Correspondent Jim B. summarized historian Arnold Toynbee's study of the rise and fall of civilizations: "Civilizations fail when their elites change from an admired dynamic creative class to a despised Establishment of corrupt rentiers, an entrenched governing class unfit to govern."[1]And guess what’s happening to our civilization.
Notes
[1] "Here’s how we ended up with predatory, parasitic elites." By Smith, Charles Hugh Smith, ZeroHedge, 8/28/18 (formatting removed).
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