Because "corruption" is a meaningless way of putting it, of course. It's apolitical. It assumes that some lack of virtue is the problem, and if only everyone did their job things would be good. In fact, we have a system that for the most part is problematic because of the way it functions as intended. I suppose we can describe the legalized bribery of campaign financing, lobbying and the revolving door, and regulatory capture as "corruption." Or we could do the same for the media system owned by six corporations and financed by advertising, or all the other cartel arrangements that govern economy and politics. Except all of these things are (mostly) legal and predictable expressions of how the system of political economy is designed and has developed. The idea of corruption is used to criminalize small-potatoes and evade the systemic, or even at best creates some Nixon myth about how the malady is due to the personal rot of individuals.
That fact the majority of any human aggregate are gonna be morons haunts every project for the improvement of our species.
Oh my god, dude. This is just not so. Not my experience. People are mostly smart within their contexts. They tend to be very good at mastering the tasks of their lives. They tend not to be very intellectually courageous and to prefer paradigms for the world that they don't need to revise. All that. But morons is really harsh, and even with me as this board's leading misanthropist it makes me worry about you.
We meet at the borders of our being, we dream something of each others reality. - Harvey of R.I.
To Justice my maker from on high did incline:
I am by virtue of its might divine,
The highest Wisdom and the first Love.
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