[Lightspeed]

So... be the change you want to see in the world?

I think a mistake is to imagine it as something "other". It's not even simply corruption. It's more about how concentration of power, which is often necessary, tends to focus the application of that power, which inevitably means some things get squashed, other things enjoy too much freedom.

It's about the human condition in general, it's about entropy. It's not so much about bad people doing bad things.

It's also a mistake to chase this stuff down to the nth degree. You'll just make yourself miserable and stressed. If you really want to get into something like this, do it proper. Get an education, do endless reading, get field experience, develop your authority. Spinning your wheels this way will just burn you out.

Maybe I was "lucky" and saw this shit early on. It's a lack of empathy on my part with your experience of discovering it in this way.

Well, that's what I think, right or wrong, there's only so much we can do. Enjoy what we can, suffer what we must.