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Leaders become corrupt because they get moved into positions where they have no one else to empower but themselves. If they don't believe in something even higher they start to look down on the world and everyone in it.

Should be an easy "fix". Just imagine God. Imagine a reason that everything is perfect in that there's no better way. You're not at the sky but the highest mountain peak. Most people can't. They're afraid it's irrational, or dumb, or that it supports murder and violence.

The point is not to believe it, the point is to imagine it. Doing it once is enough because it's enough to calibrate yourself. You understand dominance, submission, power, weakness, a lot more intuitively.

Love is another feeling that often goes a long time without accurate calibration. Religion has been a source of this calibration as well as an "anti-calibration" as well.

Strangers or one night stands can calibrate this as well. Love is whatever pushes you beyond your limits because it redefines them. It's normally a slow arduous process.

Families (or any social unit) that repeatedly survive disasters widen the lower bounds of Love. Feeling that "Another" wants you for you widens the upper bounds. The former requires the experience of tragedies the upper can be quite drastic.

It takes a long time to actually understand someone. You can only fall OUT of love because you started with such a perfect ideal. "This person really understands me!" No they don't, you don't even understand yourself.

But just for a moment you imagined it was true and your compass was calibrated higher. (though perhaps not correctly and sometimes so high that everyday values feel like depression)