The Great UN-Reset

The Great UN-Reset
By Constantine Du Bruyn
Published in March 2023
242 Pages
Thibault’s Score: 2/5

This strange little book sums up many of the conspiracy theories about the “Great Reset” as promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

The book is well written, and easy to understand. The big picture is mostly correct, but it gets so many details wrong, that I cannot possibly recommend it in good faith.

I am in a very good position to access many of the claims. My day to day work has led me to extensively interact with people from groups like WEF, the WTO, UNCTAD, and UNIDO. My historical work has repeatedly led me to study the history of groups such as the Jesuits, Templars, and Milner’s Kindergarten. I have many family members with deep ties to both US intelligence agencies and big tech.

In many ways, I would likely be considered by many (perhaps by Du Bruyn himself) to be an insider.

I want to start with a few of the things that Du Bruyn gets right.

First, there is a plan to create a global centrally planned economic system. This system will have the long term goal of becoming a world government. UN SDGs are one of the most prominent tools being used to build this system. It has its evolutionary origins with the Milner group in Edwardian England, and eventually evolved into the United Nations.

However, Du Bruyn gets a lot wrong. I would just like to point out two small, but very annoying mistakes that he made. None of these mistakes, on their own, would detract from the book. However, they are so frequent that they are a big problem.

First, Du Bruyn incorrectly claims that Lord Alfred Milner started the Round Table Journal. The journal was started by Lionel Curtis, in 1913. Curtis was a member of the Milner Group, and was mentored by Milner. Curtis also started Chatham House. Milner only became involved in both later, although he may have supported their creation. I wish that Du Bruyn had instead written something along the lines of “Milner’s associates created the Round Table journal.”

Second, Du Bruyn says that the Knights Templar established a banking system to manage the finances of the crusaders in the Holy Land. The Templars did not have any banking in the Holy Land. The Templars actually established trusts to manage the affairs of knights in Europe while they were away crusading in the Holy Land. Once again, this might not seem like a big difference - but it's one of the many small mistakes that he makes throughout the book.

A lot of the information in the book is disjointed. There is no direct line of succession in between the Templars, the Jesuits, the Freemasons, the Milner Group, and WEF. These groups are sometimes evolutionarily connected but are not centrally run. For example, Cecil Rhodes who helped found the Milner Group was a Freemason. Likewise, the Freemasons claim descent from the Templars, but this relationship is shaky. I don’t think that discussing these groups is prudent, because to a reader who doesn’t already know the history it might discredit the central arguments in the book.

My lived experience contradicts many key points. I got to WEF events, and have met a handful of WEF YGLs. I don’t think that the YGLs are going to become world leaders

At the end of the book, Du Bruyn covers a number of possible solutions. I really like this chapter. He does not focus on politics. Instead, he suggests using cryptocurrencies, homeschooling children, and building local communities.

The book is quite well written, and easy to follow. The sentences are short, clear, and well constructed. It is a very pleasant read. The good writing makes this book even more dangerous - and makes its frequent factual mistakes more dangerous.

I would not recommend this book. This book would be very off putting to someone who isn’t already aware of the issues discussed. It isn’t rigorous enough to stand up to serious historical scrutiny. The challenge that Du Bruyn has is writing a short book. I would instead make it more narrowly focused on a smaller number of issues - perhaps focusing more closely on a specific group like WEF or the UN SDGs.

This book feels like a failed opportunity. It is almost really good. However, I think it is Du Bruyn’s first book. I would be very open to reading other books written by Du Bruyn in the future, to see if he can overcome these challenges.

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