One of the most ludicrous, wholly unsubstantiated conspiracy theories making the rounds among the most gullible segment of the connected public (who are one and all supporters of failed US president Yam Head, though that is neither here nor there at this point) is a yarn that the mysterious powers that run everything in the world are implementing what is called “The Great Reset.”
The term “The Great Reset” actually originated in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008 in a book written by University of Toronto professor Richard Florida in 2010, which described ways in which the capitalist world should be remodeled to avoid falling into the same sort of crisis again. The basic concept of this reset, building on Florida’s work and ideas from many others, was adopted by the World Economic Forum earlier this year to describe a set of objectives for a post-coronavirus world.