The Uncommoners

Jeff Knows a Guy


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Currently trending distractions continue to offer us perfect opportunities to explore tying together many previously discussed concepts and examining how they play out via these circus acts - in today's case, the "Epstein files". Sick of hearing about Epstein? We are too, but the situation (more importantly, people's reactions to it) is too perfectly illustrative of our worldview to ignore.


We continue to refine our idea of what Jeff was and was not, but more importantly, we take a look at people's reactions to help understand what the point of these voluntarily self-indicting releases are. This discussion goes full circle to tie back to previously discussed topics like Eddy Bernays, incapacitatingly stupid solutions, boogeyman, and the common person as the real problem with the modern society.

We're planning to follow this episode up with a continued, more detailed discussion of how underlying personal weakness drives people to engage with these topics in the way that they do.

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The UncommonersBy Tyler and Joel