Humanitarian Policy in Ukraine: is there a future?

Our society is much wiser and healthier than the politicians. If it goes on producing positive purports, for example, about social justice, economic modernization, competitive education etc., the political forces able to work exclusively on the negative ground, sooner or later will leave the scene.

The Ukrainian socio-economic conditions are arranged so that the creative class (scientists and artists) do not have access to the resources of the country. This isolation of intellectuals from possible impact on the state of affairs makes it possible for the political class to monopolize its influence on all processes in the country. Driven into the internal or external exile, men of science and art do not reproduce the capability of the values of freedom and critical rationality to exercise their influence. Mythomania, magicism and intolerance are frequent among politicos and among general population. It is an easy and safe job to manage such citizens. It is easier to die in obscurity for these subjects, than to defend their dignity.

In fact, Ukraine never had comprehensive humanitarian policy. The latter was always inertial and full of compromises. We have created a terrible system of negative selection in the country, when not the most clever and farsighted people make it to the top, but the basest people most capable of ignoring moral principles that do not associate themselves with universal ethical norms.

The Ukrainians are more aware of their uniqueness and originality now. They have almost overcome the feeling of inferiority. Still they have to create a common Ukrainian humanitarian space, because you can build good missiles, or mount a new car production line, but it is insufficient for the feeling of their dignity, if Uzhorod and Luhansk do not feel unity in a single space.