Sociedad decadente

Authors

  • Martín Nizama-Valladolid Médico psiquiatra, especialista en adicciones. Doctor en medicina. Profesor principal. Departamentos Académicos de Psiquiatría de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, y Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20453/ah.v65i2.4265

Abstract

The origin of this morbid reality is derived from the inherited genetic vulnerability and the risk factors existing in postmodern society, whose social ethos are constituted by materialistic life, appearance, lack of moral ethical values, corruption, political psychopathy, violence and citizen insecurity that generates social anxiety. Within it, self-destruction and the heterodestruction of life are incubated through violence with collective extermination, often with extreme cruelty. Hatred is the dominant feeling that is rapidly increasing, fostered by domestic violence. The ideological framework of this sick society is neoliberalism that has positioned the wild market as the axis of irrational consumerism driven by anti-values:ambition for power, greed, hedonism, banality, narcissism, etc. For this reason, the population lacks culture, education, civics and human development, among whose consequences is the devaluation of life, being the tanatic culture its greatest manifestation. People evade massively in search of the self-destructive hedonistic refuge, addiction, a serious social problem. In this way the decadent and dehumanized society originates, in whose background lies family heartbreak. Thus, the natural family model is in the process of accelerated extinction and is replaced by the modern or materialistic family model with loss of the role of parents, who have abdicated the protective and formative role. This work aims to describe and analyze the psychosocial factors that affect humans. Finally, formulate some alternative solutions.

Published

2022-09-14

How to Cite

Nizama-Valladolid, M. (2022). Sociedad decadente. Acta Herediana, 65(2), 122–134. https://doi.org/10.20453/ah.v65i2.4265