Epstein Was the Fuse–The System Is the Bomb
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 16 Feb 2026
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service
9 Feb 2026 – Jeffrey Epstein was not the scandal. He was the safety mechanism. A replaceable fuse: visible, disposable, convenient. The kind of villain a system can afford to “deal with” without ever dealing with itself. And that’s the point everyone pretends not to understand: the Epstein story was never designed to end. It was designed to stabilize.
Because this isn’t “an Epstein case.” It’s a deep infrastructure—old, brutal, transnational—built to protect itself, regenerate, and keep moving. Remove one operator, another appears. Remove one scandal, another distraction arrives on schedule.
The machine survives by doing what it does best: self-preservation disguised as accountability.
We keep being sold “transparency,” but what we’re getting is transparency as performance—a controlled release meant to appear courageous while functioning like a protective shield for the people who matter most.
The trick is simple: Publish a mountain of documents, redact the parts that create consequences, wrap it in legal language, let the public drown and wait for the fatigue to kick in.
When you dump millions of pages at once—disorganized, partially censored, inconsistent—what you produce is not truth. It’s chaos. And chaos is the oldest form of security.
If you want people to find nothing, give them everything. Preferably with names blacked out, videos cut, images “unavailable,” and the dangerous details submerged under administrative noise. “Due process,” they’ll say. “Protection of victims,” they’ll add. Both can be real. Both can also be used as cover.
This is what controlled transparency looks like: maximum spectacle, minimum legal impact.
The Loudest Part Is the Silence at the Top
Here’s the part that should terrify anyone who still believes in “system correction”: A scandal of this magnitude should trigger political panic. Mass resignations. Institutional purges. A chain reaction of prosecutions that reaches the boardrooms, ministries, royal corridors, and philanthropic temples.
Instead? A shrug.
A few convictions on the lower floors, and then a polite, legalistic fog as the elevator approaches penthouse level. The most powerful remain largely untouched—unknown enough to stay safe, famous enough to stay defended, connected enough to never be cornered.
At the end, the scandal doesn’t end with justice. It ends with exhaustion. And exhaustion is a policy tool now.
Victims Exposed, Abusers Protected
The cruelest part is not the outrage. It’s the division of risk. The victims become public—names, faces, testimonies, trauma.
The abusers remain protected by distance, status, procedural caution, and the magic spell of “alleged.”
The victims receive the most generous gift a system can offer: visibility without transformation. Their suffering becomes content. Their testimony becomes programming. Their trauma circulates while the architecture that enabled it files quarterly returns.
They pay the price first in life, then in visibility. Meanwhile, the system keeps its real treasures untouched: reputations, networks, capital, and continuity.
“Move On” Is Not a Comment. It’s a Command.
When Donald Trump said it might be time to “move on,” many heard cynicism. But what if it was simply stage direction? Close the file. Next crisis, please.
“Move on” is how power resets the narrative. It’s the cultural equivalent of shredding paper in front of witnesses and calling it governance.
We’re shown just enough to feel like we saw something. Then we’re pushed gently toward forgetting—because forgetting is the final service citizens provide to the powerful, free of charge.
Epstein Didn’t Break the System. He Proved It Works.
We keep treating this as a glitch. But the most disturbing interpretation is also the simplest: this was the system functioning as intended.
A controlled scandal is a pressure valve. It releases public fury without changing the architecture. It gives people the sensation of breathing while keeping the chains in place.
Call it accountability. Call it justice. Call it closure. But watch what actually happens at the top: No major trials, no mass arrests among the truly powerful, no structural reforms that threaten elite immunity.
Just endless debate—algorithm-friendly, rage-fueled, dopamine-dosed—while surveillance expands, crises multiply, and the public stays hypnotized by the scandal loop.
Epstein matters not only because of what happened to victims, but because of what the system does with crimes like this: Leverage, kompromat, discipline, access, silent agreements, mutual protection
These aren’t isolated sins. They are governance tools in a world where official institutions perform morality while unofficial networks manage reality.
And if the whole truth ever emerged—governments, alliances, intelligence ties, financial circuits—the “order” would tremble. So the order doesn’t reveal everything.
It reveals enough.
The Global Pattern: Rage Downward, Mercy Upward
And here’s the global hypocrisy in one line: When violence can be blamed on the poor, the migrant, the racialized, the “wrong” background—society becomes a moral machine gun.
But when violence points upward—toward “respectable” men in expensive suits—it becomes technical. Legal. Complicated. Unclear.
Suddenly everyone remembers nuance. That isn’t ignorance. That’s consent.
Not personal consent, maybe—structural consent. A civilization trained to protect its self-image, even at the expense of children.
Before Epstein, After Epstein
Epstein had predecessors. He will have successors. Because this isn’t a story about one predator. It’s about the ecosystem that grows predators, funds them, hosts them, protects them, and then trades them in when the heat rises.
That’s what systems do: They don’t collapse from scandal, They mutate, they adapt, they continue.
If you’re waiting for the final document drop that changes everything, you may be waiting forever. Not because the truth doesn’t exist.
But because no one with real institutional power has the will to reveal the parts that would shake the architecture.
So, we get controlled chaos instead, we get outrage without consequence. We get the perfect illusion: the feeling of exposure without the reality of dismantling.
And that is why Epstein was never “the story.”
He was the fuse they let you see—so you wouldn’t look at the machine holding the matches.
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Raïs Neza Boneza is the author of fiction as well as non-fiction, poetry books and articles. He was born in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Former Zaïre). He is also an activist and peace practitioner. Raïs is a member of the TRANSCEND Media Service Editorial Committee and a convener of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment for Central and African Great Lakes. He uses his work to promote artistic expressions as a means to deal with conflicts and maintaining mental wellbeing, spiritual growth and healing. Raïs has travelled extensively in Africa and around the world as a lecturer, educator and consultant for various NGOs and institutions. His work is premised on art, healing, solidarity, peace, conflict transformation and human dignity issues and works also as freelance journalist. You can reach him at rais.boneza@gmail.com – http://www.raisnezaboneza.no
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