Designation: Opening Calibration
Length: ~2 minutes
The Annual Meeting opens with music.
Before policy, before panels, the purpose is stated plainly:
“The World Economic Forum is not about responding to current events.
It’s about orchestrating the right conditions that enable us to move forward.”
Conditions are unnamed.
Direction is assumed.
The audience is told the week’s objective is exposure:
“To expose people to wider ranges of voices… maybe you will evolve and be better for it.”
Change is framed as improvement.
Listening is framed as obligation.
Mid-performance, the exchange is acknowledged:
“A lot of ideas exchange going on over here in Davos.
A lot of money flowing around and exchanging hands.”
This is immediately abstracted:
“Everything is everything. Everything is all connected.”
Distinction dissolves.
Accountability diffuses.
The concert is then reclassified:
“This is more than a performance.
This is a spiritual practice.”
No doctrine named.
No authority cited.
Instruction follows:
“Free your body, your mind will follow.”
Order is inverted.
Alignment is implied.
The clip closes with a transition:
“We’ll see you on the other side.”
No threshold specified.
Orientation complete.