Moral revival of civil society in Russia
Remember how after the idea of socialism turned out to be irrelevant and the republics of the USSR fled, the idea soared in society that the solution to all problems would be the transition from socialist common property to private property, as under capitalism?
What, in the end, happened?
Capitalism (private property) also turned out to be not viable, as evidenced by the increasing crises. And, moreover, it (capitalism) is fraught with the danger of unleashing wars in order to distribute resources. The USA and its vassals (colonies) continue to live at the level of exclusive distribution of resources in their favor.
Before the collapse of the USSR, the world economic crisis began, and only the opening of the borders of the vast post-Soviet space allowed the economic crisis to stop for a while. But, after a while, as we observe, the crisis returned.
The conclusion suggests itself that it is not at all a matter of who owns the property (capitalists or socialist society). It's not a matter of ownership.
The conclusion suggests itself that the economy is not a type of property, the economy is the result of the intellectual and moral interaction of people.
After the 1917 revolution, the USSR was already moving from the level of Resource Allocation to the level of Goal-setting and Integration, but the idea of Socialism turned out to be unnatural and died out.
It should be noted that the Resource Allocation itself will not go anywhere, it will simply fade into the background. Morality and intellect will come to the fore.
Sociologist Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) defined society as a system of relationships between people based on the norms and values that form culture.
The main thesis of T. Parsons is that society is a complex system of social elements (groups, institutions, individuals) in a state of active interaction, guided by value systems that have a priori origin.
T. Parsons believed that the sources of social self-movement should be sought in non-economic factors, the dominant among which is morality (morality, spirituality). It is the system of moral values shared by people that allows them to integrate into society, which at the next stage turns out to be represented in the interaction of social institutions, while production activity is only a particular aspect of this interaction.
The relations of structural units are built on the basis of functions that ensure the survival of society as a whole, T. Parsons identified four types of such functions:
1. Adaptation (the problem of rational organization and distribution of resources).
2. Goal orientation (the problem of defining goals).
3. Integration (the problem of maintaining the internal unity of the system - mandatory norms, rules, etc.).
4. Maintaining a model (the problem of motivation and alignment of personal motives with the goals and values of society).
At present, the adaptation period has ended in our country. The period of goal-orientation and integration has not yet begun, which obviously explains the stagnation (crisis) in all spheres of people's lives.
I propose that the goal of society be defined as moral revival.
So, what is the technology of the moral (spiritual) revival of civil society in Russia?
Justification, formulation and essence of the problem
The rationalism of our century and time in its historical movement "neglected" the moral values developed by previous generations. It got to the point that adults began to forget, and children could not and cannot acquire the traditions of the people, which destroys the connection of times and weakens the nation.
So, a Russian person has always lived, solved the problem transmitted to him from the depths of centuries like this: "How to live in order to be holy?"
Why is this understanding of the essence of being, saving for every person, disappeared from life, remaining in the past?
And if “on the march” of economic transformations the secondary importance of morality was not perceived as a danger, then in the last decades of the XNUMXth and early XNUMXst centuries the social and moral infrastructure turned out to be the weakest and most vulnerable.
The lack of attention to the social and moral training of the younger generation and adults fully explains the economic and social difficulties of our time, which are recorded in all countries: the decline in morality, the increase in crime and drug addiction, a decrease in interest in intellectual development, a lack of understanding of the salvation and nobility of any labor society needs , the manifestation of the motives of apathy, parasitism, nihilism, dependency, infantilism, hedonism, etc.
Management of upbringing is necessary to create such an infrastructure that would be most conducive to increasing the spiritual potential of the child and adult population of a single educational space, the central institution of which is the state, represented by television. The start of the implementation, including the constant maintenance, management of education in our time is possible only through a modern means of mass communication (television), including through the speeches of the top officials of the state.
When managing social and humanitarian systems, correctly implemented target forecasting is of fundamental importance, on the basis of which the system is modeled (life, human behavior in a given environment and situation), technologies are selected to achieve a result determined by the criteria for its assessment.
