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The Terrifying Vacuity of Klaus Schwab

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The Terrifying Vacuity of Klaus Schwab A review of COVID-19: The Great Reset, one of the dumbest, most tedious and utterly pointless books ever written. eugyppius Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret,  COVID-19: The Great Reset  (Forum Press: Cologny/Geneva, 2020). 280 pp. Like many bad books,  The Great Reset  lapses into occasional inadvertent autobiography. In the final pages especially, where Klaus Schwab writes of his hopes for a “Personal Reset” through state repression, we catch a glimpse of the man during the first-wave lockdown at  his house in Cologny . At first he enjoyed the break with routine and the opportunity to commune with nature, but before long he began to feel a nagging unease. He’d spent most of his years prior to 2020 flogging “stakeholder capitalism”, his umbrella term for various schemes to disarm criticism of the globalist corporate borg and co-opt leftist opposition. Schwab succeeded in parlaying his simplistic ideas into an international...