- Do Not be Paralyzed

By Your Ability to See Both Sides

Look Towards Your Anchor and Act

However, Choose your Anchor Cautiously

For it is the basis of all your journey’s decisions

Lest you be lead in the circle of hypocrisy

- Anonymous –

These aren’t my words but I thought I’d share them because they illustrate the other “law school scam” that has nothing to do with the fact that it’s an overpriced waste of time that has little chance of getting you any sort of gainful employment, much less one that might help you pay off your loans and start a life before you’re dead.  I also am not going to take issue with professors whose only job is to write and consider teaching a nuasance.  I am taking issue with the fact that a legal education is an enemy of “truth” as defined in the discipline of philosophy and as such eliminates the anchor spoken of in the prose that introduces this entry.  Allow me to explain.

There are those who seek a legal education because they honestly feel that the law is a vehicle for change.  A cursory look at American History may support this as Brown v. Board did proceed the bulk of the popularized activity that is generally known as the Civil Rights Movement in this country.  Unfortunately this is an aborration.   Law almost always trails an awakening to truth among the general public subject to said laws and this is evident in all the great social justice struggles (gay, women and animal rights).  Let us also not forget that the same institution, the Supreme Court, that delivered Brown v. Board, also delivered Plessy v. Ferguson and Sandford v. Dred Scott.

Before I proceed I am purposefully not commenting on whether I attended law school.  To say that I did would cause many to dismiss my words because I’m just another bitter scam blogger.  To say that I did not would cause many to dismiss my words as an outsider.  I am forcing you to evaluate my words at face value, for truth is truth regardless of who utters it – friend, enemy, young, old, wise or foolish.  “Law” is whatever a judge says it is regardless of his motivation for saying it.

Now let’s examine this for a moment.  What would it do to have this “Law” as an anchor and what might it do to the student of truth who mistakes this pyrite law for gold?  If you care about truth and study law you will become overwhelmed with the cognitive dissonance associated with constantly trying to reconcile isolated, self-serving declarations with some kind of greater legal truth that doesn’t exist.  Your grades will suffer.  That, in conjunction with being exposed to a population of the most insipid, amoral, self-entitled and materialistic jerks on the planet and you will begin to doubt the existence of truth.  Further, you will develop (although too late for first year exams) the ability to see both sides of everything.  And you will have no anchor to reach to in order to make your decision about anything that ultimately matters in life.

You will be lost.

At that point your job/income or lack thereof won’t be so important.  Remember that the next time you wake up in a cold sweat unable to pinpoint the source of your anxiety, the focal point of your fear or the ultimate source of the horror just beyond your grasp.