Protocol
A pre-read is sent ahead. The room holds a moderated 90-minute discussion after the reading, scene, lecture, or performance.
Theater
Theater gives strangers a text in common.
A Polis format is a constraint system for real-world contact: small enough to be human, specific enough to be memorable, and private enough to let people be honest.
Canonical seeds
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Arendt, plus one current-events text and one wisdom-tradition text per cycle.
Chevruta callout
Chevruta pairs two citizens for slower study when a Theater room creates enough trust.
Produces / does not produce
It can produce disciplined attention and a private study pair. It does not produce content capture or public opinion scoring.
Start with the directory, then choose the room.
Every format routes to the same institutional promise: no ads, no data sale, no pay-to-play matching, and no public status game.
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