Quoting / commenting on Sara Kaufman
“Interestingly, Spock’s view of the primacy of likability flips the long-standing Anglo-American notion, prevalent among the Puritans and up through the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries, that one builds character through service to others, whether God or your fellow man. In this older view, the less you fixate on yourself the better, apart from controlling unruly impulses. Putting priority on others is the right—and graceful—thing to do.”
Society seems increasingly chaotic, self-centered, and confused. Would we see some of this confusion resolve itself if we began training the next generation to focus less on themselves and their own comforts, and once again seek to provide grace and service to others?
-Annie Holmquist
(H/T: Intellectual Takeout)
