Science and traditional values

Dear editors!

In the current harsh times, the Shakespearean force is the question: “To humble under the blows of fate, or NATO to resist and in a death battle with the whole sea of ​​troubles to end them?” On such days, we are especially happy that we have nuclear weapons. But not only Russia's rocket and nuclear sword is a no less important thing-the moral and volitional qualities of our people. Our soldiers and officers are nurtured on the basis of traditional values, love for the Motherland, that they can contrast Dutch storage and non -traditional orientation? Nothing!

Actually, without morality, in any case. Take science. What happens in science with people deprived of moral values ​​and landmarks? They are engaged in plagiarism, buy dissertations, steal other people's ideas, godlessly lie, preparing projects and reports, falsify the results, lick bosses, climb up the heads of colleagues and sometimes roll from the scientific community to rector and even ministerial posts.

We, Russians, are strong by truth, morality and our traditional values, and this causes a frantic bitterness among our enemies. They know that Russia cannot be broken until we have it. Therefore, enemies do everything to deprive us of this advantage. But our wise leadership understands this perfectly and makes a lot of efforts in order to maintain our spiritual scrapers into inviolability.

However, until recently, work to strengthen traditional values ​​was enthusiastic, but not at the proper level of systematicity. And the Ministry of Culture, having realized this gap, prepared the draft strategic document "Fundamentals of state policy to preserve and strengthen traditional Russian spiritual and moral values."

This document correctly placed all the accents, reflects the whole complexity of the current situation. It says: “The threat of traditional values ​​poses the activities of extremist and terrorist organizations, the actions of the United States and their allies, transnational corporations, foreign non -profit organizations. The ideological and psychological impact on Russian citizens leads to the planting alien to the Russian people and the destructive system of ideas and values ​​for Russian society (hereinafter - the destructive ideology), which includes the cult of egoism, permissiveness, immorality, the denial of the ideals of patriotism, the service of the Fatherland, the continuation of the genus, the creative labor, the positive contribution of Russia to the world History and culture. "

I must directly say, colleagues that representatives of our community are especially inclined to fall under the corruption of the West for completely objective reasons: owning foreign languages, communication with foreign colleagues, including trips abroad, and myth-like, like a myth of some kind of universal science. Therefore, some of us react very painfully to such passages.

One of my friends very viciously commented on this document. Science, he said, is clearly not one of traditional values, and the project says that “reforms in the field of education, science, culture and information activity conducted without taking into account national traditions and the experience accumulated by the Russian society make it difficult to transmit traditional values ​​from generation to generation, facilitate the spread of destructive ideology.” How, he shouted, in practice to implement this?! We ban the introduction of some modern approaches or, perhaps, RAS Academic Institutes will we return?

Then he wondered what traditional values ​​are generally. Come on, says, Vanya, let's look at really universal traditional values. This is not patriotism and service to the Fatherland, not mercy and priority of spiritual over material - these are not so traditional values. For tens of thousands of years, people killed and ate each other, worshiped the spirits, forces of nature, made human sacrifices. That's what was truly traditionally! And what, Vanya, he continued to question, destroyed these many thousand -year -old traditions - destructive ideology, moral degradation and the influence of the West? No, dear, they were destroyed by the development of civilization! And our guards are fighting everything with the same "destructive ideology." Stop crying on the dying "cherry gardens", we need to make a choice: we are for biotechnology and personalized medicine or for sprinkling with holy water and shamanistic dancing with a tambourine?

I did not argue with the scream. I see no contradictions: you can develop science and adhere to traditional values. But if the question becomes an edge - what is more necessary for the country, then any patriot is obliged to make a completely clear choice.

Your Ivan Ekonomov