How to rid society of Utopians like the World Economic Forum?

Utopian projects can only fail because they mistakenly rely on the notion that the natural ordering of society can be replaced with a new "construct”

Search on Twitter for “World Economic Forum” or ‘WEF’ and you’ll find all manner of conspiracy theories about Klaus Schwab and his organisation. Unbeknownst to the larger public, many of our current national leaders, including King Charles III, Boris Johnson, Albert Bourla (CEO of Pfizer), Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, Xi Jinping and Emmanuel Macron, to name some big personalities, are affiliated in some way or another with Schwab’s organisation.

But as Thomas Fazi points out, in a very informative article: the WEF is far from being a globalist organisation intent on conspiring in secret.

Instead, the WEF is a globalist organisation intent on conspiring in the open.

Schwab even openly brags about the WEF having “penetrated” our governments. In its videos available online, panellists discuss plans for achieving grand projects without or, preferably, directly in opposition to the interests of sovereign nations.

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Tony Blair at #Davos: “Countries need surveillance infrastructure that will enable their authorities to identify and punish citizens who do not comply with our global health mandates” Global Health Initiative or more WMD? You be the judge? #WEF23 #WEF

And then there are the spooky theatricals: Herr Schwab – in his shtrrrong Teutonic ackssent – his face broadcasted onto a giant screen, speaking to anonymous crowds at the World Government Summit. It wouldn’t be totally out of place to suggest that such a bizarre show could raise concern amongst some, even if just subconsciously.

World Gov Summit 2022 (Twitter)

If you’re reading this you probably are familiar with the WEF’s buzzwords and phrases, including Build Back Better, “You will own nothing and you will be happy”, and, The Great Reset. All of which seem to point to the WEF’s philosophical underpinnings in Social Constructivism or the belief that society is the result of external decisions taken by those who created it (If you are a feminist believer, you’ll attribute our society to Men. If you’re a Critical Race Theory faithful, then, for you, society was created by the evil whites).

This, the social constructivists argue is why the current “construct” should be replaced by a better one, designed by them.

Take The Great Reset, for example. The WEF explains that the Covid-19 pandemic was a Window of Opportunity to implement it:

As we enter a unique window of opportunity to shape the recovery,

[The great reset] will […] inform all those determining the future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of a global commons.

Aside from the communist-sounding “the direction of national economies” – the suggestion that the WEF has the ability to inform those determining the priorities of societies clearly implies the belief that society is a “construct” applied to a collection of blank-slate individuals ready to be told what to strive for next week.

Throughout history, proponents of utopia have always assumed human nature to be malleable. Yet, for Plato, Thomas More, Henry Thoreau and even Karl Marx, imagining utopia was a thought experiment. in the 20th century, John Rawls invited people to abandon their concerns for human constraints and imagine an ideal world behind a “veil of ignorance”. Rawls believed that the resulting imagined society should serve as the blueprint for reshaping society.

And this is exactly the problem. Ideas are all well and good, but the problem comes when, after imagining a perfect society, some utopians set out to try and implement their ideas in the real world. Invariably, they believe that those who are to be ruled will just have to accept the new rules. Progressively, they realise that achieving what they planned might require “encouraging” individuals somewhat.

Furthermore, when the WEF says that it can inform those who are in charge, it is promoting itself to our political class. Selling them the idea of belonging to an omnipotent elite. What more could they want than look like being part of an exclusive club that eventually could even land them a well-paid job at the UN or the WHO? What do our elected opportunists have to do to become a member? Mostly just parrot constructivist mantras such as Build Back Better without ever explaining what that means in any practical sense.

This is nothing new. Indeed, Étienne de La Boétie noted in his Discours de la servitude volontaire (Discourse on voluntary servitude) back in the mid-16^th century that tyrants are only able to retain power because of the cooperation and support from two groups of people: those who benefit from tyranny, and those who are too scared of tyrants, and who fear losing their jobs or social position. The fearful cannot exercise their freedom, and thus they follow the tyrant’s commands in order to avoid discrimination and/or persecution.

Nevertheless, I do not want my readers to despair. Eventually, all tyrannies, including utopian projects, fail because they mistakenly rely on the idea that they can alter the natural ordering of society and force a new “construct” upon it.

De la Boetie advised:

You can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by being willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.

Human nature is adaptable but it will return to its natural form as tyranny exhausts its ability to distort it. So don’t be dazed by the WEF. The Great Reset does not amount to even a Mini Reset and whatever Klaus and Tony have in mind, it will be a blip in the course of our millenarian history.