Where Are We now?

Looks to me we are following this cycle. This was written before 1813. Isn't it amazing how history repeats itself.



Alexander Fraser
Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (October 15, 1747 - January 5, 1813) was a
Scottish-born British lawyer and writer.





"A democracy
cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the
voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the
most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always
collapses over loose fiscal policies followed by a dictatorship. The average
age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have
progressed through the following sequence:





From bondage to
spiritual faith;





From spiritual faith
to great courage;





From courage to
liberty;





From to liberty to
abundance;





From abundance to
selfishness;





From selfishness to
complacency;





From complacency to
apathy;





From apathy to
dependency; and,





From dependency back
to bondage.”

Yep, guess our time is up.

About time for that asteroid to hit. I'm not too keen on living in the dark ages. And as posted, it's about time for civilization to fall.

not all civilization, just the US. i hear south america / costa rica is pretty nice. we should go there and "discover" the land, settle and develop a place for people to provide goods and services to each other in exchange for $$ or other goods and services with a basic set of laws...

Nice quote. Morbidly accurate, too

well if all the hype is any indication, 2012 is right around the corner.
end of a cycle or end of the world??? or just another bogus Y2K???










:soldier:got the ammo pile just in case