A review by kurezan
The Great Reset: And the War for the World by Alex Jones

informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

In The Great Reset, controversial figure Alex Jones pens a short but sprawling work that describes globalist machinations for the world using a collection of influential figures own words from books, speeches, and interviews, and responds to these claims and assertions with his own commentary and analysis of the situation. Much of The Great Reset is in direct response to claims made by World Economic Forum Chairman Klaus Schwab and other powerful figures such as "Sapiens" author Yuval Noah Harari and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, outlining their view of humanities current position and where they wish the future of humanity to progress. These rich movers and thinkers believe that humanity would be best kept fearful and tightly monitored, under intense surveillance and beholden to big government and bigger business. That these people seem to openly idolize dystopias like those found in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World or James Cameron's Terminator, and have no shortage of praise for communist China is quite disturbing, and the sway these people have over world governments and business is disturbing to say the least. Admittedly, the ample quotations of varying quality throughout The Great Reset can make for exhausting reading. Sometimes I felt that there were several books that I probably should have read before -- by Schwab, Harari, and others, because the book feels like a series of responses to their material, almost a collection of academic style reviews instead of Jones-style energetic monologues on various conspiratorial topics. The Great Reset is at its best when Jones's voice and wry sense of humor informs, commentates, and describes the situation of the world in candid, sincere, often heartfelt terms. Jones does not dress up his writing to be more than it is and restrains himself from making claims too bold to support with citation. In fact, for the bombastic Alex Jones, the whole book feels restrained and admittedly I wish he leaned more on his radio personality at times. It is nice that Jones cites his work with endnotes and is always sure to support his claims with quotations, but at times this can be overwhelming when pages of text are dominated by quotations of authors of varying quality. As I received the book as a birthday gift from a friend and paid nothing for it, I can say with confidence that I got my money's worth, although I do not think I would pay the nearly 50 CAD it goes for presently. It is a book worth maybe half that price or alternatively picked up as a library loan -- read for its information and then passed along. I would also say it is probably a book best read periodically instead of all at once as the book can feel exhausting and repetitive when read in large chunks. It is almost hard to imagine Alex Jones sitting down to write this book (or in this case, sitting down and working with a co-writer), but the proof is in the pages and one can frequently hear (read) his recognizable cadence come through. I imagine the audiobook of this would be quite enjoyable. Though undoubtedly the words in The Great Reset will probably ruffle some feathers, I  have my doubts that anyone who would be bothered by what Jones says would even pick this book up in the first place. It is a worthwhile read by a dedicated alternative journalist, food ration and supplement salesman that speaks to the ongoing information crisis of our day. 

Since I've written so much about the quotations throughout the book, I thought it would be funny to end this review with a quotation where Jones's voice shines.

Alex Jones compares globalist's current plans to "transition" from fossil fuels to green energy to a plan to jump off your roof and land safely onto thousands of pillows, except the pillows haven't arrived yet:
"You've been cheering about 'transitioning' from the roof to the ground for so long that you jump anyway. The 'transition' turns into a transfer to the emergency room, and the doctor wonders why you're stupid enough to jump off a roof, if you knew the pillows weren't there. This is exactly what we're doing. The idiocy is so glaring that the only way it makes sense is if you understand the larger plan for the Great Reset. Why else would you be dangerously jumping off roofs without a fail plan?" (P.159-160)