An old truth that in current UK seems more relevant than ever. And as people cannot uncorrupt themselves, replacement is the only solution.
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joebangles
- 07/04/09 @ 14:16:51
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not a clumsy mind, but a lazy one I observe here
1. I agree, that it's not a universal statement.
2. Legality can never be used to define corruption, or evil. Hitler, Stalin or Sadaam, did not think he was evil.
3. I think that change alters quite a lot, as long as you do it frequently enough. In UK there hasn't been a change for too long
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If, as Joe has commented, those whom we see as corrupt don't see themselves as such but 'playing the system', then surely, logically, the 'system' is suspect? Perhaps the system has the inherent predisposition to being corrupted! Back to my old 'target'.....Capitalism!
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No static system can protect itself in the long run against corruption. Continuous change, and democratic population, who care, are the only way to keep those in power under control. In England, people don’t believe they can change, and government don’t change. So corruption get rooted
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Any way in which we can effect some sort of change here? Does the 'Institution of the Monarchy' have anything to do with it?
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Stop consuming. That will crash any capitalist govenment. Or back to the Guillotine. Most British however, will find it somewhat of bad taste
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For most British, anything that hints at changing out of the 'distant past' seems to smack of 'bad taste'.
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TomTheCat
- 08/04/09 @ 11:26:55
if this old truth is really true (as it seems to me too), and power corrupts anybody, then replacement might actually not work as a solution. and after some time of reconsidering i think that actually "uncorrupt ourselve" is the only way. if none of both is working we are maybe not made for a life ruled by politicians!
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I am sure that there must be some people in power that have not been corrupted ranfuchs, maybe few and far between, but some.
Of course, those that we feel are corrupt do not see them selves as corrupt but "playing the system" so that they gain what they see as rightly theirs and, possibly they are legally right, they have not broken the rules. The rules are wrong.
We, the electorate, changed the last Government mainly because of the media reporting on their corruption, but, Has change altered anything?