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But while none can be found with a single word to say for such a silly idea, all will be certain that ''someone else'' does. Someone way above their pay grade — perhaps even a ''lot'' of someone elses, all at so great a remove from the commonplace experience that one can scarcely imagine who they might be, never mind whence comes their affection for such a roundly derided trope. Not one will speak for it. Not ''one''. Yes still: as a collective, when they join hands and place them on the ''planchette'', they watch in terrible, fearful admiration as it strides about the agenda signalling for all their several doubts that as a collective they are firmly resolved upon it, and therefore it must happen.
But while none can be found with a single word to say for such a silly idea, all will be certain that ''someone else'' does. Someone way above their pay grade — perhaps even a ''lot'' of someone elses, all at so great a remove from the commonplace experience that one can scarcely imagine who they might be, never mind whence comes their affection for such a roundly derided trope. Not one will speak for it. Not ''one''. Yes still: as a collective, when they join hands and place them on the ''planchette'', they watch in terrible, fearful admiration as it strides about the agenda signalling for all their several doubts that as a collective they are firmly resolved upon it, and therefore it must happen.


This is the [[middle management ouija board]].
This is the [[middle management ouija board]]: really just a special case of a general [[emergent]] phenomenon we will call [[ouija politics]].


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*[[Ouija politics]]
*[[Circle of diffusion]]
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*[[Performance appraisal]]
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