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The Audience for Monsters
I found him the way most people find monsters now: in a clip.
Two men, two chairs, a table. No dramatic lighting, no swelling music. Just Jeffrey Epstein talking to Steve Bannon about money and systems, like any other mid-tier YouTube interview in the endless scroll.
I pressed play expecting confirmation of what I already “knew.” The predator, the creep, the grotesque caricature of perversion. What I got instead was something far less satisfying.
He was smart.
Not omniscient, not profound, but unmistakably fluent in the machinery of finance and power. He moved easily from interest rates to…
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