Wednesday, 16 September 2009

The Tytler Cycle

The Tytler Cycle is a theory of democracies formulated by the Scottish historian Alexander Tytler that states:

“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 world's 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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Now i know whats wrong with south africa The average cycle is 200 years. We've burned through this in about 20 years. We are already at "apathy".

The US is due for collapse. Overdue, i should say. But in my reading there seems to be a cut off date for all the BS that side. September 30th. Fiscal year end.

China has given the go-ahead for companies to NOT honour derivatives. Japan and China are siding together against the states, in what can only be described as economic war. It's on. Obama capped trade on a number of chinese items, including steel and rubber. China is pissed off. Really.

And on another front, the state archives of russia were attacked earlier this month. 15 minutes is all it took for whatever special forces troops to reach the centre, and start attacking the vault doors. Oh, did you know that was about 2 weeks after Isreal threatened Russia over the return of information relating to CIA/Mossad activities, including the recent hijack of a ship, and of course activities relating to 9-11, which i want to remind you was a mossad operation.

It's happening.

3 comments:

Aquila ka Hecate said...

I remember something Heinlein wrote, although I can't remember which novel it was in:

"Democracies work well enough, right up to the time the massses discover they can vot themselves bread-and-circuses".
I guess I know where he got that from.

Love
T

Anonymous said...

Yes.
Bread and circuses is a nice twist too.

peace

Anonymous said...

And if i can just remind you of a post i made a short while ago:

http://sa-essay.blogspot.com/2009/07/bread-and-circuses.html