Guide to the legal profession: Difference between revisions

But the trouble didn’t stop with a couple of beanish [[snowflakes]]. The [[Covid]] pandemic prompted the legal almanac publishing industry to go digital, thereby making the same [[category error]] the [[Critical theory|critical theorist]]s did, which was to assume that ''people want guides to the legal profession to read them''. But as a moment’s reflection should tell us, they do not. They look up their own entry, send a photocopy to their mum, and them put the whole guide to better uses propping up monitors, holding fire-stop doors open, and sandwich between pot plants around the department to make the place look learned.

An ''e-''version of a legal almanac no good for any of those purposes ''unless you print it out''. But that will blow a ream of virgin A4 printer paper, and you are better just to use it as it is, just in case you need it for printing.

But it becomes less likely by the day that you you will. Covid is a double crisis, because the working mediocritariat has discovered that it doesn’t need to print, so no-one does any more, so there are oodles of reams of A4 lying around the office, which make ''perfect'' monitor stands...