Monday, January 27, 2003

Updates from Davos My nephew, Dan Rosan, has a great blog where he is currently posting reports from his friend at Davos.  She is witty, intelligent, and worth reading.  Here is a quote: "I thought I'd go inside the Congress Hall and see what effect the demonstration had on the participants. None. At all. You couldn't even tell it was going on. Your badge got you through the barricade, but if you were already inside when the demonstrators started to gather and you stayed inside for the next few hours, you had no idea they were even there. The trouble with the badge is that -- especially if you're one of the business or gov't leaders who paid $10,000 to $30,000 to be here, as opposed to the faculty, who are here on the WEF nickel -- is that you begin to believe it represents something about you, something that actually does make you more special than other people. Everyone in a uniform (and there are lots of different uniforms) smiles and helps you out, food is free, and it's easy to think it's because you deserve it. This is the world in which these people live. It's very Marie Antoinette. They really on some level don't get it about the rest of us. What's our problem? How come we don't just, you know, behave?" 2:40:27 PM   comment []

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