Delusion
When powers losses their strength are many factors, but the they are two tend to appears most overreach and denial.
The overreach manifest some times as material wealth, power in general tend to use what what is easy, for example force and terror, since there is an immediate control and short run the cost is not that great, except in the long term to maintain the power the cost increase since, the power is not cost free, to maintain, there is a greater cost .
The delusion of power is the can be maintain without any cost, since is base in an immediate necessity can't be plan in a long term.
The overreach is base on a believe this power can be maintain and project. Any projection will increased the power, power has hiding cost-time becomes the material cost and trying to maintain an elite is created for the only purpose is to pay the price of maintain the control, but in time and space the cost is not free need to be share by the whole, then cost become share everyone and the accumulation brings a society to brake point.
The delusion to maintain the power and project, the group needs to created myth of the power, to project and justify, even many generations, since the assumptions can't be maintain due to the cost of maintain and project the power will collapsed out his own power. Since justification and reason of power is control, the losing control, bring to a end. Control for for the sake of control, to maintain any mythology has a cost from the elite who benefit of the status qua and population a large who will and always has to pay the final price.
The difference between of revolution and a rebellion, a revolution changes elites, where a rebellion is the individual change the social contract, and reshaped the structure which form the society's, from the individual behavior what is acceptable, to a collective, what is reason for the society, how to related to each other.
We all have the power to make change, the reason society function, we all accepted the rules, but if we all cross our arms, everything stop, when a single individual cross their arms, is called antisocial, when two cross the arm is described a relationship, but when there are more then two becomes rebellion and social changes.
Society to control the power of stop believing, give us a frame we can change, but of course the rules are defined but the ones who are benefit and the elites defined the frame of the rules. The educational system and especially higher education is reinforcing a propaganda defined by elites and consequences has been a bad judgment Oh Syracuse!
A solution is to create solidarity across and just cross the arms to stop. We have power by not believing Galileo sin was to cast doubt to the doctrine, to the frame, we should cross our arms and cast doubt, we only one and two and then a Union.