Corruption

—A corrupt man is a victim of his own superiority.

 

—Corruption is the mis-constructed blend of superiority and the inability to earn respect.

 

A person can not, or might not, be able to earn respect that he has faltered to believe his due; it is then that a man becomes corrupt. Such people generally hide under the guise of family responsibilities and other monitory pressures. But, it is not so much a need of money as it is to impose on another his will of power. This statement I support with another that corruption does not come with power. If that would have been the case, then undoubtedly all would have been corrupt, except those that are rebellious for no good reason (and I have reason to believe that even these are many). A person becomes corrupt when he finds himself believing, much to his dissatisfaction, that he is superior. That he deserves to be, or is already elevated (in his own demeanor), but is not treated likewise by those that he has presupposed to be lower to him in all the conditions and considerations that have define this difference.

 

It is this misconception of two distinct platforms that injects itself into the roots of the being in conversation, thus leading to his seeking approval of all concerned in manners that he can device himself as easiest. This also states why a poor spineless thief seeks to be in the good-books of such men. Because he also thinks himself to be a deserver of such respect. Thus he gives to corruption as well.

 

But this elevation, as both the powerful and the thief, think it to be is not an elevation in its mathematical sense (as one might refer to it to be higher). Rather it is where a person begins to fall. It is the illusion of an elevation. Architecture has one such example of a decline, where one is made to believe that he is rising, in Lukhnow.

 

In the same said mind the sky is still above, but not in the conventional sense. The conscience begins to stir, but the web is intense. And one might fall never to be risen again. And in this mind it is clear that the one deed has earned him immeasurable dishonor, but to undo this deed, he fights, and it is this resistance that tightens the noose. He becomes a victim of his superiority. Corruption thus becomes an incurable disease. One that flies with the air, and stings many.