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Hazare Khwaishein aisi ki har khwaish mein dum nikle

Now that the good guy has won, I can put some thoughts down on corruption. I will start with my basic premise that Man is a dichotomy. On the one hand he is an animal, driven by instinct and emotion and governed by the laws of the jungle. On the other hand he is also a rational being given reason and intellect so that he may be able to rise above his animalistic tendencies and create a civilised society. However I believe all great civilisations came into being on an impulse, on ego and emotion rather than on intellect yet it is no secret that they grew because of our ability to think and reason. This makes me wonder about what is truly desirable. In the law of the jungle, survival is key. Survival, which forms the seat of all thought, uses ego to protect itself and produces emotion as it's army to propagate. But we cannot deny the existence of the intellect either. It is definitely there and clearly rules us at some level. It uses morality to protect itself and reason as it&#