In the courtroom war is the father of everything.
Every play is a hearing, a court case, and every court case is a war.
The last phase is of necessity death. We all need someone to despise and look down on as not having full value. The prison is a true copy of our own society. The inevitable consequence will be that the judicial system and its administration will comprise the very skeleton of society, its innermost, immutable, reactionary mineral core. It cannot be otherwise.