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The Epstein story has long seemed the most important story of the decade. It is a parable of all that has gone wrong with Western civilization, the story of the corruption of a ruling elite not merely on a human level but on a spiritual one.
The characters in this sordid drama seemed to have accepted their damnation, rejecting even the possibility of redemption. It was a world of despair in which suicide or guilty evasion was the best of all possible ends.
One gets the sense there was more joy and hope in an African hut than in their deceit ridden palaces. If that's the view from the top it's the view from hell.
You can't conceal cynicism of this intensity. The elite message is there's no God or worker's paradise either. But as to the devil -- he most definitely exists.
