Seems like many people do their best to get out of jury duty, and the ones that are willing can expect to be cut for being conscientious. The balance is tilted against the existence of an activist jury in any but the cases of the wealthy and famous. Those might manage to jolt some life into an otherwise orderly farce. Not that these jolts are positive, just unusually vigorous. Democracy is participation, Orwell might as well have retorted, some get to participate more than others.