A decision that was clearly already made gets presented as an open, brand-new idea by someone other than the decider — and you want to see whose plan it actually is.

Beelzebub rises "with grave aspect," the picture of deliberation, dismisses both war and peace as traps, then produces the "new" idea: another world, "some new race, called Man" — attack God's newest creation instead of God himself. Then the narrator breaks the fourth wall: this counsel was "first devised by Satan, and in part proposed." The laundered decision: the real author stays silent, the trusted deputy presents it, and the room votes for it as if it had just been invented.