The moral foundations of the politics under conditions of digital society flexibility: If human values no longer matter (Part 1)

Abstract

The main goal of the presented study is to analyze the features of the transformation of the moral foundations of politics in the digital society conditions. The authors start from the classical ideas about the moral foundations of politics as a multi-level complex that constitutes identity and provides legitimization of power and includes conceptual and theoretical ideologies developed by political philosophy, value-colored party-political programs for achieving goals, reflected in the mass consciousness of ideology-feelings. Modern digital society conceptions by M. Castells, T. Redshaw, M. Chayko, J. Wajcman and N. Dodd are used as the main theoretical tool for revising the transformation of the moral foundations of politics in the context of digitalization. The elasticity of a digital society is seen as the ability of a new technological paradigm characterized by permanent innovation and fluidity to modify institutions and systems by reconfiguration their components in a way that does not lead to the destruction of the basic organizational structure. The impact of the elasticity of the digital society on the moral foundations of politics is revealed through the lens of the increasing mosaic of discursive images of the political system elements and the displacement to the periphery political phenomena with a rigid value-normative structure. It concludes that in the conditions of a digital society, a complex set of moral foundations of politics has a pronounced tendency to collapse to the limits of the most actualized forms of manifestation of values in the form of ideologies-feelings of mass consciousness, while higher levels of values naturally atrophy due to the impossibility of meaningful interaction with the speed of the political process in the conditions of digitalization.