{"id":58056,"date":"2021-03-27T17:58:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T21:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=58056"},"modified":"2021-03-27T17:58:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T21:58:49","slug":"the-great-reset-the-animal-farm-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=58056","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Great Reset&#8217; \u2014 the Animal Farm version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Brad Lena<br \/>\nAmerican Thimker<\/p>\n<div class=\"article_body\">\n<p>Currently, transnational globalists are pushing for a &#8220;Great Reset.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0It helps to understand what&#8217;s coming at us if you remember that the globalist&#8217;s mindset is akin to a zookeeper&#8217;s.\u00a0\u00a0Currently, the zookeepers have their animals safely confined, but there remains a modicum of hope that the animals can liberate themselves.<\/p>\n<p>First some context.\u00a0\u00a0History is replete with ideologies that seek to save people either from themselves or a foreign contagion.\u00a0\u00a0Until recently, this impulse, as the 20th century shows, has taken the form of political ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>For those espousing Marxism, the ideology sought to cleanse a people from the errors and machinations of the past.\u00a0\u00a0When the new ideas prevailed, even if only briefly, the alleged salvation from historical, social, and economic maladies required a reset of just about everything.\u00a0\u00a0More often than not, the reset was accompanied by a sea of blood and violence.\u00a0\u00a0The objects of salvation (the people) often died or ended up in the same circumstances or were worse off.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/images\/bucket\/2021-03\/228047_5_.png\" alt=\"\" \/>I&#8217;m referring to communism, fascism, and National Socialism.<\/p>\n<div id=\"b8864fe2-ea87-47e0-a5c2-be96ba24834e\" class=\"pbs\" data-pbs-root=\"true\" data-pbs-position=\"static\" 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animated\">\n<div class=\"pbs-cta-text\">Read More<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some will say, what about capitalism?\u00a0\u00a0Whatever the ills of capitalism, it behooves one to consider the alternatives offered during the 20th century.\u00a0\u00a0Some have said history is just one damn thing after another.\u00a0\u00a0Others say history is the same damn thing after another.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the intellectuals of modernity (<em>see<\/em>\u00a0Thomas Sowell&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7285385-intellectuals-and-society\">Intellectuals and Society<\/a><\/em>) decided that people left to their own devices will get in the way of humanity&#8217;s salvation.\u00a0\u00a0Their solution is global governance that will closely manage all human activity.\u00a0\u00a0Saving humanity is yesterday&#8217;s solution.\u00a0\u00a0Saving Planet Earth from humanity is the ticket.\u00a0\u00a0Enter the zookeeper.<\/p>\n<p>In a zoo, the animals are confined.\u00a0\u00a0Their diet, reproduction, interaction with other species, consumption of resources, etc. are carefully managed, depending on the zookeeper&#8217;s management goals.\u00a0\u00a0When the kept animals&#8217; illness, infirmity, or age becomes a liability, they are eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>In the 21st century, COVID has given the intellectuals and their political and media lackeys the ability to turn modern life into a giant zoo.\u00a0\u00a0Whatever the coronavirus&#8217;s root cause, the ruling elite have passionately embraced its usefulness as a tool to reorder societies and economies across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>I may be wrong, but I do not recall a time when the world&#8217;s governments acted in such remarkable uniformity.\u00a0\u00a0The virus-instigated collapse of the extant infrastructure (i.e., jobs, income, mobility, access, distribution, manufacturing, agriculture, etc.) has been blindingly swift.\u00a0\u00a0The obvious question \u2014 &#8220;When will things return to normal?&#8221; \u2014 is regularly answered by the authorities: they won&#8217;t.\u00a0\u00a0The ruling class intends to give the &#8220;new normal,&#8221; AKA &#8220;the reset,&#8221; its best shot.<\/p>\n<p>The future the ruling class contemplates is one in which &#8220;rights&#8221; and privileges will be granted only to those people who comply.\u00a0\u00a0Global mobility has plummeted, enforced confinement is mandated, jobs have vanished, goods are becoming scarcer, surveillance is omnipresent, and noncompliance is punished.\u00a0\u00a0We will be told that this is all for the greater good.\u00a0\u00a0The elite\u00a0have turned the world into a zoo, with themselves as keepers and the rest of us as the animals that must be trained or destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>The power to command and control human activity is off the charts.\u00a0\u00a0The impulse toward totalitarian rule is as old as dirt.\u00a0\u00a0Those with the power to attempt it have always done whatever it takes.\u00a0\u00a0The good news is that the animals in this new zoo are the most innovative, creative, adaptive, and resilient creatures on the planet.\u00a0\u00a0There&#8217;s still a chance they can bust out of the joint.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:<\/em>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/resource\/hec.29927\/\">Bears at the zoo 1915\u20131923<\/a>\u00a0(exposure adjusted).\u00a0\u00a0Library of Congress.\u00a0\u00a0Public Domain.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}