Humanitarian Policy in Ukraine: is there a future?

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.

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 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.

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.

Maybe this is one of the most difficult topics that we have ever had to discuss. Its difficulty is in the fact that multiple fixations of consequences do not allow to formulate the holistic understanding of the causes and prospects for the phenomenon that recently has been increasingly referred to as "the new global economic order." Both in the East, and in the West only a few thinkers have any idea about the underlying economic changes taking place in the world and their impact on the welfare of the global population or international stability.

Ukraine will have its image and occupy its own place only in the case of immediate rethinking of the whole policy public and determining the benefit of man the first priority, the priority of human rights, and improvement of the quality of life. As the post-crisis experience of Europe proves, meanwhile our own society must remain in the center of public attention. Otherwise, the systemic antagonism with the prospect of state collapse will continue to increase, as it happened under degeneration of socialism in the USSR.

The only criterion of success of any economic theory is civilization consistency of its application in historical practice; i.e. the civilizations demographically, socially, economically, politically, culturally, and technologically developing for at least several centuries.

We can draw a colorful picture of crisis management; however, it is another pair of shoes to find a person concerned with it. But the prevailing authorities have but corporate interests. Each individual may talk straight and be a hirsute. When it comes to implementation though, there prevail interests far from community service, benefits of the state and country as a whole.