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An End to the Upside Down Reset: The Leftist Vision for Society Under the “Great Reset”—and How It Can Fool Caring People into Supporting Harmful Causes

by Mark Gober

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Mark Koprowski said: " Outrage is All the Rage

I truly enjoyed Mark Gober's earlier illuminating books, including Upside Down Thinking, Living, and UFO Contact, but I cannot readily say the same for Gober's latest opus, Upside Down Reset, his fifth book in the series. Admit Outrage is All the Rage

I truly enjoyed Mark Gober's earlier illuminating books, including Upside Down Thinking, Living, and UFO Contact, but I cannot readily say the same for Gober's latest opus, Upside Down Reset, his fifth book in the series. Admittedly, I've only read through the Introduction and Chapter 1, but the sample was enough to realize where Gober is heading with this--which is, straight down the rabbit hole. Essentially, this book represents crack cocaine for the red-pilled Q-Anon community, appealing to their paranoid, dystopian fever dreams and fantasies. As such, this book does not conceal its bias and lack of objectivity.

In the Introduction, the reader is presented with several World Economic Forum aspirations; yet each is immediately met by Gober's scary and speculative inferences or "concerns," spinning each WEF idea as something potentially sinister and authoritarian. Gober even laments the fact that among the WEF proposals, there is no explicit discussion of metaphysics or God or spirituality. Since the WEF is a purely secular organization, can we sincerely fault them for not addressing this? (And had they included something, no doubt they would have been immediately crucified for trying to impose a one-world religion.) Yet, the more Gober quotes from the "COVID 19: The Great Reset" (which I have not read), the more I found myself sympathizing with its valid and necessary prescriptions. I don't think that was the effect Gober intended. It prompts me to wonder if Gober, having graduated with honors from Princeton, even believes half the stuff he's committed to paper here. Obviously current and anticipated global problems and crises (e.g. poverty, economic disparity, war, climate change, future pandemics) demand real global solutions and cannot be dealt with at the local or even national levels and will require active international cooperation and coordination. The Great Reset is a set of vague policy proposals, not mandates, and the WEF has no real power to implement them. Yet, this does not stop Gober from hyperbolically claiming that the WEF are antihuman Leftist elites who "seek to impose their vision upon the rest of the world."

Gober also includes a section on what critics have to say about the Great Reset. Not surprising though, the critics are invariably prominent conservative voices: Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, Michael Anton, Victor Davis Hanson. Gober even brings in Dennis Prager to define Liberalism vs Leftism. Yet, Gober fails to mention anyone who might actually defend or endorse the WEF's proposals. And that obvious omission should tell you everything you need to know about this book. The ongoing bias and rejection of Leftism is far from subtle. (To Gober's credit though, he does not brand the WEF as "Woke," but I would not be surprised if he did so later in the book.)

All in all, the material feels somewhat clunky and rushed. In fact, Gober's last book was published only six months ago. Perhaps he felt he needed to engage this topic ASAP in order to exploit and monetize the current outrage and anxiety before it faded from the conspiratorial zeitgeist. Peddling fringe ideas and narratives can be extremely profitable, and Gober seems all too aware of this. I do hope though that his next project rises above this sensational muck. Gober is definitely better than this. ...more "

Jan 05, 2023 02:34AM · see review