I'm just thinking about the "Beef Jerky" that keeps on popping up in the Epstein files.

If one assumes (and I am not saying it is true) that this refers to human flesh and cannibalism, I am wondering why this would be so prevalent among the ruling "elites" (we really should not be calling them elites anymore).

If one thinks of it symbolically, what does consuming the flesh of other human beings ultimately symbolize?

You nourish yourself on them, they are there to sustain your life is to my understanding the deeper symbolism inherent in the act of cannibalism. You take their strength, you live on them, prey on them, their only purpose is to sustain you, your life and enable you.

Cannibalism has almost always functioned as an extreme metaphor of power, not appetite.

Across cultures, consuming another human rarely symbolizes hunger. It symbolizes appropriation. You don’t just defeat the other person, you incorporate them. Their strength, vitality, courage, even their soul is imagined as transferable. The act collapses the boundary between self and other in the most violent way possible. The other ceases to exist as an independent being and becomes fuel.

For the ruling parasite class - which is a more accurate denomination - this symbolism may be important. It is a dehumanizing symbolism, that allows them to see us as "not as human as them" if it is internalized and ritualized.

Symbolically, cannibalism says: Your existence has no purpose beyond sustaining mine. Your body is raw material and your mind is not as important as mine. My survival and elevation justify your destruction.

This is why cannibalism shows up so often in myths about gods, kings, demons, and monsters rather than ordinary people. It’s a language of absolute hierarchy. The eater exists on a different ontological level than the eaten.

When power structures become extreme, symbolic distance matters. Dehumanization is not just moral, it’s psychological and ritual. If you can internalize a worldview where others are livestock, batteries, or resources, then exploitation stops feeling like violence and starts feeling like order.

In that sense, cannibalism functions as the limit case of dehumanization. It’s the final step after metaphorical consumption has already occurred economically, politically, and socially. Once people are reduced to labour units, data points, bodies, or “human capital,” the symbolic logic is already there. Cannibalism just makes it literal.

There’s also a reason parasites historically gravitate toward transgressive rituals, whether real or symbolic. Transgression creates in-group identity. Doing what is forbidden to everyone else reinforces the feeling of being above the rules that govern ordinary humans. “We are not like them” becomes something you enact, not just believe.

So if one were to imagine why such symbolism would appeal to a ruling class, it wouldn’t be about decadence alone. It would be about reinforcing internal hierarchy, normalizing predation, ritualizing the belief that others exist to be used and severing empathy through repeated symbolic violation

Parasites don’t see the host as a peer. They don’t hate the host. They don’t even really notice it as a subject. The host is environment.

That’s the core symbolism. Cannibalism says: you are my environment.

And to be clear, none of this requires it to be real to be psychologically operative.

Symbolic systems shape behaviour long before they ever show up in concrete acts. The mythology of consumption often precedes the machinery of exploitation.

I am asking how power thinks about itself when it stops pretending to be moral. And historically, when power drops the mask, it almost always starts speaking the language of eating.

And again, I am not claiming this is true, nor that there is anything explicitly talking about cannibalism in the files. I am only speculating on why, if this ultimately proves to be true, why this has been so prevalent among the wealthy and powerful.

Now, keeping this all of this in mind: Does capitalism serve us? Do the systems they built, serve us? And to someone who has this world view.. does raping and killing anyone they perceive as beneath them really matter at all? Does a war really matter to them? The deaths of millions? I think not. The only things that matters to such parasites, is themselves. This explains a lot of how the world looks right now.

Cannibalism is the total collapse of "Other". You do not exist, to them. You are resources to be used and exploited.

And such a thing is the ultimate evil.