Declaration of Intent to Live in Marriage in the Post-Modern Era

Abstract

The Author points out that modern times, so-called postmodern era, is characterized by a marked increase in the uncertainty of the model of behavior, a sense of vacillation between right and wrong, a sense of the futility to control chaos. A person entangled more and more in a complex system of social connections, increasingly dependent on these connections, will find himself increasingly exposed to the fact that any manifestation of autonomy on his part will always have some reflection on the situation of other participants. In the network of power that a person has surrendered to, exercises power over by influencing the mind primarily, but not exclusively, through multimedia mass communication networks. It is the presented concepts, properly selected and hierarchical, not only provide an indispensable means of expression, but pre-condition the underlying so-called worldview. Network addiction precludes freedom of thoughts, judgments, opinions, not allowing verification of information obtained online. Therefore, technology aims to increase control over people’s thoughts, views, attitudes, judgments by influencing their realization, creating a model of the new man. They shape the private worldviews of individual people. Thus, the source of power is the construction of meanings in people's minds. The way individuals think determines the fate of the institutions, norms and values around which societies are organized. It should be noted that emotions dominate even the intellect. The networked society, including individual persons can no longer make a conscious and free declaration of will, because they are subject to and influenced by the viewing world that is presented online. Thus, they make a defective declaration of intent under the influence of an error regarding the reality around them. In social life, an atrophy of the will is evident, along with responsibility for oneself, for others, which can be seen as an offshoot of the socialization of post-modern society, including narcissism, the pursuit of constant stimulation, consumption, the cult of youthful immaturity, hedonism, the prolonged period of children’s dependence on overprotective parents, which consequently leads to the formation in them of personalities incapable of effort, concentration, toil and sacrifice, in order to realize acts of will. Moral rules have lost their proper flavor and meaning, goodness is equated with benefit and moral norms with rules of action whose observance brings some benefit. A serious crisis of interpersonal relationships is revealed, relationships are often devoid of positive emotions, emotional relationships, bonds, consequences and responsibility. This trend must be stopped, but first it must be well understood.