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    1. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jul 3

      I'm a proponent of aristocratic rule but I absolutely loathe our judicial overlords and I'm not sure why. Probably because it's a bastardized aristocracy elevated from the bureaucracy.

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    2. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jul 3

      The thing about rule by an oligarchy of lawyers is that lawyers are the last people I would expect good advice on statecraft from let alone appoint as the final authority.

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    3. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jul 3

      A committee of carpenters would probably do a better job.

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      Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jul 4
      Replying to @ad_captandum2

      aside from the type of people selected and the mechanism by which they are...

      10:14 AM - 4 Jul 2018
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        2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jul 4
          Replying to @alicemazzy @ad_captandum2

          there's the fact that all decisions have to be filtered through a screen of legalist autism. meme they're just "interpreting" the constitution obviously fake but

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        3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jul 4
          Replying to @alicemazzy @ad_captandum2

          the color is changed by hiding from "here's what we should do because it would be good" with "here's what the magic paper says we have to do"

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        4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jul 4
          Replying to @alicemazzy @ad_captandum2

          also the fact that it is purely reactive and extremely inefficient, entire orgs exist to conjure pretenses to get a case into the court system that might work its way up the chain over the course of several years

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        5. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jul 4
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          I've begun to think that this excessive reliance on hollow proceduralism to produce obviously false conclusions is one of the big reasons societies that reach a certain level of complexity begin to fail

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        6. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jul 4
          Replying to @ad_captandum2

          from what I can tell (this topic fascinates me and I intend to write something that touches on it, among other things)

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        7. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jul 4
          Replying to @alicemazzy @ad_captandum2

          the "complex" in "complex societies" means specialization/division of labor which separates customary power from real (military) power

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        8. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jul 4
          Replying to @alicemazzy @ad_captandum2

          that is, specialization producing sophisticated manufacturing practices dispersed over wide area by virtue of safe open trade lanes, and...

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        9. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jul 4
          Replying to @alicemazzy @ad_captandum2

          ...specialization producing sclerotic jurists and soft hands urbanized/palatial ruling class same thing

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