March 19, 2021 • 45 mins
In June of 2020 the World Economic Forum held its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The city was on lockdown as the world's most powerful people met to discuss something called "The Great Reset" -- the idea of rebuilding society and the global economy in the wake of COVID-19. In the first part of this two-part series, the guys explore the origins of the WEF.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is
riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or
learn the stuff they don't want you to know. A
production of I Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.
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My name is Matt, my name is Noel. They called
me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer
Paul Mission Control decads. Most importantly, you are you, You
are here, and that makes this stuff they don't want
you to know. This is one of those episodes. I
don't know if you guys ever think about this, but
this is one of those episodes where I thought the
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people in the audience today, uh might be somewhat distinguished guys.
We might have we we might have some very powerful
people tuning into today's episode. And that is that is
wild because these people, if you are listening, welcome, uh.
These people are under the effects of disasters that all
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of humanity is currently struggling in. We live in what
is sometimes called interesting times. The global pandemic shook and
for a time silenced human routines. The environment is degrading
at a pace faster than a square pusher or Conlin
Nan Carroll's song I'm sorry, it was on my bucket
list of work in a reference at some point in
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the show to that guy. Multiple regions of the globe
are moving closer to all out hot war inequality spiking.
Everybody knows this. We live amid one of the greatest
eras of wealth redistribution and human history, and not in
a way that benefits the vast majority of humanity. In short,
we've painted ourselves into one hell of a corner. And
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like we said before on the show, everybody admits there
are serious problems, no one agrees how to fix them.
For the past few years, a transnational not for profit
organization called the World Economic Forum has been, according to them,
working towards solutions to these existential threats. Their newest plan
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is something called the Great Reset Initiative. It kicked off
at their annual Davos meeting last year back in It's
got some powerful proponents, some powerful cheerleaders, and it has
a lot of critics from across across the gamut of
any spectrum you could imagine. And it also possesses more
than a healthy dollop of stuff. They don't want you
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to know. This was a This is inspired by a
listener who I believe called in Is that correct? Yes,
and really thrashed us, but left with this like why
haven't you covered this topic? And and in a lot
of ways as a this we would have covered this anyway,
but also a little bit of how about this, buddy,
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we're doing this episode? Well? Um, you know, as always,
thank you for taking the time to reach out to us,
fellow conspiracy realist. Let's get into it. To understand the
Great Reset initiative and to understand why so many people
love it and why so many more people are terrified
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of it or hate it, we have to first understand
what Davos is. So here are the facts. So Davos
is the name that's used as shorthand for an annual
four day conference held by the World Economic Forum that
meets in Davos, Switzerland. Um, it's like kind of the
creme de la creme of you know, venture capitalists and
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influencer types, but more like people at a high, high
level of that kind of world. The roots of the
organization date back to nine when a gentleman named Klaus Schwab,
Professor Klaus Schwab founded what was originally called the European
Management Forum, which was a nonprofit foundation based in Geneva.
In the first year, Schwab invited fo fifty executives from
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influential companies across the West of Europe UH to the
first European Management Symposium at the Davos Congress Center. Yeah, okay,
and their their stated goal is we're going to take
all these leaders of European business, European firms, and we're
going to introduce them to what Professor Schwab calls American
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management practices. So far, so good. It's a little dry, right,
I mean, business conventions happen all the time, or they
used to, and uh, there doesn't seem to be anything
abnormal about that. This became an annual event, you know
what I mean, like a really a much less cool
dragon commn where everybody's kind of wearing the same costume,
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and it continues today. Over time, it experienced mission creep,
we could call it. Uh. It broadened in terms of
its scope and in terms of this actual conference that
you just described. Old Davos itself grew by the next decade.
Pretty soon after one, political leaders realized that this meeting
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was an enormous opportunity to promote their interests. Some of
the most powerful businessmen, and they are still largely male. Uh,
Davos were all in one place. We're sitting ducks for
you to come and say, this is why you should
invest in my country, or this is why you should
agree with my ideological system. So it kind of you
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could argue that it had either evolved or it was
kind of appropriated towards other ends. Right, it's a great
place to spread a thought virus, yes exactly, Yeah for sure. Yeah, well,
I guess we could jump forward here. So it began
doing that right, like you said, just after the seventies
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when it was formed. Then seventeen years later, nineteen seven
after it was formed, it changes its name to officially
the World Economic Forum. And this is it's kind of
confusing because you've probably heard of this many times before.
It's been like just dropped somewhere in an article. There's
somebody in passing mentioned the w EF for the World
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Economic Forum or daubos. And to get it, put it
all together, and to realize exactly what it is and
what it means, it takes some digging, just so be
aware of that. Oh yeah, yeah, we are. We are
spending maybe a little more time than usual on the background.
But I would argue it's because even are here are
the facts. Part is going to get very crazy in
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just a moment, actually where it will. We'll still tell
you when the really crazy stuff begins. But the background
here is already weird. Yeah, And it's not all scary stuff.
There have been really great things that have come about,
largely because of, like you said, guys, the close interaction
that these leaders get to have with each other at Davos. Yeah,
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Greece and Turkey were on the precipice of war in
nineteen uh they were able to take to step back
from that by signing the Davos Declaration at that conference.
Leaders from South Africa during the Mandela Era met at
Davos amid enormous political um tension, right, and the list
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goes on and on. Yasser Era fat met with other
Middle Eastern leaders. This was um, well, if you want
to be very cynical, these were great photo ops, but
they also did have an impact on policy. The conversations mattered. Yeah,
but exactly. And this isn't like a recognized extra governmental body, right,
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even inasmuch as like the u N is that thing, right,
It's just like a very high optics kind of event,
a meeting of the minds, and these things, these agreements
that we're talking about, would certainly be what you would
consider non binding, since they're absolutely not connected to actual government.
But it's a good look, and it's it's a thing
that it's like, Okay, we're gonna join hands and kumbaya
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this out and then have like an understanding, and it
behooves every member of the agreement to kind of play
nice because it's a good look. Right. Yeah, Yeah, there's
a you know, peer pressure doesn't go away when you
become a billionaire or a head of state. You just
have different peers exerting different kinds of pressure. Uh, this
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currently like a love to the point we're making here, um,
currently it can be difficult to define what the w
e F is in a single honest and accurate sentence.
You could say it is a think tank. You could
say it is a charitable foundation. At times, it is
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all of those things, and it's other stuff too. Reading
the official literature of the w e F is and
this is no ding on their writers, it's not that
much help. Honestly, it is full of terms that are
very slick, that are vague, perhaps by design, but do
generally seem to indicate positive beneficial goals for for the
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world overall, right, regardless of creed, nationality, etcetera. It describes
itself as quote the International Organization for Public Private Cooperation
shout out military industrial complex. Right. According to again their
their official literature, the w EF and Davos is independent,
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it is impartial. It is somehow not tied to any
of the special interests of again the tremendously powerful people
who go there every year for four days. And you
can learn way more than you'd like to learn about
Davos and the World Economic Forum if you go to
that website, their official thing. Oh man, you will love it.
