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But capitalism has also failed because it produces too
much, shares too little, also at too high a cost to our children and grandchildren. Communism failed as
an ascetic morality. Capitalism failed because it destroys morality altogether. This is not the happy
world that any number of feckless advertisers and politicians describe. We have built a world of
sybaritic wealth for a few and Calcuttan poverty for a growing underclass. At its worst it is a world of
crack on the streets, insensate violence, anomie, and the most desperate kind of poverty. The fact is
that we live in a disintegrating culture. In the words of Ron Miller, editor of Holistic Review:
"Our culture does not nourish that which is best or noblest in the human spirit. It does not cultivate
vision, imagination, or aesthetic or spiritual sensitivity. It does not encourage gentleness, generosity,
caring, or compassion. Increasingly in the late 20th Century, the economic-technocratic-statist
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