Epstein. Evil in the Empire of Power: Not Chaos, but Order
T he recent release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein did not shake the world because they revealed something entirely unknown. They shook it because they confirmed, with documentary coldness, a truth usually spoken only in whispers: that absolute power does not live within common morality, but creates a parallel morality of its own. Their publication is not a moment of scandal. It is a moment of moral exposure. Not because it introduces new faces, but because it briefly strips away the most persistent myth of the modern order: the belief that great power coexists with responsibility. In reality, the higher power ascends, the thinner morality becomes, until at the summit it does not disappear, it simply becomes unnecessary. In this sense, the Epstein files are not a scandal. The scandal is that we still call them scandals. They are merely temporary cracks in the thick curtain of an order that long ago abandoned the notion of guilt. What comes to light is not crime, ...