According to Wikipedia:
The Great Reset is a proposal by the World Economic Forum to rebuild the economy sustainably following the COVID-19 pandemic. It was unveiled in May 2020 by the United Kingdom's Prince Charles and WEF director Klaus Schwab.
I'm all for sustainable development, but just the term tells us a lot about those involved in this initiative. We 'reset' machines, not cultures. Immediately, I'm sceptical. If society is a machine that can be reset, how do the authors of this plan view the human beings who make up the world they're addressing?
Are we computers, robots, who need to be reprogrammed? We must be careful when choosing our metaphors. Metaphors build narratives. It is narratives that control us humans more than anything else. We're meaning-making machines fuelled by stories.
I for one don't want any part of a narrative that assumes that I'm part of a machine that needs resetting.

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