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What is corruption?
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Owning a piece of a hierarchy (state, firm, establishment, ...)
is
corruption
.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Heart of Darkness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
Clean Slate / Coup de Torchon (1981)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_de_Torchon
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082206/?ref_=tt_mv_close
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Re: What is corruption?
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...
council meeting from blazing saddles
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=On73aHpgdSQ
Rock Ridge Town Council
F. K. Johnson
T. R. Johnson
R. D. Johnson
...
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conscience
noun
1. An awareness of morality in regard to one's behavior; a sense of right and wrong that urges one to act morally.
"Let your conscience be your guide."
2. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement.
"a document that serves as the nation's conscience."
3. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct.
"a person of unflagging conscience."
The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Conscience
is a fear of society in the most abstract form. Most have the fear.
On the other hand, those who don't have it...
3:17 min.
"Mrs. Williams, you have no conscience..."
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3-mP-li_tk
19:58 min.
"Leslie agrees to visit with him but
it will be in her airplane
."
/no fear of flying = no fear of society (you can kill)
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiBG-HDCg_4
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How this scene takes Pulp Fiction from good to masterpiece
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOqO8G6fgnM
How this scene takes Pulp Fiction from good to masterpiece
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If you have to ask, you probably can't afford it.
One lives in 0-d space.
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Re: What is corruption?
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Crime is (a criminal) business.
Legality/lawfulness is the monopoly (as a business).
Any business wants to become the monopoly.
Criminal/legal is a point of power
/a matter of having (who has who - who feeds who)
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- Excellent plot line, imaginatively
conceived. Good, clear narrative style.
I'll give you nine out of ten, Poirot.
I'm deducting one mark
for total absence of proof.
- Is that true?
We've sat here and listened to all that
and you can't prove a word of it?
- I haven't a shred of evidence.
Although that is unquestionably what happened.
...
https://www.scripts.com/script/evil_under_the_sun_7821/10
Evil under the Sun
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LqpvHSmcS_wC9itDTfzHwS9nVS3Pu88m/view?usp=sharing
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Death In Paradise (2011) S01E04
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wVe7z1t52fn7S5BVbEWfzb26wgJ9_OoE/view?usp=sharing
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"I love you too, Daphne"
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt-9C_LREWE
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Re: What is corruption?
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This is a science forum, maybe an ethics forum would be more suited to your requirements?
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Re: What is corruption?
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- Aesop's "The tortoise and the eagle";
- Mind is made in a certain way (mind works in the same way whatever it does);
- Midnight Run (1988)
WALSH
I'm in a big f*ckin' jam. I just need
some money. All I 've got to do is just
get this guy to L.A. and I'm out of
this miserable business forever.
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p. 65
https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/midnight-run-1988.pdf?v=1729114953
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If in the 70's it had been stated that English language "E" is exactly (well, almost) the same as
English language "B", then none of that nonsense would have been published here.
/ language English and language B***, actually
/ "Serrano's got the disks." (and no one dared to say that "E" and "B" are the same)
Midnight Run - The Airport scene (
Serrano's got the disks!
)
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMmwJiVJTw4
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Midnight.Run.1988
https://drive.google.com/file/d/171DctxawHwtYJ1XtWq9Ncz_RamsPbqNe/view?usp=drive_link
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The Most Sarcastic Comedian Of All Time. Bob Zany - Full Special
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnOQQ_FQGns
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King of One-Liners | Andy Huggins | Stand Up Comedy
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbbKaM8_LUc
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Jonathan Pie (strong language)
Nina Conti (strong language)
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With time one grows bitter.
language E
language B
definite article - definite article (actually the same word):
no grammatical cases - no grammatical cases (except for pronouns (accusative, dative, (?)));
hob-nob - hob-nob
willy-nilly - willy-nilly
want/will - want/will
John has done (past passive participle.) - John has done (past passive participle)
- John is done (past active participle)
/the participles are slightly different, which is handy
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Even the same mistakes are made.
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Mind is made in a certain way; mind works in the same way whatever it does.
the end
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