A Return To Bondage (No! Not That Kind Of Bondage)
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred 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 complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again into bondage.” –Sir Alex Fraser Tyler (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian
This quote really impacted me and I wanted to share it with you. Are we doomed to repeat this progression? And if this is the actual progression of great civilizations, where are we in the process?
As a society, it seems we have move past bondage and spiritual faith as concepts that define us, and I hazard to say that we have also moved past courage and liberty though politicians still like us to suggest we are in the midst of it, despite some wanting to take away our civil liberties (NSA wiretapping?).
Clearly, we were once an abundant nation and if the recent reports on our country’s obesity...
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