Sessrumnir running at full-burn.
“By the time Sessrúmnir’s first burn was complete, Khawandagar, torn and twisted, still venting gasses, was two million kilometres behind them.”
Mock-up to see what it might look like as a cover…
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What is the Great Reset?
You’ve probably heard people insisting we need to ‘Build Back Better’ or invoking in hushed tones the mysterious ‘Great Reset’, but you probably don’t have much of a clue what these phrases actually mean…
Long story, short >>
We’ve had a bit of a wild party these past couple of centuries. We flushed a whole lot of toxic effluent into history’s toilet and it’s sluicing down the pipe towards us right now. There is no escape; but the good news is that planet’s wealthiest, most powerful people have a plan to save us all…
…a plan which incidentally allows them to keep all the cool stuff they screwed out of us while messing things up so bad in the first place.
Here’s a handy info-graphic:
Is this the only way, or are there perhaps other solutions we could try?
or…
No silver bullets I’m afraid. We are just going to have to muddle through, making it up as we go along while paying the price for the poor decisions we made in the past.
Even so, let’s at least put all the cards on the table so everybody knows what game we’re playing!
Definition: Great Filter, in case all this has not depressed you enough.
problem–reaction–solution
“Major conspiracy theorists propose that problem–reaction–solution (PRS) functions as a mechanism for constructing and exaggerating social problems to garner populist support for the implementation (imposition) of laws that society would normally deem unacceptable.“
I am not a Major Conspiracy Theorist. Obviously, I reject the idea that dubious mechanisms are deployed to shape the norms of society. If one were to check with trusted and authoritative sources such as the BBC or CNN, I am sure they will confirm that such thoughts are nothing more than the debunked, paranoid, anti-establishment ramblings of the mentally ill…
Having made my position clear, I will note that the ground has shifted significantly over the past two years as we have moved inexorably towards an authoritarianism unthinkable only months ago. We must accept the expansion of powers by governments across the world as a valid, measured, response to a real threat. The crushing physical force and psychosis-inducing social pressure being applied must be the last resort to avert a greater harm. We are forced to accept this because anything else would be simply unthinkable.
The Overton Window
However, keeping just one eye open to the possibility that the PTB are at it again, perhaps we can draw lines in the sand going forward to ensure that we are not caught off guard by the kind of mass social psychosis that tends to sweep through every century or so. For example, wouldn’t it be suspicious if our governments were to take the temporary powers granted for this emergency and make them permanent, or even expand them and apply them to other long felt thorns in the side of centralized power?
Two ‘tells‘ that spring into my mind which might hint at nefarious motives might be:
Vaxxine passports morphing into Social Credit
Game plans for biological pandademics spreading into cyberspace
For me, alarm bells will start ringing if governments suggest coupling use-cases for social credit, such as central-bank digital wallets or carbon credit accounts into our digital Vax IDs. I will feel the same if I start hearing language like ‘devices of concern’, ‘internet lockdowns’, or ‘digital quarantine’…
If you are familiar with my books, you will know that I believe strongly in freedom and decentralization.
CypherPunk and OpenSource are two lights in the darkness.
Let’s hope Linux-user never becomes a social stigma like antivaxxer.
