aujourd’hui<\/a>. Heffer n’\u00e9tait all\u00e9 jamais all\u00e9 \u00e0 Davos auparavant et il s’attendait \u00e0 une forte impression. Pas du tout, et il semble bien qu’il ait captur\u00e9 l’essentiel de l’atmosph\u00e8re<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tSa description, assez inhabituelle, montre les leaders<\/em> de ce monde rassembl\u00e9s, d’une fa\u00e7on somme toute innocente et d\u00e9risoire, ou bien anodine (harmless<\/em>), semblant consid\u00e9rablement d\u00e9sarm\u00e9s devant l’\u00e9volution du syst\u00e8me qu’ils ont puissamment contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 cr\u00e9er et qu’ils ne cessent d’applaudir depuis des ann\u00e9es, sinon des d\u00e9cennies. Cela constitue un bon enseignement pour ceux qui continuent \u00e0 affirmer que le pouvoir politique est impuissant parce qu’il est dans les mains du pouvoir \u00e9conomique et que ce pouvoir \u00e9conomique tient tout et par cons\u00e9quent fait tout. La r\u00e9alit\u00e9 est bien que ce pouvoir \u00e9conomique, s’il a peut-\u00eatre entre les mains tous les leviers de l’argent, est tout aussi impuissant que le pouvoir politique a consenti \u00e0 le devenir. Davos n’a pu que constater les d\u00e9g\u00e2ts de la temp\u00eate, sans y rien comprendre, sans s’avancer \u00e0 rien pr\u00e9voir. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCe passage du texte de Heffer illustre bien son propos<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abFor all the fashion that wealth creators are supposed to be experts on foreign policy, international security, climate change and all those other things that now come as part of the global business leader approved package, it is still money that talks. And yet, oddly enough, there is a sense of unhealthy bourgeois guilt underpinning the whole Davos experience. Some who come here are refreshingly honest enough to say they hope to meet a leading fixer from some burgeoning economy or other, and persuade him to go back to his president and allow a Western franchise to operate there. Others, though, come because they genuinely do believe that talking earnestly about alleviating poverty, or arresting climate change, or making Muslims love Christians and Jews, really will make these things happen.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWell, if it makes them feel better about themselves, it is a harmless enough pastime. They should just not take it, and themselves, too seriously. All those years spent talking about the inexorable triumph of wealth creation did not stop a hell of a lot of it being uncreated earlier this week. It won’t stop international housing slumps, stock market crashes, currency collapses and all the other economic horrors that look set to be inflicted on the world before its leaders find themselves on the slopes here next January.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abIf that gave some of them cause to feel less smug and, quite possibly, marginally less self-important, then the realism it might provoke could actually help this club achieve something more than just throwing a good party.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 26 janvier 2008 \u00e0 13H45<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Le Forum international de Davos, \u00e9v\u00e9nement consid\u00e9rable, d’habitude consid\u00e9r\u00e9 et rapport\u00e9 avec respect et attention, a sembl\u00e9 plut\u00f4t \u00e9vasif et absent cette ann\u00e9e. Quelques \u00e9chos catastroph\u00e9s de tel ou tel prolongement de la crise, et c’est \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s tout. Pour le reste, l’atmosph\u00e8re de Davos semble avoir bien chang\u00e9. On retiendra cet article assez… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3244,7397],"class_list":["post-69636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-davos","tag-derisoire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}