Recently we've received a lot of feedback from people, some positive and some negative. Most of the negative criticism seems to stem from a misunderstanding of what Corrupt is all about and what we're trying to achieve. Let's take a closer look at this.

Our Plan

I. Audience cultivation, Internet

We want to reach out to a larger mainstream audience on the Internet and build ourself a reputation; a name; a brand. Corrupt is going to be recognized as an online media source for a dislike of the current society and an inspirational will to build a new, future society.

II. Audience cultivation, as publisher

The next stage is to turn Corrupt into a publication house. We're going to both create and publish alternative media that's on par with our philosophy. Intelligent and creative people will read what we publish, then spread and apply those ideas to everyday life.

III. Non-profit and political action status

Succeeding this, we declare Corrupt a non-profit company and move ahead towards the final goal: pragmatic political opposition. We will engage in cultural, political and social activities and campaigns to reform modern society from within. We are not extremists nor liberal sell-outs; we're radical but sensible and we believe we'll be recognized as such.

Read the entire plan in detail here.

How Do We Work?

Currently we're building an Internet audience and establishing partnership with other publishers to prepare for the publication of alternative media. For those who have missed the progress, we're currently planning for the publication of our very first book; a translation work of Finnish ecophilosopher Pentti Linkola's latest book.

To succeed with building a mainstream audience, we naturally depend on You, our dear reader, to spread the word about Corrupt and the content we publish. Everyone can help out with this. Two fast ways of getting involved is to:

1) Sign up for our contributors mailing list and help us out with various projects. It's fun and you'll learn a lot of new stuff while at it!

2) Promote us on the web by mentioning us in blog comments, linking to us in your blogroll, quoting our articles on forums and adding us to your social network. It takes you no time and you can do it while surfing the web.

"I Would Like Corrupt To Change/Do This..."

We work by ONE paradigm here at Corrupt:

Reduce, Simplify, Streamline

We believe in practical, easy and fun solutions. The last part is very important. We're not only here to make a change; we want to have fun while doing it and we hope you'll enjoy taking part of what we do and working with us from that perspective. This is not your average day job; it's a chance to meet like-minded people, learn new things and work for something positive. This cures most psychological problems such as depression and self-defeatism, as you know you'll be a part of the solution and not the problem.

What we do at Corrupt is also our main focus: producing and promoting content. We focus on this and we focus on this only. Many people have had comments that mostly relate to this:

- "Can you publish all scientifical journals to the news reports you link to?"

- "Can you help me publish my music project?"

- "Why don't you explain X stance in philosophical detail?"

- "This solution is not perfect, why can't you do better?"

- "Why did you 'bury me' after I disappeared for 4 weeks after a project I was supposed to finish?"

- "Hall of Morons offended me, what are you going to do about it?"

- "Some idiot is causing me trouble on the forum, can you tell him/her to stop?"

...and many others.

The answer is very simple:

Reduce, Simplify, Streamline

We, the core staff that manage Corrupt, honestly wish we could do all of these things at the same time, but we have personal lives just like the rest of you. We have families, day jobs, academic studies, children, cousins, depressions, love adventures (?), art interests, culture engagements etc. etc. etc. We're normal people just like you. If our time is short, it's because it *is* short. When people talk about what they do on their free time, we laugh. "Free time?" You mean the time in between you write an article, eat, and then answer 60 emails? OK!

Seriously, behind the surface of what you see (news, articles, campaigns, system improvements etc.), there's a lot of behind-the-scenes work that only a few people are aware of but many take for granted. Maintaining servers, keeping hackers and trolls out, managing projects, scanning for news, preparing new content, answering all correspondence...it's many times more or less a full time job next to all the ordinary, tedious "real world stuff."

If we don't look up and publish all scientific reports, it's because we don't have time to do it and it's not our job to do it. We provide people with opinions based on raw data. You can find these reports and studies on your own by following the source link or by making a quick google search. Feel free to email us any sources and we'll include them as we see fit. For most of what we talk about, it's empirically obvious. Do you for instance really need "proof" that people act selfishly today or that green farmland is being replaced by housing projects?

Same thing goes for hobby music projects, questions about the 11th transcendental category of Kant's aesthetic scheme, talk about how parallelism can possibly reduce the price of milk, and why we choose to ignore and occasionally mock/make fun of people who sign up for work and then disappear. If you run an organization (if you never have, it's hard to relate to this), you depend on the people who work for you. If you've got a number of people who are working on 10 projects, and 2 weeks later, 95% of those same people flake out and instead decide to either watch TV or post funny videos to metal forums, believe me, you'll not be happy. Most likely you'll be pissed.

"I Don't Like Your Tone/Don't Threaten Me/Sometimes You Seem Upset..."

We're rarely upset or "angry" but sometimes irritated and disappointed, the more we see how people are flaking out and turning to the modern zombie world of entertainment. It's OK to watch a movie now and then, see a Discovery channel documentary and pat the dog. We're all human beings. But being commited to something and applying for work, means you're serious about what you do. This is not a hobby project or some kind of game. It's for real. Why? Take a look outside your window. The problems we face are real.

We don't threaten anyone. If you feel offended or hit by something, you need to ask yourself why that is the case. If you've done nothing wrong and haven't failed any duties, there's no reason for you to play victim. If you've screwed something up, that's OK (we all do, me included), as long as we get to know about it and can help you fix it. However, if you suddenly disappear or completely abandon a project in progress, that's never accepted or welcome. If we'd tolerate such behaviour, this site would be a friggin' mess today, not unlike how our society is organized.

Many people like to be victims. Often it's a way to get attention or to feel special. Sometimes we see this behaviour among some of our readers, sometimes we recognize they're right about something and try do our best to move on and learn from our mistakes. We mostly shrug to people who attack us or want to destroy for other people. We're used to them because we meet them on a daily basis. No matter what, Corrupt will never bend an inch because of similar people causing trouble. We always move forward. Life only rewards successful action.

"I would love to help out, BUT..."

-- I know. My life's full of those BUTs (not to be confused with: butts) too. I chose to get rid of most of those BUTs and only focus on the essentials. It freed up my time and I believe all people can do the same, to varying degrees of course. We don't ask you to become world president tomorrow. You can do so much by simply spending 10 minutes a day posting excerpts from our articles to different forums. It doesn't take a genius to work that out, but a fool and a coward to make up bad excuses for not doing anything at all.

Hope?

Corrupt exists because there were people who recognized problems with modern society, dared to face and acknowledge them despite social peer pressure, and decided to skip TV and getting drunk on holidays, and instead worked to unite more people to recognize these problems and hopefully be able to do something about them. It is therefore up to You, dear reader, and me, to act on the situation. No one else is going to do it for us. Most people are too busy keeping track of their own life. Those few who have some spare time over, maybe only 1-2 hours a day, will dedicate that time to inspire, educate and unite the aware, the brave, the inteligent and the creative.

Will we make it? You decide.

- A. Birch, on behalf of the Corrupt staff team