As penance for my many sins, I watched the opening address by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. His words could have been written by an eight-year-old, albeit one possessed by the spirit of Greta Thunberg. Perhaps that explains why he uses phrases like “Enough is enough!” “No more plundering. No more exploitation.” “The sun belongs to no one. The wind cannot be embargoed.” Or the most mawkish sentiment heard at the U.N. in years: “The defiance of hope.” Someone really ought to tell António Guterres that there are certain phrases only a pope can utter without losing his dignity.
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Yet, beyond the childish rhetoric lies an extremely dangerous underlying idea: the struggle “for power.” Guterres denounces something Marx himself might have decried: “we are witnessing an extraordinary transfer of power away from governments to a handful of private corporations and individuals.” Upon hearing this, my immediate thought was: “If only!” But no, Guterres. The reality is that we are being invaded and crushed by the massive backside of the State, the massive backside of international institutions, and the massive backside of globalist bureaucracy.
Guterres, a socialist morphing into a communist through the corruption of the U.N. and a passion for globalism, is essentially rewriting a centuries-old class-struggle speech.
Guterres, a socialist morphing into a communist through the corruption of the U.N. and a passion for globalism, is essentially rewriting a centuries-old class-struggle speech. He adapts it to current issues that, while filling the pages of left-wing newspapers, are not what matter most to ordinary people. Even war itself does not necessarily trouble families and workers; rather, it is the economic (and, if you will, moral) consequences that might cause the vast majority some concern. I am not saying ordinary people in the West do not care about war. They care about world hunger, too. But it is not something happening directly over their heads, nor does it appear in their bedrooms at night, the way the IRS does.
Ordinary people continue to suffer most from the economy, the loss of national sovereignty (hijacked by UN globalists), the bloated size of the State and its bureaucracy, the erosion of cultural identity and values, and the dire security consequences brought about by globalism. (RELATED: We Really Can Get Rid of the United Nations Now)
The U.N. Secretary-General states: “The danger is not technology. The danger is technology without accountability.” Interesting. Until the rise to power of all these center-left and center-right social democrats (Ursula von der Leyen and Guterres are, after all, cut from the same cloth), accountability was something reserved exclusively for elected officials and public servants. But that does not interest Guterres. What interests him is holding technology, an entity that does not actually exist, accountable; or rather, holding the private companies that develop it accountable. If you want a democracy, private companies must obey the law and answer to the justice system when necessary. However, the term “accountability” places them within the public sphere, reflecting Guterres’s great obsession: ensuring that no one owns anything that isn’t, in reality, the property of governments, the U.N., or Soros.
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Furthermore, Guterres wants to reform the U.N. to give underdeveloped African nations a greater presence and more capacity for action and decision-making. Brilliant. Let us entrust major U.N. decisions, which affect almost the entire world, to leaders who have failed to develop their own countries, countries plagued by corruption, authoritarianism, violence, and poverty. What could possibly go wrong? (RELATED: The West Is a Superior Civilization (And I Don’t Care If That Offends You))
Naturally, the word “climate” appeared early in his speech, and the leader engaged in his usual performative moralizing, declaring, “Polluters must pay.” These are fine words that Guterres always directs at the United States and European fools, rather than at India or China. Can someone tell this man that not even his own family believes him anymore? It is a lie. The usual culprits do the polluting, and we’re the ones who foot the bill. And we’re f**king sick of it. And one final reminder, as a bonus: Guterres, can you scientifically demonstrate, without rigging the game, that human activity has anything to do with the way the climate evolves? (RELATED: Was 2024 the Hottest Year on Record?)
Finally, their proposal to regulate AI internationally could be summed up like this: we’ll bury everything under a mountain of mandatory regulations, international, national, regional, and local. And once the bureaucratic tangle becomes insurmountable for Western AI developers, we’ll have achieved our goal: letting China, Russia, or India dominate the world through AI.
It is true that Trump has dealt him a couple of verbal slaps, probably far fewer than he deserves. But the fact remains that it is a historic disgrace for Guterres to still be heading the U.N. Or perhaps not. Maybe it’s poetic justice. Maybe Guterres is exactly what that corrupt, stupid, and amoral organization deserves.
The secretary-general concluded with a threat: “I will never… ever give up.” But it is a hollow threat. In reality, he has already surrendered to China and to Africa’s far-left dictatorships. And that happened a long time ago. The rest is theater performed by a terrible actor.
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