How historically common is it for a society's elite to be unified around a myth of their own oppression? Seems almost the norm in the 20th and 21st centuries. Don't know a lot of history, but I don't recall the Romans or Chinese doing it. Guess Nietzsche wrote about this some?
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Maybe it's just characteristic of revolutionary hegemons, and revolutions come much faster now. Those who seize power are insecure compared to those who were born to it. Would you call a social order like that a "nouveau reich"?
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