Love this question. Absolutely. I have a feeling it correlates with the end of empire. Would certainly show up in a longue durée text analysis.https://twitter.com/TheAnnaGat/status/1044953729378783234 …
It seems really plausible to me that these ideas would be more broadly attractive during periods of uncertainty (for the typical citizen, who does not see a clear path to growing wealth & developing security) & whenever there are salient fractures in/failures of institutions
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"What do elites do when the system stops working, and then turns against them?" They're not used to suffering, and need to square it with the power they felt before.
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