To be corrupt is to be distorted, twisted, amoral, rotten, valueless, depraved. The fact that power over others will corrupt the powerful, and that absolute power will corrupt them for certain has been long verified and well documented.
In “The Under”, a silhouette of our world inhabited by people similar in appearance to us, but with a totally different mind-set, the reverse is true. Absolute corruption has become the route to power and the preferred method to alter or disrupt the lives of those not familiar with this shadow universe.
“The Under”, a seemingly powerless place, has an opposite rotation to our world. Under- educated, under-employed, under-literate, under-valued, undermined, and often under the influence, the residents of “The Under” have managed to propel their world using corruption as their power source; a source which proliferates like maggots in rotten meat.
This underworld, created and nurtured by the actions of those corrupted by absolute power in ours, has now become the power mongers biggest nightmare. Having themselves been misled by power’s seduction, they recognize fully the inevitability of its intoxicating pull.
What is causing their nightmares I think is this: now that “The Under” has significantly reversed the corruption formula, what can stop the occupants of that world from overwhelming the citizens of this?
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