ИСТИНА

The world today is a holistic and dynamically evolving system, where no country is able to stay isolated from the world community. In this context it is evident that overcoming socio-economic backwardness and raising quality of life for a larger part of human population are the most acute problems of modernity. Without solving them, there can be no global civilization possible to build. But what is even more important and more difficult task is forming the new thinking, and relevant world outlook for people, who mostly just do not catch up with the dynamics of the changes taking place around them. Many people, and especially adults, have problems in adjusting to the new world, which is an open arena for freely competing and colliding ideas, paradigms and values. It is even more difficult to leave the familiar cave of the established opinions, myths, and ideologies. But it seems inevitable. We are facing the second “axial time”, the Era of Dialog. It requires deep transformation of our consciousness, similar to the transformation of a nymph into a butterfly. An important step on this path of changes is transition from a discreet vision of society described in self-sufficient categories of culture, civilization, or globalization to a complex, systemic vision of it, when a dynamic social body is perceived in a different way: through the prism of cultural-cum-civilizational development, including its global level.