I guess like most people I've been thinking about the Epstein cesspit, and boosting posts about it, but I haven't yet written anything on it myself.
I find it confusing. Is it the old thing about power corrupting ? Could there really be a right-wing paedophile ring bizarrely echoing the very stories those very people made up about the Clintons ? An Israel-linked spy ring using a child sex honey-trap ?
But none of this seems to me to really account for the sheer puerile, sleazy immaturity of many of the exchanges. "Girls ! Girls !" These are grown men with attitudes that would shame most adolescent boys. It's not just that 'power corrupts', but that our societies seem to have actively promoted, favoured and networked together - in business, politics and media - the most inadequate, immature, insensitive and amoral people.
