-0--1-<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@paninid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>paninid</span></a></span> Thanks for that. A while back I read, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EndTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndTimes</span></a> by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeterTurchin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterTurchin</span></a> and explored the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SeshatProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeshatProject</span></a> Turchin argues his hypothesis that competition among <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lawyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lawyers</span></a> attempting to become the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elite</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a> spawns its collapse <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cliodynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cliodynamics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cliometrics</span></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/End-Times-Counter-Elites-Political-Disintegration/dp/0593490509/ref=asc_df_0593490509/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.com/End-Times-Counter-E</span><span class="invisible">lites-Political-Disintegration/dp/0593490509/ref=asc_df_0593490509/</span></a></p>