OPINION
You could call it the “anti-WEF”, I guess. Officially, it’s the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), the brainchild of renowned Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, former Australian Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson, and British life peer, Baroness Stroud. Its purpose, according to Peterson, is to be an “alternative to the talk-down centralising totalitarian globalist vision… the dissemination of the idea that each person has a very important role to play in bringing about a positive future and the attempt to offer encouragement to people and recognition to them if they are actually doing that.”
Rather than hand down diktats from above, in the manner of the WEF and other globalist forums, the ARC challenges responsible citizens to ponder “six questions”: Vision and Story, Responsible Citizenship, Family and Social Fabric, Free Exchange and Good Governance, Energy and Resources, and Environmental Stewardship.
We at ARC do not believe that humanity is necessarily and inevitably teetering on the brink of apocalyptic disaster. We do not believe that we are beings primarily motivated by lust for power and desire to dominate. We do not regard ourselves or our fellow citizens as destructive forces, living in an alien relationship to the pristine and pure natural world.
We posit, instead, that men and women of faith and decisiveness, made in the image of God, can arrange their affairs with care and attention so that abundance and opportunity could be available for all […]
We hope to encourage the development of an alternative pathway uphill, out of both tyranny and the desert, stabilizing, unifying and compelling to men and women of sound judgement and free will.
ARC Statement of Vision
The ARC has just wrapped up its first conference — and what a doozy it was. As Spectator editor Fraser Nelson described it, one of the “largest gatherings of the global centre Right in recent British history”.
Dubbed as an emerging rival to the annual Davos conference of corporate and political elites in Switzerland, senior UK, American, Australian political, business and intellectual leaders gathered near London’s O2 Arena to hear luminaries decry the trend toward greater government control and advocate for free speech, liberty and “Judeo-Christian values”.
Renowned psychologist Jordan Peterson, dressed in a much commented on two-tone suit, launched the proceedings before over 1500 delegates from 71 countries, calling on international leaders to “define reality and set out the choices that people must make”.
Topics covered at the conference included Israel, for whom Ayaan Hirsi Ali declared her unflinching support:
“I support Israel, no ifs no buts,” she said.
“People who live here, who’ve grown up here and enjoy the blessings of this civilization, march in London, and make excuses for people, and side with evil, it makes it makes me despair,” she said.
“We now know what evil looks like, and we know exactly what we’re facing.”
The Australian
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy joined a panel led by British billionaire Paul Marshall to condemn ‘woke capitalism’, which Marshall called “the imposition of a top-down ideology onto the free market system by politically motivated bureaucrats either from the public or the private sector.”
Coddling of the American Mind author Jonathan Haidt attacked social media, which the evidence suggests, “had been a disaster for children’s physical development and self-esteem”.
The left has its fatuous, incestuous echo-chambers, laughingly dubbed “Festivals of Dangerous Ideas”. Well, here are the real dangerous ideas.
Dangerous to the WEF and its authoritarian bootlickers, anyway.