Re:The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism
by natmaka on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:09AM
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Polybius, 22 centuries ago, already saw at least some of those inbuilt instabilities and a resulting cycle (sequence of anacyclosis)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacyclosis
IMHO Leopold Kohr enlightened us about all this, "centralized political and economic structures" are the main culprits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr#Philosophy