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In the second part of XVIII century, at about the time when the peasants in France and the invaders in Central North America reinvented the wheel of democratic government, a Scottish history professor by the name of Professor Alexander Tytler wrote:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 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 selfishness;
- from selfishness to apathy;
- from apathy to dependence;
- from dependency back again into bondage."
It is obvious that the democratic wheel is at about one eight of a (the) turn at the moment! Consider that the US national debt at 18 June 2006 is $8.4 trillion and growing on average of $628 million every day; this growth of the debt is growing itself. Or consider our complete dependence on oil.
Here is anoter interesting quatation: "Young people today love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt
for older people and talk nonsense when they should work. Young people do not stand up any longer when adults enter the room. They
contradict their parents, talk too much in company, guzzle their food, lay their legs on the table and tyrannise their elders".
For the surprise of the reader this statement was not said in regards to the today’s youth. It was said in regards of the youth of another civilization when it was about to close the cycle of democracy. That was ancient Greece and the quotation is by Socrates.
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