Marlene is having a rough night. (Well, technically, day.) First she lies in bed for an hour consumed with stress-fantasies of getting fired, because at work today (last night) she yelled at someone for picking out a replacement screw by holding it up to the old one and visually comparing them, and now all her coworkers hate her. Then she has a nightmare about dropping a flat blue box into a hydraulic reservoir, followed by all her teeth and a handful of screws of subtly different sizes. She wakes up anxious and gasping for air (once she asked a doctor if she had sleep apnea, and she doesn't; this is apparently just a thing that happens to her) and discovers that she forgot to take off her DIY North Paw before bed and now her leg hurts. It's not even noon - she should take some more melatonin and go back to sleep - but there's another blue box in her face and now she's wide awake.
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The pitch for their socio-sortitionist political structure (not a real term) is more intended to filter out people who would mess it up. And they want to get some old people with interesting life experiences and useful classes! But if usefulness gives soft power, those might be the most dangerous people to invite by mistake...
"If you're tired of people taking advantage of you and your feelings, we have a organizational structure that avoids that! We don't have leaders, but we do have a way to make binding decisions. The people making each decision are randomly chosen and anonymous - they can't even reveal themselves - so they can't demand favors or deference."
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