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Imagine a world where reality is no longer real—where the horrors of the past are not just exposed but repackaged, twisted, and fed back to us as evidence of something even bigger, something darker.

Jimmy Savile was not just a paedophile. He was a grotesque symbol of institutional failure—a man who operated in plain sight, protected by deference, bureaucracy, and a system that preferred not to ask questions. When the truth finally emerged, it confirmed what many had always suspected: that the establishment is corrupt, that the media cannot be trusted, and that those in power will always protect their own.
But then something else happened.

The scandal stopped being about Savile. Instead, it became raw material for a new kind of politics. Populists, conspiracy theorists, and demagogues seized on it—not to bring accountability, but to fuel a deeper suspicion: that everything is a lie. That the media doesn’t just fail—it deliberately deceives. That politicians don’t just cover up scandals—they orchestrate them. Savile became a totem, proof that “they” were all in on it.

This is what the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard called hyperreality—where the boundaries between truth and fiction collapse, and all that remains are self-referential symbols. In this world, scandals like Savile’s are no longer events to be understood, but signs in a vast, looping conspiracy. The past is rewritten, not to illuminate, but to justify permanent distrust. And into this void step those who claim to tell the “real” truth—who insist that, because the establishment was once caught lying, nothing it says can ever be true again.

This is how modern power works. It doesn’t control people by suppressing information. It does something much more insidious: it overwhelms them with it. The result is a world where reality is so drenched in cynicism that people stop believing in anything at all. And in that world, the powerful can do whatever they like. Because if nothing is real, then nothing matters.

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I wrote a long reply that included parts of various articles, but maybe it was so long that when I pressed the post button it all vanished, but I did save it by posting it elsewhere, so I can email it or something. I enjoyed your writing above anyway!

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