Once a nation acknowledges publicly that it is corrupt, ... there is a weakening. A listlessness, a nihilism, where personal appetites and longings for celebrity outweigh what was once understood as common virtue. (John Kass)

Once a nation acknowledges publicly that it is corrupt, ... there is a weakening. A listlessness, a nihilism, where personal appetites and longings for celebrity outweigh what was once understood as common virtue.

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