Do you ever think that those who aspire to be FBI agents or corporate lawyers have been exposed to far too many television programs? I mean, what is reality?
I think you are very right.In 2013,I met this "hot-shot" lawyer.She was supposed to be from one of the top Law Schools(an Indian,but she studied in the US ,I think).Anyway,she WAS well read. She certainly knew more about post-modern French philosophers than I did-quoting Lacan in almost every other sentence.I thought that as she is so well read,she must be aware of Anti-natalism too.
So I asked her what she thought about it.Her response? She "wanted a human being which was a part of herself one day,someone whom she could love & who would love her back".I wonder if Lacan taught her that:
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I remember one of us mentioning Nikolai Gogol.
Perhaps I mentioned him.Anyway,her point was that I should take away my depressed mind somewhere far away from her so that it did not act as an obstacle to the progress of her glorious personal life and human civilization in general.
Needless so say I did that promptly.
I felt at peace when I was in my dark secluded room.With the cobwebs.
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Diary of a Mad Man (Gogol)
34 March. February, 349. — No, I have no longer power to endure. God! what are they going to do with me? They pour cold water on my head. They take no notice of me, and seem neither to see nor hear. Why do they torture me? What do they want from one so wretched as myself? What can I give them? I possess nothing. I cannot bear all their tortures; my head aches as though everything were turning round in a circle. Save me! Carry me away! Give me three steeds swift as the wind! Mount your seat, coachman, ring bells, gallop horses, and carry me straight out of this world. Farther, ever farther, till nothing more is to be seen!
Ah! the heaven bends over me already; a star glimmers in the distance; the forest with its dark trees in the moonlight rushes past; a bluish mist floats under my feet; music sounds in the cloud; on the one side is the sea, on the other, Italy; beyond I also see Russian peasants’ houses. Is not my parents’ house there in the distance? Does not my mother sit by the window? mother, mother, save your unhappy son! Let a tear fall on his aching head! See how they torture him! Press the poor orphan to your bosom! He has no rest in this world; they hunt him from place to place.
Mother, mother, have pity on your sick child! And do you know that the Bey of Algiers has a wart under his nose?
About Lawyers:
Jonathan Wang has not practiced law since he graduated from Columbia Law School in 2010, but he did not plan it that way.
When he entered law school, the economy was flourishing, and he had every reason to think that with a prestigious degree he was headed for a secure well-paying career. He convinced his parents, who work in Silicon Valley, that he had a plan. “I would spend three years at school in New York, then work for a big law firm and make $160,000 a year,” said Mr. Wang, 29. “And someday, I would become a partner and live the good life.”
Mr. Wang, who works in Manhattan as a tutor for the law school admissions exam, is living a life far different from the one he envisioned. And he is not alone. About 20 percent of law graduates from 2010 are working at jobs that do not require a law license, according to a new study, and only 40 percent are working in law firms, compared with 60 percent from the class a decade earlier. To pay the bills, the 2010 graduates have taken on a variety of jobs, some that do not require admission to the bar; others have struck out on their own with solo practices. Most of the graduates have substantial student debt.