Yeah, modern society has issues. One philosopher (MacIntyre) says that the role models are the bureaucratic manager (as you said), the therapist (our replacement for priests) and wealthy aesthetes (e.g. Californian wine "experts").
Thomist values are the way forward he says, but this requires particular social structures to operate. The alternative comes from Nietzsche (the true moral philosopher of modernity, they say) who says set your own standards...
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