In the last chapter the description of the movie makers illustrates the money motive in pure form. We pay our money, and take our choice. The movie industry is honest about what it does, and why. If it weren't for the money to be made, which of them would still do what they're doing? If nobody paid money for some ready-made fantasy, movies would have never made the screen.
In the second example I start to show how the real motives are sometimes buried by a secondary excuse for the actions taken. If those people really believed what they would like to have us believe about safety and caring, the problem would never have developed, they would have been more involved when the problem was small and a lot easier to handle. It took the threat of losing some of what they had to get any action. Until then, since they felt no effect, they ignored what was happening.
As for the government employees or elected officials, the crime is intolerable to us because of the financial cost. No one I know has any trouble understanding the real motive behind what was done. Money, plain and simple, all the talk, smoke and noise are just mechanisms to allow the culprit to escape if he can. Some of the ones who get caught even try the truth, and gain some degree of compassion if not outright pardon, for the honesty of admitting "They Done it for the Money." But, have you noticed the ones who value their reputation more than money? The ones who spare no expense, or the chance to sacrifice someone else, to protect their reputation? Have you ever noticed how none of the agency structure ever changes? Did you ever think about why that is? Have you ever wondered how it's an individual who did the stealing, and that somehow all of the same people are still doing the actual work? And is there a reason they all look so busy, if we do look? And how in Gods name is it that none of them, not one, had any knowledge of what was happening?
I just don't get it! Who was it blew the whistle anyway? Was it one of those good, hard working people? Or was it someone who gets paid to blow whistles? Nope, it almost never is someone like that. Most of the time the jig is up when somebody whose pocket didn't get lined blows the whistle and calls the game. Usually, but not always.
Sometimes the whole game is played for the same reason none of those good, hard-working employees are keeping their heads down, and all look so busy. Sometimes the reason for all the wide-eyed innocence is identical to theirs. Sometimes the cover-up is so somebody who made some mistakes can keep his/her job, and income. Sometimes? Try, "more often than not".
It only makes sense if you look at it. Protect the agencies reputation at all costs. If the agency is found corrupt, everyone is out, everyone can kiss their hopes and dreams good-bye. Once again, the lie is told, but this time not in words. This time the lie is in the silence. And in this case, there are no holds barred. In this case the ones at risk are locked into a location and their job; it is their survival.
Get it? Neither did I. Since I never have given the survival instinct much thought as it may or may not relate to "Modern Man" in a "Civilized Society" such as the one "I Thought" we lived in.
Mistake number too high to count, and still a very basic one. I "thought" this was a civilized society. I "thought" wrong.
I "thought" it might be appropriate to explain myself, and how I came to be so trusting. (Read that "easy prey".) It simply never occurred to me that the worst of the worst could be at work right here in River City. My home town.
I had never even thought of all the people who we never hear about in one of those publicized scandals from Washington DC or Portland, Oregon. Or anywhere at all for that matter. The ones who were there before the elected Bigwigs came to town with their following. The ones who really do all the work. The ones those elected folks have to depend on. The ones who are just another government employee. The ones who aren't impeachable, or fireable for that matter, now that I think about it.
If you've ever worked for or around the state you must be well aware of what I mean.
And what does all this boringly redundant diarrhea of my fingertips have to do with Tylor?