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“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly to the aristocratic. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends to act more and more exclusively in the interest of the ruling class, whether that class be hereditary royalty or oligarchs of financial empires or entrenched bureaucracy.”
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon, (Bene Geserit training manual)
From Frank Herbert’s “Children of Dune”
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