Clear is Kind
The Epstein files provide crystal clarity about what the enemy is
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is doing incredible work in her examination of the Epstein files and their broader implications for world governance. Epstein was not an isolated bad actor. Epstein was almost certainly a key part of the system working as designed to launder money and retain power for what I think we should start calling The 2500. Valdes-Rodriguez explains:
People who study the ruling financial class specifically put the truly governing class at around 0.001 percent globally. That’s roughly 77,000 people out of 8 billion. The number gets even smaller when you break this 77,000 down into the handful who manage the group’s economic vision — you know, the folks of the World Economic Forum who attend the Davos summit each year. That’s only around 2,500 people, or, as I like to call them, the 0.00000031 percent.
Jeffrey Epstein was their instrument. His operation was espionage in service to the 0.00000031 percent, not a nation. To the 0.00000031 percent, there are no nations. Only themselves, and the pesky billions of pointless surplus people whose tedious needs always get in the way.
She’s clear about what we know for sure, what patterns exist and what they might point to, and what frames best make sense of the patterns.
Everything is very clear: the rich are in charge, and they hate working people. (Actually I don’t know that they hate us; that might require that they see us as people, which they don’t. Rebecca Solnit quoted an Occupy protester: “We’re fighting for a world where everyone matters.”)
The US federal government and many others represent the rich, not working people. Valdes-Rodriguez points out that in some places, that is changing: NYC. Bolivia. Mexico.
She does not mention Rojava or the autonomous regions of Mexico governed by the Zapatistas, but those, too, are bright spots, places that may point the way.