Unlicensed Therapy from Tulsa Tams

Buonaparte knew everything, even to the names of our cadets in the East India service; but he failed in this, that he did not calculate the resistance which barbarism makes to refinement. He thought that the Russians could not burn Moscow, because the Parisians could not burn Paris. —Hazlitt

Awhile back a professor—Wasn't that Tulsa Tams?—said that those other professors who think that law school is a scam should quit, if it bothers them so much. The comment was directed towards "LawProf". I can't remember if it was Tams or another buffo; the shill quotient is too extreme for me to remember individual distinctions in the borg cube of 12,000 law professors out there, each spamming their 'research' and 'theories' to themselves. But her obnoxious "look how smart and mature I am" self-serving comment deserves more scrutiny. 

The point of her comment, which no doubt she felt was genius when she made it, was based on the pretense that she is both morally and intellectual superior. This belief in turn is based on her preschool-level superficial logic: if you are personally bothered by something, then you should just stop doing it and then it won't bother you. It's like telling a woman who is being stalked by a creepazoid, "Hey lady, don't get emotional about it. Just move to a different city!" Wow, what a genius solution! If a couple whistleblowers shut up and quit, the problem will go away! It's magic!

But which is it, Tam-a-roni? You ignore the issue at hand and concentrate on others' emotional state, which is quite a different thing than the real issue we are trying to discuss: you know, that thing involving massive debt of jobless smart kids that you are partially responsible for, since you profit by it and know (or should know) very well that you are ovaries-deep in the fraud. It's not about our feelings, my unlicensed therapist friend, but about the corruption—your corruption as well. Either Law School as we know it is a scam, or it isn't. Which is it? If it is indeed not a scam, why tell someone to quit? Why not persuade us that it is not a scam? Through evidence and reason? Notice she does not, and cannot. Why would you want someone to throw their career away on the false belief that there is a scam? In either case, Tamarind, you give bad advice—even if there is no "scam" at all.

If though, law school is a scam, then by definition you are a scammer, not only profiting by a pseudo-legal should-be-may-be criminal enterprise, but were also attempting to manipulate the main whistleblower among your peer group into quitting. Of course you failed, since one cannot manipulate another of higher intellect and maturity. That, my jobless hordes, is what psychologists call incongruence: the emotionally clueless person thinks that everybody else is clueless. 
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Read my book-length satire/exposé of law school, Smarter Than Socrates: The End of the Law School Era.