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Moral crisis is a global affair
Serhiy Borysovych Krymsky, academician The young persons used to maintain that our fathers made it wrong and we will make it better. However, the youngsters are model abstainers now! They come to a conclusion that there is no way to change the chaotic waning world and the self-improvement is the only alternative. In the history of humanity there was only one such analogue: before the adoption of Christianity. When people refuse to change their ethos, it signals about the brewing crisis.
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“The most frightful thing in our society is the absence of ethical standards”
Volodymyr Nikitin, Director of International Center for Prospective Studies The contemporary rate of social changes is so rapid that the social norms start mutating and bringing about the changes in norm assessment with minimum perceptible differences. The insiders feel no irreversible changes. The culture is the only absolute coordinates of existing changes.
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We lack moral authorities because nobody wants to take notice of them
Maxym Strikha, Chief of scientific programs at the Institute of Open Policy, Doctor of Physico-Mathematical Sciences, author The society has lost moral authorities, and the ruling elites are to blame, because they formed the social order with only politicians, businesspersons, activists of show biz, and sportsmen on top.
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“We have the morality demand deficit”
Olena Zlobina, Doctor of Sociology, Head of the Social Psychology Dept. of the Institute of Sociology of the NANU The Orange Revolution is to blame for discreditation of the moral imperative.
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The philosophers are but to follow poets in cultivation of new values…
Serhiy Datsiuk, Gardaryka Corp. for strategic consulting I believe that poets must cultivate the new values with philosophers, authors, religious activists and artists to follow. Our time is prosaic, though. Anyway, the poets were the first to fail despite the poetic Ukrainian language. They became susceptible to egalitarianism; however, theirs are the powerful interests and they are at the front line all the time.
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Regime of total impudence
Olexiy Shevchenko, Ph.D. The experts consider the current political crisis in Ukraine as the complete destruction of legal system, political-legal oligophreny; but the belief of population in legal institutes and morality has been also undermined. The situation of permissiveness stamped with approval has been formed. The everyday idea is that the world was always the same.
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“Not the plebeianism is to blame, but the lack of powerful alternative”
Yuri Makarov, anchorman of 1+1 Channel, literator That lesser we look for ready moral ideals in the imperfect past (soviet, patriarchal-rural, Kozak, Trypillian etc.), the easier the future orientations will be.
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“The liberal globalization is beneficial for the economy but ruinous for spiritual and cultural domains”
Ivan Andrusiak, poet, prose writer, literary critic, interpreter The soviets ruined the notion of personal belief and now the soul has no point of rest. It stubbornly and intensively looks for it; some are guided by ideology, or mass culture, or fancy foreign religious teachings, or other simulacrums.
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