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Those are not the only two options. What if, it was always shite?
What if it were entirely a more flawed system in terms of governance but one which inherently allows the elites to pitch the public against one another, blame each other for all the failures of the gov, and make the public think there is hope and waste time on a futile endeavour, fighting other members of the public.
That's a simple divide and conquer technique but placed within your own people as oppose to an enemy which will be absorbed by the superior group.
It is at these times where the superior system kicks in. Either democracy works and the governing means of that system is radically altered, an eternal force with better governance overthrows that body or the entire species just dies out.
Either the democratically elected governance is not working properly or it has been infected by a better external system which is purposefully degrading it for annihilation and absorption for its own growth or it is just the end of the line.
As I'm ever the optimist in these situations I'd say that the body is reclaimed with new leadership or accepts that it's lost and regroups elsewhere and re-enters while the new entity is trying to feed and procreate in its former territory.
Chances are high that something will continue to pass its seed along and so it is just a matter of whether you will be in that process or not.
Bit of a sidebar here, but I detest appeals to “muh elites divide and conquer”. The implication is that we would all be getting along in the absence of the elites, as if there are no meaningful and irrevocable differences between groups of people. In reality, only very homogenous societies have any hope of long term peace and prosperity. Multiculturalism is always doomed to strife.
What the elites have done is force multiculturalism on the west. So yes, the elites are largely responsible for the fighting. But the wolves don’t magically become your friends just because you’ve removed the people who let them in.
Sidebars are my favourite!
Going by the model presented as the example, there would eventually be a large homogenous group which has fragments of the best elements of all the group which it superseded. Certain aspects of the many prior cultures which make up that centred society around that group would be there to learn from, adapt from and strive from.
The biggest threats to that group (Outside of environmental changes) would be other groups of that size (Or bigger) or a tiny element which is completely new and unaccounted for in the entire heritage of what had made up the group.
This tiny element is sometimes thought of as a virus which causes the group's demise. In cultural anthropology the concept of a meme pathogen bringing down a civilisation is far less likely than another group doing so. But in theory it is possible.
Either the elites get it right and society will continue without evolving or ideas will get into the system and alter what the elite group does to continue controlling it.
This is all just an example for purpose though. I'm sure there are many factors missing which we can't account for yet. I'm just suggesting that the 'divide and conquer' could either be an external factor or an internal one as it has always worked as a form of attack for the largest groups in the West.