Klaus Schwab and the Men Who Molded Him (Part Three)
"When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frédéric Bastiat, 19th Century French Economist
Nestled high amid the Swiss alps, surrounded by perpetually snow-capped peaks and the droning peal of cowbells, the ultra-exclusive resort town of Davos (most easily accessed by private jet) hardly seems like the most discreet headquarters from which to launch a global corporate takeover. For those aware of the plans concocted there, such cartoon villainy might appear needlessly brazen, perhaps even flamboyantly reckless, and yet each January, hosted by the World Economic Forum and its now infamous founder Klaus Schwab, that is precisely what occurs - politicians, financiers, and celebrities gathered to discuss how manufactured “crises” such Covid and Climate Change might be leveraged to further implement their deranged vision of the future.
The reader is no doubt aware of the specifics. When once brain implants, genetically-augmented humans, and ubiquitous, inescapable surveillance were solely the domain of science fiction, these not only now exist, but exist as tangible, rapidly approaching realities. In many respects, Schwab has undergone much the same transition. With his heavily-accented English and gleeful promises of fusing man and machine, the WEF chairman embodies, right down to his questionable wardrobe choices, the image of the archetypal Hollywood antagonist. It is difficult to imagine that this is not at least somewhat intentional. After all, while the wider public are at last beginning to notice the chinks in Schwab’s boring-yet-benevolent façade, neither should it be assumed that the layer underneath is necessarily any more authentic. Yes, depictions of Klaus as the avatar of a timeless, irrepressible evil do indeed capture the essence of the anti-human agenda he is the face of, but in truth, even these only serve to further obscure the man who really lurks behind the curtain.
Over the course of this series, I have tried to piece together a profile of Klaus Schwab beyond either of these public personas. In the first installment, I examined the influence of his father Eugen, a decorated Nazi collaborator who would give his son a start within the business of geopolitical parasitism, while in part two, I turned to Schwab’s spiritual life and specifically, his relationship with Dom Hélder Câmara: a Brazilian priest and Communist firebrand who would lay the groundwork for the WEF’s infiltration of the Catholic Church. Both these figures were vital in erecting the centermost pillars of Schwab’s worldview, however, it was not until his time at Harvard that Klaus would encounter a man who saw the potential of developing this worldview into that of a bona fide political behemoth.
The video above is taken from a conversation conducted at the University, in which (some eleven minutes in) Schwab is asked (by a typically fawning interviewer), whether there was any professor who made a particularly lasting impression on him. Klaus doesn’t miss a beat:
“Yes, there was one course, one seminar of Henry Kissinger which really opened my eyes. I wasn’t accepted to the seminar, but I sat in – I think he let me in because I was German. And it was relatively shortly after the war, there was not too many Germans here, and this created a friendship which has endured until today. And you know Henry has been several times in Davos and I think it was mainly participating in his seminars that I developed my interest for geopolitical affairs.”
There is not many who recall Kissinger so warmly. For well over half a century, the former Secretary of State has been inextricably linked with the doctrine of “Realpolitik” - an approach to US foreign policy which was often indistinguishable from wholesale indifference to human suffering. This single-minded, often cavalier pursuit of American hegemony garnered Kissinger as much revulsion as it did veneration and yet, in more recent years (and thanks to journalists such as Seymour Hersh, Oriana Fallaci, Julian Assange, and most notably Christopher Hitchens), less and less of his dwindling prestige remains. In fact, as Kissinger approaches his hundredth year, this once towering diplomat faces the prospect of leaving behind a legacy not as a brilliant strategist or illustrious statesman, but rather as a war criminal of colossal proportions – this an apparently irreconcilable endpoint to a story which had begun with the young German immigrant eagerly conforming to the American ideal.
