"Conspiracy theories about powerful secret societies operating outside or against the state often come paired with the notion that the wealthy and influential people involved in these plots also behave in libertine and immoral ways. In this view, the elites’ boundless ambition is accompanied by an alleged bottomless sexual appetite and desires that deviate from the norm — along with, of course, the ability to act on them with impunity, even when others are harmed."
– Enrique Rey, "Great men are almost always bad men": The Epstein files and the appeal of stories about depraved elites
In this session, we will start by reading this article together, and follow it up with several others, and of course discuss.
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