PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation with Hoover Senior Fellow Victor David Hanson about the disorienting assumptions of Amerian leadership, elite, media and academia. Here Victor David Hanson describes the strange conduct of the Davos Man. Much mor
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson
https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Citizen-Progressive-Globalization-Destroying/dp/154164753X
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| 0:30.0 | This from a lengthy conversation with my colleague Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow, a classicist. |
| 0:38.0 | The question turns on a personality that was global before the pandemic and it will be back. |
| 0:45.0 | It's called the Davos Man, traveling to Switzerland once a year to rub elbows with other very |
| 0:52.0 | well to do, very powerful people talking about global |
| 0:54.9 | governance about the elite ruling once upon a time that was understood as the Roman elite. Now it's Davos man. I ask |
| 1:05.0 | Victor what is Davos man? He very carefully puts it in context of where we are now in |
| 1:11.4 | recovery from the pandemic and a world that is very carefully coming |
| 1:17.8 | apart two wars, possibly a third war. |
| 1:21.3 | Here's Davos man. |
| 1:23.2 | Victor Davis Hanson. |
| 1:25.0 | These are people who feel that they're singular in their own particular countries, and they're usually captains of industry |
| 1:34.3 | billionaires members of governments, celebrities, actors, they all feel that their own particular country, and they're mostly to be frank in Europe and in the United States and North America, and to a lesser extent in Japan, etc. |
| 1:55.0 | And they feel that because they have been so blessed, |
| 1:59.0 | they have the singular wisdom that the way the world should be run and the world is not being |
| 2:04.6 | run that way on issues as diverse as you know climate change abortion taxation size of government because abortion, taxation, |
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