Apathy

A sign on a federal building in Califorina

I have learned in my life that Apathy is a word to shun.  Apathy can destroy a person, and it can destroy a nation.  This article is very good in expressing apathy.


 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh had this to say about democracy:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.

A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury,

with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.
During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamlin University law school, believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.


I need to wake up to the awful situation we are now facing in our wonderful country.  Why do I get so complacent in my comfortable circumstances? The freedoms we enjoy are going through the exit door as I am too busy in living life.

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