主题：【原创】帕潘德里欧玩浑水摸鱼之希腊公投 -- 清湖渔夫

In 1887, Alexanfer Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the Universty of Edinborough, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of goverment . A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters disciver 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 willfinally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship,"

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the biginning 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."

The obituary follows: BORN 1776, DIED 2012