The Davos institution Bob and Cameron treat as the contemporary emblem of managerial ambition over the planet, almost always through its founder Klaus Schwab. It surfaces as a "commercial or goal or plan" Bob flags , as the platform from which Schwab would "program the anti-environment" , and as a present-day pontiff of "how it's going to go." The page holds their characterization and the media-theory reading they attach to it, not an endorsement of the wider claims. New to it — start with dialogue 48.
Across the dialogues
Enters as the "commercial or goal or plan" Bob flags — the Forum's public pitch that Cameron reads back through the cul-de-sac
Bob introduces the WEF as a public-facing program — a "commercial or goal or plan" — the pitch Cameron will then read back through the cul-de-sac rather than take at its own promotional word.
"Have you seen the World Economic Forum commercial or goal or plan?"
Named as the platform from which Schwab means to "program the anti-environment," the ambition the dialogue calls outrageous but confused
The Forum located as the seat of a category mistake — the bid to "program the anti-environment" that Cameron reads as a misunderstanding of environments, not a workable plan of control.
"Klaus Schwab at the WEF. They say, this guy is going to try to program the anti-environment. This is outrageous."
Placed as the present-day seat of a claim to steer the whole world, which Bob judges inadequate and erroneous rather than omnipotent
The WEF cast as a would-be planetary pontiff — an institution forecasting "how it's going to go," which Bob judges out of scale with the process, "inadequate" and "erroneous" rather than all-controlling.
"it's the way presently Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum is trying to be… It pontificates the whole world about how it's going to go. And it's so inadequate, so erroneous."
Read as an institution catching up to a seventy-year-old effect — its ownership slogan taken as an unwitting description of the Global Membrane rather than a plan
The conspiracy reading is declined in favour of a lag — the slogan describes a condition already in place, which is why it can be announced as policy.
"Now look at the World Economic Forum. They're saying, you know, you'll be happy but you'll own nothing. They're just catching up to the Global Membrane effect of 70 years ago."
Connections
Schwab is the WEF face Bob and Cameron quote — the "own nothing and be happy" program and the bid to "program the anti-environment."