The Epstein files are shocking, appalling and disgusting. And yet, predictable. We have known for a long time that the wealthy rule the world. The saying is that power corrupts, but I believe it even more attracts the corrupt and those susceptible to corruption. Power fiercely defends itself against equality, because when your entire existence is defined by being unconstrained and untouchable, the consequences of your own actions appear as oppression.
The people at the top of our system have everything without having anything. They are detached from reality, from community, from empathy. The system we live in, capitalism, rewards extreme individualism. The wealthy may convince themselves that their billions are the result of their absolute genius, persistent work or divine providence, but in reality, they got there primarily through a combination of chance and pathological focus on themselves at the expense of the masses. The wealthy prioritize their own desires over the needs of the majority of society. They can do absolutely anything, but the good of humanity is too abstract for them because they are not able to see us as people. Solving the world's problems would mean losing their status. Of course, the only thing they have left in their meaningless lives is violence. Devouring our time, our work, our knowledge, our emotions, our talents; our minds, bodies and souls.
The rich will not throw themselves off their privileged position above the law. We cannot simply say "that's just how it is" and accept that they will not bring themselves to justice. We cannot agree to live in a world where a class of disgusting creatures perpetrates all possible violence and creates narratives. They create fictitious problems, fictitious wars. By dividing us, they distract us from the true enemy of humanity. Let's eat the rich because the rich are already eating the poor.
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