Why the Great Reset failed
Technocrats are getting stupider
Only a Dadaist could enjoy the news headlines these days. Rachel Reeves faces accusations of lying about the national finances to justify raising taxes to buy votes, which she has done by penalising those trying to save for their own retirement. Her efforts have also set the graduate loan repayment threshold on track to converge with national minimum wage. The same government has also seen fit to cancel a popular commuter service on the nationalised London to Manchester line, only to admit the train will still run — just without passengers.
Every week is like this. Perhaps we should be used to it by now: the weirdness began in earnest six years ago, when the first Covid cases were reported in Wuhan, China. In short order, this triggered the worldwide lockdowns that forced everyone online, with economies in freefall and cultures into a pervasive state of low-level derangement.
Some of that first and loudest wave of Covid-era internet derangement seized upon the World Economic Foundation’s “Great Reset” programme. The influential Davos talking-shop attracts an elite circle of businesspeople, financiers and their hangers-on (including in Labour), and has long been a bête noire for radicals across the political compass. The patrician “Great Reset” proposal to treat the pandemic as a social-engineering opportunity rapidly became a byword for every imaginable flavour of conspiracy.
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It is important to make a clearer distinction between governing-class ‘technocrats’ and Silicon Valley-type ‘tech-bros’ than is apparent in this essay.
By ‘technocrats’ what is really meant is bureaucrats….all of whom will have been marinated in the ‘social justice’ virtue-signalling of their university years. But being of the kind who then head straight for the bureaucracy, they will also be the kind too suggestible to really think for themselves.
And it is important to distinguish that the harms that the digital age has brought are of a fundamentally different kind to those brought down on us by The Long Twentieth century’s intelligentsia-driven ‘Social Justice’ posturing. Harms brought about by the digital revolution did not arise from narcissism and cant; they were just downsides of what clever men have always done.....invent things. In other words, unlike the harms that the bureacratic blob has wrought on our civilisation, the digital ‘revolution has had upsides as well as downsides. (above are excerpts from: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west