Unfortunately for the Davos Guardians, the reality of the New Great Story is a world without those extremely principles that humanity needs to make it through and flourish within our innovative, reasonable universe.
In case you were beginning to seem like your world was ending up being a cliché dystopian motion picture script, don’t feel bad. It appears that at least some of the bad guys concur with you.
Not pleased with unsatisfying stories, scripts and narratives that shape our messy zeitgeist, Klaus Schwab and other weird dungeon masters attempting to manage the post-covid world have called for a ‘New Narrative’ to shape our 21st century and beyond. Schwab explained the World Economic Online forum’s Great Narrative Effort announced on November 11 as a “collective effort of the world’s leading thinkers to style longer-term perspectives and co-create a story that can help direct the development of a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable vision for our cumulative future.”
It is no concern that this brand-new project is bone chilling, however can it work? Does it have any basis in truth or is the oligarchical high priesthood phase managing this shit program intoxicated by their own self-induced narratives and completely incapable of seeing the seeds of self-destruction they have produced on their own?
Let’s examine this question in a bit of detail.
As far back as we look, documented history demonstrates misconceptions and stories that shape each culture’s subjective experience attempting to understand the unbiased world and the numerous rare difficulties that are tossed into our path.
Deep Structure Stories
A glacial epoch pertains to an end and water level increase numerous feet drowning millions while eliminating seaside cities. As a repercussion, flood misconceptions appear across different cultures of the world.
Fires from the sky show awful asteroids striking the earth damaging havoc on communities and perhaps even causing volcanism and vast weather anomalies. As an effect, more misconceptions are produced featuring heroes, bad guys, angels and Gods penalizing sinners and rewarding those with virtue.
Throughout history, countless stories have been produced by shamans, priests, and poets which have actually tried to instill meaning onto traumatic events caused by either nature or geopolitical strategies. Some classical stories may have even exposed geopolitical evils under the much safer terrain of fiction when literal truths were impossible. One instance of this latter case can be found in the Olympian Gods of Homer’s stories who were in all probability agent of real oligarchical households who manipulated never ever ending wars and made use of the folly and corruption of their selected chess pieces on the Great Game of ancient Greece.
These stories belong of the human condition and for the many part, completely natural.
Nevertheless, in our allegedly enlightened nonreligious period, these kinds of myths are disposed of as the absurd practices of simpler unscientific times.
Science has taught us to think in reasoning. Not faith in God or the health of our immaterial souls.
The middle ages misconceptions of sea beasts and flat earths beyond which unsuspecting voyagers would satisfy an awful fate were superseded for a new set of narratives during the enlightenment period. Throughout this duration, pure logic and empiricism were positioned upon the new altars where faith as soon as stood and we were informed to worship new godheads by the names such as Kant, Locke, Hegel, Bacon and Newton. When Nietzsche declared God to be dead, this was the current of thinkers that supposedly killed him.
The Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore referred to those suffering from this illness of metastasized reasoning saying: “A mind all reasoning resembles a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that utilizes it.”
When the structure of knowledge reasoning began to break down under the pressure of reality over a century earlier, brand-new stories taking the type of the Requirement Model quantum mechanics began teaching contemporary guy that what appears to be living remains in truth, simply made up of non living atoms and chemical interactions … and what appears to be purchased type operating with purpose is simply the stochastic motion of atoms without purpose, appeal and even unbiased truth. We were told that all of this was held together only by a mix of luck (statistical probability) and 4 essential forces created 13.7 billion years earlier. All habits in human life or in nature therefore explained away by Darwinian designs of survival of the fittest and random anomalies. The increase of contemporary monstrosities like eugenics, and neo-Malthusianism were the sick children of these ghoulish assumptions.
The more we probe behind the remarkable veneer of these popular narratives, the more we discover that misconceptions spun by modern high priests on behalf of political interests has not just continued into our present age, however have actually continuously embraced brand-new costumes to adjust to our altering world. Those fantastic minds whose discoveries actually overturned old stories by leaping beyond the domains of inductive/deductive thinking are thoroughly obscured under mathematical solutions lacking the spirit and personality of these exceptional people (1 ).