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Read their codes of conduct. Just grab some t sit
down and just go all the way through it. You'll
love it. It'll be a great Saturday evening. Um. You can,
though more interestingly, read their like broader aims, or at
least they're stated aims right there. Their focus areas the
things that they want to cover in each year's session
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or that they have covered in the past, and then
what they're looking to cover. Oh and there's some things
in here they're really interesting. Then mastering the Fourth Industrial
Revolution yes, it sounds nice, it sounds spooky to me.
It's one of their big one of their big three
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concepts or areas of focus. So the w E e e
F says the Fourth Industrial Revolution quote represents a fundamental
change in the way we live, work, and relate to
one another. They describe bit as a new chapter in
human development. They talked about promise, peril, cadence, speed, depth,
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all the good hits from corporate boardroom meetings, UM. But
what what it really is taken to mean in practical
terms is an acceleration of the digital revolution into things
like automation of industrial and manufacturing concerns, smart technology, machine
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to machine communication, machine learning, and you know, the Internet
of things, which I think we've all well her various
projections about that for a number of years now. They're
also proposed there are other two big proposals are solving
the problems of the global commons and addressing global security issues. Uh.
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These are two very important things. These are two crucial
things for the survival of not just the human species
but all the species that currently UM. I currently evolved
to live in a pre industrial world right, pre industrial environment,
and the commons I think especially is a very dangerous thing.
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Global commons means things like natural resources that all people
share and to a degree rely on. So a problem
with the global commons would be something like um water
rights being given to a corporation that then takes the
water out of the local ecosystem with you know, damaging
long term effects. How do we fix that without breaking
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civilization as we know it and bankrupting? Oh yeah, exactly.
And there's something a little eerie about the idea of
of of these uh rich and powerful super influencers discussing
the next phase of human evolution. That's a little uh
cringe e to me for some reason. I don't know why.
At the very least, it feels like it could easily
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be tone deaf, you know, right, right? So, like who
is this for? Like you know what I mean? Like
which humans are we talking about? There's a potential for
a great puckering to occur when you really think about that, right,
puckering of the collective butthole is that well in all
the ways? So okay, current state the Great Reset Initiative.
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As we said again, last year, UM around two thousand,
five hundred maybe ballpark three thousand people attended the annual
meeting as participants, as speakers, or as the primo stakeholders
you can call them if you want to be a
little crass. Who are these people? Well, the number includes
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everyone from prime ministers to environmental activists like Reta Thundberg,
to bankers of course, and bankers haven't. It's funny because
some bankers have a lower position in the hierarchy. I'm
going with the dragon Con example. It's just the side
note there are you know how some people will go
to dragon Con, a very popular convention here in Atlanta, Georgia.
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They'll go, but they won't pay for a dragon Con pass.
They'll hang out um and try to sneak into parties
and stuff the bank. Some of the bankers at Davos
do the same thing. Or there. There's like a gray
market trade in the badges you need to be admitted
to the city, and so they'll buy these at inflated
prices from hotels. They'll just hang out at those hotels
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and then they'll wait for these um, you know, these
powerful people, these financial industrial whales, to come through grabbing
some drinks after you know, the meetings or the lectures,
and then they'll be like, hey, by the way, yeah, yeah,
it'll be like Hey, Paul Deck and Goldman Sex, pleasure
to meet you. Who's your boss? The actual Golden Sex.
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Applebee's is the hot spot for for you know, hob
nobbing of the rich and famous and powerful. It makes
me think of like my hometown out of Augusta, Georgia
is very well known for the Masters Golf Tournament, which
is another meeting of the rich and powerful and um
really hard to get official tickets to the actual tournament,
but practice round tickets are a little easier to come by.
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And I remember when I was a kid, me and
some friends would like hang out outside wait for people
to come, and they would just give us their practice
round badges and then we'd sell them rinse and repeat,
uh and then enough to buy ourselves a nice steak
dinner at Longhorn. Nice. Nice. I went in once with
them just to check it out, and I think I
went one other time with somebody that actually had real tickets,
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but not my scene, but it was definitely fun to
feel like the little Oliver twist urchins, you know, begging
for can I please? I mean, I have her practice
round ticket? And some people that all those would love
that narrative because it's very free market, isn't it. That's
a good point. Get get something and then sell it
for a price of willing buyer will engage with. Yeah,
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it also includes Bollywood actors. It includes presidents, Yes, US
presidents Donald Trump when when the Trump administration was still
in office, he went to the last Davos meeting. And
the size of this thing, the sheer magnitude is crazy.
They are too great journalists who wrote an article about
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this for the New York Times and they noted just
the sheer magnitude of this event. That's Michael J. Day
Lama said, and Russell Goldman. Yeah. And what they state
is specifically about the population of Davos, so you can
imagine it, oh like any smaller town that is a
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vacation destination or something. So generally they're going to be
very few people living there year round. But when it's season,
when it's time for the season, wherever that place is,
my goodness, they're going to be a ton of folks
running through. And these reporters noted that the general population
of Davos is about eleven thousand human beings. Just at
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at all times, there are eleven thousand people who are
going to be there. Then when when Davos rolls through
and they've got those four days, they got the conference.
Uh it's about thirty thousand people, so it triples almost
in size, and they call it the world's most expensive
networking event. Yeah. I mean it's sort of like not
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that much different from places like Sundance, you know, UM
or even the Masters. Like I said, I mean, Augusta
is is not a small town, but uh, they depend
on that business so much like restaurants and hospitality, you know,
companies and and uh you know places that do events
and all that. They live and die by that tournament.
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And when you know, COVID happened this year and it
didn't happen properly or they did it like a virtual
Masters with no humans. Uh, that was a big hit
for the economy. Yeah, these are these are big hits too.
In the case of Davos. Uh, specifically, we're going to
see that this is it bears those similarities just outlined,
but it goes so much further. It's cloak and dagger
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stuff when you get to the bottom of it. But
oddly enough, as this organization continues to evolve or experiences
mission creep whichever way you see it. There is a
note that the audience changed so many many more political
leaders now and academics who were the original audience of
the conference back in ninety one are now by far
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the smallest group represented, the people that were thought to
have the theoretical know how to tackle big problems. Uh.
There's also a ton of press, So unlike Bohemian Grove
or some other elite closed door get togethers, you know,
like I M F meeting or something, the media is
all over this one. Some form of media has access
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to all official sessions, and some of these sessions are
even broadcast online, so you can walk them even if
you are not a Davos man, which will we'll get
into that weird phase later. Of course, this doesn't mean
you specifically, you fellow conspiracy realists, get to see everything.
That's because the entire this is what makes it different
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from Dragon connor the Masters or any other convention. The
entire city of Davos is locked down during this event
leading up to it, and then after the you cannot
get in anywhere in the city unless you have been
invited by the w e F and some capacity. And
there's also you know, despite all the talk about dignity
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for every person and um combating inequality, right, despite all
that talk, there is an intensely hierarchical badge system. I
think this is just like cartoonishly paradoxical, but I understand
if they have to why they have to do it
this way. The badge system determines your access. Wait for it,
white badges are the best. Those are the top members
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of this four day society and civilization. Orange is that's
the press. You can go some places and can't go
all the places. Uh. And then there are other colored
badges for support staff because remember Matt said the population
goes up to thirty thousand, but we said there were
like twenty five hundred to three thousand attendees. The rest
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of that is like security support staff, uh, people, drivers, caterers,
personal bodyguards, personal assistants. You know what I mean. The
sort of small social ecosystem that gathers around powerful individuals. Right.
