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If that were true, humanity wouldn't even have reached the point where that advertising and protestant ethic were even possible.
by andrenth 8y ago
If that were true, humanity wouldn't even have reached the point where that advertising and protestant ethic were even possible.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoI don’t get your logic? I assumed protestant ethic came from all the non-anal families literally dying in an unforgiving and unfamiliar land.
- andrenth 8y agoMy point was simply that if doing nothing was men’s natural state, we wouldn’t have progressed to the point where Protestantism (or advertising) was even a thing. What’s a non-anal family? Most families are non-anal if you consider how human reproduction works by I’m not sure that’s what you’re talking about :P
- erikpukinskis 8y agoI meant anal, short for "anal retentive" i.e. paranoid about doing things "properly". Your logic makes sense if the Earth were the same everywhere. It breaks down if you understand that New England is fundamentally different from England or Africa. The fact that puritanism thrived says something about New England's natural state in the 1600s. It says nothing about humankind's natural state. Really, the fact that it emerged so late in human history, and was dominant so briefly, in such an unusual place suggests it's somewhat unnatural at a species scale.
- andrenth 8y agoI didn't make the point that puritanism is men's natural state. I simply made the point that "doing nothing" isn't.