“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men” – Plato.
Why should you care, and how does this affect you?
Where do you draw a line in the sand and say enough is enough?
At what point does the common citizen start to care about their brothers and sisters and the atrocities being committed against them?
At what point does the ordinary individual pay enough attention to what’s going on, stop being desensitized, and realise that what is going on is unacceptable?
This collective group of protected individuals has overthrown governments, committed genocide, breached individual rights through mass surveillance, covered up pedophilia, grooming, and the trafficking of children and underage girls, and broken laws and constitutional rights with impunity.
Is there any evil that the common citizen is willing to stand up to, if not to these?
Are there any crimes that remain that these people can commit against the ordinary citizen?
If this does not warrant righteous anger or resistance, what other crimes can?
How much further will they go?
Will there ever be any crime so heinous as to finally jar individuals out of their inertia and into directed action?
How is there not a complete uproar right now from every person who professes to maintain some semblance of conscience or humanity within themselves?
Mass Desensitisation and Selfishness – The ethos of the average citizen in 2026
Many people will shrug their shoulders and say that evil and corruption are just the ways of the world, or always something that has existed within politics and within the nature of man, and that’s the way it is.
I think it would serve well to reiterate that this isn’t a politician telling a few white lies, getting kickbacks of a few million from his friends on Wall Street, or vying for a higher position of power.
The layperson would say that is commonly expected for politicians or for people in power, but the reality of the situation is far more gruesome and downright despicable.
This global operation is about trafficking and sexually abusing underage girls and children, crimes that the servants of the United Nations have deemed tantamount to crimes against humanity.
The important fact is that these people are running our world, are protected by institutions and positions of power, and can escape being held to account or facing justice.
The fact that this has been glossed over, minimised, and treated with an almost desensitised indifference from the common citizen, the media, and particularly by others in power, speaks volumes about the truth of the situation.
One of the most pertinent facts of this matter is not only the fact that this has happened under the noses of people in power, or that there is a propaganda-fuelled narrative by mainstream media that asserts that this operation began and ended with Epstein, it is still going on.
It is still being covered up, investigations are purposefully being prevented, justice is deliberately being obstructed, and the scope of this operation is massive in comparison to what the media is consistently trying to construct as the acceptable narrative.
The people who own the media are part of these people, friends with these people, or being paid to protect the interests of these people.
Many people will still say: “This doesn’t concern me, and what can I do about it?”
The idea that I think warrants attention here is that this admission of indifferent powerlessness and apathy will not make these problems go away, and if we’re waiting for it to be someone else’s problem to fix, or trust the institutions that are supposed to protect the interests of the citizen to take care of it, we’ll face complete totalitarianism before that happens.
The blatantly obvious part of not wanting to do anything about this is failing to see the true depravity of the evil and transgressions of these people, which has been documented above, and failing to realise that the people committing these crimes are the very people that are running our world, and who carry extreme power over the ordinary citizen, by making the decisions and having the authority to shape our world through finance, legislation, foreign policy, and technological development.
I.e. We supposedly live in a democracy, but the small handful of people in power decide how we experience life and the path that humanity ultimately takes moving forward.
That is literally what having power means.
If these people are inherently ruling over us (which anyone who has done any research knows is the case), based on the evil of their transgressions and remorselessness, who in their right mind would allow these people to not be held to account, and will allow them to carry any positions of responsibility over the common man?
It is obvious that the governments and institutions wielded by the authority of their ruling masters have made clear they are in no way interested in serving the common good or the ordinary citizen.
Many have this notion that these issues and evils will resolve themselves, that this is just human nature, and the sun will come up tomorrow.
This may have been true when the forces and institutions of the world had some good in them, were generally trustworthy, and we could rely on them to do their part (albeit not perfectly) but would allow things to keep ticking over for the ordinary citizen to maintain their way of life and to keep going about their business.
Unfortunately, that is no longer the case.
We cannot move forward and preserve ignorance or comfort.
If we’re waiting for the justice department to eventually take care of justice, if we’re waiting for the day for the FBI to decide to start being an institution devoted to integrity and caring about the wellbeing of the public and the common citizen, if we’re waiting for the day that the media decides to stop brainwashing the public through propaganda and starts telling the truth, that day will never come.
These institutions and positions of responsibility to public protection and well-being are occupied by the very people who are committing these heinous acts.
They are one and the same.
The only reason they have been allowed to do so, are remorseless for it, and will continue to commit these wretched acts, is because the general public will not hold them to justice and account.
The fact that the ordinary citizen feels powerless to do so is indicative of the advancement of governmental and institutional authority and tyranny.
Let me reiterate, the ruling authorities in government, tech, finance, and many other arms, traffic and sexually abuse children, or at the very least cover it up.
These are our ruling figures and institutions.
A direct quote from the Declaration of Independence further adds weight to this point, and illustrates the principles that serve as the foundation for any worthwhile democracy:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organising its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
Despite the global and interconnected nature of the Epstein Scandal, a good place to start is the United States government, the FBI, and the Department of Justice.
The U.S. is the seat of power of Western civilisation, the military-industrial complex, and the petro-dollar economy.
It is where the tail of the hidden snake may be found.
It has been a long time since the general public has demanded accountability from the government and institutions of power.
It has been a long time since there was a demand for congruence with foundational democratic principles and constitutional rights.
Until each individual steps up and declares that what is happening is unacceptable, and enough of those individuals become a collective, this will continue to happen and will only progressively get worse.
You cannot change what you refuse to face.
Power is relative, and the only reason these people have such power is because the common citizen has relinquished this power.
Apathy, selfishness, and a lack of collective morality have allowed these people to seize power that belongs to the people.
To abdicate these responsibilities of collective devotion to the principles of freedom, democracy, and the common good allows evil men and women to rule with absolute authority and without restraint.
I believe, as a society and as a people, we have all abdicated our responsibilities to each other and to the common good.
“Virtue consists more in doing good than refraining from evil”. – Aristotle
It starts with one.
Freedom comes from personal responsibility. They are mutually exclusive.
I have learned that from severe failure and enslavement in my own life, and until such a day as the individual understands that his or her personal freedom and the freedom of his community rests in the responsibility of devotion to the common good and of service to his fellow man, we are in for a very dark future.
At this moment, what can you do?
You can share the truth, remain informed, curtailing the authoritarian power of institutions by demanding accountability (the government’s primary purpose is to serve the people, not the other way round), doing whatever you can for the common good, and thinking of the needs of your fellow man.
Unless the consciousness of the majority of the population accepts and understands this, tyranny will always prevail.
The pigs move into the house.
The decision then, and the future, rests squarely on our shoulders.
The internal change toward morality for each individual and for the collective.
Only action will create change, not needing, not wanting, but doing.
We are not far away from a complete system of totalitarian control.
It rests purely on the collective as the shared responsibility to uncover the truth and to actually do something about the situation that we are in.
Actions are the truest reflections of a person’s beliefs, not their words. Inherently, it’s our choice.
The future is not an inevitability; it rests solely on the actions that we choose to take right now.
*The author of this article is Shawn Allman, an independent writer. The views expressed by Shawn Allman are not necessarily those of The Bulrushes
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