# The Great Reset ![rw-book-cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81wl+X9KbIL._SY160.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Glenn Beck and Justin Trask Haskins]] - Full Title: The Great Reset - Category: #books ## Highlights - Why are large corporations becoming the champions of “woke” causes and engaging in political debates about things like voter identification laws? ([Location 71](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09MJ3FZXS&location=71)) - Why are the heads of numerous Western countries—including Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and America—all using the exact same “Build Back Better” slogan? ([Location 80](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09MJ3FZXS&location=80)) - The goal of the Great Reset is both shocking and wildly ambitious: to transform the global economy, eliminate free markets, impose a new, more easily controllable and malleable economic system, and change the way people think about private property and corporations. ([Location 214](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09MJ3FZXS&location=214)) - Who is behind this radical plan? In early June 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF), a large nonprofit based in Switzerland, held a virtual meeting featuring many of the most powerful people on the face of the planet. The purpose of the meeting was to launch a new campaign for a Great Reset of the global economy, using the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change as justifications for their proposed reforms to society. ([Location 217](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09MJ3FZXS&location=217)) - “To achieve a better outcome,” Schwab wrote later in the article, “the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. . . . Every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism.” ([Location 229](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09MJ3FZXS&location=229)) - One of the ways in which Great Reset supporters like Burrow want to design a better world is by engaging in massive wealth redistribution schemes, ones that would promote economic “equality,” not only among citizens within individual nations but also between countries. ([Location 249](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09MJ3FZXS&location=249)) - The Great Reset’s biggest advocates never use the words fascism or authoritarianism to describe the Reset or their agenda. They have worked very hard to integrate capitalistic language like markets and investments into their plans, and many have even tried to frame the Great Reset’s provisions as creating a new kind of capitalism—so-called stakeholder capitalism—while simultaneously talking about ending many of the world’s markets. ([Location 293](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09MJ3FZXS&location=293)) - rights. The Great Reset is, in a very real sense, Western elites’ attempt at improving upon the China model, which probably explains why the World Economic Forum—which, remember, is one of the key players in the promotion of the Great Reset—has numerous close ties with important figures in China, including Chinese leaders who have served on WEF’s board of trustees. ([Location 358](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09MJ3FZXS&location=358)) - The Great Reset is not really about helping the poor or saving the planet. It is about making the rich richer and expanding the power of the ruling class—goals that many elites have shared across cultures, historical eras, and geographies. ([Location 365](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09MJ3FZXS&location=365)) - Those who support the Reset want Main Street Americans to be divided. They want us to spend all our time yelling at each other about Dr. Seuss book bans and COVID-19 mask mandates so we do not see the bigger, much more important forces at work. The truth is, the fight against the Great Reset is not a struggle between liberals and conservatives; it is a fight between the ruling-class elites of Wall Street, Davos, and Washington, D.C. and everyone else. And if the American people lose sight of that vital point, there will be no stopping the grand alterations of society that Reset elites have long yearned for. ([Location 373](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09MJ3FZXS&location=373))