‘Nonsense on Stilts’ — Davos Dream

The creator of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, is obsessed with a conformist vision of global governance.

World Economic Forum via Wikimedia Commons
Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, on January 27, 2007. World Economic Forum via Wikimedia Commons

At the G20 meeting in Indonesia, as President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping wasted their time talking about global warming, a subject the People’s Republic does not take seriously, instead of the origins of COVID or the status of Taiwan, to my utter astonishment, the face and voice of the “Great Reset” appeared.

This is the jargon for the readjustment in the world towards so-called stakeholder capitalism that is the ambition of the conveners of the World Economic Forum. The forum began in 1971 as a conference where a few political leaders and celebrities from different industries and activities gathered and the occasion was paid for by admission fees happily tendered by a selection of prosperous people from different countries who wished to rub shoulders with the prominent featured guests.

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