Will America follow the "The Eight Stages of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations"? We are at stage 7 Looking at today's youth and academia, what the MSM is pushing, the AOCs of the world, PC, Trans, Pedo, FB, all Dem candidates for president, can we hold the line and not enter stage 8 and in fact go back to stage 4. It worries me sometimes that we can not. Sociologists and anthropologists have described the stages of the rise and fall of the world’s great civilizations. Scottish philosopher Alexander Tyler of the University of Edinburg noted eight stages that articulate well what history discloses. I first encountered these in in Ted Flynn’s book The Great Transformation. They provide a great deal of perspective to what we are currently experiencing. Let’s look at each of the eight stages. The names of the stages are from Tyler’s book.