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===Covid goes virtual=== | ===Covid goes virtual=== | ||
But the trouble didn’t stop with a couple of beanish [[snowflakes]]. The [[Covid]] pandemic prompted legal almanac publishers to go digital, | But the trouble didn’t stop with a couple of beanish [[snowflakes]]. The [[Covid]] pandemic prompted legal almanac publishers to go digital, demonstrating exactly the same [[category error]] the [[Critical theory|critical theorist]]s made, which was to assume that people want professional guides in order to ''read'' them. | ||
But a moment’s reflection should tell us they do not: one looks up one’s own entry and, if it is there, sends a photocopy to mum; if not, commends yet another quiet resentment to the eternal pool in one’s interior monologue but then swiftly rallies and gathers oneself, by putting the guide to any of its many better uses: propping up monitors, holding open fire-stop doors, being dotted around the department between pot plants to make the place look learned, or just loafing around passively on filing cabinets. Legal guides can survive this way for years. | But a moment’s reflection should tell us they do not: one looks up one’s own entry and, if it is there, sends a photocopy to mum; if not, commends yet another quiet resentment to the eternal pool in one’s interior monologue but then swiftly rallies and gathers oneself, by putting the guide to any of its many better uses: propping up monitors, holding open fire-stop doors, being dotted around the department between pot plants to make the place look learned, or just loafing around passively on filing cabinets. Legal guides can survive this way for years. | ||