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Welcome to the Era of Warring Elites

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  What the Warring Elites don't want us to realize is that a system of transparent competition in which no fiefdom is allowed to become dominant best serves the interests of society at large. I've been writing about  Warring Elites  for a long time  (since 2007). As I have often noted, historian Michael Grant identified  profound political disunity in the ruling class  as a key cause of the dissolution of the Roman Empire. More recently, I've observed that  Our Fragmentation Accelerates  (December 20, 2019). Eras of Warring Elites  have two key dynamics.  One is that the Elites' interests diverge from those of the society as a whole. In expansive eras, the many competing interests within the Elite class find common ground in supporting the status quo, and relegate their turf squabbles to the private club rooms. On the whole, the shared interests of the Elite class align with society at large. Since I see the global status quo as fundamentally  neofeudal , we can say the