There’s something that everybody seems to be ignoring…
( aside from the vile glossing-over of the “journalism”, with their “underage women” euphamism for girls, & their euphamisms for rape, etc, as thankfully, women have been pointing-out )
The way he worked was he used friendship to put people in the position of being friends with him, and then they found-out about more of what was going-on, but now the conflict-of-interest put them in a bind, & gang-loyalty/pack-loyalty/“family”-loyalty conflicted loyalty-to-principle.
AND THAT SAME CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST IS USED BY EVERY FAMILY, EVERY IDEOLOGY, EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME, so no, it isn’t that they all knew & became his friend regardless: that is reversing the order, for at-least many of them.
WHY were the majority of people in East Germany actively snitching on whomever was around them, for sake of ingratiating themselves with the authorities?
Because that is human-nature.
Within-the-pack/“family”/“clan” … outranks principles.
Children have that driven into them by parents, by culture, by education, by stories, relentlessly.
The class-clan also played into it:
Say a person who was, with friendship with Epstein, now hobnobbing with people of the class above their normal level…
& then they learn more of what’s really going-on…
Now their conflict-of-interest is that if they go against their new “family”, they’ll … at-least get ostracized, & possibly murdered.
XOR, they can just compromise their principles, & get to have their clan/class/“family” validity remain…
& that is what they did.
Part of what bugs me with the simplistic “oh, but I would never have done that!” position … is simply that babies/lives born into different cultures FORM into those cultures.
That evidence is global.
it is idiotic to reject it.
People born into a “make yourself a ‘man’: put down as many others as you can, & prove yourself through your exclusive ‘success’” culture SIGNIFICANTLY BECOME that culture: they embody it.
Same as with people born into a more nurturing culture.
Same with people born into a short-term-only culture, vs a long-term-only culture…
The self-delusion of people who hold that “well I wouldn’t ever have been that way, were I the one born into that culture” is outright BEGGING universe to get one’s soul/continuum caught in exactly such a life, in the future, just to rub one’s soul’s face in it: karmic sucker-punching.
The phrase “there, but for the grace-of-G-D, go I” has real wisdom in it.
Freud apparently discovered that child-rape was normal, in the culture he inhabited, & tried speaking-up about it, but … well, backlash threatened to wipe his importance off the map, so he … got quiet about it, again.
Feudalism & slavery have pretty-much DEFINED our race’s last few millenia of history: we DID embody such corruption, such narcissism, such prejudice, consistently, for thousands of years.
What percentage of humankind rejected that kind of narcissism & perpetuating-established-corruption for sake of principles??
Seriously? it isn’t 1/2, it isn’t 1/20!!
This isn’t a they are corrupt problem, this is they had opportunity & exercised it, but we who haven’t been in their culture pretend that our nature is somehow inherently-different, therefore we pretend we wouldn’t ever have exercised that opportunity … kind of thing.
Yes, there are individuals who hold to principle in spite of it violating the culture they live in, like Charles Darwin being anti-slavery.
But … the whole “WE would NEVER do any such thing, were we born into that culture, ourselves!” … it’s dishonest.
& yes, it’s dishonest+vile when the “journalism” of today softpedals what they did.
I read an excerpt from 1 of those documents: a girl was raped & got pregnant, forced to have an abortion she didn’t want, & they therefore murdered her daughter.
NONE of the “journalism” of MSM has the spine to state that honestly.
& given that speaking required-truth is their JOB, … that’s … a betrayal of civilization.
Epstein seems to have been VERY skilful at manipulating people into undermined-principles ( kind of a human moral-pathogen? among other things: he was human, too, ttbomk, and I don’t want to know more about him, to validate that: vile is vile, but there had to be more than just-that in him. Same as our “heroes” & “saints” are often mixtures, when we get to know the real someone ).
& I think it would be much more objective of us to thank our karma/luck for how we weren’t put in the undermining-force that others failed in, because as nice as it may be to pretend that we’re “inherently” better than others … the blunt fact is that if cultures can form lives as much as the evidence shows they can … then we’d be drastically different had we been born into different-culture, & it isn’t any “inherent” superiority: it’s nurture, not nature.
I think the primary reason we’re not like him/them is cultural-circimstance we were born into.
Only.
I think humankind is malleable by context to that degree.
& loyalty-to-principle isn’t what most humankind are: loyalty-to-gang/family/identity outranks loyalty-to-principle massively among humankind, & people nowadays are just pretending that their current-gang is inherently-good, & masquerading as loyal-to-principle.
This will become biting, when the “masks come off” & humankind HARD-chooses ideology over principles, in the coming months/weeks.
Then the truth will be more “in our faces”.
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Just tossing you levers:
Identity is the “skeleton” on-which ego “the flesh” forms.
Spontaneously-removing-racism’s distortion-of-government would have violent backlash, because it’d cost unearned-privilege greatly.
Political-process selects-for DarkTriad: therefore if anybody wants to create a categorically-better-system, they have to prevent DarkTriad from being advantaged in the replacement, even systematically-disadvantaged ( which they will fight violently to prevent ).
The best-for-the-world & best-for-civilization changes de-politics, de-ideology, make-rational, & make-objective, forcing better-for-the-world & better-for-civilization, but that is politically-intolerable.
Political-motivation & objective-rational-altruism are mutually-exclusive paradigms.
Ideological-identity won’t tolerate world-citizen/global-citizen/gaia-citizen to supplant them from authority.
That guy Franck, South African Black man, who bluntly says that the Whites civilized South Africa, but when the Blacks took-over, then civilization fell-apart, nothing working… he’s anchoring on the wrong thing: it isn’t skin-color, it is what culture someone grew-up-in.
Same as the gaslighters who pretend that it is race which decides criminality in the US, instead of class.
Just check the criminality-rates of Whites & Blacks of the upper-middle-class, the middle-class, & the underclass/ghetto, & then the truth’d be visible, but they WON’T ALLOW that framing, because it cuts into their ideological distortion/belief.
False-framing is a weapon of ideology.
I don’t know if Franck knowingly-rejects that it is culture instead of race.
But the evidence is that in the US, knowingly-rejecting truth is absolutely normal, for ideology.
Therefore, ideology is incompatible with national-viability.
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