The Law

This is pretty cool - What is Law? A good (or at least semi-amusing) response to the reading can be found as well: What's the law? That's easy. The voluminous, poorly written and logically inconsistent words, written by politicians from the legislative branch of government (in America anyway) as the direct consequential resolution of political power struggles among ecnomic elites (ostensibly elected by the citizenry to represent their "interests") seeking to control the distribution of wealth cooperatively produced by society but with little citizen input on the normative question of "what is an equitable distribution" while also seeking to regulate a broad spectrum of human behavior which if unregulated could prove disruptive of the cultural, moral, and economic status quo capable of undermining certainty in day to day relations among and between people and entities of differing socio-economic class status. Well, that and to give lawyers, judges, court officials, debt collectors and the prison industrial complex a way to make a living settling disputes between aggrieved parties that could just as easily be settled with cage matches to the death on for-profit pay-per-view dish tv (which is all the masses really want anyway). Prime example of one I'd pay good money to watch would be putting all the corporate executives, accountants, lawyers and judges (those who get big paydays whatever the ultimate outcome of the legal merits of the dispute) in a giant chainlink cage against all the blue collar workers (men and women) that get their pensions poached and unions busted through clever manipulation of the bankruptcy code when an entity (legal personhood with all the law's protections and not one iota of the moral accountability) is purposefully mismanaged so as to yield greater shareholder value by virtue of not having to deal with those pesky workers and their unions.Justice and the law generally should be thought of as antonyms and never mentioned in the same sentence so long as the system of justice is pay to play with unequal time/money resources and lawyering abilities lining up on any side of a given legal dispute. Who knows maybe I'm just cynical after three years of law school. Seems to me the law is really good at protecting billionaire grifters while making sure the little people never get wise to that fact because the best grifts are always legitimized under the majestic pagentry of "THE LAW" and its much revered (or loathed) practitioners.