Thinking Is HARD!

 It’s not that the details aren’t out there:

A mindbending thing to me about the Epstein story is that I could publish stuff I did years ago now and it would come off as fresh because despite all the attention paid to it, the people most interested in it have never really been very interested in the details.

It’s that details are complicated:

If I were a Politics Editor, I'd be assigning Epstein timelines, explainers, etc etc etc. Almost everyone has missed/forgotten almost everything about this story along the way. I'm extremely online and just read dude's Wikipedia page for the first time last night, realizing I knew like 10% of it

Which is why conspiracy theories are so appealing to stupid illiterates like the current POTUS.

Most of what’s publicly known about Epstein blows up the conspiracy theories Trump traded in during the last campaign. But even reasonable people still speak as if the “client list” might actually be hidden in a mayonnaise jar inside a pumpkin in a cornfield in Iowa somewhere. Well, some people say…

I fully expect the same people to say unicorns do exist, and the earth really is flat. Although the proof against that is, if it was, cats would have pushed everything off by now.

Still, the persistence of acceptance that the existence of an Epstein client list is still open to debate, is just proof that few people pay attention to news stories, and really only follow narratives around.

Because thinking is HARD!