We are the system

This article is written with reference to the recent terror attacks in our city-Mumbai. Aside from the anguish and numbness I feel as a citizen (just like most of us are bound to feel at this moment of adversity) amid the ridiculous claims by some of our beloved politicians, and the unaccountable claims by the print media regarding possible delays by the NSG in executing the operations in response to the attacks, I'd like to step aside from the crux of the issue and speak about the easiest thing to do at this moment. That is the claim that most of the masses would indulge in i.e. blaming and demanding for the replacement of the entire system. When we talk about the system (one of the most discussed about topics of current-day literrati and commoners), we tend to forget, sometimes knowingly, that we are the system:we make it to say the least. The system is made to sound as if it were alien to the human tendencies of what we Indians imbibe as after all one must not forget that our system is made by people like you and me.
When we blame our politicians about corruption, laxity and the works, we don't look introspectively and realise that these are some characteristics which are not uncommon to most of us. For instance if you have been to Siddhi Vinayak in the recent past, it would be hard for you to miss the fact that corruption has become inherent in our very natures. I mean who wouldn't mind paying Rs 50 and getting ahead of the long queues to visit the shrine. I am not getting into the nittie gritties of where the Rs 50 is going. Maybe it is going for a good cause but nevertheless when we as affording devotees offer the Rs 50 to jump the queue we are certainly not looking at it from an angle of charity but rather as an angle of saving time . This is a mere example of petty amounts offered by citizens amounting to a graver problem of possible inherent corruption. Similarly how many of us have missed encountering at least a couple of instances daily (either implicitly or explicitly) of our colleagues at the workplace wantting to defer the current day's work (which might look to you as manageable without a stretch of working hours) to the next day simply because of the deferential attitude ingrained in our mentality signified by the good old native saying "Aaj ka kaam kal karo, Kal ka kaam Parso, Itni jaldi kya hai pyaare, jab jeena hai tumhe barso". Pardon the outrageously ridiculous use of proverbial terms, but to denote the fact that there are a few deficiencies we need to tune in our own selves before we can expect anything better, the usage was necessary.
Nonetheless, I am a firm believer that a substantial number of the current pool of politicians is unworthy of the statures they have been granted in current day scenarios, but I am certainly never of the opinion that the entire system is flawed. The system, if flawed to whatever extent, is in a way reflective of our atitudes, broadly speaking. Hence the claim to replace the entire system as it is flawed is a flawed claim on its own.