Tessa Fights Robots

Tessa Fights Robots

The Great Reset and the Tyrant in the Mirror

A little raw.

Tessa Lena
May 11, 2022
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As I am typing this, it feels like one of the most important stories I have birthed so far. This story is about the likely spiritual underpinnings of the Great Reset and the difficult but necessary steps that we might have to take in order to end the circle jerk for good, and see the heart.

It is about the role of predators in society—and things like love, trauma, ego, and how we can deal with where we are right now to pedal toward a much better place.

Punchline (and I’ve thought about this a lot, and written about it, too, but somehow I am really feeling it now):

The Great Reset did not just show up out of the blue, without a centuries-old buildup. This bulldozer is not a novel development but an escalation of a familiar ghost. We are looking at yet another—this time, robot-toothed—attempt to rob free people of their free will, like a spiritual attack.

The scale of the surveillance and the sci-fi ambition to "hack” biology itself are new and insultingly insa…

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