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.
