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>I've noticed that lawyers' junior partners in crime -- PR operatives, of
>whom I am one -- also engage in immense amounts of self-congratulation
>because of the heroic number of hours they work. Somehow, sheer fatigue is
>supposed to redeem the fact that the work performed is basically bullshit
>detrimental to the public interest. Curious logic indeed, but no doubt
>derivative of the (completely twisted) Protestant work ethic.
>
Oh, I'm not indulging in false heroics. I think it sucks, it's merely exploitative, and a general drag. They do pay us lots though. It's intermittently necessary, but not nearly as much as it's practiced. And I have no illusions about the nature of the work, which largely consists in defending predators against (at the least noxious) other predators, and (at its worst) predators against prey or against shepherds.
jks
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