Anxiety flows like honey vinegar over the annual human-hating party of the elite.
Hhe WEF 2024 in Davos – the most important meeting for globalists – was held from January 15 to 19. In many ways it was a special meeting because it was the first where the elites showed a palpable fear and anxiety about the direction society is heading and the backlash they will receive from an increasingly resilient humanity, writes Simplicius The Thinker.
Officially, climate and mis-/disinformation dominated the agenda of their program, which was sponsored under the heading: “Restoring Trust.”
Why might the elites think they have betrayed our trust? You wonder. It will become clear with every gesture they make as the symposium proceeds that the elites are terrified of their self-created unrest.
Here is the full report they released on the eve of the convocation. The whole thing is modeled on the following risk hierarchy, which shows the two- and ten-year outlook of risks, ranked in order:
It is clear that in the short term mis/disinformation gives them the most sleepless nights. According to them, this is due to the fact that the next two years will be dominated by crucial global elections in which disinformation will play a leading role. For ten-year prospects, they are of course hitting the climate bongos flat out because that remains their most devious source of profit.
From the opening pages they begin with the following confession, acknowledging that the majority of attendees believe that the unipolar world model will no longer dominate in the coming decade:
These transnational risks will become more difficult to manage as global cooperation crumbles. In this year's Global Risks Perception Survey, two-thirds of respondents predict that a multipolar order will dominate the next 10 years , as middle and great powers set and enforce – but also challenge – current rules and norms.
However, the elites' lack of self-awareness is always baffling. As you read through the pages, you are shocked to realize that all the reasons they list for the world's slide into these chaotic waters point directly to the mismanagement of global affairs by the elites themselves. For example, they believe that the world is drifting toward this "dangerously unstable" multipolarity because trust in Western institutions, especially those of global leadership, has declined. Have they ever wondered why that happens?
The US and its vassals in the UN have been trampling developing countries for decades now, relentlessly waging war, terror and chaos wherever they please. The global south sat quietly and bided its time, only because they were unable to properly resist. But now that they can, are we supposed to forget the West's staggering rampage and blatant display of their hypocritical “Rule of Law” and “Rules Based Order”?
They come close to a semblance of self-awareness in the next section, where they mention unelected billionaires being propelled to new heights of power and influence by the A.I. age as particular concerns:
This comes on the heels of the announcement that Microsoft has just crossed the $3 trillion market cap mark, surpassing Apple as the world's most 'valuable company'. Apple and Microsoft together account for more than 13% of the entire S&P 500.
We've seen firsthand the power Bill Gates wields during his rise to become something of an unelected global policy influencer. The WEF report rightly fears that the "self-referential" nature of the growth of AI startups will allow companies making breakthroughs in such technologies, including quantum computing, to gain enormous power through the ubiquity of their "dual-use, general purpose' technologies.
Microsoft's $3T market cap is a larger sum of money than the GDP of most countries on earth. A single company with so much power can only be compared to the global East India Company of the 1600s-1800s, which had its own private army and could easily overthrow entire nations.
But let's move on to the more interesting aspect we saw at this year's conclave: the silent uprising of the globalists.
This year you finally got the clear feeling that not all globalist technocrats are on the same page anymore. Such groups function as a byproduct of the heavy pressure within the group to conform to the imposed orthodoxy. Various mechanisms maintain uniformity, from business incentives to outright threats and the dangling of kompromat. So when globalists rise up against themselves, question the narrative, break the sacred agenda, it is a decisive 'dam-breaking' moment.
The last retreat in Davos was marked by several such moments. Most notable was Javier Milei's big 'globalist-busting' speech , which he billed as “planting the ideas of freedom in a forum contaminated by the 2030 socialist agenda.”
Essentially, he claimed that he attended the WEF meeting for the sole purpose of undermining the globalists from within. Make of that what you will, I'm quite ambivalent about Milei myself, with a strong tendency towards the skeptical side. But there is no denying that his speech – especially the second half – left the statists and globalists present a little choked up.
Most strikingly, on the grand stage of the WEF itself, he clearly rejected the mandate of 'climate change', or that humans are responsible for natural changes in the environment. You wouldn't have expected this statement alone from the stands of the world's leading climate-glorifying institution.
The rest of his polemic was lackluster, as he kept harping on about that terrible horse of the “socialists,” whom he suspected of being the main anchor of the WEF elite, in order to conveniently position himself as the big, bold iconoclast.
In reality, Schwab and his associates do not care about such semantic framings – they are experts at co-opting and appropriating any system for their purposes. Give them control of a “socialist” country and they will use their puppet leader to impose top-down mandates through “central planning” that suit their agenda; give them a “free market capitalist” country and they will use their huge transnational corporations to uproot and conquer all industries and incorporate them into the global mega-monopoly. In other words, it's not one system against another, it's humanity against a cabal of financial elites who control the Western banking system and by extension all businesses and industries.
Next on the list for the unprecedented Davos uprising: Stephen A. Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone.
Blackstone CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman told the Davos crowd that the US is unprepared for another four years of Biden's $2 trillion deficits, 8 million illegals invading America and a debt-to-GDP ratio that is getting higher and higher. He is right.
