Social Governance System
Social Governance System
Every company on Earth uses management systems. Airlines. Hospitals. Amazon. None of it has ever been applied to how we govern ourselves. Social Governance System is building what comes next.
Help Build ThisWatch Grant Elder, President and Founder, explain what SGS is and why it matters.
Psychiatrist Robert Hare estimates 1% of the general population meets clinical criteria for psychopathy. His peer-reviewed 2010 study of 203 corporate executives found that figure was 3.9% in senior management — nearly four times higher. Kevin Dutton's research ranked CEOs and lawyers number one and two among professions with the highest psychopathic trait scores.
This is not coincidence. It is selection.
Andrzej Łobaczewski spent decades documenting what he called pathocracy — the systematic process by which individuals without conscience identify each other, form protective networks, and displace normal people from institutions. His work Political Ponerology was suppressed. He burned his first manuscript to survive.
Paul Babiak and Robert Hare documented the mechanism in Snakes in Suits: corporate hierarchies reward charm, fearlessness, and ruthlessness — traits that overlap precisely with psychopathy. The system does not accidentally select for these people. The system is designed in a way that guarantees it.
The Epstein files illustrate the endpoint: a network of wealth and access, deliberately constructed to produce leverage over those already in power — and to ensure their protection of it.
If the governing system selects for people without conscience, then fixing governance is not a political question. It is a structural one. That is the question SGS is built to answer.
Management systems transformed business. We are applying those same principles — planning, accountability, transparency, continuous improvement — to how communities and societies govern themselves.
The current system is built on dominance — top-down, winner-takes-all. SGS replaces it with a collaborative framework where decisions are made transparently, with participation from those affected.
SGS starts with communities — the level where change is real and felt. It scales from there. The principles work at every level: neighbourhood, city, nation, world.
We are a volunteer organization in our early stages. Every contributor matters. Whether you have an hour a week or full-time capacity — there is a role for you.