If you thought the Great Reset was a lot to process and fight, hang on to your hats. The global elite, never satisfied with their power and always seeking more, have introduced a new phase of their agenda. Called the “Great Narrative,” it capitalizes upon the decay in Western values to realign power. It is not a coincidence that in the World Economic Forum’s "8 Predictions for the World in 2030" video, #2 was "The U.S. won’t be the world’s leading superpower. A handful of countries will dominate" and #8 was "Western values will have been tested to the breaking point."

This Great Narrative framework is enabled by more than just pure societal malaise. It harnesses advanced technologies, from artificial intelligence to robotics to help shift the power structure in a new world order. Glenn Beck covers this plan and how to fight back in his truly important new book, “Dark Future.”

I had a chance to chat with Justin Haskins, Glenn’s co-author on both "The Great Reset" and "Dark Future," to talk about this new plan.

CR: The “Great Narrative” is very complex to understand, perhaps even more so than the Great Reset. How would you explain it in layman’s terms?

JH: Like the Great Reset, the Great Narrative is a campaign to transform the global economy and rewrite social contracts in Western nations. The Great Narrative call to action was launched in 2021 by the World Economic Forum, the same organization responsible for the Great Reset, as well as some of its most important allies in government, banking, and industry. However, unlike the Great Reset, the focus of the Great Narrative is heavily focused on the “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” a name given to the emerging era of technological innovation.

At its heart, the goal of the Great Narrative and other, similar efforts is to use new technologies to change society. And the primary way they plan to do it is to design innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence, the metaverse, central bank digital currencies, virtual and augmented reality, and bioengineering so that they have environmental, social, and governance metrics or other social credit scoring systems as one of their primary focuses. By embedding new technologies with ESG and whatever other causes global elites favor, it would become much easier to control people and centralize property ownership, important goals for elites who believe that if they had more power, the world would be a better place.

CR: A question I get asked a lot is, “What is the elites’ motivation?” After writing this book, how much of this is intentional and how much of this is just trying to keep control as global financial and other stakes are naturally shifting?

JH: I think there is a significant range of motivations. For some, it really is just about making as much money as possible. It seems to me that others have a savior complex and believe that only the ruling class is capable of ensuring that the West can compete with authoritarian regimes in countries such as China. Some are operating out of fear; I think this is especially true in corporations. If the largest shareholders in the world come to your doorstep and tell you that you must play ball or they’ll find a replacement, it’s difficult to push back without getting battered and bruised in the process. Some, I’ve found, just want as much power as possible. I don’t think there is one unifying motivation, but there is a common understanding of what must be done so that everyone involved gets the results they desire: the centralization of power, money, and decision-making.

CR: A large part of this book, and it was quite ambitious, is looking at emerging and next-phase technologies and explaining how they factor into this, from biotech to digital dollars to AI. Can you give us a short synopsis?

JH: When Glenn and I first decided to write "Dark Future," we agreed that it was incredibly important for people to understand the massive amount of societal and economic disruption that is headed our way as a result of technological changes. Automation, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and other technologies could displace, but not necessarily eliminate, hundreds of millions of jobs globally over the next couple of decades. Even more importantly, these and other technologies will change how society operates, even more than the internet has since the 1990s. Global elites in Davos know this, and they have put plans into place to ensure that those technologies are designed to produce an outcome that they want. In Dark Future, we show readers the elites’ blueprint, in their own words, so there can be doubt what’s going on.

They have been able to do this in a variety of ways. For example, we found substantial evidence that many forms of artificial intelligence are being embedded with social justice-related racial equity metrics, so that AI produces more “equitable” outcomes than it would without any imposed biases. For example, many elites have called for using ESG in AI banking and other financial decision-making programs, so that certain racial groups get access to credit at lower rates. Some in Davos are even discussing the possibility of using access to human bioengineering technologies in the future to improve wealth inequality, as insane as it sounds. Nearly every aspect of life in the future will be affected by the design of emerging technologies, so if elites can control the way those technologies are being developed now, they can literally change the course of human history.

CR: It almost seems that the decisions and plans that we are seeing are meant to take humanity backward, not forward. When I hear “Dark Future” and I see the central planning ideas and actions, it almost seems like a new Dark Ages. Is that what you were trying to invoke? And do you think those in charge realize that their plans would take everyone, including them, backward?

JH: We did not consider the “Dark Ages” connection, but it’s a brilliant one that I’m going to use going forward. We did want people to understand, though, that in many respects, what’s happening today is the same battle that has been waged for millennia between the ruling class and everyone else. For as long as there have been large, organized human societies, there have been people at the top of those societies seeking more power for themselves, as well as many others desiring to break free from those controls. The names, tactics, weaponry, economies, and locations change, but the struggle is the same. Should individuals have the power to chart their own course in life, or should a small class of “qualified,” “educated” people make the decisions on their behalf? That’s what this book is all about. It uncovers the next phase of the elites’ plan to seize greater wealth and control of society, and it helps people understand what they can do to push back against it.

CR: One aspect that I loved about this book was that it didn’t just provide all the issues, but it devoted substantial space to solutions. The book gave a lot of real estate to this, but can you highlight one thing that you think is critical for us to do?

JH: Perhaps more than anything else, conservative Americans need to rethink the role, rights, and responsibilities of large corporations and financial institutions in society. For far too long, limited-government folks have sought to empower these institutions, in the name of supporting “free-market economics.” But the truth is, the modern corporate system is so corrupt and so in bed with government and central banks that you really cannot separate the two any longer.

Social media companies are now silencing media outlets and individual Americans at the behest of government agencies. Banks are now attempting to kill whole industries, even those that are highly profitable, because the products they sell are disfavored by government officials, activists, and others in the ruling class.

Corporations enjoy countless legal protections, have access to hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies and bailouts, and directly contract with and advise governments and central banks, and they have benefited disproportionately from the relatively loose monetary policies that have been in place for two decades. And how have they used the wealth and influence they have gained from such policies? They have targeted Americans and businesses they don’t like and provided substantial amounts of support to their friends.

The more we allow large, powerful interests working hand in hand with governments to seize ever greater amounts of wealth and control, the more we will lose our freedoms. The technology of the future does need to be designed, but not in the way elites want. Instead, it should be crafted to enhance the rights of individuals and to empower families.