There is an added benefit to the protected pedant. He or she differs from his employers, the middle class: the small businessperson, professional, factory worker, truck driver, anyone, in short, whose livelihood depends upon production and spends some to all their leisure hours in some level of anxiety. “Can I fulfill my quota, am I underprepared for my presentation, have I sufficient resolution to refrain from making the same mistake with tomorrow’s client that I made today?” These questions are familiar to all of us whose living depends on pleasing someone else, which is to say in performing
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