Degradation is always bad!

Degradation is always bad. That's right, because what can be good in the obvious signs of the disease? And degradation is practically the same illness. Or, in scientific terms, the dynamics of reverse development, regression, generalizing the name of the process of decline and gradual destruction, which can be applied to a wide variety of areas and spheres.

Here, for example, the widespread in agriculture term "soil degradation". This in this case means that once fertile land becomes unsuitable for exploitation under the influence of various destructive factors - salinization, dust storms, improper plowing, excessive chemicalization and many other causes and effects. For the most part, the people themselves are to blame for this outcome, which, in turn, speaks of the loss of their agricultural skills - and what, in turn, is this not the degradation of human thinking?

In history, there are many examples of how blossoming states and seemingly omnipotent empires gradually fell into decay and desolation, losing their former power, and, finally, ceased to exist because their internal structure, figuratively speaking, was struck by metastases of degradation. The lack of fresh ideas, the reluctance to change the old, already obsolete order, the refusal to move to new forms and methods of social and economic relations - this is what creates the prerequisites for the process of the degradation of society gaining strength and becoming more irreversible.

But most often degradation implies the moral disintegration of an individual personality, which ceases to reckon with the generally accepted moral and ethical norms and places its egoistical desires above the interests of others. Having succumbed to addictions such as drug addiction or alcoholism, these people lose their moral and spiritual orientations, degrade both physically and morally. However, not always spiritual degradation is a consequence of mere obvious vices. You can lead a completely respectable lifestyle, but at the same time do not care about raising the cultural level, satisfying your spiritual needs at the expense of the most base samples.

Moral degradation is in our days largely a consequence of the lack of control and commercialization of the media, including the Internet. Propaganda permissiveness, bad taste, kitsch, outright vulgarity, abundantly supplied to the masses, corrodes consciousness, etching out of it the notion of true values. The negative impact of the so-called "mass" culture manifests itself even in such seemingly small things as a habit of illegible (and most often out of place) use borrowed words. This is not only a sign of clogging the vocabulary, but also an indubitable proof of spiritual impoverishment.

So, degradation is a pathogenic process, the result of which is known in advance: decay and complete destruction. It can only be stopped by the will and the desire for purposeful development on the scale of both a single individual and a whole state.