Jen Gerson: Nobody's in control. Nobody's ever been in control.
For those who have not yet been Greatly Awokened; Trudeau inspired the terror of conspiracy theorists around the world when he made reference to the "Great Reset" initiative
Recently unearthed by the relentless investigators of Twitter, a readout from the Prime Minister's office dated June 11 announced that Justin Trudeau spoke to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales regarding "financing for development and the Great Reset initiative." Charles, you see, is part of the Commonwealth group of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations — and that's where the real power lies, so I'm told.
The conclusions are obvious, sheeple: The Powers That Be are using COVID-19 to accelerate their plans for a borderless, Communist New World Order, and the Illuminati have decided to put their absolute best Lizard People to the task. That's right, Justin Trudeau and Prince Charles: the guy who can't remember how many times he's done blackface is in on it with the heel from The Crown. God help us all.
For those who have not yet been Greatly Awokened; Trudeau inspired the terror of conspiracy theorists around the world when he made reference to the "Great Reset" initiative.
Pierre Poilievre did not muck about. Within mere hours the Conservative MP had set up a petition-cum-email-collection racket imploring Canadians to fight "against global elites preying on the fears and desperation of people to impose their power grab."
The Great Reset is, according to the World Economic Forum: "A unique window of opportunity to shape the recovery, this initiative will offer insights to help inform all those determining the future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of a global commons.”
Which, I admit, sounds ominous. Or, it would sound so if I hadn't spent the past several years listening to Liberals talk in this kind of jargon to fluff their own grandiosity. It isn't a mystery that the sort of people who have spent their careers glossing their resumes with the wide-eyed hope of one day attending the sacred halls of Davos see this deadly global pandemic as a great opportunity to experiment with forward-thinking economic policy.
Such people generally lack the ability to speak and think like normal human beings — which goes a long way toward explaining why a sizeable chunk of the population now thinks that the global elite are literally lizards.
In reality, what the "Great Reset" probably means for Canada is a lot of poorly accounted for infrastructure spending, expansion of unemployment benefits like the CERB, carbon taxation and other environmental sustainability measures, announcements of pleasant-sounding garbage like "innovation clusters," taxing "big tech," and so forth. It's been noted here on The Line before that, under cover of COVID-19 darkness, the Liberals seem to be crafting a much more centralized octopus economy built to deliver more handouts to well-connected firms and charities — the kinds of cash funnels that got them into trouble with WE, for example.
In the coming months and years, as the fog of the pandemic lifts, I have no doubt that Canada's economy will be left less responsive, less innovative, and less accountable as a result of the Liberals' time in office.
Further, the Liberals can't seem to help playing to the UN because it taps some nostalgic, '90s-era itch for blue-hatted peacekeepers Doing Good In The World. This despite the fact that the UN is now a largely sclerotic and ineffectual organization in which despots dominate committees devoted to human rights and dictators maintain veto power over the organization's ability to project force for the greater good. The Liberals' continued pursuit of the imprimatur of the UN and its leadership is childlike and bizarre. So it's perfectly appropriate to adopt skepticism toward some of these multi-lateral organizations. But not because the UN and the WEF concocted COVID-19 as a means to enrich Bill Gates by forcibly injecting us all with mind-control vaccines.
(And if any of the global elite are listening, please consider writing your aims and goals clearly and explicitly so ordinary people are less inclined to read the most nefarious and paranoid intentions onto your vague and jargon-ridden nonsense. While we're here: I just received a terrifying emergency health alert from the Alberta government telling me about stricter lockdown measures. Maybe — just maybe — this is not the right moment to bombard a COVID-weary public, fed up with governments that can’t contain the virus, with ominous promises that those same leaders will soon re-shape the global economy. The phrase: "Read the room" comes to mind.)
People who spend any time working in or covering government bureaucracies can't help but bash their heads against the wall when they hear these kinds of conspiracies. A conspiracy theorist imagines a small cabal of hyper-competent global elites pursuing a nefarious and targeted goal. It's a total inversion of what people like me see every day: most governments are run by an enormous number of well-intentioned people of middling talent constantly at each others' throats. Most of the real power over individual lives tends to devolve to more local authority. The long-term refugee strategy of a UN subcommittee is unlikely to make any difference at all to your life — especially as almost nothing they come up with will ever be seriously entertained by even this federal government.
By comparison, if your local city council decides to declare the road in front of your house a snow-route, your life is going to be hell for the snowy side of the year.
Don't waste your time fretting over the alleged hyper-competence of the World Economic Forum. Worry much more about local ineptitude and schism.
