A Social Contract for the New World Order
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 13
Klaus Schwab is the Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, which openly seeks to remake the world and its economies into a "stakeholder" model of his own creation. In his 2022 book, The Great Narrative for a Better Future, Schwab explains that the existing "shareholder"-based social contract has expired, and it's time for a new one. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay walks you through a few paragraphs of The Great Narrative in which Schwab details what a new social contract would entail and where it might come from. Join him to see what Schwab has in mind.
Klaus Schwab is the Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, which openly seeks to remake the world and its economies into a "stakeholder" model of his own creation. In his 2022 book, The Great Narrative for a Better Future, Schwab explains that the existing "shareholder"-based social contract has expired, and it's time for a new one. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay walks you through a few paragraphs of The Great Narrative in which Schwab details what a new social contract would entail and where it might come from. Join him to see what Schwab has in mind.
New Discourses Bullets 013 - A Social Contract for the New World Order.mp3
"As though to warn Tolstoy against the temptation of dogmatism, Turgenev wrote:
'The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard: it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away, knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.'
After hanging back, Tolstoy finally let himself be swayed by Turgenev's solicitude. He also recovered his former fondness for Aunt Toinette, whom he had been hating for her retrograde attitude toward serfdom."
I have a question that's been nagging at me for some time and this seems like a great opportunity to ask it. I have heard before that Rousseau held to a social contract theory but I know the Founding Father's here in the U.S. also held to social contract theory. Definitely Jefferson and Madison believed in the social contract but it must have been very different from what Rousseau believed. It would help me a lot if you can explain the differences between the two views. Why did our founders come to such wildly different conclusions than Rousseau?