The conclusion, then, is not a lurid morality tale about “bad people doing bad things,” nor the tired revelation that royals, celebrities, or billionaires behave with impunity. That much is already obvious. Child abusers exist across every class and every society. What does not exist everywhere is a system that records, archives, weaponises, and protects that abuse for strategic ends.
The Epstein case points not to isolated depravity, but to structured leverage: an architecture of blackmail in which sexual crimes become instruments of power rather than grounds for prosecution. That is why the fixation on individual scandal – princes, parties, and gossip – functions as misdirection.
The real scandal is the evidence of an intelligence-linked operation in which Mossad repeatedly appears as a point of reference, protection, and utility; an operation that embedded itself across politics, finance, media, and celebrity culture.
I believe that bearboiblake is … almost right.
Transformation requires duration: you can’t just spontaneously-transform like those idiotically-naive hollywood/bollywood idiocies program people to believe…
I know that the vast majority of humankind is committed to enforcing ideological-totalitarianism, against objectivity+correct-reasoning.
Therefore the portion of humankind which can survive The Great Filter, this-century, is small, & it’ll only survive if it becomes good at surviving overwhelmingly-bad odds, consistently.
The remnant of humankind can be an incredible force for good, next century, … if there is one.
but there’s another error, in there, too: coercive re power.
Is RuleOfJustLaw coercive, against corruption?
Absolutely.
Is RuleOfCorruption coercive against all who value integrity?
Absolutely.
BOTH are coercive, just of different factions.
There is the problem.
Correctness requires force-controlling corruption, exactly as corruption’s-rule force-controls/limits correctness.
Neither side is free-from coercion: they only apply it against different subsets of our world.
There is a concept in engineering called the “bathtub curve”, in failures-of-a-good-product:
some fail right at the beginning of the product’s design-life, then very-few fail, for the design-life, then many fail at the end of it.
The same shape-of-curve, however, is optimal for rights:
Make the extremes illegal, but make as much majority as you can be legal, & keep, through quality-education, people evolving in the right-direction, so their children can have better lives, & their children can do even better, again…
So, civilization’s optimization requires that coercion be in-place against treason, butchery-of-the-commons, maliciousness, machiavellianness, etc,
WHILE helping as many have their-own-growing-up, their-own-autonomous-validity, etc…
To be blunter, those who won’t control DarkTriad’s gaining-control of civilization, help DarkTriad’s gaining-control of civilization, even if their making-believing is that everybody inherently isn’t DarkTriad: they may be criminally-nonresponsible, in their handing the world to the enemy, but the consequences are the same as if they’d been malicious/machiavellians who were doing it.
Naiveness doesn’t exempt one from consequences.
& in the universe, compromise & difficulties always crop-up when one tries implimenting things, because “the devil is in the details”.
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