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Centralized hierarchies have at best always failed after a few centuries and usually much sooner, and the resulting chaos leaves fertile ground for reorganizing the old order, which is what the cyclical word revolution names.

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At best, however, the hierar- chy has always failed after a few centuries, usually much sooner, and the resulting chaos leaves fertile ground for reorganizing the old order.

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021), Protocol decentralization in China, p. 11
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

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rigid centralized hierarchies viewed on a historical timescale

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: Centennial collapse of centralized hierarchyfamily: recentralization-driftinstitutional-designdecentralization

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