Most of Jeffrey Epstein’s so-called “philanthropy” was directed to the financing and promotion of transhumanism. At the prideful heart of this movement is a disdain for all that is authentically human and a sordid desire to replace human frailty with superhuman or transhuman strength.
The sordid life of Jeffrey Epstein serves to highlight the decadence of the deplorable epoch in which we find ourselves, as do the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. The web of vice and viciousness that he had spun was widespread, serving to entrap not only underage girls but also the rich and famous who preyed upon them. Using the allure of underage sex to lure his wealthy associates into his web, Epstein secretly filmed them in the act of sexually abusing minors, thereby turning his “associates” into his blackmail victims.
Epstein seems to have believed that the powerful people whom he’d entrapped in his “insurance policy” would have a vested interest in keeping him safe from the law, a strategy which worked for a while. In 2008, Epstein was convicted in Florida of sexually abusing a fourteen-year-old girl, receiving a scandalously light sentence, but due to a plea deal he was not charged with sexually abusing thirty-five other girls whom federal officials identified as having been abused by him.
After another ten years in which Epstein masterminded the trafficking of young girls to satisfy the pornographic and pedophilic appetites of his powerful network of friends, he was finally charged in July 2019 with the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. A month later, he was found dead in his jail cell. Although the medical examiner originally recorded the death as being a case of suicide, there are so many anomalies and mysteries surrounding the circumstances of Epstein’s death that many people agree with Epstein’s lawyers that the death could not have been suicide. One thing that is certain is that Epstein’s death removed the possibility of pursuing criminal charges. There would be no trial, and therefore no exposing of Epstein’s powerful associates by their victims in a court of law. Seen in this light, or in the shadow of this possible cover-up, it is tempting to see Epstein’s “insurance policy” as his death warrant. He was too dangerous to be allowed to live when the lives of so many others depended on his timely death. It is no wonder that “Epstein didn’t kill himself” has become a hugely popular meme, nor that TV networks have sought to dramatize his sordid life.
One aspect of Epstein’s life which is unlikely to be the focus of any TV drama is his obsession with transhumanism. For those who know little about this relatively recent phenomenon, transhumanism is usually defined as the movement in philosophy which advocates the transformation of humanity through the development of technologies which will re-shape humans intellectually and physiologically so that they transcend or supersede what is now considered “human.” At the prideful heart of this movement is a disdain for all that is authentically human and a sordid desire to replace human frailty with superhuman or transhuman strength.
Transhumanism rides roughshod over the dignity of the human person in its quest for the technologically “created” superman. Its spirit was encapsulated by David Bowie in the lyrics of one of his songs: “Homo sapiens have outgrown their use…. Gotta make way for the homo superior.”
Most of Epstein’s so-called “philanthropy” was directed to the financing and promotion of transhumanism. The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation pledged $30 million to Harvard University to establish the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics and also bankrolled the OpenCog project which develops software “designed to give rise to human-equivalent artificial general intelligence.” Apart from his support for the cybernetic approach to transhumanism, Epstein was also fascinated with the possibility of creating the “superman” via the path of eugenics. He hoped to help in a practical way with plans to “seed the human race with his DNA” by impregnating up to twenty women at a time at a proposed “baby ranch” at his compound in New Mexico. He also supported the pseudo-science of cryonics which freezes human corpses and severed heads in the hope that technological advances will eventually make it possible to resurrect the dead. He had planned to have his own head and genitalia preserved in this way.
In addition to his bizarre association with the wilder fringes of technological atheism, Epstein also co-organized a conference with his friend, the militant atheist Al Seckel, who is known, amongst other things, for his creation of the so-called “Darwin Fish” symbol, seen on bumper stickers and elsewhere, which depicts Darwin’s “superior” evolutionary fish eating the ichthys symbol or “Jesus fish” of the Christians. Seckel fled California after his life of deception and fraud began to catch up with him, and he was found at the foot of a cliff in France having apparently fallen to his death. Nobody seems to know whether he slipped, jumped, or was pushed.
Apart from his unhealthy interest in atheistic scientism, Jeffrey Epstein was also a major figure amongst the globalist elite. According to his lawyer, Gerald B. Lefcourt, he was “part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative” which works to force the poor countries of the world to conform to the values of the culture of death. Even more ominously, Epstein was a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, two of the key institutions responsible for fostering and engineering the globalist grip on the world’s resources.
As we ponder the sordid and squalid world of Jeffrey Epstein and his “associates,” we can’t help but see his life as a cautionary tale, the moral of which is all too obvious. It shows that pride precedes a fall and that it preys on the weak and the innocent. It shows that those who think they are better than their neighbours become worse than their neighbours. It shows how Nietzsche’s Übermensch morphs into Hitler’s Master Race and thence to the Transhuman Monster. It shows that those who admire the Superman become subhuman. It also shows that the subhuman is not bestial but demonic. It shows that those who believe that they are beyond good and evil become the most evil monsters of all.
