Even after he was imprisoned and on trial he claimed he was "comfortable in his own skin." That was likely true because he had made himself a Golem, an automaton useful to cruel and selfish people, reduced himself to be nothing but a nihilistic functionary. The closest thing to Epstein in Trump's cabinet is Kennedy, a Golem of falsehoods. Of course Kennedy never had Jeffrey's dedication to self-development. Epstein was an accomplished pianist and seducer. Without the Kennedy name Robert would have been just another Junkie, charming people for the next fix. I look at Trump's cabinet as an unstable human pyramid, purposeless and hazardous because those stacked like a woodpile are a danger even to themselves.
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.
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Even after he was imprisoned and on trial he claimed he was "comfortable in his own skin." That was likely true because he had made himself a Golem,
an automaton useful to cruel and selfish people, reduced himself to be nothing but a nihilistic functionary. The closest thing to Epstein in Trump's cabinet is Kennedy, a Golem of falsehoods. Of course Kennedy never had Jeffrey's dedication to self-development. Epstein was an accomplished pianist and seducer. Without the Kennedy name Robert would have been just another
Junkie, charming people for the next fix. I look at Trump's cabinet as an
unstable human pyramid, purposeless and hazardous because those stacked
like a woodpile are a danger even to themselves.
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