Friday, January 22, 2010

Signs of the Times

Jim Brown, author of When Nations Die, lists “10 Warning Signs of a Culture in Crisis”:

(1) Increasing lawlessness;

(2) Loss of economic discipline;

(3) Oppressive bureaucracy;

(4) Decline of educational excellence;

(mmm…mmmm….mmmm!)

(5) Weakening of cultural foundations;

(6) Loss of respect for tradition;

(7) Gross materialism;

(8) Gross immorality;

(9) Decay of religious belief;

and
(10) Devaluing of human life.

All of the above symptoms are very evident in modern America. The average span of the world’s great civilizations has been about 200 years. The USA is just over 200 years old and stumbling headlong into the home stretch of this historical cycle.

In The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic, Tyler wrote this of great civilizations:

“They begin in Bondage. They then go from Bondage to Spiritual Faith. With that Spiritual Faith they develop great Courage. That Great Courage leads to Liberty. Liberty then leads to Abundance. Abundance then leads to Selfishness. This Selfishness then leads to Complacency. The Complacency grows into Apathy. Apathy then degenerates into Dependence. This Dependence brings them full circle back into Bondage.“

The USA is in the last stages (apathy and dependence) of the cycle, and now is a virtual police state. Because so much of the current federal government is illegitimate and corrupt, in 1994 it became possible and necessary for American patriots to issue another Declaration of Independence, in which every complaint made against King George III in 1776 was paraphrased and reiterated against the modern regime.