[HN Gopher] Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy ...
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       Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great
       Reset
        
       Author : hncurious
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-08-23 21:14 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.opendemocracy.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.opendemocracy.net)
        
       | mark_l_watson wrote:
       | That was an interesting read. It made me think of the futures
       | depicted in William Gibson's cyberpunk sci-fi novels, which I
       | have long accepted as the probable future.
        
       | ergot_vacation wrote:
       | Conspiracy theories, taken generally, seem to very clearly be an
       | expression of the collective unconscious. Not in the full-on woo-
       | woo way, just "collective unconscious" in the sense of a large
       | population considering a problem or situation instinctively,
       | rather than explicitly and rationally. As such, you usually don't
       | want to take them at face value, but it's also a mistake to
       | discard them completely. They often point to something very real
       | that is going on under the surface. The hard part, like any
       | expression of the subconscious, is trying to separate signal from
       | noise, but there IS a signal there. If there wasn't, the
       | "conspiracy theory" would never catch on.
       | 
       | All that said:
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       | "The plan from which the Great Reset originated was called the
       | Global Redesign Initiative. Drafted by the WEF after the 2008
       | economic crisis, the initiative contains a 600-page report on
       | transforming global governance. In the WEF's vision, 'the
       | government voice would be one among many, without always being
       | the final arbiter.'"
       | 
       | I'd say the "Conspiracy Theorists" are pretty on the money here.
       | It's literally an attempt to take power away from existing
       | governments and deliver it to a cabal of multinational
       | corporations, which is, in effect, the "One World Government" the
       | Theorists love to crow about. And never forget, they've been
       | trying to do this, in some form or another, since at least the
       | 30s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
        
         | alisonkisk wrote:
         | Surez, anything looks like anything if you use vague enough
         | terms.
         | 
         | But a public document proposing a collaboration between many
         | sectors, is the opposite of a secret plan for a single unified
         | government.
        
       | alisonkisk wrote:
       | If big pharma isn't supposed to be involved in vaccine
       | development and distribution, who should be?
        
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