It was challenging to read this article because it expresses the same contempt about the things we are familiar with, and maybe it is fair to ask Richard to look at a different angle. I do feel Richard because I believe he is horrified by the ease with which the current government allowed corruption to flourish and how those we expected to behave with integrity decided to benefit from corruption instead of fighting it. I short, he is hoping that maybe what he writes will some day propel the good citizens like you and I to actually transform ourselves from being keyboard revolutionaries to being active citizens who go out there and do something about the rot that we see. Remember that annoying guy who kept on saying "beware the ides of March"....?