I’ve been reading Epstein’s inbox (jmail.world) by just randomly searching words, locations and first names (sounding the depths), and the most amazing thing is the completeness of their detachment from the real world of hardship, privation, exploitation and abuse that their extremely comfortable, leisurely and self satisfied lives are built on top of. They’re jetsetting around the world to their many homes, estates and yachts, all of which run on small armies of working class and often immigrant labor, preying on, trafficking, sexually, emotionally, verbally and physically abusing poor and working class girls, and there is not a single mention of any working class person AS a person and not an exploitable commodity in there (aside from Epstein and his brother, other day 1s, exhibiting nostalgia for their Brooklyn upbringing- another strange topic for another day)- and YET, the collective ego of these people so clearly requires that they see and experience themselves as being the producers, pushers, movers, and perennial commentators of Culture, writ large. Culture, which is, ultimately, what the majority who are NOT part of this ruling class, choose to give our money, time, attention and loyalty to. The ultimate takeaway from me is that the Revolutionary imperative of the GLOBAL working class (they are a global class- but we are too)- is DIVESTMENT FROM THE EPSTEIN CLASS. By which I mean divestment of our money, but also of our time, attention, respect, engagement, emotional energy and ASPIRATIONAL LIFE FORCE. I was raised by a classic white 1st gen college grad boomer who told me I should aspire to be part of this class. Fortunately, even as a young teenager, these people viscerally repulsed me (always had a good sniffer for hypocrites and bigots of all stripes) and I chose a path of solidarity with other working class people. And thank fucking god, because now here we are, and I was right. We and our children must understand the parasitic nature of this class and radically divest from what they are and what they have been selling us. When en masse we leave their artificial fire for the raging communal bonfire of our own true cultural and intellectual life, when we stop taking on lifelong debt burdens in order to gain proximity to their synthetic hearth so we can beg them for scraps (the best of us begging the worst of us for scraps), when we stop buying what they’re selling and their markets and fortunes crater, the most incredible and amazing thing will happen. Even if they’re financially fine, and considering the dragon hoards they’re sitting on they most likely will be materially fine- They will suffer ego death, and that- THAT- even in the absence of adequate criminal penalties for their very real crimes-is a consequence they deserve, and one that, unlike short stints in cushy white collar prison facilities- they truly can not handle. Pariah status. Isolation. Irrelevance.