"Gregoria, try to let go of the Conspiracy hypothesis here for twelve seconds.  When a group of six adorable children set out to overthrow Governance, you don't need to go to any special effort to make their efforts seem futile to them.  They are not, in fact, going to win."

"Now imagine you're a Civilization that thinks that these children are showing a spark of individualism that's important to prevent all that Law from turning dath ilan turning into one giant 'hivemind', group intellect - which I was vehemently against, obviously, but your average dath ilani is only slightly less vehement about that."

"The fact that these children's efforts are going to be massively futile is a problem.  There was a prediction market about how to end up discouraging us all the least."

"Which I know about because my parents used to tell this story for years at parties with their own generation, afterwards, until I finally stopped going."

"Gregoria, try to let go of the Conspiracy hypothesis here for twelve seconds.  When a group of six adorable children set out to overthrow Governance, you don't need to go to any special effort to make their efforts seem futile to them.  They are not, in fact, going to win."

"Now imagine you're a Civilization that thinks that these children are showing a spark of individualism that's important to prevent all that Law from turning dath ilan turning into one giant 'hivemind', group intellect - which I was vehemently against, obviously, but your average dath ilani is only slightly less vehement about that."

"The fact that these children's efforts are going to be massively futile is a problem.  There was a prediction market about how to end up discouraging us all the least."

"Which I know about because my parents used to tell this story for years at parties with their own generation, afterwards, until I moved out of home one year earlier than usual for my age cohort."

"Gregoria, try to let go of the Conspiracy hypothesis here for twelve seconds.  When a group of six adorable children set out to overthrow Governance, you don't need a special additional effort to make their attempts seem futile to them.  They are not, in fact, going to win."

"Now imagine you're a Civilization that thinks that these children are showing a spark of individualism that's important to prevent all that Law from turning dath ilan into one giant 'hivemind' - uh, group intellect.  Which I was vehemently against, obviously, but your average dath ilani is only slightly less vehement about that."

"The fact that these children's efforts are going to be massively futile is a problem.  There was a prediction market about how to end up discouraging us all the least."

"Which I know about because my parents used to tell this story for years at parties with their own generation, afterwards, until I moved out of home one year earlier than usual for my age cohort."