A Romanian Folk Tale Is a Perfect Response to The Great Reset

My glasses fell from the top of my nose as I stared at the screen with disbelief. Was it real? Was I seeing things correctly? The World Economic Forum, whose halls have gathered some of the most powerful people in the world, from world leaders to actors and businessmen, now wants to involve people like you and me in its thought process?

I could not believe it, yet there it was in their video, the WEF elites making the claim that the opinion of people like us actually matters.

I slowly pushed my glasses back onto my nose as I remembered an old Romanian folk tale that fits this moment perfectly.

The fable is that of “Moș Ion Roată” (Old Man Wheeler and the Unification). 

As the Romanian elites were influenced by the French Revolution with talks of equality, liberty and fraternity, they decide to do the unthinkable. They decided to involve the peasantry in a very important decision-making process. Every county had to elect one peasant as their representative and usher them to the capital, where they would be bathed, offered new clothes and welcomed to sit next to the boyars as equals.

You can imagine what went through the mind of an Eastern European middle-aged peasant. A person who lived in abject poverty for most of his life. A person who was not allowed to leave the lands of his lord. To not only be allowed to travel but to now have a voice in matters of government.

It's no wonder that the story describes the peasants as being intimidated. They did not know how they were expected to behave, nor how to act properly. They were afraid that by doing something wrong they might offend their betters, whose wrath they knew all too well. 

Thus, with emotions high, the air became tense as a silence descended in the room. A powerful noble was approaching them and they made way for him to approach.

He spoke in a kind and gentle voice explaining to the simpletons why they were there. He explained that the nobility wanted Wallachia and Moldavia to become one. He claimed that the people of these two nations spoke the same language, had the same traditions and prayed to the same God. And as such there was no reason for there to be two separate countries. 

Most of the peasants did not dare to question the noble, and they nodded in agreement. All except for one. An elderly peasant by the name of Ion Roata (John Wheeler). 

He looked at the noble, scratching his head and said:

"My Lord, I am sorry to say but these matters of state seem to be far above our station. I do not understand why you have summoned us simple folk here.”

The Noble smiled kindly and explained that such matters had long passed, and it was time for the nation to modernise. Long gone were the days where the peasants’ role was just to toil. Now was the time to breathe the air of equality and brotherhood.

The peasant looked even more confused than he did before, and clung to his religion:

"We know that God gifted the nobility with great intellect for them to decide such matters of state. We the peasantry have our place to toil the field and pay our taxes."

If this story was taking place now, the peasant would most likely have been labelled as “far-right” and had his opinions censored. Back then, however, the establishment had to resort to more difficult methods, such as persuasion and trying to convince people to their side.

Such being the case, the noble placed his hand on the peasant’s shoulder and attempted to explain to him that by working together, a nation becomes stronger, that brotherhood and equality help people to do things that one man alone can not. 

Seeing that the peasant was still not convinced, the noble asked him to pick up a boulder from the nearby garden. Wheeler turned around to see the boulder, he noticed that it was quite heavy and would be difficult to carry. However, he did not dare disobey a noble’s command and he attempted his best to lift it, even if unsuccessfully.

The noble then asked 5 more peasants from the crowd to assist Wheeler with his task, and together they lifted and carried the boulder around effortlessly, thus showing the power of equality and brotherhood, just like the French philosophers had described!

The noble smirked with satisfaction, but his smile quickly turned into a frown as he noticed that the peasant still refused to understand.

With one last effort he asked: 

"What don't you understand?! You lifted the boulder, you saw with your own eyes, one man can't do it but when everyone works together impossible tasks become easy"

To this the peasant replied: 

"Everyone? Everyone worked together?! You told us, peasants, to lift the boulder, and we did. But not a single noble came here to help us lift it. It is exactly as God has made things. The noble has the intelligence to tell us what to do, and we peasants are made to do it"

To this, the noble had no response. For even though he had studied the French school of thought, even though he understood the science of lifting the boulder, he lacked one thing. One important aspect that the peasant had. That of Wisdom. 

It was true that the peasants did not understand fraternity equality or liberty, but they knew that, for them, not much is going to change, and that all of this was for show.

With this Romanian story at heart, I look back at the World Economic Forum, and their video where they claim that our opinion about their plans is important.

I see people like Greta Thunberg, Merkel, Macron, Putin and Bush. What I do not see, however, a single person that is a right-wing populist. I do not see Trump or Bannon, Shapiro, or anyone that would represent the average people. I see only individuals sponsored by big corporations and big interests groups.

As such, if I could respond to the World Economic Forum with just one thing, it would be that their Great Reset is just too complicated for me to understand, and way above my station. You will tell me what to do, and I will have to do it. 

I just hope I will be allowed to leave my house this summer and that by the end of the year, I will still be able to have a job so that I may put food on the table for my family and pay my taxes. 

A Romanian persecuted for trying to put smiles on people's faces. Took over This Week in Stupid (TWIS) video series.

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