Week 14: It Is the Silence From Corporate World and Not Tariffs We Should Be Afraid Of

Dear all,

Globalisation as we have known it is gone.

The sudden—yet in hindsight, obvious—departure from the global liberal democratic order has been underway for some time. Over the last 15 years, the dismantling effects of this historic stage in our civilisation have laid the groundwork for the latest nail in the coffin of globalisation.

Looking back and analysing some of the historic events in this tragicomic play, we can, to a large extent, recognise the forces now at work to dismantle what we can only describe as an abandoned world order. Friendships and alliances have been forsaken, agreements broken, and guarantees thrown out the window.

We are back to a nation-state, kingpin-style rule.

That is what remains after 70 years of the globalisation process.

The broken promises of the neo-liberal fairytales—privatisation, deregulation, rising inequality, and the financial atomic disaster of 2008—left behind catastrophic consequences that most people around the world never fully understood.

The aftermath of 2008 marked the beginning of the end of the liberal world order—and the end of neo-liberalism.

The years that followed were defined by skirmishes between the remnants of neoliberal ideology and a new, more dangerous force taking shape.

What we are witnessing now is the framing of a triple frontier: national, militarised, and hegemonic boundaries.

Beyond the unforeseen havoc unleashed by economic tariffs—now roaming like a mad dog across the global economic plains—the impact has been, above all, psychological.

Unpredictable. Uncontrolled. Unprecedented. Uncharted.

There is no Magna Carta to follow anymore.

And yet, amid the chaos, there is a deafening silence from the corporate world.

The very people and businesses that benefited most from the neo-liberal order, from globalisation, and from the era of accelerated wealth creation—are silent.

It is this silence that is becoming far more dangerous than the voices currently calling the shots.

The corporate world should be afraid of this new age of silence—where the gloves are off, and the rules of engagement are reduced to one: violent coercion.