C'est bants.

lol

You tell them to get off and they just stare at you.

This sort of just clarifies writing v. influencing for me, I think.

which like I guess is why we feel more alienated than ever lol

"the crucial last step" here being the judge's step beyond kantian rigor and acknowledging themselves as not an assessor but as part of a community/saying "I am as you are".

Law being the closest we get to a practical demonstration of the system Brandom outlines is a bit frustrating given the variety of things Hegel seems to apply it to.

which I understand is alienation, but alienation is the big hurdle here. If we take the allegory of the hard hearted judge my feeling is that the JUDGE has been in some ways conditioned not to believe/ever admit that their authority is limited in the way that would get us to the crucial last step?

That's more than I expected.

Or is that like frowned upon because of like the pedophilic implication?

Cioran is the Rodney Dangerfield of existentialism