Soul density. Sociology of depths

What is to be done today, when the models that were proposed by a great capital or by a great power have lost their power to offer meaning and guidance, to root someone in reality? Such a question must be asked and answered in the context of the effacement of political and cultural landmarks such as Paris (“Paris” being a stand-in for certain sets of values and paradigms originated from Western Europe that have guided for a while people and politics in different contexts all over the world). Paris, the so-called “city of lights”, lost its role as a cultural and political paradigm during the Cold War due to the process of Americanization and during the process of the expansion of soviet influence; pragmatism and consumerism have replaced whatever such a cultural and geopolitical center had to offer. By being taken over by Americanization and pragmatism, the former “city of lights” lost its identity and the light it imparted to the world. Such a process leads to the impoverishment of the world, whereby the cultural and civilization sources of Western Europe disappear, leading the Western world to collapse, caught in the process of devaluation and self-destruction generated by its own social, political, and cultural development (the so-called “woke-ism”). Due to this process of self-effacement of the West, the geopolitical and social landscape of the world lost an important landmark, a cultural one that used to offer ideological, political, cultural, etc. legitimation and guidance for people everywhere. Without the beacons of light that the West used to represent, the world is now confronted with the presence and activities of Russia and China, two dictatorships. Neither of them should be seen as a source for new paradigmatic values. China has achieved the negative performance of building up a social credit system and a surveillance apparatus that manages to track down the largest number of citizens ever, more than any other state with similar intentions do, and, at the same time, record even the smallest details from its citizens life and activities. If being awaken and cognizant of the predicament that has engulfed the world and the people that live in it is an imperative that every individual must assume and act according to it, then the autochtonization of culture, that is the rediscovery of the community of destiny that makes up a historical community and the pride of being Romanian is a collective one.