Just enough Corruption; Money, Power & Perversion, an Executive Summary

A short summation and bibliographic resource guide to modern corruption. Most people don’t spend much time thinking about corruption, most people would probably not like to think about it at all. Until recently the public conception of corruption has been skewed toward a very soft or petty view based on ideas like bribery, embezzlement and abuse of personal power. After recent political events that view is shifting to a grander view of a deeper-seated systemic presence, the puppeteer perspective of societal control which has kept itself hidden from public awareness. The functioning of this kind of structure is much more complex and broad-based that people would like to believe until the evidence of the “hidden hand” is so glaring as to be undeniable. The beast of a massive authoritarian presence is here in the face. Many are coming to believe that recent events which seemed all too coincidental are part of a well-organized plan to benefit the moneyed few in ways that were not very evident in the beginning until they had time to play out. Just how did we get here? How did the players become entrapped in this web of deceit? What are the rules of this bizarre production? Ignorance was bliss and knowledge makes life messier, very, very messy and you won’t find the rules of this game in a Civics 101 textbook. It goes without saying that affluence enables/promotes influence, but the details are hidden by the doers in the interests of self-preservation, the exact whys and hows. We live in a public relations hologram financed by resources of the ultra-rich who use tools like manipulation of the press, smears, social pressures, outright blackmail, and an organized deniability style of violence reminiscent of a low key cartel. The people who do think about corruption a lot are the people who have condemned themselves to live a life of corruption. They don’t want to get caught. They are desperate, they lie, cheat, steal, threaten, blackmail, maim, murder, just like a Mafioso thriller. They have a lot to lose. Be forewarned that the discussions in the book are not a polite outline of heretofore undisclosed details. It tells not only what makes dirty politics ugly, but just how disgusting the whole mess is. These details are not for dinnertime discussion, but a sense of these truths are essential for the comprehension of forthcoming events and prosecutions. It will be hard to believe for many.