Participation (n.) runs sideways, not upward: not a copy borrowing reality from an eternal Form above it, but individuals linking to one another through the unindividuated charge each still carries.
Participation (n.) is the doing of the unspent potential inside each of us: being an element in something larger that is still being born.
Participation (n.) begins inside the individual, before any other person has shown up.
Participation (n.) cannot be rescued by adding more being: link an idea to the things that share it with one more link, and that link needs another, forever.
Participation (n.) is belonging to a bigger becoming through the unfinished part of yourself.