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From This Process Has Emerged A Parallel Process Of Translating Traditional Working And Living Values Into A New Political And Economic Power - A Power Increasingly Based Upon The Strength Of Money And Those Material Things Money Can Purchase.

However, If We Examine The Canadian Scene Closely Enough, We Can See Signs Of This Physical And Spiritual Rot Settling Into A Number Of Our Canadian Urban Centres With A Troubling Spill-over Into Many Of Our More Rural Areas.

But Most Canadians Have Recognized To A Greater Or Lesser Extent That Despite Much Of The So-called Progress Of The Affluent Society, Essential Ingredients To A Meaningful Life Seem To Be Either Entirely Lacking, Or At Best, Difficult To Grasp.

As A Consequence, Progress Has Come To Mean Simply More Power, More Profit, More Productivity, More Paper Prosperity, All Of Which Are Convertible Into Standards Concerned Only With Size Or Magnitude Rather Than Quality Or Excellence.

I Do Not Regard It As Wrong To Take My Life, Because I Simply Change My Place Of Residence And Go Where My Wife And Baby Are.