The enormous success of Beast Games is not accidental. The show responds perfectly to the dominant values of our era: the centrality of money, the myth of competition and the obsession with spectacularity. We have become accustomed to measuring the value of a person based on how much they have and how many sacrifices they are willing to make to “get there”. The narrative of the show is clear: everything is allowed, as long as there is a final prize. The message that fuels it is the idea that wealth justifies anything, even the exploitation of humanity itself as entertainment.
And we, as an audience, accept this system. We watch, we get “excited,” we cheer, without stopping to reflect on what it really means. We let ourselves be enchanted by the lights of the show, forgetting that the real world, the one outside the screen, is much more complex and unjust.
Beast Games could have been something more. It could have raised awareness, opened a debate, brought to light global inequalities and offered solutions. Beast Games is, without a doubt, a cultural and commercial phenomenon. But it is also a symbol of the contradictions of our time.eople never stand still. They migrate, always c level executive list have. Out of fear, out of necessity, out of hope. “ Human beings move like rivers seeking the sea ,” says Parag Khanna, one of those thinkers who, when he tells the future, feels like it’s not a hypothesis. Geographer, writer, traveler by vocation, Khanna doesn’t observe the world from a window, but travels through it with his mind and data. Author of books like Move and Connectography, he reminds us of a simple truth: the world is not static. And this, perhaps, is our greatest gift.
At the Global Citizenship Conference, held in Singapore on 28 November 2024, Khanna explored the theme of migration as a keystone to address the challenges of the future. In an era where the climate changes faster than the seasons, where cities reinvent themselves, borders dissolve, people continue to move. Not on a whim, but to survive. To build. To hope.