When the nations are poorly run by the incompetent, foolish, unwholesome and stingy kings or government leaders_
The people too will also become unwholesome.
Goodness will be decreasing while evil increases.
Unwholesome stingy leaders will no longer respect wise experienced judges. Instead they will appoint young foolish judges, granting them the highest privileges. But they will not be able to make difficult decisions. They will become judges in name only, doing no real work.
Meanwhile, the older wiser ones will offer no help, thinking it is no longer their concern.
Unwholesome foolish leaders appoint unwholesome greedy judges. Not caring in the least about right and wrong, they will take bribes from both sides in the same case.
They will not trust the experienced ministers from the native noble class. They will replace them with low class ministers they can control more easily.
Kings will be unwholesome, and so will officials and ministers, priests and homemakers, city and country folks.
When knowledge of Truth is disappearing, there will be many greedy shameless preachers who distort the Four Necessities: food, clothing, shelter and medicine. They will make these into luxuries, far richer than they really need.
They will teach the worthlessness of luxuries and the unwholesomeness of greed, by preaching the Truth of nonattachment. But in return for preaching, they will require money and luxuries. So they will cause an increase in craving, rather than showing the way towards Liberation from craving. Even among the religious, humble wholesome monks will lose respect, while the unwholesome teachings of shameless monks will be followed and adored.
When the world will be upside down, unwholesome kings and leaders will grant high positions to the low class rather than the high class. The low class will quickly become rich and the high class poor. In all departments and functions, the ignorant words of the uneducated low class officials will be greatly respected.
The world will be upside down. In all departments and functions, the wise words of the well-educated nobles will be ignored, due to their birth alone (=Race, Racial Discrimination.)
When all kings and leaders will be weaklings, t that they will be afraid to give powerful positions to worthy well-educated nobles. Instead they will appoint foot servants, bath attendants, barbers and so forth. And the nobles will have to become the lowest servants of the untrained new officials.
The lowly will become closest to the kings and leaders. They will gain power while the nobles become poor and unknown.
The leaders and the wealthy will make all the rest work for them only. The poor will be forced to bring all their products, grains, vegetables and fruits to the warehouses of the rich and powerful. And the barns of the hard working poor will remain empty.
In the law courts, the newcomers will confiscate the inherited wealth from the nobles – all their lands, homes and possessions. And when the nobles go to the courts to protest, they will be told, ‘How dare you argue with us! You do not understand the situation you are in. We will tell the king and have your hands and feet cut off!’ The nobles will run away and hide in fear.
Bad monks will injure good monks as much as they please. With no one to support and defend them, the good monks will leave the cities and villages. They will live in the jungle in fear of the bad monks.
Unwholesome kings or leaders will rule based on their will power, along with their anger and fear. They will not care at all about wholesomeness and justice. They will be much more interested in becoming rich from all kinds of bribes, than in the well-being of the citizens. No longer will rulers have patience, loving-kindness and compassion towards the people they rule. Instead they will be rough and cruel, crushing the people to squeeze the last penny from them in taxes. Therefore the citizens, unable to pay the taxes and bribes, will flee to the borderlands. Soon there will be less people living in the corrupt central capitals, and the borderlands will be heavily populated by the humble. Overtaxed people will flee to the borderlands.
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