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There will then follow a long and tiring diatribe about the fragile psychiatric disposition of the upcoming generation. It will culminate in robust accord that we must all, at every opportunity, speak loudly and at [[tedious]] length about our own vulnerabilities, thereby ending forever the stigma of being seen to gabble incessantly about our stigmas. | There will then follow a long and tiring diatribe about the fragile psychiatric disposition of the upcoming generation. It will culminate in robust accord that we must all, at every opportunity, speak loudly and at [[tedious]] length about our own vulnerabilities, thereby ending forever the stigma of being seen to gabble incessantly about our stigmas. | ||
Look, kids: keeping schtum about your weaknesses isn’t a ''travesty''. It’s ''personal branding 101''. | |||
The [[JC]] will spare you his usual Nietzschean quotes about [[military life]], apposite though they are: suffice to say there is nothing quite like a good | The [[JC]] will spare you his usual Nietzschean quotes about [[military life]], apposite though they are: suffice to say, there is nothing quite like a good “shoeing” at the bottom of the ruck every now and then to stouten a young attorney’s fibre. It builds a kind of resilience that whining about mental health on [[LinkedIn]] never will. | ||
In any case a better question is this: what sort of person regards ''any part'' of the big law military industrial complex — even its front line of callow inductees — with the tiniest twinge of affection or sympathy? | In any case, a better question is this: what sort of person regards ''any part'' of the big law military industrial complex — even its front line of callow inductees — with the tiniest twinge of affection or sympathy? | ||
The same people who would cuddle polar bears, | The same sorts of people who would cuddle polar bears, that’s who. They don’t tend to last long. | ||
For, really: what do you think ''happens'' to those cute little Kirkland & Ellis cubs when they grow up? Have you not seen ''Stranger Things''? | For, really: what do you think ''happens'' to those cute little Kirkland & Ellis cubs when they grow up? Have you not seen ''Stranger Things''? | ||