Always Look Into The Essence.

A lot has been said and a lot of hype has been created about pseudo-academic BS Klaus Schwab wrote on the issues he has no clue about and the beaten to death cliches and neoliberal recycled fodder he had to produce to sound competent. But we know that the doctrine-mongering is a defining feature of the West's white-board academe, which tries to pretend that it knows how the world works. It doesn't, neither does Schwab, who holds Ph.D in engineering from Swiss school but, evidently, never had a chance to exercise any of the engineering skills, concentrating primarily on some globalist "economic" and social BSing which, as we all can see, worked out just brilliantly, I hope you get my sarcasm. In general, for anyone who ever was involved in actual life beyond comfortable offices of EU and North American "academe" and think-tanks, the whole notion of Davos Culture which is primarily a post-modernist white-board construct appears preposterous and rightly so. 

Here is Klaus Schwab facing President Vladimir Putin where Putin reiterates his point about the fate of Western Civilization.

There is no subtlety in Putin's words, as there is no hiding Putin's irony, if not sarcasm, towards an Exhibit A of Western intellectual impotence which Schwab is. Putin also seems uninterested in this talk, which he concludes with a rather obvious statement: "but love is impossible if it is declared only by one side. It must be mutual." Russia is always ready to talk but if EU is incapable to do so--so be it. Here is an example of why normal relations between Russia and EU are impossible. Not only because EU is not West anymore but because people in charge of it are not fit to to run a convenience store, let alone formulate anything substantive and beneficial to all sides, let alone implement it in a larger framework of global power balance and real economy. 

Russia is not in the business of saving Western Civilization if it doesn't want to save itself. USSR did it once in 1945. Not anymore. I will only repeat late Eduard Limonov's conclusion that "we (Russia) are Europe now". He is absolutely correct. Europe is a good market for Russia and that's it, culturally current Russia's current real elite (I stress this--real) and what passes in the West for elites continue to diverge in their views and values. As RT reports today:

For centuries, the elusive “Russian soul” has puzzled writers and explorers alike. Familiarly European, but distinctly different to the West, what makes the world’s largest country tick is still the subject of fierce debate.Now, one foreign correspondent has put forward a new theory that is likely to receive a mixed critical reception in the world of Russia-watching. Oliver Carroll, the Moscow correspondent for The Independent newspaper in the UK, took to Twitter on Wednesday to opine on why locals had been broadly unmoved by the three-and-a-half year sentence handed down by a court to opposition activist Alexey Navalny the day before. Carroll said he had been contemplating “how this is different to Ukraine,” where “cops beating kids made a revolution. People were just indignant.” In contrast, he said, “Russians have an altogether different sense of self worth.”

Remarkably,  Carroll, who is a proud product of Anglo-Saxon "Russia Studies" field--a euphemism for propaganda--is not incorrect here. I agree with him, Russians have a very different sense of self-worth than some dumbed down globalist shill journo, pretending to know shit. But he is, accidentally, spot on here about Russians' self-worth--it is very different from how Carroll defines it. It is beyond his grasp and he better concentrate on his activity as a tabloid level journalism pusher. Especially working for a rag owned by a Russian ex-pat with a very curious biography. But then again, being a whore comes naturally in "journalism" profession, especially in a rag owned by Russian oligarch. But that just underscores the impossibility of any substantive dialogue between modern Russia and the West. That is exactly what Putin says. 

In other news, related to different self-worth, I could have never thought that I will live to see this:

The Navy needs to modernize the way it names ships, buildings and streets, and the service should rename assets that honor the Confederacy, a task force designed to identify problematic policies recommended this week. The recommendation is one of nearly 60 presented to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday in a new 141-page report released Wednesday from Task Force One Navy. Gilday ordered the creation of the task force in July following the death last May of George Floyd, a Black man who died in the hands of law enforcement, prompting nationwide protests about racism and police brutality.

Wow. How 'bout that:  

As retired Lt. Cmdr. Reuben Keith Green noted last year in U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings magazine, Stennis had a long record of championing white supremacy. "Most sailors -- and Navy leaders -- have little idea of his background, but the Navy, as an institution, has a moral obligation to know," Green argued. "And, it should act." The Chancellorsville, named for the major 1863 Civil War battle, was won by the Confederacy.

But I wrote on this issue before, and the United States continues on the road of cultural suicide and getting deeper into the alternative reality.

Matt Purple Begins To Suspect Something.

