Corruption is What We Get “Used” To

Unlike dramatic acts of violence and malice, “corruption” is the insidious slow disease of no longer being able to tell the difference between “right” and “wrong”, “good” and “bad” -- or as the liberals are so proud to proclaim, that they are blind to all such discriminations, as an overriding imperative and organizing principle of their lives. Such people of course, should not be placed in positions of critical judgment and discrimination -- but they in fact are, and are even selected on that criteria of not being able to make such (valid) distinctions.

As such, it is also the “liberal’s disease,” of not being able to exercise good judgment -- in a world increasingly dependent on that critical faculty from each. In the old mass media age, people tuned in to the networks whereby authoritative voices told them what to think -- and what was the one way for everyone to be, do and think. When many were still in a deficiency mode relative to a standard, that may have been expedient. Once one surpasses that standard, such information is no longer beneficial but becomes counterproductive. Frequently, one has to undo or undermine one’s favorable advantage to take advantage of information that brings them “up” to the standard -- rather than appreciating the favorable position they are already in, and moving beyond from there.

Thus, people who make more than the median income, have no problem claiming to be “disadvantaged,” and therefore justifying their claim on goods and services intended for the truly disadvantaged -- as their own entitlement. It is no longer enough that they have a place to live and a job guaranteed to them all their life, but they also claim that same entitlement for all their relatives and progeny at the expense of those who are really just trying to get by -- and can see no injustice as their demands expand to infinity, while those of genuine need are asked to deny themselves for infinity -- and it will even be claimed, that the poor gladly give up their food, clothing and shelter, so that the self-designated few in power, can go on to contest the wealthiest of the world -- as proof that this society is as good as any other in producing such disparities of prosperity.

Many people think they don’t have “enough,” unless they have it all -- and then their advice to others is, “I’ve got mine, you get your own.” Formerly, these were the words and the thinking of the bullies that became tyrants; now, it is likely to be the guy not with any real ambition, but thinking he is just grabbing everything he can, to keep up with everybody else. So it is a matter of perception rather than an actualized reality -- a sense of injustice rather than desire for justice, that compels that society. People have learned to merely agree, that that is what is happening in the world, and they are not going to work at a disadvantage, by depriving themselves of their opportunity to grab more than their “fair share” -- because they are convinced by their union and political leaders that that is what others are already doing, and they have to jump aboard in order not to be “left holding the bag.”

That is the environment of corruption that allows the unions and other lobbying interests to pack the hearing rooms and even offer pupu platters at public forums on their matters of self-interest. And rather than the chair of these committees being concerned or even offended about this obvious display of corruption and arrogance, are honored and flattered that the president of the unions and lobbying interests, have personally picked out the choicest morsels for their exclusive enjoyment.