The world today poses challenges not previously seen in history, yet as familiar as fire.
The rhyming rhythm of freedom and tyranny ebbs and flows and human nature is strummed like guitar strings by The Playwrights of Misery.
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
Alexander Fraser Tytler
From Ravens to Tweets.
I believe social media has expedited this process, with its instantaneous communication, the narrative has exploded to cover the Globe in ways that were impossible years ago.
Entire nations can be swept into the ideological whirlwind.
We have seen governments utilize all tools available to them in the pursuit of control, with Orwellian objectives and outrageous, arbitrary, and contradictory edicts.
Old ideas Die Hard.
Nothing spurs a collectivist resurgence like a worldwide crisis.
Once society lost the flavor for the dogmatic fanaticism of the Puritan era there was a void created - into that void crept The Playwrights of Misery, those who would seek to control the masses and sway the tides of fortune.
Since it was now a godless battlefield they sought to arm themselves with as much ideological steel as they could find, and what they found was virtue.
And fear.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.“
Alexander Fraser Tytler
Same Same.
As the world comes to terms with the current shituation we are starting to see where the old familiar faces of tyranny and greed hide.
The sunlight provided by free media and digital communication means that there are fewer shadows to hide in.