From time to time one group seem to overpower the other.

Capitalism is the victory of the entrepreneur. The indolent has to work more than he wishes. But brings prosperity.

Comunism was the victory of the indolent (it is easier to have good paying jobs if the government owns everything). But, since nobody actually owns the money, it leads to ruin.

People get tired of both once in a while. The Russian revolution of 1917 was the indolent’s victory. The Russian revolution of 1989 was the entrepreneur’s victory.

It does not matter what kind of business we are talking about. Journalism or construction or retail or industry.

What we need to find out now is who’ll win this time. In the US the indolent seem to be winning now.

> Hope? State support will be suicide for the journalistic profession.

By “journalism”, they don’t actually mean what you think of as journalism. They mean “jobs”, and they’re perfectly happy with phony, baloney jobs.

Think Blazing Saddles.

LGMoratto
Porto Alegre
Brazil.

“I have said of journalism that its future is entrepreneurial (not institutional).”
“Entire industries are in various stages of disruption and destruction: news, media, [...] institutions, including government, nongovernmental and international organizations, and the academy.”

and I totally agree with that.
The best sign for me have been my experiences with the occupations of Austrian Universities last fall (www.unsereuni.at).
Everyone was disrupted: The politicians, the police, the media, and even the ÖH, the official interest group for students didn’t know how to deal with it.
It was a movement protesting for better circumstances in universities and against the bologna-process(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_process).

The interesting thing was, that the movement didn’t have leaders, like previous movements had. In former movements there was one leader speaking for the whole group. When you chopped off his head, the movement was dead. This time it was different, because no one, or better: everyone was responsible and someone you could talk to. Coordination took place over SMS, Twitter, Facebook, et al.
Officials couldn’t deal with it and were always looking for a leader, which just wasn’t there.

One example, how institutions like the ÖH can get useless over night and how the new technologies may change the way we govern ourselfs.

Best regards,
Patrick

Meet JP Rangaswami

Exclusive? Elitist? I think not.

So I’m at the end of my first Davos. I hope to be back. The theme was Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild. And I fully expect to see a lot of that over the next year. Not just in big monolithic projects (of which there will be some) but, far more importantly, in a whole swathe of small pieces loosely joined, individual and cottage industry projects that make material differences to the lives of the people they touch.

Of course Davos is about world leaders meeting to discuss things of world import. Of course Davos is about the world economy and politics and climate change. Of course business people the world over gather here and talk shop. Of course business is transacted here, a lot of business is transacted here.

But that’s not all that happens.

Don’t judge the Davos book by the covers that others may use.

Our next meeting is in Cartagena, Colombia. It’s a disruptive old world…

Adrian

“Where’s the action, he asked? Where are the specifics?”

I and other detractors have asked you the same question — only to have our comments deleted.

You don’t seem to like disruptors who challenge your ideas.

Seems like you’re just whining about having to participate in the WEF.

(resisting all temptation to “disrupt” you about how your cherished “link economy” factors in to this)

To continue on you “fondue pot” argument

WEF I = “fondue pot” in Davos
WEF II = Ferran Adria in Spain

And yes, we will meet in India or Africa or Brazil or at an IP address to be named…

Bart

Many of the people have long documented histories of having endless
appetites for self-importance. Davos feeds that, not the disrupters.

There are also likely a few people at Davos who have the economic
means to derail, disrupt, or destroy anyone that challenges their deity.
Maybe they should have a badge, “I play for keeps” ? “Winner take all”?

As for the “Disrupters” there is one small problem, FRICTION. IF the
world were allowed to move in the way you seem to propose, as soon
as one person or group came to power they would be knocked off
the hill by the next empowered “disrupter”. It is too easy to do. There
is some FRICTION built into all systems to prevent total chaos.

To use Twitter as an example, it seemed odd that their management
would be a Davos. That must be some sign that Twitter has made it
to the TOP. King of the Hill. In a disrupter world, there would now be
10 challengers for that top spot. Instead, the Davos Community likes
to choose who they want to allow to be on top. They therefore do not
want a vote, a competition, a disrupter. It is a showcase of their
“World Economic” prowess.

You may want to dig deeper into how Davos Divas & Deity are made.

Hope? State support will be suicide for the journalistic profession. The credibility of the Dinosaur Media is eroding rapidly as it it, but the moment they start taking payments directly from the government, that credibility drops to zero.

A media organization that is financially supported by the government is not a journalistic enterprise of any sort. It is a Ministry of Propaganda.

I enjoyed your take on WEF.

There already is a “WEF II” as you referred to it.

It’s called EO, the Entrepreneurs Organization, and it has more than 7,300 members in 43 countries. It was founded in 1987, and its vision is to build the world’s most influential community of entrepreneurs.

I am a member of the UK chapter. At Davos you may have run into Lars Hinrichs, founder of Xing, and one of the most active EO leaders in Europe. There probably were a handful of other EO members there.

EO members work in their local communities to promote the interests of entrepreneurs and to broaden learning and opportunities for success. Regular global “universities” bring entrepreneurs together in what perhaps could be described as a Davos-like environment of learning and idea exchange.

The website is http://www.eonetwork.org.

Kind regards,
Evan