An Inquiry Into Motives
What caused the appalling conduct of the leaders of Western Civilization?
At this stage of the long-running psycho-drama (March 2026), we have exhausted all of the conventional explanations. Money? Economics assures us that wealth-seeking at any cost is not only OK, but praiseworthy. In this spirit, Jeffrey Epstein, as we learn from his recently released emails, advised Bill Gates, the Rothschilds, Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on how to profit from pandemics. Epstein’s financial advice to his clients lists pandemic investment alongside other categories such as energy, communications, artificial intelligence, and other sustainable growth areas. What makes pandemic investment particularly lucrative is the opportunity to inject novel ‘vaccines’ into a panic-stricken populace, using governments as intermediaries and enforcers. This is precisely the structure that Gates, Johns Hopkins, and others rehearsed in August 2019 just before the actual virus from Wuhan inflicted a global plague on humanity. The killing was a feature, not a bug. It worked synergistically with the purported vaccine, designed with exactly the same spike protein, sold to governments around the world via secret contracts. It is still as of this date (March 2026) on the market, to the immense profit of both companies.
Epstein’s recently released emails detail a scheme hatched over several years to set up a ‘donor-advised fund’ at J P Morgan Bank with a phantom wall between tax-exempt non-profit philantrhopic good works and hugely profitable vaccine sales to governments:
‘Internal J P Morgan emails from 2011 show Jeffrey Epstein advising the bank’s most senior executives on how to pitch a Gates-anchored donor-advised fund, insisting the presentation include the phrase ‘additional money for vaccines’ and directing the creation of an ‘offshore arm — especially for vaccines.’ In 2011 Epstein advises J P Morgan to make ‘a silo based proposal that will get Bill [Gates] more money for vaccines’. He specfically acknowledges ‘The tension is making money from a Charitable Org. Therefore the money making parts need to be arms length.’ As Sayer Ji summarizes: ‘The architect of this structure — a man convicted of sex crimes against minors — is explicitly acknowledging that the vehicle is designed to generate profit under the legal cover of charity.’ Epstein develops the pitch further in an email of August 17, 2011, by describing Bill Gates’ emotional state as follows: ‘Bill is terribly frustrated. He would like to boost some of the things that are working without taking away from those that are not… therefore, explaining that this would allow ‘additional money for vaccines’ must be included in the presentation.’
Sayer Ji flags the salient points of this message:
‘This sentence tells us four things at once. First, Epstein is speaking with direct knowledge of Gates’ internal emotional state. Second, he is shaping JPMorgan’s presentation strategy. Third, vaccine funding is the hook — the narrative justification for the financial structure. And fourth, Epstein is the one dictating what ‘must be included’ to close the deal.’
J P Morgan emails from 2011 show Jeffrey Epstein advising the bank’s most senior executives on how to pitch a Gates-anchored donor-advised fund, insisting the presentation include the phrase ‘additional money for vaccines’ and directing the creation of an ‘offshore arm — especially for vaccines.’ In 2011 Epstein advises J P Morgan to make ‘a silo based proposal that will get Bill [Gates] more money for vaccines’. He specifically acknowledges ‘The tension is making money from a Charitable Org. Therefore the money making parts need to be arms length.’ As Sayer Ji summarizes: ‘The architect of this structure — a man convicted of sex crimes against minors — is explicitly acknowledging that the vehicle is designed to generate profit under the legal cover of charity.’
Epstein, Gates, and J P Morgan continued to develop the pandemic-oriented donor-advised fund, with ‘a 2017 email thread between Epstein, Gates, and [Gates Foundation Science Advisor] Boris Nikolic naming ‘pandemic’ as a ‘key area’ for donor-advised fund structures — three years before COVID-19.’
To set this money machine in motion, all that was needed was to stampede the global population into panic-driven fear.
This turned out to be far easier than its organizers expected. They were aided by the very altruism missing in themselves, the common desire not to infect others with a deadly disease. Gates, Bourla, Fauci et al twisted compassionate concern for fellow human beings into a force that bludgeoned individuals into ‘taking one for the team’, leveraging state and corporate coercion to enforce compliance with unprecedented violations of liberty and bodily autonomy. Using the Gates-financed WHO, Pfizer and Moderna enlisted every government in the world, and nearly every source of authoritative medical information, to propagate their story of the dire necessity of compliance, along with massive ‘all-of-government’ censorship of the slightest hint of contradiction. The censorship was crucial, because if the truth of the matter got to only a few of the intended victims, or to honest medical authorities, the whole criminal vaccine enterprise would be doomed.
