Pearls Before Swine

Recently, I was invited to a groupthink interface online, that consists of almost entirely lawyers.

My sponsor, a good guy, hedged his invitation with an admonition to not post so much, because of the disparity between lawyers and the hoi polloi.

I lasted about a month. I exited today.

I recently saw a TikTok about learned helplessness, and while lawyers are surely trained to construct a picture with words, they too, are given a box to operate in, and it continues to confuse (perhaps amuse) me how much hubris is embodied to cover the stark terror of challenging their own system.

“Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.” James J. Martin, in the introduction to Lysander Spooner’s No Treason": The Constitution of No Authority.

Lawyers are impotent to attack the rationale of the game. Impotent. Limp. NON-performing.

And so, while I will help them if needed, I cannot respect a system that purports to be so sacred that it cannot be heartily questioned concerning the legitimacy of its operation.

I’m sure as hell not going to sit around in a room watching chests get bigger while no real problems of societal death are resolved. They can’t resolve this, because they’re AFRAID to attack the rationale of the system.

And to that, I firmly erect my middle finger(s).

P.D., JAY V. SHORE