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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 [[tedious]]ly about our own vulnerabilities, thereby ending forever the stigma of gabbling incessantly about our own personal hang-ups.
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 airing our personal hang-ups.


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.
Look, kids: keeping schtum about your 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.