Don't Drink the Koolaid

This was an interesting cycle outlined in a book I was flipping through today. The average age of most of the world's greatest civilizations has been about 200 years (There are many exceptions to this. China for one, who you will notice has stayed in bondage). Great nations rise and fall in this cycle:

*The people go from bondage to spiritual truth
*From spiritual truth 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 dependence back again to bondage.

This book's graph showed that America was between complacency and apathy. I'm actually beginning to wonder if we don't more closely resemble the path between apathy to dependence. I think many Americans see the problems that face them on a day to day basis and want someone to hand these problems over to, but at the cost of what liberties? Just my simple thoughts and questions.

smooch

Brown Penny

I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,'

And then, 'I am old enough';

Wherefore I threw a penny

To find out if I might love.'

Go and love, go and love, young man,

If the lady be young and fair.'

Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,

I am looped in the loops of her hair.

O love is the crooked thing,

There is nobody wise enough

To find out all that is in it,

For he would be thinking of love

Till the stars had run away

And the shadows eaten the moon.

Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,

One cannot begin it too soon.

~William Butler Yeats