MEF-2016: Conference №8 What comes first — economic crisis or spiritual crisis?

Published: March 23rd, 2016

Lomonosov housing MSU


On the theme:

The crisis of the economy, the crisis of ideology, moral crisis, rejection of traditional family values - it is the fruit of neo-liberal policies that predominated in the Russian for quarter of a century. However, any crisis - it is also an opportunity to upgrade the ability to change the country's development strategy.


Among participants:

D. Berezin, V. Vodolackiy, A. Danilova, A.Ivanov, A.Notin, D. Rempel, N. Rumyanceva, A. Burenkov


Moderator:

Yury Ryazanov, public figure, president of the for Support and Development of Society Fond "Our Children"


Is it possible to build a successful business, relying only on the culture of consumption? What is the role of human capital in the country? A discussion of these important issues for the future of Russia was held in the framework of the Moscow Economic Forum 2016 conference "What comes first - the economic crisis and spiritual crisis?" The experts on the subject were artists, politicians, scientists and journalists.

Opening the conference, moderator Yuri Ryazanov, president of the Support and Development of Society fond "Our children", suggested to understand the root of the problem of the economic crisis, which occurred not only in Russia but also in Europe. "Let's try to understand given, in my opinion, mandatory component - the spiritual - appealed to his colleagues Yury Ryazanov, - what still comes first? Is the existence of economic crisis possible apart from the spiritual decline of the nation? To approach the concept of a spiritual crisis, it is necessary to analyze such vital areas as education, culture, television, movies. Today we will have speakers on all these topics."

From the podium sounded, today changed landmarks, world distorted beyond recognition. Biblical commandments replaced by their modern interpretation, and instead of "thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal" is talking "if not caught - not a thief." Unfortunately, the experts said, the current economy destroys rather than creates, today everyone aspires to success in the consumer sense, but few people think about spirituality.

Chairman of the Missionary Department of the Moscow diocese, priest Dmitry Berezin, on the contrary, advocated that financial difficulties for people is an occasion to reflect on spirituality, to get out of cyclical consumption patterns. It is very important at the moment of unusual, embarrassing period in life, to try to form a new concept. "For example, the concept of orthodox economy device, - father Dmitry said - taking into account the values of the Orthodox." The priest added that here we were talking about the business, which has a moral principle and ethics, where there is responsibility for product quality, ethical promotion of goods and services.

According to Dmitry Berezin, in the concept of art it occupies a special place, where the problem of cinema today is very pressing. We are talking about the moral state of the creators of carrying into "live" a lot of negativity. The expert noted that today there is not enough high-quality state order for movies that promote family values, with a positive agenda.

Ethics Topic supported by other speakers. It was suggested that some members of the media were to endow quality mark, ie to distinguish those TV channels and periodicals, which fill the information field with useful information, not only chasing for sensation.

As speakers noted, to protect from harmful information is necessary and a global network, the most simple, according to the speakers, way - to remove the anonymity of statements in forums and social networks.

Some speakers saw the Russian human habit to go to extremes as the root cause of the economic crisis. "Today, it is democracy and liberalism, the people rushed to the freedom from sin, not as to the true value, and for freedom in sin," - commented the chairman of the movement "Orthodox Russia" Viktor Semyonov. He drew the attention of colleagues and to the fact that the moral crisis occurred not today, and not even 2 years ago. It happened 120-130 years ago, said the entrepreneur, when the society began to lose power authorities, for centuries served as a support to the Orthodox person, namely the Church.

Dmitry Rempel, chairman of the party "Unity" in Germany, linked the loss of spiritual values of European youth to the massive penetration of social networks and the Internet in general into the life. According to experts, young people have lost the desire to grow spiritually, they are not interested in literature, painting. The result is obvious - a person has lost the ability to protect their mental health, "According to the Ministry, 7.5 million people do not know how to read and write the country, even after studying at school" - supplemented his speech with shocking figures Dmitry Rempel.

Anna Danilova, editor of the portal "Orthodoxy and the World" shared her own observations of the modification of traditional Russian values. According to the expert, the "movement" began in the last 10-15 years, when the economic situation was more stable. And we can not say that there are only negative change. With regard to family values, today among young urban parents, Anna Danilova said , there is rejection of the Soviet education system - child insulation, early return to the kindergarten, short breast-feeding, and so on. Today is a very popular trend of families, natural parenting, many children, attachment theory in education, a partial stay in the garden, a long stay mothers with children, and so on, the speaker is sure: "Young parents are very highly socialized, common concerts of classical music for moms with kids, English classes, a new society is formed in our nuclear state."

Summing up the conference, the speakers stressed that when the economic stability and financial welfare of people in the country will be, it is important to dispose of the resources correctly.

Source: PR department of MEF

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