I am unfamiliar with the work of Charles Blass, but I would like to learn more about it.
On the question of “elite overproduction”, that is very much part of my current scheme of things. I have several works by Peter Turchin. It’s all very empirical and backed by a huge international historical database. It’s basically data science applied to historiography.
I’m likewise a fan of Vervaeke’s work. I was fascinated by his Awakening from the Meaning Crisis series, because it’s part history of civilization and part computer science, and at different times in my life, I majored in each of those! The only fault I could find in Awakening from the Meaning Crisis is the historical narrative could be cleaned up quite a bit. (Here is a recent Forum thread involving John Vervaeke and @rufuspollock : Second Renaissance Research Subgroup: What is the Second Renaissance - #22 by RobertBunge)
Jordan Petersen, by contrast, is not someone who attracts me much. There is an element of dogmatism in Petersen that just does not work for me. I sympathize with his notions that men should be men and that there are elements in traditional theology that are worth recovering. But Petersen’s synthesis strikes me as entirely too polemical - and most damning from a Christian standpoint - lacking in the most essential qualities that made Jesus Jesus. If we are going to recover Christian tradition in the name of civilization, let’s go all the way back and try that on for size!