Unfortunately for everyone, panic spread more quickly than truth. The injectors moved fast, censorship stifled awareness, and within months, they hijacked the immune systems of about one-third of the global population. They also hijacked official statistics by the simple expedient of bribing hospitals and doctors to report covid as the cause of death in any instance where it was merely present among more obvious causes. Spike-loaded mRNA killed 17 million worldwide — and still counting — and subjected hundreds of millions of others to debilitating diseases of the heart, circulatory, lymphatic, respiratory, reproductive, and central nervous systems, and vastly increased rates of cancer.
Many were spared by storage conditions that neutralized the genetic material (mRNA), intentional substitution of harmless placebos in some lots, imprecise injection, or other defects of the campaign. The net effect was to mask the ‘excess death’ count (the vaccine-attributable number causing a ‘spike’ in the normally stable death rate) until after they had occurred.
The lethal effects of this diabolical medicine went unnoticed by most, thanks to censorship, concealment, and denial by medical authorities. Pfizer and Moderna scientists and their financiers knew perfectly well from their internal testing what they were doing. Somehow the immense profitability of this plague and its advancement of scientific research made it all worthwhile to them, ethically. Yet such grotesque mental distortions transcend money and power, complicating the search for motivation.
However hard it may be to grasp the fact that Epstein, Gates, Bourla, Fauci, Baric, Schwab, and their colleagues actually planned, rehearsed, and carried out a program of mass murder and illness for the express purpose of their own enrichment, the documentary record is clear. But despite the colossal sums involved — hundreds of billions of dollars — the economic explanation for their crimes against humanity seems inadequate. Surely they must have had other motives, at least when wondering how they might be judged in future.
For Gates, with his family history with Planned Parenthood, the supplementary motivation that came most readily to mind was ‘saving the planet’ from over-population, an old trope of the Club of Rome which meshed nicely with popular environmental hysteria. As he explained frankly in a TED talk, there were too many people (six billion then) in the world. A billion or so of them could be killed off with vaccines and other health care services. He didn’t say ‘killed off’, only that subtracting them, like a mathematical problem, would leave the survivors better off. Mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell, another exponent of eugenics, threaded the needle more carefully by asserting ‘For world population to be kept ‘stationary’, there must not be many more people to be fed than there are now.’
Lord Keynes, a mathematically inclined economist who popularized deficit spending, also embraced eugenics throughout his life, though he kept that and other unsavory tendencies under wraps. Nobody else articulated it more clearly than Gates did, but it seems that others involved in the death-by-vaccine enterprise believe likewise.
The scientists who doggedly took swabs (one is tempted to say schwabs) of batshit to find and develop viruses capable of infecting humans seem motivated primarily by career advancement. While they are certainly not averse to monetary gain, they and their financiers seek above all to advance their warped version of science. In this endeavor it was the pixieish Dr Anthony Fauci, proprietor of a multi-billion-dollar tax-funded research empire, who provided the most sweeping justification of this dubious enterprise. Appointing himself the sole avatar of ‘science’, he urged all in his domain to ‘follow the science’ — meaning himself. Massive censorship and denials of lab origins of the pandemic virus at first obscured its funding by none other than the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Americans’ tax money laundered through a cutout called Eco-Health Alliance followed an intentionally tortuous path. Multiple layers of coverups, including an ingenious gene-splicing exercise to conceal the actual method of enhancing human infectiousness, further obscured the trail. But empirical research, the essential forerunner of real science, eventually uncovered the actual sources and methods.
