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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.