Individually, there’s no coherent bundle of ideas to push back. So we sent 200,000 random SMS messages across Taiwan: “What should we do together?” People shared ideas; thousands volunteered for an online citizens’ assembly. We randomly selected 447 people demographically representative of Taiwan. In a long afternoon, they met online in 45 video rooms of 10 people each, brainstorming what to do. We said up front: only ideas that reach uncommon ground within a room can propagate outside it.