EricHiggin said:
You're just looking at short very specific points in time (which were bad), and assuming that breaks the cycle or automatically restarts it. A natural cycle is like the seasons, which don't go perfectly linearly from hot to cold, then cold back to hot. It's up and down and can vary greatly in short bursts in between. Now while this cycle may not seem natural as it's man who the cycle pertains too, it is natural. Like with animal pop. As one pop grows, it's corrected by it's predators, then their predators, and so on, until there are too many top predators, then they correct themselves from too much competition. When things get really bad, which usually takes a while for people to smarten up and come together, they put the best in charge for a while. Once things are great again, people start to get careless and greedy. This allows for mediocre people to be put in charge, which eventually leads to things falling apart again. "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times." G.M. Hopf This quote is a more general explanation of the cycle. |
You have yet to give a single example, so I don't think you have any license to criticize the examples others have provided. Just repeating yourself over and over does not an argument make.










