Your Brain Won't Let You See What Epstein Really Was - Barry's Economics

Why are we so addicted to hunting monsters - and what does that addiction protect?

In this video, I explore the neuroscience and psychology behind our obsession with the Epstein scandal.

And how the structure that created Epstein remains invisible

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Vaughan, D. (1996) The Challenger Launch Decision: Normalisation of Deviance, University of Chicago Press
Leach et al. (2025) Moral outrage, virality and petition signing, Social Psychological and Personality Science
Oxfam Inequality Report (2026)

This is part 2 of a series.
Part 1: "Epstein Isn't an Aberration. He's an Inevitable Outcome" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1vFgUi4frU&t=152s
Part 3 coming next Sunday.

I'm Barry. Comedian, founder of Angel Comedy, and behavioural economics obsessive. I spent 17 years in comedy, went bankrupt, built one of London's most popular comedy clubs, and somewhere along the way got obsessed with why the system needs you to blame yourself.

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