CATASTROPHE AS EXISTENTIAL-SOCIAL DIMENSION OF HISTORICAL BEING.

Shocks in the form of two world wars and many ecological catastrophes turned out to be not the most catastrophic for the consciousness of modern man. The catastrophic is seen as disharmony, disconnection with the world, in which cities and the urbanised environment appear as symbols of modern catastrophic loneliness and estrangement. The first decades of the XXI century have supplemented the catastrophic series with all sorts of thanatological perversions, whimsically combining the fullness of the feeling of life with the phenomena of sadism, masochism, sexual revolutions, terrorism and moral degradation. The density of personal, social and national misfortunes is hopelessly catastrophic, turning the catastrophe not into a turning event that brings "negative consequences", but into a current everyday life filled with the expectation of the negative and destructive, which generates fear, stress and longing on the one hand, and hatred, aggression and desire for revenge on the other. It is substantiated that individual conflicts, due to their mass nature, create a huge and difficult to classify conglomerate of socio-psychological tension, against the background of which many people form psychological and clinical variants of socio-stress syndrome. The reasons for this can be explained by the everyday culture of social space, which forms standardized ideals for a person, and this leads to the loss of individual ideals and values. It is shown that as a result of the disaster a peculiar tragic, moral atmosphere is created, which is a complex system of interrelated principles, norms, values and stereotypes of behavior that differ from the moral standards of everyday life. It is noted that the decrease in the level of moral normativity is the result of ambivalence of morality, associated both with changes in the functional and mental state of a person in stressful conditions, and with the need to follow the values and norms developed in the disaster situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]