Recently, I heard a conservative podcaster note that the word “pizza” is mentioned in the files over 800 times. My immediate thought was not, “Well, that’s a coincidence, even pedophiles get hungry.” No, I just wondered if the “Pizzagate” of urban legend—and very real urban mayhem—had been adopted to lived reality. Think of the cheeky Satanists turning the ravings of paranoid Christians into ugly statues.
Every new file drop brings at least a whisper of validation to QAnon’s core contentions. Even the absurd grotesque of financial vampires leaching adrenachrome from young bodies acquires grounding upon the news that Epstein cast about for “life extension” techniques and had lively and lascivious communications with Peter Attia, “longevity craze” influencer and newly minted CBS contributor. (A keto diet enthusiast, Attia once confirmed to Epstein, “Pussy is, indeed, low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten content, though.”)
Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California who pitched research projects to Epstein, told The New York Times that he was originally informed that Epstein was “interested in science.” Steven Pinker rationalized his appearance in numerous photos at Epstein gatherings as a function of his own popularity: “I was often the most recognizable person in the room.” Sure, it’s not their fault the pedophile wanted a piece of you. Who doesn’t like pizza?
And Pinker, of course, contributed a semantic analysis of the solicitation statute to Alan Dershowitz’s defense of Epstein in the 2008 case that brought Epstein’s crimes to the public eye.
And these are just the academics. Just some of them. As Naomi Oreskes observed in Scientific American six years ago, Epstein “focused his largesse on research on the genetic basis of human behavior,” clearly looking to buttress his passion for self-centered eugenics. I’d argue he also had a clear obsession with bad behavior and inflicting pain. In one cryptic exchange with Harvard evolutionary biologist Martin Nowak, Epstein prompted, “Our spy was captured after completing her mission.” Nowak responded: “Did you torture her.”
There’s a pattern to Epstein’s consumption of ideas and to the kinds of people he found compatible. It wasn’t a wish to brush shoulders with the famous and well-regarded—generic star-fucking. Epstein didn’t collect people for status; he identified and aligned himself with the intellectual machinery now justifying our current dystopia, including the academic rationalizations and motivated reasoning that hover behind the most terrible excesses of the Trump administration: glorified phrenology, violent misogyny, genetic determinism, and elite impunity.
Epstein is less the thread that connects the rich and powerful than a lens through which all of those existing connections snap into place: the common denominator for the cursed ideas—white supremacy and patriarchy, a cheapening of human life and human values and human choice—propelling the apocalypse forward.
“I didn’t know who he was,” is an insufficient response. “I am doing serious self-examination as to why he invited me” is better.
I had been thinking of Epstein’s presence in all the worst places as making him a kind of Zelig of our collective nightmares. But that sounds like an absolution of agency. I’m revising my hypothesis: No one just happened to be there. Epstein also didn’t pull people into his web and then corrupt them. The club existed. He fit right in.
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