Allen L Roland: The Nine Stages of Civilization, We're Entering the Eighth!

Dependence: The United States is now firmly entering the eighth stage of all civilizations, Dependence with only Bondage ahead of it. Apathy has allowed our constitution to be shredded in stage seven, which led to our current state of Dependence on the state, but soon an IRS monitored Obama-care program of shared responsibility, or else will usher in the Orwellian ninth stage of militarized Bondage: Last year I wrote that the average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years, and that the average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years, and that these nations have progressed through a nine stage 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. As Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General once correctly said: We are not a democracy. It is a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality , we are a plutocracy, a government by the wealthy. In our present Plutocracy, we made the transition last year from complacency to national apathy, but with the passage and implementation of Obamacare, along with an increasingly militarized surveillance state, we have now entered stage eight, Dependence on the state, which will soon be followed with militarized Bondage by the state. John Adamsonce correctly defined the perils of dependence: The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society. Obama-care or shared responsibility or else  is the most visible evidence of the plutocracy's leveraged buyout of Democracy as we officially enter stage eight of our rapidly crumbling civilization or empire, and no one nails this truth better than Bill Moyers. Huxley correctly predicted in Brave New World, that the truth would eventually be drowned in a sea of irrelevance, which is precisely the case now, as we transition from Apathy to Dependence.