They rearely travel solo. Uh so yeah, cool cool, cool,
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still very equal, I'm shure. Uh. The idea here is
that through honest, transparent conversation, these uh they're vert themselves
as stakeholders, will be able to cooperatively tackle those issues
that are simply too big for an individual and to
be it, state or corporation to solve. So building consensus,
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the theory is allows the groups to make plans that,
just like pollution, do not stop it in a single
political border. It's kind of a cool idea. If it works,
Does it work? Ben? Does it work well? Thank you?
Thank you, thank you for that. Um, it's a great question. Uh,
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does it work well? It depends on who you ask.
As you might imagine, there are a few, a few
bits of controversy about this idea of the rich and powerful,
uh enacting huge initiatives that go beyond the bounds of
a nation or a private entity. There is controversy, maybe
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and we're back with more on Davos, the Ultra Ultra
exclusive gathering of of the of the minds, but the
mind's belonging to the global elite essentially, um, you know,
captains of industry, ceo s, presidents, influencers, heads of state, uh,
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start up venture capitalist things like that, but all in
the service of furthering the narrative that is human existence.
But to what end? Well, let's talk about that. There
are a bunch of things here and most of them
start with G. The first one is the Greater Good, right,
That's what this whole thing is. We've talked about it
a lot in the past and this show. But there's
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another one. There's another really big G and something else.
You know what has it been? It is globalism? It
is This is sort of the We're Family Show, but
for four days, Davos becomes the g spot for globalism.
Uh them sorry delay that O. The W the w
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e F doesn't see itself as a world government your
earlier pointneal, they say, we're not, you know, the un
We're just people are the like mind getting together to
having on ist, well intentioned debate. But some critics argue
that this organization, and this gathering in particular, gets uncomfortably
close to doing the things a world government would do.
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Isn't this the kind of stuff that would be read
mate for like an Alex Jones type conspiracy theorist. There's
always talking about the global elite and the globalists and
wanting to turn us into a bunch of drones mindlessly
being you know, controlled by some sort of puppet government.
Very much so, very much so it's difficult to over
emphasize that fact. So I'll just say yes capital yes
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under it. Pops some highlighter over that, because you are
on the money, my friends. Uh, most years that this
so these media, this is the big one, but other
smaller meetings occur in different regions throughout the world, and
they're more focused on what I guess they would consider
more localized issues. Um. But regardless of where these occur,
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whether it's regional or the big one in Switzerland, most
years there are going to be protesters anti globalization protesters
on the scene. Also shout out to Bono from You Too,
who says he described Davos once as the fat cats
in the snow. I don't know, does anybody have a
good Bono voice. It's hard because he's you know, he's
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he's got a classic Irish lilt, but with a little
extra something that I can't quite put my finger on,
and I'm not going to attempt it. Alright, alright, well
send us, send us your best bonno impressions. Uh. The
anti globalist perspective encompasses a lot of stuff. You know.
It's not just the Alex Jones. Um, It's not just
what people might consider domestic right wing politics. It's also
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people who are you might consider them far left. And
these folks, while they clearly don't agree on a bunch
of other things, they argue that the w e F
and other similar institutions like the ones Matt you mentioned earlier,
w t O, maybe I m F G seven, things
like that. They say, what these folks are actually doing
is leveraging capitalism and globalization to do the exact things
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that they claim to prevent, to accelerate poverty, to degrade
the environment, all the while making a nifty profit. That's
that's again, that's not our show saying this. That's what
the multitudes of critics and protesters in this vein are saying. Um.
And then there's also the controversy like, Okay, you're helping
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the world, but what is the world to you? Because
the world is something different, guarantee you to every individual
you will ever meet, and in the case of Davos,
you know where it costs. I think twenty eight thousand
dollars are equivalent to go. There's this idea that these
folks may be disconnected, that the world they believe they're
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saving may not be the world that the average non
Davos person um wants to be saved, or it's not
the world that they experience, and that's what leads us
to this thing called the Davos Man. Sounds like a caveman, right, Yeah,
well that's the thing man. The Davos Man is almost
like it reminds me of Double oh seven or or
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a spy or somebody. You've got no allegiances. I don't
need to worry about this continent that I'm currently on,
or the borders around this state where my house is,
my allegiances to humanity, I don't. I don't need any
of that stuff. And a lot of it has to
do with that level of wealth that you can reach
where you can drop twenty eight thousan dollars and it's
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not like the best out there bonus you could ever imagine.
Receiving or a lottery ticket when it's just some extra
money that you have, right, right, It's like the Davos
person is transnational. They're saying things like you ask where
they live, they would say tradition ma famiity originates in Greece.
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We were in shipping and transported. I feel a kinship
with the Greek. I am there of a time every winter,
so yes, wintering in Greece, summering in in perhaps Abitha.
But typically these are also the type people that would
consider themselves citizens of the world. Well, and and that's
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that's a great idealic thing, right it is in a
lot of ways. Being a citizen of the world, I
think is a positive. And I think that's one of
the reasons it's used a lot of times in the
pr for these kinds of organizations, because if we could
see everybody on the planet, you know, as a sibling essentially,
and all of those that I'm sorry, I know you
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guys get on me for kumbayaing a lot of the time,
but this is there. But it's a beauty. Never accused
you of kumbayeing man, Okay, all right, well, maybe guests
have a lot but but it's it's just it is
a beautiful thing, and I don't want to. I don't
want anyone out there listening to this thinking that that
isn't a cool thing. It's just it's a rose colored
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glasses kind of situation. In most cases, it's also being
said typically from a place of extreme privilege, and it's
not something that is attainable to mob. We would all
love to be citizens of the world, but unfortunately requires
a lot of resources and capital and the ability to
not be tied down to a family or a location
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or whatever whatever it might be. You know, normal people things. Yeah,
well said, you know what I mean, you talk to
the average Like, if you average out the world, you
talk to the average person. UM, describing themselves as a
citizen of the world is going to be far down
on the list of things that they say. I do
want to I do want to clarify. UM, if you
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are an intendee, like if you were there to speak
at Davos, just to speak Prime Minister, etcetera, etcetera, then
the conference itself is going to be free for you.
But if you're there to represent a company, you know,
you're like I'm the King of Facebook or whatever title
they go with, then you pay the equivalent of eight
grand at least she did. And you're absolutely right, No, Matt,
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I agree with you being a citizen of the world
and not being limited by ideology, creed or any other
demographic slice. That is, ultimately that should be the goal
of the species of the problem is there the human
brain is bedeviled by some hard physiological limits Dumbar's number,
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you know what I mean, not conclusively proven, but pretty compelling,
uh In in the argument that there is a limit
to how many people one person can also think of
as you know people instead of just like you are
the function, you are the reason the garbage moves on Tuesday.
How dare you have a family? It's amazing. But but there's, uh,
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there's another thing to take into account here, and it's
something that you've noted here been this, you know, we're
talking about it in this ideological way. But there's there's
a very real mechanical reason for people to at least
want to view borders of nations and countries and continents
as a thing of the past, because they oftentimes are
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able to operate on a level that supersedes, that goes
beyond those borders. Where where you've got a company or
global economic like it's a global economic forum, um where
you're you know, when you're thinking about shipping, you're thinking
about these big movements that are way bigger than any country. Okay,
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with more on Davos. And we've yes, yeah, everything we've
said is correct, and we are trying to be very
fair because these are tremendous, profound, possibly world changing ideas.
