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384 | Peter Turchin: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration
The Realignment
The Elite Over Production
One of the big trends, then pressuring American society is this elite over production issue. I'd love to hear a historical example or two that listeners would probably be familiar with to help understand how the elite overproduction operationalizes itself into crisis or collapse. Well, let's take the situation in the 17th century England that eventually led to the English Civil War. There were just too many of these elites, they're not enough positions for them.
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