On Society and Values Erosion

It fills me with pain to read about the two CWG athletes who have tested positive for  steroids. Why have we become such a corrupt society? Why this erosion of values ? Where does it all start and where will it end? Does it start at the womb, where with growing prosperity we now believe that it is ok to select the sex of the child ? Does it start with the KG school admissions where huge donations are given to secure a seat? Does it multiply in schools where teachers do not teach in the classrooms but charge exorbitant amounts in private tuition classes where they teach what they were anyways supposed to teach in school and they were getting a salary for that? Does it have to do with the rampant quota system in our institutes of higher learning with 50% & more reservations in colleges where even into the 21^st century we continue to recognize the caste system over merit. Is it that our society is slowing forgetting what is merit? Is it to do with the alarming increase in the gap between the haves and the have-nots in our society? Is our definition of success as being rich and famous quickly forcing us to let go of our century old values of truthfulness , integrity and compassion? If society turns such a blind eye to cutting of corners and falsehood all in the name of becoming rich and famous, how can we hope to keep our organisations clean? How can we introduce those values into our organisations which are slowing becoming alien in our society? Is it possible to expect an employee to be a different person for the 8-10hrs he spends at work every day and a different person the rest of the time? Is it fair to expect a leader who has been a product of the education system which disregards merit to suddenly recognize and reward only merit in an organization? The time bomb is ticking for us as a society and as a culture. India has historically been known as a country which had taught the world to raise above materialism and embrace the one spirit. Slowly but surely , we are becoming a very poor country. Increasingly we have nothing to offer to the world.