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—“I believe this is a false dichotomy since the rule of law itself is ritual + violence. Ritualized violence is still violence and practitioner just another animal within the food chain – with a powdered wig or without it.”—Domagoj Vaci

ritual? how did you come to that conclusion?

—“By observing the implementation of law. First you have make the ritual of legislation and than the ritual of applying the law (judicial robes, coats of arms, titles, etc.) That’s what makes law distinct from simple murder or pillage. It relies on irrational mechanisms of law enforcement induced by the ritual. What makes a judges and Aztec priests similar is that they both pretend to act not on their own behalf but on the behalf what they assume to represent. This ritual allows them to feel not being responsible for what looks like a destructive carnage to the untrained eye.”—Domagoj Vaci

False equivalency.

Yes, order is necessary by means comprehensible to the population. So supernatural(Ritual-authority) -> Moralistic(Process – norms) -> Empirical (Procedure-property).

A ritual is an invariant, non-rational, religious, or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions(costs) performed according to a prescribed order, in order to pay a debt of observance to nature, ancestors, archetypes, or god archetype, in exchange for membership in a status network and hierarchy, for which there is no observable consequence.

A procedure, process, protocol, recipe, is a flexible, rational, physical, method consisting of a series of actions (costs), performed in sequence, in order to produce an outcome that has observable consequences.

A legal financial contractual or trade procedure is a flexible, rational, empirical method, consisting of a series of actions (costs), performed in sets (transactions), in order to produce a voluntary transfer of title to intersets, restore an involuntary transfer of title to interests, and to punish involuntary transfer of title to interests.

There is a very strange problem among the empathic Russian civilization – an obsession with pseudoscience – and an even stranger problem is southern slavic civilization with an obsession with sophism and supernaturalism. Just like indian’s have a strange obsession with their mythology being historical, rational, and empirical – when it’s not. European catholics tend to be a little better, and european protestants a bit worse.

Very strange.