Epstein’s email reads like a pitch, not a manifesto
Either Epstein is offering to overthrow Putin or he is helping Putin to collect kompromat. Both can be true, just as NATO expansion and Putin's claim that Ukraine is part of Russian Civilization is true. He can lie after that since lying (like blackmail) is part of the Russian defense mechanism. The Thiel email. Here’s the key thing I'm running into: I'm treating “the Dark Enlightenment” and “the Owners of Financialized Capital” as two clean, mutually exclusive blocs, when in reality they behave more like overlapping Venn diagrams with porous membranes, shared intermediaries, and opportunistic alliances. The Thiel–Epstein connection doesn’t contradict my model. It reveals the structure more clearly. Epstein was not “finance” — he was a broker of access. This is the first place where the contradiction dissolves. Epstein wasn’t a sovereign node of the OCGFC (Bolsen’s term). He was a connector, a social graph optimizer, a black‑box concierge who: - linked money to science ...