Today is preachy-sermon day. This brief is another perspective on my well-worn theme of the new morality/abandonment of acceptable, old-fashioned values and virtues.
Those interested would know my core observation and arguments: that reduced morality, increased poverty and need compromise even those once given to being upright law-abiding and religious; that thievery and corruption in the corridors of power set poor, appropriate examples and models for the under-privileged, even the greedy and the crooked to follow and use as rationale; that a cancer-like, but glossed-over disease of wrong-doing and illegality has become embedded in the society, where, today wrong has become right and where to point out wrong-doing is to ostracise yourself from your company who have long accepted the new status quo. (If you’re in need and you can’t beat them, join them.)
I’ve been going on about the “fear” and values instilled in me by my late grandmother (then my aunt), beginning 65 years ago.
I also now record my admiration for commentator GHK Lall who felt strong enough to analyse the scourge of local corruption in a
