College is hard. Of course, you’d expect that—it’s higher education so it should be more challenging. For me, though, it’s a challenge in ways beyond academics.
As a homeschool student, I was far from living in a bubble. Through activities like choir, concert band, and taking dual enrollment courses at a secular community college, I regularly engaged with people from all different backgrounds and beliefs. Especially in community college, I frequently came up against philosophies that were opposed to Judeo-Christian values. However, at the same time, I was steeped in the Catholic worldview, receiving a Catholic homeschool education, going to daily Mass, and interacting with Christian peers.
Then, when I graduated high school, it was time to start full-time university, and my world was rocked. My peers were no longer mostly Catholics or Christians with similar values and ways of perceiving the world. Especially upon entering graduate school, I’ve felt increasingly isolated. In the classroom, students and teachers take for granted that everyone in the room agrees with ideologies like Critical Race Theory or gender ideologies. It seems as if everything is seen through a hyper-sexualized lens.
As a creative writer, I want to use my art to help change the culture so that our society can encounter the hope that is all around us. But honestly, I feel discouraged most of the time. Can you relate?
When I recently found out about Jason Scott Jones’ 2024 release, The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset, I jumped at the chance to read it. In this 240-page book, Jones outlines the efforts of the powers-that-be to “reset” our rights and our worldviews so that we will see everything through an anti-Christian lens and conform with the agenda.
Jones points out five contemporary errors that are tearing our world apart (victimism, Gnosticism, transhumanism, anti-humanism, and climate cultism) and five responses to those errors (personalism, the natural law, a humane economy, subsidiarity, and solidarity). Don’t freak out if you don’t know what any of this means—Jones defines each of these terms and their practical applications!
Some might be skeptical upon hearing the term “Great Reset,” but a quick look at today’s world will reveal that there are indeed very powerful people who are actively working to re-shape the world around anti-Christian values.
One of the things I loved about this book was how relevant it was. For example, Jones explains that the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, a bioweapon, was part of the blueprint for those who want to bring about the “Great Reset.” “…[I]n the midst of this manipulated crisis fueled by censorship and lies, financial oligarchs and leftist politicians—from Bill Gates to Justin Trudeau, from George Soros to Joe Biden—announced that they had no intention of ever letting our lives return to normal,” Jones recounts. “This crisis would not go to waste. Instead, they would ‘build back better’ via a ‘Great Reset’ that permanently stripped away the liberties that we’d foolishly surrendered temporarily, allegedly to get us all through a pandemic.”
A philanthropist whose outreach extends as far as Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Ukraine and as close to home as North America’s pregnancy centers and women’s shelters, Jones doesn’t merely talk the talk. You know that Jones genuinely believes in humanity when he describes anti-humanism as “the replacement of benevolence toward our fellow human beings with invented, allegedly ecological visions of a planet thriving after the erasure of 90 to 95 percent of its human population.” Jones backs up his claims (as wild as they might seem to some!) with evidence.
Admittedly, there were a few areas in the book where I felt in over my head. However, most of the book was easy to follow. Jones has a background in film and frequently references movies and literature throughout his book. For instance, Jones explains Gnosticism using the terminology in the Matrix, which makes a difficult subject easier to understand.
When I picked up the book and saw that Jones included an “Introduction for Young Americans,” I felt like he was speaking to people like me—people who want to understand the current culture and do our part to bring a culture of life to our country.
Not only do I feel better equipped to understand the worldview that many of my classmates operate from, but I will also be keeping Jones’ words in mind: “[We must] admit the vastness of the task that faces us, without descending either into despair or nihilistic rage. And that’s only possible with God.”
Editor’s Note: The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset is available from Sophia Institute Press.
