There’s a set of patterns I keep seeing that are implicit in our news reportage—specifically, the reporting of legal cases. Patterns which seem to me to have a very simple underlying cause but which we take so much for granted that we don’t recognize them explicitly.
1. Justice is a religious cult.
2. Law is holy scripture.
3. Judges are priests.
4. Judicial capital punishment is human sacrifice.
via The cult of justice – Charlie’s Diary.
My alternate hypothesis from the comments:
1. Communities are shared narratives.
2. Governments are attempts to fix the narratives and who gets to create them.
3. Laws are created by authors and administered by editors.