piterim's father was a good craftsman, but he drank a lot and even beat his children, so piterim and his older brother soon left their father and earned their living by... independently making icon cases. ekaterin entered a parochial school, then a seminary, then st. petersburg university, then harvard university. this is a typical biography of a russian genius from the provinces. in 1922, sorokin was included in the bolshevik list of unreliable people and he

was expelled from russia along with a large number of other outstanding sociologists, philosophers, etc. called the philosophical steamship. ekaterim sorokin began working in america at harvard, by the way, he organized the first sociology department in america, wrote many books, was recognized as an outstanding sociologist, and the prize, by the way, is american, bears the name of piterim sorokin, and he... was considered a slightly crazy russian, but was very respected. one of the main works of the mosorokin five, this book, it is called social cultural dynamics, this book, in my opinion, is the key to understanding what is happening with the world now and the key to understanding how to get out of this dramatic crisis. this astonishing...

scale analysis allowed pyatirim sorokin to identify three types of culture, three types of state of society, three types of socio-cultural systems, and two of them are basic, one type of system, a sensory system, not to be confused with sensitivity, this is the sense of touch, sight, therefore, the second type of system. with a complex name idiational, in other words, supersensory, they replace each other in a certain rhythm, these are very extended periods when one dominates or another system, epiterim sorokin classified these systems by four main features, and let's write out these features: types of socio-cultural systems,

sensory system and ideational, supersensory system. the first feature is the nature of reality, the nature of reality. for some people, reality is what can only be perceived by the senses, what we see, hear, what we feel physically, they believe that beyond this sensation, physical sensation , there is nothing else, there is no being, for others people have something supersensible, otherworldly, immaterial, this is what they consider to be true reality, this reality is called differently in different cultures, god, nirvana, the city of god, brahma. the second point is the nature of needs.

needs can be sensual, carnal, physical comfort, pleasure, research into fashion, but there can also be other needs, spiritual, serving god, saving the soul, fulfilling a sacred duty. the third point is the degree of satisfaction of needs. some are limited to bread and water, others roll their feathers, if of course, there is such an opportunity. or examples of today's reality, the world's industry to ensure the life of one person on average emits 6 tons of carbon dioxide per year, and the life support of a rich american costs about 300 tons of carbon dioxide. the fourth point is ways to meet needs, this may be the most important, to change the environment to satisfy your own. or change yourself

to adapt to the environment, this is very important, especially now in light of the fact that what are we doing with nature today, according to peterim sorokin. in their pure form, these cultures, sensory or ideational, have never been encountered in history, some one culture dominates, but elements of another culture are also present, moreover, sorokin considered the third type of culture preferable, integral, when elements of sensory culture, culture are equally present from these two pairs. supersensory, ideational, this means that a person does not neglect the material, but does not go into hedonism, at the same time he knows about the supersensory, not the immaterial, but at the same time does not become an ascetic

fanatic. in my opinion, peter mosorokina's theory quite adequately describes the crisis in which the west is now, together with it, because... the west dominates the world, in fact the entire planet. the essence of the crisis is that the sensory socio-cultural system that dominated the west for 6 centuries has completely exhausted itself. and ahead is the transition to a new socio-cultural system, which one? supersensory, integral, this is the question, which should be discussed. to conclude this excursion with something tangible and intuitive, i will explain the difference between the two cultures using the example of the fine arts of byzantium and

western europe after the 15th century. byzantine art is almost exclusively religious. these are paintings, frescoes of churches, icons. this is not everyday art, not earthly, it is addressed to higher values. an icon is not a painting, a temple is not a museum, in a temple one prays in front of an icon, the task of art, fine art, is to help a person in his supersensory perception of the world. western art, starting since the renaissance, it is completely different, it is a sensual art, it reflects the real world. half a millennium ago, europe gave the world literally dozens of great artists sculptors, and here we see a radical shift. this michelangelo is magnificent, but can you pray to it? byzantium is a good example

of the dominance of ideational culture, of course, not only in the fine arts, it is not philosophy, ethics, theology. after the collapse of the roman empire, its western part was in a ruined and oppressed state, and the eastern part byzantium flourished. it was there that the energy of the new christian world was. the population of constantinople in the 6th century was estimated by historians to be 700,000 people. at that time it was a huge city, the population of, for example, paris at the same time was. constantinople, it became clear that the eastern roman empire was losing its power, almost nine centuries after its creation, another

2 and a half centuries later byzantium was finished off by the ottomans, but the energy of the christian world had already moved to the west, however, it was a... already a different culture, it was a culture sensual, five centuries of unprecedented development of science, arts, technologies in the history of mankind began, a colossal transformation of society began, the achievements of the west, europe in these five centuries surround us, we all know this very well, we live among these achievements, our cities are filled, filled with technology, this medicine, which allowed us to achieve an unprecedented life expectancy many times exceeding the life expectancy that had existed for thousands of years, the terrible epidemics of the past that devastated cities were defeated, few people go hungry, many have healthy

food, almost everyone can read and write, and many of us are even well educated, but the problem is that this era has already ended. at least that's what peterim aleksandrovich sorokin thought. the end of this era is accompanied by the grand crisis in which we now live. what will be the next socio-cultural supersystem after the sensory and diational systems end their lives, i talked about two main types.

the destruction of most social, political, economic structures that would be accompanied by disasters of destruction, after all, reason has not yet left humanity, for a long time humanity has managed to avoid a nuclear war, although unfortunately no one has yet given such a guarantee. so, following peterim sorokin, i believe that the transition to an integral system would have been.