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But there's a guy we'd like to introduce you to.
He's a political scientist named Samuel P. Huntington's he coined
the phrase the Davos man. Uh. He describes this type
of person, in his opinion, as people who have quote
little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles
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that thankfully or vanishing, and see national governments as residue
from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate
the elites global operations. The implication being that Davos to
some people serves not the world but their own ideological
or financial goals. And we've talked about this in the
(33:52):
past and the show like the Rough the rough sketch
of the evolution of the human species, right is, it
goes family, and then it goes religion, and then it
goes state, and then it goes corporation. And we're at
we're at the point right now where it is increasingly
less crazy to ask if we're going to enter into
(34:14):
a post nation state civilization, you know, and if so,
when when does that happen? And and the truth is
there are a lot of um, well, there is a
segment of the human population that has no problem with that,
that believes that nationalism or the existence of the nation
state has become increasingly anachronistic or increasingly unhelpful to the
(34:38):
overall goal, which is the spread of humanity ultimately to
the stars. But then there's another thing, and we got
close to it earlier in today's episode. Is this democratic?
You know what I mean? Yeah? Not not not so much.
I mean, it depends on how much stock you put
into how far reaching that types of conversations that happen
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at things like this actually are. And I think we
can all, uh, pretty much conjecture that it's quite far reaching,
because I mean, the folks that are there that are
in on the conversation, have their fingers literally on maybe
not an actual button or lever, but you know they
have the means to make changes or to maybe not collude.
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But there's a certain amount of that, you know, at
these closed door kind of sessions, these these these types
of things, you know, much like a bohemian grove or
what have you. Um. But yeah, I mean, it is
a It is a criticism, and I think a damning
criticism that Davos enables a very undemocratic form of decision
(35:42):
making because we I mean literally we the three of us,
we uh, most of the people listening to the show,
I think maybe don't have input in these conversations in
how political leaders are influenced or or the decisions that
they make, um, when they are entering into these these
conversations and a thing like this, these are informal. These
(36:03):
are like country club conversations there that you know, you
pay the price of entry, uh, in order to be
in the same room as these huge decision makers, these
these huge influencers. All of it stuff happens informally after
hours and of course it's it's a closed door event.
It is invite only. It's a club made by the
(36:24):
highest of the high of of elite society, and odds
are it's a club that that the likes of us
uh and and many of our listeners are not invited to. Yeah. This,
this kind of exclusivity is appealing to the people who
are on the inside, but it's um it's strange to
the majority of the people who are not in this
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inner circle. This brings us to the newest project, the
newest Davos initiative, the purpose of our two part episode
this week. It's something called the Great Reset. This was
the name, the official name of the fiftieth Davos meeting
that was held in June of Well was it it? Could?
(37:06):
You know? You could dig into all of the research,
you could look at you can look at the speeches,
of the conversations, the debates that were held, and if
you get to the very bottom, the simple idea of
the Great Reset, it is best described, just my opinion,
as a laundry list of we need to fix and fast.
(37:27):
That's that is what it is. Doubtlessly some of the
more aristocratic attendees would be scandalized by that crass language,
but take it as you will. That's that's the reality
of the situation. Um, maybe you know what to be
fair to them, let's not just have our editorializing of it.
Maybe we can give a quote direct from their website
(37:51):
about what the Great Reset, if not what it is,
what it wants to do. Yes, here are the official
aims of the Great Reset to offer insights to help
inform all those determining the future state of global relations,
the direction of national economics, the priorities of societies, wow
(38:14):
priorities of societies, the nature of business models, and the
management of a global commons. To transform capitalism into something
new capitalism two point Oh, that that's me. I think
that's me through Ben's words. I mean, that's that's the idea. Right,
(38:35):
that's like, let's rethink capitalism. In his book, Professor Schwab
argues and argues for the I don't want to necessarily
call it a buzzword, but the phrase they used to
describe this is something called stakeholder capitalism. Stakeholder would be
defined in theory as anybody, any individual entity or organization
(39:01):
that will be affected by decisions made, by problems solved,
or by problems accelerated. And so they're saying, they're saying,
what we're doing is we are. We are telling businesses,
specifically that you have more responsibilities than merely giving your
(39:22):
shareholders a good profit report at the end of every quarter.
You have other stuff you need to do, which is
something a lot of people can agree with. Uh Davos,
through the Great Reset initiative, wants to build a quote
new social contract that honors the dignity of every human being.
And on the face of that, that sounds amazing because
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there are very few examples in the human species of
a society or a group dynamic that ever managed to
honor the dignity of every member of the group or
a ja you know, stakeholder. Fine, I'll take it. I'll
start saying stakeholder too. Now it's it's over. We've gun
full corporate. But but that's the that's the official answer.
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That is what the Great Reset is supposed to do.
And at this point I think we've raised some good concerns,
some hopefully fairly accurately of the land here. Um, Folks,
When Matt Noel and I work on these kinds of stories,
we do run into run into things where we say
(40:31):
this has to be a multipart show, and it's not
every decision we make lightly, but we also feel that
we need to do our best to actually explore all
of this stuff. So consider this part one or chapter
one and introduction to Davos an introduction to the Great Reset,
(40:53):
and tune in for our very next episode, Part two,
where we are going to assuming illumination gloable and limited.
Let's just get away with it. We're going to drop
dive straight into all the crazy, crazy stuff surrounding this idea. Yeah. Absolutely, Well,
if we're not stuck in Lacrosse, Kansas, which we might
(41:15):
be for a little bit. Um, I know we have
to go do that speaking thing or whatever, but okay, um,
I just want to say, when I hear or when
I first heard this concept of the Great Reset, I
thought it was a fictional story. I thought it was
and this is not true. This is not the reality
of what it is necessarily at all. But I imagined
(41:38):
it as some dastardly plan, the Great Reset. It sounds
like what you do when you're when your computer malfunctions
or your network shuts down, and you unplug the thing,
wait for a while, and plug it back in because
it's not working. Something is gone awry. We just need
to kill it for a while and then restart it.
And in my mind, I hear them talking about society, essentially,
(42:01):
about civilization, about humanity. That's what I picture, at least
when I first you know, at least when I first
encountered this concept of the great reset. Yeah, it's got,
it's gotten the sinister vibes of the Georgia guidestones in
some ways, you know, like being out a cancer on
the earth and maintain population under five million or whatever. Um. So, yeah,
(42:27):
I can see how you would go there, Matt. And
I just I wonder what everybody else immediately thinks when
they hear what we've discussed thus far. And i'd like to,
you know, if you haven't already researched hanging there for
the second part of this, but you know, I'd love
to hear what you think before we even get into
the specifics. I think we all would. I think we'd
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My name is Matt, my name is Noel. They called
me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer
Paul Mission Control decads. Most importantly, you are you, You
are here, and that makes this stuff they don't want
you to know. This is one of those episodes. I
don't know if you guys ever think about this, but
this is one of those episodes where I thought the
(00:47):
people in the audience today, uh might be somewhat distinguished guys.
