Yeah, totally. But I guess the real distinction I’m getting at is individual/discrete vs. systemic. “Corruption” carries with it a story about some specific dudes somewhere who are being corrupt, and that’s why everything is unfair. It implies that if we could replace those corrupt people with “pure” people, that things would be OK.
I think if people in France believed that, they would be organizing to go to the polls, rather than burning luxury cars. There seems to be a recognition by at least a lot of the Yellow Vests that the entire structure of society is wrong in a way that transcends individual personalities. I guess you could say it’s corrupted in another sense…
