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ETHICS OR BUST

An end to democracy and social life as we know it ?

How can one forget the business of those scruples and the perplexed looks in peoples faces when asked as to what they had done with them ? The same goes with Ethics except that it does not sound as playful as the other word does. The effect is not the same. We talk about an unscrupulous person but not about an unethical one merely subscribing this to activities. Perhaps that is why it is rendered something that is not worth pursuing with respect as to what it has to teach us.

The political speaker, a disillusioned dissident, in one of the Latin European countries, spoke very freely about the need to introduce ethics into daily lives, much to the sanctimonious satisfaction of nodding heads, in this Jesuit organised, public debate.

“It is easy to be a Christian with a fat balance in the bank behind you”, said one alarmingly.” “A choice between ethics and feeding your ailing child..”said another with equally disapproving gestures.

In fact it renders the whole thing a little beyond social capability as ambition instinctively overrides ethics and the bulk of the much abused public expects and accepts it. I could imagine most of those present fully intended to lever everything to their advantage if ever capable of getting to those corridors of  lucrative licence.

But is it a dead issue even in the modern European Countries – a chimera where too much  is swept underneath the carpet and  ambition becomes entangled in personal interest and the protection at all cost of those astronomical salaries and benefits ?  Who would rock any boat and risk all of that for the sake of all those anonymous others ? Ethics therefore appear to be slightly out of place in this wholly political arena – at least until swatting this carpet becomes a useful, vote catching exercise. According to the Jesuit University in the United Sates, dedicated to the propagation of Bioethics studies, there is a way out of this dangerous slide into chaos.

Can corrective measures really be taken seriously,  when both politicians and religious leaders speak bluntly in favour of issues and behaviour that decry the very existence of something as ephemeral as ethics?  When ethics may well mean being seen to be taking an interest rather than actually doing things correctly from everyone’s point of view, the subject falls off the agenda. It conjures complications and and antagonism from those whose hands are not that visibly clean. In fact lamentably, even in strongly puritanical countries of the higher echelons of the European family, the doubt begins to emerge as to whether ethical values have not only disappeared but have been superseded by a new type of quantum politics and social behaviour now geared to personal, basic survival. Could yuppism have entered these public platforms and taken root ? Whether that survival merely means clinging to the job or amassing whatever can be gleaned from whatever opportunity is probably a matter of individual character, but whilst sections of the affluent societies and all the rest wriggle in their insecurity, veritable fortunes, opportunistically obtained sieve their ways through clumsy, unwilling controls to build estates, which can serve little purpose other than feed the next few generation of potentially incapable members of the family. There is something very bizarre and ugly about this in the face of the horror which our front lounge television sets portray of the increasingly neglected and disdained, so called, third world. But then one does not have to go that far to see what is already happening to those within the democratic communities in the age of computerisation and push button benefits ? For most, short of answering twisted, rhetorical, opinion poll questions, the political extension of family life might as well not be there.  By that I mean that the sense of participation in social development has as much as gone as politicians increasingly make themselves felt only when issues become relevant to votes. Real public needs and fears have become subjects of political whitewash when the expenses involved in correcting them appear not to be justified. Meanwhile, the anxiety factor eats away increasingly at public morale and the thin line of residual respect for authority and order becomes irrelevant. Today, in most developed society this stress not only provokes a cynical disregard for the political contribution, but drives a significantly high percentage of the respective populations to the all powerful chemists and time conscious doctors in search of a panacea.

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