Anyone familiar with anacylosis? Polybius positied it as a model for how civilizations rise and fall, based on comparing Greece and the Roman Empire. He thought the Romans had solved it, but you know how that went. The proposed cycle (as I recall) is
Ochlocracy (mob rule)->Monarchy->Tyranny->Aristocracy->Oligarchy->Democracy->Demagoguery->Anarchy
Ochlocracy (mob rule)->Monarchy->Tyranny->Aristocracy->Oligarchy->Democracy->Demagoguery->Anarchy
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