These methods consisted of infecting dozens or hundreds of animals in series, until the pathogen gained the ability to bind to human endothelial cells. The scientific purpose of this long-term drudgery was to simulate, or in this case actually accelerate, a process of species-jumping that, if Nature were left to her own devices, might pose a vanishingly remote danger to humanity. Not one of the scientists doing this research, least of all the Bat Lady, Shi Zhengli, and her University of North Carolina collaborator Ralph Baric, asked the common-sense question: ‘Is this really worth doing? Does the clear likelihood of a pandemic emanating from a lab leak that could easily kill and sicken millions exceed the danger posed by an extremely unlikely natural migration of a virus from an isolated batcave in southern China through numerous intermediate species, all the while executing numerous extremely intricate modifications of its DNA and basic structure to adhere to human endothelial cells?’ The obvious answer is no, except for military purposes, of which bio-warfare specialists in both China and the United States were well aware. For the scientists, however, career motivations outweighed danger to all of humanity. It wasn’t just research funding, it was research funding as an imprimatur of valuable public service that motivated them. Fauci himself had said the research was worthwhile even if a virus slipped out the lab door and killed a few million people. That was good enough for his grantees.
In addition to financial and career motivations, covid enabled legions of nameless faceless bureaucrats to discover their inner tyrant. From federal health officials to governors to petty local functionaries, the covid pandemic came to them as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to decide which businesses were essential and which nonessential, which groups could meet together (rioters) and which could not (churchgoers), to impose house arrest and threaten those caught outdoors without a mask, to promulgate and change dozens of intrusive regulations, and so on. Vast numbers of Western officials exercising these long-dreamed-of ambitions found in the Chinese Communist Party — which welded apartment doors shut to imprison the inhabitants — the role model for their own local dictatorships. The sudden access of power proved to be catnip to this class of drudges. That too was a motive.
Down at street level, such power as this new moral authority conferred on the vaccinated granted them virtue-signaling privileges to lord it over their skeptical family members and colleagues. Government officials lost no time in exploiting yet another source of division, adding vaccination status to their arsenal of race-hatred, class conflict, immigrant-v-native tensions, and other fabricated divisions. As the comatose person acting as president himself famously opined, ‘This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated’. Knowledge of the ineffectiveness and toxicity of the mRNA shots was already in wide circulation, but that was not the point. The point was to keep the pressure campaign going long enough to dispose of the government’s stock of purchased vaccines before they (the vaccines) expired.
But even the aggregate of all these motives — money, career advancement, political power, virtue-signaling rights — doesn’t explain why so many highly placed people acted so monstrously. The entire cast of characters entrusted with direction of Western Civ, comprising top government officials of the elected, deep-state, and royal flavors, scientists at prestigious universities, showbiz celebrities, financiers, and tech-oligarchs, seems to have been involved directly or indirectly with the talented Mr Epstein. Not all, but surprisingly many, flew on Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’, according to flight logs, visited his Little St James Island, his New Mexico Zorro Ranch, or his palatial Manhattan residence. Others happily accepted money from him, persuading themselves that if their valuable research didn’t get funded by this sexual abuser of children, then the Communist Party of China would have taken up the funding slack.
The talented Mr Epstein. One of Jeffrey Epstein’s many talents was ingratiating himself with the rich, the powerful, the influential, and with deep thinkers. Through his salons together with literary agent John Brockman, and his funding of the Edge Foundation, he became adept at connecting these diverse constituencies. He connected money with grant-seekers, power with intriguing ideas, spies with forbidden activities, media mavens with audience-seekers, royalty with commoners, celebrities with philosophers. Mapping out the permutations and combinations probably appealed to his mathematical mind. He served as the go-to node, financial intermediary, and all-purpose fixer for any entity skirting the edge of legality or ethically permissible conduct. Part of his service was to provide appealing rationales for questionable behavior.
Epstein’s ingratiating manner, as seen in an interview with Steve Bannon, provides a glimpse of how the child-rapist was able to seduce so many of the rich and powerful into his orbit. In June 2019, less than a month before his demise by his own or others’ hands, Epstein sought to rehabilitate his terminally tarnished public persona. Reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter speaking to a learned assembly at a monastic library in Italy, Epstein appears as a charming, erudite, and patient teacher, adept at teasing out the complexities of abstruse subjects for an intellectually curious audience. This is probably how he performed when teaching at the Dalton School for girls in New York. His upper-West-side patois sounds very much like Woody Allen — smart, witty, irreverent, insightfully original.
