19 Thoughts from 2019

Tracy Twyman, Jeffrey Epstein, and emotionally divesting from politics

1. Once I heard of it on the morning of July 10, I felt that Tracy Twyman’s death would be a significant influence on the rest of my year. We had had very little contact, and all of it was online, and I didn’t always stay on top of her projects through the years. Her friends and fans still don’t know what really happened, and I’m thankful I’ve since connected to several of them.

2. Jeffery Epstein’s death, ruled a suicide, prompted the same doubts within me as just about everyone else. But every time I saw an “Epstein didn’t kill himself” meme, I added the thought, “and neither did Tracy.” Although the lives and characters of the two can’t be compared, it seemed they both knew too much about illegal activities regarding sex and minors. In addition, Tracy had other subversive ideas about secret socieites, the occult, and the very nature of reality itself. And the more I explored her ideas after her death, the more I understood that point of view.

3. There are several online investigators looking into various aspects of Epstein’s death and other stories surrounding #MeToo and child sex abuse. I, too, would like to know more. But unlike some of them, I don’t think we will ever “get to the bottom of this” and I don’t believe justice will be served.

4. Justice won’t be served because civil institutions aren’t created for justice, and never were. They’re created for collecting revenue by force. It’s not just a libertarian cliche to…