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“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.

Civilization collapses.
Law collapses.
Religion collapses.

These “elites” turn into monsters, practicing the most horrific forms of torture, sexual violation, and slow killing—simply because they can.

When de Sade wrote this, he was not writing pure fantasy. He was screaming a terrifying truth:

“When a human being possesses absolute power in a place isolated from the eyes of society, the monster within awakens and devours everything.”

But why, my human friend—why would a man who owns billions and governs the world with his decisions commit acts of such degradation? Why don’t they content themselves with the natural pleasures available to them without limit?

Let me take you briefly to an important book that explains the psychology of these people—how the “human” turns into a “freak.” The book is The Lucifer Effect by the renowned psychologist Philip Zimbardo, author of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment.

In this book, Zimbardo presents a frightening theory: evil is not always an inherent trait in a person. Evil is often the product of environment and power. When you place a human being in an environment that grants absolute authority (like Epstein’s island or de Sade’s castle), strip away accountability, and provide total secrecy, the neural circuits responsible for empathy gradually shut down, and the dark side awakens.