Amoralness as Ideological Superstructure

Carney’s admission at 2026 Davos World Economic Forum is the amorality of the technocrat:

"We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially false... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim. This fiction was useful [because of the goods provided by American hegemony]... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition...”

A development that fits very well with the narrative the Trump administration has created since its inception.

Ethics are instrumental, law is a tool (only valid through force), sovereignty is negotiable. Since legtimacy has been destroyed both on the global and national scale of the West, amoral pragmatism (or technocracy) becomes the new framework and justification:

Such statements only serve to normalize the coming harshness. The point is, that if it s framed as a tragic force of nature, rather than a chosen policy, this amorality is presented as an inevitable condition. "Politicians are not to blame."

The "lie" is being retired because its utility, to secure willing compliance from allied elites and their publics, has expired. The new basis for compliance will be raw necessity, fear, and transactional benefit, openly acknowledged.

(More thoughts on these developments to come soon.)