55. Modern civilizational crisis

Meanwhile, in the conditions of the collapse of the Marxist-Leninist worldview, ideological concepts of various kinds, primarily religious ones, poured into the resulting "empty" spiritual space. Their range is extremely wide - from Catholicism and Protestantism to Scientology and Dianetics. A person inexperienced in worldview is sometimes lost in this abundance of "spiritual food", is unable not only to recognize the "recipes for cooking" various "spiritual dishes", but also to clearly recognize the deep social and cultural differences that exist even between individual Christian denominations, not to mention about the realization of the fact that, despite seemingly insignificant theological differences, the differences between them in the way a person’s spiritual life is arranged are enormous.

However, the choice facing today not an individual, but the whole of humanity, is essentially different - after all, the crisis experienced by our country is only a concentrated expression of a global, general civilizational crisis. And this crisis, in turn, is the result of the crisis of the leading Western civilization in the modern world. World social development cannot continue in the same direction, since in this case, irreversible catastrophic changes on the scale of the entire planet will occur in a maximum of 30-50 years, and the complete and final death of all mankind will only be a matter of time.

Conscious self-restraint in the name of the common good, as historical experience shows, cannot be widespread - the same Christianity has been preaching it for two millennia and has not achieved any serious success, even under the fear of eternal otherworldly punishment. Attempts to extend the past into the future are untenable, neither in the form of religious fundamentalism, which opposes the West, nor in the form of Western fundamentalism, which is now acting as the idea of ​​a "golden billion." Awareness of the dead-end nature of Western civilization became in the XNUMXth century. the leitmotif of European social thought - from Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of Europe" to the works of the "Club of Rome" and a number of other areas related to the analysis of global problems.

Disappointment in traditional religious values ​​gave rise to a search for non-traditional forms of religiosity, largely built on borrowing the ideas and motives of Eastern religions, as well as on the transformation of Christianity itself.

The internal contradictions of Western civilization have led to the fact that, despite its success in material, purely material prosperity, a number of spiritual problems have arisen that threaten the very existence of mankind.

Authors: Pankin S.F., Mortova E.A.

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