Nine stages of civilization

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to selfishness;
6. from selfishness to complacency;
7. from complacency to apathy;
8. from apathy to dependence; <—– you are here.
9. from dependency back again into bondage.

Sir Alex Fraser Tyler: (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian

Remarkable isn’t it? Historians looking through the past have been able to chart a civilizations growth much like we chart a child’s growth. And looking through our own history we can see the social and political changes each stage listed above represents.

Now we enter the time of dependence. Not independence. This generation doesn’t want to have to work, fail and try again. They want risk reduced to almost nothing and are willing to exchange the ‘risk’ in freedom for security. Security is an illusion. But for the chance to gain it, we will give up our liberties and freedoms to the government. The nanny state has begun and now becomes even more intrusive.

Instead of the people deciding what businesses ought to fail due to bad management and other things, the government will now make that determination. They will decide what businesses to bail out and what businesses to let fail. They will take interest in our banks and financial institutions directing them on which loans to make by insuring those loans with your tax dollars. And who will bear the brunt of all this? You my dear taxpayer. You will.