“Ibn Khaldun describes Asabiyyah as the bond of cohesion among humans in a group forming community. The bond, Asabiyyah, exists at any level of civilization, from nomadic society to states and empires. Asabiyyah is most strong in the nomadic phase, and decreases as civilization advances. As this Asabiyyah declines, another more compelling Asabiyyah may take its place; thus, civilizations rise and fall, and history describes these cycles of Asabiyyah as they play out.

Ibn Khaldun argues that each dynasty (or civilization) has within itself the seeds of its own downfall. He explains that ruling houses tend to emerge on the peripheries of great empires and use the much stronger ʿasabiyya present in those areas to their advantage, in order to bring about a change in leadership. This implies that the new rulers are at first considered “barbarians” by comparison to the old ones. As they establish themselves at the center of their empire, they become increasingly lax, less coordinated, disciplined and watchful, and more concerned with maintaining their new power and lifestyle. The ʿasabiyya, dissolves into factionalism and individualism, diminishing their capacity as a political unit. Thus, conditions are created wherein a new dynasty can emerge at the periphery of their control, grow strong, and effect a change in leadership, beginning the cycle anew. Ibn Khaldun also further states in the Muqaddimah that “dynasties have a natural life span like individuals”, and that no dynasty generally lasts beyond three generations of about 40 years each.”

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One source for data relevant data is https://sheeo.org/project/state-higher-education-finance/

What search engine yielded the best results and what search machinations did that entail?

I use DDG as well and find it generally serviceable, but haven’t tried or graded much politically oriented traffic through it. I use Bing often too, and resort to the G-sters only when necessary.

In my experience I find G to generally find the most relevant hits, so long as you ignore the first listings offered. I avoid using them when I can more to deny them data on me, vs. getting too poor results. Also, a useful trick I use.to screen clutter out Is to include a date criteria if you can (i.e. Putting a “month” and “year” in quotes and such) as news articles and tech pubs tend to have date stamped bylines and title pages.

Perhaps you could add a Search Tips page to your site and we could gather the collective tricks of your readers? Effective search is an art, and I think the more advanced your query syntax is, the less the AI filters can get in the way. At least for now : )