Monday, January 03, 2011

Significant Cultural trends of the past decade

I read this article today on the Ten Most Significant Cultural Trends of the Past Decade. I would recommend reading the article for an insight into our culture. Here is the list:

  1. Connection
  2. Place
  3. Cities
  4. The End of the Majority
  5. Polarity
  6. The Self Shot
  7. Pornography
  8. Informality
  9. Liquidity
  10. Complexity
I was particularly intrige by #4, The End of the Majority. It is true that there are fewer and fewer categories in which there is a clear majority anymore. This line was interesting to me: "Barack Obama is a minority, but so is Sarah Palin. Republicans are a minority—so are Democrats, and so are independents." 

We all feel like we are the persecuted ones, but in reality, in increasing ways, everyone is persecuted and no one has the support of the majority of people anymore.

What stands out as interesting to you?

1 comment:

Russ said...

Thanks for the great article Jamie.

I found the place point interesting. "the 21st-century dream seems to be to put down deeper roots". I travel a lot for business and personal, so this just simply hasn't been my experience during the last decade.

The point, "The really radical and difficult place to raise a family by 2020 will be . . . the suburbs." I have not thought of this before. I'm pretty comfortable living in the suburbs right now. This is outside my paradigm right now.