Bannon asks Epstein ‘How did a schmuck like you get on the Rockefeller Board?’ Epstein explains he got to know David Rockefeller by asking him what were the best and worst moments in his life. David, he says (Epstein quickly got to a first-name basis), related the angst of how his father said he would never give him a dime, but at school he was always the one to pick up the check because his name was Rockefeller. Epstein explains to David that math is taking over medicine and Rockefeller University has to adapt to the calculus of profit-and-loss and evidence-based triage. David asks the 30-year-old Epstein to come on the Board of Rockefeller University and teach them, like the Dalton girls, the fundamentals of math. Epstein joins the likes of former President Clinton, former Federal Reserve chief Paul Volcker, and other luminaries on the Rockefeller University Board.
The interview continues with David’s establishment of the Trilateral Commission, a forerunner of the World Economic Forum. It was intended as a stabilizing influence run by bankers amid the shifting tides of political leadership in the Western world.
Epstein then explains that almost nobody understands banking, how banks are entitled to lend out ten times what they have. (This is true — banks create credit, which is why their lending decisions determine whether an economy grows productively or not.) Epstein is frank about who and what caused the 2008 financial meltdown — Bill Clinton as President forcing banks to lend to bad credit risks under threat of DOJ enforcement against racially discriminatory lending (’red-lining’), and setting up FNMA and GNMA to guarantee the bad loans. So the banks, reinforced by government (taxpayer) guarantees, happily approved a massive volume of unrepayable loans. (This is also true.) It took 10 years to play out, from 1998 to 2008, but with mathematical certainty it did, putting the entire banking system on life-support. The 2008 financial meltdown happened to coincide with Epstein’s imprisonment, which is presented in the interview as something visited upon him without cause.
The surreal scene of Epstein in solitary confinement in West Palm Beach jail (for his protection, it was said) features him learning about the Lehman bankruptcy from his jailers worried about their pensions asking him for financial advice. This is followed in the interview by Epstein recounting the two telephone calls he is allowed to make. The telephones have short cords, so that — here he makes a self-choking gesture that eerily foreshadows his later demise — he couldn’t strangle himself. He calls the CEO of Bear Stearns (where he once worked) and the head of J P Morgan. He also counsels ‘someone at Treasury’ to pump liquidity into the banking system, likening it to a dying patient who must have a blood transfusion if he is to survive. That is exactly what then-Federal Reserve Chief Bernanke did.
Setting up the Santa Fe Institute is explained by Epstein as a way of finding useful work for unemployed Los Alamos physicists. Epstein bought the Zorro Ranch in New Mexico as a retreat for them, he says, without mentioning the appalling crimes against children committed there by him and by Hollywood celebrities and others. Also left unsaid in the interview is New Mexico’s key advantage for Epstein being that he would not be required to register as a sex offender in that State. As we now know from recently released emails, Zorro Ranch served as the venue for his plan to improve the gene-stock of the human race by inseminating as many girls as he could there. The model, as Marcos Paulo Candeloro explains here,
‘was the Repository for Germinal Choice, a real sperm bank stocked with material from Nobel laureates that operated until 1999 to strengthen the human gene pool. Epstein saw himself as superior genetic raw material. He called this obsession transhumanism. In scientific meetings he systematically redirected conversations toward how humans could be genetically improved. Alan Dershowitz, his own attorney and professor emeritus at Harvard, reported being horrified by the discussions, given the use of eugenics by the Nazis. In a session at Harvard, Epstein openly criticized efforts to reduce hunger and provide healthcare to the poor because it increased the risk of overpopulation. Steven Pinker pushed back and was excluded from subsequent meetings.’
The girls selected as breeding stock did not always survive Epstein’s program of improving the human race. According to one former Zorro Ranch staff member, ‘Somewhere in the hills outside the Zorro, two foreign girls were buried on orders of Jeffrey [Epstein] and Madame G. Both died by strangulation during rough, fetish sex.’
But (staying on-message in the interview) the whole New Mexico mission was a failure, Epstein says, because you can’t quantify the unexplainable. Then the conversation moves to Newton — what did he do? Isaac Newton made it possible to predict the behavior of the physical world — a neat summary. Epstein also explains quantum physics in a completely understandable way, that when you look really closeup at electrons, they’re not there, all there is, is a force field, and quanta are simply very small objects that you can never see, but you can detect their influence and calculate their effects.
