2023-04-23 20:28:54
Abdelilah Belkziz
The dialectic of the individual and society and the attraction or alienation that occurs between them, and sometimes, the contradiction (in particular in their relationship to values), have several manifestations and different headings, all of which accept expression in one common denominator: the dialectic of freedom and order. And this dialectic involves the activity of two opposite dynamics from which all those different phenomena are generated that suggest that they threaten the social system to explode while it is, in particular, its engine that performs its operating role in normal conditions, but it is also the device whose system may be disrupted or violated, and at that time it may escape from He is gripped by those dynamics, so he does not know where their attractions may lead them!
In the fabric of every system of values, in any society, there is some degree of complexity of the entanglement between the threads of the actors within these systems that need to be untangled so that the interactions in them can take place smoothly and smoothly. When the system of values leans back on itself, preserving the normal course of its relations, and is immunized against external elements that might attack it, it does not notice – at that time – signs of imbalance and preoccupation, because the actors in it (individuals, the group) did not witness any collision in their relationship. It puts the system in a state of turmoil. In this case, it lives in a situation of reproducing the sum of the values inherited within it, so it feeds on the resources it used to feed on.
As for when the system of values opens up to the outside, either completely openness – and this happens in rare cases – or partial and localized openness – which is the majority – it receives from outside it that and from its resources that does not keep it as it was and was accustomed to, even if no major change occurred in its structure. tangible. In such a case, signs of change may be noticed, albeit slowly and at a low cost for their balance, because nothing new has been found in the relationships of the actors in them, and in the relationship of each of them to the values: what was there and what was new to the system. Here, the mechanism of reproducing values does not stop as a result of these emergency conditions on the system’s relations. Rather, it continues, but with recurring incidents of collision between inherited values and imported values. New elements have entered the structure of values that are not from it, thus confusing the system of work to an extent, and it is not always easy – and in such a case – for the system to absorb what comes to it from outside it and succeed in localizing it.
There is no doubt that the interactions of the value system with the newcomer to it vary according to the intensity of the influence of that newcomer and its source. In any case, that newcomer is embodied in an actor from the system: the individual/s; As he is the one who carries the new value coming from outside and expresses it in behavior, behavior and relationships, and puts it in exchange for an existing value system that does not accept it. However, the incoming moral values that individuals carry are not of the same weight and size, and those who impersonate them for themselves are not of the same nature; It may be very conflicting with the heritage and very provocative to it, and therefore, it leads to a severe clash commensurate with the severity of its impact. Or perhaps it is less irritating to the system of values, even if it is foreign to it, so it is easier for the system, at that time, to assimilate them into it. In any case, two opposite logics often face each other in the arena of values: the logic of freedom and the logic of order, the logic of permissibility and the logic of restriction. Including a value system.
We can understand the general fears about the impact of the ongoing global transformations on the value systems in societies and among the peoples who are subject to the pressures of these transformations. Rather, it is our duty to take them into account, not only understanding them and seeking excuses for them; The system – the system of values - defends itself legitimately against the dangers that might come upon it. But, on the other hand, whoever denies the right of people and societies to nourish their strategic stock of higher human values, and their freedom to triumph for new, higher values at the expense of other inherited ones, to which they are given the robes of veneration just because they are descended from parents and grandparents, there is no escape, then, from the choice The search for a balanced equation that does not sacrifice one of the two legitimate demands: preserving the stability of the value system and, at the same time, the freedom to develop and renew it.
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