After hours of struggling to define corruption I think
it is, ‘a fish swimming backwards.’ Obviously fish are too smart to attempt
this but if they did they’d find all their scales that help them swim forwards
would flay out and make a thousand little brakes, like teazels that go in but
won’t come out. In corruption the thousand facets of effective human
interaction become points of jagged resistance. Using this analogy the UK is a
hot bed of corruption and its futile activity of coercion. Cameron may comment
about Nigeria and Afghanistan corruption but at home he’s presiding over an
unprecedented expansion of a more sinister form. In every aspect of education
for example every participant, students, teachers, lecturers, parents and
future employers are bristling with stress and anger from record levels of
coercion. And coercion in academia just as in Nigeria is the active ingredient
of corruption. It forces stress down the power structure and rewards, i.e.
money, up it, and like the teasel it only goes one way. But more importantly
coercion corrupts effectiveness hugely as in the fish swimming, or in this case
being pulled, backwards, and once this paradigm sets in ineffectiveness
obviously requires more pulling, which in turn leads to even less
effectiveness. It must be very confusing to the likes of Nicky Morgan that
whatever she does things get worse. It’s simple dear, just consider a fish
swimming backwards.
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