Matthew Ehret
In case you were beginning to feel like your world was ending up being a cliché dystopian movie script, don’t feel bad. It appears that at least some of the bad guys agree with you.
Not delighted with unfulfilling stories, scripts and stories that shape our chaotic zeitgeist, Klaus Schwab and other creepy dungeon masters trying to handle the post-covid world have actually required a ‘New Narrative’ to form our 21st century and beyond.
Schwab explained the World Economic Forum’s Great Story Effort revealed 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 assist the development of a more durable, inclusive and sustainable vision for our collective future.”
It is no concern that this new job is bone chilling, however can it work? Does it have any basis in reality or is the oligarchical high priesthood phase handling this shit show 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 concern in a little information.
As far back as we look, recorded history shows misconceptions and stories that shape each culture’s subjective experience trying to make sense of the objective world and the numerous tenuous challenges that are tossed into our path.
Deep Structure Narratives
A glacial epoch comes to an end and water level rise hundreds of feet drowning millions while wiping out seaside cities. As an effect, flood misconceptions appear throughout different cultures of the world.
Fires from the sky show awful asteroids striking the earth trashing havoc on environments and possibly even causing volcanism and large weather anomalies. As an effect, more myths are developed featuring heroes, villains, angels and Gods punishing sinners and rewarding those with virtue.
Throughout history, numerous stories have actually been produced by shamans, priests, and poets which have actually tried to infuse meaning onto distressing events caused by either nature or geopolitical methods. Some classical stories might have even exposed geopolitical evils under the more secure terrain of fiction when actual realities were difficult.
One instance of this latter case can be found in the Olympian Gods of Homer’s stories who were in all likelihood agent of actual oligarchical families who controlled never ending wars and made use of the recklessness and corruption of their selected chess pieces on the Great Game of ancient Greece.
These stories are a part of the human condition and for the most part, perfectly natural.
However, in our supposedly enlightened nonreligious period, these forms of misconceptions are disposed of as the foolish practices of easier unscientific times.
Science has taught us to think in logic. Not faith in God or the health of our immaterial souls.
The medieval myths of sea beasts and flat earths beyond which unwary voyagers would satisfy a terrible fate were superseded for a brand-new set of stories throughout the enlightenment period. During this duration, pure reasoning and empiricism were put upon the brand-new altars where religion once stood and we were informed to worship brand-new godheads by the names such as Kant, Locke, Hegel, Bacon and Newton. When Nietzsche proclaimed God to be dead, this was the current of thinkers that apparently eliminated him.
The Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore described those experiencing this disease of metastasized logic stating:
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
When the structure of knowledge reasoning began to break down under the pressure of truth over a century earlier, brand-new stories taking the kind of the Standard Model quantum mechanics started teaching modern-day man that what seems living is in fact, simply comprised of non-living atoms and chemical interactions … and what seems bought form operating with function is merely the stochastic motion of atoms without purpose, beauty and even objective fact.
We were informed that all of this was held together just by a mix of luck (analytical probability) and 4 basic forces developed 13.7 billion years ago.
All habits in human life or in nature hence rationalized by Darwinian designs of survival of the fittest and random mutations. The rise of contemporary monstrosities like eugenics, and neo-Malthusianism were the ill children of these ghoulish presumptions.
The more we probe behind the impressive veneer of these popular stories, the more we discover that misconceptions spun by contemporary high priests on behalf of political interests has not just continued into our present age, but have continuously adopted new outfits to adapt to our changing world.
Those brilliant minds whose discoveries actually overturned old stories by jumping beyond the domains of inductive/deductive thinking are thoroughly obscured under mathematical formulas devoid of the spirit and personality of these extraordinary individuals*.
The Political Consequences of False Macro-Narratives
Some political expressions of today’s nonreligious narratives were viewed as neocons trotted out in front of cams transmitting the message that the two pirated aircrafts which destroyed 3 towers on 9/11 was orchestrated by mad Muslims in caverns who hated our freedom.
We were told that covid-19 occurred from a badly cooked mammal that kissed a bat requiring an overall abolition of our constitutional freedoms.
We were informed that the demonstrations of January 6, 2021 in Washington D.C. was an insurrection worse than anything the U.S.A. had seen given that the Civil War when 500,000 Americans butchered each other for four years.
We are constantly told that Russia has ambitions to undermine democratic elections throughout the entire totally free world while China is intending to subvert western values and enforce an international communist government through its royal New Silk Road.
I could certainly go on for rather a long time here, however needless to state, political misconception making is an unsightly part of life.
But while each lie definitely does severe damage, our vulnerability to falling for these falsities is in no way disconnected from our acceptance of those greater meta-narratives embedded in those scientific myths that shape HOW our minds move.
Every high priest understands that managing HOW individuals think is always definitely more powerful than managing WHAT they think about any particular thing. This is how the neocon rot grew in the U.S.A. over a couple of generations leading us to today’s complex systemic breakdown crisis.
Among the daddies 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 agents throughout his career as a teacher in Columbia, New School and the University of Chicago, Strauss preached a perverse interpretation of Plato’s Republic to tens of thousands of dedicated trainees spread across a number of years.
Amongst the greatest lessons included in Strauss’s mentors (a minimum of for a choose few amongst his students) was the concept of the Noble Lie established by Plato in Book 3 of the Republic.
Strauss taught his students that this Noble Lie was the greatest weapon and rightful tool of anybody who discovered themselves in a position of power to rule over the weak at any time in history.
