The Great Jet Set: Klaus Schwab, the WEF and the New Fascism
Jan 1, 2023 16:33:03 GMT 8
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Post by NFA on Jan 1, 2023 16:33:03 GMT 8
I thought this 4 part series of articles might be of interest to some.
From the final few paragraphs of Part 4:-
It is a fact of history. We are always just a step from totalitarianism. Those politicians who would readily embrace it and the thugs who would readily enforce it are always there. It just needs someone to speak it into being, to offer a roadmap to get there. That’s what the WEF offers, and it offers it all under the cover of environmental and humanitarian virtue.
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The path to totalitarianism, you see, is quite clear.
I have visited the sites of past claimants to the utopian throne. They are not, as you might suppose, great works of architecture or museums housing their treasures. They are places with names like Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Babyn Yar, Lefortovo, and Lubyanka. They are the homes I have visited in Cuba, China, Russia, Vietnam, and half a dozen more where dissenters must hide from the regime. Because the most consistent feature of earthly utopias is their gulags and their gallows.
But there is, I think, a path to a “sustainable future” for freedom.
In his book Civilization: The West and the Rest, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson quotes a scholar from the Chinese Academy of Sciences:
For centuries, the Christian faith served as the West’s bulwark against moral and political evils. But with the decline of Christian belief has come a corresponding rise in perversions of every kind. Rather than a Christian culture, we’ve become Christian-ish. Thus, concepts with a Christian foundation—love, freedom, tolerance, diversity, stewardship of the environment, care for the poor, etc.—are easily highjacked and harnessed to a destructive end. If the West is to survive in any recognizable sense, it must be more than Christian-ish.
As T.S. Eliot observed, “If Christianity goes, the whole culture goes.”
I have visited the sites of past claimants to the utopian throne. They are not, as you might suppose, great works of architecture or museums housing their treasures. They are places with names like Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Babyn Yar, Lefortovo, and Lubyanka. They are the homes I have visited in Cuba, China, Russia, Vietnam, and half a dozen more where dissenters must hide from the regime. Because the most consistent feature of earthly utopias is their gulags and their gallows.
But there is, I think, a path to a “sustainable future” for freedom.
In his book Civilization: The West and the Rest, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson quotes a scholar from the Chinese Academy of Sciences:
We were asked to look into what accounted for the … pre-eminence of the West over all the world … At first, we thought it was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity. That is why the West has been so powerful. The Christian moral foundation of social and cultural life was what made possible the emergence of capitalism and then the successful transition to democratic politics. We don’t have any doubt about this.
For centuries, the Christian faith served as the West’s bulwark against moral and political evils. But with the decline of Christian belief has come a corresponding rise in perversions of every kind. Rather than a Christian culture, we’ve become Christian-ish. Thus, concepts with a Christian foundation—love, freedom, tolerance, diversity, stewardship of the environment, care for the poor, etc.—are easily highjacked and harnessed to a destructive end. If the West is to survive in any recognizable sense, it must be more than Christian-ish.
As T.S. Eliot observed, “If Christianity goes, the whole culture goes.”