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from the spectacle of your fecund breasts emerges the notion of ingratitude, for one
thinks immediately of those innumerable parents ungrateful enough towards the
Creator to abandon the fruit of their sorry unions.
Mankind must certainly feel its imperfections strongly indeed, devastatingly even -
for it is painfully obvious that, at least, threequarters of them have their roots in the
soil of its own responsibility.

The world economic forum's annual meeting
At the end of January in Davos, Switzerland
Brings together international business and political leaders
Economists and other high profile individuals to discuss global issues
Driven by the vision of its influential CEO Klaus Schwab
The WEF is the main driving force for the dystopian great reset
A tectonic shift that intends to change how we live, work and interact with each other
The great reset entails a transformation of society resulting in permanent restrictions
On fundamental liberties and mass surveillance
As entire sectors are sacrificed to boost the monopoly and hegemony
Of pharmaceutical corporations, high-tech big data giants
Amazon, Google, major global chains, the digital payments sector, biotech concerns
Using covid 19 lockdowns and restrictions to push through this transformation
The great reset is being rolled out
Under the guise of a fourth industrial revolution
In which older enterprises are to be driven to bankruptcy
Or absorbed into monopolies
Effectively shutting down huge sections of the pro covid economy
Economies are being restructured
And many jobs will be carried out by AI driven machines
The WEF predicts that by 2030, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy
A happy smiling face is depicted while a drone delivers a product to a household
No doubt ordered online and packaged by a robot in a giant Amazon warehouse
No humans were involved in manufacturing, packaging or delivering this product
Rest assured, it is virus and bacteria free because even in 2030
They will need to keep the fear narrative alive and well
To maintain full spectrum dominance over the population
The jobless and there will be many could be placed
On some kind of universal basic income and have their debts
Indebtedness and bankruptcy on a massive scale
Is the deliberate result of lockdowns and restrictions
Written off in return for handing their assets
To the state or more precisely the financial institutions
Helping to drive this great reset
The WEF says the public will rent everything they require
Stripping the right of ownership
Under the guise of sustainable consumption and saving the planet
Of course, the elite who rolled out this great reset will own everything
Hundreds of millions around the world deemed surplus to requirements
Are to be robbed
Are currently being robbed of their livelihoods
Our every movement and purchase are to be monitored
And our main dealings will be online
The plan for individual citizens could reflect the strategy to be applied to nation states
For instance, World Bank Group President David Malpass has stated
That poorer countries will be helped
To get back on their feet after the various lockdowns that have been implemented
This 'help' will be on the condition
That neoliberal reforms and the undermining of public services
Are implemented and become further embedded
On 20 April, the wall street journal ran the headline 'IMF
World bank face deluge of aid requests from developing world
Scores of countries are asking for bailouts and loans
From financial institutions with 1 point 2 trillion to lend
An ideal recipe for fueling dependency
In return for debt relief or support, global conglomerates
Along with the likes of Bill Gates
Will be able to further dictate national policies
And hollow out the remnants of nation state sovereignty
Identity and meaning
What will happen to our social and personal identity
Is that to be eradicated in the quest to commodify
And standardize human behavior and everything we do
The billionaire class who are pushing this agenda think
They can own nature and all humans and can control both
Whether through geoengineering the atmosphere, genetically modifying soil microbes
Or doing a better job than nature by producing bio-synthesized fake food in a lab
They think they can bring history to a close
And reinvent the wheel by reshaping what it means to be human
And they think they can achieve this by 2030
It's a cold dystopian vision that wants to eradicate thousands of years of culture, Tradition and practices virtually overnight
And many of these cultures, traditions and practices relate to food
And how we produce it and our deep-rooted connections to nature
Consider that many of the ancient rituals and celebrations of our forebears
Were built around stories and myths
That helped them come to terms with some of the most basic issues of existence
From death to rebirth and fertility
These culturally embedded beliefs and practices served
To sanctify their practical relationship with nature and its role in sustaining human life
As agriculture became key to human survival
the planting and harvesting of crops and other seasonal activities
Associated with food production were central to these customs
Humans celebrated nature and the life it gave birth to
Ancient beliefs and rituals were imbued with hope and renewal
