Vee, zee people in zis wroom

The Great bullsit of Davos

May 28, 2024

Last November, I subscribed to the newsletter of the World Economic Forum. Not that I have any globalist aspirations (I am neither as rich, young or good looking as the people pictured above and in my previous post); I just wanted to know more. I receive sales pitches from them ever since. About two a week. They arrive in the form of an email with an enticing title, the promise of vital and interesting information, but when I open it, I get an offer to subscribe to a plan that starts at €306.- a year. I am neither rich nor stupid enough to pay for it.

I tried to watch some of the free videos, but I could never take them for more than a few minutes.
I find the presentations, and especially the discussions, tiring, boring and annoyingly self-serving.
The ‘stakes’ of the stakeholders are just too painfully obvious in them. It is just self-promotion.

Like in the Royal courts of yore, the point of being there is to see and to be seen. To somehow divine what everybody else is up to. To participate in the palace intrigues; to form alliances and to shore up one’s position. NOT to actually learn anything. I did not come across anything truly informative and I would not expect anything honest.

In the welcome address of the 2022 Davos meeting, Klaus Schwab said the following:

"The future is not just happening. The future is built by us, by a powerful community as you here in this room. We have the means to improve the state of the world, but two conditions are necessary. The first one is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities. That we serve not only self-interest but we serve the community. That's what we call stakeholder responsibility. And second, that we collaborate…"

The first question must be: who exactly are ‘zis people’? The second should be: what is the WEF?
And third, what is “our stake in larger communities”? Then we can go on wondering what is the self interest of ‘the people there’, …or we could simply ask: what exactly does this pile of buzzwords actually mean?

This article about the 2023 meeting gives some ideas about the participants. It is worth looking at.
The major categories are: politicians, the rich, global enterprises, the media and various celebrities (entertainers and royalty)

for politicians, it’s a job interview or a status report;
for the rich and the celebrities is just another boring opportunity to be seen and feel virtuous it;
for the media it is subject material and an opportunity to learn about the prevailing winds of propaganda, the latest intellectual fashion, buzzwords and narratives.

The price of participation is a filter to ensure that the participants are so far removed from reality that they are not capable of questioning the ‘wisdom’ presented; and can readily feed on each other’s bullshit.

I have no doubt, that many believe that they are on the side of the angels. The self promoters, the opportunists and the narcissists too driven by their desires to be bothered by critical thinking.
The existence of the entire institution is predicated on this messianic, voluntarist vision reminiscent of communism.

I wrote a whole series about our confused ideas on political systems, described and referenced in Epistemic insecurity. Political Marxism is dead, but Lenin’s concept of the communists as a ‘vanguard elite’ is very much alive. The idea that the world can, and should be led and controlled by an elite empowered by a superior ideology. An ideology of ultimate truths and ultimate solutions, top-down answers to every possible question.
When I first looked at the WEF, I considered its globalism as the fourth Commintern, the latest incarnation of an ideology driven globalist power-grab. No matter how many times it fails, the idea, like the corpse bride, is too seductive to die.

It could be argued that what the WEF represents is closer to fascism than to communism. I would say that it is neither. The essence of both is absolute ideological control, while the WEF is a tool of those who control it. Its ideology, which is far too confused to deserve the name, is just a dressing.
The essence of the World Economic Faith is just POWER. Centralized, global, totalitarian power.
A world where you and I own nothing. Where freedom, individualism and civil society is dead.
Their only question is how to get us there.

The Crafting of the future

Just a few months ago, I finished the great book of John Dickie: The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World. I highly recommend it, it’s a great history book. What impressed me the most is how this one slice of history, that of the freemasons, has its marks on everything in the past few hundred years.
They represented the best and worst, the most generous and the most selfish, the most decent and the most corrupt of humanity.

The freemasons had to deal with the same question the WEF does:
Does it want to be a secretive, exclusive and elitist club, or an open, inclusive populist movement?
The communists put their trust in a simple ideology supported by totalitarian power.
The fascists put their trust in seductive power, supported by ideology.
The WEF seems to be confused and clueless. They are trying to fashion a new globalist ideology, but without success so far. “You will own nothing and will be happy” just doesn’t cut it.
So they double down on the BS, which will be the subject of my next post.

The theme of the 2024 meeting in Davos was “Rebuilding Trust”
But a trust in what? Wouldn’t you want to know how and why the trust was lost? Can it be lost again?
Can we ever expect an honest analysis? Would you consider this: At Davos, leaders talked big on rebuilding trust. Can the World Economic Forum make a difference? (qz.com) an honest analysis?

I actually asked these questions from BingChat and ChatGPT
You should try it for yourself. It’s educational. This was my exact question:
“The theme of the Davos 2024 meeting was "rebuilding trust." Why?”
The answer I got was trite bullshit saying that they will try harder to do more of the same.
Just like the messages after every failure in the communist world.
When I probed it, I got an exact copy of the first answer. When I wanted to look it up this morning, it was not in my chat history. Asking the question again got me the same answer. No discussion, no intelligence.
That is what Sam Altman, a key figure in the 2024 Davos meeting wants to spend seven trillion (F… it, let’s make it eight) dollars on.

The past few years were full of illustrations of the power of reality. The foundations of globalism, as it is understood today are shaking. The narratives are not working.

The Covid/wax genocide was a mixed success. While it did give a lot of new powers to those who sought it, it also opened the eyes of many and started changes that cannot be undone.
The US global hegemony is waning, its latest expansionary attempt in Ukraine awakened the rest of the world. The golden billion is racing toward the precipice, while the rest of the planet is busy building an actual, multi-polar new world order.
The awakening of the ‘third world’ is nothing short of miraculous.
There is a strong backlash against the globalist agenda, populist movements are gaining strength and actual power all over the Western world.
The WEF narratives are losing their footings as they were seeking power within a structure that is now crumbling.

Unlike the Davos talking heads, I cannot tell you what the future is like for ‘zee people in zat wroom’, as the people are changing and the future is changing.

When you look at my casting agency post, you see two faces that are already gone – Ardern and Marin; five will be out of the picture in a year – Trudeau, Singh, Freeland, Sunak and Zelensky; and I do not see much of a future for the rest either.

Klaus Schwab announced his retirement. However weird he is, his charisma (if you can call it that) was holding the institution together. I have the feeling that his replacement will just watch over a quick decline of the institution, something that is bound to happen anyway. Klaus is stepping down at the best moment, just before the inevitable decline.

A have no idea what the people behind the WEF will try next, but I will be happy to entertain suggestions.

This post is part of a series about the WEF

part #1 – The WEF casting agency

Part #2 – Vee ze people in zis wroom (this post)

Part #3 – The World Economic Word salad

Part #4 – What are they smoking?

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York Luethje

May 31, 2024

I’m also subscribed to their emails and skimming them I am reminded of too many management off-sites and consultant gab fests. Someone half-read an already inane HBR article and now you’re wasting a full day learning about the powers of clever acronym #24365.

It’s all such a vapid morass that I can’t even begin to take it seriously.

The thing is, a large number of participants in those meetings not only took the nonsense seriously but were positively elated to be there, felt genuinely enlightened and proceed to implement clever acronym #24365 with great vigour and to even greater detriment to the organisation.

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