MULDOON
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> Subject: The Decline of Great Civilizations
>
> Subject: Decline of Great Civilizations
> While the accuracy of the 200-year average duration for the world's great
> civilizations noted in the appended information is questionable, the
> standard progression outlined for the great civilizations as they progress
> and then decline offers some eerie insights on the challenges at hand for
> our country.
> I thought this pretty good.
> An interesting analysis of the last presidential election:
> At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution,
> in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The
> University of Edinborough) had this to say about "The Fall of The Athenian
> Republic" some 2,000 years prior.
>
> "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."
>
> Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul,
> Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the most recent
> Presidential election:
>
> Population of counties won by:
> Gore=127 million
> Bush=143 million
>
> Square miles of land won by:
> Gore=580,000
> Bush=2,2427,000
>
> States won by:
> Gore=19
> Bush=29
>
> Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
> Gore=13.2
> Bush=2.1
>
> Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was
> mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country.
> Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
> government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..."
>
> Olson believes the U.S. is now somewhere between the "complacency and
> "apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy; with some 40
> percent of the nation's population already having reached the
> "governmental dependency" phase.
> Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake in this
> Election Year and that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
>
>
> Subject: Decline of Great Civilizations
> While the accuracy of the 200-year average duration for the world's great
> civilizations noted in the appended information is questionable, the
> standard progression outlined for the great civilizations as they progress
> and then decline offers some eerie insights on the challenges at hand for
> our country.
> I thought this pretty good.
> An interesting analysis of the last presidential election:
> At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution,
> in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The
> University of Edinborough) had this to say about "The Fall of The Athenian
> Republic" some 2,000 years prior.
>
> "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."
>
> Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul,
> Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the most recent
> Presidential election:
>
> Population of counties won by:
> Gore=127 million
> Bush=143 million
>
> Square miles of land won by:
> Gore=580,000
> Bush=2,2427,000
>
> States won by:
> Gore=19
> Bush=29
>
> Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
> Gore=13.2
> Bush=2.1
>
> Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was
> mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country.
> Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
> government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..."
>
> Olson believes the U.S. is now somewhere between the "complacency and
> "apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy; with some 40
> percent of the nation's population already having reached the
> "governmental dependency" phase.
> Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake in this
> Election Year and that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
>
- my big toe!
