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{{drop|“T|his is all}} very well, JC, but ''come on''. What hope have I, a mere [[subject matter expert]], of influencing an organisation’s sacred forms? Hell will surely first freeze over.”  

It is only a truism that {{shitmaxim|nothing is more immutable than policy}} if ''no-one ever challenges it''. And who better to challenge it than a [[subject matter expert]]? Forgive JCs’ rabble-rousing, but is not that the very thing your experience offers, that the wounds and scars of a long history of misadventure — which, above all, informs said “immutable policy” — cannot? And if it does not, what does that then say about your life’s work? You are not but a painted ship upon a painted ocean? So try it! Go on! What have you got to lose? You might be surprised at what you can achieve.

“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to ''live dangerously''! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer!”}}

JC’s anecdotal evidence is that suspicion quickly gives way to ''relief''. If you get your design right — this is a big if: from the cradle, lawyers are bathed nightly in [[legalese]] and can scarcely live without it — your counterparts will quickly see its wisdom. Negotiators have enough time thrashing through everyone else’s ghastly forms and will be glad if the relief offered by an easy one.