CHANGE TO CHAINS
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CHANGE TO CHAINS: THE 6,000 YEAR QUEST FOR CONTROL
Author: William J. Federer
How did past civilizations rise and fall? How rare is America's experiment with a republic? With every crisis, power is taken away from "the people" and transferred to the central government. Does history give us a clue as to where all this is all headed?
In the nearly 6,000 years of recorded human history, power, like gravity, seems to inevitably concentrate into the hands of one individual, sometimes called pharoah, caesar, czar, kaiser, king, caliph, emperor, monarch, sultan, president or communist dictator. No matter what the autocratic leader's particular title is, the default setting for human government throughout history has most often been monarchy.
From Nimrod to Nebuchadnezzer to Herod to Napoleon to Hitler to Obama - rulers rise to power promising better things for the human good.
Why did America's experiment of people ruling themselves result in freedom and opportunity, whereas in former Soviet states it has resulted in organized crime and in former Middle East dictatorships it is resulting in Muslim Brotherhood and Sharia Law? Is past behavior the best indicator of future performance? What can we expect in the future?
When power is concentrated, the State is supreme. When power is separated, the individual is supreme. America's founders had a unique window of opportunity in the long train of world history, to maximize the freedom and opportunity of the individual. Ronald Reagan stated in 1961, "In this country of ours took place the greatest revolution that has ever taken place in the world's history. . .Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another."
Bill Federer does a masterful job explaining the record of history and the main characters who are its cruelest dictators. He makes history comes alive from a whole new perspective in Change to Chains: The 6,000 Year Quest for Control.
S-1105: Change to Chains
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