Don't Pay the Lawyers

If I had to describe how the world worked to someone who has no idea, it would certainly be a very hard task. First of all, everything you say would seem foolish because after all, a lot of the things we do are stupid as hell. Gulliver's master seems perplexed at the idea of war and how we manage to kill so many of our own kind. He is also confused by our trading and money systems. He cannot believe that a country has to go to other countries for goods. In his explanation of why we trade, Gulliver feels that in return, "we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves. Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poisoning, whoring, canting, libelling, free- 

thinking, and the like occupations." Although I agree that a lot of our vices come from interactions that have to do with getting something that you want, this long list mentions good things, not vices we acquire. Voting and free-thinking, for example, are vital to the advancement of culture. Without these two, our world would be something completely different.

Another thing that made me think in chapters V and VI of Gulliver's Travels is the way that Gulliver talks about lawyers and the law. "that in all points out of their own trade, they were 

usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profession." This is harsh. People today still talk about lawyers in a way that makes them seem liars. This "corruption," however, doesn't come from the law or the profession itself, but for the money that comes with being a lawyer. The law is meant to protect and organize us, and lawyers are supposed to seek justice. When money is involved, though, things change. Lawyers no longer care about justice but rather turn their attention to money, and in this game, whoever pays the most wins. Justice is thrown out the window when money is involved. 

This makes me think about the article I read recently about Medicare in McAllen county. Here, doctors are over using medicine for profit. When it comes to the law and healing, money shouldn't be involved. If possible, doctors and lawyers shouldn't be paid.