We get ourselves into real trouble not when the UN passes a policy paper for the archives; but rather when our local, provincial and federal governments exceed their reach by imagining themselves capable of solving problems that they don't control.
(There's a lesson here for the left, as well, but that's a column for another day. Perhaps when the bill for COVID-19 spending comes due.)
Governments like to talk a good game about how much they are in charge. They take credit for a booming economy, or well-managed COVID-19 response. That is, until the economy fails and the pandemic case numbers start to rise and vaccines look further away than ever — then they pin the blame on their predecessors, or on unforeseeable events.
The mistake that conspiracy theorists make is to believe the bullshit governments feed them; they believe that someone is in control.
Oh, sure, government policy makes a difference at the edges. Loans and grants can string companies along for a spell. Shutting down businesses and restricting movement by fiat will probably help slow the spread of COVID-19. Government policy matters. But no government in a developed nation actually maintains the enforcement capacity to keep everyone locked up and alone. Everything that a government does, it must do with the consent of the governed — which is why we are now witnessing such ostentatious displays of enforcement when they do occur, pour décourager les autres.
Unless you want to literally weld all the doors to COVIDiots’ homes shut with them inside — and I do recognize this plague has unveiled that authoritarian yearning within all of us — this is the best anyone can do.
It's more comforting to believe that a nefarious cabal is pulling humanity's strings. Better that than the truth. Better anything than the truth.
Nobody's in control. Nobody's ever been in control.
Govern yourselves accordingly.
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You can count me in as a conspiracy theorist since about June 2020. Maybe all the way back to March when I read Chrystia Freeland’s book Plutocrats. My gut started to turn when I read her book....she’s one of them...she’s wined and dined with them and moderated their conferences and forums. It felt kind of icky. Then the pandemic numbers just didn’t add up. I’m no scientist but I have lived in an alternate universe of health information for the past 15 years since my child was diagnosed with autoimmune disease by a naturopath. Yes a naturopath. Trained as an MD at McGill university, mind you. That naturopath was able
To figure out her issues were gut and diet related and our family moved into a more serious relationship with food and health from that moment. We have spent those 15 years taking back control of our health and building our immune systems and we are all in great shape thank you very much. I say all this to explain how I got to the idea that something strange was happening to the world. A virus that wasn’t really affecting Africa at all but Africa was shutting down—-many Africans countries feed themselves by going to market daily...shut down and the government doling our rations from trucks...for what? There was really no noticeable virus present there! Reports from Australia in June that they had their first case in a month! As if that’s a consideration?!! Melbourne locked down completely with the most draconian restrictions on liberty ever seen...for four months! The problem here, Jen, is that most humans aren’t really in touch with their health and don’t really know or care that they can heal themselves from chronic illness or symptoms of disease. As shown by the US where heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes and chronic illness reign. Many developing countries haven’t had the opportunity to stuff themselves with fast food, trans fats, sugar laden treats all day everyday. They didn’t really experience this virus the way the US did. Even Canada wasn’t that affected. The PCR test is absolutely and unequivocally unreliable at best and possibly used fraudulently at worse. There is ample evidence of that from the New York Times and highly regarded epidemiologists and scientists around the world. There is definitely a plan that lines up with the World Economic Forum goals and it has been rolling out while we’ve slept over many years. The plan has been to get control of the population through fear—did you know that mainstream media was mandated to change the language of climate change to climate ‘crisis’ in 2018 or 2019 - I recall a Guardian article discussing the same. That was part of the plan. So by now we have a global population paralyzed by fear of a climate crisis...ripe for another crisis that, according to Fauci and Bill Gates has been coming and would happen during Trump’s reign. Et voila. People who haven’t thought that much or been affected that much by chronic illness and the desire to heal themselves or the necessity just don’t know what’s going on. We really need to wake up to what’s happening around us. I’ve found it shocking to witness the lack of awareness of the body’s ability to heal itself with a little knowledge and some attention to diet and exercise. How can a wealthy and educated population not be aware of the fact that humans exist because of viruses! Viruses are everywhere, challenging our systems every minute and making us stronger. We are arrogant to think we can control viruses, control the climate. Both need to be studied and understood. But not necessarily controlled. The way we are now being controlled.
Henry Kissinger's book, World Order. Its where the term came from and the work of the UN, WHO, WEF are all part of the parcel. Christia Freeland Plutocrat's. She is a member of the Board of Trustees on the WEF along with Fink from Blackrock Investments (where all our infrastructure money and investments are) and Marc Carney as well. Read, investigate, the facts are there.