The term “Davos Man” is a useful catch-all term to describe the recently emerged globalist ideologue, whether a politician or a captain of industry, associated with belief in a new world order and encompassing a strange fusion of progressive social and environmental views with faith in unbridled capitalism. The phrase is usually thought to be the creation of Samuel P Huntington, in 2004, and long before anyone outside of the World Economic Forum had heard of Klaus Schwab. Huntington is most famous for his thesis on the clash of civilisations, seen as an answer to Francis Fukuyama’s now discredited “end of history” prognosis of the early 1990s and the projected happy ending for liberal democracy. Yet Huntington’s popularisation of the term Davos Man might have far deeper significance and longer-term relevance, in the age of Covid totalitarianism.
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The term “Davos Man” is a useful catch-all term to describe the recently emerged globalist ideologue, whether a politician or a captain of industry, associated with belief in a new world order and encompassing a strange fusion of progressive social and environmental views with faith in unbridled capitalism. The phrase is usually thought to be the creation of Samuel P Huntington, in 2004, and long before anyone outside of the World Economic Forum had heard of Klaus Schwab. Huntington is most famous for his thesis on the clash of civilisations, seen as an answer to Francis Fukuyama’s now discredited “end of history” prognosis of the early 1990s and the projected happy ending for liberal democracy. Yet Huntington’s popularisation of the term Davos Man might have far deeper significance and longer-term relevance, in the age of Covid totalitarianism.