Skundlony populizm nie tylko w życiu politycznym
Populism not only in Political Life

Summary/Abstract: The Author concentrates on revealing pathology in nowadays political, scientific and religious life. On the basis of numerous examples, he states that politics is dominated by: populism, opportunism, deceitfulness, hypocrisy, empty promises, disregard to moral rules, party doctrinairism, lack of care about public welfare, or even dividing the Poles. He names these characteristics after K. Irzykowski with a Polish name „kundlizm”. He sees declining standards of education, value of publications and scientific conferences, vanishing of impartial criticism, opportunistic choice of peer reviewers, declining esteem of academic profession and occurring plagiarism as general and intensifying symptoms of pathology in science. The Author classifies such problems as: progressing secularization, new organizations and sects, different revisionist-reformatory trends and clash of liberalism and fundamentalism as most difficult problems of church and religious life. He lists occurrences of pathology in declining moral standards (including high officials): cooperation with Security Service of People’s Republic of Poland, cases of pedophilia, homosexuality, sexual harassment, disobeying celibacy, involvement in politics, extravagant lifestyle and proclaiming opinions contradictory to the Gospel. As a remedy to these intensifying occurrences of pathology, the Author suggests preparing and executing a global program of permanent civic education.

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