The Glenn Beck Program

Episode 269 | Great Reset Elites Are Planning a Post-Human Future
Guest: Whitney Webb
Date: October 11, 2025

Episode Overview

This episode dives deep into the current state and evolving strategies of global elites and technocratic agendas, focusing on the shifting tactics behind the “Great Reset,” the accelerated implementation of digital IDs, digital currencies, and artificial intelligence. Glenn Beck welcomes investigative journalist Whitney Webb back to discuss how the establishment (now moving beyond the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab) seeks to create a post-human future through surveillance, digital infrastructure, and AI, and what resistance looks like in this landscape.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Evolution of the Great Reset and the World Economic Forum (WEF)

• WEF’s Change in Strategy:
  • The WEF has pivoted due to public backlash, shifting from public sector initiatives to pushing its agenda through private sector partnerships, especially concerning digital ID systems.
  • Quote (Whitney Webb, 04:44):
    "It's meant to be a vendor-agnostic system whereby you would have different vendors sell a digital ID... so the public would see it as decentralized... But really all that data is meant to be interoperable and... collated in a single database."
• Example of the UK’s Digital ID (“Brit Card”):
  • Framed as a solution to illegal immigration but designed to expand to all aspects of life—public pushback may result in “bait and switch” with private vendors providing ‘choice,’ yet all data is centralized.
  • UN’s SDG16 roadmap plays a key role, aiming for global digital ID standards.

2. Digital ID: The Linchpin of the Technocratic Agenda

• Why Digital ID is Critical:
  • Central to mass surveillance and control, acting as a gatekeeper to all digital interactions—healthcare, banking, appliance use, and more.
  • Voluntary adoption by the public is crucial for the system’s success; widespread refusal would make it fail.
  • Quote (Whitney Webb, 12:17):
    "Digital ID is really the linchpin... It's your unique identifier for the digital world... To fight against this mass surveillance paradigm... the most important thing is to not comply with digital ID."
• Predictive Policing & Surveillance:
  • Emphasis shifts from “I have nothing to hide” to the reality: surveillance isn’t about observing your present, but classifying and predicting future behaviors—often with grave inaccuracies and injustices.
  • Notable warning: Predictive policing technology is already used despite poor accuracy; the goal is mass behavioral compliance.

3. Digital Currency, Tokenization, and Economic Control

• Private Stablecoins vs. CBDCs:
  • Push for dollar-based stablecoins marketed as “better” than central bank digital currencies, but private issuers are just as susceptible to seizure, surveillance, and programmability—often at government demand.
• Tokenization of Nature and Assets:
  • Quote (Whitney Webb, 21:33):
    "They're trying to turn the Amazon rainforest into a digital commodity... Each hectare would represent a token and then financialize it that way."
  • “You’ll own nothing and be happy” reframed as the oligarchic class seeking to tokenize and own everything—including nature and commons.

4. AI & the “Post-Human Future”

• Rise of AI-Driven Governance:
  • Countries such as Albania have started appointing AI “digital ministers”; AI now governs many vital functions.
  • Risks include lack of accountability, the potential for errors and hallucinations by AI, and no recourse for citizens impacted by mistakes.
  • Quote (Whitney Webb, 27:24):
    "The goal of the WEF's so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution is to blur those lines... between the digital and virtual worlds."
• AI as a Tool of Cognitive Diminishment:
  • Referencing writings by Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt, Whitney notes the end goal: attempting to make most of humanity cognitively dependent on AI, unable to see or resist being acted upon by technology elites.
  • Quote (Beck, 31:24):
    "There is no other way to describe this other than evil... When you are taking humans... and you purposely put them into a class that you can act upon... there's no better word to define it than evil."

5. Paths Towards Resistance & Hope

• Building Alternatives:
  • Refusal to use digital ID, reliance on open-source alternatives, local and resilient community networks, and analog creative pursuits as ways to resist cognitive diminishment and data harvesting.
  • Focus on children’s development in the real (non-digital) world, fostering creativity, and critical thinking are key for the next generation.
• On Convenience & Control:
  • Noting the danger in being lured by comfort and convenience, Beck and Webb compare digital convenience to the comforts of a prison.
  • Quote (Webb, 35:52):
    "Prison is comfortable, right? You have a roof over your head and they bring you food... a digital prison without walls could be similarly comfortable."

6. The Global Nature of the Agenda

• Beyond Borders & Politicians:
  • Power resides with transnational think tanks, oligarchs, and economic interests, not elected representatives or national governments.
  • Laws and policies across many countries look identical, channeled through think tanks like the WEF, Carnegie Endowment, CSIS, CFR, etc.
  • Quote (Webb, 46:40):
    “Look at these other layers of power that are behind the politician... There's the think tanks, and there's also the people that fund those think tanks.”

