Selective Memory Is a Hell of a Drug. People Pretend They're Shocked With Jeffrey ''Dahmer'' Epstein. Evil Didn’t Suddenly Arrive With Epstein — The Devil Offered Jesus His Property, Earth. ''Allegedly''.
The recent releases of the Jeffrey Epstein files—millions of pages of documents, emails, photos, and more made public by the U.S. Department of Justice—have once again sparked outrage, shock, and declarations that the world is controlled by evil monsters and powerful elites. People express surprise at the gruesomeness and depravity revealed in these records, which detail Epstein's network of abuse, exploitation, and connections to influential figures. Yet, this reaction often feels naive. Why the wide-eyed astonishment? Patterns of profound evil, systemic abuse, and unchecked power among the elite aren't new—they've been woven into human history for millennia. A long historical and even biblical perspective shows that treating these revelations as a sudden, unprecedented rupture ignores how deeply rooted such darkness has always been. Consider the biblical account in Matthew 4:1-11. After fasting for forty days and forty nights in the wilderness, Jesus is tempted by the dev...