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Good times create a population boom. Population boom creates poverty. Poverty means lots of cheap soldiers and mercenaries for making times hard. The ones that survive are called strong men.
Good times also create educated men, and educated men create good times.
Hard times creates uneducated men, and uneducated men create hard times.
The keys is to get the best of both worlds one of two ways. One is to be in hard times just following a time that produced educated men. The other is to figure out as an educated man what strong men do differently than you to make a better society and replicate it along with your education.
Evil forces what to do the opposite. They want to take weak men from easy times and make them uneducated by replacing intellectual foundations with emotional rhetoric.
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[–] Mylon 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
Good times create a population boom. Population boom creates poverty. Poverty means lots of cheap soldiers and mercenaries for making times hard. The ones that survive are called strong men.
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[–] Mylon ago
In a war zone you need 10 kids in the hopes that 2 or 3 might survive.
[–] bikergang_accountant 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago (edited ago)
Good times also create educated men, and educated men create good times.
Hard times creates uneducated men, and uneducated men create hard times.
The keys is to get the best of both worlds one of two ways. One is to be in hard times just following a time that produced educated men. The other is to figure out as an educated man what strong men do differently than you to make a better society and replicate it along with your education.
Evil forces what to do the opposite. They want to take weak men from easy times and make them uneducated by replacing intellectual foundations with emotional rhetoric.
[–] hafen 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
Overly simple feelgood image.
[–] solar_flare 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Also, see 'The Tytler Cycle': http://commonsensegovernment.com/the-tytler-cycle-revisited/
[–] derram 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
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[–] watch_listed 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That seems like a succinct summation of "The Fourth Turning".
[–] Anson ago
yep and it always goes in a cycle