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[[File:Club.png|450px|frameless|center|Why did it take the legal community two thousand years to come up with this idea?]] | [[File:Club.png|450px|frameless|center|Why did it take the legal community two thousand years to come up with this idea?]] | ||
}}{{Quote|''SYNOPSIS: Some cheeky little Hobbits form a fellowship and set out on a perilous adventure to confront the fearsome [[mark-up|Smarkup]], a wingèd dragon made out of [[boilerplate]] that jealously guards a huge pile rent treasure. | }}{{Quote|''SYNOPSIS: Some cheeky little Hobbits form a fellowship and set out on a perilous adventure to confront the fearsome [[mark-up|Smarkup]], a wingèd dragon made out of [[boilerplate]] that jealously guards a huge pile rent treasure. | ||
First act goes well.''}} | |||
Now, no legal form has more boilerplate than an [[NDA]]. To read one is to behold pure, abstracted, essence of boilerplate. ''[[Boilerplate]] is all there is''. Yet generations of legal eagles have dug themselves into slit trenches to argue the toss over this quotidian contract. It has been some kind of insane compulsion: not one of them ''enjoyed'' it; not one of them saw any point in it; they found themselves compelled to do it; drawn to it like moths to a lamp. | {{quote|In Bozo Baggins’ burrow, there was a sign above his desk, carefully hand-painted by his uncle Dildo: | ||
“{{Maxim|The quotidian is a utility, not an asset}}.”}} | |||
Now, no legal form has more [[boilerplate]] than an [[NDA]]. To read one is to behold pure, abstracted, essence of boilerplate. ''[[Boilerplate]] is all there is''. Yet generations of legal eagles have dug themselves into slit trenches to argue the toss over this quotidian contract. It has been some kind of insane compulsion: not one of them ''enjoyed'' it; not one of them saw any point in it; they found themselves compelled to do it; drawn to it like moths to a lamp. | |||
“I must negotiate this NDA, because this is what I do. [[It is in my nature]].” | “I must negotiate this NDA, because this is what I do. [[It is in my nature]].” |