Why priest Andrei Tkachev asks to stop blindly following fashion

What is fashion?? When someone names the word, we most often think of clothes and accessories that are particularly popular now or will be in the new season. Although fashion extends to a variety of areas of life: etiquette, literature, architecture, cooking ...

People blindly follow fashion, because in this way they hope to become better, want to adopt advanced ideas or gain good taste. On the other hand, the desire to be in a trend is explained by the pressure of the social system and the fear of being out of society. We have an editorial. "Site" I wonder what the priests think of fashion.



There are things in life that destroy this very life. And I'm going to talk about fashion. Why? Because it imposes a certain image on a person. She makes him think that he will go and what will not, says Andrey Tkachev.

“Fashion manipulates. They believe that only their criteria are correct. This skirt needs to be shortened and this one needs to be made longer. These pants should be tightened, and these should be made wider. Now you need to shave behind your ears and dye your hair pink.

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“You succumb to this and soon notice that you are uncomfortable with your appearance. You feel aloof from everyone, and therefore strive to acquire this fashionable common taste, to join it.”

“But the taste is temporary. Several times each year new fashion trends come to replace the old ones. And then we wonder if true beauty has lost its original meaning.”



“After every revolution, when new people came to power, they invented their own fashion. They renamed streets, moved dates, invented new holidays and even names.”

“Why was this done? To shake the inner world of people, and then impose new ideas and tastes. So man became a pliable material for puppeteers of all stripes. Make it whatever you want. Do with him what you wish.”

“And if a man thinks, if he thinks and knows, it is difficult to deceive him. His trust is hard to earn, the priest said.

Books are fashionable even for books. A book will be properly promoted, and even those who do not like to read will take up reading it. Take at least Paolo Coelho. “The greatest writer of our time.”

There are countless Harry Potter books. Is that such a great read? No, it's just trendy to read. Proper advertising moves, PR and promotion. And then the person is even embarrassed to admit that he did not read it.”



“The Optine Holy Fathers predicted that the time would come when concepts would be replaced. Therefore, they advised to instill in young people a taste for good books, music, art. It was supposed to be an antidote to stupidity. But the time has come and there is no antidote.”

“A man can read, but he cannot choose what to read. He has access to a sea of information, but he has no ability to find pearls in dung. It is terrible to be illiterate, but modern literacy, which has neither faith nor taste, is an even more terrible phenomenon.”

“About taste. God has no dead. The books we have are a way of communicating with the great writers and scientists of other eras. A person who writes a book is a contemporary of all people who have lived with him or will live after him on the earth.

“Great people can be friends with each of us because they are our contemporaries. We choose which of them to make friends with. We have tremendous opportunities.”



“Therefore one should not seek friends among fools. Why do you need people who will listen to you with their mouths open? Seek those who are wiser and kinder than you. Who you want to reach for. The desire to learn is a sign of wisdom.

“A man needs a man. So aim for bright people. Don’t watch faceless announcements when choosing a book or movie. Ask the person who inspires you what the last movie he saw, what book he read. If you follow someone, it is better to follow not the faceless mass, but those who are better than us, the archpriest concluded.



After Andrey Tkachev explained what fashion is in his understanding, for sure many will become indifferent to all kinds of things. ultramodern trends. After all, we are constantly trying to impose some dubious tastes and beliefs. This is often done by people we don’t know. So why should we believe all these fashion connoisseurs?