Law 101

My father was a strange man.

At least he appeared strange to me, until a certain age. He would appear strange
to you, if he was your father. Who knows, maybe your father is like my father.
Maybe you will be, maybe you are a father like my father. Then all this will not
appear strange to you.
Raised in poverty, as almost everybody in his time and nativity, only son, heir
of very great expectations for success. His father worked all his life with his
hands, a poor man. Saved money cent by cent, returned home to his village after
economic exile. It was a time when shoes were a big luxury. In fact, my father a
lmost died at about 8 years of age from bad shoes, poorly processed dirty leathe
r shoes.
He became a lawyer. He was extremely successful, especially after 40. It was unt
il that moment that I remembered him being a father. After that, he stepped into
the wagon of success. He had big clients, rich people. Hotels, companies, holdi
ng firms. He never really did it for the money, his accumulated fortune at the t
ime of his death was very small. He did it for the fame. Success in itself was t
he means to an end, but also the end itself. Fame meant he was successful.
It was strange. He did nothing for his family. He almost destroyed us all, a lit
tle more and he would have utterly done it. He almost destroyed us all, did noth
ing for anyone else except the companies, the hotels, the holding firms. Success
at it s best.
Our legal system is despicable. It is designed to culminate in a society of have
s and have-nots. It is a clog in a machine that crushes everything and everyone
that doesn t have the means to pay in money, is not criminal enough to amass enoug
h money. A big lever in a system that manufactures directed misery, yet smiles i
n it s majestic view of justice .
It treats the rich and the poor with the same standards, if they sleep under a b
ridge, if they beg in the street or if they steal a loaf of bread. It plays the
role of equilibrium, yet it has pushed us into a vast dark age.
Our legal system is the end brick of success. All these judges, lawyers, firms,
notaries, authorities in their high positions, they are all successful. And they
have a momentum, very powerful in their success. They will never stop, trust me
.
This was Law 101.
G.