But you can’t do that with human systems, he says, they’re too complex, nobody understands the whole system, like no specialist doctor really understands the whole human body. It’s systems on systems on systems ad infinitum. Their interactions are too complex even for AI. That’s why the quantification of human behavior, which was the goal of the Santa Fe Institute, failed. With self-deprecating humility, Epstein summarizes the impossibility of something he had invested tens of millions of dollars in doing. The interview ends with Bannon alluding to Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ and asking Epstein whether he is the devil. Epstein acknowledges the legitimacy of the question but declines to answer.
Overcoming inhibitions. In the Bannon interview, and undoubtedly in countless unrecorded encounters, Epstein presented himself as the nodal gateway to whatever one wanted, be it money, power, philosophy, or moral justification. He was extraordinarily adept at sussing out just what his counterparties were after. With the intellectual luminaries from Harvard and M.I.T., and the aging royals and bankers, it wasn’t hard to figure out they wanted what they had been deprived of in high school — sex with complaisant young girls. Epstein enabled them to make up for lost time.
On both sides of the equation, the operational problem was how to overcome inhibitions. The older men, like Clinton, Summers, and Prince Andrew, certainly knew that sex with young girls, especially without the girls’ consent, violated well-known norms, not to mention laws. And the young girls, usually pictured with frozen smiles trying unsuccessfully to look relaxed, were quickly made aware that their role was not voluntary. The luxurious settings (private airplanes, yachts, remote islands or ranches) somehow trivialized inhibitions. And the network effect of gathering groups of famous or rich or powerful people, each reinforcing the self-esteem and moral probity of the others, further dissipated what few inhibitions remained. As for the young girls, Epstein’s sidekick Ghislaine Maxwell (daughter of British media mogul and spy Robert Maxwell) expertly normalized the entire setup, promising them modeling jobs or whatever it took to have them understand that sex with unattractive older guys came with the territory (they were confined to). By such means of psychological conditioning were inhibitions overcome.
One of Jeffrey Epstein’s many talents was persuading prominent people that their peers regarded the rape and serial passage of young girls among other predators as normal. He simulated a kind of peer-review process used in scientific publication to contrive a network effect, such that it seemed wierder to opt-out than to go along. The videos and photos of the goings-on served, bizarrely, not so much for blackmail as for legitimation. As Mike Benz explains,
‘It would’ve been stupid for Epstein to blackmail his associates. With the island, the jet, the mansion, he wanted to give them experiences of what they could not get elsewhere, so that they would want to have long-term financial dealings with him. He wanted to provide a fun, easygoing, free-sex atmosphere.’
Prince Andrew with a 17-year-old girl, Bill Clinton with another teenager of indeterminate age, Adnan Khashoggi using girls to close weapons deals — the vibe said ‘That’s the way the world works, like it or not, and if you hanker after world-class influence, that comes with the territory.’ This was the state of mind that Epstein induced in his recruits.
Opportunity, the third element of the Epstein-Maxwell criminal enterprise, was engineered by the time-limited nature of airplane flights and island or ranch stays, with entry to and exit from these venues entirely controlled by Epstein. For the sex-starved men, it was ‘now or never’. For the girls, children really, who might otherwise be awakening to playful affection of their own volition, forced into the most grotesque sexual performances for the warped gratification of prominent older men, their lives became a hellscape from which many never escaped. The Epstein-Maxwell duo built a structure systematically designed to normalize these atrocities. The roster of political, showbiz, financial, and intellectual ‘leaders’ who consorted with Epstein is apparently all-inclusive. By their active partnership, solicitation and acceptance of money, comradeship, participation, complicity, enablement, silence, and a thousand and one varieties of acquiescence, they signal their approval of the most appalling violations of human personhood.
