Beating a Path to The People’s Reset (updated)

As I’ve written elsewhere, humanity is at a crossroads. Two very distinct pathways are being laid before us, presenting us with diametrically opposed visions for our future. Foster Gamble, in his video presentation during The Greater Reset online event in January 2021, shared a side-by-side snapshot of these two visions — one being offered by the globalist economic elites, and the other being offered by We the People.

The World Economic Forum’s Great Reset is offering a vision of global control through vaccinating the entire population of the world, installing artificial food systems, deploying AI and 5G wireless technology to monitor every individual under the rubric of “biosecurity,” imposing a cashless economy and carbon taxes, commodifying and monitoring every “natural resource,” centralizing the population in smart cities, and joining human biology with technology in a radical transhumanist vision — all implemented through an increasingly centralized One World Order.

On the other side you have the people working towards greater personal and health freedom, organic food and regenerative agriculture, small “d” democratic and community-centric solutions, reconnecting to nature, creating meaningful work, and releasing the power of free energy and blockchain technologies. One vision is for centralization and control over our human destiny by elite bankers and the interests of mega-corporations. The other vision is for decentralization of power and control and the liberation of the human body, mind and spirit into a new realm of possibility for peace, creativity and fulfillment. I have been calling the latter “The People’s Reset.”

While both visions promote the goal of creating a more sustainable and harmonious world, the way they propose getting there could not be more different. The Great Reset, and the UN Agenda 21/2030 goals upon which it is based, have many admirable objectives, the essence of which I and many others could easily get behind, such as ending hunger and poverty and creating a more sustainable economy. But their humanistic rhetoric and intentions are belied by the nature of their actions over the past two years: draconian lockdowns of great swaths of the human population; forced business closures and mass job and wealth destruction; the unprecedented suppression of freedom of speech and association; the imposition of unscientific and destructive health mandates such as forced testing, mask wearing social distancing; and the rollout of mass human biological experimentation in the form of forced vaccinations, using an untested and unproven (update: since proven to have negative efficacy) gene therapy device. This latter strategy is increasingly appearing to live up to the eugenics conspiracy theories by rapidly becoming a mass casualty event.  The coup de grace of this technocratic vision is the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021, which threatens to criminalize half the population for not going along with their totalitarian control agenda.

If past is prologue, The Great Reset promises the great and ugly curtailment of human dignity and freedom, enforced at the butt of a gun and the point of a needle. This is just what one would expect for a vision developed and deployed by a small group of unelected elites whose lives bear little resemblance to that of the “great unwashed masses” or the “basket of deplorables.” It is little wonder that they are failing to gain much public traction for their plans. Yet like a zombie, their agenda seems to be mindlessly lurching forward under the cover of a series of orchestrated pandemics, which have caught a great percentage of the population under the hypnotic spell of fear and the programmed response of social compliance, even to the point of self-destruction. Though other nations and cultures have suffered similar fates in times not very long past, many Americans appear to be immune to the lessons of history.

The People’s Reset also has many admirable goals, but it would be folly to suggest that these are shared equally by all members of the diverse tribe currently feeling its way down a path towards freedom. First off, freedom is an abstract notion that can vary widely from person to person, and even within the same person from one day to the next. Some people focus more on freedom in the negative sense, as in “freedom from… [insert here any list of restrictive conditions],” while others focus on more on the positive sense as in “freedom to… [insert here any list of desires].” We’ll need to learn to open up and share what each of us perceives as the variations of freedom in the future world. But aside from these differences, there seems to be a basic understanding of liberty that all freedom-loving people grok deep in their guts (freedom of health, speech, thought, association, etc.), and what we’ve been seeing clearly isn’t it.

And then there’s this new “tribe,” which is quite a motley collection of folks. Like survivors of a shipwreck washing up on a beach far from civilization, we are refugees from the corrupt two-party duopoly, current and former Trump supporters, otherwise disaffected Republicans, classical Libertarians and homegrown free-staters, Independents and walkaway Democrats, liberal-minded progressives repulsed by where both the corporatist Left (burning and looting cities is “peaceful protest”?) and the extreme Cultural Left (“Amen and Awoman” — really?) seem to be going, and an indeterminate number of variously- and non-aligned others, together with a vast number of citizens who have found themselves at odds with the manufactured and totalitarian aspects of the COVID pandemic.

I think it’s fair to say that the “freedom loving” moniker is a huge tent under which a large and politically and philosophically diverse group of people are discovering common cause, perhaps for the first time. The question is: are we going to recognize our common unity and destiny and forge a new compact for human relations and society? (or at least resuscitate, reaffirm and revitalize the core tenets of America’s founding documents?) — or are we going to hunker down in our ideological silos in hopes that “our side” or “our group” — against all others — somehow wins or gets it right enough to turn the tide?

Or will we simply keep our heads down and remain passive, waiting for the storm to pass and for sanity to somehow return?

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Let’s go back to the People’s Reset and consider some of the visions and goals suggested in the recent Greater Reset online event:

Is everyone who is walking the freedom path on board with the concept of a voluntaryist or stateless society?

Is everyone down with the notion of a debt Jubilee or with using crypto or local currencies for value exchange?

Is it reasonable to expect huge segments of the population to go “back to the land” to farm or create permaculture projects, or to homestead in the forests?

How can relocalization happen if we are still largely dependent on sophisticated electronics for much of our way of life and on fossil fuels to power them, on mineral and raw materials extraction to make them, and on complex manufacturing and distribution processes built on the globalization of capital and labor?

Human civilization today is such a complex and interconnected system of systems, that if we start pulling the thread on one end, how can we be sure it won’t catastrophically unravel the whole tapestry?

I suggest that it would be counterproductive to expect or seek to be in agreement about every detail of our possible future at this moment in time. Instead I believe that, more than honing down on any specifics, our primary task is to share with each other the visions, desires and qualities that express a wide range of potential positives futures. By so doing we will open to deeper levels of inspiration while we get to learn new and essential things about ourselves and each other that will serve us well when the time comes to roll up our sleeves. And while I love talking about solutions, I am sensing deeply that one of the first orders of business should be to establish (or re-establish) the core frameworks upon which such a future society can be built.

Perhaps we need to hold a Continental Congress for the Modern Age, gathering to declare our independence from totalitarian corporate rulers, working to reaffirm our natural, God-given rights of free speech and assembly and privacy, freedom of the press, and freedom from medical tyranny — and other such core non-negotiables that are the staples of the American Dream as well as an urgent vision for billions around the globe?

Perhaps reaffirming our common humanity and inalienable sovereignty by committing to non-aggression and nonviolence in thought, word and deed, except in the face of the most immediate and egregious threats to life?

Perhaps re-asserting our commitment to vigorously defend the water, the soil, the air and all of nature, to protect life and everything that serves life, with a willingness to consider the effects of our actions down to the seventh generation?

Perhaps refamiliarizing ourselves with the mindset and tools for decision-making and community-building in a truly equal and democratic society, one beyond polarization and dehumanization, beyond winners and losers?

Perhaps finding sufficient alignment and power in our collective voices to say “NO!” once and for all to our government’s system of legalized bribery and to the poisoning of nature and our bodies by corporations in the soulless pursuit of profit?

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