Substitution of life values. The problem of true and false values
Modern world It is actively changing and developing, although in some areas not for the better. Changes also affect people, primarily young people. She is actually left to her own devices, no one is engaged in the education of morality, the formation of personality. And in this situation, the problems of modern youth are growing like a snowball. These problems are a reflection of the vices and imperfections of the entire society . And only solving these difficulties will make it possible to improve the health of society. But to start the fight, you need to carefully study the “enemy”. Increasingly, young boys and girls, instead of thinking about family, parents, personal growth, are trying to show their superiority through addiction to bad habits and violence. There is still a chance to change everything for the better and we need to start studying the problems that lie in wait for young people right now.
The most important problems of modern youth.
Alcoholism
Would it be correct to talk about alcoholism as a social problem among young people? Of course, yes, because a person of any age and social status can become addicted to alcohol. Here we must take into account hereditary predisposition (alcoholism is still a disease) and not neglect the power of the retraction method. If the first acquaintance with alcoholic beverages took place at an early and even childhood, then life becomes meaningless. The teenager loses willpower, stops believing in the bright and good, and drinking becomes the stimulus for action. Sad statistics state that alcoholism is the most current problem youth, which overtakes children of both sexes. A drunk teenager loses the ability to adequately perceive reality, is rude, unbalanced and prone to recklessness.
From the above, we can formulate another problem - crime among young people. Most crimes are committed by teenagers while intoxicated. It is easier to prevent this misfortune than to try to fight or eradicate it. To do this, you need to make efforts to raise a full-fledged member of society, protect the child from bad companies, create conditions for his harmonious development (sports, music, reading, hobbies, etc.).
Addiction
Drug use is an even worse problem than alcoholism, because it is almost impossible to get rid of such addiction on your own. A teenager who finds himself in bad company is forced to try drugs (in order to keep up with his “friends”). The further development of events is predetermined - six months later another drug addict appears in society.
Parents should not hope that this misfortune will bypass the child, but instead, control and actively participate in the life of their child. If this happens, then the teenager needs to be sent to.
Tobacco smoking
This problem is not as bad as the previous ones. But this is an addiction, and it can become the first step towards more serious problems - drug addiction, alcoholism. If a teenager is caught smoking, then you can’t just leave it like that. It is necessary to find the right approach and use different methods of influencing the subconscious (conversations, examples from life), that is, begin an active fight against teenage smoking.
Crime, suicide
A sane teenager will rarely commit a crime, which means he leads healthy image life and does not use drugs or alcohol. But often they decide to break the law because of imbalance and unrequited love. You need to constantly communicate with the child, establish contact, find a common language and then he will be able to live happy life. You cannot ignore the emotional state of a teenager, and if necessary, you need to help get out of depression.
Substitution of life values
Chasing modernity, teenage girls do not think about the future family life, but strive for sexuality and depravity. This trend can also be seen among boys. Very quickly, teenagers realize that they cannot become like their idols. Following such conclusions comes disappointment, loss of the meaning of life. If such problems affect a child, then parents should not stand by, hoping that “everything will pass.” It is important to explain that the meaning of life lies elsewhere, and to help find it.
What is “value substitution”? give an example and got the best answer
Answer from Maxim Diamonds[guru]
For example, when Stalin said that he was an apprentice...
(the reason is that it is more desirable to manipulate society in..
your own interests)
Answer from Od-Dentist[guru]
the fact that we value this life and all worldly values higher than the Kingdom of Heaven! Do you often think about your death? ??And this is precisely what gives Life Meaning! No wonder in prayer they ask God to give “mortal memory”! That is, a person lives and remembers his death and acts in such a way that he can later be justified at the Last Judgment. But we are used to living and grabbing, grabbing.... “take everything from life” and so on. This is the substitution of values
Answer from I am for[guru]
a priceless gift... and they give you a fucking coffee grinder...
Answer from Galyak Alfovich[guru]
Well, let’s say that the Modern Russian language has lost its original meaning, many words are used completely different from their original meaning. This is a substitution of values. and the main thing is that this is done unnoticed, gradually displacing from the consciousness and memory of people what was originally... .
For what? ?
To make it easier to manipulate.
Answer from Just Slavik[guru]
When the original is replaced with a fake.