this grand historical centuries-old cycle of the western socio-cultural system has already been completed from the beginning almost to the end. i will illustrate this cycle with four images, four works art. and let's start with the tretyakov gallery. we are in the church of st. nicholas in tolmachi, this is a house church - it is part of the tretyakov gallery. tretyakov himself often went to this church and prayed here. this

church houses, perhaps, the main shrine of the russian orthodox church and russia, the icon of the mother of god of vladimir. and according to peterim sorokin, this is an example of idiosyncratic art. well, of course, this is not only art, it is an icon. this is inverted art. and today many people think so, in those times, in that era, which peterim sorokin called

ideational, so everyone thought. the second. image, the so-called vetruvian man, leonardo da vinci. vetruvius, an ancient roman architect who created his own system of proportions. actually, a drawing. leonardo demonstrates the proportions of the human body inscribed in a square circle, but this drawing has more meaning. it points to the harmony of man and the universe, the universe is symbolized by this very circle square. man, the main creation of god, is now placed in the center of the universe.

leonardo declares with this drawing the creation new humanism. the next step, since man is reasonable and rational, he learns the laws of nature and it turns out that these laws are unchangeable, but then scientists assume that if the laws are unchangeable, then god created the universe and no longer interferes in its life, he is not present in our lives, god is like an architect, he set the laws and now the universe lives by these laws. therefore, based on rational considerations, there can be nothing mystical in the world, there can be nothing supernatural in the world, the world is rational and functions like a machine, hence not far from the famous, the famous statement, i don't need this hypothesis

regarding god, there is a famous historical anecdote, napoleon, having read the book of the great, mathematician and physicist laplace, turned to him and said: "how is it, mr. laplace, in your huge book about how the world works, the creator is not mentioned once." and laplace answered sir, i didn't need this hypothesis. a little later, the philosopher nitsch put the point. god is dead, - said this philosopher. what does this mean? this means that now there are no absolutes principles. now there is no divine absolute everything has become relative, now everyone decides for himself what is good, what is bad, what is moral, what is not, what is good, and what is evil? the next image is the paintings of the talented artist egan schilly, he lived in austria at the beginning of the 20th century, these are his

self-portraits, terrible self-portraits. and this is still a man, some kind of exhausted, some kind of rotten skin, and looking at this man, joy does not appear, but words, usefulness, death appear, and this outstanding artist died very early, he was only 28 years, a little later adolf hitler visited the artist's exhibition...

very dark, terrible characters foresaw the future. degenerates are not artists, degenerates are those politicians, capitalists, the elite who brought society, the world to a state of war, who brought hitler to power, who unleashed the terrible slaughter of the second world war. finally, the fourth image of marilyn munroe, the work of the american artist andy warhal, in fact, this is not quite a portrait, it is an advertising poster for a film in which marilyn munroe starred, beautifully reproduced

painted, andy vorhal loved to reproduce not only portraits of celebrities. his most famous work is soupkumble, this is actually a statement, because berlin munro, now an unreal figure, the consumer consumes, buys on the market, in this case cinema, the image of marilyn munro just as he consumes buys soupkumble, there was a label of a living person here no longer. today, with the development of social networks, we are all in a similar state avatar what ... is present in the internet space, it is not a person, this is not a personality, behind the avatar there may be something completely different from what a real person is. warhol's statement is very

harsh, it is even harsher than the famous black square of malevich. malevich recorded the end of fine art in the form in which it existed for thousands of years, in different variations. orhal records the disappearance of man himself as an object, as the main object for art, man no longer inspires the artist, european culture from the vetrovian man leonard to merlindiorhal, has completely completed its grand cycle. if there is no man, then what kind of humanism can there be. according to sorokin, the tendencies that will prevail in this difficult time, in this difficult time of the end of the life of the western

super-system, are as follows: the erosion of moral values, the loss of awareness of what is good and what is evil, the fragmentation of society into small groups that do not have a common value platform, the impossibility in these conditions of pursuing a holistic state... policy that would share the majority: the disintegration of the family as a union of a man and a woman, the disintegration of contractual rights, the spread of political tyrannies, disregard for human rights, waves of rebellion and revolution. what sorokin foresaw is almost completely coming true, and we can look at this list, but maybe the waves of rebellion and revolution have not yet reached...

technical innovations, radically changed innovations, as they say now, people's lives, at first these changes took place in europe, in the largest cities, then they began to spread to smaller centers. belly poke called this period several decades before the first world war, several decades at...

a little later, 11 years later, there was the next exhibition in paris, it was visited by 32

million people and especially for this exhibition, the engineer eiffel built a three-hundred-meter tower, the eiffel tower, which became the symbol of paris. this is a very complex structure and even now it is not easy to build such a tower with all our technical achievements. millions of people got access to what previously only, well, maybe thousands, maybe several million in all of europe had access to, the middle class began to take shape, the lifestyle that we know now began to take shape, what a lifestyle, beautiful boulevards filled with beautiful people, illuminated streets, first kerosene lanterns, then electric lanterns, streets filled with cabs, and then taxis appeared, the 1910s, even in...

for europe and for the world where there was money to master such a life, suddenly all this charm of the glossy crowd and...

everything that was invented in the 19th century, all this turned out to be a means of destruction. world the war did not end with an armistice in 1918, 20 years later the second world war began. these two wars took the lives of 100 million people. this marked the end of a huge era of the formation and triumph of humanism in the western world. i am not lucky in life, not a soldier, he is a mummer, an impudent person, like me, i have a bad feeling, come, you deprived my mother of her will, my daughter, she is not simple, magical, again

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