Wczoraj dzieci, dziś rodzice - wzorce osobowe w medialnym świecie postmodernizmu

Abstract

This article addresses the question: What values motivate the young people of today who spent their childhood and early youth in the 1990’s and now are entering adult life and starting their own families. Without a doubt the culture and moral climate in which they were raised had significant influence on their attitudes and values. In an attempt to understand this question, the author of the article carefully reviewed a popular magazine among the young at that time, “DD Reporter” Using the magazine itself, the author constructed a detailed, twelve point analysis of the magazine’s underlying messages toward religion, tradition, the common good, family, school, fashion, entertainment and finances. Results of this analysis show that underlying the overall messages was the ideology of postmodernism with its basic premises and demands: relativism, subjectivism, hedonism, liberalism and religious indifference. This diagnosis of the social and cultural context in which young people grew up allows us to see more clearly many critical aspects that should be taken into consideration by those currently responsible for the new evangelization and catechesis of these young adults.