We might have we we might have some very powerful
people tuning into today's episode. And that is that is
wild because these people, if you are listening, welcome, uh.
These people are under the effects of disasters that all
(01:10):
of humanity is currently struggling in. We live in what
is sometimes called interesting times. The global pandemic shook and
for a time silenced human routines. The environment is degrading
at a pace faster than a square pusher or Conlin
Nan Carroll's song I'm sorry, it was on my bucket
list of work in a reference at some point in
(01:31):
the show to that guy. Multiple regions of the globe
are moving closer to all out hot war inequality spiking.
Everybody knows this. We live amid one of the greatest
eras of wealth redistribution and human history, and not in
a way that benefits the vast majority of humanity. In short,
we've painted ourselves into one hell of a corner. And
(01:53):
like we said before on the show, everybody admits there
are serious problems, no one agrees how to fix them.
For the past few years, a transnational not for profit
organization called the World Economic Forum has been, according to them,
working towards solutions to these existential threats. Their newest plan
(02:16):
is something called the Great Reset Initiative. It kicked off
at their annual Davos meeting last year back in It's
got some powerful proponents, some powerful cheerleaders, and it has
a lot of critics from across across the gamut of
any spectrum you could imagine. And it also possesses more
than a healthy dollop of stuff. They don't want you
(02:39):
to know. This was a This is inspired by a
listener who I believe called in Is that correct? Yes,
and really thrashed us, but left with this like why
haven't you covered this topic? And and in a lot
of ways as a this we would have covered this anyway,
but also a little bit of how about this, buddy,
(03:02):
we're doing this episode? Well? Um, you know, as always,
thank you for taking the time to reach out to us,
fellow conspiracy realist. Let's get into it. To understand the
Great Reset initiative and to understand why so many people
love it and why so many more people are terrified
(03:24):
of it or hate it, we have to first understand
what Davos is. So here are the facts. So Davos
is the name that's used as shorthand for an annual
four day conference held by the World Economic Forum that
meets in Davos, Switzerland. Um, it's like kind of the
creme de la creme of you know, venture capitalists and
(03:45):
influencer types, but more like people at a high, high
level of that kind of world. The roots of the
organization date back to nine when a gentleman named Klaus Schwab,
Professor Klaus Schwab founded what was originally called the European
Management Forum, which was a nonprofit foundation based in Geneva.
In the first year, Schwab invited fo fifty executives from
(04:08):
influential companies across the West of Europe UH to the
first European Management Symposium at the Davos Congress Center. Yeah, okay,
and their their stated goal is we're going to take
all these leaders of European business, European firms, and we're
going to introduce them to what Professor Schwab calls American
(04:29):
management practices. So far, so good. It's a little dry, right,
I mean, business conventions happen all the time, or they
used to, and uh, there doesn't seem to be anything
abnormal about that. This became an annual event, you know
what I mean, like a really a much less cool
dragon commn where everybody's kind of wearing the same costume,
(04:53):
and it continues today. Over time, it experienced mission creep,
we could call it. Uh. It broadened in terms of
its scope and in terms of this actual conference that
you just described. Old Davos itself grew by the next decade.
Pretty soon after one, political leaders realized that this meeting
(05:19):
was an enormous opportunity to promote their interests. Some of
the most powerful businessmen, and they are still largely male. Uh,
Davos were all in one place. We're sitting ducks for
you to come and say, this is why you should
invest in my country, or this is why you should
agree with my ideological system. So it kind of you
(05:40):
could argue that it had either evolved or it was
kind of appropriated towards other ends. Right, it's a great
place to spread a thought virus, yes exactly, Yeah for sure. Yeah, well,
I guess we could jump forward here. So it began
doing that right, like you said, just after the seventies
(06:02):
when it was formed. Then seventeen years later, nineteen seven
after it was formed, it changes its name to officially
the World Economic Forum. And this is it's kind of
confusing because you've probably heard of this many times before.
It's been like just dropped somewhere in an article. There's
somebody in passing mentioned the w EF for the World
(06:25):
Economic Forum or daubos. And to get it, put it
all together, and to realize exactly what it is and
what it means, it takes some digging, just so be
aware of that. Oh yeah, yeah, we are. We are
spending maybe a little more time than usual on the background.
But I would argue it's because even are here are
the facts. Part is going to get very crazy in
(06:46):
just a moment, actually where it will. We'll still tell
you when the really crazy stuff begins. But the background
here is already weird. Yeah, And it's not all scary stuff.
There have been really great things that have come about,
largely because of, like you said, guys, the close interaction
that these leaders get to have with each other at Davos. Yeah,
(07:07):
Greece and Turkey were on the precipice of war in
nineteen uh they were able to take to step back
from that by signing the Davos Declaration at that conference.
Leaders from South Africa during the Mandela Era met at
Davos amid enormous political um tension, right, and the list
(07:31):
goes on and on. Yasser Era fat met with other
Middle Eastern leaders. This was um, well, if you want
to be very cynical, these were great photo ops, but
they also did have an impact on policy. The conversations mattered. Yeah,
but exactly. And this isn't like a recognized extra governmental body, right,
(07:53):
even inasmuch as like the u N is that thing, right,
It's just like a very high optics kind of event,
a meeting of the minds, and these things, these agreements
that we're talking about, would certainly be what you would
consider non binding, since they're absolutely not connected to actual government.
But it's a good look, and it's it's a thing
that it's like, Okay, we're gonna join hands and kumbaya
(08:15):
this out and then have like an understanding, and it
behooves every member of the agreement to kind of play
nice because it's a good look. Right. Yeah, Yeah, there's
a you know, peer pressure doesn't go away when you
become a billionaire or a head of state. You just
have different peers exerting different kinds of pressure. Uh, this
(08:36):
currently like a love to the point we're making here, um,
currently it can be difficult to define what the w
e F is in a single honest and accurate sentence.
You could say it is a think tank. You could
say it is a charitable foundation. At times, it is
(08:56):
all of those things, and it's other stuff too. Reading
the official literature of the w e F is and
this is no ding on their writers, it's not that
much help. Honestly, it is full of terms that are
very slick, that are vague, perhaps by design, but do
generally seem to indicate positive beneficial goals for for the
(09:20):
world overall, right, regardless of creed, nationality, etcetera. It describes
itself as quote the International Organization for Public Private Cooperation
shout out military industrial complex. Right. According to again their
their official literature, the w EF and Davos is independent,
(09:42):
it is impartial. It is somehow not tied to any
of the special interests of again the tremendously powerful people
who go there every year for four days. And you
can learn way more than you'd like to learn about
Davos and the World Economic Forum if you go to
that website, their official thing. Oh man, you will love it.
(10:02):
Read their codes of conduct. Just grab some t sit
down and just go all the way through it. You'll
love it. It'll be a great Saturday evening. Um. You can,
though more interestingly, read their like broader aims, or at
least they're stated aims right there. Their focus areas the
things that they want to cover in each year's session
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or that they have covered in the past, and then
what they're looking to cover. Oh and there's some things
in here they're really interesting. Then mastering the Fourth Industrial
Revolution yes, it sounds nice, it sounds spooky to me.
