{"id":55814,"date":"2020-11-30T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55814"},"modified":"2020-11-30T07:14:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:14:13","slug":"the-great-reset-if-only-it-were-just-a-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55814","title":{"rendered":"The Great Reset: If Only It Were Just a Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jamie Dimon, chairman & CEO of JP Morgan Chase Co., speaks during the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, N.Y., September 25, 2019.\u00a0(Shannon Stapleton\/Reuters)<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The ‘Great Reset’ masterminded by the World Economic Forum is just corporatism by another name.<\/span><\/strong>W<\/span>riting\u00a0<\/span>for\u00a0The Spectator US<\/em>,\u00a0Ben Sixsmith gets to grips<\/a>\u00a0with \u201cthe Great Reset\u201d now being proposed by the World Economic Forum (\u201cDavos\u201d).<\/p>\n

And yes, despite a name that sounds as if it were conjured up in some of conspiracism\u2019s danker fever swamps, the Great Reset really exists:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe World Economic Forum, which organizes the annual conference Davos, has launched an initiative called, yes, \u2018the Great Reset\u2019. It has its own website.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed it\u00a0does<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But, after noting the involvement of \u201cpartners\u201d such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, IKEA, Lockheed Martin, Ericsson and Deloitte, Sixsmith doubts whether the Great Reset can be seen, as some like to suggest (even allowing for a bit of hype) as \u201csocialist Left Marxist\u201d or a \u201cglobal communist takeover plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fair enough, not least because the Great Reset is, in essence, corporatist, not communist. The participation of companies of the type that Sixsmith mentions is, in reality, the participation of certain members of their senior management, using shareholder funds for purposes that have nothing to do with the bottom line and everything to do with the wielding of power within a system akin to a concert, with the state \u2014 if not necessarily the government \u2014 acting as the conductor.<\/p>\n

In the course of an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0on the Great Reset I wrote last month, I described corporatism as:<\/p>\n

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The Great Reset: If Only It Were Just a Conspiracy Jamie Dimon, chairman & CEO of JP Morgan Chase Co., speaks during the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, N.Y., September 25, 2019.\u00a0(Shannon Stapleton\/Reuters) The ‘Great Reset’ masterminded by the World Economic Forum is just corporatism by another name.Writing\u00a0for\u00a0The Spectator US,\u00a0Ben Sixsmith gets to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[30645,30646,158,1471,21334,30490,14742,889],"class_list":["post-55814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-andrew-stuttaford","tag-ben-sixsmith","tag-conspiracy","tag-corporatism","tag-national-review","tag-the-great-reset","tag-wef","tag-world-economic-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55815,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55814\/revisions\/55815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}