modernity [Theme]

Research shows that most people cannot leave their mobile phone alone for six minutes without checking it.

Now we are in captivity - worse than the Tatar yoke. Visible authorities are only performers, and above them are degrees and degrees. Paganism reigns everywhere - much worse than in ancient times. For the old paganism was full of faith - only in false gods. New paganism is cynical disbelief, nihilism, self-idolatry.

A key aspect of any healthy and fulfilling relationship is frequent positive interactions. This means, for example, that it's not enough to just be in the same room if everyone in the family has their noses in their screens. In the context of friendship, neither liking a friend's social media post, nor retweeting her tweet, nor sending a group email with New Year's greetings to everyone in your contact list counts: this is communication with minimal effort, and it involves low emotional return.

Stress gets a bad rap, but research shows that a certain amount of it is actually beneficial.

An easy and comfortable life poses as the highest reward, but does it deprive us of everyday opportunities to increase resilience because it provides an easy way out?

Those people who call children maggots! You simply cannot be called people then! Just admit it - you call another person a larva, which means you, excuse me, are not really a person either.

A child’s hobby ceases to be just a child’s hobby; every year parents spend more and more time on it, sacrifice their own interests and pay so much money that the hobby firmly bites into their adult brain. It begins to symbolize something else, either compensating or exacerbating their adult failures and failures.

If we are constantly “plugged” into our gadgets, we burn through two types of batteries - both the devices and our own. Recent scientific observations of people and rats convince us that if the brain is constantly busy solving many problems, it becomes exhausted. In other words, “aha!” moments. happen much less often if a person doesn’t have enough “ah!” moments.

Modern television is perhaps much more powerful than the Soviet experiments to create invincible and fearless soldiers, while modern media has created a huge crowd of obedient consumers, equalizing all people in the world through the consumption of the same goods.

The madness of modern life has deprived man of the will and sanity necessary for him to act consciously. Mechanical, stereotypical behavior has become the norm and has dulled higher abilities, making it impossible to give a correct assessment of things and phenomena.

In the modern world, everything seems to be specially designed to turn people into a crowd, that is, to “demoralize” or destroy their morality through merging with the crowd. Demoralization directly leads to loss of the meaning of existence and, as a consequence, to moral degradation.

Stubborn reality constantly demonstrates to us that an ordinary modern person is distinguished from a primitive person only by the external gloss of civilization, and even that is often washed away by the flow of passions that push us to actions that contradict the highest ethical values.

Everything modern is based on the best traditions.

Incredibly, Rowling has managed to write a coherent and compelling parable about God's judgment on the spiritual qualities of our souls and our ability to love (or the rejection of love) - and this parable delights readers of the postmodern world, encouraging them to strive for purity of heart and accept the defense of sacrificial love. For generations that have developed an impenetrable immunity against any kind of “fire and brimstone preaching,” such an achievement borders on a miracle.