It's one of their big one of their big three
(10:45):
concepts or areas of focus. So the w E e e
F says the Fourth Industrial Revolution quote represents a fundamental
change in the way we live, work, and relate to
one another. They describe bit as a new chapter in
human development. They talked about promise, peril, cadence, speed, depth,
(11:08):
all the good hits from corporate boardroom meetings, UM. But
what what it really is taken to mean in practical
terms is an acceleration of the digital revolution into things
like automation of industrial and manufacturing concerns, smart technology, machine
(11:28):
to machine communication, machine learning, and you know, the Internet
of things, which I think we've all well her various
projections about that for a number of years now. They're
also proposed there are other two big proposals are solving
the problems of the global commons and addressing global security issues. Uh.
(11:49):
These are two very important things. These are two crucial
things for the survival of not just the human species
but all the species that currently UM. I currently evolved
to live in a pre industrial world right, pre industrial environment,
and the commons I think especially is a very dangerous thing.
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Global commons means things like natural resources that all people
share and to a degree rely on. So a problem
with the global commons would be something like um water
rights being given to a corporation that then takes the
water out of the local ecosystem with you know, damaging
long term effects. How do we fix that without breaking
(12:33):
civilization as we know it and bankrupting? Oh yeah, exactly.
And there's something a little eerie about the idea of
of of these uh rich and powerful super influencers discussing
the next phase of human evolution. That's a little uh
cringe e to me for some reason. I don't know why.
At the very least, it feels like it could easily
(12:54):
be tone deaf, you know, right, right? So, like who
is this for? Like you know what I mean? Like
which humans are we talking about? There's a potential for
a great puckering to occur when you really think about that, right,
puckering of the collective butthole is that well in all
the ways? So okay, current state the Great Reset Initiative.
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As we said again, last year, UM around two thousand,
five hundred maybe ballpark three thousand people attended the annual
meeting as participants, as speakers, or as the primo stakeholders
you can call them if you want to be a
little crass. Who are these people? Well, the number includes
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everyone from prime ministers to environmental activists like Reta Thundberg,
to bankers of course, and bankers haven't. It's funny because
some bankers have a lower position in the hierarchy. I'm
going with the dragon Con example. It's just the side
note there are you know how some people will go
to dragon Con, a very popular convention here in Atlanta, Georgia.
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They'll go, but they won't pay for a dragon Con pass.
They'll hang out um and try to sneak into parties
and stuff the bank. Some of the bankers at Davos
do the same thing. Or there. There's like a gray
market trade in the badges you need to be admitted
to the city, and so they'll buy these at inflated
prices from hotels. They'll just hang out at those hotels
(14:27):
and then they'll wait for these um, you know, these
powerful people, these financial industrial whales, to come through grabbing
some drinks after you know, the meetings or the lectures,
and then they'll be like, hey, by the way, yeah, yeah,
it'll be like Hey, Paul Deck and Goldman Sex, pleasure
to meet you. Who's your boss? The actual Golden Sex.
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Applebee's is the hot spot for for you know, hob
nobbing of the rich and famous and powerful. It makes
me think of like my hometown out of Augusta, Georgia
is very well known for the Masters Golf Tournament, which
is another meeting of the rich and powerful and um
really hard to get official tickets to the actual tournament,
but practice round tickets are a little easier to come by.
(15:13):
And I remember when I was a kid, me and
some friends would like hang out outside wait for people
to come, and they would just give us their practice
round badges and then we'd sell them rinse and repeat,
uh and then enough to buy ourselves a nice steak
dinner at Longhorn. Nice. Nice. I went in once with
them just to check it out, and I think I
went one other time with somebody that actually had real tickets,
(15:33):
but not my scene, but it was definitely fun to
feel like the little Oliver twist urchins, you know, begging
for can I please? I mean, I have her practice
round ticket? And some people that all those would love
that narrative because it's very free market, isn't it. That's
a good point. Get get something and then sell it
for a price of willing buyer will engage with. Yeah,
(15:55):
it also includes Bollywood actors. It includes presidents, Yes, US
presidents Donald Trump when when the Trump administration was still
in office, he went to the last Davos meeting. And
the size of this thing, the sheer magnitude is crazy.
They are too great journalists who wrote an article about
(16:16):
this for the New York Times and they noted just
the sheer magnitude of this event. That's Michael J. Day
Lama said, and Russell Goldman. Yeah. And what they state
is specifically about the population of Davos, so you can
imagine it, oh like any smaller town that is a
(16:38):
vacation destination or something. So generally they're going to be
very few people living there year round. But when it's season,
when it's time for the season, wherever that place is,
my goodness, they're going to be a ton of folks
running through. And these reporters noted that the general population
of Davos is about eleven thousand human beings. Just at
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at all times, there are eleven thousand people who are
going to be there. Then when when Davos rolls through
and they've got those four days, they got the conference.
Uh it's about thirty thousand people, so it triples almost
in size, and they call it the world's most expensive
networking event. Yeah. I mean it's sort of like not
(17:22):
that much different from places like Sundance, you know, UM
or even the Masters. Like I said, I mean, Augusta
is is not a small town, but uh, they depend
on that business so much like restaurants and hospitality, you know,
companies and and uh you know places that do events
and all that. They live and die by that tournament.
(17:44):
And when you know, COVID happened this year and it
didn't happen properly or they did it like a virtual
Masters with no humans. Uh, that was a big hit
for the economy. Yeah, these are these are big hits too.
In the case of Davos. Uh, specifically, we're going to
see that this is it bears those similarities just outlined,
but it goes so much further. It's cloak and dagger
(18:07):
stuff when you get to the bottom of it. But
oddly enough, as this organization continues to evolve or experiences
mission creep whichever way you see it. There is a
note that the audience changed so many many more political
leaders now and academics who were the original audience of
the conference back in ninety one are now by far
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the smallest group represented, the people that were thought to
have the theoretical know how to tackle big problems. Uh.
There's also a ton of press, So unlike Bohemian Grove
or some other elite closed door get togethers, you know,
like I M F meeting or something, the media is
all over this one. Some form of media has access
(18:53):
to all official sessions, and some of these sessions are
even broadcast online, so you can walk them even if
you are not a Davos man, which will we'll get
into that weird phase later. Of course, this doesn't mean
you specifically, you fellow conspiracy realists, get to see everything.
That's because the entire this is what makes it different
(19:15):
from Dragon connor the Masters or any other convention. The
entire city of Davos is locked down during this event
leading up to it, and then after the you cannot
get in anywhere in the city unless you have been
invited by the w e F and some capacity. And
there's also you know, despite all the talk about dignity
(19:38):
for every person and um combating inequality, right, despite all
that talk, there is an intensely hierarchical badge system. I
think this is just like cartoonishly paradoxical, but I understand
if they have to why they have to do it
this way. The badge system determines your access. Wait for it,
white badges are the best. Those are the top members
(20:00):
of this four day society and civilization. Orange is that's
the press. You can go some places and can't go
all the places. Uh. And then there are other colored
badges for support staff because remember Matt said the population
goes up to thirty thousand, but we said there were
like twenty five hundred to three thousand attendees. The rest
(20:22):
of that is like security support staff, uh, people, drivers, caterers,
personal bodyguards, personal assistants. You know what I mean. The
sort of small social ecosystem that gathers around powerful individuals. Right.
