Word: ethically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost faith in their enterprise and are listless about defending it. Capitalism's very success has created a paradox: hard work, discipline and organization make capitalism successful. But the goods it abundantly produces encourage a mindless pursuit of hedonism. Capitalism is thus deprived of any "moral or transcendent ethic." There is a further paradox. The greater the economic growth under capitalism, the higher the expectations. People demand more government services and more protection against adversity. Inflation results, savings diminish, and capitalism is undermined. The only solution is a restraint on private appetite and a return to a public philosophy...
Added to this strange mixture is the church's strong affinity for capitalism. As if guided by the Weberian theory of the Protestant ethic, the Mormons tie prosperity to their religion; material success is taken as a sign of the Lord's rewarding Mormons. Larry Dewey's father, for example, believes that the good things that have come to him since his conversion to Mormonism are directly attributable to the church. The work ethic is evident in Mormon undergraduates, who are not coincidentally often...
...questionable contention. But it strikes me that Ms. Reisman's point of view reflects outmoded natural law thought and a Rousseauist sense of the social contract. Such blatant disregard for the dialectic is unforgivable. Besides, the decorating of a Christmas tree may give expression to the work ethic which, as most Weberians admit, is elemental to the American system. Add to this the fact that Christmas trees are pretty and I think that it is very easy to dismiss Ms. Reisman's contentions. Name witheld upon request
...which the doctors and nurses are overthrown and the inmates reign over all. As a political metaphor it attempts to identify the lot of the oppressed with the lot of the incapable. Even Animal Farm deals with the same theme in a much more complex way. McMurphy's ethic of fuck and fight is hardly a more desirable way to run a society than the way of the nurses and the doctors (whatever the drawbacks of their system). Contemporary critics of psychoanalytic treatment of psychoses like Thomas Szasz have pointed out these drawbacks, and it's a pity that Forman...
...NEEDLEPOINT GALLERY OF PATTERNS FROM THE PAST by Phyllis Kluger. 191 pages. Knopf. $15. No mere woolgathering, the craft of needlepoint combines a meditative activity with the hard-core work ethic. Time is casually suspended stitch by stitch, but in the end something palpable gets done. Phyllis Kluger's stitches in time span nearly 5,000 years-from the arts of ancient Egypt and Byzantium to Renaissance Europe and early America. All are shown in full-color photos as well as instructional graph patterns. Kluger's historical commentary and analysis of her motifs provide an enriching dimension...