The Great Mind F*ck: Donald Trump was the star of the technocrats’ debutante ball
A standing ovation at Davos for the US president was an obvious tell; technocracy, power, and the myth of opposition was on full display for those with eyes to see.
They say actions speak louder than words. That aphorism was palpable at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, the moment Donald J. Trump — president of the United States and (arguably) the world’s greatest villain — appeared on the stage.
First, the audience clapped politely. Then they rose into a standing ovation. They cheered and lifted their phones to record the scene the way people do when they know they’re witnessing something they will want to share with others later.
Is this how people act around someone they abhor?
For years, Americans had the impression that Davos despised Trump, and the feeling was mutual. The global technocratic elite, we were led to believe, viewed him as a bloviating barbarian at the gate. Trump, for his part, leaned into the role. He used rhetoric that sounded like rebellion, mocking multilateral institutions and speaking in a tone that sounded anti-elite, anti-globalist, anti-establishment.
That’s why his appearance in the Alps this year was so striking.
Trump opened his speech with a line that should have landed harder than it did: he thanked the audience, calling them “so many respected business leaders, so many friends… a few enemies.” The room laughed, but not nervously or defensively. It was the laugh of people who got the joke and understood their place in it. The audience was in on the performance.
Friend of Collapse Life and podcast guest, Patrick Wood, has spent decades warning that technocracy is the coming mode of governance — rule by systems, data, metrics, and managerial authority instead of politics or consent. Yesterday, Wood wrote that, in spite of all his bluster about the evils of the globalist elite, Trump is finally making technocracy possible:
“Trump is the catalyst to trigger the Great Reset,” Wood wrote. “Few saw this coming in this way, but Trump has thrown them all under the bus:
The United Nations, Agenda 21, and its Sustainable Development scam
The windmills and solar farms
The war on carbon and fossil fuels
Stakeholder Capitalism
The “stupid” immigration policies that are destroying Europe
NATO
etc., etc.
My read at this point is that all of these things were instrumental in getting Technocracy in the driver’s seat in the first place. But now that Technocracy has arrived, they are done with those things. Out with the old, in with the new.”
Trump was not there to dismantle the Davos dream. He was there as the star attraction at the technocrats’ debutante ball. A ball is a ritual, and rituals exist to reassure people. The usual Davos claptrap and side events are still taking place as a way to let the elite class know that power will survive the transition, even if the costumes change. Some of the old guard may step aside, as Klaus Schwab has already done to make room for Larry Fink, but the system endures.
By applauding, and even an occasional ‘whoop’, the audience signaled their readiness.
With his anti-World Health Organization, anti-climate accord rhetoric these past years, Trump hasn’t been taking a wrecking ball to the idea of centralized power. What he’s been smashing is the illusion of legitimacy that once justified global government. After the Second World War, we were told there was a need for multilateralism, for working together, for cooperation, humanitarian action, and a moralized global consensus.
But those structures were built for a different world, and they were already hollowed out before Trump arrived. He just accelerated their collapse and made the humiliation public, turning distrust into spectacle… and delegitimization into a form of gladiatorial entertainment.
Read between the lines, and the message is clear: multilateralism doesn’t work. It hasn’t brought peace, or slowed the advance of environmental degradation, or stopped deadly pandemics from spreading around the world. When something doesn’t work, we should stop doing it. Declare it dead.
That’s what Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, did the day before Trump spoke in Davos. A consummate technocrat, Carney stood before the same audience and calmly said the “old world order” is in the rear view mirror.
“We shouldn’t mourn it,” he said. “Nostalgia is not a strategy.”
(Carney also argued that there is room for “middle powers” like Canada to exercise influence. This is a pipe dream. In a world where might makes right, there is no middle power status; the binary is either hegemon or vassal state. Sadly, Canada will soon find this out.)
What gets ushered in now may not look like anything we have seen before. We need to prepare for a modern form of global monarchy — an unelected authority executing actions at the will or whim of an elite core who no longer feel the need to justify their actions, or be transparent about process, or even pretend to ask for permission. Technocracy promises to be management without moral storytelling and administration stripped of sentimentality. In actual fact, it will look a lot like what we have now, just without the pretense of consent by democratic will.
