HOWTO: Destroy a Democracy
Posted: 3/10/2008 3:16:26 PM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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Topic: History of this planet

At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinborough) had this to say about “The Fall of The Athenian Republic” some 2,000 years prior.

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following 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.”

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HOWTO: Destroy a Democracy
Posted: 3/10/2008 3:16:26 PM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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Topic: History of this planet

That's some scary stuff there, Bob.

What else can ya tell us? Will we all die? Shouldn't we lay down on the floor or place paper bags over our heads, or something like that?

Or, on the other hand - is it inevitable? Is this cyclic destruction something we can stop? If not, is it better to try to get the unavoidable interregnum over and done as soon as possible and not delay the inevitable?

Assuming we can find a way to accellerate it, that is.

Or maybe that's what "they" are already doing which would explain America's pointless decline and the rapid spread of globalization the effect of the "acceleration process"?

We still haven't had our first large-scale, truly worldwide dictator that will inevitably appear eventually with the advances in telepathy, er, telecommunications, that our race has experienced over the last century. The next dictator is going to have the potential to be the worst dictator our world has ever seen because of that.

Yep, that's some scary stuff there, Bob.

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