Thursday, February 15, 2007

The Eight Stages of Society

I saw an interesting presentation on the various stages of civilizations. The sad thing is that it appears we are in the final stages...

From bondage to spiritual faith
From spiritual faith to great courage
From great courage to liberty
From liberty to abundance
From abundance to complacency
From complacency to apathy
From apathy to governmental dependence
From governmental dependence to bondage

The scary thing is that, if this is true, we are at stage seven of eight. I guess only reverting back to spiritual faith could save us.

But is there enough faith left in this country to do just that? I fear not.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think apathy, governmental dependence, and bondage pretty much describe the American people at this point in history. Apathetic of world events and opinions of us, dependant on the government to take care of all our problems, and losing more of our liberties every week and slaves to our jobs, debts, and the economy. It'll be interesting to see if we go back to step 1, or if we are convinced to accept bondage as the new form of happiness.