Contemporary Issues (cultural trends)

Submitted by diaskeaus on Tue, 02/14/2006 - 11:40
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  1. Separation through language
  2. Political/reactionary education
  3. Worldwide advertisement market
  4. Mass retail production
  5. Genetic science
  6. Depletion of natural source
  7. Tourism as national markets
  8. Decentralized religion
  9. Rise of microscience
  10. Mass publication of information
  11. Westernization
  12. Ignorance of poverty
  13. Global finances/economics
  14. Gap between rich and poor
  15. Globalization
  16. Internet/global community
  17. Nuclear/biological weapons
  18. Worldwide corporatization
  19. Worldwide religious quarrel
  20. City overpopulation
  21. Computerization of industrial/pre-industrial industry
  22. Televisionation and worldwide media
  23. Spread of advanced sexual disease
  24. Metropolitization
  25. Uniglobal politics
  26. Mass air travel
  27. Destruction of national borders, rise of multinational ideology
  28. Fundamentalism on world religious market
  29. Worldwide unbordered political radicals
  30. Loss of identity
  31. Rise of political feminism
  32. Mass food processing
  33. Mass production of mind-altering substances
  34. Worldwide rise of sexual freedom
  35. Separation of child from family
  36. Incorporation of disabled into work culture
  37. Air congestion
  38. Working from the home
  39. Rise of single-parent families
  40. Free health-care system
  41. Decline of filial responsibility
  42. Rise of agnosticism
  43. Industrial gambling
  44. The age of speed
  45. Worldwide black market
  46. Collective of cultural creatives
  47. Interactive media as drama
  48. Jesus as celebrity
  49. Postmodern philosophy
  50. Children as political powers
  51. Death of absolutes and rise of nihilism
  52. Destruction of myth and rise of isolationism fantasy
  53. Decline of leisure
  54. Cultural anarchism
  55. Hyperreality
  56. Megaevents
  57. Professional study of culture
  58. Nanotechnology
  59. Reproductive rights
  60. Public/private space travel
  61. "Village" modernization
  62. Animal rights
  63. Corporate piracy
  64. Corporatized politics
  65. Computerized identification
  66. Industrial slavery
  67. Meaning in deconstructed ruins
  68. Emergence of worldwide pop-fantasy
  69. Loss of literary class
  70. Satellite communication
  71. Urban warfare
  72. Commercial religion
  73. Acceptance of inter-racial families
  74. Cultural division
  75. Emergence of Youthful class
  76. High planetary radiation
  77. Non-human species extinction
  78. Intelligent robotics
  79. Commercial desertification and reforestation
  80. Computerized reality
Author Comments: 

These are issues that are relevant to today in particular, things that perhaps we not issues yesterday and will not be issues tomorrow.

Slothrop3302/14/2006

And where are we heading with this?

diaskeaus02/14/2006

I designed this list initially as an outline for a SF novel that will address these issues. I'm hoping to expand the list, but I've had trouble coming up with additional ones.

lukeprog05/26/2006

A novel that will address all these issues???

diaskeaus05/27/2006

The novel also has significant roots in The Epic of Gesar, Journey to the West (Xi You Ji), and classic American road novels like On the Road, Catcher in the Rye, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Most of those books are epics, so this book when finished is going to be very large, but how big, I can't say yet because I haven't started writing it yet and I'm not sure. The novel will also be Surreal, with landscapes and characters morphing and changing, rather than a static world.

So to answer your question, I'm not sure if it is possible, but I'm hoping so. I might be setting my sights a little too far ahead. We'll see.