Thread by @WuTao2023

The Uncomfortable Truth: Why We’re Not Truly Shocked by Epstein

The news cycle erupts every time a new name is unsealed or a new detail of the Epstein network emerges.

The public performs a ritual of collective gasping, asking the same weary question:

"How is this possible in a civilized society?"

But if we are being honest—brutally, historically honest—we aren't shocked. We are just uncomfortable.

We live in a world that has spent 4,000 years institutionalizing the torture of infants through

ritual and routine genital mutilation. For millennia, we have accepted the physical branding and non-consensual cutting of the most vulnerable as "culture" "religion" or "tradition." We have normalized the idea that an infant’s body is not their own,

but property to be modified for the comfort or beliefs of the collective.

Add to this the decades of legalized murder of the unborn, where the very definition of life is shifted to suit political and social convenience. When a society decides that the most defenseless

among us can be discarded or physically altered by law and custom, it has already surrendered its moral compass.

The Architecture of Apathy

The Epstein debacle isn't a "glitch" in the system; it is a feature of a landscape where the sanctity of the individual has been eroded

for centuries.

Normalization of Harm:
When we categorize certain forms of violence against children as "routine," we dull our collective nervous system. We lose the ability to recognize predation because we have already integrated "acceptable" harm into our daily lives.

The Hierarchy of Protection:
By legalizing the termination of the unborn and the mutilation of infants, we create a hierarchy. We send a clear message: Protection is conditional. This is the exact environment where predators thrive—in the gray areas where the vulnerable are seen

as less-than-human.

Performative Outrage:
Our "shock" at high-level trafficking rings is a defense mechanism. It allows us to point at a monster like Epstein and feel righteous, while ignoring the institutionalized practices we participate in or ignore every single day.

The Mirror

You cannot spend 4,000 years breaking the bodies of children and then wonder why a billionaire thought he could do the same. You cannot legalise the destruction of life in the womb and then act surprised when the world treats children like commodities.

The "how" is simple: we built a world that values power, tradition, and convenience over the absolute, uncompromising protection of the helpless.

If we want to end the "debacles," we have to stop looking at the perpetrators and start looking at the foundations.

Until we address the 4,000-year-old habits of institutionalized harm, the "shock" is nothing more than hypocrisy.

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