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Jeffrey Epstein Was Wicked, but as the Files Show, He Was Also Banal
nytimes.com
Much of what we now regard as inconsequential personal ephemera — emails, text messages, social media posts — has a chance of outliving us. Thanks to the dubious miracle of online communications technology, most contemporary American lives will be better documented than those of all but a handful of historically significant men and women. From the vantage point of the surviving private memorandums of our own existences, with their random exigencies and throwaway meretriciousness, many of us will resemble Mr. Epstein to a degree that we should all find dismaying.