yes but never on such a massive and insurmountable scale, the balance of power has been thoroughly destroyed because of technology and it's headed on an ever more logarithmic trajectory. society has been so engineered, to the extent we are all such small cogs in such an incomprehensibly huge machine that there is no fulfillment, no feeling of significance to be had in it for the individual, which is very alienating since it does not serve our most basic psychological need, the desire to go through the "power process" yourself or by having a significant role in a small group of people in which everyone can contribute meaningfully to some ongoing goal.