For what? For selfish purposes, pursuing personal interests, profit.
Answer from Alexander Babich[guru]
religious instead of virtuous
What should come first in a person's life? How can a person be characterized by his chosen goal? These are the questions that arise when reading D.S. Likhachev’s text.
Commenting on the problem of true and false values in life, the author relies on his own thoughts. He believes that the worthy person What distinguishes him are his goals and aspirations - in the first place for such a person are goodness, humanity, and compassion. And the one who sees the meaning of his whole life in buying a more expensive car, a more luxurious house, gives the impression of a base, unspiritual person.
It should be dictated by kindness towards people, love for family, for your city, for your people, for your country, for the whole universe.”
It is impossible to disagree with the author's position. If a person strives to do good deeds, to live with love for his neighbor and for the Fatherland, his life will be filled with joy, happiness, and the awareness that he has brought benefit to the world. By purchasing only material goods, a person will never be happy, he will always lack something. In the endless pursuit of material wealth, he will be devastated morally and spiritually.
Let's try to prove the correctness of our judgments by turning to literary argument. Let us remember the story by I.A. Bunin “The Gentleman from San Francisco.” The main character devoted his entire life to his career and acquiring capital. Finally, he decides to go on a cruise trip with his family. In an expensive hotel in Capri, reading a newspaper, he suddenly dies. In order not to spoil the reputation of the establishment, the manager orders the body of the deceased old man to be moved in a soda box to the service room. And then the dead man floats in the hold of the ship Atlantis back to America, completing the earthly circle of life. With the death of the gentleman from San Francisco, nothing changed in the world; no one except his family grieved for his passing. This man served false values, saw the meaning of life in earning money in order to have the right to a luxurious vacation and entertainment.
Let's look at another literary example. In the story by A.P. Chekhov “Ionych” main character degrades as a person when the goal of his life is to accumulate money and buy houses. At first, Dmitry Ionych Startsev, a zemstvo doctor, walks around and falls in love with the daughter of the Turkins, whose family is considered the most talented in the provincial town of S. Having received a refusal from Ekaterina Ivanovna to propose marriage, Startsev quickly calms down. He gets a private practice in the city, money, his own troika, carriage, coachman Panteleimon. Ionych’s favorite pastime is counting rainbow-colored pieces of paper, which he takes out of his pocket in the evenings. So gradually the zemstvo doctor loses his humanity and turns into an idol.
Thus, we are convinced that when choosing a goal in life, a person thus evaluates himself. If he chooses material goods, then he can be assessed as the owner of a car or a summer house, nothing more. If he strives to do good to others, he evaluates himself at the level of humanity.
What are the main values of a person? Why do people sometimes make mistakes in their choices? The author of this text raises the problem of true and false values.
Yu. Nagibin gives a monologue of the hero, who speaks about the main values of a person. The author argues that the attitude towards the heroic should not be subject to fashion, since everything depends on the moral qualities of a person hiding under the outer “shell”. Sometimes people are mistaken in their choice, but they are still filled with a sense of striving for the best, because true values can never become outdated.
The author does not directly show his point of view, but gradually leads the reader to the idea that kindness, sincerity, activity, ability to work, determination, courage are the most important qualities a person should have.
I completely agree with the author’s opinion that vital activity and ability to work can “pull” a person out of a difficult situation. Suffice it to recall Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina”. Konstantin Levin, after receiving Katya Shcherbatskaya’s refusal to marry him, goes to live in the village. He went with the men to the fields to mow grass, despite the fact that he was a gentleman. Severely tired, Levin still received great satisfaction from this work.
This suggests that Konstantin Dmitrievich chose work instead of eking out a miserable existence.
Next literary example, it seems to me, is another argument. Let's remember L.N. Tolstoy's epic novel "War and Peace". For the Kuragin family, the main value in life was money, which is why both Anatole and Helen grew up selfish. In the Rostov house everything was the other way around: in their family everything was built on love and mutual understanding. Therefore, Natasha, Nikolai and Petya grew up kind and sympathetic. Thus, the Kuragins chose false values, and the Rostovs chose true ones.
Based on all of the above, I will emphasize once again: it is important to make your choice correctly and distinguish the false from the true.
