I am having distinctly medieval vibes around the Epstein revelations, and much that we have already known about the crowd involved. Raping, pillaging the people. Ludicrous wealth. People feeling powerless. How can we move beyond incoherent bewilderment-becoming-rage? And not just ‘move on’—which would make us complicit with the evil.
It makes sense if we find something of feudal order here, and deep rot. In medieval times, people lived with a reality that those with power were without any such thing as accountability. The elite could act with impunity. All the rest were just to endure. What’s different now? We’re having the curtain pulled back to see the reality, and sense there can be a difference.
We’re not stuck with incoherent rage; we are capable of moral clarity. We can overcome the narrative of inevitability. We can can support those working to pry open the doors that powerful people are desperate to keep shut.
It is appropriate here to speak of apocalypse—not the B movie kind—but in the sense of ‘unveiling.’ What has been hidden becomes visible. The powerful are revealed as fallible, even monstrous. The king is seen as a fraud. The order of things is revealed as an elaborate stage set for the elite.
The current apocalypse isn’t the end. Just an end to the lie.
I’ll have more on this.
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Some let’s-get-moving music: It’s Thirds Day
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2XERrGMvOz8ZkftMOu8l1W?si=TQp3M-3qSMGBH-aAQuEKrw
Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/its-thirds-day-single/1876665297