Poverty in function of existential alienation of the population of Serbia

Abstract

Being a complex social phenomenon, poverty is recognizable in practice as the impossibility to satisfy the minimum of human's existential needs; it is immediately reflected (even in its extreme form of poverty) on a variety of forms of every day alienation of the population of Serbia. In a wide range from primary-biological all the way up to cultural-aesthetic requirements, poverty inhibits potential development of one's potentials which takes him away, makes him un-free, that is alienated from his own essence (core), from other people and the community he lives in. Along with that, general existential alienation with us gets promoted by the extremely rooted social injustice, politically profiled utilitarianism, wrenched away from any form of institutional control of the competent authorities as well as the general disintegration of the system of ethics and standards.

Siromaštvo, kao složena društvena pojava, praktično prepoznatljiva u nemogućnosti zadovoljavanja minimuma egzistencijalnih potreba čoveka, neposredno se odražava (čak i u svom ekstremnom obliku bede) na mnogovrsne oblike svakodnevnog otuđivanja (alijenacije) stanovništva Srbije. U širokom opsegu od primarno-bioloških, pa sve do kulturno-estetskih potreba, siromaštvo sputava potencijalni razvoj čovekovih mogućnosti, što ga udaljava, čini neslobodnim, tj. otuđenim od vlastite suštine, drugih ljudi i zajednice u kojoj obitava. Pri tom, opšte egzistencijalno otuđenje u nas biva pospešeno i ekstremno ukorenjenom socijalnom nepravdom, politički profilisanim utilitarizmom, otrgnutim od bilo kakve institucionalne kontrole nadležnih instanci, kao i opštim raspadom vrednosno-moralnog sistema.