“Courtrooms instance frames of mind. We learn these. But any intelligent courtroom would lead us into astonishing and immediate discovery, intelligence, and agency. By which fact we can immediately realize that »we form courtrooms for deadly purposes. Purposes that not only fail to address their actual mandates — they ‘escape their cages’ into popular expectation, thought, opinion. They ‘invent minds’ within us that are false, deceptive, self-attacking (like our courts), and utterly lethal. Scope and concern, purpose and intention… matter. If we are to become intelligent, we must have models of ‘courtrooms’ that are something almost explicitly opposite of everything we have been trained to think and expect. We must have courtrooms so intelligent, that any time we form them… our minds, understanding, agency and ability to »establish something better… rather than react to histories… becomes new ways of knowing, and transformations at the origins of our social and relational issues. We must acquire something more like intelligence; but in order to do this as a people, we must recover the actual spirit and meanings of ‘Justice’ and ‘Analysis’. They are nothing like those we expect, think or practice. Indeed, they are like true virtues. Of which we, in general, have but the most deadly and lethal counterfeits. So far.”

— an anonymous informant

Oct 12, 2015

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