Premise: A committee of five members gathers to found a new culture; each can contribute ten cultural artificats.
Nick

• Sports Night (Aaron Sorkin)
• Some arbitrary collection including “The Widget, The Wadget, and Boff,” “Slow Sculture,” “Thunder and Roses,”... (Theodore Sturgeon)
• Cowboy Bebop
• Five Corners (ImdB:Five+Corners)
• Experience and Nature (John Dewey)
• Gravity and Grace (Simone Weil)
• Chuang-tzu
• Not a Still Life (Ferron)
• Earthsea (Original trilogy) (Ursula K. Le Guin)
  ....Wait, I never got anyone else?