"In a moment, everything can change"
"...the most effective protest movements—and Russia is the best example of this—are often the ones that organize around corruption, because people can see and FEEL corruption. Ordinary people, you don’t need to know—you don’t have to read John Stuart Mill or know the history of the American Constitution, you know, or even have much of an education. You can be living in rural Ukraine or in Somalia and you can intuitively understand that it’s wrong for some people to be able to steal and keep their money, whereas other people are very poor. And so this is often the motivating and organizing idea of antiauthoritarian movements."
"...the Ukrainian revolution of 2014—which was the moment when a lot of young Ukrainians went out on the street; they were waving EU flags; they were calling for an end of their authoritarian regime...Ukrainians understood that they were poor because their leaders were rich":
(Emphasis added.)
Personally, those who have never been corrupt are probably very boring as sinning IS a part of life.
But willingly decreasing our margins of error significantly and substantially WITHOUT BEING TOLD as we get older and bolder -- one would hope -- so that people don't have to clean up so much of our literal AND figurative mess IS a sign of maturity, growing up, AND evolving!
