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Yes this is laughable and sad and insane and tragic etc etc.
But it really makes me think about all of the actual power structures that we have in our society and how they came to be legitimate and official.
I know many real justices. I know a handful who sit in the Supreme Court. They are just people.
Nothing special or innate grants them their authority, other than a complex interaction of groups of people stating that they have that authority.
Nothing more than that Mark-kishon fellow, except with a bigger and more complex group of people deciding on a more complex series of decision steps to grant them their authority.
Yes, the two are quantitatively different, but not qualitatively.
I am pondering the fragile and arbitrary nature of these institutions more often at the moment, with the fascinating but terrifying situation in America.