Posted on 01/21/2020 3:52:43 PM PST by Rummyfan
There is something inescapably ridiculous about a gathering this self-important; certainly Marie Antoinette and her friends dressing up as shepherdesses to celebrate the simple life has nothing on the more than 100 billionaires descending, often by private jet, on an exclusive Swiss ski resort for four days of ostentatious hand-wringing about the problems of the poor and the dangers of climate change. This year an earnest young aide at registration told me that, to reduce the event’s carbon footprint, no paper maps of the town were being distributed; one could almost feel the waves of relief from the nearby Alpine glaciers at this sign of green progress.
Yet smirk as one may, and sometimes as one must, this year’s WEF arrived at a difficult time for the Davoisie—those who are at home in the thin air of this global gathering. Leaders the world over are now having to come to grips with a new age of populism, nationalism and protectionism.
For the Davoisie the rise of populism is a huge problem. A world increasingly separating into rival blocs as supply chains begin to decouple isn’t a hospitable environment for global governance, Third Way capitalist reform and their many other hopes and projects. . . .
As the millionaires, billionaires and Greta Thunberg assemble in Davos this week to debate the future of the world, they face a crisis of relevance. What if, with all of their competence, experience, cosmopolitan vision and, yes, goodwill, the Davoisie are merely passengers, comfortably ensconced in first-class seats, on a train whose route they do not know and cannot control?
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I cannot think of one solution, discovery, or insight that has ever come out of Davos in its fifty years of existence. Someone needs to tell the anarchists they are not worth the price of the bricks they throw at them. Davos reminds me of the US Congress. Is Davos going to impeach Trump, too and replace him with Greta?
LOL
At the end of the day, death and bullets favor no man.
Is that Nancy Pelosi?
I would love to know, what is the carbon footprint of this Davos conference? And couldn’t they conduct these meetings via teleconference?
I heard somebody say once, maybe as a joke, that if they had these meetings via teleconference, that they would miss out on visiting a luxury resort, and enjoying caviar and lobster and all the partying. Maybe there’s something to that.
Must have been in her more glamourous pre-botox years.
Speaking of “Crazy Train”, Ozzy apparently has Parkinson’s.
Sorry. Only an insane person would touch your link
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