Hypocrisy and Bullshit and Cheap Moralism
I am opposed to employers holding the fact of petty non-moral-turpitude convictions against job applicants. Unless you are hiring drivers, you shouldn’t care whether a prospective employee has had a DWI. I can’t think of any job (from the office of the President right down to me and you) for which never having smoked marijuana is a reasonable qualification. (It’s not like the drunk driver or the pot smoker has been working as an internet marketer.)
But employers often seem unwilling to hire people with chickenshit criminal convictions. That DUI might stop you from getting hired in the mailroom; that possession-of-marijuana case might keep you from loading trucks at a warehouse. And computers make it easy.
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(The truth of this drives a good deal of my practice: not fighting is more expensive than fighting.)
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Barack Obama famously “confessed” in Dreams from My Father to having smoked pot and snorted cocaine (a Felony!) while in high school and college:
[I]f the high didn’t solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world’s ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism.
But now he’s The Man, and yesterday he said this:
I don’t mind a debate around issues like decriminalization. I personally don’t agree that that’s a solution to the problem, but I think that given the pressures that a lot of governments are under here, under-resourced, overwhelmed by violence, it’s completely understandable that they would look for new approaches, and we want to cooperate with them. I don’t think that legalization of drugs is going to be the answer.
You will need some better drugs than pot and cocaine to help you see through all that hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism. I suggest Magic Mushrooms. I hear they’re good for solving whatever it is that’s getting you down.
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