Epstein’s pattern of inveigling himself into power networks is strikingly familiar. I’ve met too many such operators both close-up and from a distance. Most are merely after money, but now I can’t help doing an unconscious double-take, looking for signs of darker currents.
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Working networks with that level of desperation suggests a drive at work far stronger than ordinary greed for money or power. Which isn’t to say the drive has to be dark, but it has to run deeper than mere ambition.
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Networking in general is a tedious chore which is why most of us do the minimum we can get away with. To want to do a lot of it is like wanting to do a lot of laundry. Something weird there which doesn’t add up.
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Not to this extent and not with this particular style, no. This is not extraversion. This is calculated sociopathic network grooming.
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Network of unwitting/half-aware complicity. You accept an invitation to a party where you’re wined and dined and flattered, and in the back room dark shit us going down, and you’re associated, like it or not.
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Hypothesis: Stick more powerful than carrot in binding groups together, so the apex power broker knows where the bodies are buried.
Why pardoning whistleblowers is important.
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Without the context, i wasn't sure if you meant networking people or computers. The comparison to laundry works both for social climbers and TCP/IP. 😉