7. Pre-Crime and Predictive Policing

• The Legal Infrastructure:
  • Warning over “DEEP” and “HARPA” (now ARPA H): government programs designed for early detection of “neuropsychiatric violence”; AI proposed to surveil Americans and pre-emptively flag those who might commit crimes.
  • Palantir and Carbine discussed as key private actors, with deep entanglements in intelligence, predictive policing, and surveillance capabilities.
  • Quote (Webb, 62:07):
    "My work on Palantir argues that it was an effort to privatize this program... called Total Information Awareness..."
• Legal Vagueness:
  • Beck and Webb stress how the definition of “domestic terrorist” is so broad that anyone opposing government overreach could be classified as such.

8. The Small Circle of Power

• It’s a Small Network:
  • Only a handful of individuals (likely only hundreds globally) coordinate these agendas, thanks to AI and technological leverage over the many.
• Historical Context:
  • Comparison to operations like Gladio, historical oligarch manipulation, and century-old elite plans for global “cartels” and economic government.

9. Consent and Civil Resistance

• Why They Need Consent:
  • All systems (digital ID, digital currency, surveillance) require user adoption; if masses opt out, systems collapse.
  • Problems only arise if people trade freedom for safety or convenience in moments of crisis or fear.

10. Global AI Arms Race

• US vs. China:
  • Eric Schmidt’s National Security Commission on AI advises the US to “become China” in terms of AI permeation if it wants to win the AI race, implying mass data extraction, digital-only living, and elimination of in-person services.

11. Epstein, Conspiracy, and Information Warfare

• Epstein Network:
  • Webb’s research points to bipartisan involvement and deeper financial criminality—beyond sexual crimes.
  • Media and government are invested in concealing full disclosures.
• Distinguishing Real from Unreal Conspiracies:
  • Webb relies on historical context, patterns, intuition, and the knowledge that “conspiracy theory” as a dismissal tactic is often deliberately weaponized by authorities.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Whitney Webb (12:17):
  "If people want to fight against this mass surveillance paradigm and these efforts to usher us into, you know, a very dark, I would argue, technocratic future, the most important thing is to not comply with digital ID because it's the single most important piece of infrastructure that they need."

• Glenn Beck (31:24):
  "There is no other way to describe this other than evil. When you are taking humans who are built to act, not to be acted upon... there's no better word to define it than evil."

• Whitney Webb (46:40):
  "A lot of these think tanks have certain things in common. They share a lot of the same oligarch connections, for example."

• On AI & Children (Whitney Webb, 98:41):
  "Parents are inadvertently socially engineering their children, children to live in that kind of reality if they are deemed undesirable or, you know, part of this underclass that AI is going to act upon."

• Curtis Yarvin Quote (Whitney Webb, 98:41):
  "The best humane alternative to genocide I can think of is not to liquidate the wards... but to virtualize them. A virtualized human is in permanent solitary confinement... except that the cell contains an immersive virtual reality interface."

• Whitney Webb (78:28): "If digital D ID is a lynchpin to all of this stuff and no one uses it, it fails."

Important Timestamps

• WEF’s shift from public to private sector, digital ID bait & switch: 03:42–08:35
• Digital ID and Surveillance, Predictive Policing: 11:38–17:10
• Tokenization of Natural World, Stablecoins vs. CBDCs: 18:41–24:46
• AI in Governance, Cognitive Diminishment: 27:24–31:24
• Paths to Resistance, Building Community Alternatives: 34:06–36:46
• Global Legislative Copy-pasting, Influence of Think Tanks: 46:40–51:44
• South Korea Political Upheaval, Authoritarian “Solutionism”: 51:44–56:14
• Operation Gladio, Fear as Tool for Consent: 54:48–56:14
• Palantir, ARPA-H, Pre-Crime Infrastructure: 61:57–69:30
• Oligarch Networks, Global Governance Models: 73:26–75:53
• Why Consent Matters, How Systems Could Fail: 77:53–79:48
• Global AI Race, US vs. China: 80:53–84:33
• Parenting, Metaverse, and Children’s Futures: 97:16–100:21

Tone and Language

The conversation is urgent, candid, and deeply skeptical of power. Whitney Webb is methodical, connecting current events to documented plans and historic networks, often with a tone of dogged realism but not despair. Beck is emotive and exclamatory, consistently turning to Webb for expertise and validation, while voicing the visceral sense of encroaching evil and systemic manipulation underpinning today’s digital transition.

Final Thoughts

Whitney Webb underscores that public awareness, critical thinking, and intentional resistance to digital identifiers and systems are essential. “They need our consent” is a recurring theme. The message: if people refuse to accept what is being offered—digital IDs, AI-driven convenience, digital currencies—these systems collapse.

Whitney closes with a warning about the manipulation of humanity’s youngest generations, the dangers of “virtualizing” undesirables into a blissful digital prison, and the absolute necessity of good parenting and community in resisting the slide toward a post-human, AI-ruled future.

For listeners seeking tools for resistance and understanding, this episode is a comprehensive, sobering guide to the ongoing pivot of elite power structures, the real threats posed by technocracy, and the urgent need for decentralized community and vigilance over our data, liberty, and children.