Pompous Shill/Professor Disses Angel!

A Presumptuous Professor commented on my last substantive posting.  After I read it, I pondered the many ways that I could counter this "argument."  First off, I'm not a failed adult.  I didn't even do badly in law school.  I go out of my way to say that TTT grads are not failed adults as well.  We're all among the most intelligent of Americans with a college education and graduate degree.  Also, he accused me of being hungry for power, but came off as self-proclaimed royalty.  My professor was in need of a lay--a common colloquialism thrown around by all of my classmates.  I tossed my arguments around and around in my mind and I decided that my readers will speak up on my behalf... and they certainly did.  Thank you!

Here's what the Professor wrote:
You chose law to get power.

Yet you revile those with power over you. You vibrate with resentment that your professors had the power to ignore you. You deserved their attention and regard--after all, you are so much better/Deeper than they!

You make up sexual fantasies about them when they thwarted your expectations, which brought your ego weaknesses to the fore--and the best you can come up with is calling them women's body parts.

Hm, your failures and resentments and "disenchantment" (as though life is supposed to be enchanting) couldn't have anything to do with YOU, now, could it?

Well, it will be interesting to read your blog, and find out what happens when an obviously failed adult fails at the admittedly failed institutions of law school and law. I'm afraid there are all too many such people, blaming the world for their own failures and seething in resentment and anger. Particularly in your generation, which was told by its parents that it farted rainbows and would save the world.

Maybe you could try trade school. Though I do realize that someone as Deep as you, and as Gifted, and Special, would have a hard time with the humbling experience of fixing what's broken rather than complaining about it and expecting a reward.

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THEN....Manatee Joe found this article wherein Obama's feelings about law school were covered in an interview of  David Remnick, the author of The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama:

Then of course, you quote Obama as saying that he found the study of law “disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power!”

DR: At law school, some courses were dull; some had a sense of adventure that he appreciated. He studied with Roberto Unger who is a real radical. Obama took two courses with Unger, not one. This is a guy who is in the current Brazilian government and very much to the left. That’s not Obama’s politics, but he was certainly taken up with and fascinated by anything that was out of ordinary contracts and all the rest. Obviously constitutional law was where he lived.

FUNNY how our Nation's Leader was disappointed in law school as well.  It's not that interesting, it's not that intellectually challenging, it's not that impressive.  I stick by what I said.  Going to law school won't make your feel more enlightened, it will make you feel like you served prison time.