Schrödinger's Napkins

Suppose you're sitting down at a fancy table for lots of people to sit at, there's a napkin for each guest, and there's a napkin on your left and right, which one are you going to choose? The left napkin or the right? Well, it depends on which one the first person picks, if the first person picks the left napkin, everyone will have to pick the napkin on the left, the same goes for the right, but everyone have to choose the napkin on their right. The rules of this world are determined by that same principle of ‘right or left?’! In a Society like this table, a state of equilibrium, once one makes the first move, everyone must follow! In every era, this World has been operating by this napkin principle. And the one who ‘takes the napkin first’ must be someone who is respected by all. It’s not that anyone can fulfill this role… Those that are despotic or unworthy will be scorned. And those are the ‘losers’. In the case of this table, the ‘eldest’ or the ‘Master of the party’ will take the napkin first… Because everyone ‘respects’ those individuals.