But don’t think I’m done yet—be patient with me.
In the book The Power of Harm, there is a term called reification: these people do not see victims as human beings—with souls, feelings, and mothers. They see them as objects—like a piece of meat to the Romans, or a luxury car to them. The whole world is a chessboard they move at will. In those closed rooms, they practice the objectification of humans in its ugliest form.
Brutality against a minor or a vulnerable person has nothing to do with sexual desire; it has everything to do with the will to power. He wants to feel like an earthly god (God forbid), possessing the right to inflict pain, to decide fate, and to violate the innocence of another being without anyone daring to stop him.
The Epstein list, the Marquis de Sade’s novel, and the Roman banquets all tell us one terrifying truth: when a human being possesses absolute money and absolute power, and removes the fear of God from his heart, he does not become an angel—he becomes a devil who finds pleasure in the suffering of others.
