From 9e8b9048ee699c07412ac38c543dad47fa533dc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Danny O'Brien Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2025 15:50:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add early Davos editorial --- .../brigadoon.md | 22 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 assets/editorial/00inbox/beth-slouch-packets-from-davos/brigadoon.md diff --git a/assets/editorial/00inbox/beth-slouch-packets-from-davos/brigadoon.md b/assets/editorial/00inbox/beth-slouch-packets-from-davos/brigadoon.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d60c91 --- /dev/null +++ b/assets/editorial/00inbox/beth-slouch-packets-from-davos/brigadoon.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Davos is the Neoliberalism's Brigadoon: an earthly projection of the World +Economic Forum that annually overlays itself over its Swiss skiing village +host, like a night's snowfall, or a Weyland-Yutani facehugger. + +There, perpetually frozen in not-quite-1998, avatars of statecraft, NGOs, and +public-private partnerships manifest. They manifest moderated panels with each +other, office-party-dance in makeshift euroclubs, and pop the deal stacks that +can only progess when stars align and travel plans intersect. An ageless CEO of +a sagging Japanese tech companies pushes a stapled Powerpoint printout toward a +sovereign fund investor; exiled lamas diffidently bless you with a business +card for their World Peace Project. Climate change protestors huddle around +burning braziers for warmth. Public relations staff stand nervously beside +every threshold. In the distance, will.i.am can be heard, soft-launching. + +And then, as soon as they have arrived, the ghosts of the global consensus slip +their snowboots back over suit trousers and recede like glaciers to Zurich and +Zug. + + + + +