Secure Self-Actualization of the Young Generation in a World of Global Correlations From the Perspective of Thirty Years (1989-2019)

The Author examines values involved in the formation process of ontological security culture ofthe Polish youth from the perspective of thirty years (1989–2019), as well as determines whichvalues are predominant in the youth community today. The author develops and justifies a thesis,according to which “the politics of life” constitutes a young person’s necessary ability to managetheir life in the age of modernity. This management requires a creative and reflective effort,arranging and planning one’s life story, which is the core of identity. It also requires the creation ofsuch a lifestyle in which the overriding value would be the concern for the future and well-being ofother individuals, collectives, nations, societies and humanity. This leads to responsibility for thewhole, for life, as one’s own future and prosperity also depends on it.The author also proves that youth in Poland are not indifferent to cultural universals, but insteadrather attempt to co-create those universals in course of intercultural dialogue and globalizationprocesses.This generation is the first one to have the opportunity for intercultural participation on a globalscale in such a widespread way, the ability to choose the content and forms of such participationthrough the internet and electronic media of global reach. Today’s youth are proficient in navigatingthe internet. The ways and time they devote to particular digital resources indicate their socialaffiliation directions, value hierarchies and activity styles. At the same time, the creation and use ofonline content causes and requires dynamic redefinition of one’s attitudes, opinions, relationshipsthat is, social identity, both in real and virtual reality.