It’s easy to be hard on Davos. After all, the World Economic Forum that takes place in the thin air of this picturesque mountain village each year is Burning Man for the 0.0001 percent. It’s Ego-palooza. It’s the factory where conventional wisdom is manufactured.
How can you not make fun of a place where the very rich get together to talk about the very poor, where hunger is discussed over lavish meals catered by three-star Michelin chefs flown in for the event, and where evening sessions about self-actualization are drowned out by the constant din of communal self-congratulation just for being there? The place is so damned earnest it makes your teeth hurt. It’s as if at each of the many checkpoints through which visitors must pass to get to the events, they are stripped of irony, awareness, or the healthy skepticism with which many of the initiatives being discussed ought to be approached.
We invite our users to read the full article published January 22 2015
It’s easy to be hard on Davos. After all, the World Economic Forum that takes place in the thin air of this picturesque mountain village each year is Burning Man for the 0.0001 percent. It’s Ego-palooza. It’s the factory where conventional wisdom is manufactured.
How can you not make fun of a place where the very rich get together to talk about the very poor, where hunger is discussed over lavish meals catered by three-star Michelin chefs flown in for the event, and where evening sessions about self-actualization are drowned out by the constant din of communal self-congratulation just for being there? The place is so damned earnest it makes your teeth hurt. It’s as if at each of the many checkpoints through which visitors must pass to get to the events, they are stripped of irony, awareness, or the healthy skepticism with which many of the initiatives being discussed ought to be approached.
We invite our users to read the full article published January 22 2015