69. FUTURE OF CULTURE

End of XX century turned out to be saturated with contradictory processes, but this actualized the question of the direction of mankind and its culture in the XNUMXst century. There are no exact answers to this question yet, but a number of possibilities, probable lines of development in modern research have been outlined.

Using various methodologies, arguments and evidence, scientists draw different scenarios for the future of culture, among which the most prominent are pessimistic and optimistic ones.

According to pessimists, culture is in a deep crisis and is moving towards its decline.

Evidence of the crisis state of culture is the global problems of mankind, the deepening of social inequality, numerous local conflicts, the crisis of morality and morality.

These problems were first identified in the report to the Club of Rome "The Limits to Growth", prepared under the leadership of D. Meadows.

The report made a disturbing conclusion that humanity is heading towards a catastrophe, which it can avoid only by introducing new values ​​and orientations into culture.

Futurological research has become widely known throughout the world. O. Toffler, in which he argued the inevitability of the decline of industrial society, which will be accompanied by crisis phenomena in culture.

Pictures of a possible future are also widely represented in the literature of the XNUMXth century. (in warning books D. Orwell, O. Huxley, E. Zamyatina and etc.).

OptimistsOn the contrary, we are convinced that modern culture is developing in the right direction, that its future lies in science and technology, economics and new technologies. It is the development of these areas that will allow other problems to be resolved. The further existence of people is unthinkable without scientific and technological progress.

During the multi-thousand-year process of evolution, a person will no longer be able to simply survive in natural conditions. Optimists believe that in modern culture (despite the horrors of wars) there has not been a dehumanization of society, the importance of the individual, his freedoms and opportunities is still high in it.

The individual is still perceived as the basis of society and the basic element of the changes taking place in it.

Scientific and technical progress accelerated the process of cultural rapprochement of peoples, their communicative interaction. Economic, political and cultural differences do not interfere with general cultural progress.

computer revolution, expanding human information capabilities, will further accelerate the process of bringing cultures closer together and will allow humanity to develop common principles of life necessary for survival. Culture will retain its functions in the new conditions.

Author: Barysheva A.D.

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