They rearely travel solo. Uh so yeah, cool cool, cool,
(20:42):
still very equal, I'm shure. Uh. The idea here is
that through honest, transparent conversation, these uh they're vert themselves
as stakeholders, will be able to cooperatively tackle those issues
that are simply too big for an individual and to
be it, state or corporation to solve. So building consensus,
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the theory is allows the groups to make plans that,
just like pollution, do not stop it in a single
political border. It's kind of a cool idea. If it works,
Does it work? Ben? Does it work well? Thank you?
Thank you, thank you for that. Um, it's a great question. Uh,
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does it work well? It depends on who you ask.
As you might imagine, there are a few, a few
bits of controversy about this idea of the rich and powerful,
uh enacting huge initiatives that go beyond the bounds of
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and we're back with more on Davos, the Ultra Ultra
exclusive gathering of of the of the minds, but the
mind's belonging to the global elite essentially, um, you know,
captains of industry, ceo s, presidents, influencers, heads of state, uh,
(24:05):
start up venture capitalist things like that, but all in
the service of furthering the narrative that is human existence.
But to what end? Well, let's talk about that. There
are a bunch of things here and most of them
start with G. The first one is the Greater Good, right,
That's what this whole thing is. We've talked about it
a lot in the past and this show. But there's
(24:27):
another one. There's another really big G and something else.
You know what has it been? It is globalism? It
is This is sort of the We're Family Show, but
for four days, Davos becomes the g spot for globalism.
Uh them sorry delay that O. The W the w
(24:49):
e F doesn't see itself as a world government your
earlier pointneal, they say, we're not, you know, the un
We're just people are the like mind getting together to
having on ist, well intentioned debate. But some critics argue
that this organization, and this gathering in particular, gets uncomfortably
close to doing the things a world government would do.
(25:12):
Isn't this the kind of stuff that would be read
mate for like an Alex Jones type conspiracy theorist. There's
always talking about the global elite and the globalists and
wanting to turn us into a bunch of drones mindlessly
being you know, controlled by some sort of puppet government.
Very much so, very much so it's difficult to over
emphasize that fact. So I'll just say yes capital yes
(25:35):
under it. Pops some highlighter over that, because you are
on the money, my friends. Uh, most years that this
so these media, this is the big one, but other
smaller meetings occur in different regions throughout the world, and
they're more focused on what I guess they would consider
more localized issues. Um. But regardless of where these occur,
(25:57):
whether it's regional or the big one in Switzerland, most
years there are going to be protesters anti globalization protesters
on the scene. Also shout out to Bono from You Too,
who says he described Davos once as the fat cats
in the snow. I don't know, does anybody have a
good Bono voice. It's hard because he's you know, he's
(26:19):
he's got a classic Irish lilt, but with a little
extra something that I can't quite put my finger on,
and I'm not going to attempt it. Alright, alright, well
send us, send us your best bonno impressions. Uh. The
anti globalist perspective encompasses a lot of stuff. You know.
It's not just the Alex Jones. Um, It's not just
what people might consider domestic right wing politics. It's also
(26:42):
people who are you might consider them far left. And
these folks, while they clearly don't agree on a bunch
of other things, they argue that the w e F
and other similar institutions like the ones Matt you mentioned earlier,
w t O, maybe I m F G seven, things
like that. They say, what these folks are actually doing
is leveraging capitalism and globalization to do the exact things
(27:08):
that they claim to prevent, to accelerate poverty, to degrade
the environment, all the while making a nifty profit. That's
that's again, that's not our show saying this. That's what
the multitudes of critics and protesters in this vein are saying. Um.
And then there's also the controversy like, Okay, you're helping
(27:29):
the world, but what is the world to you? Because
the world is something different, guarantee you to every individual
you will ever meet, and in the case of Davos,
you know where it costs. I think twenty eight thousand
dollars are equivalent to go. There's this idea that these
folks may be disconnected, that the world they believe they're
(27:51):
saving may not be the world that the average non
Davos person um wants to be saved, or it's not
the world that they experience, and that's what leads us
to this thing called the Davos Man. Sounds like a caveman, right, Yeah,
well that's the thing man. The Davos Man is almost
like it reminds me of Double oh seven or or
(28:13):
a spy or somebody. You've got no allegiances. I don't
need to worry about this continent that I'm currently on,
or the borders around this state where my house is,
my allegiances to humanity, I don't. I don't need any
of that stuff. And a lot of it has to
do with that level of wealth that you can reach
where you can drop twenty eight thousan dollars and it's
(28:36):
not like the best out there bonus you could ever imagine.
Receiving or a lottery ticket when it's just some extra
money that you have, right, right, It's like the Davos
person is transnational. They're saying things like you ask where
they live, they would say tradition ma famiity originates in Greece.
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We were in shipping and transported. I feel a kinship
with the Greek. I am there of a time every winter,
so yes, wintering in Greece, summering in in perhaps Abitha.
But typically these are also the type people that would
consider themselves citizens of the world. Well, and and that's
(29:21):
that's a great idealic thing, right it is in a
lot of ways. Being a citizen of the world, I
think is a positive. And I think that's one of
the reasons it's used a lot of times in the
pr for these kinds of organizations, because if we could
see everybody on the planet, you know, as a sibling essentially,
and all of those that I'm sorry, I know you
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guys get on me for kumbayaing a lot of the time,
but this is there. But it's a beauty. Never accused
you of kumbayeing man, Okay, all right, well, maybe guests
have a lot but but it's it's just it is
a beautiful thing, and I don't want to. I don't
want anyone out there listening to this thinking that that
isn't a cool thing. It's just it's a rose colored
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glasses kind of situation. In most cases, it's also being
said typically from a place of extreme privilege, and it's
not something that is attainable to mob. We would all
love to be citizens of the world, but unfortunately requires
a lot of resources and capital and the ability to
not be tied down to a family or a location
(30:28):
or whatever whatever it might be. You know, normal people things. Yeah,
well said, you know what I mean, you talk to
the average Like, if you average out the world, you
talk to the average person. UM, describing themselves as a
citizen of the world is going to be far down
on the list of things that they say. I do
want to I do want to clarify. UM, if you
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are an intendee, like if you were there to speak
at Davos, just to speak Prime Minister, etcetera, etcetera, then
the conference itself is going to be free for you.
But if you're there to represent a company, you know,
you're like I'm the King of Facebook or whatever title
they go with, then you pay the equivalent of eight
grand at least she did. And you're absolutely right, No, Matt,
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I agree with you being a citizen of the world
and not being limited by ideology, creed or any other
demographic slice. That is, ultimately that should be the goal
of the species of the problem is there the human
brain is bedeviled by some hard physiological limits Dumbar's number,
(31:38):
you know what I mean, not conclusively proven, but pretty compelling,
uh In in the argument that there is a limit
to how many people one person can also think of
as you know people instead of just like you are
the function, you are the reason the garbage moves on Tuesday.
