“The majority, deep down, have little if any long-term faith in the “American system.” There is grave depletion of spiritual values.”
Yes, and social systems are in fact opposed to spiritual values, namely compassion and freedom.

“Our so-called neo-liberal, free market economy knows no limits in its exploitation of physical, biological, intellectual, and socio-economic resources. It cares nothing for preserving the importance and wisdom of historical cultures.”
Social systems destroy natural cultures and replace them with a homogenized, stale disturbed technocratic culture in its place; modern fashion, entertainment and sports are overblown and twisted manifestations of this cultural decimation and restriction, allowing the arts to only flourish through corrupted channels of expression.

“As the neo-liberal economics rapidly expands to envelop the entire world through the operations of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the General Agreements on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), among others, and the global supermarket governing body, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the global gap between the haves and the have nots is dramatically increasing far beyond the already grave disparities.”
All of these pinnacles of centralization have at their root the inability of the masses to survive in a localized way, due to land control and taxation.

And that issue of land control must be addressed; calling for more localization and community when people don’t have the land to do that on is short-sighted. The insurmountable obstacle to the right vision a “Decentralist, Self-Reliant, Earth-Centered” society is the forcible restriction to living naturally on the Earth. Telling people “Hey you should grow a food garden and barter with your neighbors” when they cant afford the land (or time) to do so is not exactly helpful. We are money-slaves because we can’t live self/community-sufficiently, we can’t produce what we need ourselves so we need to be consumers; we need to depend on governments and corporations that together are leading the way to the collapse of our ecosystem and the completion of an Orwellian techno-tyrannical world police-state.
Something like two acres of arable land per family (whatever form that “family” may take), free of cost and taxation, is getting at a real tangible answer. Land needs to be fairly distributed; empty concrete lots, golf-courses, etc. need to be claimed and occupied by families. Those that already have a home and land to grow food on can of course just stay put, except they stop paying the mortgage and taxes, so they will have the free-time (no longer being $-slaves) to live self-sufficiently.
In Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, he says of its residents that they, “account it a very just cause of war, for a nation to hinder others from possessing a part of that soil of which they make no use, but which is suffered to lie idle and uncultivated; since every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.” BY THE LAW OF NATURE A RIGHT. The reason we live in this exploitative/destructive/unnatural society is because we are not claiming our NATURAL RIGHT to live as natural women and men on the earth. LAND & WATER IS A HUMAN RIGHT! Not something to be given to us by government officials, something we should have automatically; we are said to be “born into” whatever nation-state and therefore automatically be a “citizen” of whatever unnatural/unjust social-system exists at that time and place. And this social contract doesn’t require our signature of course, that’s automatic too. Bullocks! We are HUMANS first, not “citizens!” This is the age-old “Devil’s Bargain”: in exchange for added “security” and “services” we have to relinquish our freedom, we have to give up the possibility of living natural, fulfilling and ethical lives, we have to submit to an unprincipled, tyrannical and totally unsustainable system of false authority and hierarchy. The answer is personal SOVEREIGNTY, more specifically, sovereign veganic homestead communities, which are the most ethical and sustainable.