25: The Construct: Jeffrey Epstein: Difference between revisions

<p><em>00:07:20</em><br>Now I want to say, first of all, that I have absolutely no special inside knowledge of the situation. I know people who knew him and I met him once, but it is not like I have any particular line on information from any particularly interesting source about the situation. Furthermore, I don’t think that I’m going to be using any special kind of analysis that is known only to me, but I did want to talk to people about responsible conspiracy theorizing. That is, in the minds of many, people believe that conspiracy theorists are people like Alex Jones, people who are spouting all sorts of crazy ideas-some of which might have some grain of truth in them, but in general it feels like an exercise in talking to the tin foil hat crowd. </p>

<p><em>00:16:17</em><br>All right, that leads us to the doorstep of what I call Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing. Now, in order to do Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing, it’s important not to be definite about things we don’t know, and I’m going to try to let you know that I actually don’t know what has happened. In fact, the official story is quite possible. From what I know, it’s not impossible that Jeffrey Epstein was a perverted, very rich man who is dead by his own hand in custody through an unlikely, but not impossible, set of circumstances. </p>

So in order to do Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing, my first rule is that one should not attempt to allege a type of conspiracy that has never been encountered before. Over the years, many conspiracies have been uncovered;  and so we have a menu, if you will, of proven conspiracies [from] which we [try to deduce] whether something is in fact possible. And to give you an idea, I’m going to list a small number of conspiracies that have been proven, and [explain] why these things figure in my imagination. And I think that over time you’ll see [me] refer to the same conspiracies over and over again, because they give us an idea of the boundaries of the possible. </p>

<p><em>00:36:12</em><br>Now, in order to do Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing, there are a couple of techniques [I use] that I would like to share. One is that I like to distinguish two separate elements that may in fact be the same thing. Let’s imagine that the character that I met is in fact the forward-facing construct, and that there was an underlying human being playing that character. Now, if he was genuine, then as we say in mathematics, without loss of generality we can adapt ourselves to the circumstance that the actor and the character were one and the same. So if the actor and the character are one and the same and [if] he [is] in no way a construct of anyone, then no harm-no foul, the theory will accommodate that. But [the theory] allows us to have a different possibility: that the character and the actor are two different people. </p>