Why the truth is not in them ??

@clearthinker You don't know what you are writing about.  Corrupt business practices were standard at the turn of the 1900s.  Food manufacturing was very dangerous to consumers (I don't mean preserving food, I'm talking about knowingly producing food in unsanitary ways e.g. the pickle industry).  If it weren't for presidential and congressional legislation, many people would be dying from contaminated food.   That's just the tip of the iceberg of dishonest business practices.  

"...again a well understood fact."

Not around here. Around here, socialism and communism are the same thing.

" millercarbon...that’s the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a long time. "

Funny, because I have thought for a while now that the greatest threat to the Great American Experiment would come from within.
The Great American Experiment was founded upon the teachings and merits of Christianity, where standards were set by the founding fathers.
I currently attend no church, however I do agree that without standards, expectations of conduct from ourselves as individuals we will as a society become more corrupt.

I interacted in a course held by Landmark Forum, and one of the most striking things I learnt, and I’ll say it as I understand it; Our self esteem, our opinions of ourselves are based upon our integrity to our word. Integrity to the truths that are universal.

’We make others wrong so we can be right and you just love to be right, don’t you?’

I am no " student of sociology or political theory ", but from what I have read, that countries that have embraced Marxist ideals were in a situation where there was great disparity between the ruling class and working class, and corruption and tyranny were rife.

I myself believe that if societies continue to raise children with no accountability or integrity of their words and actions, then the same society will produce leadership with the same degree of integrity that is expected of them.

The current elected official for the United States is apparently not trusted, and it’s pretty evident. It may have been that he managed to get in to the position of authority (out of the millions of other members of his society), because his direct opponent was even less trusted!

Corrupt societies open themselves up for change, funnily enough we do have history of mighty empires to consider. Including the War of Independence.

Integrity and accountability are provided by natural logic, not religious baloney. 

Integrity and accountability are provided by natural logic, not religious baloney.

I think that you are right...

Religion can make human able to give a particular image of themselves about themselves.... This is one of the necessary workings of a collective culture....

But integrity and accountability, basic moral elementay consciousness, for example are more like mathematical activity: we reap what we sow....

It is impossible for a gardener to fool himself and others and speaking about the garden and not properly working the garden...

A religious man can....

A mathematican cannot....

"Moral imagination" is more akin to mathematical experience or gardening experience than to religious experience...

One of the reason is basic moral activity and  moral imagination  does not need any kind of collective recognition at all, because his own working is rewarding in itself, like mathematic and gardening....