There is no doubt that the contemporary “clash of values” is becoming, day by day, more evident.

The Bound Will: A Reflection on the Contemporary Crisis of Values

By Giovanni Patriarca

There is no doubt that the contemporary “clash of values” is becoming, day by day, more evident.

In the recent past, certain behavioral changes in social and interpersonal relations revealed warning signs of impending instability. The symptoms, which are still present today, can be found in a deep disaffection with personal responsibility and civic engagement, exemplified by a growing disconnection between individuals’ values and their course of action. Moreover the digitalization of every public and private sphere, leading to an impressive flow of information, confuses the individual, who—extremely disorientated—does not favor any kind of reference point in a sort of absolute relativistic metamorphosis.

Throughout human history, ages of instability and transition have anticipated paradigm shifts or changes of perception in cultural and geopolitical relations. These times are coupled with a physiological sense of helplessness or decadence: an aboulia of will. Nowadays we witness the radical novelty of an epidemic structural crisis on a global scale condemning one’s sense of belonging to an indefinite and uncertain fate with devastating spiritual, cognitive, and intellectual consequences.

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