RESEARCH QUESTION: MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH? WHAT MOST CONCERNS YOU…
WHAT MOST CONCERNS YOU ABOUT MODERN SOCIETY?
I am in the very early stages of a new photographic project and would appreciate your help.
We are living in strange times both politically and culturally, where the previous rules do not seem to apply and unpredictable events are a frequent occurrence.
In order to step outside of my own thought bubble and to appreciate questions beyond of my own world view, I am looking to gather people’s opinions on our current social and political culture.
The question I want you to answer is this;
“What is the one aspect of our society, as it currently stands, that most concerns you?”
Your answer can be anything you wish, whether it directly affects you or not, whether it is a local thing or much more widespread, something in this country or abroad, personal or generalised, political, cultural or neither! I want to try and gather a list of thoughts and opinions on this idea to see if it can help fuel my current thinking surrounding a new photographic project.
Please leave a comment or message me in any way you see fit. I will not share or publish your information or use it in any manner other than my own research. Please note if you leave a comment on this post with your answer, it will be publicly view-able.
Thanks for your help!
If we’re talking about British society… I’d say the right-wing agenda of many newspapers and media outlets – breeding a generation of intolerant, bigoted and mean-spirited people who are brainwashed into believing that their struggles in life are down to the most vulnerable and already marginalised, rather than the governing elite that they cosy up too. That and seagulls. Seagulls and their beady eyes concern me too.
I know this topic is a little old, but I just fell over it. If you are still going on with the project then I suppose it will be useful, if not – no harm done, I hope 🙂
Anyway … my greatest concern is that the majority of societies in the North (and in the South, too, I suppose) will continue to feel this disconnect between their actions and consequences, esp. as regards the environment we all count on for a living. Whether it’s because of the urgency of everyday life, the perceived distance in time and geography of consequences, or the addiction to certain lifestyles, we find excuses all the time to change nothing in how we live. Like: “Yeah, I can go on having two cars, eating meat 7 times a week and, throwing out my flatscreen(s) and cellphones every other year and fly overseas on vacation both summer and winter, because … I just can’t do without it, you know”. Then you can adopt a political or ‘scientific’ attitude that either dismisses or even proves that it’s okay to go on like that, like: “The markets will fix this” or “climate change is due to sunspots” etc. It seems less and less likely to me, there’ll be a major shift in this attitude until sometime mid-century when people begin dying in droves from heatwaves in the summer, and major coastal cities will experience recurring flooding, etc., even in the North. When it’s no longer something that happens to some Pacific Island somewhere…
I expect seagulls to survive, though. For better or for worse 🙂