Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee (1747-1813), Scottish advocate, judge, writer, and historian served as Professor of Universal History, and Greek and Roman Antiquities at the University of Edinburgh.
According to Lord Tytler the average age of the world’s democracies is around 200 years.
After two hundred years, nations collapse due to various economic policies and are followed by a dictatorship.
Lord Tytler identified “Eight Stages of a Democracy”, from beginning to end.
- Bondage to spiritual faith.
- Spiritual faith to great courage.
- Courage to liberty.
- Liberty to abundance.
- Abundance to complacency.
- Complacency to apathy.
- Apathy to dependence.
- Dependence back to bondage.
Life and our universe move in cycles, and history is no different. Financial markets cycle also…
Question: The United States is a Representative Republic, which stage do you feel like we are in?
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