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Why do our global elites sound like they belong in a bad dystopian movie?
W hy can’t our leaders imagine anything other than a future of privation and control?
Listen, just about everyone seems to have fallen for one conspiracy theory or another. Americans regularly confess as much to pollsters. In 2018, 66 percent of Democrats polled by YouGov said they found it believable that Russia tampered with 2016 vote tallies to get Trump elected. In 2022, YouGov did polls of Republicans, and only 22 percent said that Joe Biden’s election was legitimate.
Oddly, these disquieting poll results are themselves a kind of emergent conspiracy. Here’s my theory. Without any coordination, the respondents to these polls use the advantage of anonymity to say they believe the worst of their partisan enemies. By expressing their partisan animosity this way, they end up feeding it from the other side. These partisan respondents accidentally create disinformation about themselves, namely that they are nuts who can’t be reasoned with any longer, only defeated. In this way, individuals acting rationally end up producing a larger irrationality.
And this brings me to the gathering of many heads of state, corporate CEOs, and other elites at the World Economic Forum (WEF) being held once again in Davos, Switzerland. The World Economic Forum is a perennial subject for conspiracy theorists and QAnon people, having long since eclipsed the Trilateral Commission, the Bildeberg Group, and Bohemian Grove. The 2020 confab at Davos was billed as “The Great Reset” and promoted the ideas of German industrialist Klaus Schwab for rebuilding society and the economy after the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s from the creepy WEF promotional videos making “8 Predictions For the World in 2030” that the menacing phrase, You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy, emerged.
The other predictions were that there would be new climate taxes, and you will get 3D printed organs rather than organ donations, migrants will be welcomed, and you probably won’t be eating much meat. The word “reset” started making its way into speeches by Joe Biden, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, and New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern. You’ve seen resistance to the way of life depicted by the Great Reset whenever some young conservative says, “I will not live in a pod. I will not eat the bugs.”
Davos is an invaluable networking opportunity for its participants. It allows CEOs a nice chance to lobby the U.S. government for help and warn the Irish prime minister about raising taxes all over the same lunch. But Schwab’s obsessions with global political cooperation, environmentalism, and “the fourth industrial revolution” — his idea that the next great leap in capitalist productivity will come from integrating technology with the human person itself — guarantees that the presentations will be a mix of utopian globalism that somehow combine visions of global austerity (to reduce carbon) with nightmares about a handful of corporate and political leaders having direct access to your amygdala.
Here’s a Pfizer executive thrilling to the idea of global human obedience in swallowing Pfizer pills:
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla explains Pfizer's new tech to Davos crowd: "ingestible pills" – a pill with a tiny chip that send a wireless signal to relevant authorities when the pharmaceutical has been digested. "Imagine the compliance," he says pic.twitter.com/uYapKJGDJx
— Jeremy Loffredo (@loffredojeremy) May 20, 2022
Or here’s the president of one of the largest Chinese multinationals, imagining a future in which all your movements, and everything you eat, are tracked in order to give you a score on how bad your life is for the planet.
Alibaba Group president J. Michael Evans boasts at the World Economic Forum about the development of an "individual carbon footprint tracker" to monitor what you buy, what you eat, and where/how you travel. pic.twitter.com/sisSrUngDI
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) May 24, 2022
And here’s the CEO of Microsoft, talking about how software developers are getting assistance from artificial intelligence as they write their code. So perhaps all white-collar jobs, or all humans, will soon have a “copilot for every cognitive task.”
.@SatyaNadella says 'having a co-pilot for every cognitive task is right within our grasp' thanks to the power of #AI.
Watch the session live here: https://t.co/YLx9PEvP8n @Microsoft #wef22 pic.twitter.com/A1eymvpPHV
— World Economic Forum (@wef) May 24, 2022
One would think that a technology-powered future with 3D printing would finally increase the productivity of great artisans and craftsmen, which has remained stagnant for centuries and become so prohibitive that these arts and trades are being lost to the prefab altogether. Such a breakthrough would allow the physical environment to be rebuilt in the most glorious Georgian, Tudor, or Spanish Colonial styles, but available to the masses. Farms and pastures could practically run themselves, making food better, making it cheaply, and delivering it fresh. The greatest educators would run classes for all those who wanted to take them. And new technological breakthroughs would clean up the atmosphere.
But that’s not what they imagine at all. For the Davoisie, the future is your guts wirelessly reporting you truant and then a text message buzzing on every device in the house, warning your pets to exit the room while it is flooded with gas to sedate you into compliance with Pfizer. Afterwards a Chinese multinational informs you that the gas-flooding and Pfizer SWAT-team incident have brought about serious penalties to your carbon score, thereby deferring your long-awaited meat ration by several more years. As a help in the future, Microsoft’s cognitive copilot will be taking over even more duties and tasks previously assigned to you.
It is actually a crisis for our global elites that every idea they have for solving problems involves subtracting more of our humanity and freedom from human civilization. The only vision they have of the future is of a population drugged, fed on fake food, entertained by phones strapped to their faces, and controlled by machines. They see our unhappy reaction to this, and their imagination only comes up with more elaborate gags for us, and dreams of unsolvable mazes to drop us in.
These ideas seem, almost word for word, like the hackneyed lines in a first draft of a dystopian movie, the words stuffed into the mouths of characters to identify them as the supervillains in the plot before James Bond, or Jason Bourne, or Ethan Hunt shows up to impale them on their expensive flatware.
And I mean that quite seriously. Like YouGov’s poll respondents, the Davos elite are presenting themselves as incurable villains. People who talk this way are almost begging for red-blooded men to rise up in anger to depose them violently. Honestly. It feels like a dare. I worry that my own hidden social credit score is now going to be severely penalized for even noticing that these people are saying such crazy things that the narrative propulsion of the story they are putting themselves in ends only with their repentance and conversion, or their enjoyable demise.