A piece by investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr, connecting the paedophilic culture of the Epstein orbit to our own.
He also told me that a culture which reveres female youth and innocence despises female age and experience. It disgusts them, scares them. That’s our paedophiliac culture too; misogyny of adult women is the opposite of sexual desire for girls, an inverted mirror.
Epstein has given us an extraordinary portal through which we can now see how hostile state influence, criminality and the impunity of the billionaire class are intimately enmeshed. That’s the piece I still want to write. But we can’t understand any of this until we realise that Epstein isn’t just a doorway, he’s also a mirror.
His culture is our culture.
@fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net has kindly pointed out in the comments that one of the citations used by the author is to an article by a shady Christian anti-porn group. I have shared my thoughts on this in the comments too.
I think the article references Christian sites because A) they don’t mind speaking the truth at a time when mainstream news is down-playing this whole thing and B) even the billionaires themselves would love to make this about rich vs poor when, in fact, this is about all of humanity vs the darker parts of ourselves. That’s the point of the article: Epstein is a symptom of a societal problem we all have. That problem thrives when “us vs them” is the focus instead of realizing we all played a part and continue to play a part in men like Epstein being able to do what he did. Every one of us needs to look inward and start tackling the beast in us that allows this to happen.