After Epstein, nothing can continue as before: neither the ‘never again’ values, nor the bipolar economics of extreme disparities, nor trust.
After Epstein, the established order can no longer persist unchanged: the post-war commitment to ‘never again’—born from the horrors of conflict—and the widespread hope for a just society are both undermined; similarly, the sharp economic divides and the fragile trust in institutions have been shattered. The Epstein revelations revealed endemic corruption and decay within certain western élite groups.
How can we talk about ‘values’ in such a context?
At Davos, Mark Carney exposed the so-called ‘rules order’ as nothing more than a thin Potemkin façade, universally recognized as insincere yet perpetuated. The reason? Deception served a purpose. The urgency was to conceal the system’s descent into radical nihilism, masking that elite circles linked to Epstein operated beyond morality, legality, or human decency, choosing between peace and conflict based solely on selfish desires.
The elites knew that if the public fully grasped the rulers’ utter amorality, the moral narratives sustaining social order would collapse. Without moral leadership from the Establishment, why should the average citizen act with integrity? Such cynicism would spread massively. What, then, would hold society together?
Likely, only authoritarian control.
This final plunge into nihilism, predicted by Nietzsche in 1888, signals the inevitable dead end of post-modern thought. The Enlightenment ideal has inverted into its dark opposite: a world devoid of values, meaning, or purpose aside from greedy self-interest. This also marks the demise of the concept of Truth that has anchored Western civilization since Plato.
The collapse also highlights the flaws of Western mechanical Reason: “This kind of a priori, closed-circle reasoning has had a much greater effect on western culture than we might imagine … It led to the imposition of rules that are believed to be irrefutable, not because they are revealed, but because they have been scientifically proved, and there is thus no appeal against them”, Aurelien notes.
This rigid, deterministic mindset contributed significantly to the ‘Davos Rupture’—following the downfall of intellectual authority and the erosion of trust in leadership. This mechanical worldview led Western economists to overlook the obvious: a hyper-financialized economic system designed exclusively to serve oligarchs and insiders.
No matter how flawed the economic models, “has weakened the vice-like grip of the mathematical economists on the policies of governments. The problem has been that Science, in that binary cause-and-effect mode, could not cope with either the chaos or the complexity of life” (Aurelien). Alternative frameworks like quantum and chaos theories remain largely excluded from mainstream thought.
The significance of ‘Davos’ reinforced by the Epstein disclosures is that the fragile bond of Trust has shattered irreparably.
It is also clear that Epstein’s circle was not merely the product of deviant individuals; “What has been exposed points to systematic, organized, ritualized practices”. As Lucas Leiroz points out:
“Networks of this kind only exist when they are backed by deep institutional protection. There is no ritual paedophilia, no human trafficking on a transnational scale, no systematic production of extreme material – without political, police, judicial, and media cover. This is the logic of power”.
From the vast emails, Epstein appears as a pedophile and deeply immoral figure, but also as a shrewd geopolitical actor whose insights were valued by global powerbrokers. As Michael Wolff described, Epstein was a significant player in the conflict between Jewish influence and Gentiles, as revealed back in 2018 and in recently published correspondence.
This implies Epstein functioned less as a mere tool of Intelligence agencies, and more as an equal collaborator. It is unsurprising that leaders sought his company—and for reasons unjustifiable by morality. Clearly, the Deep (uniparty) State operated through him. Ultimately, Epstein possessed dangerously sensitive knowledge.
David Rothkopf, former U.S. Democratic political adviser, reflects on Epstein’s implications for America:
“[Young Americans] realise that their institutions are failing them, and they’re going to have to [save themselves] … you’ve got tens of thousand of people in Minneapolis, saying this is not any more about Constitutional issues, or the rule of law or democracy – which may sound good – but which is at a remove from the average person at the average kitchen table”.
“People are saying the Supreme Court is not going to protect us; Congress is not going to protect us; the President is the enemy; he is deploying his own army in our cities. The only people who can protect us – are: We ourselves”.
“It is ‘the billionaires stupid’” [a reference to the old amorphism: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’] Rothkopf elaborates:
“The point I’m trying to make is that – if you don’t realise that equality and élite impunity are central issues to everybody, that people think the system is rigged and is not working for them … don’t believe the American dream is real any more – and that the control of the country has been stolen by a handful of the super-rich people, who don’t get taxed and get wealthier and wealthier – whilst the rest of us fall further and further behind – [then you can’t understand today’s despair amongst the under 35s]”.
Rothkopf sees the Davos/Epstein moment as signaling a break between the populace and those in power.
“Western societies now face a dilemma that cannot be resolved through elections, parliamentary commissions, or speeches. How can one continue to accept the authority of institutions that shielded this level of horror? How can respect be maintained for laws applied selectively by people who live above them?”, Leiroz emphasizes.
However, loss of respect does not entirely explain the stalemate. No conventional political party offers solutions for ‘kitchen-table’ economic hardships—such as scarce reasonably salaried jobs, healthcare access, and the rising costs of education and housing.
No mainstream party can credibly address these fundamental problems because the economy has been deliberately ‘rigged’ for decades—structured around a debt-driven financial system rather than a genuine productive economy.
Changing this would necessitate a complete overhaul of the current Anglo liberal market system, which would take years of reform, guarded against fiercely by oligarchs.
In an ideal scenario, fresh political forces might rise. Yet in Europe, any pathways to resolving deep systemic contradictions have been deliberately blocked by a cordon sanitaire designed to exclude non-centrist ideas.
If protests fail to alter the status quo, and elections continually pit the same old parties against each other, young people will likely conclude that salvation will not come externally—and in frustration, may decide that the future must be shaped through street action.
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