The Liberal Gun Club Forum

What I call the "Davos class" is a genuine social class and should be recognized as such by sociologist and economists - the nomadic, multinational 1 percent of 1 percent with its own class markers: same schools, clubs, multiple residencies, communication in English, watering holes and get-togethers like the January Davos meeting itself, more formally known as the World Economic Forum. Nearly everyone knows about that meeting - and hardly anyone has heard of the WEF "Global Redesign Initiative." That's what I describe in the book. According to Davos, multilateralism is dead, long live multistakeholder-ism - mostly corporations. You and I are not "stakeholders" unless Davos says we are. The term, much used in the EU and the US, has handily displaced "citizens." Governments are no longer good at fixing anything - so hand over problem solving worldwide and in all areas to those who are.