I don't have much to say today apart from the story about the sheep.
Sheep always needed sheep dogs to guard them and let them frolic in their own domain.
Thus sheep dogs came to power to let the sheep frolic and prosper in return for protection and stability.
Whilst out there were wolves that envied the prosperity of the sheepdogs and desired the life of the sheep.
So when the sheep dogs either became sheep by their lifestyle or became complacent about their role the wolves came in.
Ahh what big teeth you've got.....
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for those that are really interested read theTheory of Civilization.
ReplyDeleteIbn Khaldun's fame rests on his Muqaddima, in which he set forth the earliest general theory of the nature of civilization and the conditions for its development, intending it as a tool for understanding and writing history. He considered the permanent conflict between primitive Bedouin and highly developed urban society as a crucial factor in history. Civilization is for him an urban phenomenon to be realized only by local concentration and cooperation of men united under a strong dynastic rule. He saw group solidarity (as abiyya) as the driving force for this cooperation and the establishment of dynastic rule. The group with the strongest feeling of solidarity establishes its predominance and the rule of its leading family. The division of labor resulting from cooperation makes possible the production of conveniences and luxuries beyond the elementary necessities of life and the development of sciences. Indulgence in luxuries, however, causes degeneration and loss of group solidarity and thus results in the disintegration of the state and the group supporting the civilization. Another, less civilized group with an unspoiled sense of solidarity takes over and becomes heir to the earlier civilization