Stop Pretending: Carney’s Confession That the Global Game Was Rigged
It is rare to hear a technocrat admit the game is rigged while the cards are still on the table. Usually, such confessions are reserved for memoirs written in the safety of retirement.
Yet, in a moment of startling candour, Mark Carney, Canadian Prime Minister and former Governor of the Bank of England and the ultimate avatar of the Davos elite, has effectively read the last rites over the neoliberal fantasy.
Speaking with the sombre tone of a man watching his stock portfolio dwindle, Carney declared that the current global crisis is not merely a bump in the road. He admitted that “this rupture calls for more than adaptation”.
It calls, he says, for “honesty about the world as it is”.
And what is that world? It is a world where the mask of the “rules-based international order” has finally fallen away, revealing the raw power mechanics underneath.
Taking the Sign Down
For decades, we were told that the global economy was governed by immutable laws of cooperation and liberal democracy. We were told that globalisation was a tide that would lift all boats.
Carney now admits they are “taking the sign out of the window”.
This is a devastating metaphor. The shop is closed. The pretence that the Western establishment was running a moral enterprise is over.
He states plainly, “We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it”.
But why shouldn’t we mourn it? Perhaps because, for the global working class, that “old order” was never alive to begin with. It was a zombie system of asset stripping, wage suppression, and military adventurism.
The Hypocrisy of the “Middle Powers”
Carney’s anxiety is palpable. He speaks of the “task of the middle powers”. These are the nations, like Canada and the UK, that have “the most to lose from a world of fortresses”.
Here lies the crux of the matter.
When the “rupture” involved illegal regime change wars in the Middle East, the “middle powers” were happy to hold the coat of the American empire. When the “rupture” meant sanctions that starved civilians in Venezuela or Syria, the “rules-based order” nodded in approval.
They did not complain then. They did not call for “honesty” when the system benefited their banking sectors and their geopolitical reach.
They are complaining now for one reason only: they have become the target.
The “powerful have their power,” Carney notes with resignation. The US, under a shifting and protectionist gaze, is no longer guaranteeing the safety of its vassal states. The “fortresses” are being built, and the technocrats in Ottawa and London have realised they are on the outside looking in.
A New Reality?
Carney claims that from this fracture, they can “build something bigger, better, stronger”. He speaks of “genuine cooperation” and the capacity to “stop pretending”.
“Stop pretending.” Let those words sink in.
For years, Labour Heartlands has argued that the establishment was pretending. We argued that their “humanitarian interventions” were imperialist grabs. We argued that their “free trade” was corporate protectionism. We were called conspiracy theorists. We were called anti-western.
Now, the high priest of finance admits it himself. They were pretending to name reality.
He claims this is “Canada’s path”. But in truth, it is the scramble of a servant class who has realised the master is no longer paying the bills.
A Time of Monsters
Mark Carney is right about one thing: nostalgia is not a strategy. We cannot go back to the comfortable lies of the 1990s or 2000s.
The “rules-based order” was always a convenient fiction. It was a club where the rules applied to the weak, and the orders were given by the strong. Now that the club is dissolving, its members are panicked.
We should not offer them sympathy. We should offer them the very thing Carney asked for: honesty. The old order is dead. Good riddance.
The establishment isn’t mourning the death of democracy; they are mourning the loss of their monopoly on power.
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