I often wonder if the reason the world is too complex and difficult to handle is that we spend so much time blaming it for things that we dislike, but which we are part of. It might be a realisation that hit me because of a discussion I had last week with some people about police corruption. As I listened to them talk about this rotten reality, my mind drifted into the below line of thinking.
The problem of what in my former parlance was called ‘bent coppers’ continues. But it’s not just rotten officers;