How dare you have a family? It's amazing. But but there's, uh,
(32:02):
there's another thing to take into account here, and it's
something that you've noted here been this, you know, we're
talking about it in this ideological way. But there's there's
a very real mechanical reason for people to at least
want to view borders of nations and countries and continents
as a thing of the past, because they oftentimes are
(32:26):
able to operate on a level that supersedes, that goes
beyond those borders. Where where you've got a company or
global economic like it's a global economic forum, um where
you're you know, when you're thinking about shipping, you're thinking
about these big movements that are way bigger than any country. Okay,
(32:47):
hold up for a second. Let's take a quick pause
here for a world from our sponsor, and then back
with more on Davos. And we've yes, yeah, everything we've
said is correct, and we are trying to be very
fair because these are tremendous, profound, possibly world changing ideas.
(33:12):
But there's a guy we'd like to introduce you to.
He's a political scientist named Samuel P. Huntington's he coined
the phrase the Davos man. Uh. He describes this type
of person, in his opinion, as people who have quote
little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles
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that thankfully or vanishing, and see national governments as residue
from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate
the elites global operations. The implication being that Davos to
some people serves not the world but their own ideological
or financial goals. And we've talked about this in the
(33:52):
past and the show like the Rough the rough sketch
of the evolution of the human species, right is, it
goes family, and then it goes religion, and then it
goes state, and then it goes corporation. And we're at
we're at the point right now where it is increasingly
less crazy to ask if we're going to enter into
(34:14):
a post nation state civilization, you know, and if so,
when when does that happen? And and the truth is
there are a lot of um, well, there is a
segment of the human population that has no problem with that,
that believes that nationalism or the existence of the nation
state has become increasingly anachronistic or increasingly unhelpful to the
(34:38):
overall goal, which is the spread of humanity ultimately to
the stars. But then there's another thing, and we got
close to it earlier in today's episode. Is this democratic?
You know what I mean? Yeah? Not not not so much.
I mean, it depends on how much stock you put
into how far reaching that types of conversations that happen
(35:01):
at things like this actually are. And I think we
can all, uh, pretty much conjecture that it's quite far reaching,
because I mean, the folks that are there that are
in on the conversation, have their fingers literally on maybe
not an actual button or lever, but you know they
have the means to make changes or to maybe not collude.
(35:21):
But there's a certain amount of that, you know, at
these closed door kind of sessions, these these these types
of things, you know, much like a bohemian grove or
what have you. Um. But yeah, I mean, it is
a It is a criticism, and I think a damning
criticism that Davos enables a very undemocratic form of decision
(35:42):
making because we I mean literally we the three of us,
we uh, most of the people listening to the show,
I think maybe don't have input in these conversations in
how political leaders are influenced or or the decisions that
they make, um, when they are entering into these these
conversations and a thing like this, these are informal. These
(36:03):
are like country club conversations there that you know, you
pay the price of entry, uh, in order to be
in the same room as these huge decision makers, these
these huge influencers. All of it stuff happens informally after
hours and of course it's it's a closed door event.
It is invite only. It's a club made by the
(36:24):
highest of the high of of elite society, and odds
are it's a club that that the likes of us
uh and and many of our listeners are not invited to. Yeah. This,
this kind of exclusivity is appealing to the people who
are on the inside, but it's um it's strange to
the majority of the people who are not in this
(36:44):
inner circle. This brings us to the newest project, the
newest Davos initiative, the purpose of our two part episode
this week. It's something called the Great Reset. This was
the name, the official name of the fiftieth Davos meeting
that was held in June of Well was it it? Could?
(37:06):
You know? You could dig into all of the research,
you could look at you can look at the speeches,
of the conversations, the debates that were held, and if
you get to the very bottom, the simple idea of
the Great Reset, it is best described, just my opinion,
as a laundry list of we need to fix and fast.
(37:27):
That's that is what it is. Doubtlessly some of the
more aristocratic attendees would be scandalized by that crass language,
but take it as you will. That's that's the reality
of the situation. Um, maybe you know what to be
fair to them, let's not just have our editorializing of it.
Maybe we can give a quote direct from their website
(37:51):
about what the Great Reset, if not what it is,
what it wants to do. Yes, here are the official
aims of the Great Reset to offer insights to help
inform all those determining the future state of global relations,
the direction of national economics, the priorities of societies, wow
(38:14):
priorities of societies, the nature of business models, and the
management of a global commons. To transform capitalism into something
new capitalism two point Oh, that that's me. I think
that's me through Ben's words. I mean, that's that's the idea. Right,
(38:35):
that's like, let's rethink capitalism. In his book, Professor Schwab
argues and argues for the I don't want to necessarily
call it a buzzword, but the phrase they used to
describe this is something called stakeholder capitalism. Stakeholder would be
defined in theory as anybody, any individual entity or organization
(39:01):
that will be affected by decisions made, by problems solved,
or by problems accelerated. And so they're saying, they're saying,
what we're doing is we are. We are telling businesses,
specifically that you have more responsibilities than merely giving your
(39:22):
shareholders a good profit report at the end of every quarter.
You have other stuff you need to do, which is
something a lot of people can agree with. Uh Davos,
through the Great Reset initiative, wants to build a quote
new social contract that honors the dignity of every human being.
And on the face of that, that sounds amazing because
(39:46):
there are very few examples in the human species of
a society or a group dynamic that ever managed to
honor the dignity of every member of the group or
a ja you know, stakeholder. Fine, I'll take it. I'll
start saying stakeholder too. Now it's it's over. We've gun
full corporate. But but that's the that's the official answer.
(40:09):
That is what the Great Reset is supposed to do.
And at this point I think we've raised some good concerns,
some hopefully fairly accurately of the land here. Um, Folks,
When Matt Noel and I work on these kinds of stories,
we do run into run into things where we say
(40:31):
this has to be a multipart show, and it's not
every decision we make lightly, but we also feel that
we need to do our best to actually explore all
of this stuff. So consider this part one or chapter
one and introduction to Davos an introduction to the Great Reset,
(40:53):
and tune in for our very next episode, Part two,
where we are going to assuming illumination gloable and limited.
Let's just get away with it. We're going to drop
dive straight into all the crazy, crazy stuff surrounding this idea. Yeah. Absolutely, Well,
if we're not stuck in Lacrosse, Kansas, which we might
(41:15):
be for a little bit. Um, I know we have
to go do that speaking thing or whatever, but okay, um,
I just want to say, when I hear or when
I first heard this concept of the Great Reset, I
thought it was a fictional story. I thought it was
and this is not true. This is not the reality
of what it is necessarily at all. But I imagined
(41:38):
it as some dastardly plan, the Great Reset. It sounds
like what you do when you're when your computer malfunctions
or your network shuts down, and you unplug the thing,
wait for a while, and plug it back in because
it's not working. Something is gone awry. We just need
to kill it for a while and then restart it.
And in my mind, I hear them talking about society, essentially,
(42:01):
about civilization, about humanity. That's what I picture, at least
when I first you know, at least when I first
encountered this concept of the great reset. Yeah, it's got,
it's gotten the sinister vibes of the Georgia guidestones in
some ways, you know, like being out a cancer on
the earth and maintain population under five million or whatever. Um. So, yeah,
(42:27):
I can see how you would go there, Matt. And
I just I wonder what everybody else immediately thinks when
they hear what we've discussed thus far. And i'd like to,
you know, if you haven't already researched hanging there for
the second part of this, but you know, I'd love
to hear what you think before we even get into
the specifics. I think we all would. I think we'd
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this a situation to burn the village to save the village.
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