An oligarchy is usually institutionalized. It is more pernicious than authoritarianism. Overthrow a monarch, and an authoritarian monarch is gone. Change the presidency, and the oligarchy remains.Why oligarchy and not authoritarianism? Everything is political, it seems. Seems to me it implies a long slog. Perhaps an almost impossible situation to overcome. Sisyphean.
And digital. The need to have everything measured and quantified and digitized. Qualitative observations are passe.
Lost is the use of the Achilles Tendon Reflex test. To observe how the tendon reacts to the neuro hammer requires observation and judgment. The certainty of numerical values in a thyroid panel is deemed more accurate. One costs nothing. The other can be paid by health insurance.