“No indeed! Man transgresses—when he sees himself as self-sufficient.”
I know you’re shocked, and perhaps even nauseated. The Epstein list is not merely a political scandal; it is a sewer drain through which you glimpse the human psyche when it possesses absolute power and absolute money and believes itself above law and accountability. What you may have read in detail likely surpasses the imagination of the horror films we watched in the Saw series.
But before I take you deeper into this, come, my friend—let us step back a little in time. Not to Epstein’s island, but to an isolated castle in the Alps, to open the pages of a manuscript written in 1785 and considered the most dangerous novel in history. So, dear human, give me a little patience and focus with me.
The novel is The 120 Days of Sodom, written by the infamous French aristocrat the Marquis de Sade—the man from whose name psychologists derived the term sadism.
The novel tells the story of four men who represent the very peak of the social pyramid in France at the time: a duke, a bishop, a judge, and a banker—power, religion, law, and money—exactly like the patrons of Epstein’s island. These four decide to lock themselves away for 120 days in an inaccessible, isolated castle. They forcibly bring with them a group of adolescent boys and girls.
