Life may become subject to copyright as much as architecture is not. The Precipizio website comes up with the cliff of all cliffs. It is not hard to read in today’s adventure, the tension of the world-weary and a lack of risk. The cliff is fiscal, social, penal, pedagogical and global. The cliff is also architectural. In such aching inaction and lack of criticality, architecture has never had it so good; and it has never had this opportunity to make such a difference. Or at least not for a hundred years! Today architecture is dancing at the cliff edge like an emoticon. Architecture can wave its arms, it can shout aloud, it can complain, it can wrangle and finagle. It can be underhand and play a straight hand: a royal flush or two pairs. Who will answer back and best serve the vicissitudes of the architectural profession today? Who will continue waving not drowning, and who will fly? And who but an ancient scholar will answer us, who but a desert father will monitor and guide us to best practices yet to appear? From website to pamphlet, from manual to textbook, from journal to magazine, there is no question that architecture today as a profession and a discipline is neither fixed nor as settled as education programs and professional bodies think it should be, and as the profession wishes for itself. In the society of the spectacle and this uncritical age, we are tasked with taking this on, with a listening intelligence and contest.