The composition of an Assembly of citizens randomly selected among the adult population. It was used in the Athenian democracy. It ensures a fair representation of the whole population and ordinary citizens.
Sortition was experimented recently in Iceland, Canada, Ireland and France with the Citizens Convention for Climate. It looks a great way to assure a real democracy !
The creation of an democratic assembly composed of randomly chosen citizens, rather than elected politicians. The assembly is thus representative of the whole population. Supporters of sortition advocates that it would be more democratic and fair to randomly choses the parliaments, as it avoid corruption and polarization.
Sortition was used in the ancient Athenian democracy and have been recently experimented in Iceland, Canada, Ireland and France.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”