Followed by JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon stating very urgently: “If you don't control the borders, you are going to destroy our country.”
- This X-thread best captured the stunning zeitgeist shift:
There is something extremely important here that is not being acknowledged, but those who can read between the lines realize it and it is scaring the hell out of people: Elements of the Davos class ** are preparing to defect to the Trump/populist movement.**
The world right now is scary for the Davos class. Everything is going wrong, the populists have entered the inner sanctum and openly say “you are the problem your demise is coming,” and there is a sense that the neoliberal intl. system is on the brink of collapse.
The economy – which is keeping the US-led international order (i.e. the neoliberal order, aka the US empire) afloat for now – looks BAD. Even if Trump were to *lose* the presidential election, it's clear that things will break.
And they don't think Trump will lose. These people, as ignorant as they may be, also see the polls and sense where things are going. This sense of impending doom causes a lot of panic/denial in circles of Democrats and neoliberals. Elections cannot be won, stealing again is more difficult this time because everyone has become aware...
The legitimacy of their system (“meritocracy”/expert rule) is collapsing (“adults in the room” is now a joke), the international environment is not holding up (see: Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, the Red Sea, etc) , the rainbow coalition at home is starting to tear apart. Democrats and neoliberals – who have spent 8 years convincing themselves and everyone else that Trump is a would-be dictator – are convinced that the Orange Hitler is about to take over the Reichstag. And at this point, Trump has said “F*c* it, I'll be the monster you think I am.” ... But here's the thing: while Democrats and progressives scream that their ship is sinking and the icy waters await, some of the cooler neoliberal centrists are looking at the lifeboats and thinking “…actually, there might be a way out of here.”
For this class of types from Davos, this is not their first rodeo. These moneylenders/business types have seen the rise of Putin and the purge of the oligarchs, Xi doing the same and making “demands” on companies wanting market access, etc.
Now a large number of them *really* believe that a repeat of this is in store for the US. Wanting to survive, at least some of them will be willing to make a deal with the proverbial devil. Especially when he hints “sign up now or else.”
“And what if I DO NOT register?” they reason. “Do I REALLY want to risk being on the Trump administration's garbage list? In a populist, anti-elite environment? With a looming recession/depression? In an increasingly multipolar global environment?” ... So if you are a Davos class type – in finance, private equity, multinationals, certain think tank/academic/non-profit types who rely on political connections – your instinct is to SURVIVE at all costs. If that means a deal with the populist, well then...
The OP comes from this new Bloomberg article:
The six-member panel was tasked to summarize the mood in Davos after a week in which participants tended to portray the global outlook in a brave light and emphasize the likelihood that a deep recession is likely to be avoided despite unprecedented monetary tightening to get inflation under control.
The article summarizes the mood as tense, with fretful elites even openly raising the possibility of the dollar being dethroned as the global reserve currency: “If we don't solve this (budget problems), something is going to happen to the dollar,” he said. “If the United States does not get its fiscal affairs in order, at some point people will do what they did years ago with the British pound and the Dutch guilder.”
Some continued to wear 'brave masks', but others expressed disbelief at what is happening:
Professor Ken Rogoff of Harvard University worried that “the geopolitical situation is like nothing I have ever seen in my professional life.” The crowning achievement of the WEF's disappointment came from Kevin Roberts, chairman of the Heritage Foundation, who with his uniquely eloquent cut taught the broad-shouldered technocrats a lesson.
Roberts' polemic is what Javier Milei wanted to be. He bashed the stuffy elites and stripped them of the very issues everyone else is so afraid to raise. The truth is that many of the world's elites – even of the ostensibly globalist stripe – disagree with the more extreme shifts of late. They just know they have to carry the water pitcher for BlackRock and co. to avoid certain business and social 'punishments'.
Therefore, it is quite likely that in the coming years we will see some kind of reorientation: the more reasonable among them will switch back to the side of rationality. In that light, the Davos meeting can be seen as one of the early canary-in-coalmine moments for the direction of things.
The elites are stratified like anything, which means that the more radical and marginal contingents will continue to carry the spear of the vanguard to push forward into new territory. That is why, despite the obvious rifts and nervousness that are engulfing their class for the first time, the ultra-radicals among them have continued to advance their extreme platforms.
The latest threat being prototyped in Davos is 'Disease
Of course, the purpose of this kind of fear-mongering is to rattle our bones enough so that the ink on mRNA gene therapy approvals doesn't dry via the age-old 'endless suspense strategy', as well as to set the psychological table for the eventuality of another fake pandemic to strike us. at another key point, making it possible to cover up another historical financial or electoral fraud.
As usual, the climate agenda received the highest priority during the event. Some of the recognizable protagonists who have tirelessly rolled the fraudulent boulder up the hill for years once again delivered their banter to the choir:
The winner for the most blatant attack on rationality was Swiss banker Hubert Keller for his talk on how bad coffee is for the environment, with the implication that people with a conscience should drink a lot less of it (not to mention the even more serious implication that the elites will one day come all for our coffee):
“Every time we drink coffee, we release CO2 into the atmosphere.”
