I'm not saying oligarchy is preferable, I'm saying that's the direction we are heading, unless we change some basic assumptions about life and culture. Both religion and politics have settled into a system about it all being about the Big Guy, on top. As I point out about monotheism, logically a spiritual absolute is the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

Just like our bodies organize themselves along fairly stable configurations, as they grow, society has to accept there are basic feedback loops driving the process. Like if we take better care of our health and the health of our environment, as well as accepting life is more about how well you live your life, than how long it is, we wouldn't need as intense a medical industry, or as much an institutional police function.

Oligarchies are born out of the fact violence became the primary method of political control, yet our ability to inflict violence has outgrown the ability of our environment to survive it, so we need to organically internalize some of that control, aka, personal responsibilities.

A lot of it goes to reality being a tension and balance, then some singular state. Be it positive and negative charge, rather than "matter." The desires driving us, versus the judgements steering, aka, heart and head. Politically represented as liberal and conservative, etc. More yin and yang, than God Almighty.

Ack! it's Monday, off to work...