By Peter Koenig
Friends,
this year the WEF is celebrating its 50th
Anniversary. Forty-nine (49) of the insanely
pompous – and every year more – WEF events
took place in Davos, Switzerland. Just one,
in 2002, after 9/11, was moved to New York
City, paradoxically for ‘security reasons’
they said – the logic of such a move was as
ludicrous as the WEF itself.
Friends, you should go to the WEF, the
notorious World Economic Forum in Davos,
(21-24 January), where a 12 square-meter
hotel room costs US$ 10,000 per night (if
you don’t believe it, look it up on the
internet), and where it’s totally normal
that sharpshooters are everywhere on roof
tops in subfreezing temperatures – to
protect the about 3000 upper-echelons, of
course – and that a huge section of the
Zurich airport has been cordoned-off for the
private planes of the ‘environmentally
conscious elite’ — and where Trump arrived
this morning, Tuesday, 21 January; and where
the “plane-spotters” with their
sophisticated binoculars and telescopes are
practically camping in the airport areal —
to be first when the airport gates are
opened, for them to enter the airport
terraces to “spot” the arriving VIP / CEO /
celebrity private planes (you get the
picture, it’s sort of like Black Friday,
with the campers in front of the Walmart
gates) – hundreds of private jets are
expected – the normality of abject
uselessness and decadence of the rich – and
its acceptance and even glorification by the
populace, is much more than George Orwell
could have ever thought of when he wrote
1984 in 1948.
