The Epstein Class vs. Jack Ma and Zhang Youxia – Compare and contrast
Thu 11:37 am +00:00, 26 Feb 2026
Source: https://www.unz.com/bhua/the-epstein-class-vs-jack-ma-and-zhang-youxia/
I have long assumed the worst about the ruling elites of the West, based on empirical evidence of their actions. So, the depravity and deviancy exposed in the Epstein Files is hardly a surprise.
The salacious details about these hedonistic and fiendish behaviors from the western elite were explored in Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 movie Eyes Wide Shut.
The disgusting scenes on Lolita Island seem a mirror image of the cult orgy in the movie, filmed in the Mentmore Towers estate owned by the Rothschilds.
Still, three features about the drama are less expected:
– How wide the ring of deviants is – a bi-partisan, global elites from divergent fields are involved from Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick, European royalty, Modi the Indian, Noam Chomsky, Israeli prime ministers, Sergey Brin, Richard Branson, Michael Jackson, Stephen Hawking, Larry Summers, and more.
Some names are certainly expected – for example, the murderous sex addict Clinton and the pervert Trump. But others came as a surprise such as the once righteous and respectable “good citizens” like Noam Chomsky, Sergey Brin, and Larry Summers.
– How Jewish the whole “cabal” is – so many of the characters involved are Jews from Epstein and his pimp of a girlfriend Maxwell to their clients (Ehud Barak, Lutnick, Google’s Sergey Brin, and the afore-mentioned Chomsky and Summers). Don’t forget Monica Lewinsky, the gal who first nailed Clinton, is also Jewish.
Labels of antisemitism conspiracy theory will not be enough to dissuade people from realizing the ironclad control of the Jews over Western ruling elite.
All the worst suspicions about the Jews from the Protocols of the Elders of Zions to “Jewish Cabal” controlling western finance, media, tech, and politics are soundly vindicated.
Interestingly, Stanley Kubrick was a Jew as well – maybe he was attuned to the rhythm of the Cabal to make such a convincing movie.
– How the ultra-rich and powerful are fully expected to walk free – at this point, it is safe to assume the names above, now collectively called the Epstein Class, will have total immunity from the most heinous crimes including pedophilia and possibly cannibalism.
A war of choice in Iran is being conveniently launched to distract the populace from any “unhealthy” focus on the Epstein episode.
The Epstein Files also exposed how the well-connected pedophile was planning with Steve Bannon, Trump’s one-time chief political strategist, to sabotage China and the Communist Party.
It was quite hilarious how the red-blooded “American patriot” licked the boots of a Jewish sex criminal and Mossad agent. The master-slave relationship between the apartheid Israel and the “leading democracy” gets exposed in small, telling ways.
We also find out from the declassified file that Epstein was denied a visa to China after he was indicted for sex crimes in the US.
While the pedophile was welcomed and embraced by European royalty, American political bosses, and the ultra-rich globalists, Beijing quietly announced such scum is not welcome in China.
This brings me the topic of how wealth and power is treated differently in the self-acclaimed “leading democracy” called USA and its much demonized adversary – the others-alleged “foremost autocracy” China.
Jack Ma and Zhang Youxia are the equivalent in wealth and power to the Epstein Class in the West.
Jack Ma is the billionaire founder of Alibaba and Ant Financial (Alipay) and was once the richest man in China.
Jack Ma was sidelined and put in deep media freeze after he disparaged regulators and called for unrestrained financialization, which is considered a dangerous neoliberal recipe for disaster.
His imminent multi-billion-dollar IPO for Ant Financial, expected to be the largest ever IPO in history, was called off days before going public.
Zhang Youxia was the Deputy Chairman of the Central Military Commission and the highest ranked uniform officer in the Chinese military.
Zhang was removed unceremoniously from his position and put under investigation for corruption and trampling on the chain of command.
Ma and Zhang are hardly the only examples. Hui Ka Yan, the billionaire founder of Evergrande – the largest real estate developer in the world, was arrested and imprisoned for financial fraud a few years ago. Millions of officials and SOE executives were investigated and prosecuted in an anti-corruption campaign that has lasted 13 years.
One society allows the elite to get above the law, however heinous their crimes; and the other subjects the elite to the rule of the law and the will of the state, regardless of their wealth and power.
The Epstein Class in the West is the French Nobility of our time.
This group operates as a “protected” class of elites exempt from the rules and accountability that apply to ordinary citizens.
The problem isn’t just one criminal, but a structural failure where the “architecture of power” protects itself at the expense of the public.
The Epstein Class and the erosion of the rule of law can find analogies in other periods of extreme inequality and institutional decay.
The most striking parallel is the Ancien Régime (pre-revolutionary France) of late 18th-century France.
Much like the French nobility, the modern Epstein Class is a parasitic oligarchy that enjoys legal immunity while the rest of the population faces hardship in daily life.
Just as the First and Second Estates (clergy and nobility) were exempt from taxes and held separate legal status, the Epstein Class is proof of a two-tiered justice system in the West where wealth acts as legal insulation for the rich and powerful.
Closer to home for the Americans, today’s tech and finance titans appearing in the Epstein files are direct parallels to the 19th-century Robber Baron moguls of the Gilded Age who owned the politicians and prosecutors.
In the long arc of history, the US today mirrors the fall of the Roman Republic where moral and institutional rot led to the collapse of the empire.
The Caligula-like antics in the Epstein Files where elites engaged in sexual exploitation with a sense of staggering entitlement is a perfect mirror of Roman decadence.
