Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they gathered on weekends in huddled masses in dimly-lit hotel corridors. partying, discussing, earnestly analyzing, wearing garish buttons and proclaiming their bizarre beliefs before wearied maids, bellhops and addled television producers. And later they went home and cranked out massive tomes on "The Societal Implications of the Vulcan Ethic." Nightly, or biweekly, or weekly, they sat in front of their tubes staring transfixed at the images of their devotion. And always in their heart of hearts they prayed for one thing: The Return. With Star Trek: The Motion Picture, they...
There is an ethic of controversy: Debate an argument in its own terms; expose pernicious misuse where practiced; but do not degrade scientific discourse, even "in the name of the People." Daniel Bell Professor of Sociology
...could construct a kind of "worst-case scenario" to prove that the U.S., with the rest of the West, has fallen into dangerous decline. The case might be argued thus: the nation's pattern is moral and social failure, embellished by hedonism. The work ethic is nearly as dead as the Weimar Republic. Bureaucracies keep cloning themselves. Resources vanish. Education fails to educate. The system of justice collapses into a parody of justice. An underclass is trapped, half out of sight, while an opulent traffic passes overhead. Religion gives way to narcissistic self-improvement cults...
...Black work" and a thrift ethic help them handle those prices...
This conservation ethic extends to basic attitudes and the smallest things. An average French family saves 18% of its income and West Germans put aside 12%, vs. just 5% in the U.S., which has the lowest savings rate of all industrial countries. Houses are only rarely heated from attic to basement. Apartment-house hall lights are connected to timers and only stay on a minute or so while someone passes through. Eating out is a luxury reserved for special occasions. In the end, judgments about the relative wealth of Europeans and Americans turn on one's definition of prosperity...