"The cold generation" chooses a pragmatism.
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"The cold generation" chooses a pragmatism.
The western youth in the German interior.
Young Germans of the end 90 are interested in sex much less,
Than their coevals of 60-80th years. Against system they consider revolt
"Romantic gesture" also insist on the right to have
Own, individual representation about happiness and to struggle for
It everyone in own way. After young post-war sceptics,
"Revolutionaries" of 68th, active workers of sexual revolution, "children
Colours "- hippie, and then" city the guerrilla "which have like
Ideas Markuze and Brjuknera that a role "the revolutionary
Avant-guard "has passed to ljumpen-proletariat and students, and
Germany to the death battled for "the light future"
Up to the middle 90, today's young men and girls of Germany
Represent generation of pragmatists. On them it is possible to judge and about
Youth of other industrially developed countries.
Hamburg magazine "Spiegel" has spent detailed interrogation among
Those to whom now from 15 till 25 years. By its results it is possible
To draw rather curious conclusions. For last years and decades
In consciousness of German youth there were qualitative changes,
It is possible to tell, its outlooks on life and have considerably exchanged on
Itself.
Stamp instead of Marx.
Active workers of youth movement of the end of 60th years know all,
Among them Gerhard Schrц?der, Joshka Fisher, many other things politicians,
Which nowadays under the Bundestag arches combat for the pension
Reform and the economy budget. Those who in 70th years has picked up
Lighted in 68th torch of "revolution", together with pioneers of movement
Hippie and punks somehow have imperceptibly appeared in isteblishmente. And
The former teenagers - witnesses of falling of the Berlin wall, having rejected
Ideological luggage, today have confidently headed for success and
To career. Them ideas of the Left-wing radical organisation a little interest
"Rote armee fraktsion", which by means of a pistol and dynamite
Dethroned a capitalist system, hoping to construct "the fair
Society "on Soviet and gedeerovskoj to the scheme; new generation
Takes a great interest not in Marx, and the stamp, it does not expose the capital, and
Earns and increases.
That wanted by young men of the end 90, "generation" igrek ", as
The American market analysts name the present juvenile
Consumers? Here results of the spent interrogation. On a question
"What definition most of all approaches to your generation?"
Answers were divided so: "generation of realists" - 33 percent,
"Cold generation" - 24, "ambitious" - 21, "romantic" -
19, "generation of politicians" - 2. On a question: "Against what follows
Today to struggle? "Such answers are received: against destruction
Environment - 95 percent, against social
Injustice - 90, against dictators - 83, against politicians -
44, against authorities, such, as parents and teachers, - 26
Percent (it was authorised to give some answers).
In comparison with selectors of true and critically adjusted
Nowadays 40-year-old Germans the present youth is comparable with chaff on
To wind - like it anywhere and everywhere, but any high ideas and
Hobbies in the spirit of time. 10 years later after falling Berlin
Walls and fifty after education of Germany, on a following threshold
Millenia, - only tehnomuzyka, discos and canned beer and
Any political sarcasm and nonconformism.
"All of us wish to try and choose for ourselves the best", -
Speaks Ulrike Hanitssh. To It 21 year, it studies the Portuguese
Language. Ulrike would like to become the actress, but supposes, what is it
It can not turn out, on this case and studies the Portuguese: to
The happiness needs to move to lives at once on several ways,
She speaks. Sings in chorus, goes in for sports, goes on
Federal and local elections, reads newspapers and since the moment
Associations of Germany has travelled all Europe and half-Latin
Americas. At a life looks more than soberly.
The problem "fathers and children" is removed.
Always the active minority in a society formed the spiritual
Shape of youth as a whole, was it, so to say, moral
Avant-guard. Present generation 15-25-п п я п?п я , similar, the first in
To federal Republic which has refused revolt. They are children,
Not having contradictions with fathers, with the senior generation. Interrogation
Has shown, that 95 percent of young men trust parents, 63
Percent have responded, that at them with parents "mutual love".
16-year-old schoolgirl Lea Remer says, that "with mum at it
Relations as with the close girlfriend and they even together go on
Youth evenings ". Its cousin Levke adds:" To me not
With what to reproach the parents, it is pleasant to me their tolerant
The relation to me ".
It is new line of time. Even during "the postideological period"
The end 80 apolitical jappi and to it similar with the frank
Mistrust concerned the "politically and socially
Engaged "to parents. The impression, that the new is made
Generation of Germans neither in political, nor in cultural, in
The aesthetic plan is not going to to oppose itself to adults.
