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January 26th, 2008

Our “funny” Davos blog post

Posted by: James Saft
Tags: Davos 2008

By Swiss law (and believe me there are some funny Swiss laws) it is illegal to blog about Davos without a funny, lighthearted piece about how rich everybody is. I don’t know why this law came into being, but I imagine it was as a result of international negotiations intended to insert irony and self-awareness into a very self-serious event. It also makes us poor media types feel better.

Here is ours, culled from overheard conversations this week:

I was sitting at a table, blogging, when a man politely asked me if he could sit in an unoccupied seat. After a while, two other men began talking to him very solicitously. It was clear, as these things are, that the seated man was important to the others.

After a time, one standing man said: “You know what his problem is, his jet is too big to land anywhere near here.”

Second standing man: “Why don’t you do like they do on yachts, carry a little plane around inside the big one?”

Stay tuned for more…

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For our Friends and Davos

The Power of Wealth and the Ushering in of the God Man

The enlightened capitalist can indeed feel he has arrived at this special place.
The internet allows man to see and feel the power of his means to convince, control and discover. The coming together and range of our thoughts easily transcends between the spirit of a living God and the spirit of an enlightened man.

Today’s crowd of internet scientists, global jet setting billionaires and highly compensated military, corporate and religious leaders seem almost certain to grasp the concept that men control their own destiny. Their actions suggest that God is more a tool of their creation than they are the servant of a creator. Whether they actually believe in an all powerful God is not near as important as the commoners and masses believe there is a God. They are after all the main benefactors of the divine right of Kings and millions of men willing to die in defense of their goals and objectives.

The legends and stories surrounding so many beliefs supporting the Living God suggest that the small can become great, the weak strong and the lame to be made whole promote the same message of hope to the masses. This message clearly provides the framework that is strong enough to defeat the opponents of the No God philosophy all by itself. It defeated communism, produced the strongest military and the wealthiest and most powerful small group of people the world has ever known.

Most people as part of the masses of middle and lower class citizenry believe in a God if not fervently. They are inspired to live as patriots, to die in wars or at least stand up for their beliefs especially if there seems to be some divine directive. This of course provides the God Believer and the Man Believer with a paradox. If there is no God then by what will would so many of the masses want to live—for God is their only hope for meaning, a better life or higher place for doing good deeds. What is right or what is wrong if there is no divine directive? The new directive of the enlightened capitalist provides a new better framework for tolerance, consideration and world peace than any religion before it .

From the Internet we hear and see new information about conspiracy theories, the Bilderbergs, or religions different from our own. The virtue of globalization and capitalistic decree maintain that they are in fact the perfect religion, which knows no wrong. The only truth is the truth that maintains the divine rights of the new world order. Winners of course are the victors either by God or capitalistic decree but are all loyal to the new order. Winners by the survival of the fittest according to man or the most blessed according to God.

Winners are those few men who are in control of most of the wealth, military arms including nuclear weapons and media outlets. These few people control most of the media, millions of jobs, lives, and opportunities. They see there duty as man to promote peace, protect their interests and rid men of their foolish ideas about God by assuring they protect their interests and divine rights. They see the opportunity presented by offering men the power to believe in their capitalistic pursuits. The importance of accepting a tolerant God promote peace through a new enlightened man.

These victors of capitalistic truth who believe they have bridged the gap between the spirit of God and the spirit of the enlightened man know they will be able to convince the masses not that there is no God but that they have bridged the gap. They have the knowledge, the ability, power and the perseverance to create or at least find the new God man. They provide the truth that men can be winners too They pretend to care but know they believe only in the new God man. The new God man will demand only to rid ourselves of the old intolerant religious bias and show our acceptance of the new directive which promises access to all the benefits of capitalism in a world without war or pain. The new God man will combine the government, economic opportunity, and religion to complete the new world order. by rlockdall

- Posted by Randy Lockdall

That sounds like it could become a figure of speech. “His jet is too big to land here.”

- Posted by diesel

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