The 7th theory I've also heard : Epstein is Q from QAnon - he says "pizza" when talking about trafficked girls, he has a lot of connexion with the 4-Chan crewn, and he went to see a James Bond movie a few days before the first drop. Love it.
All very interesting. The real story here is that hundreds, possibly thousands of young people were savaged for years by these men, their lives ruined, and nobody (except one woman) has ever been held accountable. It’s a story of unchecked power, greed, and inhumanity.
It is certainly true that many young women were mistreated and abused, but it is not necessarily true that their "lives were ruined." I know you're trying to support them, but that's really not a positive message to survivors of abuse.
Good point. The path of each of our lives is a mystery that defies labels. My only quibble with your terms is that they were children. I know journalists and pundits often say “young women” but boys were brutalized as well and many, many were children.
Of course it's a terrible thing. People are often incredibly resilient, though. I know people want to bring abuses like this to light, but in order to recover, people need privacy, space, time. And everyone recovers in their own way. It can sometimes hurt survivors to have their trauma so starkly defined in popular media, it can remove their agency.
No argument Julie. The sexual side of this - and the moral implications of that - have, I think, been very capably covered by other people. In the coverage of Epstein, though, a big piece is missing - which is who he is, where his fortune came from, etc. A lot of that tends to be skipped over, and this piece - which is basically collating reporting from a few different places - tries to wrap its mind around a few more basic facts about Epstein rather than getting into the moral dimension.
I thinks this is fascinating. Like the Kennedy assasination we join the dots to come up with a subjective world view that we feel comfortable with. Its also very Pychonesque :what is worse than paranoia (where everything is connected ) ? Anti- paranoia where nothing actually adds up into anything coherent. More of this please.
Amazing piece.
The 7th theory I've also heard : Epstein is Q from QAnon - he says "pizza" when talking about trafficked girls, he has a lot of connexion with the 4-Chan crewn, and he went to see a James Bond movie a few days before the first drop. Love it.
Thanks Guillaume.
tired of men's detached hot takes. it's only "the way of the world" because of this precise strain of detachment.
Ah yes, I’m sure you’re right. The thing to do here is to suspend all journalistic norms and efforts towards truth-seeking.
All very interesting. The real story here is that hundreds, possibly thousands of young people were savaged for years by these men, their lives ruined, and nobody (except one woman) has ever been held accountable. It’s a story of unchecked power, greed, and inhumanity.
It is certainly true that many young women were mistreated and abused, but it is not necessarily true that their "lives were ruined." I know you're trying to support them, but that's really not a positive message to survivors of abuse.
Good point. The path of each of our lives is a mystery that defies labels. My only quibble with your terms is that they were children. I know journalists and pundits often say “young women” but boys were brutalized as well and many, many were children.
Of course it's a terrible thing. People are often incredibly resilient, though. I know people want to bring abuses like this to light, but in order to recover, people need privacy, space, time. And everyone recovers in their own way. It can sometimes hurt survivors to have their trauma so starkly defined in popular media, it can remove their agency.
Well said. Especially in the mean-spirited public square that is social media, which tends to blame and shame those who have been wronged.
No argument Julie. The sexual side of this - and the moral implications of that - have, I think, been very capably covered by other people. In the coverage of Epstein, though, a big piece is missing - which is who he is, where his fortune came from, etc. A lot of that tends to be skipped over, and this piece - which is basically collating reporting from a few different places - tries to wrap its mind around a few more basic facts about Epstein rather than getting into the moral dimension.
Great piece! Thanks for tying all this together.
I thinks this is fascinating. Like the Kennedy assasination we join the dots to come up with a subjective world view that we feel comfortable with. Its also very Pychonesque :what is worse than paranoia (where everything is connected ) ? Anti- paranoia where nothing actually adds up into anything coherent. More of this please.