Pop culture/celebrities:
In the modern day it almost seems everyone's a 'celebrity' but what does that even mean and why are they put above the rest of us just for saying "Cash me ouside, how bo da?". A lot of this can be traced back to social media and what it means for the future. Even before the internet had the capability or vision of social media people could see what it meant, "the potential of what the internet is going to do society, both good and bad is unimaginable" - David Bowie 1999 Newsnight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg
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| http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/celebrity-social-media-anger/ |
Is it O.K. punch a Nazi?
Recently Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer was punched after the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as president. This incident brought to life a big ethical debate on when is violence okay. Many debates are happening at the moment around concerns with the future of America. J.K. Rowling and Piers Morgan recently had a dispute on twitter over the political issues within America at the moment. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/15/j-k-rowling-scores-cuning-blow-twitter-war-piers-morgan
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| https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/politics/richard-spencer-punched-attack.html?_r=0 |
Mental Health:
A very taboo subject for many when it really doesn't need to be. The stigma around mental health has to stop just like most taboo subjects like equality. Things are changing in the world with these issues but it doesn't seem fast enough it is a lot to do with education which all points seem to relate to in a sense. Not the fact that teachers aren't good for society or education is teaching us what we need but it isn't teaching us all the points we need. Like how to live in life how to treat others, how to just be and it isn't teachers fault it's that the curriculum is outdated.
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTTojTija8 |
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