Mad As Hell...

[poliphilo]

Respect for authority? Oh my God, where to start...

Politicians who fiddle their expenses, sell themselves to corporations, govern on behalf of the rich.

Bankers who trash the economy, then pay themselves huge bonuses.

Crusading journalists who hack the phones of the people they're supposedly crusading for.

Police who hassle minorities, kill on our streets and then (routinely)  lie about it.

And all these people- these corrupt, unpleasant, not particularly gifted people- are tied up together in a cats cradle of influence and back-scratching and mutual loathing.

And they dare to ask us to show some respect?

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

"Compromised": yes, that's it, exactly. Too many of our political leaders lack moral authority and intellectual integrity. Whatever they say is made suspect simply by the fact that they said it. Whatever they do is the result of some -- usually hidden -- agenda benefiting themselves and their class, else they would not be doing it. We live in a time in which to believe otherwise is naive and frankly dangerous. And to imagine that all of these people are intelligent, well-informed and know what they are doing, is equally naive and dangerous.

What's true of our political leaders seems broadly true of the police, the business world and the media, as well.