ABSTRACT
Something is wrong. Virtually all of our institutions seem to be in trouble. The family is deteriorating, schools seem to be ineffective, there is deep suspicion of most large-scale organizations, including industry, business, and government. There is dwindling support for churches. Crime is alarmingly common. We are balkanized into racial, economic, ethnic, demographic, and sexual division. Privatism, greed, self-interest, and self-indulgence challenge the notion of community. 1 Old assumptions of trust and integrity have slipped into a quagmire of litigiousness which jams the courts. The economy sputters, managing to violate Keynesian notions of the relationship between inflation, unemployment, and interest rates.
