"The result is an emerging aspirational class who have everything except the thing they actually want: the ability to personally press the button and bomb a foreign country. Turchin identifies these people as counter-elites — people wealthy enough to expect actual power, have hit the limits of capital's affordances, and are furious enough the denial that they now wish to burn it all down."

~ https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-great-convergence-and-its-discontents/