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eeping. That's one interesting characteristic. Well, two: it's super easy to do. And number two, you're not gonna do it. You're not gonna do it. Neither am I. Here's that good advice: stop looking at your screens 30 minutes before you try to go to sleep. Really? You think I'm gonna not look at my phone 30 minutes before I hit the bed? What kind of Little House on the Prairie world do you live in…
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So be aware that you are being, let's say, unknowingly manipulated to care most about topics with the most faces. And once you realize that, you can say to yourself, okay, is this something we really need to get on this and change it, or is it not that big of a deal? I don't know. It'll help you figure that out. And I don't really know.
So if you look at even the stories on gun control, they've got to put Ted Cruz's name on it, right? His name and face. Got to put Trump's name and face on it. So everything's got to be a name and a face.
I was challenged yesterday — well, actually a number of times — for not knowing enough about Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum in Davos. And so I said to myself, well I've got some idea what he's about, but I'll go to Wikipedia and see if there's anything big that I'm not aware of. And I have to think that when somebody else is being described, that the third party doesn't always do a good job. But if the way he's being described in Wikipedia is accurate in terms of his ideas, that would be interesting. We'll tell you what it is in a minute.
So he argues that governments are no longer the overwhelmingly dominant actors on the world stage, and that, quote, the time has come for a new stakeholder paradigm of international governance. Okay, so he's for some new way that the governments will operate, and it's something beyond governance. So there'd be governments plus something else, I guess. And he says the time has come for a new stakeholder paradigm of international governance. So international meaning across borders. So there'd be some kind of governing entity that wouldn't be limited to your country. Red alert, red alert.
All right. And then the vision includes a public-private UN in which certain specialized units would operate under joint and non-state governance systems. So in other words, the private enterprise would be part of government. So you say to yourself, wait a minute, what part of private enterprise, like a company, should be making government decisions? Like how do you decide what company you trust enough to make decisions like a government?
And he has an answer to that. Here's how you choose them. They would be self-selected. What? A self-selected coalition of multinational corporations and governments through the UN system, and they would select a civil society organization. So basically he's saying that big companies, they would self-select. They would have to volunteer to be this, would work with the governments such as they are, which would be weakened across country lines, to create some kind of separate organizations that run everything.
And according to this Wikipedia article, which I can't believe is true — I can't believe this is true, honestly. It looks like something is left out, doesn't it? Yeah, I think there's something majorly left out of the story, because I can't believe anybody would say with a straight face that we want to get rid of the democratic systems and replace them with private corporations. Multinational corporations. So not just corporations in one country, but multinational corporations that would self-select. So they decide they wanted to be in charge and then they'd put themselves in charge.
How in the world
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could that be serious? How in the world could that be serious? What am I missing? Is there a whole part of the story that they just don't mention here on Wikipedia? Because this doesn't even look a little bit like it's going to happen. Why would you even worry about this? Is it because a lot of people go to Davos, so therefore it looks like it might actually happen? I don't see any scenario in wh…
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