"The Canadian Prime Minister arrives at Davos. Not quite Nietzsche’s lantern-bearing madman running to the marketplace to announce the death of God, he nonetheless comes to shatter an illusion."
James Brandt
At Davos, Mark Carney called on countries to abandon the fiction of the rules-based order.
Yet as @richardjoyce.bsky.social argues, all political systems require acting "as if" their premises are true. The real question is which fictions we choose to live by, and which we’re willing to remake.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was widely lauded for declaring the rules-based international order effectively dead and urging middle powers to build "
