What does the word "continuity" mean? This is an important connection between the past, present and future, when elements of the past are preserved and transferred to the present. With the help of continuity, family traditions, cultural past, social values are transferred from one generation to another.
What is the continuity of generations?
Legacy is an invisible connection between descendants. A very good comparison was made by the scientist Vladimir Yakovlev, who correlated generations with sea waves. He said that if we compare history with the world's oceans, and each individual with a drop of this ocean, then the generation in this case will be the waves of this ocean. They are in a hurry, running against each other, rise high up, and then quickly fall down. And so over and over again. So it is in life. One generation is replaced by another, but it is precisely this “oceanic” touch that helps to transfer the most important and vital values from one people to another. Unfortunately, the dynamics of the development of society are far ahead of the possibilities of the succession mechanism.
What is the problem?
The problem of continuity of generations is hidden in modern technological progress. Consider the example of parental punishment. Decades earlier, a child commits a bad deed - offends someone who is weaker than him. He immediately receives a severe reprimand from his parents. For the future, he will know that he did wrong, so you can no longer do this. Now with the advent of gadgets, tablets and phones, children quickly absorb all the information that the Internet provides.
Unfortunately, a large half of what a child sees on a variety of sites is a solid negative. The brain lays information about what the eyes saw, but there is simply no one to explain how bad it is. And when the child does something terrible, what he was taught by browsing the Internet, he will not even be able to immediately realize why he was scolded. After all, he saw it, so it is possible. Another striking example is the direction of culture as a subculture. Here one can clearly see the sometimes blind imitation of young people with something that has been elevated to the rank of popular destinations. Every second goth cannot explain why he dresses so and why these colors are close to him, the main thing is to follow friends.
What is happening today?
If we consider this problem more broadly, we can deduce the following aspects. The speed of important social changes should ideally coincide with the speed of generational change. As history shows, significant changes in society account for approximately the life of three generations - fathers and grandfathers. That is, in other words, the transition of social values and other traditions is carried out between three close generations - from grandfathers to grandchildren.
More specifically, at the first stage, the birth of an idea takes place, at the second stage, the retraining of a generation is seen, and only at the third - the adoption of new views. Of course, a lot has changed during this time, but not so dramatically that new generations do not have time to adapt. Successful adaptation diverted conflict situations arising from simple misunderstanding. There can be an infinite number of examples - from the lack of culture in buses, when the young people stubbornly pretend not to notice an elderly person standing nearby, to the banal rudeness - when an older person can hear an insulting expression from someone who is much younger.
Soviet-Russian relations
The continuity of a generation is not only the fate of one particular kind. You can also consider a broader example - people of Soviet education (USSR) - the CIS - and the present period (Russians).
The development of technological progress today is at an incredible pace, new technologies are being introduced that are almost impossible for people of the Soviet era to keep up with. Which of the pensioners nowadays owns a computer at least as much as primary school students can do? And what about the older age of the Russians! Nanotechnology is increasingly creating new techniques that are increasingly simplifying the lives of citizens. However, it is worth remembering that it is the continuity of generations that ensures the moral principles of modern people. But a frequent reaction to the comments of the elderly is aggression, born of a banal lack of understanding. Educated in the spirit of free citizens, young people are sure that they know everything, and even more so in what situation and how they should act. Therefore, any comment from the elders is regarded as a tedious educational process. And only much later, and not in all cases, the understanding comes that you only wanted good and that something else could really be changed for the better.
Parents come first
Specialists from various scientific institutes conducted a survey among the younger generation - which of the experience of the elders is really valuable for young people. The answer of the majority was: continuity is the connection of generations, so the main thing is love for parents and family values.
In second place are wealth and material security. And then - in descending order: love, honesty, desire for success, responsibility, education, hard work, politeness, kindness, independence, peace, patriotism. In the end, the result was not bad. However, patriotism, thanks to which young people today live in a free country (talking about the Great Patriotic War), got only the last place among the main values. But prosperity and the desire to earn more - on the second, immediately after the family. Cultural values were also affected , of which almost no one said anything.
conclusions
As this survey showed, the continuity between generations of the Soviet and Russian times turned out to be rather weak. Respect for the culture of one’s people, for history, love for the motherland - all this is very far from modern youth. Today there is an active propaganda of a free life, inspired by the media on the examples of foreign fellow citizens.
Already today, one can clearly trace that morality for young people in our country is very distant and completely alien concepts. You can’t talk about everyone, but several generations of children, and now teenagers, ignored the succession of generations, making a choice in their direction, relying on foreign, not always cultural values. This position forms completely new specific foundations, which ultimately can lead to a violation of the integrity of our country.
Problems that concern young people today
According to another global survey on pressing issues, the situation today is as follows. Most modern youth are concerned about inflation and rising prices, followed by the lack of normal conditions for education and medical care. More than half said that crime was an acute problem in the country, and almost as many people shared the view that terrorism stood on its side. Someone recalled that young people do not have their own national idea, as well as the fact that due to the habits that adversely affect the health of the younger generation, there is a rapid population decline. Religious intolerance, lack of spirituality and developing degradation were highlighted in a separate line. The main solution to these problems, a small part of young people recognized the preservation of the continuity of generations.
Its more important
From the above survey results, one can draw a disappointing conclusion - personal problems regarding a particular individual are much higher than common interests. Young people are not interested in forming a unique nation that independently solves their problems. This is where the bright loss of those values that the succession of generations was to convey is visible. Although you can not talk about it so affirmatively. Looking at schoolchildren of middle and senior grades, it is safe to say that they are lit up with the very notes of social and cultural values that at one time could not be conveyed to previous generations. Events such as crowded flash mobs, events dedicated to the holidays, a tribute to the Great War and those who can still be personally congratulated on Victory today are gaining popularity.
Finally
In conclusion, I want to remind once again: the continuity of generations is a thread that cannot be broken, it is a connection that must be maintained. We must be able to store what was laid down by our ancestors, so that along with the technical processes, the moral education of our people also proceeds as quickly. The continuity of a generation is a kind of curve, with its falls, but, undoubtedly, with the ups that follow.
It is important to remember that if people living in the same country have different views, it will be like drawings in the sand, which can easily be washed off by newly running waves. Without a central idea, any social, political, economic changes will be completely useless. There will always be someone who feels good, but one more is bad for him.