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Counterculture constantly manifests itself as a mechanism of cultural
innovation. It thus has a huge upgrade potential. The birth of new value
benchmarks is a forerunner of a new culture.
Confronting the dominant culture, the birth of new values and practical

guides is a process that constantly recreates itself in the world of culture. For
example, the birth of Christianity is essentially a countercultural phenomenon that
arose in the collision of the newborn Christian Church with the Roman Empire.

The fact that Christianity was then a countercultural phenomenon is evidenced by
the fact that ancient writers, philosophers, army, powerful rules were against it.
Despite this, Christianity then not only survived, but also won. In the same way,

the departure from the Christian culture implies initially a change in value
guidelines. Russian scientist I. Ilyin notes that "European culture of the nineteenth
century is essentially a secular, secularized culture: secular science, secular art,

secular legal consciousness, secular thought-seeking economy, secular perception
of the world, and the interpretation of the universe. The culture of our time is
increasingly being separated from Christianity, but not only from it – it generally
loses the religious spirit, meaning and gift. "

Every new culture, culture of a particular cultural-historical epoch arises in
the process of awareness of the crisis of the previous socio-cultural paradigm. the

For example, the movement of cynics in the ancient epoch, a heretical movement
in the Middle Ages can be regarded as countercultural. In Europe at the end of the
Enlightenment there were strange young people. They looked very exotic. Many of
them wore a raincoat and a dagger. These people rejected such obvious values of

the era as material well-being, dimensionality and luxury of life, prosaic
calculation and common sense. On the contrary, they used to see a completely
different world picture in the prose of reality – ghostly, joyful, immeasurable and

spyrist. Many people refused to live according to the wills of their parents. They
questioned and even ridiculed their traditions and laws. Few guessed that Europe
was on the verge of a new cultural-historical era – Romanticism. As A.

Dobrokhotov remarked, "German romantics were even more shocked than their
contemporaries as they felt all that was happening was not a temporary departure
from the ideals of the Enlightenment, but rather a natural and profound result of

their development."
Ukrainian society is now also in the process of countercultural
differentiation. New socio-cultural groups with specific mentality, lifestyle, values
are born. Undoubtedly, there is one true thing: the formation of a new culture in

our country is impossible without a long succession of countercultural phenomena.

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