Corrupt to the soul

Just across the bridge is the gigantic marketplace, the insatiable consumer machine that drives the violence here. North Americans smoke the dope, snort the coke, shoot the heroin, do the meth, and then have the nerve to point south (down, of course, on the map), and wag their fingers at the "Mexican drug problem" and Mexican corruption. 
It's not the "Mexican drug problem," Pablo thinks now, it's the North American drug problem.
As for corruption, who's more corrupt-the seller or the buyer? and how corrupt does a society have to be when its citizens need to get high to escape their realty, at the cost of bloodshed and suffering of their neighbors?
Corrupt to the soul.
That's the big story, he thinks.
That's the story someone should write.
Well, maybe I will.
And no one will read it."
"The Cartel" by Don Winslow