On Saturday, September 4, 2004, at 03:41 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> "I feel blessed to be able to get paid for what I
enjoy doing," said
> Branan, a nurse for 21 years. "I'm very active in my
church. My role
> as a nurse is a way to fulfill my role as a
Catholic."
am i the only one who finds the modern (american?) fixation on roles (role players, role models, playing a role, having a role to play, "fulfilling" a role) disturbing?
j *********************
Come now...be happy in your work, j. We've got a big bridge to build for the Empire.
Regards, Mike B)
===== "Formally, authoritarian ethics denies man's capacity to know what is good or bad; the norm giver is always an authority transcending the individual. Such a system is based not on reason and knowledge but on awe of the authority and on the subject's feeling of weakness and dependence; the surrender of decision making to the authority results from the latter's magic power; its decisions can not and must not be questioned. Materially, or according to content, authoritarian ethics answers the question of what is good or bad primarily in terms of the interests of the authority, not the interests of the subject; it is exploitative, although the subject may derive considerable benefits, psychic or material, from it." Eric Fromm, MAN FOR HIMSELF http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal
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