 Matt Purple of The American Conservative concludes that:

Our Elites Couldn’t ‘Reset’ a Wall Outlet, Let Alone the Global Economy

Ah, lovely. Some messages finally begin to trickle down and make Purple, using the example of the founder of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, question competence of Western elites. Purple delves into Klaus Schwab's background and ideas, such as proverbial 'Reset': 

Some explanation is in order. Back in 2014, an economist named Klaus Schwab emerged out of the hive of sentient buzzwords that is Davos to declare that it was time for an elite-engineered “Great Reset” of capitalism. There was just one problem: the little people who inhabit economies had been through quite enough disruption of late and weren’t especially keen on more. Schwab’s idea found little purchase outside of the global Gulfstream gentry. ...Just who is this Schwab? You will be relieved to learn that he’s a lifelong academic and founder of the World Economic Forum. And yet, you wonder, does he have any honorary doctorates? He does, in fact, no fewer than 17 of them. Yet it’s here that we damn him with robust praise. Back in parts of the world where bacon-wrapped scallops are not instantly available upon request, policy doesn’t trickle down from globe-girdling theorists; it comes from elected leaders and national civil servants. (What’s the one thing that might make Angela Merkel belly-laugh? Try telling her Jean-Claude Juncker used to run Europe.) And while politicians are occasionally tempted towards radical change, they’re also accountable to voters, whose lives they can’t afford to blow up by, say, holding down the economy’s power button for 10 seconds. Progress has to be more gradual and piecemeal than that. Disruption even amid a pandemic can garner serious pushback.

That explains it a bit why this "scholar", pardon my insult to real scholarship, makes mutually exclusive suggestions in his grand idea of 'Reset'. This IS expected from Western "elites" and Purple's references to Merkel or manifest alcoholic Jean-Claude Junker  hardly makes his case against contemporary Western elites stronger. I am not sure what is the reason behind Junker being drunk whenever dealing with the so called "global" and European economy--maybe the recognition of a deep shit this economy is in--but Merkel, far from laughing belly-laughing herself is a laughing stock of a stateswoman who must serve as an Exhibit A in any future school of government of how not to run the country. 

But I generally agree with Purple, Western "elites", including most of Washington D.C. do not know shit from shinola, which is not that surprising when overwhelming majority of them are the products of humanities programs, which, basically, teach nothing about modern world other than moribund cliches about travails of electoral politics and simulacra of governing. And here is the point--the only skills Western elites have are those of how to run perpetual election campaigns to retain their place at the trough of government spending. Moreover, the United States is not-governable in principle, because it is nothing more than a geographic playground for a political power clans who see themselves only within the framework of monetarist policies and Wall Street's, and military-industrial complex' fat tit of contributions. What governing? What steering the ship of state in the right direction? You are talking about a bunch of white-board "academics"  most of whose life experience was confined to comfortable offices of banks and law firms, with some breaks for lunch or dinners in upscale restaurants, and whose grasp of the geopolitical, economic, military and other relevant realities, or lack thereof, is conditioned by a bunch of "theories" which are nothing more than an excuse for the entrance into the clubs of Western "intellectuals", who, as Purple correctly wonders about Schwab:

I’m starting to wonder whether he could successfully back a car out of a garage.

He can't, neither can modern Western "elites" run anything complex in reality. What the fuck do you expect from some financier or "analyst" who saw CNC machining center on TV and thinks that war is just the matter of sitting at the monitor with joystick. Want to see a parade of morons--look no further than TV and main-stream media. One cretin after another selling you unreality and opinions on matters they cannot possibly have any opinions about. I write about stupidity of West's "elites" for years, decades really. It would have been comical if it wouldn't have been so dangerous because these people, as the irrefutable empirical evidence suggests, will continue to pretend, or believe sincerely, that they have what it takes to save what they themselves helped to run into the ground by their doctrine-mongering. Financial capitalism is not viable, as is not the whole concept of post-modernism and its ugly ejaculate of the white-board "academics"--post-industrialism. One cannot go against fundamental laws of physics and its underlying truism that development which matters for humanity IS energy. More energy--more real development, emphasis on real. Energy, all sorts of it, is material and it proved already that making money is not a substitute for a real technological development and new social reality which cannot be stopped, even by the invention of ANTIFA and BLM, and acts of political pedophilia Greta Thunberg embodies. Those are all acts of desperation by modern Western "elites", who are not ready to face history doing what she always does--continuing its unrelenting step. These "elites" have only two options--either get out of the way or be smashed by whatever method this history will chose, even after we were told that this history has ended.