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How liberation became marginalism: the Epstein connection

Süleyman Seyfi Öğün
Süleyman Seyfi Öğün
18:17, 08/02/2026, Sunday • Yeni Şafak News Center
How liberation became marginalism: the Epstein connection
How liberation became marginalism: the Epstein connection

One pillar of the liberation fetish that emerged in the post-Cold War era is cultural liberation. The aim driven by this is the dismantling of national/societal structures. These demands claim that the national structure is essentially an artificial formation, that historical cultural entities are suppressed within it, and that their eradication is sought. Therefore, what must be done is their liberation as well. Particularly, numerous dossiers are opened on an ethnic basis.

The propellant, the igniting force of the cause of cultural liberation is civil society-ism. Indeed, they frame the cause within the nation-civil society dichotomy. Accordingly, existing nations should either be redefined through civil cultural intervals, or each ethnicity should be granted the right to a national structuring. Beyond ethnicity, sectarian differences also deserve recognition as independent national entities. This pillar of the cultural liberation fetish is adorned with intense populism.

As can easily be understood, this sub-pillar of cultural liberation fetishism bears a communitarian character and is sanctified by nation-building demands. There is yet another sub-pillar of this that operates more on an individual/group dimension. The state of being disadvantaged is the main criterion here. Countless campaigns have been launched for the recognition and attainment of equal citizenship rights for gender identities opening and multiplying within a vast spectrum. The pollution of nature and the disruption of its balances caused by industrialization are also part of this pillar. Nature, too, is redefined by being "culturalized." The sensitivities accumulating here are increasingly deployed as indicators of middle-class elitism.

As I have indicated in many of my previous writings, I have not debated the legitimacy of the claims in these cultural dossiers. I have been critical on two fundamental points. The first was the indifference to the material conditions surrounding this fetish. I criticized those who claim that economic liberation and cultural liberation complement each other; particularly the marriage of the new right and new left with the same fetish. The second point I emphasized was my concerns and predictions that a single cause could not be derived from so many dossiers and that events would evolve in an undesirable way. Unfortunately, this also proved true. Economic liberationism (libertarianism) created deep, irreparable inequalities upon humanity. Consequently, communitarian culturalist movements gave way to blood feuds; neotribalism and xenophobia. Furthermore, I think the relations between these two pillars today are not as close as they were in the 90s, for instance. The fact that the practices of ethnic and sectarian liberation dossiers produce an increasing blood feud has caused discomfort among the upper-middle classes, and these circles have distanced themselves from populist culturalisms, and have begun to more sharply hone and defend their sensitivities which operate more on the second, i.e., the individual/group dimension. I evaluate this as the reproduction of "homophobic sins" through their sanctification. Pay attention to the facial expressions, mimics, gestures, and tone of voice of those who level accusations of homophobia. You can easily see that they actually reflect the homophobic feelings within themselves. The strange thing is that this sanctification proceeds simultaneously with a self-gentrification. In short, I believe a divergence has been experienced since the first quarter of the 2000s. I also evaluate the cultural monadization of the upper-middle classes and their gradual loss of sociality, even their exposure to popular reactions, within this framework.

The present states of liberation fetishisms can be summarized as xenophobia, neotribalism, blood feud, and sanctification (puritanism) within gentrification. They left behind only normless destruction. Perhaps this was what was essentially desired.

You may ask what these have to do with Epstein. Every fetish, after a stage, abandons its routines; it gives birth to an insatiable, endless marginalism. As I indicated in the writings I have written about the consumption fetish, every consumption experience is not to suppress the desire to consume, but to make the hunger for consumption felt more deeply and to marginalize it. The liberation fetish is like this. It multiplies differences into splinters within a reckless irresponsibility and perhaps to a degree where coexistence may no longer be possible. The "plus" movements, as in the LGBT example, describe exactly this. Marginalism turns into a passion, an obsession. Worse, it becomes its own goal. Every new opportunity for experience issues you an invitation without considering the costs. It is as possible to eternalize this through the disadvantaged as it is through the advantaged. The names featured in the Epstein files, who are known to have gone to that island of sin, are the advantaged who gained from the growth of global inequality. Their marginalism and fetishism are lived in galleries of sin. Their fundamental drive is to destroy innocence. Perhaps the sins in which they are immersed up to their throats make them do this to themselves. Perhaps the total eradication of innocence creates a virtual feeling of purification in them. The wealthy Italians going on human hunts in Sarajevo by pouring out money, the organization of private child safaris with the same mindset in Africa, the industrialization of a child-heavy sex tourism in the Far East cannot be considered separately from the Epstein dossier. The target is single: The defilement and destruction of innocence. The selection of children is not coincidental. Because they are the greatest representatives of innocence. That is, the issue is far beyond being a matter of a sexual deviation known as pedophilia. The issue is the punishment of innocence. Millions of children are being sacrificed. My researcher friend Mahir Esen recently opened this dossier on his YouTube channel (Sınırsız Tv). He laid out the issue with figures and events. It is not possible to watch this program and not feel like a beaten boxer. That is, if you have any conscience. According to his report, the global volume of child trade is at the level of 150 Billion Dollars. You can imagine the rest. Epstein's difference was to transform this into a very special ritual with an increased dose of excitement.

Actually, I don't know how much is left, but it is possible to overcome this with a joint campaign initiated by conscience-possessing world leaders. According to Mahir Esen, even one person initiating it would be sufficient. He says 1000 specially trained police would be enough to clean up this filth. What do you say? History, societies, adult individuals, whatever we say, we are polluted. Is it not an innocent smile of a child that will bring us to our senses while we flounder in this pollution? If we lose that too, what remains?

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