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April 11, 2026

Everything is Energy, Everything in Berlin is Beautiful

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Evil is the opposite of love, and it's winning. Not just in the Epstein files or the wars started on a whim, but in every moment we choose the couch over action. Walking through Berlin on a beautiful afternoon, surrounded by people completely unaware of the converging crises ahead, I realized the opportunity: when the crash comes, and it will, we can organize. The work starts now — projecting forward to the breaking point and working backwards to chronicle how we got there.


We are all energy. Everything is energy. All these energies interact with each other. This is not an all-encompassing description of how this universe behaves, but it's an accurate one.

I got to the topic of energy because I was trying to fight the desperation I feel as I consume news that reveals all the depraved acts described in the Epstein files. As I watch innocent children murdered, dismembered, disfigured, and traumatized as a result of the violent acts of greedy and misguided men. Starting wars as easily as we choose our outfits for the day. Maybe I was just not conscious of this earlier in my life. Maybe now that I have kids, I am more sensitive to all of it. But at no point in my life have I felt more certain that evil is winning. Evil as the Opposite of Love

The concept of evil is something that is, at the same time, well defined for all of us but also very amorphous. When I try to think about how I could describe it, I think I'll always end up defining it as the opposite of love. It took me a long time to understand what love truly means, or at least what I think it means now. For me, it means the opposite of selfishness. The willingness to sacrifice personally.

When you define it in those terms, you can see how I see that evil is winning.


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