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The Great Reset Seeks To Usher In A World In Which Nobody Will Want To Escape The Gulag

8/4/2020

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's voluminous and damning magnus opus The Gulag Archipelago essentially documents the existence and workings of a smaller prison system embedded within a larger prison system. The larger prison system was comprised of all the social, political, and economic infrastructure and policies that made up the Soviet Union, while the smaller prison system was made up of the various forced-labor camps housing those who had violated the social, political, and economic policies of the larger prison camp. Provable transgressions against the Soviet Union and the communist cause more or less guaranteed removal from the larger prison system of general society, but this by no means meant every incarcerated gulag prisoner had been guilty of a indictable offense. On the contrary, Soviet gulags often overflowed with innocent people who could not understand why they had been singled out from the general prison population of the state and subsequently sentenced to twenty-five years of hard labor.

Most citizens of the Soviet Union understood that they were fundamentally prisoners of a totalitarian state; and they were perpetually reminded of this reality through the steady diet of decrees, regulations, restrictions, shortages, bureaucracy, denouncements, and propaganda that burdened their day-to-day lives. Nevertheless, given the choice, I suspect all Soviet citizens would have chosen to remain in the larger prison system of Soviet society over the smaller prison system of the gulags. Living in Soviet society entailed a great degree humiliation and suffering - the gulag, on the other hand, was nothing but humiliation and suffering. 

As oppressive and limiting as the Soviet Union was, it still contained small pockets of freedom and happiness. You could, theoretically at least, work in a vocation in which you demonstrated aptitude or talent. If you possessed athletic ability, there was a chance you could be recruited into one of the state's athletic programs. You could enjoy small pleasures like a walk in the park, and so forth.  If you welcomed risk, you could still get your hands on banned books and novels or other forms of art. You could pray and read the Bible in the privacy of your own home. You could attempt to defect or escape to the West or some other part of the world. 

If you happened to be arrested, all of that disappeared. Life in the smaller prison system of the gulags was harsh and bleak. Whatever freedom you could experience was generally restricted to the space in your heart and the space between your ears. Simply put, the difference between Soviet society and the gulag was the difference between near-total slavery and total slavery. 


Earlier totalitarian regimes used concentration camps and gulags to maintain their power. The gulags served as a reminder - no matter how bad things became in society, it was infinitely better than being imprisoned in a forced labor camp. Thus, the social engineering the Soviets managed to achieve was underpinned by the threat of brute force and total enslavement.

Through their Great Reset Agenda, our current totalitarian technocrats are implementing a more insidious form of social engineering to fortify their black iron prison and enslave the world - a form of social engineering that will convince its global citizens to willingly relinquish their current state of near-total slavery in favor of total slavery, which is being packaged and sold as a 'safe and just space for humanity.' 

Call me a pessimist, but I feel the Establishment has an excellent chance of pushing this agenda through.* For starters, hardly anyone realizes that a global totalitarian coup has already taken place. The change was so swift, dramatic, and comprehensive that even those who recognized what was unfolding could barely keep up with the pace of events, let alone mobilize or offer resistance against it. As for everyone else - well, most are still waiting for a return to normal. But there will be no return to normal. On the contrary, our global dictators are already feverishly framing the old 'normal' as both unsustainable and undesirable.

What they offer instead is a benevolently-sounding new normal - a more fair, sustainable, and resilient future founded upon a new social contract centered on social justice, economic equity, racial equality, and environmental protection. This new normal will require drastic 'lifestyle changes' and monumental shifts in human thinking and behavior from individuals and a complete reconceptualization of civilization from all the world's nations. Technology will be at the heart of this 'safe and just space for humanity', and will form the core of a microsurveillance social credit system through which citizens of the world will be rewarded for good behavior.

Unlike the Soviet Union, the Great Reset's 'safe and just space for humanity' will not require the brute force of a small prison system to exist because 'the safe and just space for humanity' will become a comprehensive and all-encompassing prison in of itself - the type of prison most will not even recognize as a prison. And even if people do recognize it as a prison, they will not wish to escape it for the simple reason that life outside the safe and just space will be regarded as infinitely worse. In this sense, the Establishment is working to flip the Soviet model on its head. Soviet citizens feared the gulag because they knew it would increase their suffering; modern citizens will be conditioned to believe suffering increases beyond the gulag.   

Ignorance is what separates the vast majority of people today from citizens of the former Soviet Union. Most modern people do not realize or will not accept that they had been living in near total-slavery before the birdemic and are now inching toward a world of total slavery. On the contrary, many will welcome the 'safe and just space for humanity' the Establishment proposes as an opportunity for a better, safer life. I suspect the majority of the West will gladly surrender whatever small freedoms they possess for the promise a more resilient, secure, and equitable future.

The few who do resist will be forced into circumstances where resistance will not only be futile, but utterly unworkable. In the here and now it has become impossible to buy groceries in a shop unless you wear a mask (in most places in the West). Now imagine how impossible shopping for food becomes if you have been 'deactivated' from a digital currency system. Imagine that and you start to get a sense of the kinds of tricks our technocratic tyrants are capable of pulling.


