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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from that treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship, usually after approximately 200 years.

Democracies have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependancy and from dependancy back to bondage."

Alexander Tyler

-This was written in 1890 concerning the various historical democracies of Ancient Greece-
there can be little doubt that we currently find our society afflicted with the final symptoms of dependency and upon the threshold of a return to bondage...this time around to be called global governance...

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Reserve the Judgment for the Journey's End

The success or failure of a journey cannot be ascertained until the destination has been achieved.

The judgment of the success or failure of a quest is not made whilst the quest is ongoing, but it is reserved to be made at that final point when the objective of the quest is either achieved or the quest is abandoned and its objective is considered to be either unachievable or nonexistent.

Historically, though it's "successful" period spanned centuries, the great, ancient Roman Empire must be judged as a failure for, however great and impressive it was, it has long ago collapsed and passed from the scene. The quest for an everlasting "Pax Romana" evidently unachievable by those means which were employed during and by the Roman Empire.

The conquistador's quest for the fabled City of Gold in the New World ended in failure. Its objective eventually being realized to be nonexistent.

History is an endless parading pageant of the journeys and quests of the many differing facets of mankind from those of the individual which unfold unto those of the family, the extended family, the tribe, the nation, the world and finally to those of the entirety of mankind collectively, seemingly all different according to the particular place and time yet still all facets of the same stone and inescapably interrelated.

However, we who exist at this point in time do have the potential to use

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