Arbitrary Authority Procedure

Arbitrary authority procedure is 180.爱丽丝梦游仙境：世界多荒诞，我也是自己的主宰（下）’s lower-half frame for how [[AliceInWonderland|《爱丽丝梦游仙境》]] makes power look absurd. The [[QueenOfHearts|Queen of Hearts / 红心王后]] does not only shout commands; she presides over games and trials whose rules, evidence, and tools shift while participants are still expected to obey.

The concept covers the croquet ground, where living flamingos, hedgehogs, and card soldiers make the game impossible to stabilize, and the trial, where sentence-before-evidence, ad hoc Rule 42, and an unsigned letter are forced into proof. [[AliceWonderlandCharacter|Alice / 爱丽丝]] becomes important because she keeps asking whether the procedure makes sense.

Key Claims

• Arbitrary power often borrows procedural form even when it has already chosen an outcome.
• The absurdity sharpens when rules keep changing while obedience is still demanded.
• Alice’s resistance depends on naming faulty evidence and refusing to treat cards as real sovereigns.
• This is a legal-political extension of Nonsense Logic, not a break from it.

Connections

• Queen of Hearts / 红心王后, Alice / 爱丽丝, and Cheshire Cat / 柴郡猫 - main lower-half scene anchors.
• Nonsense Logic, Absurd Rationality, and Female Self-Possession - concepts extended by the authority scenes.
• Adult Satire In Children’s Classics and Children’s Literature Complexity - broader frames for adult procedure satire inside a children’s classic.