Something to Mull Over Today
Here's something that was sent to me a while back, but that has a lot of implications that can be tossed around today. Consider history and whether we're doomed to repeat it...
A warning from Scots Historian Professor Alexander Tyler circa 1787 re the fall of the Athenian Republic.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (generous gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilization has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence. From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back into bondage."
I've got my own ideas on where we are in this sequence as of 2004. I think we're in the "apathy to dependence" area and are fast working towards bondage. You make up your own mind.
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Got comments? Email me, punk!
A warning from Scots Historian Professor Alexander Tyler circa 1787 re the fall of the Athenian Republic.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (generous gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilization has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence. From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back into bondage."
I've got my own ideas on where we are in this sequence as of 2004. I think we're in the "apathy to dependence" area and are fast working towards bondage. You make up your own mind.
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Got comments? Email me, punk!
posted by Aaron Turpen @ 12:17 PM
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