The Great Reset

("Bye Bye Safe Journey", 2014, original pen and ink and oil) The Great Reset As the modern world hurls towards tomorrow more and more of us are swept up, languages, dress, myths and beliefs, consumed in the cause of hope and change, security and conformity in short, control. The two sides of this debate are as they have always been; life vs. death, freedom vs. slavery, our choice being as Henry Patrick once so eloquently said, “Give me liberty or give me death!” The modern world for once gives us the power to choose, with the power to enforce, but it has also shown this power of choice must be voluntary to stick. And so armed with an over abundance of data leaders assault the masses with information filtered through their biases, prejudices and grant applications to control the flow through media, mass, public, private and social, control the content through severs and censors, ads and algorithms, control the outcome with purse strings and a cancel culture that stretches from the ivory towers to board rooms local papers and Thanksgiving dinners. None of this would be possible without the power of communication of data, threats, promises and consequences. Without this world wide web of modern convenience, homogenization, cooperation The Great Reset would be nothing but a dream in dictator’s heads instead it’s a template being offered for us to embrace by socially conscious bureaucrats at the cusp of a future devoid of choice. This is the future we face, at last voluntarily enslaved to serve the greater good in the name of death, the fear of it, in obsession with it, as we cling to our smaller and smaller piece of the pie. Somewhere Patrick Henry is turning in his grave spinning by now, like a top ready to break free to be made anew, literally born again, a spirit of freedom that, like love, never dies. (12/12/23)