Education. Intergenerational distance and the new counter-reformation

Abstract

This article tackles the problem of generational differences in the approach to knowledge and science, and the influence of ideology on the corruption of these two dimensions of social life. The author puts forward the thesis that a diverse approach to science and education is systemic and largely conditioned by generation. The ideological influence of the older generation, who represented pastoral power, ideology and the teaching of reality at the same time, is contrasted with the up-and-coming generations, who are resistant to cynical lying. The new ideological counter-reformation is perceived as an attempt to return to the idea of a post-figurative traditional society with structured cultural patterns. The author is of the opinion that the prolongation of such a new counter-reformation will be associated only with multidimensional losses (moral, economic, cultural, civilizational, and image-related). Healing science and education through internationalization and depoliticization is the only right way to achieving this goal. And the up-and-coming generations are the right actors to do this, the only ones that can resist the lieds and introduce rationality in the prefigurative world.