Where did all of the Anglo leaders and upper class go in the west? Unz had an article quite a while back saying they died out. Moldbug claimed they got absorbed into the modern culture. Did they get pushed out, did they bend the knee, did they die off, what happened to the families and people who used to run the Anglosphere?
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That's assuming the system survives in sufficiently substantial structure to be present on the far side of what's coming.
The aristocracy has been decaying a lot longer than three generations, but if you want to argue that something functional will replace these institutions, in any sort of timely manner, evidence is required. Left to their own devices, these institutions will collapse, often violently.
On the contrary, as with the Soviet System, I expect a full on cascade failure, so we'll have to rebuild from the collapse.
Additionally, when I say "aristocracy", I'm not talking about the Hapsburgs and Bourbons. I'm talking about the current elites.
Parallel institutions are already being pushed within America, the situation is worse for Europe, but they will develop. And Left to their own devices, institutional collapse is rarely ever violent at all. Violence typically only happens as the previous rulers attempt to use force to guarantee their position against rivals. At most, after a collapse has taken place, you get violence from invaders. Instead, if you have a genuine collapse from internal failure, the collapse is rather non-plussed. The Hapsburgs, the Ottomans, the Spanish Empire, the Sweedish Empire, the Soviet Union/Empire; these things collapsed from internal pressures (subversive or self-inflicted), without much in the way of extreme violence. Even the Roman Empire's collapse was limited in it's violence. By the time Attila showed up, Rome's power had already functionally been sacked. Rome, as a city, was a shadow of it's former self.