Statesmen, princes, presidents, financiers, strategists of the "fate of the globe" emerge in the Epstein files as people with base instincts and banal vices.
It's not a "sex scandal".
Let's understand how the illusion of power, money, the security apparatus, the belief that they are untouchable reveals their brutal nature.
That billionaire pedophile didn't create the monsters. He gathered them and put them in an environment where there were no TV news cameras, no public opinion.
The halo fell down along with the panties.
Here lies the truth that we must understand once and for all. Mass societies have a dangerous tendency. They worship power, fame. They confuse authority with virtue, success automatically seems moral to them.
Of course, disappointment comes later, but it comes late, with numerous casualties and great damage.
So the case teaches us something that we do well to remember often: We should not blindly trust anyone simply because they have reached the top.
There is no "god" behind all those expensive suits, private jets, tables where the fates of the world are decided. There are only people. And from what we can see, they are people with vices.
Demystifying them, demystifying power, is mental hygiene. A society that does not worship is harder to deceive.