The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

Antonio Gramsci

Davos 2026 was a demented kaleidoscope. The only possible way to wallow through the mire was to put on the headphones and resort to the Band of Gypsys smashing sonic barriers, and drowning a frankly terrifying series of events, including a Palantir-BlackRock connection, Big Tech meets Big Finance; the "Master Plan" for Gaza; and the acute discombobulation in neo-Caligula's rant, here in the 3-minute version.

Then there was what the fragmented West's mainstream media erected as a visionary speech: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's mini-opus magnum, complete with a – what else – Thucydides quote ("The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must") to illustrate the "rupture" of the "rules-based international order", which was already a Dead Man Not Walking at least for a year now.

And how not to laugh at the extremely rich notion of a letter by 400 "patriotic" millionaires and billionaires directed to heads of state in Davos claiming for more "social justice". Translation: they are terrified – in Paranoia Paradise mode – by the "rupture", actually the advanced collapse of the neoliberalism ethos that enriched them in the first place.

Carney's speech was a wily, headline-grabbing device to – in thesis – bury the "rules-based international order", actually the euphemism du jour, since the end of WWII, for total domination by the Anglo-American financial oligarchy. Carney now only recognizes a mere "rupture" – supposed to be sewn up by "middle powers", mostly Canada and a few Europeans (no Global South).

And there's the dead give away: the presumed antidote to "rupture" has absolutely nothing to do with sovereignty. It's actually a controlled hedging, a sort of managed ersatz multipolarity – nothing to do with the BRICS drive – based on a fuzzy "values-based realism", "coalition building" and "variable geometry" mish mash, destined to keep in place the same old monetarist scam.

Welcome to Lampedusa's The Leopard, remixed: "Everything must change for everything to remain the same."