Those of us who have been nurtured on cautionary tales such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength will know that fiction often prefigures reality. We will see that the real-life figure of Jeffrey Epstein is a latter-day Viktor Frankenstein, reaping destruction with his contempt for his fellow man and his faith in the power of scientism to deliver immortality to those who serve it. We will also see that the transhumanism which Epstein financed is a mirror image of the demonic scientism of the secretive National Institute of Coordinated Experiments in Lewis’ prophetic novel. We will also be grimly amused by the fact that the “leader” of the demonic scientistic forces in Lewis’ tale is a severed head which has apparently been brought back to life.
And there is one final lesson that the pathetic life of Jeffrey Epstein teaches us. It shows us that the adage that the devil looks after his own is not true. It is in fact a lie told by the devil himself. The devil hates his disciples as much as he hates the disciples of Christ; once he has had his way with them, he disposes of them with callous and casual indifference, much as Jeffrey Epstein disposed of those whom he sexually abused.
Republished with gracious permission from Crisis Magazine.
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“ once he has had his way with them, he disposes of them with callous and casual indifference”?
The nature of evil can never be satisfied. So the devil does not dispose of them. They are now owned for eternity. “Casual indifference”? I think not. “Completely consuming” seems more descriptive. Epstein completed desired to possess the souls of his victims. My, how the table is turned.
This is an excellent article, thank you for writing it. Transhumanism, at its core, is hatred of God taken out by defacing His image. It is doomed to fail, but the suffering and sin that goes along with it have already, as pointed out here, been horrifying. How much more is there to come?
Every time I hear someone wax rhapsodic about the potential of “young blood” (cf. the recent Newsweek article, and even a college student I had a conversation with, pre-COVID), I think of Epstein…and of Elizabeth Bathory.
It sounds to me that what you’re talking about here is closer to transhuman eugenics than to traditional transhumanism (insofar as a movement such as this can be said to have a tradition) which might be more generously described as a path to *material* immortality, a happier teleology for non-believers than the prospect of annihilation. I suspect it’s not feasible, that there’s something immaterial at the core of human existence. But I have a hard time faulting non-believers for pursuing the alternative possibility.
This is a great article. The transhumanism question really needs to be addressed and I’ve been thinking a lot about it. People talk about conspiracy theories and such, but there is very little coverage of something like transhumanism, which is actually a guiding ideology for a lot of what is being promoted out there as the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” and the “Great Reset.” It’s very sick and delusional stuff.
How many high-budget movies and shows have we seen recently where the theme is genetically modified an superior human beings? It’s constantly glorified. From shows like Hannah on Amazon Prime to movies like Limitless with Bradley Cooper, the theme is always a perversion of the idea of human perfection and improvement as essentially a eugenics question, a question of physiology, genetics, and technology.
Julian Huxley was actually one of the fathers of Transhumanism and I believe he actually coined the term. He was the director of the eugenics society at one time and dedicated his life to advancing the cause of eugenics, which is always sold as simply improving human beings, helping evolution along etc…
In fact, in the founding document of UNESCO (Julian Huxley was the first director), Huxley wrote that though the eugenics problem would be for a long time “unthinkable,” it would have to be seen that ways were developed to at least make it become “thinkable.” This was in 1946…
And we’ve seen just that, especially through the use of cinema and science fiction to glorify it, usually leaving out what these policies actually look like when they are enacted or made into law in a society…
More of this needs to be spotlighted. I will actually be doing one of my upcoming shows for the “Escaping the Brave New World Podcast” on just this subject, utopias, transhumanism and oligarchism.
Thank you for sharing these important details about Epstein demonic associates and organizations.
Epstein killed himself. What investigators should be looking for is who facilitated his suicide.
Transhumanism is scientific fraud. Following the human being came not and will never come some kind of superhuman intelligence. What came and will come is the great shabbath. Science must and will soon bend to religion. Even our Lord Jesus Christ and our Lady the Virgin Mary were no superhumans, by nature, but were outstanding religious beings, by grace, the first born of God and the other God-bearer. The twenty-first century will become great disappointment to scientific progress, because we have enough science for thousand years, already, and new generations will soon turn to religion, but the establishment will not like it. It will be children against parents, citizens against peoples, and even Christians against churches. The latter have indoctrinated themselves with scientism, but to the former, the western European renaissance is already over, and it failed to yield transhumanism, but succeeded to transmit the philosophical heritage of antiquity. The rest of our century we will see many evils, as the establishment wastes many human lives and money on clinging to the twentieth century but it is for new generations to discover religion.
Extremely well written….. and genuinely concerning.
“It shows that those who admire the Superman become subhuman”
The current popularity of superhero movies always made me feel uneasy but I never could put my finger on why. I think this article helps explain it. Nothing wrong with fiction, science fiction, or even epic mythology, but something seems a little unbalanced.