Lording it Over Them: The World Economic Forum’s Arrogant Attack on Individual Liberty
“The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’ “
- Luke 22:25
In the event you have a life to live and don’t have hours of free time every day to monitor the latest big plans the master-of-the-universe-types have for the rest of us serfs, peasants, and minions, you may be surprised to hear that the great high holy week of globalism has arrived. It’s Davos time!
What’s that you say? You’ve never heard of Davos? Well, you just don’t know what you’re missing. Davos is a town in Switzerland that once a year plays host to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the exclusive annual January gathering of the world’s great and good where they discuss weighty and important topics that you and I can’t understand and make big plans for how to impose their vision of the future on us.
The Corporate Line
I admit, I haven’t paid much attention to the run up to this year’s gathering. What tipped me off this time around, though, was all the climate change hype that kept showing up on CNBC, a financial channel I follow regularly.
For example, one recent headline on CNBC read “Capitalism ‘will fundamentally be in jeopardy’ if business does not act on climate change, Mircosoft CEO Satya Nadella says.”
This is a new take on climate change. Generally, what you hear from the mainstream media (MSM) is that it’s capitalism itself that is causing climate change and that it needs to be ended in favor of the sort of Green New Deal Marxist claptrap one hears from the likes various American politicians whose names I won’t mention in this space.
But here’s a businessman - the CEO of Microsoft no less! – announcing to the world that climate change is an existential threat to capitalism. Adapt or die, seems to be is message.
The article begins by announcing, “The science is clear that environmental sustainability must factor in a corporation’s growth plans, or the capitalist and economic system the U.S. enjoys ‘will fundamentally be in jeopardy.’ “ Now the piece doesn’t say exactly what “science” is “clear” to the point that it requires the radical re-evaluation of the purpose of a corporation as is proposed in this article, but one supposes Nadella is referring to the report put out by the WEF just in time for the group’s 2020 meeting this week in Davos.
It probably doesn’t come as a surprise to you, but about halfway into the article one comes across the obligatory “Orange Man Bad” reference. You see, unlike righteous CEO’s such as Nadella who care about the environment, Orange Man, “has tapped the brakes on a number of the country’s climate initiatives, such as pulling the U.S. out of the multilateral 2017 Paris Agreement.”
After plowing through a lot of corporate-speak virtue signaling, about “sustainability” and Microsoft’s new “Climate Innovation Fund” we read,
Microsoft’s CFO Amy Hood, appearing alongside Nadella later in the interview, said the eco-friendly program along with the company’s $750 million commitment to affordable housing in Seattle, Washington “are good returns on investments.”
Reflecting on this statement, author Tyler Clifford notes, “She stopped short of projecting what the return on investment in these initiatives would be, but explained that it will be measured and the company will hold itself accountable.”
So the Microsoft CFO won’t offer a projection of the return on investment of these “eco-friendly” programs? Remarkable. Her silence on this subject should be a big clue. Not only will the “eco-friendly” initiatives not be profitable, they almost certainly will destroy shareholder value.
Now one can feel a certain amount of sympathy for Nadella. He’s the high-profile CEO of a hugely successful company. As such, he’s expected to talk the talk and walk the walk of the master of the universe types whose good graces he must court. My guess, he probably doesn’t believe all the sustainability nonsense he talks about. It’s just the cost of doing business.
The Davos Globalist Line and Antichrist
While Nadella’s comments aren’t openly globalist, another article on CNBC let the globalism behind the WEF report out of the bag.
WEF has said it aims to assist governments and international institutions in tracking progress toward the Paris Agreement and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
The Paris Agreement was the destructive treaty, from which President Trump wisely pulled the US.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals, known more formally as The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is a formula for international socialism and world government, which unsurprisingly has been openly praised by globalist Pope Francis.
Writing in his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si, On Care for Our Common Home, the current occupant of the Office of Antichrist, Pope Francis, openly called for world government as the cure for the so-called environmental crisis. Worth noting Pope Francis did so by quoting his predecessor Benedict XVI, who himself referenced his predecessor Pope John XXIII (the Vatican II pope). Wrote Francis,
Given this situation, it is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions, with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments, and empowered to impose sanctions. As Benedict XVI has affirmed in continuity with the social teaching of the Church: “To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago”.
So Popes Benedict and Francis agree, there is a need, in fact an urgent need, for “a true world political authority.” Even the secular globalists at Davos aren’t quite that open about their plans to rule the world. But the Antichrist popes of Rome not only say it, but they nearly shout it from the rooftops. As Jesus said of the Pharisees, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.”
It’s doubtful that the masters-of-the-universe at Davos or the UN or in the Vatican really believe the stated goals of the Paris Agreement, the UN’s Sustainable Development goals or the flowery nonsense about “our Sister, Mother Earth” found in Laudato Si. More likely, they do believe in the unstated goals of these programs: unlimited power over humanity.
John Robbins on the Ecologers
As far back as 1972, John Robbins clearly identified the power lust that lurked behind the environmentalists’ mask. “The ecologers,” he wrote, “do not wish to have dominion over the Earth and subdue it: They wish to have dominion over men and subdue them” (“Ecology: The Abolition of Man,” in Freedom and Capitalism, page 561).
Closing Thoughts
In Genesis 1, God commanded man to, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Some theologians call this gift of dominion the cultural mandate.
Because of the commandment, Christianity has a radically different view of man’s relationship to the Earth than medieval mystic religions such as Roman Catholicism or modern secular movements such as environmentalism. Christians hold that the Earth is not divine, it is God’s creation, made by him but separate from him. Man is not part of nature, but rather has dominion over it. Further, not only is it not wrong for man to increase in number and to exercise dominion over the Earth, but it is positively sinful form him not to do so. For to refuse to multiply and to exercise dominion is to go against the express command of God himself, which is the very definition of sin.
The globalists and environmentalists of the 21st century – be they secularists like the Davos crowd, or religious like the Pope – stand all this on its head. Man no longer has dominion over the Earth. In their scheme of things, it is the Earth that has dominion over man. Man must serve the goddess Mother Earth and they, her priests, will prescribe the appropriate sacrifices for us.
As did the rulers of the Gentiles in Jesus day, our globalist taskmasters aim to “exercise lordship” over us, all the while positing themselves as our “benefactors,” who are saving us from the ravages of the climate crisis.
But their program is not about benefiting mankind. It's a subtle attack on freedom, capitalism and Christianity.
Let the Lord's people hear his Word, let them stand upon it, and let them reject the globalist's wicked counsel.