On page 21, Klaus tells us, “Synthetic biology is the next step. It will provide us with the ability to customize organisms by writing DNA.” I can’t even begin to tell you how much of a problem this is. Humans are effectively playing God. Again, globalists make it sound great. They talk about how it will help medicine and provide individualized protocols for health and all that good stuff. Page 22...
Page 67 is where is gets good, it’s titled National and Global. Here, he discusses how governments need to adapt to the fourth industrial revolution. As with the theme of everything we are doing or want to do is positive, Klaus tells us on page 68: “Technology will increasingly enable citizens, providing a new way to voice their opinions, coordinate their efforts and possibly circumvent government supervision.” "… the opposite might just as well be true, with new surveillance technologies giving rise to the all-too-powerful public authorities....
Curious, how Klaus brings up those old notions in the Communist Manifesto of no nations. He doesn’t outright say it, but: “What will define the roles that countries, regions, and cities play in the fourth industrial revolution?”(71) That in and of itself is nothing earth shattering, but a little further down he states: “… one thing is clear and of great importance: the countries and regions that succeed in establishing tomorrow’s preferred international norms in the main categories and fields of the new digital economy … will reap considerable economic and financial benefits....
Klaus paints a very rosy picture of how all of this technology will make things easier, faster, and more ubiquitous. He mentions things like ISIS just to be balanced, but the book really isn’t balanced in that regard. He tells us that “a key theme of this book, unpredictable dynamics inherently surface, challenging existing legal and ethical frameworks” (88) From what I’ve read, key themes seem to be technology is great, it can do a lot of things for us that are beneficial regardless of the social, ethical, and political ramifications....
Covid-19: The Great Reset is written by Klaus Schwab and Theirry Malleret. The book is 280 pages long and was published in July 2020. This is just an observation, but it’s odd that the book was published around 6 months after Covid was officially declared. It has a list of endnotes that are within a 3 month timeline of the book being published, but we’ll get into that later. Klaus starts out strong, page 3 he tells us that...
Klaus breaks down the Covid-19: The Great Reset into three broad categories: Macro Reset, Micro Reset, and Individual Reset. A Macro Reset sounds ominous, but the way Klaus makes it sound, it’s no big deal. He makes the observation that the world is interconnected, very much so. He quotes Kishore Mahbubani: “The 7 billion people who inhabit planet earth no longer live in more than one hundred separate boats [countries]. Instead they all live in 193 separates cabins on the same boat....
Klaus switches gears on page 36 and talks about the Economic Reset and the economics of Covid-19. He tells us that our current economy differs vastly from the past, so much so that is it “unrecognizable”.(36) He gives multiple reasons, like the airplane, “which result in more than a billion of us crossing a border each year”(36). He also tells us we are: “encroaching on nature and the habitats of wildlife....
Klaus talks about societal reset starting on page 76. He tells us historically pandemics have tested societies and COVID-19 is no exception. According to Klaus: “… the societal upheaval unleashed by COVID-19 will last for years, and possibly generations.” (76) To Klaus, he says that governments, policy-makers, and political figures have “appeared inadequate or ill-prepared in terms of their response to dealing with COVID-19.” (76) He goes on to state what Henry Kissenger observed:...
Page 103 Klaus talks about the geopolitical reset, he states that geopolitics and pandemics basically go hand in hand, and in keeping with his viewpoint he tell us: “… the chaotic end of multilateralism, a vacuum of global governance and the rise of various forms of nationalism make it more difficult to deal with the outbreak.”(103). This is curious considering the UN/WHO basically quarter-backed the entire global response which our leaders followed without question....
Klaus, it seems, believes the most critical of all challenges facing human existence is environmental. According to Klaus, the pandemic, climate change and ecosystem collapse are existential threats to our existence.(134) The strange thing is Klaus says: “COVID-19 has already given us a glimpse, or foretaste, of what a full-fledged climate crisis and ecosystem collapse could entail from an economic perspective…”(134) Yeah, I don’t think so. First, climate crises are local....