Truth Transparent

“The lie is not for you and me. The lie is for those implicated, to say: No matter what, we will protect you. Then we have to start asking the question: Why?” – Saagar Enjeti

Why are the corrupt powerful being protected at the cost of We, the People, and at the cost of nation states across the planet? This is the question of our times.

There is, in my view, a lot of naïvety in Tucker Carlson’s interview of Sagaar Enjeti. Both parties to the interview yearn for a world of national interests, of international cooperation where national interests intersect, cooperation which is then transactional – which means money-based, which means profit-based. We could then all get along in a much happier and more prosperous world. 

But despite what is to me wishful thinking in this regard, at least they, and others like them, want to expose the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, of the Jeffrey Epstein story. They are prepared to take very serious public heat, including from the most powerful players on Earth, to pursue this pivotal story where its facts lead them. I commend them both for their courage, perseverance and sincerity, and agree with their sense that the Epstein case goes all the way to the infamous top, that suppressing it and thereby protecting those implicated by it, rots America’s moral fibre, and by extension the moral fibre of all other nations that aid and abet suppression of the relevant facts of this case.

For the record, I don’t care who is found guilty or innocent, I just want the truth. Which of course, in a different way, also applies to me; perhaps I am the naïve one. It is freedom of speech that sorts the wheat from the chaff. 

The world is corrupt because power corrupts. It takes mighty power to run nation states, corporations and international institutions. And while absolute power is impossible, and absolute corruption is therefore also impossible, corruption is always bad, does great damage including brutal world wars and all manner of unthinkable atrocities. Corruption should therefore be fought every step of the way. “The first casualty when war begins is truth.” “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.” 

Please note: that’s eternal vigilance. That would be freedom of speech. And that would address all of us. Have you noticed how this basic foundation for holding power in check is not honoured, not nourished, not maintained, but left to rot, and even derided? The powerful are behind that, because who else would be; it’s their power that’s on the line. We non-powerful are too busy, demoralised, poor and desperate for distraction, to do very much about the slow rape of our soul and dignity. 

The stink of corruption mounts and mounts. Are more of us noticing the stench? I like to think so. Carlson’s interview of Enjeti has garnered over a million views in its first 21 hours, and that’s just on YouTube.

The Epstein story is the poster child par excellence for the nature and repugnance of Corruption Left Unchecked. “No further revelations of criminality from on high should surprise us anymore; it is now clear corruption reigns.” I wrote that line on 6 January 2011. How wrong I was. My sensitivity to corruption is obviously far sharper, perhaps to the point overactivity, than most normal folk. Perhaps far more still has to happen for people to notice the stench. Whatever the truth of that, I smell it everywhere I look. Acting on my disgust has cost me plenty, but taught me far more, primarily the value of humility.

Which brings me to transactional national interest. What is “interest”? Wealth. What is wealth? Money. But if we pursue wealth as measured by money, we walk a path that can only corrupt, because when you Just Know that value can be measured in numbers that are preceded by squiggly symbols – how many dollars is the Amazon rain forest worth, how many dollars for your young daughter? – slowly but surely far too much of value that cannot be measured is left to rot. 

When the pursuit of happiness is the accumulation of wealth-as-money, you have at the very base of your operations this governing logic: Having more is better than having less. You bake worship of quantity into the core dynamic of your system, which is in fact an evolving entity. As such, quality withers on the vine of your nation, your corporation, your international institute. We are now, I hope, tasting how bitter and vacuous is its fruit.

Econosophy has been a long-running scratch pad which I used to develop my ideas into some firmness, making plenty of mistakes along the way, some of which still embarrass me. Sensing their firmness but patchiness across too many articles, I have been developing a new website, which is fully under my control. There, what is strong from Econosophy makes a cleaner reappearance in the form of fuller articles that are, I hope, easier to follow. 

My strong intuition that the West is quickly approaching its denouement is shared by a large number intellectual big hitters across the planet. There is, therefore, the serious matter of what comes next. I have no answers, but I am persuaded I have some of the more important right questions correctly phrased, as well as the healthiest angle of approach for developing next steps, or next attitudes of engagement with the world.

My new site is called Truth Transparent, and I would be delighted to see you there. It will grow slowly; I have other writing projects on the front burner. But grow it will.