It’s all public spectacles. These people are there not for the money - they are there to make a point, that being that their ideas of authority are what we all must obey.

Preventive obedience, lack of mandate borders, authority not requiring justification, a demand for justification being itself disobedience, implicit trust to authority, and so on.

These are all people who’d be not very respected or listened to in any normal kind of group. They dreamed of getting to a position where they will be, due to hierarchy. And that’s an abuse of any system, so they are hostile to any immunity mechanisms detecting and fixing such an abuse.

So the whole point is in them taking power and showing us all that it’s their rule and their time and it works like some thief feudalism with spectacles of loyalty, spectacles of cruelty, spectacles of stealing and getting away with it and demonstrative abuse of any legal principle.

I respect Cato institute people very much, they somehow manage to say this same thing without my emotion in their various materials.