Word: ethicality
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...other students, the search for a job in the summer of '73 has been frustrating. With only a few weeks left before schools reopen, many have simply given up the work ethic and gone to the beach for the last days of vacation...
...Strange Ethic of Sterilization
...chilling concept, it does not matter that there is both a law and an ethic to protect every man's conversations with his psychiatrist. Nor does it matter whether such information serves any legitimate purpose; Ehrlichman expressed doubts about psychiatry. If Government wants it, there ought to be a way to get it. After all, insurance adjusters, any private detective, seem to find a way to bribe a nurse or pose as a doctor. Why not the White House...
Thus a theoretical point was scored for the ancient opponents of "welfare chiselers." Of course, it would take a Ph.D. in bureaucracy and creative sloth for a harried family to collect such riches. All the same, it does turn the work ethic upside down. The real issue is not so much those who avoid work as those who seek it and cannot find it-those husbandless mothers in particular who, for lack of day-care centers, cannot go to a job even when one is available...
...rest, he somehow manages to retain a shred of self-respect. It alienates him from them, and causes repulsive hallucinations of lizards, moray eels, and huge reptiles standing in blood-soaked carpets sipping cocktails. The drive for success/money/power has created a world where an "eat the wounded" shark ethic prevails, but Thompson believes its apocalypse is imminent. He watches people burn themselves out in struggles for self-preservation, escaping "meat-hook reality" through dope, booze, and watching football -- "whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time...