The other thing to keep in mind about the international fall-out from the Epstein files.

[Baitball Blogger]

Whisper numbers, trade secrets and other breaches of professional ethics ...who knew social networks could be so corrupt?

C'mon, really. We all knew it. From local communities on up to the International world, people breach their own professional creeds because exchanging confidential information can make their lives easier. This is the truth about the imbalance in our society: There are just too many people in professional circles who will leverage their own professional ethics if it can help them get over the bumps that we all face in life. Imagine how easy life would be if we all had the opportunity to pick up a phone and call in a favor. Everything, from getting favorable bank loans to assurances that your children will get jobs or college entrances. It's at your disposal, if you have something to barter with and lack the ethical fortitude to resist.

It is something that we all know exists, but it gets overlooked because the facts are hard to pin down since the exchanges are made in secret and with discretion. Even something as extreme as a honeypot sex trap operation went unnoticed for decades. Which does still have me a bit angered as much as confused because our society is very loud about being against human trafficking, yet our criminal justice department just let this one operate. It took massive public condemnation to get the wheels rolling, and we're still not through this.

But, this historical debacle exposes a truth about our society, and provides a clue to why there are so many imbalances. We can clearly see now, how one end of the social strata is allowed to operate without public scrutiny or consequences, while the other half is under constant surveillance. Everything, from tax audits to being targets of the law and criminal justice system, the middle to lower classes are under constant scrutiny, while the elite have access to get-arounds that make their lives easier. And with this void of information, it has been far too easy to blame the imbalances in our society to those who are least able to defend themselves. Right now, the focus of public policy is on the undocumented immigrants and minorities. But, it doesn't look like it will end there.

So, I suggest that we give the reveals from the Epstein emails a proper degree of indignation, since this might be one of the few times we get to see how the elite behaved secretly in a way that affected all of us. Because, as hard as it might be to do, remind yourself that exploiting children and women was never their end game. It was a means to a very malevolent end. It was a way to curry up blackmail in order to get control over the financial world as well as to influence government policies and decisions.