Klaus Schwab, the founder and longtime head of the World Economic Forum, published an article in TIME a few weeks back (available here https://shorturl.at/B7QxA), titled :
“The Fragile Foundations of the Intelligent Age”, in which he sheds some impressive crocodile tears over the erosion of trust in major established institutions and the rise of “misinformation and disinformation”.
It turns out, Der Schwaben Klaus thinks that truth is important. (Who would have thunk…)
In his own words :
“Truth and trust are often treated as virtues, but they function as conditions: the prerequisites for coherent societies, functional institutions, and stable international systems. Without them, even the most advanced technologies fail to deliver progress; without them, democratic debate becomes impossible; without them, economic and social life slowly lose their connective tissue.”
Yes Mr. Schwab, truth matters! So far, so good we’re in full agreement here: truth is the first of the foundational principles of our business as well.
But from there, Schwab’s prose gets a bit strange. He laments about the good old times when
* “Societies could rely on a shared understanding that truth, however contested, was worth pursuing”
* “Institutions — scientific, journalistic, judicial — created mechanisms through which facts were established, corrected and publicly recognised.”
Apparently this is no longer the case (again shockingly, right? 🤣) and, “that framework has weakened. … it is increasingly difficult for citizens to determine whether what they see and hear is authentic,” so “the very idea of a shared reality is weakening.”
In addition to truth, Schwab is also lamenting the erosion of trust, explaining that “trust is not sentimentality; it is the operating system of social and political order.”
The Great Reset has already failed spectacularly.
I, for one, would have a hard time believing that Klaus Schwab, out of all people on gods green earth, is distraught about the potential difficulty citizens encounter in establishing what’s true and what’s not. In fact, his sentiment is probably related to the fact that people no longer trust him and his affiliated henchmen in the institutions that were meant to advance his Great Reset.
The reason for that is rather simple: the Great Reset was promoted on an outrageous amount of lies, calculated to herd and mobilise the “hackable animals” to “build back better” and comply with a range of dehumanising, dystopian arrangements, that - if successfully implemented - would have stayed in place indefinitely.
Schwab and his comrades at Davos are likely upset that when they try to convince us that:
* (mRNA) vaccines are safe and effective, not everyone believes them
* Russia is our enemy and we should sacrifice for wars, most people refuse
* Sustainable agriculture and eating insects is necessary, again, most people say no (again what a shocker 🤣)
* […insert other current lies, BS narrative here…]
In fact, Schwab’s friend Ursula von der Leyen (a.k.a “Die Flinten Ushi”) said as much at the World Economic Forum while sharing the stage with him a few years back:
“For the global business community, the top concern for the next two years is… disinformation and misinformation, followed closely by the polarisation within our societies. These risks are serious because they limit our ability to tackle the big global challenges we are facing.”
That was in 2024, and the fact that Der Schwaben Klaus is still upset about the erosion of truth and trust, suggests that they are realising their fight for control of the narrative is being lost in real time. As he put it, “when global institutions lose trust, multilateral solutions become elusive.”
As things are going, in another year or two, people will be even less willing to take up injections, send their children to war, confine themselves in 15-minute cities, or eat insects.
We do need to build the future — via Bitcoin — but without a shared understanding of reality as presented by Schwab or von der Leyen, we might discard the Great Reset blueprints and build back “wrong.”
God forbid this would result in a decentralised, censorship-free world with true free markets, enabled by Bitcoin, and in the worst-case scenario even create a different world marked by actual peace and prosperity.
For Schwab & Company, that would be very unfortunate as it would deprive them of their most important asset: billions of “hackable animals” happy to own nothing, eat ze bugs, and slave away their years of their human experience as they used to do for the previous millennia.
The sources of their dreaded “disinformation and misinformation” — the internet and free, decentralised social media will, ironically, prove to be the catalyst of a new great enlightenment.
In the words of Thomas Jefferson :
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of day.”