....” the decadent civilization must ‘undo’ the damage that is devolving it. This is easier than it seems. ...the decadent civilization has most of ‘the same infrastructure’, physical and mental, of the vigorous civilization. Only its ideas have become corrupted.
And even this deeper corruption is largely limited to the ‘elites and the professional classes’, while the rest of the civilization has experienced only a surface corruption that is easily wiped away.
The difficulty is however structural. A decadent civilization becomes more top-down with each year. And the source of the corruption is at the top. ‘Removing the source of the corruption requires either removing all or almost all of the elites, and sizable sections of the professional classes as well’.... Or a campaign of ideas that transforms them as fundamentally as they were transformed.”......
This is why the ground swell for Trump who seems to want to lead this. But is he really any different?
Does not matter if Trump is different. He is catalyzing an antielitist movement. Ultimately he will either become a victim of his own success or a bona fide leader of the movement.