I suspect most will never consider escaping the open air concentration camp the world has become for the simple reason that they like it, crave it, and want more of it. As for the rest of us, any thoughts of physical escape will likely be tempered by the rather cold and harsh reality of having nowhere to go.

Considering the above, the current and developing global totalitarianism appears to be far worse than the totalitarianism people had to endure in the Soviet Union. True, we have not experienced mass starvation and mass executions (yet), but we are slowly being deprived of the state of near-total slavery - what most people refer to as 'the normal' - that Soviet citizens managed to cling to even during the darkest days of Stalin's reign. This realization should alert us to the freedoms that cannot be stolen from us, and motivate us to cultivate and defend those freedoms with every ounce of our being.

* The Great Reset Agenda may fail for a variety of reasons. For example, the Establishment may push the economic meltdown they are currently orchestrating too far and, thereby, precipitate full-out system failure. Another possibility is a sudden upsurge of good within the otherwise evilly-motivated aparachicks that helped usher in the global coup. Collective armed resistance and mobilization against the agenda is a possibility, but is increasingly proving improbable. Collective spiritual, more specifically Christian, revival is another, albeit extremely faint, possible, but once again improbable, obstacle. In light of all of the above and given current circumstances, the odds for the reset agenda, or some similar agenda succeeding, are quite favorable.
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Michelle
8/5/2020 03:27:47

Hi Mr Berger,
Thank you for continuing to post. I can't adequately explain how comforting it is to know that like-minded people are out there.
There may be other possibilities for the great reset's failure. One may lie in the religious sects in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. I recall having a discussion with a very very high Establishment person years ago about the global agenda, and specific to his cause: gay marriage. He said the U.N. should be the global government and laws surrounding those marriages should be enforced. I said what are you proposing- going in and killing or jailing all the Muslims who won't go along with that? He eluded to enforcement of all laws at all cost. It was at that time that I realized the depth of depravity of the leftist mind.
The other possibility for the failure of the reset could be that the evil sects will infight. The leftists vs. the anarchists. I see that playing out here in the U.S. on a small scale. The leftist mayor started laying down the law on anarchists because they had to restore order.
I'm praying hard for your last option for the reset's failure- a Christian revival.
I am thankful that in my own experiences right now, I might be as "free" as it gets. I don't wear a mask anywhere I go, although my options are more limited by the day. When I am confronted, I kindly say I have a medical issue. Most of the time that has gotten me through. Last week I was kicked out of a restaurant (in the parking lot I snapped a picture of the owner smoking outside with his mask around his chin standing next to a sign that said no smoking, and another that said masks required). I don't know what hill I will die on- the mask hill, the vaccine hill, the gun confiscation hill, the wealth confiscation hill, the Christain hill. So many hills to choose from.

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Francis Berger
8/5/2020 07:54:04

@ Michelle - It's interesting that you mention hills to die on. I am currently writing a post about that theme.

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bruce charlton
8/5/2020 10:23:48

[Did you miss a word out of the title?]

wrt Their Plans for Us - I suppose the ultimate plan is for a massive population reduction - down to about 1 billion (that's what some of Them have said, anyway). So I guess the intermediate stage will be a world of almost pure materialism and denial of the spirit; in which 'non-essential' workers are pretty much on permanent house-arrest and curfew (like a couple of months ago); living off diminishing doles, and incrementally being killed by whatever combination of starvation, disease and violence best suits each location and society.

But then, this isn't an end point either, because these are demonic powers - and They have no End Point except chosen damnation. SO the situation is being engineered to prevent awakening among both the doomed masses and the Establishment and their minions who are dooming them. The Establishment need to believe that they are doing-'Good' (i.e. that evil is Good) - and that is why the goals cannot be approached directly and explicitly - aiming at the Establishment, mainly.

When only the Establishment and minions remain - they will be set against each other - pursuing different evil priorities (sexual revolution versus antiracism, socialism versus feminism etc) - i.e. a war of rival versions of inverted-Good

The Godless masses seem able to damn themselves whatever happens, for whatever reason - whatever temporary fig leaf of justification is casually tossed in their direction. The one thing the masses seem sure about is that God is not real - or if real is not important; and that the Only thing which Really matters is that their own short-term suffering should be minimal. As you say in your post; so long as they can imagine being forced into a worse situation than they currently inhabit, they will strive to avoid that worse situation At Any Price.

Hell is a world of negatives - there is no positive Good, only the double negative of lesser suffering.

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Francis Berger
8/5/2020 11:19:29

@ Bruce - Yes, I forgot the 'body' in nobody. Must mean something.

I find it so difficult to accept that the Establishment is blind to its own evil, but I know that, for the most part, it is. Such is the power of evil.

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Georgiaboy61
8/11/2020 05:40:59

“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be"

James Stockdale spent seven and a half years in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton," and later ran as V.P. on the ticket of independent Ross Perot in 1992. He received the Medal of Honor for his heroism during enemy captivity and leadership of his fellow POWs under the most-adverse conditions possible.

Vice-Admiral James Stockdale, USN

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MckinneyVia link
5/26/2022 13:51:34

I very much appreciate it. Thank you for this excellent article. Keep posting!

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Francis Berger
5/26/2022 15:48:38

@ MckinneyVia - I appreciate all the appreciation but please refrain from posting nothing but praise in the comments.

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