After his speech, Trump spoke to business executives at a reception and sounded almost amused by how well it had gone. (watch below)
“We had a good speech. We got great reviews. I can’t believe it. Usually, they say, ‘He’s a horrible dictator-type person.’ (I’m a dictator... But sometimes you need a dictator.) But they didn’t say that in this case.”
Trump wasn’t even pushing back on being called a dictator. He was noting that, in this room, that label no longer disqualified him. The word passed easily because it named something that was already well understood: the speeches at Davos were memos being delivered out loud. That’s why the applause matters.
Back home in Canada and the United States, we still read politics along now-defunct left-right lines. That’s why we think of Mark Carney and Donald Trump as opposites. The people in the room at Davos, however, read things along a different axis. While we thought the fight was between globalism and nationalism, they saw it as a divide between governance by consent and governance by algorithms.
From that perspective, Trump is no outsider. He wasn’t there to oppose the World Economic Forum, or repudiate Klaus Schwab, or burn down technocratic ideals. He was there to be introduced — or maybe reintroduced. He walked out onto the dance floor, bowed to the audience, and let the orchestra start playing. The standing ovation matters more than anything he said in his speech.
You don’t stand up and clap for your enemy or take an iPhone video of the person you think is about to chop off your head or dismantle your power. The room stood because they were watching a transfer of power, whether they realized it or not.
Now that the ball is over, the technocracy can begin in haste.
Since these are simply paid, scripted actors, complicit yet controlled and "owned" front men and women for their transnational criminal syndicate sponsors (the unseen hand with real delegated power, influence and authority who in turn are simply avatars for dark spiritual forces anxious to realize their long-sought after total spectrum dominance & ownership of the planet, its populations, resources and its wealth) -- the ones grooming & directing them in their respective roles, ensuring they adhere to the protocols and objectives given to them in the seamless tapestry of the "story" being sold unapologetically -- what we saw was the equivalent of their public-facing, occult-based rituals including their mutual celebration of their individual and "cast" performances on the world stage -- like a scene from the Oscars or the Tony Awards - plastic smiles, feigned humility (or bloviated brevity) & self-congratulatory speechifications.
It was not the thunderous approval or recognition of true power and real leadership - no one fell to the floor enthralled with near-deity fascination (or horror) as there was no humility in sight: they were a choice (hand-picked and "selected") gathering of the presently favored psychopathic narcissists recognizing themselves and their continued mastery over the uniform continuation of deception, duplicity, and artifice of their respective roles portrayed to entrain and control the masses, successfully moderating the faciliatation of the ongoing illusion, the casting of spells, the carefully chosen sleight of hand - the masterful spectacle and and the accompanying mass delusion and mind control -- the evidence of well-rehearsed lines, of character development, of scenes so well executed that they, at times, felt they actually were inhabiting the people they were representing while the fans cheered on (a star on the dictator walk of fame?) -- like a moment out of the 1930s where Nazi salutes and dramatized declarations were used to stir the crowds to unity and to achievement of the underlying objectives - hysteria orchestrated and directed for purpose, not a moment wasted or a gesture or word unscripted or unpurposed.
After all, as long as they do what they're told, mind their manners and remain within the bounds of their predetermined roles, (with occasional script notes or when necessary , public reprimands or even removals) they enjoy the fame and fortune, with the promise that when it's all over and the final scene has been completed, they will still have a place of importance and prominence at the table - they will still be seen as necessary or useful to their puppet masters.
They are the active participants in the perpetuation of the Hegelian Dialectic -- the false dichotomies that are carefully recycled and reframed, but optimally repurposed and reintroduced as the masses are slowly led to slaughter, participating willfully, hypnotized and enthralled by the cult of personality and the divisions created to prevent their uniting to foment the needed resistance/rebellion against those who would be their rulers - willing (by their complicity and passive acceptance) their own slavery and facilitating their own self-sabotage....while being herded into their digital prison and to their final state of usefulness -- their purpose served as the door for freedom slams shut behind them -- they are the trophies of the victory won.
In a largely Technical Society—where all the drivers of the economy, medicine, education, etc are technical: information access, measurements, etc—OF COURSE you will have a technocracy.
The question is, how will you control it: with humans or machines.
Trump, your “villain”, understands this, is on the human side, and has proven it many times in the last year, and with his public statements and writings.
That makes him a hero: Man over the now-inevitable machines which make a modern quality life of freely accessible plenty and good health in the context of self determination possible.
Now to read the rest of your always-interesting article.
Thanks.