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| photo from Planet of the Apes movie |
"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."
Just where do you think we are now?
I think we're somewhere between apathy and dependence.
2 comments:
We have moved well beyond apathy and seem to be heavily dependent. We must have all removed the mirrors from our homes and businesses, for it seem as though we are all on a continual search for someone else to blame.
Precisely my point in all the articles that I have posted here. Americans have lived in an affluent lifestyle so long that they no longer understand or fully appreciate the concept of taking responsibility. It is never MY FAULT, it is always someone's fault. If it is then someone else's fault, the by default, they control us, and that knowledge pisses us off even more, but not enough to change our behavior.
People will not change until the pain of not changing is greater than the pain of changing.
It is this philosophy that will prevent Americans from quickly changing.
Coupled with this concept is: If you always do what you always did, then you will always get what you always got...
Right now, American cannot see either one of these concepts, so they point the finger and blame.
And, I understand that I am being redundant and preaching to the choir but it is really the only game in town to play.
For example, when I was in the Community College System, I was always elated when the economy when south because it meant that we would soon be getting more students and more revenue.
I have changed over the years and outgrew my teenage and young adult thoughts and transformed myself into someone who took his bitternesses (not sure if that is a word) and failures into the classroom to see if I can get this new generation to creatively think and question but also put these thoughts into action of change. TRUE CHANGE, not the pretend change that removes one weathly political party and installs another weathy political party in its place.
That is insanity doing to same thing but expecting different results.
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