That was one of your articles I read, before replying and was responding to.
Oligarchies are a logical regenerative process, that became instititonalized as monarchy, when it became evident the cycle couldn't be broken. Think Rome and the chaos as it went from Republic to Empire, setting the stage for the next 1500+ years of European monarchies. Only to be replaced by forms of democracy, when social and technical progress broke down the foundations. Especially as technology expanded the effectiveness of war.
Democracy is inherently innovational, but to the extent it replaces continuity for a constant churning of leadership, shortening the time frames they can operate in and become ever more focused on attaining office, than what to do, whatever they promise, when they actually gain office, it is not stable. So innovation give way to management. That's why the bureaucracy, aka, the deep state, really runs things and the elected politicians can only act in very constrained lines and mostly see gaining office as a ticket to be a member of the club.
What we need to understand is how societies function as organisms and how all these functions, nervous system/government, circulation system/banking, immune system/military and police, digestive and respiratory systems/deep economy, healthcare/white blood cells/regenerative, etc, all have to function together and not have any one aspect start self referencing and turning into a tumor/cancer/autoimmune/sepsis problem for the larger organism.
Personally I grew up in a family business and have no trouble just being one of the worker ants and not having to deal with the pressure of all the decisions. Then like some nerve ending, signal back to the system when I sense something wrong.
It is when we sense that larger, wholistic dynamic, that it is better to be part of a healthy whole, the whole responsibility giving life meaning issue, as well as being able to accept there are other similar societies and cultures and we all have to co-exist on this one little orb in space, allowing it to regenerate our excesses faster than we run through the resources, that we reach some reasonably healthy equilibrium.
