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Human mess
by zima on Sun 4th Sep 2011 17:27 UTC
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You know, I would argue it's not the only route such influences propagate. The relationships are vastly more complex. Ultimately, systems of governance are also a reflection of their societies... at the least, that's where the people forming the govs come from (from where else?)

And however the "average interviewed passersby" would publicly despise corruption, etc. - given the chance, they would gladly cut out a slice of the cake for themselves, more likely that not. Consider a hypothetical family which openly despises "gov spending waste" ...but with one of its members being, say, an engineer or blue-collar worker involved in some publicly founded project - that particular work will be of course essential, and the price fair. Or a soldier in the family - whatever the exposed systematic abuses or shady reasons for operations, that one man will be always honourable (if the exposed stuff is not simply ignored - it's frightening how large percentages of the troops in Iraq still thought quite recently that the place had anything to do with 9/11...)

I was living some time in one dorm room with somebody from a so called developing country, which at the time was undergoing quite a turmoil (with constant reports in world news TV channels) - supposedly partly because of the widespread corruption; my room mate openly declaring to despise it, blaming it for the poor state of affair in his country.
And there he was, in a far & comfortable place with relatively very high prices of living (funded mostly via how one of his family members was a public official at his place), "studying" (a non-course mostly useless to him in the future, for the paper, cheating whenever he could). With a nice job at one public office essentially awaiting for him, at return.
Oh, did I mention that he also hated corruption?

Many blame govs for recent financial turmoils. Those happened in places where quite a few people are also unable to keep balanced personal budgets, and with staggering rates of living on a debt.

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