Planet: Critical
Planet: Critical
Rachel Donald
P:C ARCHIVES: Sally Goerner on Citizens vs Oligarchies
1 hour 3 minutes Posted Aug 13, 2026 at 5:30 am.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES:
What happens when a small percentage of the population amass resources and power? Oligarchy. And polymath Sally Goerner says oligarchy is the final stage of most human civilizations—and a symptom of dysfunctional human systems.
She joins me to explain why the future is integral and collaborative, why empowering people with vision and hope is key to creating systemic changes, why citizenship is the foundation of any human system, and how to measure the health of those systems.
This is a far-reaching and impressive conversation covering neurobiology, history, sociology, political theory and systems thinking. I found Sally and her research utterly fascinating and hope you all get as much out of it as I did.
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