Passing from the second millenium in the third, young generation of the end
90th years as though shows the sum of hopes and disappointments
XX-th century youth - a mix of lost dreams and qualitatively new
Relations to a life.
Recently at last session of the Bundestag in Bonn has arisen
The situation which has amazed all: young deputies from Green Party
Hotly applauded the former chancellor, the Christian democrat
To Helmut Kohl. The youth easy looks at the recent past, and
On the present - with bribing wisdom not on years.
However, in the earths of the former GDR not all are adjusted so complacently and
On-konformistski. Among the East German youth which has grown
After country association, young right radicals represent
Special case. They not priemljut an antifascist spirit of the
Parents, pursue foreigners, quite often resort to violence.
Britogolovye, in cowboy's boots, under imperial military men
Flags, they columns walk on streets of cities, grasp
The youth centres and do not hide for a long time already in the dark beer.
There is no lack of explanations of the reasons of occurrence right
Radicalism, its aggression and hatred to "strangers", that is to
To foreigners. All it, according to sociologist Christian Pfejffera,
"Original reaction to the feeling suppressed in the childhood
Own advantage ".
When the ideology has disappeared...
However neo-fascists in east part of Germany in the obvious
Minority. The majority of youth, as well as their contemporaries in the west
The countries, tries to find an own track in jungle
Social market economy. German experts on
To youth problems say, that it is not enough present young men
Political slogans, ideological dogmas interest and
kvazireligioznye promises of an eternal life. Children of the XXI-st century
Really carry away universal ideas, ideas of progress.
On a question "of That you most of all are afraid?" 53 percent
Respondents have responded - wars, 13 - loneliness, 13 -
Unemployments, 10 - ecological accident, 6 - criminality and 5
- Divorce of parents.
With ideology disappearance before a look of young men was gone and
"The main prospect", each of them felt
The standing commander, inspecting to district and solving, where
To direct the main blow.
The most typical signs of new generation are concluded in
"The educated realism", authors recently left in Germany write
Books "the Benefactor without orientation" Johannes Gebel and Kristof
Klermont. Each of "disgusting children" represented 68th year
"Joint-stock company" "Own I". Present "konformistskoe
Generation "which rebels-six-foremen christen today how much
In vain, wishes to live in the real world. These people too long live in
Free hotel "Mum and the daddy" also do not hurry up to get
Own family. Thus in non-material sense they can
Fine to do without parents, divide time between high school,
Bar and disco. Many of them tried drugs, however
Addicts did not become. At them in a pursuit for "a life without boredom"
Rigid enough self-checking. The meaning of the life has formulated
17-year-old writer-debutant Benjamin Lebert in the novel
"Krejzi" - "Madman": "Instead of sleeping, it is necessary
To clamber upwards on a fire ladder, a little bit to drink and
To go on girls, thus to mature ". If young men of the end
70, become today stats-secretaries, have become engrossed in reading fashionable in that
Time the book under the name "Uselessness of a growing",
The present young growth behaves frequently so, as if very much for a long time
Has grown from short panties. It freely "walks" on the Internet,
Uses mobile phones and pagers. "Cybernetic
Children "on crisis of a millenium imagine the world such, as
It represent mass-media. They, these mass-media, define their outlook,
Form feelings.
Shoaled "the sex sea".
Sex in which name the end youth has risen on barricades
60, today has passed in the category boring "seksualizatsii societies".
But there was a new erotic phenomenon which it is possible to name
"Freedom of a naked stomach": the young body is more and more bared.
Probably, in it the pragmatism too is originally shown and
Thrift of rising generation of Germany. Everything is good in its season.
Perfect to volume an example - the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Joshka Fisher:
He knew, when it is necessary to dump krossovki and to dress the civil
Suit.
The world more without grounds do not criticise, it do not wish to change, in
Consciousness of young men it became a wide field giving perfect
Possibility to receive any benefit for itself. For the sake of what ideas
Children of the third millenium, if should revolt in
"An information society" their revolt as a matter of fact would mean skatyvanie
Back? Differently, rebels do not have a place in the modern
Postindustrial society. A spirit of the age, which on an extent
Long decades raised public disputes and conflicts,
Has evaporated.
Vladimir LAPSKY, the political analyst.
"The Russian newspaper".
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