In
1787, Alexander Tyler of the University of Edinborough wrote that all
"democracies" go through eight stages, 200 years being the average cycle
time. The stages are:
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 to bondage.
The United States is a textbook oligarchy dressed up with certain democratic illusions. But we seem to have the same trajectory as Tyler's "democracy"... and are dallying, solidly embedding into apathy after well over 200 years.
As for bondage: the New World Order flies at us on the wings of our apathy.
And regarding the sunlight-scattering wall SAG sprays around the planet... another line from Pink Floyd's The Wall:
"Mother did it need to be so high?"
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 to bondage.
The United States is a textbook oligarchy dressed up with certain democratic illusions. But we seem to have the same trajectory as Tyler's "democracy"... and are dallying, solidly embedding into apathy after well over 200 years.
As for bondage: the New World Order flies at us on the wings of our apathy.
"Mother did it need to be so high?"
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