This nation is sinking into the quicksand of the Paperwork Age, a
postmodern world in which judges issue meta-injuctions against other
judges who issue injuctions against lawyers who file lawsuits every 3.2
minutes. It's an age where lawyers design ballots forms and then proceed
to argue over how to count them.
The United States has bluescreened. A fatal exception error occured on
Election Night, and now all of our unsaved work has been lost.
-- Jon Splatz, Humorix's Pundit and Social Commentator, ranting about
the 2000 US Presidential Election From Hell and the dreaded
"Lawyerclysm"
We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid
of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men
and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that
most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an
ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean
and beg day and night continually....