Planet and PEOPLE

Goodbye ‘Great Reset’ ( and good riddance!)  Hello,  Great Rebirth

In previous blogs I have argued that the fundamental reason we are destroying ourselves and the beautiful planet we inhabit is because we think everyone and everything exists to serve us and our needs.  This is actually narcissism. Life is seen as an endless and reckless struggle for possession and control.   Any supposed concern for others is merely a deception, as a way of manipulating them. 

Individualism and the so-called ‘survival of the fittest’ (meaning the most ruthless and selfish) goes well beyond ‘an eye for an eye’.   It seeks to strike first and blind everyone else because ‘in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king’.   Of course it assumes someone else doesn’t blind you first.  

This philosophy has produced technologies that seem so effective to the powerful – and those who aspire to power – that they have become addictive.   They seem to make it possible to do anything, even create ‘trans-humans’, ‘merging’ biology and technology.

These technologies come from directed research in chemistry, physics, biology, and psychology over the last 200 years.   In fact their destructive power is now so great that they have become a threat to life itself.    The arrival of nuclear weapons in the 1940s led to the doctrine of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’.   

The technological arms race has now produced weapons (including chemical, biological and psychological ones) so powerful that the wealthy and powerful become ever more desperate to control them.   Mutually assured destruction is a dangerous strategy when neither side really believes in it, or will ever take responsibility for pressing the button first.   One of the key uses of technology is in fact to avoid any responsibility for your actions – or those you command.   Although technology follows orders without question,  any disaster can always be blamed on a ‘technical failure’ or in the case of biological weapons, ‘nature’.   So-called ‘artificial intelligence’ , however sophisticated, is not real intelligence at all.  Garbage in, garbage out.   

Fear builds fear and an even greater need to possess and control.  It’s kill or be killed.  And in the technological arms race, the ‘answer’ always seems to be ever more advanced technology.   

Those dedicated to the unlimited pursuit of wealth and power  have believed for years that technology will deliver this for them.   That they will defeat all rivals and rule the entire planet for their own pleasure.   And they would rather see everything destroyed than let anyone else defeat them.   ‘Winner’ takes all, even if the spoils of ‘victory’ are nothing but a dead wasteland.  But the wasteland is of course all the fault of the technology, never its operator.

Of course Mutually Assured Destruction completely ignores the majority of the world, including the whole of nature, that has no nuclear weapons, offers no ‘threat’ and simply wants to be left in peace.  ‘Collateral damage’  is unfortunate but somehow inevitable.   

The World Economic Forum is a group of the wealthiest and most powerful people on Earth, who meet at Davos regularly.    Its founder, Klaus Schwab, no doubt believed that bringing these wealthy philanthropists together as a group might encourage them to cooperate and set up a benevolent planetary dictatorship to ‘make the world a better place’.   It must have seemed a good idea –  what’s good for General Motors is good for America, and what’s good for America is good for the world.   Just hand everything over to us.  We have the expertise and the technology to sort out all problems, including the climate crisis.  

Unfortunately, the whole thing is based on a false premise.   First, there is no such thing as a ‘benevolent’ dictatorship because the benevolence only extends to the dictator – and his servants, who obey his every word.  Everything and everyone exist only for the dictator’s benefit.    Narcissism produces industrialised, ruthless violence.   In a completely controlled world dictatorship,  there is no room for diversity, creativity, innovation, real life of any kind.   We saw the results of this philosophy in  the horrors of Nazism and Stalinism. 

Second, the wealthiest and most powerful believe in struggling and competing endlessly for personal wealth and power – as we are mow seeing – despite even the WEF’s promise of world government in their collective interest.    People obsessed with personal wealth and power and the survival of the most ruthless  cannot resist struggling against each other.  I understand from people who have been at Davos that alongside  the official programme, the oligarchs attend mainly to do private deals with (and against) each other.  It’s just what they do.   

The ‘Great Reset’ of the world’s economy announced in 2020 was therefore based on the idea of a world ‘government’ of international oligarchs ruling the planet together.   They would be the only show in town, they would institute a world-wide system of surveillance and control of people and nature, which they alone had the key to.    They have already infiltrated the biggest corporations, governments and international bodies to ensure they followed the agenda.  Democracy, scientific research, the media, the world’s population, water, food, in fact everything  would now be bought and sold and controlled.   Big Brother would be everywhere.   ‘You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy’, but as a slave to debt, completely dependent for everything on them, even your happiness will require their approval. Democracy, national sovereignty are dead. ( https://worldgovernmentsummit.org/ ).       

But a ‘Big Lie’, as described by Hitler in Mein Kampf, can only be maintained by firmly silencing any questioning and debate.  However you try to police everyone’s minds through behavioural psychology techniques, this is ultimately unsustainable.   ‘Conspiracy theories’ are only really dangerous to conspirators.   

Also, of course, those that live by the sword (or its 21st c successors) die by the same means.   Thieves fall out  and they find their weapons of control  turned on each other.   The different countries and other interests all assumed, naturally, that the WEF and the Great Reset would serve them, not the other way round.    None of them are willing to make any real concession to the interest of anyone or anything else.   Shareholder value, in other words personal, immediate, unlimited, wealth and power, is still the overriding goal.  Somehow, technology will deliver this.   And if this results in planetary destruction well, it’s just collateral damage.   However, they are all waking up to the fact that the more powerful a technology, the less possible it is to retain exclusive control of it.   So it can become a threat as much as a promise.  

So although the technological arms race continues,  the ‘frontier’ philosophy of the Wild West is failing.   A ‘unipolar’ world is ridiculous nonsense.   When one person ‘wins’ a game of Monopoly, it’s game over, fir ‘winner’ and ‘loser’ alike.  We need a new version of the game in which all players win and there are no ‘losers’.  

Those who amass wealth and power do their utmost to ensure as little as possible ‘trickles down’ from their over-full reservoirs.    Any spending is designed to pump even more in.  It is a disastrous philosophy and it is utterly destructive.   Space is not a new frontier.  The planet is finite.   

So much for the disastrous ‘Great Reset’ and the philosophy that created it.   So much for the World Economic Forum.  It seems to me that what we desperately need now is the exact opposite:  an open, inclusive World Ecology Forum where free, open debate is possible; and a Great Rebirth.

The Planet and people are alive and part of an indivisible system, billions of years old.  We therefore have the power to heal and regenerate ourselves and our planet.   We also have the technology to communicate and share ideas and action, and yes,  wealth and power for the benefit of all.   The lack of resources is a myth.  Nature is naturally abundant and generous.  We need to recognise this, and then act on it.

The Great Rebirth is therefore the recovery of freedom, love, life, happiness, peace, and abundance of all those things that make life worth living.   This starts with us.   As Franklin D Roosevelt said in 1933, ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself’.   Being the change means we will be neither victims nor abusers.   Knowing that we are one with the planet gives us the confidence to stand up for ourselves and our families, friends, and neighbours.  No-one else can do it for you.   We just get on with our lives, live and let live.   But we do not ‘co-operate’ through fear or corruption.   We don’t accept bullying, and we don’t bully or coerce others either.  

Passive resistance just the start.    To start a pro-active pushback, something practical and effective we can do, I propose the Planet and People Pledge – but I’ll say more about that next time.