Worship at the altar of your servitude, or understand how the altar was made?

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The steam of outrage rising from the turd of the Trump administration’s neck-snapping 180 on its Epstein promises comes as something of a relief. As readers of this blog will know, I have been trying to draw attention to the nature and causes of corruption for well over a decade. When I started, I thought I was late to the party, a slow learner. As the years dragged on, I took the generalised refusal to see how structurally baked into the system corruption is in two ways: 

• Perhaps I was wrong all along, and so were those who influenced my thinking.
• Even if I was right, the time was not. 

Then the lockdowns happened. Surely the obvious totalitarian stench of that global abomination had to be amplified, screamed from the rooftops. Many did so, but the censorship against even the most eminent global experts – virologists, epidemiologists, medical doctors, pathologists, etc. – was chillingly effective. I came away with two main impressions:

• People are easy to fool when they’re afraid, at which point the most important thing to them is their fear, not facts that show their fear to be unnecessary.
• The challenge of learning how to talk to each other in times of deep polarisation is great. All one really has is patience and fortitude. Meanwhile, the bricks and mortar of a surveillance state get combined into higher and higher walls.

The Ukraine war – the tragic fruit of the accelerating collapse of Western hegemony and the Western elite's consequently existential need to break up Russia so as to get sufficient control of that country's immense subsoil wealth and thus prevent their own collapse, recapitalise their economies, and fuel their hegemony for another couple of centuries – is not going to plan. Trump became president of the US in part due to growing impatience with US forever wars, but he is not competent enough to get done what needs to be done to stymy neocon/colonial/European ambitions. The collective West absolutely must break Russia to bits to survive as a global hegemon into the distant future. Trump is too shallow, too ignorant, too insecure, too weakly vain; the task is far too big for him. So … on and on it grinds. More and more people are angered by this.

Israel-Iran and Israel-Palestine are another hot potato of tragic ugliness. The suffering being endured by the Palestinians is indescribable. Because Western hegemony depends in large part on its control of that region, Israel, perhaps the West’s most important proxy, is a colonial project that must not fail. So this is yet another forever war. Iran knows this, Russia knows this, China knows this, BRICS++ knows this. Ergo, the West cannot win. The West is going down. Its manic desperation grows and grows, its insanity deepens.

On top of all this, the Trump administration pulls a nauseating about face on its Epstein promises. Apparently, that list was not. They didn't. No one went there and did anything, and if they did, they didn't, you know... There was no list, no clients. J. Epstein is simply one disgusting man who trafficked thousands of minors to himself using Ghislaine Maxwell and the billions of dollars he mysteriously made, for no other reason than self pleasuring. The crass stupidity of this new Big Beautiful Narrative, the total moral bankruptcy it betrays, the thuggish imbecility of a class of people who have for too long got away with far too much, all beggar belief. 

And yet how else could it go? Do we really want to know how systemic this is? Our outrage is justified, but many other things justify our outrage. Real children get killed in wars against our ‘enemies’. Babies too. “War is a crime against humanity,” said Col. Douglas MacGregor.

So if we hate it so much, why is there war? Human nature? Sure, but there is far more to human nature than warring violence. If you believe humans are essentially violent, then outrage is unwarranted. Surely outrage in response to moral depravity is a clear sign that we are more than aggressive beasts who just want it all our way, all the time, beasts who can only slaughter those who stand in our way. 

What else are we? Perhaps we should build systems that bring out the best in us, not the beast.

We live in a world shaped to an alarming degree by the so-called elites. Look at what they do. Look at the Epstein case and how those very same elites handled that case. How are they the elites? How is it that people of that character are in charge? Could it be that the system is structured to generate elites of that character? You cannot have this sort of thing going on and on and on across the centuries unless it is systemic. 

So, what is it about The System that does this, and keeps on doing it? That is the question. I try to put meaningful flesh on its bones at my new website, Truth Transparent.