Cycle of Democracy -
Alexander Fraser Tyler – 1750
(Adapted by Mario
Calanna)
I really
believe that pondering on the following quote and the diagram is essential to
provide some perspective to the lack of common sense (Character Values) and
egotistical energy that appears to drive important decisions throughout all
aspects of society – from personal to political.
"A democracy cannot
exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters
discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that
moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most
benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always
collapses over a louse fiscal responsibility, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200
years. These nations have progressed in this sequence:"
Here is Tyler's "Cycle of Democracy" and
a brief explanation of each step:
From Bondage to Spiritual Faith;
When Australia British Empire .
Many Priests
and religious, manly from Ireland
From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage;
The Spiritual
faith that resulted from the Character Values of Love lead to the community
understanding to that of great courage – the courage to build a new nation
against all the odds – was based upon hard work, sacrifice, respect, loyalty and
sacrifice. The Values of Love helped
each person believe that he or she had a purpose in live; that there is something
bigger and better to believe in. For a person who does not stand for something,
will fall for anything. Think of the
true heroes throughout history. One of
the uniting principles that all heroes have is a willingness to stand for truth
and conviction in a world of untruth and apathy. The Founding Families had great courage to
stand for the truth against the climate, the convict culture and British
oppression. They did this because they knew the Bible said, “Where the Spirit
of the Lord is, there is Liberty – and Australia
From Courage to Liberty;
As our
country was being established in this way – the community realised they had a
future, something to build, to believe in and the Values of love gave them
freedom. Freedom to work, to build, to fight for their rights and to become
equal citizens.
Amazing how
freedom to choose; to be allowed to own land and have a family; to be fulfilled
with a good life – gave people liberty. The liberty to be confident and have high
self-esteem.
From Liberty to Abundance;
The abundance
generated by free enterprise and limited government - were Australia Australia
From Abundance to Selfishness;
The 1960’s
and 70’s saw free love, the beginning of the destruction of society’s norms,
and a drug culture began to prevail in the youth. These decades saw a rebellion against the
plastic society of abundance without the belief in the principles that created
that abundance.
The Church began
to decrease its conviction for traditional Character Values which were being
challenged and more and more disregarded. With this weakening in the Church and
the rise of Political Correctness, Feminism and Equality of Opportunity - the
youth were left on their own to search for answers to the abundance and
confusion that engulfed them. Instead of
returning to the Character Values of Love that created the blessings, society
entered into the worship of self and self-actualization. A new religion was being born and promoted
and marched Australia
From Selfishness to Complacency;
Without a
Biblical foundation, the rebellion was bound to produce worse fruits than the
plastic culture it attempted to replace.
With no firm convictions to stand upon, the rebellion dissolved into
peace and personal affluence. The loss
of Traditional Common Sense absolutes has lead from conviction and certainty -
to surrender to complacency - as no one
is sure what the truth is. What is
the use of standing for anything, if we are not sure that what we are standing
for is truth? The 1970’s and 1980’s saw
this complacency as the youth joined the “system” and pursued peace and
affluence with little understanding of original principles that America was
founded upon.
From Complacency to Apathy;
After the
political changes in the 1980’s – deregulation, privatisation, globalisation-the
1990’s saw a near complete surrender to apathy and personal fulfilment. With a near complete rejection of absolute
values, people defined their own values and pursued fulfilment in the myriad of
choices available to them.
People did
not care who was running the government as long as they were left alone to
pursue their own personal agenda.
Government performed by doing focus groups to ascertain what the people
wanted and giving it to them, surrendering all leadership responsibilities to
the disparate wishes of the people.
Government, instead of playing the
role of umpire and defender of our freedoms began to play the role of a
benevolent dictator. The dictator studied to learn what we
wanted and offered that to us with only a presumed token price of submission to
the almighty sovereignty of government in the affairs of the citizens.
From Apathy to Dependency;
The 2000’s
will be remembered as the decade of complete submission to the government’s
largesse. More and more Australians depend upon government for their welfare,
health care, social security, etc. It
would be unthinkable for most Australians to live without the direct
involvement of our beneficent Big Brother.
The price of
dependency is submission of our freedoms to the dictates of Big Brother. The
old saying that you boil a frog one degree at a time aptly fits here. If you take a frog and throw him into
boiling water, the frog will have enough sense to jump out. But if you turn up the temperature slowly,
the frog will open up its pores and will literally be boiled without an
attempted escape. We are now boiling in
our dependency on our government.
This
dependency is being funded by higher and higher taxation, the sale of
Australian assets and money borrowed from anyone who will lend to us.
From Dependency back again to Bondage
Eventually in
our dependence, we see our status falling in the free world as slaves can never
perform the functions of free men and women.
Although the government still mouths the words of our founding fathers,
the words have new meanings.
The citizens cannot put a finger on
the malady, but they know something is not right. In
their desperation, they look for a messiah to save them. Because the Churches are not sharing the
message of the true messiah and the true way to liberty, the citizens look for
a worldly messiah. A perceptive leader,
with words that tickle the ears, promises to be the searched for messiah. So, instead of returning to the Character
Values of Love, we look to some (anyone) who we can follow – to save us. When
all the time – we have the capacity within ourselves. We were born with the
gifts and talents we need; into country with boundless prosperity – a yet we
lack the certainty, the humility and the courage to fight for the Traditions we
lose day by day as legislation rips our hearts and dignity a little more and a
little more.
A shocking truth is learned too late,
that man cannot save man and only Love can liberate the soul in bondage. Government cannot be the saviour to the people
and was never intended to be so when created by our Founding Families. Our national debt rises and we tax and borrow
just to service the debt on the interest. We are bankrupting our children's
inheritance on the altar of self indulgence!
A Democracy was formed to keep the
masses from directly running the government and voting the government into
bankruptcy. How far have we travelled from our founding
principles and roots?
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Time has come to
examine where we stand at this historic time in relation to the Cycle of
Democracy?
The science
fiction writer, Robert Heinlein wrote about "Bread and Circuses" - a
reference to Roman Emperors providing food and entertainment to distract the masses.
"A perfect
democracy, a 'warm body' democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes
count equally depends on the wisdom and self-restraint (the Character) of its
citizens...which is opposed by the folly and lack of Character of other citizens.
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will
always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what
does happen is that a person votes for there own self-interest - which for the
now majority - translates as 'Bread and Circuses'
"Bread and Circuses
is the cancer of democracy, a disease whose only cure is Love. Democracy often
works beautifully at first. But once a state extends its reach to every warm
body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of
the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and
circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic
cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death or in its
weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter
Rome."
Where are we in the Cycle of
Democracy?
How do we revive, teach, think, live
and act with Character?
Mario Calanna
CEO Calanna Pharmacy Group
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