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According to this report, in watching the surrealistic resonance reverberating throughout an America currently embroiled in turmoil, violence and crisis, famed German filmmaker Werner Herzog has just observed: “It’s very much a question, not what are the facts…Today it’s not that important what really happened…It’s more a question of who owns the narrative…And occupying the narrative has created some sort of lopsided ideologies and lopsided information that we see every day”—an astute observation expanded upon by Harvard educated historian Richard Fernandez in his just published article “Why the Epstein Scandal May Be the Most Important Story of the Decade”, and wherein, in part, he states:
The Epstein underage sex-trafficking and blackmail story may be the most important story of the decade.
It is a parable for much that has gone wrong with Western civilization, the story of the corruption of a ruling elite not merely on a human level but on a spiritual one, the explanation of our current condition.
The characters in this sordid drama seemed to have accepted their damnation and determined to live out their debauchery without even the possibility of redemption.
Despite the prestige and opulence of its setting, Epstein’s was a world of despair where the shadow suicide or guilty evasion was the price of stimulation.
Like characters in a science fiction movie who discover special glasses that show the aliens among them, the public sees them now.
The same insights that fueled the populist rebellion also weakened the mutually protective networks that prevented their previous detection.
When the old boy system failed, it did with such suddenness that many tycoons, media personalities, politicians from both parties, artists, academicians and even royalty were taken by surprise.
For much of the public, the shock was no less.
To many, it seemed as if it were already too late.
The game was afoot not only in high places but among gangs in the street.
The old verities were condemned as supremacism.
Criticism was now violence while physical destruction like arson was to be indulged as mere damage to property.
Worst of all there was nothing to appeal to.
God had been banished, symbols and statues pulled down till there was one remaining yardstick left to invoke: the inappropriate. That only survived because it meant nothing and was therefore harmless.
If there is some easy way to bind up the rift it is not obvious.
Yet from that nothing-in-common, the small man must find a way to rebuild culture and civilization since mere strength is never enough.
The task is to make whole what is in pieces; find what Epstein and his glittering coterie could not: hope amid despair, forgiveness despite the claims of justice, redemption amid the unpardonable and the embers of optimism among the ashes.
If it sounds hopeless, that is what civilization is said to be.
What could not be built on private islands or marble edifices may yet rise in the ordinary heart of man.