I think Max Weber talks about the work ethic that came out of Protestantism and has infected, as it were, Western civilization.
It's simply never OK for us to
be where we are if that place is not "productive."
I think we need to get over that.
People who have been abused need a safe place to work things through. All she asked for were some kind words, folks. I think it makes us feel anxious to just
be with someone in pain. Why is that?
Maybe we're making a slave-driving religion out of self improvement?
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
In the absence of such assurances from religious authority, Weber argued that Protestants began to look for other "signs" that they were saved. Worldly success became one measure of salvation.
Anticipating Adam Smith (but using a very different argument), Luther had made an early endorsement of the division of labor that was beginning to develop in Europe. Therefore, according to Weber's reading of Luther, a "vocation" from God was no longer limited to the clergy or church, but applied to any occupation or trade.
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