This is broadly right. The 'great reset' is hardly a secret.
*FAR* too much emphasis is given to *artefacts* of global politics such as the GR, and "agenda 21", and all that, at the cost of looking at the facts of global politics, and what may be driving it.
So, yes, it's i) anti-democratic, ii) a power grab, iii) a land grab, iv) a wealth grab, v) utterly illegitimate...
But it's also being given away freely by virtue of a f***ing dreadful political establishment, appointed *by* *us*, which cannot tell its own a*se from its elbow.
And they are all truly weird. They want to design your lifestyle, your city, your life, to intervene in, monitor, regulate and control your every decision. And it's a bizarre compact of academia, "science", global institutions, govts, corps.
But it's all totally degenerate.
For instance, the academics... MAN! The academics!
They are utter mediocracies. They are suited for no other function in society than academia. They are dysfunctional. And they transfer their inadequacies onto the world.
It's only institutional prestige which props them up.
HashtagNotAllAcademics, of course.
But very, very many of them.
It would be easy to see their ascendency as a conspiracy. But it's just anomie.
Anomie -- "a societal condition defined by an uprooting or breakdown of any moral values, standards, or guidance for individuals to follow."
Which is remarkable, as anomie afflicts the social sciences hardest, yet is a concept of the social sciences.
We can see this too, in politics. Globalism, which concerns many, is of course a way for the political class to defend its power and privilege. But it's also axiomatic that a political class that senses a challenge from below will seek to relocate its power above.
The hollowing out of domestic politics drives globalism. Notice how many appeals to the "international community" politicians make.
They *want* to take orders from above. They have no idea how to connect with the public, which they hold in contempt.
It's a vicious circle.
They believe that domestic political consensus and global political alignment are Good Things. A bit like Saving the Planet. Who could disagree?
They're just fuckwits.
But stumbling in the dark is "ideology", too.
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It's not hard to read this as terror about loss of control of narrative.
Accusations of "denial" are the shortcut to proving the interlocutor's bad faith: nefarious connections, sinister motivations, profit-seeking and malign intent.
The piece in summary is "There should be no expectation that scientists fall into line with a consensus.... Except that scientists who do not fall into line with a consensus are industry-funded propagandists who are only in it for the money".
Throughout the piece, claims like "it is misleading to suggest that giving up on suppression is anything but an outlier position" go unsubstantiated.
Even the WHO has now stated a position AGAINST lockdowns.
I find this extraordinary. In the background to claims that the GBD's authors were wrong is the fact that the models used to drive policy were wrong, authored by a team of people who have a much longer history of being wrong.
This isn't about using science to find the best way forward under uncertainty. It's about defending institutional science and its intransigent panjandrums.
I've been smeared in the Guardian, and by Guardian journalists, as have many others. I've never been asked "why do you believe X", I've only been told "you believe X".
The closest I ever came to an actual discussion of substance with a Guardian "journalist", we found a point of disagreement, and he said "we'll have to agree to disagree about that", rather than discuss it. Instead, he wanted to tell me about my "ideology".