The law is harsh and sets its ways but it is the law—dura lex sed lex - and yet jurisprudence has wittingly proved it to be breakable to favor some powerful class- dura lex, pyrex (I stole that term somewhere).
A couple of months ago, I met my friend Dedalus, who I learned returned to law school, during an annual fair in my former school. I asked him how was he faring along this time in law school.
“I quit,” he croaked.
I nearly choked with the squid ball I was munching and before I could utter my line: “Again? For crying out loud?” He declaimed, “See those walls?” pointing to the Malcolm Hall where the College of Law is, “There is nothing in there.” I replied: “Duh. Like, have you been overdosed lately with those dark and disturbing books of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky?" mimicking the cono twang which he loathe with passion. "How many orgasms have you reached today?", I spurted.
A couple of months ago, I met my friend Dedalus, who I learned returned to law school, during an annual fair in my former school. I asked him how was he faring along this time in law school.
“I quit,” he croaked.
I nearly choked with the squid ball I was munching and before I could utter my line: “Again? For crying out loud?” He declaimed, “See those walls?” pointing to the Malcolm Hall where the College of Law is, “There is nothing in there.” I replied: “Duh. Like, have you been overdosed lately with those dark and disturbing books of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky?" mimicking the cono twang which he loathe with passion. "How many orgasms have you reached today?", I spurted.
Intellectual orgasms, that is. That is his favorite past time. He's always in deep thought, always in trance.You ask simple question like, how are you? and he quotes from Schopenhauer or lines from Nietzche's Thus Spake Zarathustra. Dedalus shrugged, in deep and philosophical mood he launched: “The law is merely a legitimizing principle for the imposition of the wants of the ruling class over the rest of the subject citizens. For example, when capitalists, landlords and wealthy individuals are in power it is no surprise that laws both confirm and support their interests from those of others”.
“No wonder some of our laws are anti-labor and anti-land reform”, I drawled.
“You?” he asked.
Inspired by his social dialectics, I said: “Oh well, the study of law consists of four to five Sisyphean years. Consider: Everyday I was forced to memorize books of legislations and jurisprudence and regurgitated it in class before Ptolemy, Ad nauseum.”
“Perhaps law schools should welcome rigorous dialectical discussions on the basis of legality of laws rather than dismiss such inquiry as moot and academic.” He said.
The following morning, I read in the papers that the president issued proclamation 1017 placing the entire country under a state of emergency, all in an effort to gag media and curtail protests against her administration.
Dedalus just proved his point.
When I entered law school, I had grand dreams. I aspired to become Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, or Jan Schlictmann in A Civil Action championing the cause of my clients. Today, I was reduced to the raving Schizophrenic Ally Mc Beal.
“Perhaps law schools should welcome rigorous dialectical discussions on the basis of legality of laws rather than dismiss such inquiry as moot and academic.” He said.
The following morning, I read in the papers that the president issued proclamation 1017 placing the entire country under a state of emergency, all in an effort to gag media and curtail protests against her administration.
Dedalus just proved his point.
When I entered law school, I had grand dreams. I aspired to become Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, or Jan Schlictmann in A Civil Action championing the cause of my clients. Today, I was reduced to the raving Schizophrenic Ally Mc Beal.
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