Pierre Teilhard de Chardin stresses in his work "The Universe and People" that man cannot fully see himself outside manhood just as he cannot fully see manhood outside life, and life outside the universe. We most frequently forget that man was not originally man, but became man in the process of upbringing and education.

       Our responsibility is to finish the final product or the work corresponding to the culture and the society of a certain time, from this Child of God, this semi-product, this natural creation. If it were sufficient to be a working creature in the past, it is no longer possible in the future.

       Man is equipped not only for a life in nature, but also for a life in a  certain culture and society. His genetic data bank enables him only the basic existence, survival only, since he inherits only the most basic biological and psychological features and traits, such as the color of eyes, hair, shape of the body, the face, etc., however, nothing more.

       He must adopt a certain culture and social behavior, education and professional knowledge and skills in the process of learning, erudition and education.

       If a man does not do so, he is more/less a passive member of a human society - a consuming human existing on the level of advanced creatures.

        During a considerably short time of about five thousand years, human beings achieved a certain level of civilization, but also the danger and possibility of the decline of human society and of life as a whole.

       We overcame a very serious danger, but we stand face to face with several others - the peace between West and East was accomplished, but there is another discrepancy between a rich and prosperous North and a poor and starving South, compared to idealism there is still the idea of materialism, a utilitarian way of life without a deeper spiritual content is against the acceptance of absolute values and a meaningful life and belief in God.

       Especially, there are growing trends to live only in an environment based on money and property rather than on  an environment based on moral values and spirituality. As people, we lose existing human dimensions and replace them with artificial, temporary values, and ever more reliable technical inventions.

       In a philosophical sense it is a continuing process, to say it with exaggeration, of the domestication of a person, and sometimes also a process of his "gorillization."
 
 

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