"...And like the first of those crises, it comes, more than anything else, from a complete breakdown of understanding between the elites and the masses of the people." DK
The crises of Western Civilization, beginning in 1763, rather than the date he mentions, were not the results of breakdowns of understanding between elites and the masses. On the contrary.
The crisis dates he cites, sadly, conceal more than they reveal about the general trend from 1763, which itself ignored these crisis high points, in its march to decline.
One can give plenty of citations for this view. They are known to all who have studied it.
If one looks at WWI too, which he does not mention, oddly enough, and adverts to The Anglo-American Establishment thesis, one can argue, much more credibly, that it, WWI and WWII and their aftermath, was a failure and a continuing general decline, rather than several more isolated crises, strictly caused by, and within, Western elites, not between elites and the masses.
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