“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, it means criminals rule us.”
Have you heard of the Epstein sex trafficking scandal? It wasn’t just a tabloid shockwave—it was a glimpse into the dark machinery behind the illusion of civilization. A true scandal, as I see it, is when the real state of affairs behind the scenes breaks through the polished surface and is exposed for everyone to see. And Epstein’s story did exactly that—for a brief moment. Then, as always, came the rush to bury it again.
Recently, Elon Musk reignited controversy by publicly accusing Donald Trump of trying to suppress the Epstein files because his name might be included. Musk is now questioning the Department of Justice’s claim that no “client list” exists. “Wow, amazing that Epstein ‘killed himself’ and Ghislaine is in federal prison for a hoax,” Musk posted. It’s a stunning contradiction that someone could be imprisoned for trafficking minors—but supposedly trafficked them to no one.
But while people fixate on whether Trump or Musk is “right,” they miss the deeper truth: both men, like most powerful figures, are unconsciously reenacting the unresolved traumas of their childhoods on the world stage.
Power Built on Repression
Jeffrey Epstein's entire operation thrived not merely through blackmail, money, or celebrity access—but because society, at large, is emotionally conditioned to look away. Especially when abuse is cloaked in wealth, charm, or institutional backing.
In A Dance to Freedom, I wrote:
“Wherever I am, I seem to be able to strike up a conversation with anyone who crosses my path… In my exchanges with men and women from all walks of life, I’ve found that so many of us remain lost little children, looking and waiting for a substitute mother or father figure to save us.”
This longing for rescue is what predators like Epstein exploit. It is what allows the powerful to live above the law and to silence their victims. And it is what allows “leaders”—from presidents to tech titans—to spin lies, deny everything, and make counterclaims, without ever being held accountable.
As Musk posted:
“The old: 1. Admit nothing 2. Deny everything 3. Make counterclaims. But it won’t work this time.”
But will it? Or are we simply watching another performance by emotionally blind men jockeying for dominance, each reenacting their childhood drama of betrayal, humiliation, and the desperate need for attention?
The Child Behind the Mask
The Epstein scandal—like so many others—is not just a political failure. It is a failure of human connection—a rupture in our ability to feel, integrate, and act as sentient beings. Most people are not truly alive. They are emotionally disconnected—like robots—unconscious and compulsively seeking scapegoats to take revenge for the wrongs done to them when they were defenseless little children.
From A Dance to Freedom:
“Until I could finally feel the pain caused by an emotionally blind father who preferred drinking with the men at the bar than going home with the little girl who loved him, I would remain a prisoner to the pain.”
Epstein’s victims were not only trafficked by men in suits and private jets—they were abandoned long before by families and institutions that failed to see or protect them. And the men who used them? Many were likely reenacting their own buried traumas, inflicting on others what they themselves could never face.
Alice Miller wrote:
“It is not true that evil, destructiveness, and perversion inevitably form part of human existence… But it is true that we are daily producing more evil… absolutely avoidable.”
(Banished Knowledge, p. 143)
We produce that evil not because we are monsters—but because we were once innocent children who had to repress our cries, our pain, our helplessness. And now we unconsciously direct that pain outward—at scapegoats, at “enemies,” at anyone who reminds us of the child within we were forced to betray.
The Real Scandal
The real scandal is not just that Epstein trafficked minors to the elite. The real scandal is that we allow systems built on childhood repression to rule the world. We idealize authority. We protect abusers. We ridicule truth-tellers.
As I wrote in my book:
“Children tend to idealize the people who are supposed to love them, even when they don’t. It’s a coping mechanism… But as adults, we have the ability within ourselves to finally become a loving mother or father to the lost child still inside us.”
That’s the healing work the world refuses to do.
And until humanity is ready to face its own childhood truth, scandals will keep surfacing—and being buried—by the very people who fear their own pasts more than they fear the truth.
But I still believe in the power of one free voice, one authentic witness, to break the spell.
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