Observers.

We enter the world as a participant.

Flailing and screaming and rolling, and crawling, and walking, and climbing to get involved.

Then we go to school and are trained to be observers.

Years of sitting in classrooms listening to experts reveal and reinforce our ignorance and lack of power.

Just when we think we’ve mastered something enough to participate - we’re moved to a new level of ignorance.

Then we go to work where we are in a master-servant relationship.

A few run businesses or enter politics or journalism or academia or another pursuit contributing to public debate.

The rest of us silently observe.

Until election time.