Obliterate Europe’s Managerial Plantation

You know about the annual meeting in Davos, where anonymous shareholders and genderless bureaucrats mingle at private chalets. Like knowledge deities, they take a bird’s eye view of the global situation and ponder how to extract more riches for a privileged few. Their old citadels—London (finance), Brussels (administration), Paris (state-control)—have been revived and metropolized to serve the interests of a gilded elite disaffiliated from their home countries. Beneath the controlled aesthetic of European technocracy lies a new medievalism.

To perpetuate his ancestral advantage, the European bureaucrat nullifies sovereignty, dilutes currencies, harmonizes laws, manipulates human energy, and plunders the global system for wealth. To soothe his conscience, he professes a commitment to new age principles like diversity and equity, while self-segregating within his network of uber-affluent allies, fellow managerial sovereigns who sit above the native constituents whose labor and taxes underwrite his cultural power. We Americans may have escaped the dwarf-sized farms of peasant Germany and Bohemia some 150 years ago, but we, too, have fallen under dominion of the manorial European bureaucrat.

“Now is the time for America to obliterate Europe’s managerial plantation,” says entrepreneur and designer Ross Calvin. He points to a system of organizations – the World Economic Forum, Bank of England, European Central Bank, Bank for International Settlements, and NATO – setting unfair rules of play for business and politics. But thanks to President Trump and other populist movements worldwide, Calvin believes the system is collapsing. “It won’t go quietly,” Calvin warns. What follows is part one in a series of conversations on the future of global politics—Europe, Ukraine, and the fate of America’s children.

Suave, intense, multi-lingual—the EU bureaucrat emancipated herself from the lethargy of her nation-state; she’s proud of the “openness” of her global city. From a committee of pan-European experts in Brussels or Davos, she runs what you call the “managerial plantation,” which treats the rubes of Europe as interchangeable machine parts whose highest purpose is to staff her manor. Explain.