In
a world where there are so many people sincerely trying to do good, attempting
to live decent and positively progressive lives… earnestly sharing their
skills and talents in efforts to improve the common good, it is nevertheless severely
challenging to be faced, almost daily, with blatant, deeply rooted corruption at
the highest levels of our so-called “civilization.”
Sadly,
it is a repetitive phenomenon within human history that when individuals and organizations
manage to gain a certain level of authority, unrighteous dominion begins to
taint their interests; power and gain become their hidden agenda, and wholesale
corruption becomes their legacy.
Gratefully,
in growing opposition to that malignancy, there are much more intelligent voices
crying in the wilderness collectively illuminating the corruption; ever hopeful
of diminishing the negative influence and removing its destructive potential.
An unknown author
wrote that: “Corruption is authority, plus monopoly, minus transparency.” Consequently,
the more we do as individuals to add our singular lamps to any problem’s
shadows, the sooner the true essence of the image will be revealed. Ingenuous authority
can then be challenged more effectively, and the scurvy of monopoly eventually eliminated.
A present example of increasingly
questionable legitimacy is that of the FIFA organization (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) the
governing body of European style football that we in the untamed New World call
"soccer." Initially founded in 1904 with the noblest of intentions to foster and
encourage popularity of the sport, the association has succeeded beyond it’s
wildest dreams and has become a major player in influencing world governments
to support its endeavors.
Perhaps due to an unknown quark of cosmic consciousness,
the pendulum of avarice has been legislated to swing both ways, and Karma inevitably, must come due. The debatable financial rewards reaped by
those in authority, and the ensuing havoc created by such corruption is now generating
sufficient critical commentary that eventually the focus will be so intense upon the
association, that its final existance will be nothing more than a flash in a pan.
In reference to the current World Cup event being held in Brazil, architect Miguel Capobiango detailed that… “in order to stage the
tournament, the country built or refurbished 12 stadiums at an estimated cost
of $3.6 billion, including one in the city of Manaus deep in the jungle. This
particular 42,000-seat Arena de Amazonia in Manaus cost an estimated $319
million but will only see four World Cup games. In addition, after the event,
the stadium's future is unclear, since Manaus's home club, Nacional, only
attracts about 1,000 spectators per game.”
And, in addressing the dubious
social benefits FIFA claims to produce for it’s host countries, Scottish
journalist Andrew Jennings, author of Omertà: Sepp Blatter's FIFA Organized Crime
Family, brought up the controversy surrounding the planned 2022 world Cup in
Qatar, the sweltering Gulf state that is currently the subject of a FIFA
bribery investigation.
"[FIFA members] either have to
be committed to an asylum for the mentally ill or taken to court and accused of
corruption. You don't give it to Qatar in the summer."
And finally, to lighten things up
and bring the entire fiasco into sharper focus, the sarcastically biting wit of John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” injects the dot of the needle right over the i and slashes
surgically across the t in a brilliant, but regretfully true, condemnation of one
of humanity’s greatest weaknesses!
Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum... I smell the blood of an Englishman! - J.
Article Copyright J. Michael Lyffe - 2014
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