Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 138

Law of the Few

Law of the Few works like gravity — indifferent, reliable, and entirely unimpressed by your excuses.

Laws of this kind are really observations that refused to go away. Enough people bumped into the same wall that someone finally painted a sign. This page is the sign.

Every colony has a notice board and a gossip channel. The notice board informs; the channel decides. Wise residents read the first and audit the second.

Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. No ceremony needed. Begin with the very next decision.