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Dear Reader,
An invasive species — a globally invasive species — is loose once again.
It is an apex predator of vast appetites. Its limitless ambitions span planet Earth, pole to pole.
This week this mighty fi-fo-fum is besieging a tiny burgh high in the Alps of Switzerland.
Private jet aircraft lowered him in.
Rolex watches encircle his wrists, Armani clothing cloaks his back.
He rolls around in expensive automobiles pushed by electricity.
What is this creature, precisely?
It is a bizarre homunculus named Homo Davos — Davos Man.
Where the Elite Meet
Each year he descends upon the high Swiss resort of Davos. There he lives a grand and gorgeous week in the company of like fellows.
Some 3,000 of them from 130 nations presently huddle thereat.
These are the world’s kingpins, the world’s chieftains, the world’s great and — as they see it — the world’s good.
These are the world’s grandees, the world’s visionaries, the world’s prophets.
These are the world’s think-tankers, the world’s planners, the world’s deep staters.
And these are your betters — again, as they see it.
Why do they congregate in Davos?
Think of the Symbolism
Consider: Davos lacks the dining and entertainment venues of a Paris, of a London, of a New York.
I am told the Swiss resorts of St. Moritz and Gstaad — to name two alone — boast superior skiing.
Yet Davos is the very penthouse of Europe. It is the highest city on the continent, a sort of Olympus.
Is it coincidence Davos Man selects the highest city on the continent? I hazard it is far from coincidence. Its symbolism is vast.
As Davos Man is above you… you are beneath him… as lord rises above serf… as bigwig rises above little wig.
From this high perch he sets the world to rights and bosses it about.
And let it be known: Davos Man is a very vain and self-regarding fellow.
“The future is not just happening,” uber-Davos Man Klaus Schwab gloated at the 2022 confabulation, adding:
- 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…
The Fatal Conceit
Thus Davos Man believes he is an engineer — not of machines but of men. Yet here he falls into fatal error.
He mistakes his ability to engineer his physical world for his ability to engineer his social world.
In theory they are one — engineering is engineering. In reality they are two.
The hormone-ruled, capricious and willful human being has no existence along the engineer’s x and y axes.
As well attempt to engineer a mob of alley cats into a marching band.
You cannot do it.
Yet Davos Man believes the ability is within him.
Mr. Hayek famously labeled it the “fatal conceit.”
“Collaboration in the Intelligent Age ”
This year’s Davos confabulation goes under the banner “A Spirit of Dialogue.”
About which:
- Amid rising fragmentation, accelerating complexity and rapid technological change, the imperative for an impartial platform for dialogue has never been greater.
- At this pivotal moment, the World Economic Forum’s 56th Annual Meeting builds on the Forum’s long-standing tradition of convening stakeholders from across geographies, industries and generations to enable real dialogue, problem solve around shared challenges, and spotlight innovations driving the future…
- Never has this spirit been more essential. In a world defined by geopolitical, economic and societal shifts, A Spirit of Dialogue means broadening our perspectives, listening to one another and challenging our views. It is through this approach that leaders can rebuild trust and work towards a better future.
Here you have a helping of pure apple sauce. It is as informative — and as useful — as a communique from the Federal Reserve.
I note that President Trump will attend this year’s confabulation.
I anticipate, eagerly, the “spirit of dialogue” that will surround his presence.
Climate Control
This year as in other years, climate is Davos Man’s great hobbyhorse, his central fixation.
Climate change is, after all, a menace truly global.
Only a concerted global effort can rout it… which precisely accounts for his obsession with it and the demon molecule carbon dioxide.
He holds the solutions in his arsenal: Centralized economic planning, taxation, wealth redistribution… and on a global scale.
Old Archimedes said:
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
Carbon dioxide is Davos Man’s lever. The alpine city of Davos is his fulcrum.
From there he would move the world.
“Power Is What All Messiahs Really Seek”
Of course, Davos Man would have you believe he is a very benevolent fellow.
His sole concern is humanity and its salvation. All powerlust is absent from him.
Yet I trust Davos Man’s intentions no more than I trust a dog with my dinner.
I harbor the deepest suspicion of him, in fact.
As noted the irreplaceable Mencken:
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve.”
To Serve Man
I am reminded of the vintage Twilight Zone television series.
In one episode superficially benevolent spacemen descend upon Earth.
They bear a book with them: To Serve Man.
It offers a blueprint for secular heaven.
The human population will flourish under kindly alien mentorship.
World peace will reign forever and ever, world without end.
Through their agricultural technologies, the very deserts will bloom … and hunger will vanish from Earth.
To Serve Man?
Only too late did man realize it was a cookbook.
Brian Maher
for Freedom Financial News
