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.
aside from the type of people selected and the mechanism by which they are...
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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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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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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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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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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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the "complex" in "complex societies" means specialization/division of labor which separates customary power from real (military) power
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that is, specialization producing sophisticated manufacturing practices dispersed over wide area by virtue of safe open trade lanes, and...
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...specialization producing sclerotic jurists and soft hands urbanized/palatial ruling class same thing
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