A corrupt Western aristocracy rots itself as Israel resists nihilism, terror, and civilizational self-destruction.
Reading The Possibility of an Island today feels like an autopsy of Western civilization already completed. Michel Houellebecq did not predict a single scandal—he diagnosed a class. A global elite detached from land, loyalty, morality, and consequence, obsessed only with pleasure, immortality, and self-replication.
Jeffrey Epstein was not an aberration. He was a facilitator—an administrator of decadence. His island was not unique; it was symbolic. A closed ecosystem where law dissolved, hierarchy replaced accountability, and power existed only to perpetuate itself. Epstein did not create this world. He serviced it.
This elite is post-political. It moves effortlessly across borders, parties, and ideologies. Right and left are theater; money and leverage are reality. Democracy survives as branding, emptied of authority. Leaders are employees. Institutions are shells.
Against this vacuum stands Israel—imperfect, embattled, but real. A nation bound by history, obligation, and consequence. While Western elites flirt with transhumanism, artificial wombs, and moral relativism, Israel fights enemies who still believe in borders, power, and annihilation.
The contrast is brutal. On one side: a rootless aristocracy addicted to immunity. On the other: a nation forced to defend itself in a collapsing moral order that no longer believes in defense, limits, or responsibility.
Houellebecq now warns that the future is not isolation—but conflict. Civil war within the West, driven by elites who hollowed out meaning and societies left to absorb the consequences.
Epstein’s island was not the disease. It was a symptom. And Israel remains one of the last barriers against a world where decadence replaces civilization, and nihilism wears the mask of progress.
