There’s a Hindustani proverb that states: Hammam mein sab nange hain. The phrase refers to public bathhouses common in Persian, Mughal, or Ottoman societies. The phrase’s literal translation is: In a bathhouse, everyone is naked. The idea is that there’s no point pretending behind a veil of hypocrisy because, when the judgement comes, we are all found wanting; when appearances are stripped away, we all stand equally exposed.
Nowhere has this phrase been more well epitomised than by the Epstein files, which have stripped away the carefully crafted angelic halos that PR agencies had built up for public figures. Every person of note in the WENA (Western Europe and North American) society as we know it appears to have been on a first-name basis with Jeffrey Epstein.
