This article was written to appear in EIR's February 2026 Special Report on the fall of the Epstein Class entitled The Empire Has No Clothes.
The abysmal level of depravity of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s clientele is sending shockwaves around the globe. It is dawning on people that this form of modern slavery not only involves a very large group of millionaires and billionaires, who strive to become trillionaires, but that parts of the establishment—the upper echelons of the inner circle—tolerated, and even condoned, this far-reaching modern slavery.
People realize that it was not just the extraordinarily large number of such billionaires, but the establishments of practically all governments of the collective West, who covered up the crimes by having absolutely no investigations for what amounts to decades.
It is important to understand that the same mindset guided the culprits who committed the sexual abuse of innumerable young women, girls, and children; which guided the predatory economics of the international financial institutions against both developing countries as well as the poorer segments of societies; and which was responsible for the unscrupulous profit-making in the military-industrial complex, where the profit realized means war and the killing of millions of people. In fact, it is often the same individuals calling the shots in different arenas.
If one asks oneself why the world is currently in such a terrible condition, with genocide occurring openly, health care systems being destroyed, and the total disrespect for human life and values, one has to realize that it all comes from the same mindset of these billionaires aiming to become trillionaires.
When you are confronted with such unbelievable atrocities, there are two possible reactions. One is to react with despair and eventually adapt to a society which is no longer human, or you say “enough is enough, there is a limit to the tyrant’s power,” and determine to create a new worldwide renaissance.
This author wrote ten principles for a new international security and development architecture, which must take into account the interests of every single country on the planet, not as the final wording but as food for thought on how to go about creating such a new architecture.
Tenth Principle:
The basic assumption for the new paradigm is, that man is fundamentally good and capable to infinitely perfect the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul, and being the most advanced geological force in the universe, which proves that the lawfulness of the mind and that of the physical universe are in correspondence and cohesion, and that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome.
A new world economic order is emerging, involving the vast majority of the countries of the Global South. The European nations and the U.S. must not fight this effort, but by joining hands with the developing countries, cooperate to shape the next epoch of the development of the human species to become a renaissance of the highest and most noble expressions of creativity!
Let us therefore create an international movement of World Citizens, who work together to shape the next phase in the evolution of mankind, a new epoch! World Citizens of all countries, unite!
The idea that man is good by nature has proven to be very controversial and is being contested by many people. But naturally, man is gifted with free will and can, up to a point, decide for himself or herself to become a self-perfecting human being or, on the other hand, can decide consciously for evil. I think that it is a very small number of people, who willfully decide for themselves to be evil, who decide to act in a satanic way. The vast majority of people are good, if they are allowed to be that, but they are so drawn down by the burden of their daily life that they neither have the time nor the resources to develop all the potentialities which are gifted to them.
But now has come the moment where, in light of the modern slavery system imposed by the Epstein class, we have to remind ourselves of the ideas expressed in Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell:
No, there is a limit to the tyrant’s power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals with fearless heart to Heaven, and thence brings down his everlasting rights, which there abide, inalienably his, and indestructible as stars themselves. The primal state of nature reappears, wherein man confronts his fellow man; And if all other means shall fail his need, One last resort remains—his own good sword. The dearest of our goods we may defend from violence. We stand before our country, We stand before our wives, before our children!
The very same idea you find in the Declaration of Independence:
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 new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
In order to fight this form of oligarchism, we need a new renaissance of the best traditions of all cultures and civilizations. The key is the concept of aesthetic education developed by Friedrich Schiller, who developed this idea when he saw how the French Revolution—which had been a very hopeful endeavor in the beginning, giving hope to all republican circles in Europe that the example of the American Revolution could be replicated in Europe—was destroyed by the Jacobin Terror. Schiller wrote his aesthetic letters in response to this experience by saying, “A great moment has found a little people.” Objectively, the moral conditions were there, but subjectively, the people were too small-minded. He developed aesthetic education as a method of ennobling people, to ensure that such a failure would never occur again.
In these letters he asks the question, where should the change come from when governments are corrupt and depraved and the majority of people are too weak and too burdened to bring about the change? Schiller answered this dilemma with the idea that the change can only come through beauty and Classical art, which uplifts the human being in its moments of leisure. By being exposed again and again to the highest ideal of man, as it is expressed in the Classical compositions of Bach or Beethoven; to the beauty and lofty conceptions of the dramas of Shakespeare and Schiller; to the lyrical tenderness of the poetry of Shelley and Heine; to the high degree of self-consciousness in the paintings of Rembrandt or the uplifting spirit of the great cathedrals, man becomes a better human being, provided, one accepts the creative vigor expressed in these works as a compass for one’s self-perfection. Above all, what is needed is the feeling of agapē, of selfless love for humanity, both as a guiding star for our entire lives, and as a concrete direction in the attitude towards our fellow human beings.
Schiller developed the most noble conception of man of any poet or philosopher by defining the idea that every human being has the potential to become a beautiful soul, a person for whom freedom and necessity, passion and duty are one, and who has educated his emotions up to the level where he can blindly trust them because they will never advise him to do anything different from what reason commands. The only person for whom this condition is fulfilled is the genius, because only the genius changes the laws in a lawful way by creating new degrees of freedom and new conceptions in science and art.
What is needed right now is a renaissance of the best traditions of all cultures and civilizations. They must enter a dialogue of civilization where, by learning about the beauty and the miracles of the other civilizations’ poetry, music, painting, and all other forms of art—by discovering new dimensions of the architecture of our universe, they will inspire each other and a dialogue among them will create something even more beautiful than all the existing cultures and civilizations.
We are publishing this report to show the population the absolute unity of the mindset which motivates the private crimes, criminal business practices, and the war policy. But this can only be defeated if we erect the beautiful vision of what people can accomplish when they are united in the effort to save the dignity of man.
If we unite around this concept as an international movement of world citizens, in a few years we will be able to look back at the obscene spectacle of the Epstein class as the last phase of the oligarchical system, the last shameful chapter of a period in which people had not yet behaved as human. We will have demonstrated the method of how such depravity can be overcome through development.
So, join our movement of world citizens, and let us joyfully and determinedly, in a determined way, create a new, more beautiful era of humanity, worthy of what the human species really is—namely, the only creative species known so far in the universe.
