Quote from: RE on Jan 15, 2024, 01:52 AMThe movers & shakers from Davos have seen the light.

Conversation over canapes at the after session cocktail parties will be comparing bunker amenities and self defense weapons.  Freeze dried Truffles available in the food vendor booths.



https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/10/business/wef-global-risks-report/index.html

The people paid to spot risks see high chance of 'global catastrophe' within 10 years

RE

Full doomer, but from their own point of view.  In reality the folks at Davos are not even close to being 'doomer'.  As a Marxist I have to give this report a thumbs down.  The author, Hanna Ziady writes from an capitalist point of view and generates her own MIS-INFORMATION.

Doom is coming, but genuine bad information, like a green new deal.  Not faux mis-information will be the cause of doom.  Mis-information can only start a fire.  By itself it can't do much.  AI mis-information may be tinder for a fire, but to burn a fire needs fuel.  The existence of Davos itself provides sufficient fuel.

People at Davos need continual economic growth so their money piles get higher at twice the rate of actual growth.  So Davos as usual, with crocodile tears will define doom in terms of their portfolio bottom line.  Doom for Davos will not be 5.6 million Americans starving to death in 2053.  Doom for Davos will mean difficulty finding energy supplies to fuel their rape of the planet and maintain their useless eater status.  This is the writing on the wall Davos sees.

The problem with Hanna is she imagines the information we already have is true and correct.  Fear of 'dis-information' is a natural result of a threat to her frozen in stone 'truth'.  A Marxist point of view considers the world to be in flux, constant motion, everything changing and the economic system we have must reflect current conditions. Reactionaries * to the contrary, imagine the system we have is the best possible.  It is, only outright slavery is more exploitive.  Oligarchies rule by bank account.  The money trick puts a layer of abstraction on slavery and gives it more power.

Years ago, (actually most of my life) I decided to imagine a times that all the 21st century ideas modernity is so proud of, actually were as ignorant of reality as we know an average European peasant from the 1500s was.  I did this from a personal point of view, to test the validity of my own DOGma.  I am only now sour enough to apply the comparison to everyone else.  I am aware this little trick of mine, through the years has made my DOGma far superior to the average.  This gives me the confidence and self-esteem to put the filter on other people.

Let's be real.  Hanna Ziady posits that disinformation will become a threat.  All people who want censorship agree with her.  Mis-information must be fought, and all wanna-be censors are standing in line ready to do it.  Then any information that threatens the supremacy and cultural hegemony of the Davos status-quo will be quashed.  Davos will paint shit white.

My 15th century trick turned me into a Marxist, and I did not even know what one really was at the time.  Likely the gentile reader does not know what one really is.  It is not your fault.  You live in America.

* reactionaries fight system change.  They react against it.