- Le eyeroll.
And while these armored dandies tete-à-têtted their way through the perverse halls of Klaus Schwab's Imaginarium, the oppressed hordes outside in the cursed no-go zones of their demesnes had erupted into a Bacchanalian frenzy; the Parisian rite in particular was a sacrificial offering for centuries:
Macron played with the Swedish royals all the time – indifferent to the cry of his people.
Juxtaposition évocatrice! The condemnations were not limited to coffee, but as usual to the entire food supply, which the elite claims is 'charring' the planet:
Corporate news joined in the choreographed Malthusian entry. This segment effectively classifies children as carbon accumulaters. An environmental lobbyist told viewers of British news channel GB News on Tuesday that having children is a "moral issue" because of the amount of carbon they will produce over their lives.
Donnachadh McCarthy argued that people should have fewer children and that having just one child is “great”.
Meanwhile, European capitals were on fire – supermarkets in dystopian Paris were empty due to widespread farmers' strikes. Even yesterday, as European leaders
gathered at the EU summit in Brussels , the devastation around them was abuzz; a statue of industrialist John Cockerill was symbolically dethroned just in front of parliament:
Rubber bullets and water cannons were used against hundreds of European farmers protesting outside the EU parliament building in Brussels on Thursday. The farmers threw eggs, set off fireworks and set fires near the building as they demanded that European leaders stop punishing them with more taxes and rising costs imposed to finance a so-called "green agenda."
But don't worry, the White House is leading by example by replacing John Kerry with a new 'healthier' climate change boss:
Don't you feel relieved that some of this government's best minds are being deployed to the most pressing tasks? But the globalists' final, most troubling focus has been on "disinformation." Most strikingly, their tone matched the urgency expressed on other issues outlined earlier. Here too, they showed a growing fear of losing the narrative war and alienating the population.
This came on the heels of sweeping layoffs across the news media and publishing/printing industries:
BuzzFeed and Vice Media, two darlings of digital media that have shrunk in size and relevance in recent years, are likely to shrink even further.
BuzzFeed, whose shares have lost more than 97% of their value since the company went public in 2021, is looking to sell its food sites Tasty and First We Feast, according to people familiar with the situation. Meanwhile, Fortress Investment Group, which acquired Vice in bankruptcy last year, is in talks to sell lifestyle-focused site Refinery29, other people said.
So what exactly is the problem – why is the entire industry “collapsing,” as Lorenz put it? And why are the elites suddenly showing such rare and unusual self-awareness in their horror at being replaced?
The
WEF 2024 symposium attempted to resolve the dilemma.
They admit that people are actually, for once, demanding accountability for their journalism. They want to know how their news comes from, where it comes from and why. This is after years of corporate news vendors taking their free ride for granted, completely eroding their own reliability and credibility by pushing the envelope, skirting rules and generally following highly unethical and politicized 'unwritten rules'. This includes modern new norms like lazy “anonymous sources” replacing obvious politicized leaks, and the like.
But the biggest problem is of course the new dominance of social and alt-media – a topic I have covered extensively in this article:
- Old media is an outdated, outdated relic
The Fourth Estate A long time ago, what we now call journalism played an important role in a society deprived of long-distance communication. Long before the Internet, or even telegraph and telegram, there was no real way for people to find out about events in another province or state, let alone another part of the world. –
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Especially since Musk lowered the guardrails with his acquisition of This is the main reason why the Davos consortium has put 'disinformation' at the top of the enemy list in their short-term timeline.
It's no surprise, then, that she cites the EU's rollout of the “Digital Services Act” as the pinnacle in taming this existential 'freedom of speech' bugbear that has so upset them. The DSA is a topic I have also discussed:
- Censorship Clampdowns Redux + EU DSA Rollout
As emotions heat up around the world and society enters the crucial election year, the battle for the narrative is taking shape. The Israeli conflict has opened our eyes not only to the fragility of the established narrative, but also to our freedom of expression on the most sensitive issues. And it turns out, for the establishment, –
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Not to mention looking ahead to the massive repression that was surely coming, given how badly the trust of the establishment had been eroded.
After all, is it any wonder that people like this can't figure out why no one takes them seriously anymore?
By the way, the above is no joke. Several of the established news powerhouses have recently denounced China's lax censorship when it came to their golden goose Israel:
NYTimes and
CNN among them. Did you ever think you would see the reverse Orwellian propaganda take such a turn that China is being castigated for being too free?
The people who lectured us about the dangers of reading outside the lines are now terrified that we have ignored them and are left to think for ourselves.
That's the problem with these globalists, to hide their crimes they have to keep doubling down - but to do that you have to put in more and more effort and connect more and more improbable and nonsensical dots and excuse gymnastics. It's a bit like the theory of relativity and the speed of light: the closer you get to the speed, the more ridiculously unrealistic the energy requirements become.
It increasingly appears that the elites are reaching their 0.99c level and the absurdity of their layered figments is about to burst at the seams.
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