Also, some conspiracies are always going to be right, but the details matter.
“There’s a cabal of rich people who run the world!” I mean, yes. Obviously. But, the method matters here.
“Rich people make blood sacrifices in cult meetings, then replace the president with an android and the prime minister with a clone” is not the same as “rich people buy up newspapers and throw lavish fundraising dinners.”
As for the main conspiracy, IMO it’s not credible that everybody in Epstein’s circle was a pedophile. It’s not even credible that everyone in his circle knew he was one. I’m sure you don’t become a billionaire without already being the kind of person who has a problem with empathy. But, Epstein’s circle wasn’t just billionaires. It was also intellectuals, politicians, artists, etc. Even if 99% of them were either pedophiles or perfectly OK with pedophilia (which seems unlikely) that remaining 1% could ruin his life.
What’s believable is that he had an enormous circle of rich and powerful people, and that a small subset of them were in an inner circle where the child rape happened. In that case, it isn’t that every rich and powerful person is part of a pedophile ring. It’s that rich and powerful people were meeting and conspiring, and also some of them were pedophiles.
Having said that, I’m perfectly happy if the popular story is that everybody who was buddies with Epstein is a pedophile and should be removed from society, if not removed from the realm of the living. Those people deserve that kind of punishment, but not because they’re pedophiles. But, it’s too exhausting to try to convince people that someone like Bill Gates deserves to have his life ruined, even if he isn’t a pedophile.
Also, some conspiracies are always going to be right, but the details matter.
“There’s a cabal of rich people who run the world!” I mean, yes. Obviously. But, the method matters here.
“Rich people make blood sacrifices in cult meetings, then replace the president with an android and the prime minister with a clone” is not the same as “rich people buy up newspapers and throw lavish fundraising dinners.”
As for the main conspiracy, IMO it’s not credible that everybody in Epstein’s circle was a pedophile. It’s not even credible that everyone in his circle knew he was one. I’m sure you don’t become a billionaire without already being the kind of person who has a problem with empathy. But, Epstein’s circle wasn’t just billionaires. It was also intellectuals, politicians, artists, etc. Even if 99% of them were either pedophiles or perfectly OK with pedophilia (which seems unlikely) that remaining 1% could ruin his life.
What’s believable is that he had an enormous circle of rich and powerful people, and that a small subset of them were in an inner circle where the child rape happened. In that case, it isn’t that every rich and powerful person is part of a pedophile ring. It’s that rich and powerful people were meeting and conspiring, and also some of them were pedophiles.
Having said that, I’m perfectly happy if the popular story is that everybody who was buddies with Epstein is a pedophile and should be removed from society, if not removed from the realm of the living. Those people deserve that kind of punishment, but not because they’re pedophiles. But, it’s too exhausting to try to convince people that someone like Bill Gates deserves to have his life ruined, even if he isn’t a pedophile.