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Klaus Schwab - Mark Carney
Schwab described the World Economic Forum's 'Great Narrative Initiative' announced as a,
It is no question that this new project is bone chilling,
Let's examine this question in a bit of detail.
As far back as we look, recorded history demonstrates myths and stories that shape each culture's subjective experience trying to make sense of the objective world and the many tenuous challenges that are tossed into our path.
Deep Structure Narratives
Throughout history, countless stories have been created by shamans, priests, and poets which have attempted to infuse meaning onto traumatic events induced by either nature or geopolitical strategies.
Some classical stories may have even exposed geopolitical evils under the 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 likelihood representative of actual oligarchical families who manipulated never ending wars and exploited the folly and corruption of their chosen 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 secular era, these forms of myths are discarded as the foolish practices of simpler unscientific times.
The medieval myths of sea monsters and flat earths beyond which unsuspecting voyagers would meet a terrible fate were superseded for a new set of narratives during the enlightenment period.
During this period, pure logic and empiricism were placed upon the new altars where religion once stood and we were told to worship new godheads by the names such as,
When Nietzsche proclaimed 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 disease of metastasized logic saying:
When the foundation of enlightenment logic began to break down under the pressure of reality over a century ago, new narratives taking the form of the Standard Model quantum mechanics began teaching modern man that,
We were told that all of this was held together only by a mix of luck (statistical probability) and four fundamental forces created 13.7 billion years ago.
All behavior in human life or in nature thus explained away by Darwinian models of,
The rise of modern monstrosities like eugenics, and neo-Malthusianism were the sick children of these ghoulish assumptions.
The more we probe behind the impressive veneer of these popular narratives, the more we discover that myths spun by modern day high priests on behalf of political interests has not only continued into our present age, but have continuously adopted new costumes to adapt to our changing world.
Those brilliant minds whose discoveries actually overturned old narratives by leaping beyond the domains of inductive/deductive thinking are carefully obscured under mathematical formulas devoid of the spirit and personality of these exceptional individuals. 1
The Political Consequences of False Macro-Narratives
Some political expressions of today's secular narratives were seen as neocons trotted out in front of cameras broadcasting the message that the two hijacked planes which destroyed three towers on 9/11 was orchestrated by angry Muslims in caves who hated our 'freedom'...
I could obviously go on for quite some time here, but needless to say, political myth making is an ugly part of life...
But while each lie certainly does grave damage, our susceptibility to falling for these falsities is in no way disconnected from our acceptance of those higher meta narratives embedded in those scientific myths that shape HOW our minds move...
This is how the neocon rot grew in the U.S.A. over a few generations leading us to today's multifaceted systemic breakdown crisis.
One of the fathers of the mutant that became neoconservatism was a narrative-building master named Leo Strauss.
Leo Strauss' Neocon Monstrosity
Working closely 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 devoted students spread across several decades.
Among the highest lessons contained in Strauss's teachings (at least for a select few among his students) was the idea of the Noble Lie developed by Plato in Book 3 of the Republic.
Strauss taught his students that this Noble Lie was the greatest weapon and rightful tool of anyone who found themselves in a position of power to rule over the weak at any time in history.
In true Nietzschean fashion, the narrow definition of "power" as the subordination of the weak to the strong was the only definition permitted by Strauss who taught his students that while Plato preached love of wisdom to the masses, he secretly held a different teaching for those elite among his Academy who would control political power.
To these elite few, 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 reality possible.
The mandate of these perverse neo-Platonists was to live the ideal not of Socrates, but rather of Thrasymachus whose immoral doctrine Socrates annihilated in the first book of the Republic.
Those young neocons learning from their master were taught that the true 'secret Socrates' believed, like Thrasymachus, or Callicles (student of Gorgias), was that the highest purpose in life is to attain power, satisfy our lusts and control the shadows in the cave.
As many 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 chosen 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 myth maker.
The stories showcased in his dialogues from the,
...have shaped the minds of some of the greatest historic figures across 2400 years of world history.
Renaissance figures like,
...and countless other brilliant souls had their wits sharpened on the stories and lessons contained in Plato's writings.
But,
To be a true Guardian in Plato's world meant more than simply,
While Nietzscheans like Strauss stop reading at this moment and choose to dominate the slaves using a higher power of thinking reserved only for a select few of the golden collar elite...
Plato made it very clear in his Republic and other writings, that the TRUE philosopher (and implicitly 'true guardian'...) was obliged to return back into the cave at risk of his or her life in order to help liberate their fellow captives.
Narratives for Freedom or Slavery?
"Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands.
The artist must take sides.
He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery.
I have made my choice" Paul Robeson, 1937
The question can now be posed:
Certainly, history has proven time and again, that a certain type of poetic story can empower us to leap beyond our limitations and gain insights into the deeper truths of the human condition and universal reality itself.
Even Shakespeare's "fictional" stories offer the sensitive soul great universal lessons into humanity and real politic which has served great statesmen for centuries.
A Last Look at Today's Oligarchical Narrative Builders
Although we can affirm with certainty that narratives can be good and others evil,
Perhaps Lynn Forrester de Rothschild is completely genuine when she launched the Council for Inclusive Capitalism alongside Prince Charles, Mark Carney and a handful of Davos Billionaires representing tens of trillions of dollars of capital in 2014.
Helping to transform capitalism into a green, eco friendly, more inclusive system that treats everyone equally is a good thing isn't it?
When this Council merged with the Vatican in December 2020, Lynn de Rothschild described the event as,
This council is even led by,
These guardians include the CEOs of powerful organizations as,
Not exactly the most morally advanced coterie of political heavy weights one could imagine, but still maybe the evil that they have been a part for decades has all been arranged for the sake of a higher good that only the elite may be permitted to know...
Unfortunately for the Davos Guardians, the reality of the New Great Narrative is,
Wielding the power to control a shadow land of dumbed down slaves within a cave might seem impressive for some, but,
And like any parasite which can do naught but kill the very host it needs to suckle on for its very survival, those Davos 'guardians' are likely to meet the same fate as that encountered by,
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