Accepting Terms of Service, Blindly but Happily

WHO AMONG US has not had the great good misfortune of being presented with a Terms of service contract while attempting to do business online, been overwhelmed and bored by the imposing document, and clicked on the signature button without further adieu or effort? Studies reveal that the average length lf time required to actually read and comprehend such a document is about forty five minutes, and since anyone can easily take forty five minutes out of a normal American work day, there is absolutely no excuse for not thoroughly examining your next T.O.S.. The study went further. since nobody in the real world ever actually has the foggiest notion what's in the damned thing, everybody signs it, unwitting, assuming the best, hoping for anything other than the worst. Fabricated contracts were presented to online business people, with unusual clauses embedded within the text. One clearly stated that upon signing, the signee would be subject to an investigation by the national Security Agency, with possible fine and imprisonment should any incriminating information be thus obtained. nobody missed a beat. All signed. another contract expressly stated that upon committing to the terms of service, the first born child of the committed would be taken and sacrificed upon an alter erected to the glory of capitalism and the legal profession. Again, no opposition was forthcoming. We learned what we already suspected; nobody but nobody reds the infernal things, opting to suspend disbelief, and to give full and complete trust to not only the corporate entity presenting the terms, but also, even more incredibly, to the undoubtedly substantial team of attorneys responsible for generating, monitoring, and enforcing the terms themselves. welcome to the United States of Attorneys, the most legalistic 'civilization" in the sordid history of humankind, where on third of the world's lawyers toil in prosperous if clandestine poorly lighted smoke and liquor filled dens of iniquity, and the citizens of the land of the free and th gullible carry on, somehow, having not the faintest idea of what might await them at the next legally lad out turn. as Goethe once said: 'we are never deceived. we only deceive ourselves." Well, maybe. but it certainly doesn't hurt to have a little assistance. legally, along the way to to ultimate aim of languishing in a perpetual state of self inflicted but unwitting deception.