The Epstein lists. Those who appear either in Epstein’s aviation flight logs, address book, or (as recently revealed) as email correspondents of various degrees of professional and personal intimacy, include the following: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Senator Chuck Schumer, former Senator George Mitchell, Harvard President and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Former U.K. ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson (resigned); lawyers Cyrus Vance Jr, Alan Dershowitz, Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathy Ruemmler (resigned), Paul Weiss Chair Brad Karp (resigned), Gerald Lefcourt, Darren Indyke; leading intellectuals and deep thinkers like Martin Nowak, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Gerald Edelman, Lawrence Krauss, Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Marvin Minsky, Murray Gell-Mann, and many others; persons of prodigious acquisitive talent Bill Gates, Steven Hoffenberg, arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, Ariane de Rothschild, Epstein benefactors Leslie Wexner and MoMA Chair Leon Black (resigned), Nicolas Berggruen, Bear Stearns Chair Ace Greenberg; royalty including British Prince (now former Prince) Andrew, Duchess Sara Ferguson, and the Sultan of Brunei; journalists Graydon Carter, Charlie Rose, Katie Couric, George Stefanopolous, Barbara Walters, and Mike Wallace. All of these names and many more were found in Epstein’s appointment book or flight logs, reported by New York magazine in 2019.
Revelations from Department of Justice files of Epstein’s email correspondence continue. The people whose names have appeared had various kinds of association with Epstein, ranging from casual to intimate, and from one-time visit to multi-faceted relationships spanning sex, money, conversation, and collaboration. Nearly all continued their association with him despite their awareness of his abusive relationships with young girls. (Two exceptions are Dr Naomi Wolf, and Evgeny Morozov, who broke ties with the Brockman literary agency after learning the Edge Foundation was financed by Epstein.) Some Epstein associates participated in the same abuse, others either denied it or considered it a minor quirk and nothing more. The fate of these girls, it seems, was considered trivial compared to Epstein’s donations for outside-the-box research at Harvard, collaboration with Bill Gates to ‘improve’ the human species with genetic-modifying injections of everyone on the planet, or with Bryan Bishop to produce designer babies. Few even bothered to justify their association with Epstein, as everyone in their set would immediately see it as merely a professional necessity. When pressed, they said just that, assuming their exalted positions would see them through.
You may not have heard of all the names listed above, but for the purpose of understanding their motivations, the key point is they are all at the pinnacle of their professions. And this lofty position in itself made everything normal — but they weren’t satisfied with ‘normal’. They wanted their demented satanic practices to be sanctified. So the dispensers of honors, awards, prizes, and money were marshaled into lockstep obedience to grant these monsters their wished-for praiseworthiness. Medical academies and health officials didn’t merely tolerate the sexual mutilation of children, they made it obligatory. Unwilling to keep their practices in the closet, because they crave public approval, they enlist approval-granting institutions in their wretched causes. Everyone is thereby compelled to see them not merely as normal, but exemplary.
In finance, law, science, academia, government, media, and high society, they exert tremendous moral authority in their realms. They set the tone, they are looked up to by those of lesser status who seek to emulate them. These people are the exemplars of virtue. If they enjoy the companionship of a vicious sex predator, then that validates the sick behavior as not only normal, but praiseworthy. A good cause, like advancing offbeat sciences, makes it OK. That is the essence of the argument advanced by Edge-set member Eric Weinstein. Because of their prominence, their acquiescence or complicity or collaboration — whatever the nature of their involvement with Epstein — radiates out to their own reference-groups through the power of example, as if they were shouting through a megaphone ‘Jump in — the water’s great!’. They don’t have to say anything. Observing what they do and how it advances their careers sends an unmistakable message that not only is this behavior OK, we would all be well-advised to do likewise in order to succeed. ‘Everyone (in their set) does it’ — the seeming universality silences any qualms.
Satanic rites. Elizabeth Nickson’s testimony on the appalling crimes revealed in the Epstein files is especially significant because she met Epstein, media mogul Robert Maxwell, Maxwell’s daughter Ghislaine, and various members of the British aristocracy when she worked at Time Magazine in London. She was personally molested by some of the latter. ‘In a small wood-paneled lift at the House of Lords with the Earl of Bessborough, 50 years my senior’, she writes, ‘pushed me violently into a corner, and plunged his hand down the front of my dress.’ Other women told her this was part of her job, to submit to the unwanted advances of grotesque lords of the realm.
As a teen in Montreal — where her mother was a victim of the CIA’s M K Ultra mind-control experiments — she was attractive enough to predators that her father moved the family to British Columbia to get away from them. So she knows what she’s writing about.
