Great Reset: Building Back Better. Oh Yeah.

The World Economic Forum has announced "The Great Reset." These are the chaps that run their annual show up at Davos on Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain. Here is what that means, according to the WEF:

As we enter a unique window of opportunity to shape the recovery, this initiative will offer insights to help inform all those determining the future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of a global commons. Drawing from the vision and vast expertise of the leaders engaged across the Forum’s communities, the Great Reset initiative has a set of dimensions to build a new social contract that honours the dignity of every human being.

The United Nations has its "Building Back Better." And of course Joe Biden is also Building Back Better, too. Of course.

It seems to be a top-down initiative by the Best and Brightest to teach us deplorables the facts of life.

Notice how the WEF puts it: "to help inform all those determining the future state of..." And who are the lucky ones, the wise ones, the powerful ones "determining the future" I wonder.

So @jack censors the NYPost. Google Search thinks that COVID infections are the most significant question with regard to Trump rallies. And all these wise heads are determining how to direct traffic after the Great Pandemic.

I am trying to figure out what all these top-down chappies are up to. And what they think that makes them so special that they are qualified to teach us all a lesson.

And it is hard for me because my basic belief is that you can't direct traffic, Mr. Wise Philosopher. Not only because the battle plan is useless after the first gun is fired. Not only because administrators can't hope to keep track of all the variables as the direct the economy. Not only because the world changes unpredictably to upset the plan.

But also at the basic level because the greater well-being of the world may not intersect at all with the notions of an @jack, a WEF, a UN, a political campaign. Or anything. 

I would say that the biggest problem in the world is the people who think on the lines of "determining the future" of the world.

Because the future of the world is determined by accident, by anybodies discovering something that changes the correlation of forces, by a Sacrificial Hero that inspires millions for hundreds of years, by the mysterious operations of the human herd instinct, Jung's collective unconscious.

But, almost everyone is easily misled by the conceit that he can lead his fellow humans to victory or at least the moral and intellectual standing to "build a new social contract that honours the dignity of every human being."

Well, I'll tell you what I think. I think that all these conceited Great Reset and Building Back Better need to be taught a good sharp lesson. They need to know that the last thing the world needs is a bunch of conceited jet-setters and billionaires and bureaucrats and lifer politicians implementing their tired and conceited agenda on the rest of us.

Because, you see, if there is one thing I am sure about is that none of these conceited idiots have a clue. The world will stumble and bumble its way forward, as it always has, two steps forward and one step back. What I don't like is that the experts and the moralists and the lockdowners, for all their self-confidence, usually manage to give us one step forward and two steps back.

But that's what grumpy old guys like me have been saying since the dawn of time.