Long but very interesting article from Escape Key, who has written extensively about Epstein. H/t Meryll Nass at her own substack.
The clever title is not what you may think.
If having a skim, look for the structural aspects that remain hidden, not the personal scandals.
ED
I’ve been following ESC for a while, interesting but also very abstract. This one is really strong but needs to point more clearly to how the algorithmic blandification of everything is the same mechanism that constrains what is printable, what is thinkable, the very words we think with. Clearing, curation, filtering… the same discursive process.
Isn’t escape key an AI bot?
Quite possibly. Very fond of the formula that goes like this:
“This is not an accident of wording.
Not a slip of the tongue, or a leak.
It’s a system…”
Repeats this rhetorical pattern broadly, post after post, with differing variables…
Clif High is another, re-emerging every few months under a new nom de guerre.
Hi folks, haven’t we been witnessing these patterns ever since the medialens messageboard days. The fact that medialens management half buried 9/11 analysis away from the messageboard and TLN management completely outlawed criticism of establishment positions on Covid and covid jabs and climate change are good illustrations of these patterns which establish overton windows.
The Snowden files and Assange files are similar to Epstein files in establishing “trusted journalists” to do the digging and provide the religious filter through which “information from the files” is gleaned by the public.
A key element is ignored - our system of the Rule of Claw which is frequently used openly to distort justice and protect establishment figures. Just as Epstein and his masters have written the rules for their own impunity whilst creating their evil systems so too has our official legal and security institutions and personnel created “political justice” to control the whole of society. The Rule of Claw has, I am sure, created far more than 6 million pages, and it is openly published legalise ( albeit a language of indescribable complexity and not always published).
I’m still trying to wade through the material.
cheers