The Great Reset is a half-assed but well intentioned idea by the WEF to design a sustainable version of neoliberalism-lite. But the Covid conspiraloons think it's an actual "global elite plan to take over the world" because the graphic looks like a Freemasonic eye 1/ 
2/ Here's the Mises Institute and a Vatican conspiraloon spreading the same basic idea... it maps perfectly onto QAnon and plays on the ultimate fear of the disoriented neoliberal self: that society exists after all...
3/ It's totally consistent with Arendt's observation that, before they take power the authoritarian right have to conjure up "a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself" newstatesman.com/world/2020/09/…
4/ And the GR and UBI are trending today because the libertarian conservative right, the xenophobic nationalists and the far right have adopted "anti-global elite" tropes as their common currency...
5/ As I argued in #ClearBrightFuture there is an inevitable battle coming between states and big tech over who owns the ID registry - and the pandemic has accelerated that clash. But the WEF's Great Reset is primarily about sustainability, not control...
6/ The Great Reset is a yardstick of neoliberalism's failures. It's not that capitalism can't reach net zero, or redistribute, or deal with zoonotic viruses: it's just •this capitalism• can't... newstatesman.com/politics/envir…
7/ Because there is no mass, Marxist labour movement as in the 1920s and 30s, modern fascism has to invent a surrogate, in the "cultural Marxism" of liberal academia and now the poor old WEF, with Klaus Schwab as a stand-in for Dimitrov
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