The Departure of a Faux Emperor
Klaus Schwab has resigned as chairman of the World Economic Forum. Does it matter? Does the WEF matter?
Nowadays it is fashionable to mock those of us, including myself, who made a fuss during COVID about the WEF and its ominous chairman. I honestly can’t remember now whether I believed that Schwab himself held actual power, or whether I realised from the start that he was just the public “face” of people who did. Either way, the significance of that time was that the events seemed to tell a new story. The old order of money, Wall Street, capitalism and Zionism seemed to have been replaced by a new order which was technocratic and, while much more Gentile, also much more autistic and, surprisingly enough, authoritarian. COVID seemed like a dress rehearsal for them, trialling techniques that would be used later under a tyranny centred around climate change. (No doubt a lot of data was collected in those awful months and years that would be useful should such a tyranny be attempted.) We seemed to be looking at a new elite, a technocratic one that was without any national or even continental identity, and disdained freedom and dignity, had no use for ordinary people, and didn’t seem very concerned about profit or, indeed, economics at all. It was as if they had transcended economics and were preparing for a post-scarcity future. For people like me this was intellectually exciting while also genuinely terrifying.
The disagreement between us and those who mocked us was their belief that globalist bodies like the WEF are ultimately funded and therefore controlled by high finance (Wall Street), therefore the Zionists must still be in charge, therefore the dreams of Klaus Schwab were meaningless. It was simply that lackeys such as him had been let off the leash to some extent, encouraged to indulge their utopian fantasies which were either never going to come to fruition, or were desired by the Zionists anyway and were therefore nothing new.
I think that is an overly dismissive summary. It is true that globalist bodies are controlled by high finance, but since Trump 2.0 it is also clear that, the White House connection between Wall Street and European globalism having been severed to some extent, the two factions flail around like halves of a worm, confused but finding ways to persist. The installed elite in Europe continue to talk about all the things they raved about during COVID: massive globalist systems to take control of things, heavy censorship powered by AI, control of a new magnitude. The ukulele has stopped tinkling but the “utopianism” persists. The building of a new order continues; they just don’t show us their infographics any more.
