Reality trumps Myth, and then begins to look like its own form of Myth. Students of law know this transmutation first hand. Becoming a lawyer requires one to knuckle-down, get real, and drink heartily of bottled necessity. Rules become Reality. In learning to become a lawyer, the analytics, instrumentalism, and objectification are quite real.
Reality is sought and worshiped, before the costs of our reality worship are assessed.
Look at what is happening around you. Reflect on the classroom where you learned to be a lawyer, on your own relation to law and your clients, the politics of law you discuss with your colleagues, and the newspaper despairing news of your profession. When titans struggle, watch for cracks in the seamless presentation of necessity, in assumption about reality, watch for the underlying tensions which expose our secular conceptions of law, a world of law that knows no myth. Look again at these days, outside and beyond the buildings in which you have studied and practiced law. When the days tumble into years and the sense of immediacy gives way to time, you may find that the daily press of necessity has collapsed into a story, a familiar one, or a strange one.