Davos-comment: concern about the Fury of the spirit of the times

The current language regime of the world economic forum, which will meet this week in Davos, works like this: The “globalism” is not dead, more alive than ever on the other hand, the “globalization”, which means the global cooperation has meant all of those to an effective and durable international order. You understand immediately why the organizers of such a distinction is important. What you today call globalism is a neoliberal conspiracy to the world to impose a System beyond national sovereignty – have been attributed to many so far, just the “Davos Man”. As the sociologist Richard Sennett in 1998, this figure of the well-maintained global conversation einfinde economic ruler for the first time has been described as a type of flexible people without a place and a past and with a friendly openness to fragmentations and at the same time occasions of all kinds, good, he’s the epitome of all the reservations and Fears, drawn by the globalization in the last years in Western societies. It is understood that Davos wants to settle, to be used as a place of the greatest possible discourse (“committed to improving the state of the world”) is taken seriously and not as a “Ball of the vampires” (Jean Ziegler).

but What is the for a discourse, to the business leaders, top politicians, as well as handpicked NGO representatives, and intellectuals invited? The world economic forum”, the unit as a sort of pulse, a” Global Risk Report “submitted – so that the world transforms into a crisis of sleep”, as stated in the Executive Summary. There’s quite a lot comes together: conflicts between great powers, extreme weather, Cyber-attacks, populists, identity theft, air pollution, currency crises, terrorist attacks, “emotional disruption” artificial intelligence and so on. Display boards at the beginning of the individual risks and rank on the probability and severity scales, and document the density, a little confusing network of their mutual influences.