Can a man who promised himself to work for the people end up corrupt? I have been thinking about this problem for several days now. I came to the conclusion that there is not a sudden change of heart but a shift that occurs by taking small steps, baby steps.
In ancient Greece, men constantly wondered about the purpose of life. Many believed that life's 'Logos' (purpose) was to please oneself incessantly. However, with each new episode of pleasure, the climax diminished in comparison with the first time, so they started exploring more devious ways to satiate their increasingly dangerous and pernicious hunger.
They knew a taste, a touch of the forbidden, could make you fall into a whirlwind of desire. Later, that satiated impulse sowed the seed of corruption in their hearts. -Why not? I am not the first; I won't be the last.- Suddenly, being one more in a crowd is no longer a depressing thought.
A single rewarded evil act can drill deep into anyone's marrow, whether be a teacher, politician, warrior, intellectual, or philosopher. Pride will do the rest. In time, the acts multiply, and the instant rewards continue, turning the purest souls into the darkest vessels of greed.
In time, a person's soul is altered, atrophied, and defaced. Still, society will be the biggest victim. What is worse, the corruption of those known as the purest and most beautiful will turn into the kind of denigration that sickens society's future and its collective mind.
After witnessing case after case, you wonder, are purity and the desire to be pure wrong? Why do people nowadays see it as a stupid dream? Why do we ask ourselves so little regarding honesty and purity?
I don't want to belong to a society that drills into the minds of young people ideas of moral and ethical imperfection as the natural state of men's minds because, by default, humans are always looking for more, whatever they choose to go for: good, bad, or lame. If a man decides to turn evil, eventually, this will grow, and it will have one of two outcomes:
1) A corrupt individual who lives in anxiety, constantly avoiding being caught, and, for that reason, stops for a while only to return greedier later.
Or
2) The corrupt dies.
Make no mistake, the corrupt will make his case to justify his deeds. At this moment, you know he has normalized his behavior because evil has taken away his senses: his eyes, ears, and tongue. He is no longer sharing our view of the world. The corrupted person is completely transformed, cannot change, and cannot be trusted again.
Sadly, I keep seeing this pattern happening to more people incessantly, year after year, which is taking a toll on me.
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