Recommend: The Empire Above Epstein
The End:
And perhaps this is the real geopolitical significance of the Epstein emails, beyond the depravity, beyond the scandal, beyond the sensationalism: they force you to confront the possibility that the world is governed by networks, and that those networks are more durable than governments, more influential than elections, and more insulated than any official institution will ever admit.
I am not asking you to accept a single grand theory. I am asking you to notice the pattern, and to ask yourself whether the pattern explains why the world feels increasingly unfree, increasingly managed, increasingly engineered, even as we are told, with straight faces, that we live in the most democratic era of human history.
If this is where we are headed—toward a future of digital control layered on top of economic exhaustion and manufactured crises—then the only serious question left is not “who will win the next election,” but whether ordinary people can recover enough clarity, unity, and courage to reclaim a political life that is not scripted from above.
Because if we are reduced to permanent reaction—always reacting to the next war, the next crisis, the next manufactured panic—then we will remain subjects.
And maybe that is the most mind-boggling part of all: that the Epstein story, which began as a sordid scandal, ends by forcing us to ask whether the civilization we live in is still what it claims to be.
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