10 Sept 2025


Apparently, there are 4 pillars of Corruption: The Corrupter, the Corrupt, Impunity and Tolerance. 

I would like to see it as something like this: 

Corrupters: the enablers, mastermind, untouched, cannot be mentioned, and ones who made rules

Corrupts: the mobilizers, the people in between, the faces that we see, used to be good but then they turned bad. If they become really good at what they do, they either sit next to or replace the upper Corrupters. Or if betrayed,  eventually turn out to be the sacrificial lambs promised to comfort while serving sentence, just to keep confidence with the leadership. 

Impunity: the hoax that is the investigative bodies  built and hearings conducted but never really get to expose the real corrupters 

Tolerance: the voters kept in poverty, lack of education and survival level of living- continually depending on menial social services provided,

the workers who pay taxes but never get to enjoy the privileges of good housing, health care, among others 

the OFWs who chose to leave and then turn indifferent about whats going with the motherland, 

the children who learn through their models- they see corruption, they follow corruption. 

Indeed, it is Tolerance that is very difficult to crumble and shatter. Because as long as we keep voting for the same crocs, unknowingly feeding the same devils, we are the never-ending joke of this theatrics called a nation. 



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Reference: 
Blackwell, Adam (2025).  The 4 Pillars of Corruption and How to Topple Them. 
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2015/06/the-4-pillars-of-corruption-and-how-to-topple-them/

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