Jonathan Swift  was a foremost (English language) satirist. Swift's satirical essay: A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, published 1729 in the guise of an economic treatise, was a proposal to ameliorate poverty in Ireland by butchering the children of the Irish poor and selling them as food to wealthy English landlords.  In his masterpiece, Swift's perceptive commentary on England's legal and economic exploitation of Ireland, which aptly combined rational deliberation with an unthinkable conclusion, subsequently served as a paradigm for criticism of proposals contrived to mitigate problems by implementing effective, yet outrageous, cures.
 
The (contrived) "proposal" presently being considered  for criticism is the World Economic Forum's Great Reset, which is reviewed and assessed in the following commentary:
 
 
    
 
Tessa Lena's astute appraisal of the Great Reset (The Great Reset for Dummies) eloquently discerns the Great Reset (contrived to mitigate "problems" by implementing "effective," yet outrageous, cures) as an apt candidate for criticism:
 
The Great Reset is a massively funded, desperately ambitious, internationally coordinated project led by some of the biggest multinational corporations and financial players on the planet and carried out by cooperating state bodies and NGOs. Its soul is a combination of early 20th century science fiction, idyllic Soviet posters, the obsessiveness of a deranged accountant with a gambling addiction and an upgraded, digital version of "Manifest Destiny."
My criticism of the Great Reset concurs with Lena's assessment:
 
The psychological reason for the Great Reset is the fear of losing control of property, the planet. I suppose, if you own billions and move trillions, your perception of reality gets funky, and everything down below looks like an ant hill that exists for you. Just ants and numbers, your assets.

Lena's allusion to ants resonates with:
Millionaires want to make money. Billionaires want to make history. We may add that multi-billionaires take it further; they want mankind to adapt to their needs and wishes. As for people who control trillions, why, they care about our wishes as much as we care about ants while sweeping the garden. We do not apply ant-killer until anthills encroach on our flowerbeds; but we do not hesitate if we deem it necessary. Mankind came across many megalomaniacs; some of them had a lot of power. Genghis Khan was one. However, they were always territorially limited. Mighty Genghis could send tremors all the way to Rome, but the English and French didn't have to care about the rising Mongol empire. New super-tycoons have no such limitations. Globalisation has allowed them to think outside the box..
The founder of modern radical Behaviorism, B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) was himself very candid about the scientific management of society when he wrote "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" (1971) saying that the behavioral scientist of the new post-industrial age must avoid at all costs concepts like dignity, freedom, good or evil:

We can follow the path taken by physics and biology by turning directly to the relation between behavior and the environments and neglecting supposed mediating states of mind. We do not need to try to discover what personality, states of mind, feelings, traits of character, plans, purposes, intentions or the other prerequisites of autonomous man really are in order to get on with a scientific analysis of behavior.

All that exists in this cold soulless world are clusters of ants calling themselves "human", propelled by electro-neural signals masquerading as free will and urges for sex, dominance over the weak and sensual pleasure.
 

The intended objective of is to reassess the World Economic Forum's 4th Industrial Revolution contrivance via an augmented frame of reference, cf: Cosmic Evolution (Eric Chaisson).
 
 Also:
 

 
 
As the titles of Diamond's and Genet's books connote, we (humanity) are: (third) chimpanzees (who would be ants)
 
 
Influence vs. Power

Influence
I/You		 Power
I/It
Allocated
  • Socially acknowledged right to  make a particular decision and to educe compliance.
  • Power that is perceived by the members of society to be legitimate/valid.
 Delegated
  • Ability to effectively dispose or control people and things.
  • Get people to do things you want them to do but they may not want to do.
Band Tribe
A few families and no formal leadership positions. Organized around family ties and have fluid or shifting systems of temporary leadership.
Egalitarian Egalitarian
Chiefdom State
The chief, who usually is determined by heredity, holds a formal position of power. Most complex form of political organization, characterized by a central government that has a monopoly over legitimate uses of physical force, a sizeable bureaucracy, a system of formal laws, and a standing military force.
Ranked Stratified
 
     
  • 2nd parameter:  Marc Widdowson attributed characteristic (political/economic/social) societal attributes to scale-dependent societal eigenmodes (friends, acquaintances, strangers):
Scale  
Eigenmode Friends Acquaintances Strangers
Political Equality Prestige Domination
Economic Sharing Credit Exchange
Social Personal contact Community Abstraction
Egalitarian Ranked Stratified
 
Friend-prevalent societies accentuate personal social contact and political equality.
Stranger-prevalent societies betoken social abstraction and political domination.

Social Abstraction, as an attribute of stranger-prevalent societies, was (astutely) encapsulated by David Wong's notion of the Monkeysphere (each of us lives within a cognitive bubble that encourages us to act in the best interest of those within our individually distinct  cognitive "Monkeysphere" bubble, and "dehumanize" those outside of our Monkeysphere):

"Most of us do not have room in our Monkeysphere for our friendly neighborhood sanitation worker. So, we don't think of him as a person. We think of him as The Thing That Makes The Trash Go Away." ... "Listen to any 16 year-old kid with his first job, going on and on about how the boss is screwing him and the government is screwing him even more ("What's FICA?!?!" he screams as he looks at his first paycheck). Then watch that same kid at work, as he drops a hamburger patty on the floor, picks it up, and slaps in on a bun and serves it to a customer. In that one dropped burger he has everything he needs to understand those black-hearted politicians and corporate bosses. They see him in the exact same way he sees the customers lined up at the burger counter. Which is, just barely. In both cases, for the guy making the burger and the guy running Exxon, getting through the workweek and collecting the paycheck are all that matters. No thought is given to the real human unhappiness being spread by doing it shittily (ever gotten so sick from food poisoning you thought your stomach lining was going to fly out of your mouth?) That many customers or employees just can't fit inside the Monkeysphere."


Political Domination in stranger-prevalent societies typically accords with social rank (class, stratum, echelon, caste, lineage, estate), as signified in social pyramid portrayals. One's relative location within a social hierarchy denotes a correspondingly implied power and privilege, and one's power and privilege within a society typically connotes a corresponding social rank, with dominant "rulers" (chiefs, pharaohs, kings, shoguns, emperors, presidents, CEOs, ...) perched at the apex:
 
 
  • 3rd parameter:  the social pyramid/hierarchy apex, as characterized by Victor Serebriakoff, is the apical nexus conjoining converging and diverging morphostat polyhierarchies:

 
 

Societal Morphostat Metamorphosis       
                                         
  • At this juncture, Tessa Lena's (previously excerpted) remark "your perception of reality gets funky, and everything down below looks like an ant hill that exists for you" can be graphically expressed as:

 
  • And, with reference to Marc Widdowson's stranger-prevalent eigenmode (large scale societies: comprised of thousands [103-105], possibly more [106+] individuals)
Strangers
Political Domination
Economic Exchange
Social Abstraction
 
     Political Domination: individuals within the apical strata of stratified social morphostats don't (to paraphrase Jason Pargin) have room in their "Monkeysphere" for individuals of the action strata.    

Apical strata individuals don't think of action strata individuals as individual "persons,"  but rather as human "servitors" - subordinate "action-thing" abstractions ...
 
James C. Scott What if we were to examine slavery, agrarian war captives, helots, and the like as state projects to domesticate a class of human servitors ”by force” much as our Neolithic ancestors had domesticated sheep and cattle?
Tessa Lena The psychological reason for the Great Reset is the fear of losing control of property, the planet. I suppose, if you own billions and move trillions, your perception of reality gets funky, and everything down below looks like an ant hill that exists for you. Just ants and numbers, your assets.