Word: ethicality
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Schmitt said that Opus Dei doctrine differs from the Protestant work ethic in that it "stresses the need for attention to virtue while working, rather than the virtue of work for success's sake...
...were plentiful, wages and aspirations ran high and local businessmen thrived. A sense of well-being enveloped the skilled aerospace workers, especially the scientists and engineers who saw themselves at the head of the country's drive toward technological preeminence. They were the crew-cut exemplars of the puritan ethic, doing useful work for a good, glamorous cause...
...easy about the kid culture: its music, its mobility, its sex, the milder varieties of its pharmaceutical voyaging. Brautigan, at 36 an honorary kid, floats through his books on pure talent. If he does not seem to work very hard at his writing, well, they repealed the Protestant ethic after all and insouciance is one of his major attractions. His new book, for instance, is a warm, wobbly tale about a reclusive young man who works in San Francisco in a library for unpublishable books. It is Brautigan's happy idea that life's losers, an astonishing number...
Most witnesses felt that the Angels had drawn first blood; the tortured ethic of the hassle dictates that the man who goes for his hardware last loses face. Most present also believed that the Angels were not expecting a ruckus, or they would not have been outnumbered 6 to 1. If that is true, the Angels showed much better reactions than the cops, who had been forewarned by a federal narcotics agent. When the Breed rolled up to the hall, an off-duty patrolman immediately notified police headquarters, and two dozen wagons and cars full of police were dispatched...
What drugs symbolized for a while was a feeling of oneness, unity within the universe. Jerry says, "I am God . . . no really, I am the Messiah." That entire hippie ethic of community of spirit and loving everyone just died somewhere along the track of hepatitis, busts and commercialism. In retrospect, one is struck only by the devastating naivete involved in that movement. While it was drugs that brought that feeling of community, ironically, they also brought an awareness of how isolated people really are Jerry's mother says, "Scientists tells us we are not alone in the universe. That...