"'The Evolution of Civilizations' by Carrol Quigley lays this out the process of creating civilizations and their declines."
Professor Quigley had a lot to say that The-Powers-That-Be try very hard to keep hidden from us.
Anyone that is interested in what a very smart, extremely well educated man thought about where our civilization came from, who is running it and where it is going should read the book you mentioned:
"The Evolution of Civilizations" which is free to download on Archive.org [
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along with his masterpiece:
"Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time" which is also available for download on Archive.org [
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