Super Fitness Health BlogA Return To Bondage (No! Not That Sort Of Bondage)
“The typical age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed by means of 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 complacency from complacency to apathy from apathy to dependence from dependency back again into bondage.” –Sir Alex Fraser Tyler (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian
This quote really impacted me and I wanted to share it with you. Are we doomed to repeat this progression? And if this is the actual progression of wonderful civilizations, exactly where are we in the process?
As a society, it seems we have move previous bondage and spiritual faith as concepts that define us, and I hazard to say that we have also moved past courage and liberty even though politicians nevertheless like us to recommend we are in the midst of it, despite some wanting to take away our civil liberties (NSA wiretapping?).
Clearly, we were once an abundant nation and if the current reports on our country’s obesity epidemic are an indication, we are at the very least physically really abundant still.
My fear is that the masses have moved into selfishness and complacency, and really nearing, if not currently entirely on board with, apathy. How else have our bridges begun to collapse? How else have our civil liberties begun to erode drastically? How else have we permitted New Orleans, an American city, to grow to be scarier than a third world country, entirely abandoned and forgotten only two years later?
We are currently dependent. We outsource all of our jobs to India and China so that we can have low cost foreign labor. We construct cars in Mexico for the identical purpose. Our trucking sector seems to be heading more than to Mexican businesses.
With all the hubbub about illegal immigrants, it seems we are watching all of the jobs that employed to be great, middle/operating class careers which used to give for a household a living wage, wellness insurance coverage, the ability to get a home and two automobiles, place your children via college, and have a pension for retirement. . . we want those jobs to be performed somewhere else for a fraction of the cost and with no security or environmental restrictions.
And if that wasn’t adequate dependence, how about that dependence on foreign oil? To quote my kids during extended road trips, “Are we there however?” Are we on borrowed time as far as the imminent return to bondage is concerned? We’ve gone more than the 200 years by 31 years now. China? I’m hunting at you.
Phew! Boy. . . take a deep breath. What does this do to you to think we’re living on borrowed time? Who out there is raging mad with what I’ve just written? How can you reframe it to inform me exactly where I’m incorrect? And who out there agrees and thinks I have not taken it far adequate? I’m attempting to poke at you all right here. Poke me back.
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