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29 November 2016, 18:09

Kublanovsky: Society needs to confront modern challenges relying on spirituality

MINSK, 29 November (BelTA) – Any civilized society needs to confront modern challenges relying on spirituality, well-known Russian poet, journalist, essayist, critic, and art historian Yuri Kublanovsky said at the Open Dialogue Club meeting in Minsk, BelTA has learned.

Yuri Kublanovsky said that civilization is facing a new challenge. “Somewhere in the middle of the last century civilization lost its Christian roots. We entered a post-Christian period. The further we go, the fewer traditional values remain. They are giving way to unbridled consumption, gadgets, technocratic society. Traditional cultural values are disappearing," Yuri Kublanovsky said. According to him, a new type of man is born. How he will run the world, how he will deal with challenges is a serious question. This applies to the civilization as a whole and every individual in particular.

Schools need to pay a lot of attention to educating moral values in younger generations. “I cannot but welcome the plans to introduce the basics of Orthodoxy in Russian schools,” Yuri Kublanovsky noted.

The idea of establishing the Open Dialogue Club was announced at the national sport and education forum Olympia in August this year. The Club has united the leaders of the youth movement of Belarus of different years, political analysts, media leaders, and other stakeholders interested in the development of the state youth policy. During the meetings, members discuss important social and political topics seeking answers to pressing issues.

The first meeting of the Club took place at the Museum of Belarusian Modern Statehood in early September. This time, the topic of discussion was the quote “I want the pen to be on a par with the bayonet” from Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem “Back Home”.

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