Capitalist ambition needs a counterculture of spiritual meaning

David Brooks writes about the "ambition explosion" that has happened in China with the introduction of capitalism, and the concomitant spiritual searching that has emerged at the same time.

China is desperately searching for a spiritual and humanist nest to hold capitalist ambition. Those of us in the rest of the world are probably not searching as feverishly for a counterculture, but the essential challenge is the same. Capitalist ambition is an energizing gale force. If there’s not an equally fervent counterculture to direct it, the wind uproots the tender foliage that makes life sweet.

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