The Age of Disintegration: Political Disunity and Elites At War

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In this war of the rising and fading elites, there is no common ground or incentive to compromise.
Historian Michael Grant identified profound political disunity in the ruling elite as a key cause of the dissolution of the Roman Empire. Grant described this dynamic in his excellent account The Fall of the Roman Empire.
The chapter titles of the book illuminate the complex causes of profound political disunity in the ruling elite:
The Gulfs Between the Classes: a.k.a. soaring income/wealth inequality: check.

This post was published at Charles Hugh Smith on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2016.

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