The coded emails in the Epstein files are real. ‘Pizzagate’, derided by bien-pensants as the fevered imaginings of rabid reactionaries, describes actual gatherings which the participants know they must hide, yet the disguises are absurdly transparent. ‘Pizza’ is children, ‘jerky’ is dried baby parts, and yes, the food metaphor is no metaphor. However shocking it is, none of it should be surprising, because there is no difference from what these people were doing out in the open, and proud of it with their self-proclaimed morality of abortion, genital mutilation, genetic modification, trans-monstrosity, designer babies, and so on.
Such license only exists insofar as society and their peer-group grant it. Louche tendencies, if incentivized, will flourish, as they have done in the arts since at least the 1960s. A particular case in contemporary art involves the former Chairman and Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, Leon Black. Accused in a 2023 lawsuit of sexually assaulting and raping a 16-year-old girl in Jeffrey Epstein’s New York townhouse in 2002, the case had enough credibility despite his denials to force Black’s resignation as MoMA Chairman. Medical records indicated the teenager had suffered vaginal bleeding, possibly from biting as she claimed.
Black, whose Apollo Fund had made him a billionaire, had previously paid Epstein $158 million for ‘tax advisory services’. This is a person whose wealth and art collection brought him into position as gatekeeper of the premier temple of contemporary art in America. ‘Lifestyle choices’ such as his inevitably ooze into the academy, the media, the polity, the economy, science and medicine; with perversity displacing virtue, beauty, and merit, degrading art, culture, and everything they touch.
Manipulating cultural norms of tolerance to normalize their perversions, they mobilize religious, medical, and social-service officialdom to sanctify their warped beliefs, pressuring everyone to honor them or risk seeming ‘bigoted’ or ‘phobic’. Normalization soon devolves into celebration. Self-righteously characterizing their practices as scientific curiosity or ‘challenging orthodoxies’, Hollywood royalty, tech and finance oligarchs, science luminaries, princes of the Deep State soon come to believe they are fully entitled to rape children and gorge themselves on their victims’ traumatized blood. Why? Because they can, because they’ve gotten away with it and are not sated, because they believe this blood-lust will extend their own miserable lives. The sexual exploitation rituals enacted in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, the bloodiest of which were cut by Warner after the Director’s untimely death, could well have been based on actual practices known by Kubrick.
Maybe this is the significance of the Epstein files and their release — a release forced by a bi-partisan vote of Congress, pioneered by Representative Thomas Massie. What’s disclosed in those millions of pages is an architecture encompassing nearly everyone in charge of (what remains of) Western Civilization. They presided over a vicious cycle of tolerating, sanctifying, and reveling in grotesqueries, of virtue-signaling carried to the point of absurdity and self-destruction. Their motivation, beyond money, power, scientific advancement, or whatever rationale can be contrived, is ‘Because they can’. The imperative, then, is to build structures of norms of acceptable behavior so that they ‘cannot’.
There are no hundred-percent guarantees, but it is possible to increase the odds of reprehensible and criminal behavior being detected and exposed. The immunity accruing to wealth or high office can be damaged so that potential bad actors will think twice before risking their freedom or public humiliation. Legal prosecution can ensure that wealthy and highly-placed criminals will no longer get away with mass murder, sexual exploitation of children, satanic blood rituals, looting of the public Treasury, or other atrocities. Indictment, trial, conviction, sentencing, and incarceration convey a forceful sense, in lieu of a miscreant’s innate sense of right and wrong, of the limits of acceptable behavior. And just as violating common-sense norms sets a bad example for others, so adhering to such norms inspires others to do likewise.
Legal penalties reinforce — and are reinforced by — social sanctions against crime. Thus, ending indiscriminate tolerance of gratuitous offense, which inevitably progresses into normalization, celebration, and sanctification, is essential. Government can stop subsidizing it and is doing so.
Legal initiatives can set limits, and policy initiatives can move social judgment toward competence instead of racial or sexual identity in the awarding of contracts and jobs, redefining honor in terms of excellence. Government edicts can only work to a limited extent, however, without support from a critical mass of common-sense. Such changes can only take root and spread organically through posts like the one you are reading now.