We all have secrets and we have all told lies. The important thing is what the secrets are, the harm done to others, how culpable we are & the real motives for the things we did or didn't do.
We have now had "financialgate", "expensesgate" & "mediagate". All knowingly committed by people with power & wealth for the basest possible motives. No matter how you "spin" the facts & try to find any justification for all three of these, they are an appalling revelation of the grotesque underbelly of our "civilised" society.
No wonder there is deep cynisism. No wonder there is very little trust in the people & organisations who run our complex 21st century society. But worse still, no wonder this translates into a self seeking & selfish attitude that seems to permeate all strata's of society.
Will the public revelations of all three of these change the way things are done? Maybe - a little. Hopefully there will be ever more vigilance & scrutiny. Will words of apology translate into sustained action to avoid repetition? I doubt it while there is money to be made & power to cling to. I see no signs of the financial institutions changing for the better. Quite the contrary.
The only hope is that I do believe that the vast majority of people basically have good intentions and are rightfully appalled at all of this. Maybe ultimately that will force change. It is very much needed.
Wish I had as much confidence in human nature as you Val. I think the veil of civilisation is very thin. Cooperate conscience and peer presure is our saving grace yet the modern face of our money based society is destroying the very social cohesion that keeps us civlised. Each day we seem to be returning to the "every man for himself" stage of our cooperative social ship wreck.
ReplyDeleteYou probably guessed, by the length of that sentence and the awfull spelling, that this is John ;-) xxx (shriking and whiteing (not just greying anymore)
No - didn't guess. "Veil of civilisation" - very descriptive. Also "Cooperative social shipwreck". Who cares about the spelling when it's so evocative/
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