Purulent

Purulence is a pastoral concept meaning old-fashioned or provincial in the spirit of the 1960s, the era of rural life and patriarchy. According to our data, generations of 50-60-, sometimes 70-year-olds were characterized as “purulent”. These are people who have not yet grown old, but are already losing their former liveliness, are easily excitable, nervous, and have fallen under the influence of random circumstances. Excessive attachment to the past manifests itself as a touch of provincialism, as an external sign of loss of ties with modernity (its processes, trends, specific situation, other people). These could be, for example, “malicious pensioners” living in the cities they abandoned, showing arrogance and reluctance to take part in common activities: they