There is a lot of talk in society about such a phenomenon in society as the substitution of values. Some are outraged and blame the media and entertainment industry for the depravity of youth and the decay of society, some are happy to spread “new” values and live by them, while others simply do their job well, help those in need as best they can, and take care of their own family, and bears HIMSELF responsibility for his actions.
What is value substitution?
Usually, the concept of “substitution of values” is understood as the dissemination of information about the benefits of a hedonistic lifestyle and consumer attitudes towards the environment, the people around us, the state, and the family.
Where do values come from?
We are told that the sources are the media, television, and the Internet. This is told by people who simply do not want to take responsibility. A lot of things in a person are genetic, and in the process of life, the environment creates its own work of art from this genetic material. And it all starts with parents, they lay the foundation with their upbringing. On a strong foundation, a house can turn out to be strong, but if the foundation is weak, then the house will fall apart in any case.
Throughout history, society has been divided into groups. Each group had its own values, its own way of life, traditions, and worldviews. In India we can still observe caste divisions. If we compare the values and worldviews of representatives of different castes, we come to the understanding that each caste is a separate world.
In our society there is no obvious division into castes, however, society is divided: there are intelligentsia, there is the working class, there are criminals, there are drunkards and drug addicts. And each class raises its own kind. There are exceptions, but overall the trend is noticeable.
Each class has its own values in all respects. For example, in the marginal classes of drunkards and drug addicts and in the working class, it is not customary to live and love a wife or husband. It is considered normal to cheat, have fun, for a husband to go out and scold his wife, for a wife to work for four people and scold her husband. As for children, the norm is to give birth to a child, send him to kindergarten, to school, feed him, put him on shoes, and dress him. It is also normal to have abortions, because sex and irresponsibility are an integral part of their values. They don’t seriously think about any education of the moral and ethical qualities of a child - they put a tablet or phone in their hands and finally there is silence. But the child really wants to be played with, answered many, many questions, hugged, kissed. Regarding work, such families do not think about how to gain more knowledge and bring more benefit to society and the family. The main thing is that there is at least some work. At the same time, they tirelessly complain that someone did not give them a prestigious position, and they cannot earn money like lazy directors. These are the values that are imposed on young children. They don't see others.
If we talk about the intelligentsia class, here parents pay more attention to the mental development of their children and their education. And children themselves, from childhood, are in an environment where intelligence dominates. Here they are more attentive not to the physiological needs of children for food and clothing, but to their spiritual education. Here the words love, kindness, help, knowledge are heard more often. The relationship between parents is more respectful and not consumerist.
A separate class are businessmen. The class is characterized by the fact that children are told from childhood that they need to be purposeful, strive to earn a lot, and study. At the same time, family values, concepts of friendship and mutual assistance may be absent.
You can also highlight the military, which has its own values.
Anyone can move from one class to another, although only from the point of view of social status. Many representatives of the working class, for example, remain hedonists and consumers, even after achieving a position in society.
Substitution of values is not a new phenomenon.
The problem of hedonism and consumerism has always existed. It’s just that now, thanks to the media and popular culture, there is a lot of talk about this. Examples of the decline of morals are described in the Bible: remember the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Among the world classics, Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy” was written in 1307-1321, Johann Goethe spoke about this in his “Faust” in 1790, and Oscar Wilde spoke about it in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” in 1890. In fact, in literature the topic of substitution of values has been widely raised at all times; this is just a small list of the most high-profile works.
If we talk about historical figures, then we all know Napoleon and Peter 1, Suleiman, who gave their thoughts to their beloved. But we also heard about Henry VIII Tudor, the image of which the writers of the series The Tudors made almost an ideal and role model. Although he was a bloody, greedy, selfish man, whose actions were condemned even by the church, sacrificing its unity and influence. Because of his lust, he killed two of his wives and brutally dealt with the peasants.
Why do young people like to watch mind-numbing shows like “House 2”, “Comedy Club”, and mass-market films? Yes, many people are influenced by the crowd. But, if a person has a healthy lifestyle, high responsibility, and the desire to gain knowledge since childhood, then no mass culture will drag him down. There are plenty of such examples. In fact, we all grew up in the same society, but we all grew up different because we grew up in different families and were children of different parents.
Therefore, dear parents, let's scold less popular culture, and pay more attention to teaching children to adhere to their own values and positive values.