THE VULNERABILITY OF THE YOUNG TO THE CHALLENGES OF POSTMODERNITY
THE VULNERABILITY OF THE YOUNG TO THE CHALLENGES OF POSTMODERNITY

Summary/Abstract: We live in full postmodernism. As we find ourselves surrounded and assisted by cutting-edge technologies, employ fast and effective means of communication, travel easily across theworld, we have turned our lives into a comfortable succession of hedonistic experiences. The consumerist society perceives itself as an emancipated one, by virtue of the effects of globalization. Spiritually, the deification of the self has reached paroxistic levels, annihilating any expression of a communitarian status, as promoted by traditional religions. The machine-man, isolated in thecyber-space, creates a space of illusory self-sufficiency, where he takes a critical stance on the real world which he is actually unable to change for the better. The young are the most vulnerable. This is why the present paper aims to identify the causes generating this change in the societal paradigm, as wellas the pastoral-missionary remedies put forth by the Orthodox Church in order to re-direct people towards traditional values, in a life of loving communion, according to the ultimate model of the Holy Trinity.

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