08.12.2020, Moscow.
The statement that every next generation of young people only needs more material wealth is fundamentally wrong, political scientist and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on December 6 on the air of the Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov TV program on the Russia One channel.
This was Kurginyan’s comment to Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s phrase that “cold ideology” is not enough for young people as they need some material opportunities as well.
Kurginyan strongly disagreed that young people just need more material goods than the previous generation had. “This is a sort of a fatal mistake to believe that every next generation of young people always wants to take more ‘bread.’ Itistheopposite!” he stressed.
Kurginyan noted that history offers many examples when young people followed higher ideals. “In the period of New Economic Policy with its huge faults, did Stalin’s young generation, all those schoolchildren, want as many pleasures as possible? They sought for absolutely different things, and they were happy,” Kurginyan explained.
The political scientist stressed that young people were offered non-material meanings in the first place, which had an everyday-level support. “An ideal was proposed. Indeed, cold ideology is hard to accept when it is not attached to a way of life, to a common feeling of human happiness, to a structure of motivation,” the political scientist noted.
According to Kurginyan, the danger of consumer society is well illustrated by historical examples.
“Hannibal’s army came very close to Rome, and it should have destroyed everything, and Carthage should have won, but they made a stop in the city of Capua. And then the army began to rapidly degrade. The army so quickly started wanting women, food, and various orgies so quickly that when it was time to attack Rome again there was no army any more. As a result, Carthage was destroyed, and [its place] was salted,” he reminded.
According to the political scientist, consumerism degrades society. “This city of Capua where everything degrades is a synonym for consumer society.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
