minions of the mindless kind

People like us, People like me, and maybe, even people like you, always end up getting a raw deal, a good citizen of a developing nation, an honest man amidst all the corruption, a quiet person, a good person, so as to speak...while all those rats and perverts are looting us not only of the taxes we pay, but also with bribes, we, the so called good people slink away, looking for a better place to go to, away from the mediocrity, away from the developing nation. The ones who do escape lead a “good life”, a life without being subject to molestation when commuting in a local train, a world where one does not need a special compartment for women to feel safe, a world where there are honest good people, well at least till the moment the corrupt get there and ruin it, take your hard earned money, steal your peace of mind and leave you high and dry. All people like me, and maybe you, can do is slink away, stand in the mediocrity and wait for some force to ally yourself with, to bring this system down, to make a change, yet even as I say this, I know it’s a losing battle to fight, there are too many of them, too few of us, and the mindless mass is fickle, swinging both ways, forever looking for an idea of what they are supposed to think, what they are supposed to do. The moral education in school that you learnt about the “conscience”, have a conscience, they said. A conscience, an amazing concept, don’t you think, do it if you feel right about it, more often than not, it is quelled by brain washing, we know, we always knew, that we were brothers, not enemies as the made us, but by just seeding the idea of contempt, they made enemies of us, and stupid people, until today, support that rift, oh idiots, such idiots, forever searching for what they should think, stupidity of the society, keep on inbreeding, they say, it’s wrong not to, keep inbreeding till the day we are deformed and all are made idiots of too. Don’t think for yourself, follow the beliefs we had, they say, anything new is bad, anything new, is a sin, they say, and we, we keep our heads down, walk along, the ones who dare to look up see the possibility of a different world, a world where they can escape, at least for a while, the rest, the rest are good people, hardworking people, minions of the corrupt.