Moral corruption, personal responsibility, morality and ethics

I was wondering today on how corruption seems to be everywhere. I'm not necessarily talking about financial corruption, which is but one exponent of the moral corruption.

In democratic countries, Governments, Religions, Schools, Hospitals, Researchers seem to have no moral dilemma to install fear in order to keep "at the top". I'm not sure why I was reminded of what I read some time ago in "The culture of fear" by Frank Furedi. Fear is used as a smoke screen behind which organisations that call themselves democratic can hide their less than ethical practices. People are afraid to speak up, to use their moral compass to guide them. The press is afraid to get behind the smoke screen, researchers are willing to prove almost everything that the highest payer wants them to proof, the government has a tendency to make a fuzz about a minor, futile issue in order to quietly push a more important, often controversial, expensive or unpopular issue through its "democratic" execution. Politicians dealing with markers: if you do this for me, I do this for you. Bankers who have no problem to gamble with other people's money, biting off the hand that feeds them. Our democratic system has been lost in moral corruption where personal responsibility seems to hide itself behind many regulations. We think that we're free but we've become enslaved to society's loss of morality.

In our over the top democracy turned into a democrazy? At the latest we should collectively wake up when a futile event is blown out of proportion, which is the warning sign that something that is quite corrupt is taking place in the background, something that really has a negative influence on our collective future.

Individual responsibility has been beaten out of us. Doctors take the symptoms away but we don't like it when they want to do something about the cause, because that would involve invoking our individual responsibility, because we do pay huge fees for health insurance. We expect our society to work based on many laws and when something doesn't work (any longer) we expect new laws. At the same time we blame everyone and everything for our perceived misfortunes as we blame our bosses for the bad working conditions or work corruption. The fact is, we let them, we empower the moral corruption and the loss of morality because we have forgotten how to apply our individual morality.

Individual responsibility requires an internal reference frame. Morality is not the same as ethics. Morality we've been born and raised with. Morality is our heart/soul talking.

It is time to appeal to our governments, our banks, our hospitals, our ministries, our schools, our universities to return to personal, moral responsibility, but we can only appeal when we're empowering ourselves, when we start applying our moral compass again. We've been afraid too long, afraid to speak up, afraid to silently accept that what we know is not right. It's time to remove the veil of corruption.