Sarkar's Law of Social Cycles

Brandy, this is fascinating.  Earlier this year, your humble servant here read a book by economist Ravi Batra.  He applies "Sarkar's Law of Social Cycles," as follows.  Cycle 1:  Warriors establish order, safety.  Cycle 2:  Intellectuals, people with brainpower, establish productive systems, technologies to improve standard of living.  Cycle 3:  Business folks take command of the physical safety of the warriors and the brainpower of the intellectuals to serve greed.  Cycle 4:  Working class folks imitate the business class and all-out greed - anything and everything for money - lowers standards, destroys safety as people engage in crime at all levels to get what they want.  Finally, things collapse and in desperation, folks seek for "warriors" to restore order good and hard.  Batra and Sarkar are from India; therefore, lots of folks here know not of them.  Yet, for your humble servant, it is refreshing to have an outside viewpoint, an Eastern analysis, instead of the standard Western analysis.  This writer believes Sarkar has "hit the nail on the head" good and hard, for, it duplicates the same progress that Plato describes in his classic The Laws!  East meets West!