Psychology of survival in a global risk society: models of time
We discuss the problem of human psychology developments in the future, in view of possible negative prospects for the civilization development. The concept of «global risk society» is proposed. We argue that globalization divides people, communities, and states by intensifying rivalry between all of them. The global risk society, canceling the future in view of imaginary planetary catastrophes, creates guises for introducing extraordinary measures that weaken competition by limiting free trade, effectively abolishing human rights, and social freedoms. Renouncing freedom in a situation of a false choice between freedom and social life (soldering, injection, a digital twin) leads to the loss of both freedom and life. A convenient metaphor for the new way of life in the global risk society is the psychological model of time, in which the present is reconstructed through the future, and not vice versa. The problem of transition from the linear model of time to the "Abrahamic" one is discussed.