Reconciling the Epstein Class reality with the US’s self-image as the City on a Hill is the central crisis of American identity in 2026.
The world now sees clearly the idea of US being a “democracy” is a mirage simply divorced from the reality on the ground.
If anything, the Epstein Class demonstrates that the US is an oligarchy with a mere “democratic” façade.
A shadow tier of billionaires and politicians operates on a set of rules that have nothing to do with the country’s constitution or laws.
Clearly, the US is in late-stage institutional decay. While there is the Public State with elections and laws, the Private State – the Epstein Class – runs the show.
The claim of being a “democracy” is a mere branding exercise rather than a political reality. This is American Exceptionalism in Reverse.
Ultimately, the Epstein Class is about a shared culture of immunity. Whether it’s the American “nouveau riche” or the European “old guard,” they share the same fundamental reality – rules don’t apply to those with money and power.
Lastly, the Epstein drama has proven the widely held theory that a “cabal” of Jews, the “puppet masters”, secretly runs the world’s banks, media, and governments behind the scenes.
The Jews have long cried antisemitism whenever anyone voices legitimate criticism of their horrible crimes against humanity as an apartheid state or committing genocide against native Palestinians.
While the anger toward the Epstein Class is generally about power, money, and a lack of justice, the Jewish role in the criminality must be acknowledged.
The issue is not Epstein was a deviant. Or even so many of the West’s “elites” are deviants.
The issue is such deviancy is facilitated and weaponized by the Jews to control them and control the world through them.
Will the Epstein Files change anything in the West?
When the Epstein Class becomes the face of the ruling elite, the social contract is essentially dead.
History shows that when a population realizes the law is just a suggestion for the powerful, they stop looking for ballots and start looking for pitch forks.
Is there a chance for reform or even revolution in the West to change the system?
I am pessimistic.
No doubt some populists will take advantage of the divide created by the Epstein Files, like both Obama and Trump took advantage of legitimate anti-elite sentiments in the population to win elections.
But the end result will be to swap the old oligarchs with the new. And the new ones are even worse.
As George Orwell famously illustrated in Animal Farm, the pigs eventually move into the farmhouse and start walking on two legs. The names on the flight logs change, but the existence of the private jet remains.
This is the Iron Law of Oligarchy – all complex organizations, regardless of how democratic they start, eventually develop into nobilities.
The “new shepherds” often rise to power by promising to punish the Epstein Class. Once they have control of the DOJ, the intelligence agencies, and the banks, they realize that the system they inherited is too useful to destroy.
They keep the “protected class” status for themselves, and the cycle resets.
The shepherds of 2026 have tools that the kings of the Ancien Régime could only dream of:
- Algorithmic control: They don’t just lead the herd; they can now program the herd’s thoughts via social media feeds, ensuring the divide and conquer of the population, a tactic long practiced by the numerically inferior Jews against their more numerous opponents
- Total surveillance: It is nearly impossible for a “grassroots” shepherd to rise without the current elite seeing them coming from miles away. There should be no wonder that the most infamous private surveillance contractor, Palantir, is run by a Jew named Alex Karp.
The result will be the people of the US and the West will end up in a state of cynical stability.
The public knows the leaders are corrupt, the leaders know the public knows, and everyone just continues the dance because the “herd” is too divided to move and the “shepherds” are too well-guarded to fall.
The Epstein Files might be the “black box” of the old elite’s crimes, but for the new shepherds, they are simply a manual on how to rule—and a list of leverage to use against their rivals.
When hope fails, it doesn’t lead back to normal. It leads to nihilism. That is why the American public is so fractured today.
Half the country went looking for a “Strongman” to burn the system down, and the other half retreated into “Safe Spaces” and managed decline.
Meanwhile, the shepherds in the middle just keep shearing.
The elite have calculated that as long as they can keep the “herd” arguing about how the files were released, they don’t have to worry about the content of the files.
They are betting that nihilism is their best defense. If they can make the public believe that everyone is corrupt and nothing can change, the herd will stay in the pen out of sheer exhaustion.
The Epstein Class wins not by convincing you they are good, but by convincing you that nothing you do matters. In Margaret Thatcher’s words, there is no alternatives – TINA.
The Epstein Class isn’t a glitch in the system; it’s the operating system. The Epstein Class is the Final Boss.
How China will avoid the trap of the Epstein Class?
The Western “Epstein Class” is a product of hyper-individualism—the idea that I can do whatever I want as long as I have the money to pay for it.
Non-Western civilizations almost all share one common thread: The individual is secondary to the Whole.
As the longest continuous civilization on the planet, the Sinic model of governance is one of “Meritocratic Legitimism”.
While the West screams about “democracy” while practicing “oligarchy,” the Chinese model argues that competence is the only true mandate.
The basic idea is that the state is run by a diligent, competent, high-IQ bureaucracy (the modern mandarins) who are promoted based on performance, not popularity.
This social contract, a concept first proposed by Thomas Hobbes, is where the Communist Party of China derives its legitimacy.
In a future essay, I will discuss how the CPC is combining Confucian thoughts on governance with western Enlightenment ideas pioneered by Hobbes in his seminal book Leviathan.
The Sinic model trades “freedom” for “function.” Corruption exists, but if a high-ranking official is caught in an Epstein-style scandal, the state doesn’t protect them to save face—it executes or life-sentences them to preserve the Party’s legitimacy.
In the West, the elite are a “protected class.” In the East, the elite are “stewards” who are expected to deliver stability or face the consequences.
