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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Sparta, Rhodesia, Renaissance Northern Italy maybe? You could view king vs nobles conflict as populism (king as representative of people) vs elites, but that’s a stretch.
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