After the recent comment by a university chancellor on MUP’s publication of “Cardinal” this piece is a bit of History for Dummies. An offshoot of “Airport trash”.
Rutger Bregman. “Troublemaker”
We (our society) have arrived at the Emperors New Clothes moment, ‘
Delegates Arrive to submit their vision to Davros
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman reminded everyone at Davos that if they paid their taxes they wouldn’t need to wheel out Bono and genuflect to capitalism. Took a historian to get a handle on Emperor’s New Clothes-manship’. And he’s only thirty.
The bastards don’t pay, and hide behind the shabby cloak of Philanthropy.,
Pretty well sums it up.
The blokes a genius,
Someone had to say it.
Cept non one did.
Trouble is all of them have the same point of view..
Bit like global warming, We pretend it aint happening, till the bees die, we’re under water and our houses are reduced to rubble and ash. Hard living in the here and now. That’s why we have RELIGION.
Jan Hus, the precursor to Walter Bregman, Luther and anyone else who questions the status quo. Met a similar end to Khashoggi, but his demise provided entertainment to the masses as a public execution.
Jan Hus heretic and inspiration for the the famous and emblematic “Ship of Fools” had it sussed way back in the 1450’s. Think it was after the Black Death. The Black Death? Bit like a banking crisis, it sharpens the senses. One moment you’re riding high, then you’re ten feet under.
“Rapid growth in wealth inequality results in the inevitable isolation of a very small, very rich, very privileged section of the community from the material experiences of everyone else. And when this out-of-touch minority group is enfranchised to make the decisions on behalf of people they don’t know, can’t see, have no wish to understand, and think of entirely in dehumanised, transactional, abstract terms, the results for the rest of us are devastating”. ( Sally Macmanus)
Sebastian Brandt wrote “Ship of Fools”… its an allegory adapted from Plato to describe Davos.
He was inspired by Hus.
Sebastian Brandt. Allegedly lived longer than a Saudi or Russian Journalist.
Hus was the precursor to the Dutch bloke.
After John Wycliffe, the theorist of ecclesiastical reform, Hus is considered the first church reformer, as he lived before Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli. His teachings had a strong influence on the states of Western Europe, most immediately in the approval of a reformed Bohemian religious denomination, and, more than a century later, on Martin Luther himself.[4] He was burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholic Church, including those on ecclesiology, the Eucharist, and other theological topics. (Wiki)
Hus got dirty on papal indulgences, its bit like non payment of tax for Rich bastards through philanthropy. Hus said it one hundred years before Luther. He was a clever bastard. These days he’d be called a ‘ratbag lefty troublemaker’.
Davos is famous for its eccentricities and rugged individualists.
Lucky the Dutch bloke didn’t get knocked off as famously happened at the Council of Wurms, a bit like a modern day Davos. He was lured with the protection of free passage. Like the Saudi journalist, he went out in a suitcase, or in them days drawn, quartered, broken on the wheel. He was liquidated. The status quo did him in, and there’s no bones about it.
I reckon that’s where capitalism is now. Very Jan Huss. He was offered safe conduct. Once at the diet they knocked him off.
Davos is so very pre-reformation, The ancien regime hanging on, and enjoying the modern equivalent of papal indulgences. Not fact but Bullshit, Papal Bull-shit or otherwise. In the end it’s all bout POWER.
“James, Tahiti Looks nice”!
That’s the legacy of the greatest capitalist system known to humankind; Organised religion. No wonder they love Coal.. Flat Earth.. stoning women… etc..etc.. etc…Flying on Lear-jets to proclaim “ Tahiti Looks Nice”
Fear and loathing go hand in hand.,
Time to rollout Bono
Goodnight.