Thinking the Unthinkable

 

I think we are all in a state of denial, of cognitive dissonance, over the Epstein files. And I think it is obvious why Trump resisted releasing the files. They just upset too many apple carts.

I am still telling myself it can’t really be true.

Yet it seems plain that a large swath of our elites are depraved, to about the same moral level as Adolph Hitler. It seems clear from the files that they were engaged, not only in pedophilia, but torture, murder and cannibalism. There was no sin, no moral atrocity, in which they did not glory. How frightening to think that these are, by and large, the people in charge.

I suppose we really should not be surprised. Jack Kerouac warned us: “The world is upside down, and all the cream is at the bottom.” And Jesus and the Gospels say the same; this is the message of the Beatitudes. Satan is the prince of this world. Camels and needles’ eyes.

I have in my life hobnobbed with members of high society, on the one hand, and street people on the other. In my judgement and experience, not all members of elites are evil, and not all street people are good. But I do find that street people and the very poor are sincere, while elites are not.

I am not sure what to make of this. I think this is because, in order to move safely within elite circles, you must either be constantly hiding your own depravity, or constantly hiding your awareness of the depravity around you. You must, to stay safe and out of the pedophile cannibal circuit, pretend not to see what is going on. You must pretend to be either stupid, immoral yourself, or insane. Which is already in itself a form of dishonesty.