The recent furore around the Ed Sheeran bowing to the wishes of a genocide supporting billionaire owner of a stadium or two, has highlighted the moral rot at the heart of every global hierarchical mass society system. The elite classes, who benefit and profit from the industrialised, mass production AI assisted techniques, which are decimating and degrading not only the poor and precariously employed, but much more. They are also doing more or less the same to the ecological balance of the planet and thus also accelerating the consequent climate change problems for those not living in gated, secure domestic homes and bases. Their accumulated millions and billions whether expended or invested by them make them the prime perpetrators of this existing systems economic infrastructure  its associated destruction of nature, climate change destabilisation  and moral decay. This result of the system is now continually on display.

The relatively recent Epstein class exposure and cover-up, has revealed that the dehumanised moral rot within the global elite was occuring internationally as well as globally and so too are the crudely manufactured justifications. What is remarkable is that the billionnaire and millionaire class who are the perpetrators of the majority of the illegal or legalised cash scams (i.e. finding ways to get paid far more than they are worth to humanity as a whole) in order to become so rich. Then when they are exposed as inhuman dillitanties (or worse), they pose and parade themselves around as victims. Talented or not, nobody is worth the amount Sheeran and his ilk are hoovering up while essential workers like nurses, teachers, local government workers, drivers, power and water-system workers, pensioners and students are struggling to eat and keep warm. Yet typically such de-humanised elites pathetically and tearfully claim (as Ed Sheeran did this past week) to have suffered mentally and physically by any  backlash their elite actions had provoked.  Meanwhile, the Israeli perpetrated genocide against the Palestinian women, children and men continues unabated.     

Sheeran is not tearful, sickened and saddened by the thousands of dead, disfigured and disabled Palestinian individuals, children, women and men at the end of an ongoing decades long chain of western supported crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Jewish supported  Israeli  Government.  Not a bit of it! He has only been so recently ‘moved’  to tears by the negative reaction of his own ‘followers’ and non-followers who have condemned him for agreeing to an Epstein class billionnaire’s demand to discontinue the services of someone who publically highlighted the Palestinian situation, to a mass audience. It seems past victims becoming present perpetrators and present perpetrators pretending to be victims has become a go-to reflex for many modern elites. However, feeling sorry for elites, who feel sorry for themselves, whilst ignoring the mass of brutalised victims of the system as a whole, tells us nearly all we need to know about the moral rot occuring within modernity.

Over the last few days, Sheeran has been characterised as a coward by left and centre intellectuals, but that is not an accurate characterisation at all and more importantly it misses out of the picture of contemporary reality the most important global fact. These Epstein based and similar based elites and their immediate supporters are part of a whole layer of de-humanised individuals who have grown up to successfully adapt to and accept as legitimate, the following. An economic system which has been deliberately designed to do the three fundamental things; A) divide humanity into two major classes: an elite and their supporters who obtain far more than they deserve and need to comfortably exist; and B)  a non-elite who obtain far less than they deserve and need to comfortably exist; and C) to create and fund a middle class mass media educated (and trained) to intellectually rationalise and excuse this class divided economic system. 

Roy Ratcliffe (September 2026)