Ashley montagu, on being human. "West­ern so­ci­ety, in short, does not en­cour­age the de­vel­op­ment of good­ness be­cause good­ness is not v^hat that so­ci­ety is in­ter­ested in. Good­ness be­longs to a frame of ref­er­ence.......

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West­ern so­ci­ety, in short, does not en­cour­age the de­vel­op­ment of good­ness be­cause good­ness is not v^hat that so­ci­ety is in­ter­ested in. Good­ness be­longs to a frame of ref­er­ence other than that in which we make our liv­ing. It be­longs to the covert rather than to the overt part of our cul­ture. What we need to do is to en­throne good­ness, hu­man re­la­tions, in the place at present oc­cu­pied by eco­nom­ics. The idols of the mar­ket place must yield to those of hu­man­ity. The two are not in­com­pat­i­ble, but it is fool­ish to put eco­nom­ics ahead of hu­man­ity, when eco­nom­ics be­long in the ser­vice of hu­man­ity. A so­ci­ety such as ours, in which hu­man re­la­tions are sub­or­di­nated to the eco­nomic sys­tem, can res­cue it­self only by sub­or­di­nat­ing its econ­omy to the pur­poses of hu­man re­la­tions." https://archive.org/details/onbeinghuman00mont