My counterpart speaks of a decay in the system. It was indeed heartening to know that such topics still hold potential to attract people's thoughts. Even as I was reading those profound words certain thoughts began surfacing in my mind. I am told bribes were paid in relation to the NYP, 2009 (after all it was a question of preserving Law School culture) in order to please cops into refraining from enforcing certain rules. People who contributed to the party corpus were aware of this head of expenditure. On account of this, I feel kind of compelled to ask- isn't such behaviour equally if not more responsible for the so called decay in the system?
Although the argument turns on the definition of this cliched (in this post) phrase, assuming it were to receive some colour from the word democracy (mentioned in the mail) and the apparent tenor of the mail; I believe it doesn't require much thought to infer that the manner in which such bribes were paid to cops (and I assume it has become an accepted practice) the decay in the system can be attributed (to a much greater extent) to chain of events surrounding occasions such as the NYP, 2009.
I think, of greater significance is the tendency of people to quickly fall back on arguments such as decay in the system when something hurts them or bothers them - forgetting how they might have contributed to the decay. But then, as long as one gets to consume booze, dance, party and enjoy oneself in the process who really cares about whether our system is in a state of decay.
Although the argument turns on the definition of this cliched (in this post) phrase, assuming it were to receive some colour from the word democracy (mentioned in the mail) and the apparent tenor of the mail; I believe it doesn't require much thought to infer that the manner in which such bribes were paid to cops (and I assume it has become an accepted practice) the decay in the system can be attributed (to a much greater extent) to chain of events surrounding occasions such as the NYP, 2009.
I think, of greater significance is the tendency of people to quickly fall back on arguments such as decay in the system when something hurts them or bothers them - forgetting how they might have contributed to the decay. But then, as long as one gets to consume booze, dance, party and enjoy oneself in the process who really cares about whether our system is in a state of decay.
