Posted on 01/12/2021 2:48:45 PM PST by Mariner
Ladies and Gentlemen. This will be the biggest political matchup since the fall of Rome:
In the red corner, weighing in at over 2,400 years old, with a record of more than 320 KOs, 0 TKOs, 0 split decisions, and 0 defeats, we have the Cycle of Civilization, the Destroyer of Republics, the Grim Reaper of Democracy, the undisputed champion of all political theory: Anacyclosis.
In the blue corner, weighing in at over 230 years old, 27 amendments, and 1 civil war, we have the oldest national written constitution in the world, ranking in legal significance alongside Hammurabi’s Code, the Twelve Tables, and Magna Carta: The Constitution of the United States.
This fight won’t even be close. When anacyclosis makes contact, it’ll be all over. Two hits: Anacyclosis hitting America and America hitting the floor.
True, America has shown some fancy footwork over the past couple of centuries. Democracy has dodged the first few blows, including the 1930s depression where half of the world went dictator. Thankfully, the Founding Fathers had studied anacyclosis and incorporated some safeguards against the cycle into the design of the Constitution. Most noteworthy are the separation of powers and the blending of democratic with non-democratic elements.
(Excerpt) Read more at anacyclosis.org ...
Eh.....what would bicycle riders know anyway?
Universal suffrage killed the Republic.
Yes, you can have too much democracy.
“Ochlocracy” is mob rule.
You learn something new every day!
Good one. I had to look it up.
“Universal suffrage killed the Republic.”
How racist of you to think that people should be denied the right to vote!
Democrats protect the rights of all sorts of people to vote in our elections!
Illegal aliens
Non-residents
Tourists
Dead people
Imaginary people
Repeat voters (Vote early and vote often!)
etc.
How can that be a threat to a republic?
[/sarcasm]
The immutable law of nations and empires.
We are Empire now. It will take an Emperor to forcefully to hold us together.
Yep, time to dust off the Joseph Tito references.
Is that worse than uromysotisis?
Ana . . . What?
From Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage:
Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a people that unity of morals and belief which seems so favorable to statesmanship and art; it ends by fighting suicidally in the lost cause of the past. For as knowledge grows or alters continually, it clashes with mythology and theology, which change with geological leisureliness. Priestly control of arts and letters is then felt as a galling shackle or hateful barrier, and intellectual history takes on the character of a “conflict between science and religion.” Institutions which were at first in the hands of the clergy, like law and punishment, education and morals, marriage and divorce, tend to escape from ecclesiastical control, and become secular, perhaps profane. The intellectual classes abandon the ancient theology and—after some hesitation—the moral code allied with it; literature and philosophy become anticlerical. The movement of liberation rises to an exuberant worship of reason, and falls to a paralyzing disillusionment with every dogma and every idea. Conduct, deprived of its religious supports, deteriorates into epicurean chaos; and life itself, shorn of consoling faith, becomes a burden alike to conscious poverty and to weary wealth. In the end a society and its religion tend to fall together, like body and soul, in a harmonious death. Meanwhile among the oppressed another myth arises, gives new form to human hope, new courage to human effort, and after centuries of chaos builds another civilization.
It’s all cyclical and we are on the downhill side of the spiral.
Indeed an excellent read!
Yes...
the cycles of governments as described by the ancient Greeks.
All power granted to one, then to few, then to many, then to all.
After the final descent into anarchy, the people
will rally behind a benevolent dictator,
and the cycle will begin again.
Anacyclosis
anacyclosis.org
The political doctrine of anacyclosis is a cyclical theory of political evolution. The theory of anacyclosis is based upon the Greek typology of constitutional forms of rule by the one, the few, and the many.
Now we’re all “suffraging” from the results.
Women like security, so they vote for socialism.
Thanks for a great post.
So good deserves a ‘next day bump’!
BYW John Adams’ cite of Herodotus: https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1390329/posts?page=3
Bttt
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