great reset

See also: Great Reset

English

Etymology

From Great Reset, theme of the 2020 meeting of the World Economic Forum, where these policies were presented and discussed.

Proper noun

the great reset

1. The concerted world-wide implementation of various policies to address shortcomings of modern capitalism, in particular its impact on public health and climate change.
   • 2021 January 29, Ishaan Tharoor, quoting Klaus Schwab, “World leaders pledge a ‘great reset’ after the pandemic”, in Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Klaus Schwab, WEF’s founder and executive chairman, invoked the need to help provoke a “great reset” around the world in the wake of the pandemic. “The covid-19 crisis has shown us that our old systems are not fit anymore for the 21st century,” he said in a podcast ahead of events this week.

2. Global elites' use or fabrication of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns as pretexts to impose radical social change, such as replacing capitalism with socialism, the Green New Deal etc., according to certain conspiracy theories.
   • 2020 December 4, Quinn Slobodian, quoting James Delingpole, “How the ‘great reset’ of capitalism became an anti-lockdown conspiracy”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     “Anyone who doesn’t realise that the great reset is the biggest threat to our form of life right now hasn’t been paying attention,” he said.

   • 2020 December 20, Jason Wilson, quoting Maurice Newman, “Sky News Australia is increasingly pushing conspiracy theories to a global audience online”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     The Great Reset is going to be the segue from the pandemic. Now that they’ve got everybody obedient in terms of not leaving the house and doing what they have to do, and we’ve seen actions from the police in Victoria which are unthinkable in this country, there’s a segue from there into making sure that we control our emissions, that we do what we’re told to do with regard to what they call the Green New Deal.