METAPHYSICS

that would be fun but most of it would be in the initial selection of the one hundred ... for the older they are the little more likely are they to change and what you select in the beginning is what you get in the end ...but if your selection is representative of the population at large you're going to get experts who don't agree ... not in ten weeks ten months or ten years ... and that means in any election rather than consensus what you'll get is faction ... rather than one stepping forward you could get a hundred and each likely to emphasize the points of his contention with the others if only to give them all something more to talk about ... but that they do form factions though fluid and temporary is not nothing ... though they argue endlessly there is something ... though they argue against reason they come to a point in common half in favor and half against ... from a hundred candidates they come down to two ... who turn and face the other ninety-eight ... who then turn and group themselves in order of importance ... from faction to party to party leaders ... but what are they looking at that got them started ... what is it that they have in common