In true Nietzschean fashion, the narrow meaning of “power” as the subordination of the weak to the strong was the only meaning permitted by Strauss who taught his students that while Plato preached love of wisdom to the masses, he secretly held a various teaching for those elite among his Academy who would control political power. To these elite couple of, he gave 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 believe were the only truth possible. The required of these perverse neo-Platonists was to live the ideal not of Socrates, but rather of Thrasymachus whose immoral teaching Socrates annihilated in the very first book of the Republic.
Those young neocons gaining from their master were taught that the true ‘secret Socrates’ thought, like Thrasymachus, or Callicles (student of Gorgias), was that the highest purpose in life is to obtain power, please our lusts and manage the shadows in the cavern.
As a lot of Strauss’ own students (like Shadia Drury) came to realize over the years, the old master was himself guilty of projecting his own perverse penchant for fascism onto Plato as he himself maintained secret teachings 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 mythmaker.
The stories showcased in his discussions from the Timaeus, Critias, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Meno, Laws, Phaedo, Apology, Gorgias, Republic etc. have actually 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 numerous other dazzling souls had their wits sharpened on the stories and lessons consisted of in Plato’s works.
But was Plato really the oppressive double-speaker represented by Strauss and his followers who preached morality for the weak and vice for those who would control the shadows?
To be a true Guardian in Plato’s world suggested more than simply leaving the cave to see with the light of the sun (symbolic for creative reason) and then lord over the masses.
While Nietzscheans like Strauss stop reading at this moment and choose to control the servants using a greater power of believing booked just for a select few of the golden collar elite … Plato made it really clear in his Republic and other works, that the real thinker (and implicitly real guardian) was required to return back into the cavern at risk of his or her life in order to help free their fellow hostages.
Stories for Freedom or Slavery?
“Every artist, every researcher, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist should take sides. He should choose to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have actually made my option”
Paul Robeson, 1937
The concern can now be presented: how do we understand which stories are created to shackle us, which empower us, and which are benign (like a kid’s belief in the tooth fairy or the toy-bearing fat guy who trades gifts for great behavior)?
Considering that each person’s internal universe user 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 remain in the face of impossible chances?
Can particular stories hone our knowledge and complimentary us from the shackles of sense understanding as we are taught to see ever more through the eye of factor and a developed imagination?
When George Washington led a little force of farmers against the world’s largest mercenary force in 1776, was it simply logic that directed them in this statistically difficult fight, or were stories of Christ’s passion stimulating this seeming unreasonable drive for flexibility?
When Syria was besieged with foreign-sponsored Jihadists and teetered on the edge of the abyss, did stories of the Prophet Mohammed stimulate their hearts to do the difficult when a simpler albeit more slavish road awaited their surrender?
Certainly, history has actually shown time and again, that a particular type of poetic story can empower us to jump beyond our restrictions and gain insights into the much deeper truths of the human condition and universal reality itself. Even Shakespeare’s “fictional” stories provide the sensitive soul fantastic universal lessons into mankind and real politic which has served great statesmen for centuries.
A Last Take a look at Today’s Oligarchical Story Builders
Although we can verify with certainty that narratives can be great and others evil, is it possible that the oligarchs handling today’s Great Story task desire humanity no harm?
Maybe Lynn Forrester de Rothschild is entirely authentic when she released the Council for Inclusive Industrialism alongside Prince Charles, Mark Carney and a handful of Davos Billionaires representing 10s of trillions of dollars of capital in 2014. Helping to change commercialism into a green, eco friendly, more inclusive system that treats everybody equally is a good idea isn’t it?
When this Council combined with the Vatican in December 2020, Lynn de Rothschild explained the event as:
a historic brand-new partnership in between a few of the world’s largest investment and business leaders and the Vatican … signing up with ethical and market imperatives to reform industrialism into an effective force for the good of mankind.”
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 ago.
These guardians include the CEOs of powerful organizations as State Street, Bank of America, Johnson and Johnson, Rockefeller Structure, Ford Structure, Merck, British Petroleum, and the Rothschild banking homes.
Not exactly the most ethically advanced coterie of political heavyweights one might envision, but still maybe the evil that they have actually belonged of for decades has actually all been scheduled the sake of a greater great that just the elite might be allowed to know …
Sadly for the Davos Guardians, the reality of the New Great Narrative is a world devoid of those extremely principles that mankind requires to survive and prosper within our innovative, sensible universe.
Wielding the power to control a shadow land of dumbed-down slaves within a cavern may appear impressive for some, however when juxtaposed with the active, imaginative multipolar paradigm now rising to end up being a global force for clinical and technological development, controlling caveman becomes little more than a bleak and pitiful aspiration.
And like any parasite which can do nought however eliminate the very host it needs to nurse on for its very survival, those Davos guardians are likely to meet the exact same fate as that come across by Edgar Poe’s impotent, nihilistic oligarch Roderick Usher as his castle fell apart into an abyss.
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Evaluation, and Senior Fellow at the American University in Moscow. He is author of the ‘Unknown History of Canada’ book series and Clash of the Two Americas. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation. He can be reached at matthewehret.substack.com
* Some exemplary names of these extraordinary individuals consist of Leonardo Da Vinci, Luca Pacioli, Pierre Fermat, Christian Huygens, Johannes Kepler, Gottfried Leibniz, Max Planck, and Dimitry Mendeleyev (to call but a couple of). [#back”>back]