We Can Transform Our Politics if we Equate Corruption With Slavery
Corruption is a substitution of deception of others for happiness, and it doesn’t really make anyone happy.
Freedom, desire, and control
I have never liked telling other people what to do. I don’t like being told what to do myself. I don’t want any control over other people. I don’t want that much responsibility. I don’t want responsibility for their failures or their successes. I want the people around me to know that they are free to do what they like, to the extent that they err on peace.
I am aware of slavery as a concept. I have never experienced it directly, without dilution the way we experience it now. I have never had someone tell me what to do on the threat of violence to my physical being. But I know that the threat is always there, somewhere, lurking in the background. I know that if I push the right buttons, pull the right levers, and say the wrong things, that threat will come out, hard and fast.
I know that my freedom depends on other people being less free. This is not a condition I desire. It’s an unfortunate outcome in the way that our culture is structured.
