Today’s post is about figuring out who you are and choosing the correct path.
Are you a CJP (Criminal Justice Professional) being investigated for your role as Missoula’s chief city prosecutor? If so, then Kirsten Pabst’s “Thriving Through Chaos” might be the perfect thing to help you navigate the scrutiny of your alleged professionalism.
Maybe you’re worried about being an NPC (Non-Player Character) who lacks autonomy in this chaotic world. For a better model on NOT being a powerless little bitch, the late Gordon White might have some insights worth considering in his book, titled “The Chaos Protocols”. Let’s begin.
After reading Kirsten Pabst describe a scenario where a cop gets morally injured after removing an illegal homeless encampment (versus removing his life, which is more the style of the Sheriff’s Office), I am now VERY WORRIED about how morally injured our Sheriff’s Office might be, collectively, after the coroner killed Sean Stevenson in a private hospital room six years ago. I’m especially worried about Bob Franke, who was apparently in that room watching Sean Stevenson die.
According to Kirsten Pabst, the poorly-managed stress of her colleagues means that a lot of her fellow lawyers are increasingly fucked up on drugs and alcohol as they become, in her words, mentally ill from doing their very difficult jobs. There was even a report in 2017, cited in Pabst’s book, warning us how fucked up lawyers were getting nearly a decade ago!
The National Task Force on Lawyer Wellbeing issued a report, The Path to Lawyer Wellbeing: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change, after conducting an extensive survey of the well-being or, not-so-wellbeing, of the legal profession in 2017. That report documented the reality that the legal profession is suffering in almost every aspect of wellbeing, with more lawyers than ever struggling with alcohol abuse, drug use, mental illness, ambivalence toward work, heightened risk of physical ailments and even suicide. A recent survey found that early-career lawyers are suffering even more. The ABA’s Women in Criminal Justice Task Force, recently concluded that current hiring, retention and promotion of women in criminal justice is a problem and noted that women–particularly women of color–were leaving the field at higher than usual rates.
One of my favorite pages in Kirsten Pabst’s book is the page that couldn’t have been included if Kirsten Pabst had a penis instead of a vagina, since it implies that fat people aren’t healthy and might need to exercise if they want to be good CJPs. There’s even an image of a fit women about to some YOGA!
Obviously, without a vagina or official role in the world of Criminal Justice Professionals, Kirsten Pabst’s book is not for me. Gordon’s book, on the other hand, references Philip K. Dick and quotes occultists, like Aleister Crowley, so perhaps THIS approach is more apt to my knowledge and skillset?
You could say I adopted a “chaos magic headspace” six years ago after I stopped flooding my brain with box wine and started actively fighting back against the local narrative controllers who helped the psychopath class drag us into the cognitive meat-grinder of weaponized deception around the same time the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office thought they could euthanize a homeless man in this liberal college town and no one would be paying enough attention to care.
Caring about deep corruption is one thing, but doing something about it is quite another. Despite what I might look like on paper, I’m encouraged by the fact it’s taken the CJPs so much bandwidth to maintain their myriad deceptions. If it takes this much to shut up just one persistent blogger with a computer and sense of purpose derived from alcohol abstention, imagine what could be accomplished if I had actual resources!
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