Are we really shocked?

With all of the Epstein files being released and seeing the atrocities that have gone on in the shadows of powerful places, it has me contemplating how such evil can be so pervasive that it is able to be hidden for so long by so many.  One of the hardest things in situations involving evil is why...why...why.... how can someone care so little for another much less a child.  I am not speaking in any political way, this goes far beyond politics and sides, this is just pure evil.  But how does it happen and stay hidden at such a large scale and even now and all the years of this and lengths some have gone to protect predators... but that is just is, in that lies the answer.  It is always about power. Victimization is always about secrets and lies, its where it all starts.  Getting into a victims head and you hold the power, use strength and threats, grooming and promises.  Set it up so once they are in they cannot get out.  It was never a choice for the victims, they were in their heads before they had a chance.  Who would believe them when it was people they trusted, or the very ones they were told to go to for help.  Sadly this isn't as shocking to us as it should be.  While we say we are appalled, are we?  Are these victims believed? Are the people involved arrested?  Is there any real justice?  No and I have little hope their will be because while on the outside we are disgusted on the inside this is all too familiar.  Sexual violence against women,  Sexual violence against children, Men going to lengths to justify or excuse their sexual deviant behaviors.  Its the stories of our friends, our family, ourselves.

The victims we know or are have very little understanding of justice.  This is the normal, you are deceived, it affects your life forever, your bodies and minds use tactics just to help you stay alive and survive, but also keep you from reporting it.  The fears of not being believed or the shame have blocked you from speaking up.  Now you see real time the 1000s of women who "aren't enough evidence" to put people away, you know in some part you were right.  No one was going to believe you or take you seriously.  

The others who are disgusted by this often have their own behaviors that the world has normalized that they know are wrong.  The cheating, the pornography, the lies, the things they have done or wished to do.  This makes them almost hesitant to be too bold because what does that say about them, sure they aren't "that" bad but they too have secrets to hide.  

And the worst part we have all been duped the ones behind the social media, the movies, the music, the fashion, have been the worst of the worst, perpetuating lifestyles to normalize their own.  The sexualization of everything from what we watch to what we hear to what we wear. We have been desensitized to a point that we are not really appalled as we should be.  This should not be OK or normal or part of life.  

If you made it this far, then thank you for hearing my ramblings, what do we do now?  We remember that we get once chance at life, we don't take anything with us.  The only real things we leave behind is how we made someone feel.  Live life to love one another, put the other one first, lift up those who are in need, give to those that don't have.  Stop making everything about its mine and yours.....  Its none of ours, its not ours to own.  "Love one another as I have loved you" was said about the sinner, the stranger and lost as much as it was for the friendly neighbor.