Epstein Secrets

idays” to be a verbalization of “the war on Christmas.” Whenever anybody claims that God talks directly to them, | think they’ re totally delusional. George W. Bush is no exception. Not only was he told by his senior adviser, Karen Hughes, not to refer to terrorists as “folks,” but Bush was also being prompted by

ally delusional. George W. Bush is no exception. Not only was he told by his senior adviser, Karen Hughes, not to refer to terrorists as “folks,” but Bush was also being prompted by God Him-Her-or-lItself: “God would tell me, ‘George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq.’ And | did.” As if he were merely fol

senior adviser, Karen Hughes, not to refer to terrorists as “folks,” but Bush was also being prompted by God Him-Her-or-lItself: “God would tell me, ‘George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq.’ And | did.” As if he were merely following divine orders. In July 2003, during a meeting with Palestinian Prime Mi

them, | think they’ re totally delusional. George W. Bush is no exception. Not only was he told by his

s old, my mother intended to buy me a copy of 7he Prince and the Pauper, but she asked a bookstore clerk for 7he Prince, and so of course he gave her Machiavelli’ s book. Mo mother was a saint. Her little mistake changed my life, and | will always be grateful for what | feel must have been a touch of divine i

or drills or in midnight massacres in the African bush, some steam-press built for cold rolling the armi

See also Rebecca Shapiro, Sergey Bratus and Sean W. Smith, ““Weird Machines” in ELF: A Spotlight on t

. The secret to hegemony, to avoiding a violent power shifts every few decades, is a structure that grows without additional, destructive costs. When Machiavelli coldly called Rome a “republic for expansion”, this was what he had in mind. Enduring empires have been engineered, like a modern network, for growth

79 “In the short run”: John F. Padgett and Walter W. Powell, ”The Problem of Emergence” in The Emergen

erations and tactics are incoherent. Strategy imagines how whole structures like nations or and Felix Gilbert, eds., Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986) and Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”, Filiquarian (1986) 52 “Within five hours”: Dou