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Power, Wealth, and the Quiet Normalisation of Harm

Post author By G
Post date Feb 12, 2026
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This is a difficult subject to address with care, because silence carries its own consequences while overstatement risks distorting what remains contested, unresolved, or deliberately obscured. The public exposure of Jeffrey Epstein did not reveal a single aberration so much as make visible a recurring pattern that has long accompanied extreme concentrations of wealth and […]

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Duplicity

Post author By G
Post date Jan 14, 2026
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What is striking is not simply how difficult it is for people with genuine insight, intellectual range, and openness to rise through status hierarchies, but that those hierarchies stabilise themselves by filtering out precisely the signals that would correct them. This is not accidental. Systems that persist must dampen information that threatens coherence, even when […]

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