers. However, it's also shrouded in a lot of nonsense. It's not immediately clear what's at stake. A bit of clear thinking is required to sort the facts from the hype.

To get a meaningful insight into what's going on, we must remember that the elites in government and corporations view the general population as cattle to be controlled. They also think very highly of themselves. They believe that their view of the world is superior to that of their subjects. When they say things like "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy", they believe this to be so. Furthermore, they believe it to be inevitable. Not only is their vision something to be applauded, it's also destiny. In their delusional view of things, only evil operates outside their control. They are the benevolent gods that will set humanity free under their watchful eye.

This delusion makes them blind to the fact that they cannot possibly know anything close to what they think they know. They are also profoundly incapable of seeing things from more than one perspective. They confuse self interest for benevolence. They find it extremely hard to comprehend the fact that what's in their personal interests are not necessarily in the best interest of everyone else, especially when they are constantly surrounded by people who live under this same delusion, as is the case at the very highest level of this hierarchy.

I know this to be true because I've been at times on the inside of this sort of circle. Everyone feels both important and benevolent while it should be quite obvious that the only thing everyone in the room cares about is the money to be had from their political meddling. They hold self congratulating speeches. They remind everyone of their importance and benevolence. Everybody strokes everybody else's backs and everyone goes home happy and convinced that the money they just made is due to benevolence rather than grift.

The great reset is a plan to have the entire world controlled by this kind of unelected individuals, and James Rickards makes an excellent job of laying the plan out in this article. However, apart from advocating owning gold and silver, he doesn't make any suggestions as to what should be done to avoid it, so I'll add a few ideas of my own.

First off, we mustn't forget that moves towards centralized governance is hardy a new thing, and it has never worked. The tower of Babel is the archetypical example of this, and history have plenty of examples. Every time the elite push for centralization, things fall apart. Their projects never complete, and there are good reasons as to why this is so. The foremost of these is the fact that the elite is delusional. They don't know half as much as they think they do. They may be good at power games, but they don't know how to run a factory or a farm.

As an example, we can imagine a world where the elite has managed to capture control of all manufacturing and all farming. However, none of these people are farmers or factory foremen, and even if they were, they wouldn't be able to keep an eye on all their factories and farmland. For this, they must rely on agents, and herein lies the paradox in their thinking. They fail to recognize the distinction between formal ownership and control.

Bill Gates is currently the biggest land owner in the US, but he's no farmer. His farms are managed by agents, and these agents will tend to put their own interests above those of Gates. The more remote the farm is from Gates' watchful eye, the more likely it is that things are done more to the liking of the agent than to the benefit of Gates. It's the agents that control the farms. Gates is merely the formal owner.

Bill Gates' only means of control over his farms is through audits, also done by agents. But the auditors, like the farmers, work primarily for themselves. They are not as reliable as direct ownership would be. Furthermore, they don't know every little thing going on at the farm. They audit the books, but if the farmer is doing business on the side, there's no way of telling that from the books alone. The farms are effectively in the hands of agents, operating primarily in their own interest.

The agents arrange things in such a way that they benefit themselves, as well as family and friends. This, rather than centralized control, becomes the default configuration of a fully centralized society. A myriad of small family-centred enterprises spring up, first at the fringes, and subsequently in the heart of the system as it crumbles under its impossible design.

Living relatively remotely from global centres of commerce and politics is therefore an additional step that we can take in preparation for the coming collapse. A small town with an independent minded citizenry is ideal. The more accustomed people are to doing business outside of the system, the better.

I live in Porto which has this kind of culture. Short supply lines from surrounding farmland and factories makes it relatively easy to strike off book deals. In the event of a future ban on cash, gold and silver coins will no doubt be accepted. It's not for nothing that James Rickards urges us to own some physical gold and silver.

Tower of Babel

By Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Levels adjusted from File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Tower_of_Babel_(Vienna)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg, originally from Google Art Project., Public Domain, Link