Friday, July 6, 2012

Corruption is the enemy of all (#1253)

I have been trying in my mind about how to discuss today's topic. It is floating around in my head without a comprehensive approach for me to make a sensible argument. I will begin by describing the concept, first it is about how we people are the initiators of corruption. It doesn't matter so much what form of system we operate within, essentially people first become corrupt, and then are the corrupters. What I am having a difficulty with is trying to point out that even in the purest form of democracy, it will be undone if the intent of those that lead is to corrupt. Regardless of the political, social, economical and even spiritual promise of equality and respect, no functioning governing system can withstand those who are antithetical to it's pure implementation. When does corruption begin it's nurturing process within us? For most who succumb to corruption's allure, it starts with lust and/or greed. Power and/or wealth are the destabilizers in our initial path to do good. The metaphorical "fork in the road" that has taken many from an honest discipline to serve and improve our society to instead a path of selfishness, disregarding our original purpose. I will always maintain that we are all born innocent and from that initial birth we are inculcated with less than virtuous desires. It is incumbent upon us to resist those less than virtuous desires and build up our resolve to forward our initial innocence. As we get closer to gaining some positions within our society, the pressure builds from those lost souls who have already resigned to corruption to sway the still innocent into their fold. It has been this way since our history was begun and it will only change when we all decide that the virtue of selflessness is the better model for life than the corrupting influence that lust and greed prevail upon us.

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