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Based on my surveying the evidence, this conspiracy theory seems to be far more wide-spread and much more unhinged than the article makes out, at least at the fringes. The issue now is distinguishing the morons from the crazies.I have not been posting on this so far, but it is getting to be pretty huge.At the same time, as the article points out also, conspiracy theories are not necessarily totally wrong and often are based on an element of truth that exaggerated so greatly as to distort the picture.But the world does seem to be at a turning point for several reasons, including the pandemic and the potential for more pandemics, the pace of climate change increasing, hybrid and kinetic warfare and an emerging new cold war and arms race, and a shift in the basis of the world order from
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Based on my surveying the evidence, this conspiracy theory seems to be far more wide-spread and much more unhinged than the article makes out, at least at the fringes. The issue now is distinguishing the morons from the crazies.I have not been posting on this so far, but it is getting to be pretty huge.At the same time, as the article points out also, conspiracy theories are not necessarily totally wrong and often are based on an element of truth that exaggerated so greatly as to distort the picture.But the world does seem to be at a turning point for several reasons, including the pandemic and the potential for more pandemics, the pace of climate change increasing, hybrid and kinetic warfare and an emerging new cold war and arms race, and a shift in the basis of the world order from
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Based on my surveying the evidence, this conspiracy theory seems to be far more wide-spread and much more unhinged than the article makes out, at least at the fringes. The issue now is distinguishing the morons from the crazies.
I have not been posting on this so far, but it is getting to be pretty huge.
At the same time, as the article points out also, conspiracy theories are not necessarily totally wrong and often are based on an element of truth that exaggerated so greatly as to distort the picture.
But the world does seem to be at a turning point for several reasons, including the pandemic and the potential for more pandemics, the pace of climate change increasing, hybrid and kinetic warfare and an emerging new cold war and arms race, and a shift in the basis of the world order from unipolarism to multipolarism, along growing inequality and systemic dysfunction.
Further complicating matters, this is all taking place at a moment in the historical dialectic when liberalism, traditionalism, authoritarianism, and socialism are butting up against neoliberalism, neo-imperialism, and neocolonialism in an age of decolonization. And, of course, as resetters point out, this is all taking place during a transition from an industrial to a post-industrial age, and from modernism to post-modernism.
The elites — chiefly Western — have deputized themselves as the ones best equipped to deal with this, , based on past performance, but one wonders whether they are up to it. After all, who got us here?
Eric van de Beek's op-ed looks like a pretty good summary of where matters stand.
I would quibble with this statement, however.
All it took was a global mass hysteria, peer pressured governments that overreacted or simply took the wrong measures, and - last but not least - fear struck, paralyzed citizens that - without offering considerable resistance - let their civil rights and liberties be taken away from them step by step, one by one.In my view, it is more complicated than this and involves tradeoffs. It is not yet clear what choices were beneficial and what choices harmful, and what choices were meaningless in effect. All that is clear at this point is that the elites were winners and the rest were losers. Whether the facts will ever be established objectively is questionable. It is even more questionable whether blame will be assigned correctly. More uncertain is future developments.
Fact or Fiction: The Great Reset Conspiracy
Eric van de Beek, Dutch journalist