The Political Consequences of False Macro-Narratives
Some political expressions these days’s nonreligious narratives were viewed as neocons trotted out in front of electronic cameras relaying the message that the two hijacked planes which ruined 3 towers on 9/11 was managed by upset Muslims in caverns who hated our liberty.
We were told that covid-19 emerged from a severely cooked mammal that kissed a bat needing an overall abolition of our constitutional freedoms.
We were informed that the protests of January 6, 2021 in Washington D.C. was an insurrection even worse than anything the U.S.A had actually seen since the Civil War when 500,000 Americans butchered each other for four years.
We are constantly told that Russia has ambitions to weaken democratic elections throughout the entire free world while China is intending to subvert western values and enforce a worldwide communist federal government through its imperial New Silk Roadway.
I might undoubtedly go on for quite some time here, however needless to state, political misconception making is an awful part of life. But while each lie certainly does serious damage, our vulnerability to succumbing to these falsities is in no chance disconnected from our approval of those higher meta stories embedded in those scientific myths that shape HOW our minds move. Every high priest understands that controlling HOW people believe is constantly infinitely more effective than controlling WHAT they consider any particular thing. This is how the neocon rot grew in the U.S.A over a few generations leading us to today’s diverse systemic breakdown crisis.
Among the dads of the mutant that ended up being neoconservatism was a narrative-building master named Leo Strauss.
Leo Strauss’ Neocon Monstrosity
Working carefully with Fabian Society and Frankfurt School representatives throughout his profession as an instructor in Columbia, New School and the University of Chicago, Strauss preached a perverse interpretation of Plato’s Republic to tens of thousands of devoted trainees spread out throughout several decades.
Among the highest lessons contained in Strauss’s teachings (a minimum of for a choose couple of among his students) was the idea of the Noble Lie established by Plato in Book 3 of the Republic. Strauss taught his trainees that this Noble Lie was the greatest weapon and rightful tool of anybody who found themselves in a position of power to rule over the weak at any time in history.
In real Nietzschean fashion, the narrow definition of “power” as the subordination of the weak to the strong was the only meaning allowed by Strauss who taught his students that while Plato preached love of wisdom to the masses, he covertly held a various mentor for those elite amongst his Academy who would control political power. To these elite couple of, he offered the name ‘gentlemen’ and ‘Guardians’.
Strauss taught that Plato’s Guardians would control the shadows cast on the cave wall which the plebs shackled to their senses, would think were the only truth possible. The mandate of these perverse neo-Platonists was to live the ideal not of Socrates, but rather of Thrasymachus whose immoral teaching Socrates obliterated in the very first book of the Republic. Those young neocons gaining from their master were taught that the real ‘secret Socrates’ believed, like Thrasymachus, or Callicles (trainee of Gorgias), was that the highest function in life is to attain power, satisfy our lusts and manage the shadows in the cave.
As a lot of Strauss’ own students (like Shadia Drury) concerned recognize throughout the years, the old master was himself guilty of predicting his own perverse fondness for fascism onto Plato as he himself preserved secret mentors for his picked elite students as all good oligarchical head-hunters must.
Cleansing Plato of Strauss
While I adore Plato, I would never deny that he was a misconception maker.
The stories showcased in his dialogues from the Timaeus, Critias, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Meno, Laws, Phaedo, Apology, Gorgias, Republic and so on. have shaped the minds of a few of the greatest historical figures throughout 2400 years of world history. Renaissance figures like St. Augustine, Ibn Sina, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Lincoln, Moses Mendelsohn, Pushkin, Martin Luther King Jr., and many other brilliant souls had their wits sharpened on the stories and lessons contained in Plato’s writings.
But was Plato truly the high-handed double-speaker represented by Strauss and his fans who preached morality for the weak and vice for those who would manage the shadows?
To be a real Guardian in Plato’s world implied more than merely getting out of the cave to see with the light of the sun (symbolic for creative factor) and then lord over the masses.
