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“It cannot be right,” they wail, “in our enlightened times, to torture out younglings so. Fourteen hours a day! Sometimes more! They are not up to it. It will crush them. We must be humane.” | “It cannot be right,” they wail, “in our enlightened times, to torture out younglings so. Fourteen hours a day! Sometimes more! They are not up to it. It will crush them. We must be humane.” | ||
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 | 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 [[tedious]]ly about our own vulnerabilities, thereby ending forever the stigma of gabbling incessantly about our own personal hang-ups. | ||
Look, kids: keeping schtum about your | Look, kids: keeping schtum about your personal frailties isn’t a ''travesty''. It’s ''common sense''. It’s ''personal branding 101''. It is what people do. | ||
The [[JC]] will spare you his usual [[Nietzsche|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. | The [[JC]] will spare you his usual [[Nietzsche|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 [[Magic circle law firm|big law military industrial complex]] — even its front line of callow inductees — with | In any case, a better question is this: what sort of person regards ''any part'' of the [[Magic circle law firm|big law military industrial complex]] — even its front-line of callow inductees — with even a twinge of sympathy? The same sorts of people who would cuddle polar bears, that’s who. They don’t tend to last long. | ||
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''? | ||