And people had a necessary and immediate relationship with the sun
Seeds, animals, wind, fire, soil and rain
And the changing seasons that nourished and brought life
We need look no further than India to appreciate the important relationship
Between culture, agriculture and ecology
Not least the vital importance of the monsoon and seasonal planting and harvesting
Rural based beliefs and rituals steeped in nature persist, even among urban Indians
Those are bound to traditional knowledge systems
Where livelihoods, the seasons, food, cooking, processing, seed exchange
Healthcare and the passing on of knowledge are all inter-related
And form the essence of cultural diversity within India itself
Although the industrial age resulted in a diminution
Of the connection between food and the natural environment
As people moved to cities, traditional food cultures
The practices, attitudes and beliefs
Surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of food
Still thrive and highlight our ongoing connection to agriculture and nature
If we go back to the 1950s, it is interesting to note Union Carbide's corporate narrative
Based on a series of images that depicted the company
As a hand of God coming out of the sky to solve some of the issues facing humanity
One of the most famous images is of the hand pouring the firm's agrochemicals on Indian soils as if traditional farming practices were somehow backward
Despite well-publicized claims to the contrary
This chemical-driven approach did not lead to higher food production
According to the paper new histories of the green revolution
Written by Professor Glenn Stone
However, it has had long-term devastating ecological, social and economic Consequences
See Vandana Shiva's book the violence of the green revolution
And Bhaskar Save's now famous and highly insightful open letter to Indian officials
In the book food and cultural studies
Bob Ashley et al
We see how, some years ago, a coca cola TV ad campaign sold its product
To an audience which associated modernity with a sugary drink
And depicted ancient aboriginal beliefs as harmful, ignorant and outdated
Coke and not rain became the giver of life to the parched
This type of ideology forms part of a wider strategy
To discredit traditional cultures and portray them as being deficient
And in need of assistance from Godlike corporations
What we were seeing in 2020, is an acceleration of such processes
In terms of food and agricultural, traditional farming in places like India
Will be under increasing pressure from the big-tech giants and agribusiness
To open up to lab-grown food, GMOs, genetically engineered soil microbes
Data harvesting tools and drones and other disruptive technologies
The great reset includes farmerless farms being manned by driverless machines
Monitored by drones and doused with chemicals
To produce commodity crops from patented GM seeds
For industrial biomatter to be processed and constituted
Into something resembling food
What will happen to the farmers
Post covid the world bank talks about helping countries get back on track
In return for structural reforms
Are tens of millions of smallholder farmers to be enticed
From their land in return for individual debt relief and universal basic income
This displacement of these farmers and the subsequent destruction
Of rural communities and their cultures was something
The gates foundation once called for and cynically termed land mobility
Cut through the euphemisms and it is clear that Bill Gates
And the other incredibly rich individuals behind the great reset
Is an old-fashioned colonialist
Who supports the time honored dispossessive strategies of imperialism
Whether this involves mining, appropriating and commodifying farmer knowledge Accelerating the transfer of research and seeds
To corporations or facilitating intellectual property piracy
And seed monopolies created through IP laws and seed regulations
In places like India still an agrarian based society
Will the land of these already prior to covid heavily indebted farmers
Then be handed over to the tech giants
The financial institutions and global agribusiness
To churn out their high-tech, data driven GM industrial sludge
Is this part of the 'own nothing, be happy bland brave new world
Being promoted by the WEF
With the link completely severed between food production
Nature and culturally embedded beliefs that give meaning and expression to life
We will be left with the individual human who exists on lab-based food
Who is reliant on income from the state
And who is stripped of satisfying productive endeavor and genuine self fulfillment
Technocratic meddling has already destroyed or undermined cultural diversity
Meaningful social connections and agrarian ecosystems
That draw on centuries of traditional knowledge
Are increasingly recognized as valid approaches to secure food security
For example, see food security and traditional knowledge in India
In the journal of south Asian studies
The massive technocratic transformation currently envisaged regards humans
As commodities to be controlled and monitored
Just like the lifeless technological drones and AI being promoted
But don't worry you will be property less and happy
In your open prison of mass unemployment, state dependency
Track and chip health passports, cashlessness, mass vaccination and dehumanization

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