Zerohedge: "Wef isn't a cabal, it is a cult" and some discussion on how to fight them
(politics)https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wef-isnt-cabal-its-cult
“The condition of today’s world cannot be transformed by technocratic rationality, since both technocracy and rationality are apparently nearing their apex; nor can it be transcended by preaching or admonishing a return to ethics and morality, or in fact, by any form of return to the past.
We have only one option: in examining the manifestations of our age, we must penetrate them with sufficient breadth and depth that we do not come under their demonic and destructive spell.
We must not focus our view merely on these phenomenon, but rather on the the humus of the decaying world beneath, where the seedlings of the future are growing, immeasurable in their potential and vigor”
All systems sense-make both by the incorporation of ideas that self-reinforce in eachothers presence, and the
exclusion of valid ideas that would otherwise undermine the broader unity of the included ideas.
This is the idea of "common sense". Common-sense is less about a
mode of thinking and more about what is KNOWN. A man in a rural area, who doesn't know for example how to fix a car, is 'lacking common sense', though he may know a dozens of other bits of knowledge or beliefs common to those around him. It is also a method of identifying in group members vs out groups.
I think what is being said in the above passage is that like builders, a certain number of 'cornerstones' are refused before the preferred ideas of a system, model, or cult, are selected upon.
And that both the success, reach, and ultimate limitations (if not destined failure) are entirely contained within these decisions (relative to their environment, naturally.)
And because of this, while the new system or model grows and eventually reaches its apex, it also "covers over" those ideas that would have saved or sustained it, to a new higher apex--precisely because those ideas would contradict the internal harmony of such a systems current thinking.
Consequently the system cannot adapt past a certain point and fails. The Iron Law of Oligarchy for example, is just one such manifestation and physical explanation of this larger phenomenon.
In the above passage cited from Gebser (Ever Present Origin, 1949) what it seems to be suggesting is essentially digging through the "trash bin" of centralized planners to find those ideas that will eventually destroy and supplant them.
Much like the hackers of old, dumpster diving corporations for vulnerabilities, what the author proposes is none other than a "intellectual skunkworks establishing a counterrevolutionary commons" for 'big tent' style opposition to would-be global predators.