Rise and Fall of Civilizations Deciphered

 [The Pulse]: To elaborate, all seven-and-a-half billion human inhabitants of the planet Earth, are endowed with three attributes: S includes truthfulness, honesty, steadfastness and equanimity; R encompasses ego, ambition, bravery, greed, and a desire to live, and T includes Lying, cheating, causing injury in words or deed, and sleep.

These three components lead to a scale of internal excellence in which the maximum S component is at the top of the scale, maximum T component at the bottom, and all other combinations of the three in between these two extremes.

Internal excellence has nothing to do with race, caste, or religion, gender or national origin and it cannot be passed on hereditarily.

The noble ones are toward the top-end of the scale, wicked ones towards the bottom, and the rest, somewhere in between.

Just as individuals have a level of internal excellence, so do societies, but when it comes to societies, we speak in terms of an average level of internal excellence.

When the S component of a society increases, the society rises, but the S component cannot increase indefinitely, and when it reaches the peak, the T component takes over and the society begins to decline. The T component cannot increase indefinitely either, and when it reaches its peak, the S component takes over and the society begins to rise again....<<<Read More>>>...