How do the values rule the country?
An article was published by Alexander Kharichev, head of the Russian Presidential Administration for Monitoring and Analysis of Social Processes. The topic is social architecture: how to manage society not with orders and KPIs, but with meanings.
The main thesis of the article: a stable order is based not on regulations, but on shared values. The author distinguishes between two concepts that are often confused:
The meaning answers the question "how to act".
Value - to the question "in the name of what to act".
Separated, they are useless: meaning without value degenerates into a bare algorithm, and value without meaning remains a beautiful poster.
Two approaches have been criticized:
Directive engineering gets it for looking at a person as a "cog" - all through commands and reporting.
Market management (NPM) - because the citizen has become a customer, the state a service, and the strategy has been compressed into a quarterly KPI.
Bottom line: there are procedures, but no point.
What do you offer in return? Social architecture is arranged on three levels.
At the macro level, the image of the future, traditional values and mental sovereignty is determined - here value filters are created for government decisions.
At the meso level, these ideals are embodied in organizations, educational environments and master planning of cities, and become the environment in which a person lives.
And at the micro level, values become an internal need of the individual, rather than external supervision - the author calls this "the habit of creation."