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The United Nation’s Summit of the Future is over. The “great and good” of global leadership got together for four days in New York for what their website called…” a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine the multilateral system and steer humanity on a new course.” …which sounds just lovely and not at all creepy and hubristic.
The four-day event was split into two “action days” and two days of “the Summit.” Both of which are just different names for “people in suits sitting around big tables using bureaucratic jargon while making big time serious important-person faces.” The result of which is the passing of a document they’re calling the “Pact for the Future” – 81 pages of self-important waffle so crammed with meaningless political language it becomes near-unintelligible (what James Corbett calls “Globalese”).
Here’s a paragraph chosen at random: “Enhancing cooperation with stakeholders, including civil society, academia, the scientific and technological community and the private sector, and encouraging intergenerational partnerships, by promoting a whole-of society approach, to share best practices and develop innovative, long-term and forward-thinking ideas in order to safeguard the needs and interests of future generations.” …