Category: Reflections
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Introduction: The Everyman’s Cage and the Elite’s Island Sociology has a name for what is being witnessed: normative reversal. The same society that demands radical transparency, ultra-accountability, and surgical surveillance of the working- and middle-class man’s sexuality simultaneously constructs a hermetic bubble of impunity for the financialized elite. This is not hypocrisy. It is structure.…
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An inquiry into the E-Files – A revolving door of perverse incentives. Part I: The Revolving Door, Documented The revolving door between government and high finance is not a metaphor. It is a documented career pattern. And in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, it operated with remarkable precision. Fact: Epstein maintained accounts at JPMorgan Chase…
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The clinical definition of a psychopath is someone who not only lacks an internal moral compass, but is categorically dependent on others for their judgment, and chooses to rebel against it. The psychopath experiences life, norms and the social order as constraints they must release themself from, but the satisfaction doesn’t come from the release…
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The concept of aging has been with humanity since the dawn of civilization. The epic of Gilgamesh tells the story of man in search of eternal youth. The story of Methuselah tells a story of a sage in defiance of death, with an unusually long life. Religions are built upon the foundation of hope of…