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384 | Peter Turchin: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration
The Realignment
The Great Man Theory of History
In the appendix to your book, you really push back against just sort of the outdated great man theory of history. Why didn't 2008 financial crisis present the same great class compromise? Barack Obama was also a talented politician, he also could come from those morally groups yet he wasn't able to do it. Some individuals in the right place at the right time can nudge the trajectories of all societies in either good directions or bad directions.
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