In the upbringing of people, this approach has not yet received sufficient practical application, which does not allow the purposeful formation of such relations between people that would allow the individual to behave steadily in the time measured by his birth, to overcome trials in life and gain strength in serving the cause and people.
In practice, there is generally no approach to educating people, just as there is no education process itself (moral / spiritual development). By upbringing, we mean care and examination.
It should be noted that the reason for the death of previous human civilizations was the decline in morality.
The expectation that morality will arise from somewhere on its own leads nowhere.
Retreat
Historical Over the past decades, Russia's path has kept a course in only one direction of the development of cultural heritage. So, in the life of generations, information and experience of spiritual education of citizens by religion, which is an integral element of the social culture of mankind, was completely excluded. Therefore, in our country secular methods, means and norms of education and upbringing have been mastered. On this occasion, one can rejoice and grieve, admire and be indignant, but such is the given.
It was irrational to hope that “having destroyed to the ground” over the decades it was possible to create without connection with the past something more significant than the centuries-old experience of mankind, it was irrational, but it happened.
Goal
Creation of a moral infrastructure for the development of the spiritual and intellectual potential of children and adults of a single educational space, including the population of the country, entering into business and personal relations at various levels of interaction. In this aspect of problems, a single system-forming factor * (invariant) is the universal human moral goals (morality, values, categories) of the behavior of an individual in society (an example of a moral category in the end).
Management of the upbringing of a stable social position of the individual is based on universal human moral values.
Strategic results
Television is the center of a single educational space - by managing the education system, it turns the practice of human existence into a progressively developing infrastructure of moral interaction between people.
Tactical results
The presence of a national idea.
Proposal of a variant of the peaceful development of human civilization.
A significant decrease in crimes in all types of human activities (constant in each subsequent time interval).
Elimination of mistakes in the education system (upbringing and training) at all levels. Development of science / culture / sports (constant in each subsequent time period).
A significant increase in the results of education and upbringing of children and adults in the context of the formation of an intellectual and moral infrastructure on a national scale (constant in each subsequent time period).
A significant increase in professionalism and labor productivity in all sectors, including the accelerated development of innovative components of the economy (constant in each subsequent time period).
The ability of the adult population to transfer the skills of moral / spiritual and intellectual experience to the younger generation (the ability to educate and teach).
An end to attacks on Russia by Western countries.
Russia is the unconditional world leader in moral (spiritual) and intellectual development.
The longest possible existence of Russian civilization.
Practical application
I offer all films and programs, incl. news, put on moral goals. The moral category is chosen in accordance with the goals of the program (today, unfortunately, there is not a single program that would be based on the corresponding moral values, the news is presented without evaluating moral actions).
The first stage is the informational aspect, the assimilation of the composition of the field of choice (components of moral categories).
The second stage is the motivational aspect, predicting an adequate emotional response to moral goals, the ability to recognize the components of moral values in an ongoing event and give them an adequate assessment.
BUT, there are no moral values, they are either lost or completely lost ... None of the programs / films / books make it clear to the population what moral values are in question, and even more so it is not clear what assessment they are given if they are intuitively present.
And it makes no sense at all to talk about whether the viewer will adopt the foundations of morality broadcast from the screen into his own behavior. Moreover, the intuitive propaganda of a positive attitude towards the negative components of moral categories is already yielding tangible negative results in the life of society.
It should also be noted that films and programs based on positive constituents of moral categories remain popular timelessly. But without the assimilation of the constituent moral categories and the ability to recognize them, the conditions for the transfer of moral experience to people are not presented. It is obvious that the high popularity of certain films / programs / literary works is caused by a person's instinctive craving for morality.
The third stage is the operational aspect, modeling creative behavior by self-education, transferring to the population of the country the skills of modeling their daily activities on the basis of moral values, subject to freedom of choice.
In this regard, the task is to form public opinion based on moral values, which, in turn, is the basis of the existence of a civil society.
The technologies for information, motivation and operations are field proven and surprisingly simple.
An example of a moral category.
Patriotism (definition) - a field of good:
• Taking care of the interests of the country (city, enterprise, family, planet).