While Nietzscheans like Strauss stop reading at this moment and choose to dominate the slaves using a higher power of thinking booked just for a choose few of the golden collar elite … Plato made it very clear in his Republic and other works, that the real thinker (and implicitly true guardian) was required to return back into the cave at threat of his or her life in order to assist liberate their fellow slaves.
Stories for Flexibility or Slavery?
“Every artist, every scientist, every writer must choose now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He needs to choose to fight for flexibility or for slavery. I have actually made my choice”
-Paul Robeson, 1937
The question can now be posed: how do we know which stories are designed to oppress us, which empower us, and which are benign (like a child’s belief in the tooth fairy or the toy-bearing fat person who trades presents for good behavior)?
Given that each person’s internal universe interfaces with the external reality through the filter of both reasoning, senses, imagination, and free will, is it possible that some stories can uplift and inspire us to be more than we are in the face of impossible chances? Can specific stories hone our knowledge and complimentary us from the shackles of sense perception as we are taught to see ever more through the eye of reason and an industrialized creativity?
When George Washington led a little force of farmers against the world’s largest mercenary force in 1776, was it purely logic that guided them in this statistically difficult fight, or were stories of Christ’s enthusiasm stimulating this appearing irrational drive for flexibility? When Syria was beleaguered with foreign sponsored Jihadists and teetered on the verge of the void, did stories of the Prophet Mohammed animate their hearts to do the difficult when a much easier albeit more slavish road awaited their surrender?
Certainly, history has actually shown time and again, that a specific kind of poetic story can empower us to leap beyond our constraints and gain insights into the much deeper truths of the human condition and universal reality itself. Even Shakespeare’s “fictional” stories use the delicate soul terrific universal lessons into mankind and real politic which has served excellent statesmen for centuries.
A Last Take a look at Today’s Oligarchical Narrative Contractors
Although we can affirm with certainty that narratives can be excellent and others wicked, is it possible that the oligarchs handling today’s Great Story job dream humankind no damage?
Maybe Lynn Forrester de Rothschild is completely authentic when she released the Council for Inclusive Capitalism together with Prince Charles, Mark Carney and a handful of Davos Billionaires representing 10s of trillions of dollars of capital in 2014. Assisting to transform commercialism into a green, eco friendly, more inclusive system that deals with everybody equally is a good thing isn’t it?
When this Council merged with the Vatican in December 2020, Lynn de Rothschild explained the occasion as “a historical brand-new collaboration between some of the world’s biggest investment and magnate and the Vatican … joining ethical and market imperatives to reform capitalism into a powerful force for the good of humankind.”
This council is even led by “a core group of world leaders” who even call themselves “Guardians” following the title used by Plato 2400 years earlier.
These guardians include the CEOs of powerful companies as State Street, Bank of America, Johnson and Johnson, Rockefeller Structure, Ford Foundation, Merck, British Petroleum, and the Rothschild banking homes. Not precisely the most morally advanced coterie of political heavy weights one might imagine, however still possibly the evil that they have been a part for years has all been scheduled the sake of a higher great that only the elite may be permitted to understand …
Unfortunately for the Davos Guardians, the reality of the New Great Story is a world without those really principles that humanity requires to survive and thrive within our innovative, reasonable universe. Wielding the power to control a shadow land of dumbed down servants within a cave might seem impressive for some, however when juxtaposed with the active, innovative multipolar paradigm now rising to end up being a worldwide force for scientific and technological development, controlling caveman becomes little more than a bleak and pitiful aspiration.
And like any parasite which can do naught however eliminate the very host it needs to suckle on for its very survival, those Davos guardians are likely to satisfy the very same fate as that experienced by Edgar Poe’s impotent, nihilistic oligarch Roderick Usher as his castle fell apart into an abyss.
The author can be reached at matthewehret.substack.com
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( 1) Some excellent names of these extraordinary people consist of Leonardo Da Vinci, Luca Pacioli, Pierre Fermat, Christian Huygens, Johannes Kepler, Gottfried Leibniz, Max Planck, and Dimitry Mendeleyev (to call but a few).