• Taking care of the historical fate of the country.
• Willingness to self-sacrifice.
• Loyalty to the Motherland in the fight against the enemy.
• Empathy for the suffering of the people.
• Respect for the traditions of the people.
• Respect for the historical past.
• Affection for the place of residence.
• Fight against the antipodes of morality.
• Pride in social achievement.
• Pride in cultural achievement.
• Anxiety for social vices of society.
• Activity in work and social and political activity.
Delusions (field of evil):
• Public passivity.
• Hatred of parasitism.
• Hatred of exploiters.
Also, please take into account that there is a moral heritage of mankind accumulated over 5 thousand years - about 2 thousand moral categories (goals, values) and their definitions, for example:
• Respect.
• Freedom.
• Conscientious work for the benefit of society.
• Fulfilling public duty in good faith.
• Caring for the preservation and augmentation of social wealth.
• A responsibility.
• Integrity.
• Conscience.
• Modesty.
• Truthfulness.
• Honesty.
• Vanity (field of evil).
• Parasitism (field of evil).
• Careerism (field of evil).
• Friendship.
• Humanism.
• Love.
PS
Expanding the topic to the paragraph "Purpose". There are also:
• A single system-forming factor of such a global infrastructure as human intellectual development.
• A single system-forming factor of such infrastructure as the economy.
• A single system-forming factor of social infrastructure, which is the key to the progress of human civilization. Now the key is turned towards the regression of civilization.
• A single system-forming factor of the economic crisis.
• A single system-forming factor that regulates the birth rate.
The practice of human development shows that without knowledge of a single system-forming factor of the infrastructure (system), the management of any infrastructure is doomed to failure. Moreover, the failure in the moral infrastructure does not allow the development of the intellectual infrastructure.
You need to learn to see moral goals. They are everywhere. They are leading in any human activity.
To begin with, try to correlate the constituents of the field of good in the moral category of patriotism with the words and actions of the protagonist and other characters of the film "The Diamond Arm" and with the meaning of the song of the group "LYUBE" - "Roads".
When you have the desire and the opportunity to get acquainted in more detail, you will be sincerely surprised how simple everything is. And that THIS has been lying under our feet for centuries. And we (humanity) are engaged in the "invention of the bicycle" that does not go anywhere.
*Appendix:
About the concept - a single system-forming factor.
The idea of a backbone factor worries philosophers from the time of the emergence of philosophy to the present day. It originated already in ancient times. Plato (428 or 427–348 BC) represented the world as a created creator (demiurge) who gave it a soul. The latter ensures its order.
The system-forming factor, on the one hand, seems to be an objective phenomenon, because it characterizes the ability of matter to acquire and manifest systemicity. But, on the other hand, it acts as a means for the researcher to isolate the system from the environment, that is, it is an instrument for checking whether there is something that is determined by the system. Thus, the system-forming factor is one of the manifestations of the activity of matter in the aspect of realizing its ability to form systems. At the same time, the search for system-forming factors reflects the ability of the human brain to see the world in a systemic dimension.
The problem of searching for system-forming factors is one of the main problems of science, since, having found a factor, we find a system. And this leads to a dramatic increase in the cognitive effect.
Suffice it to recall, for example, the leap in science thanks to the discovery by D. I. Mendeleev (1834-1907) of the periodic law and the construction of the periodic table of elements. The system-forming factor of the periodic table of elements is the relationship between the atomic weight and the properties of the elements. The discovery made it possible to combine all the elements into a strict periodic system, created the opportunity not only to describe the properties of existing elements, but to predict the appearance of new ones.
Использованная литература:
Dictionary of Ethics, edited by I. Cohn, 1981
Yu. P. Surmin, Systems Theory and Systems Analysis.
Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), The Social System, Sociological Theory and Contemporary Society.
MN Skatkin, Secondary School Didactics.
Yu. K. Tatarenko, Technology for predicting an adequate emotional response to moral goals (education).
Yu. K. Tatarenko, A systematic approach to the management of training and education (education).
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