Problem
Decadence
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
DegeneracyDependence on decadence
Decadent people
Nature:
Decadence revels in an excess of sensual pleasure which may be obtained through alcohol, drugs, sex, risk or violence or foul language. It may result from a tolerant attitude in society, lack of religious or moral conviction, lack of legislation or law enforcement, corruption or general social stress. It may also result in disease, death and social disintegration. Decadence in art and in other aspects of culture has been theorized to be caused by a racial, genetic decay, hence the term 'degeneracy'.
Incidence:
Modern decadence has been attributed particularly to industrialized capitalist countries; but it also occurs in the sense of juvenile delinquency, alcoholism, drug addiction, sexual license and bureaucratic and party functionary indulgences in eastern European countries and the USSR.
Broader Problems:
Vice Narrower Problems:
DebaucheryPromiscuityAestheticismDecadent clothingBourgeois deviationismExtravagant life styleHedonism Aggravates:
ObscenityDepravityAlienationImpairmentCruel sportsSocial breakdownHypersensitivityCultural corruptionSuggestive movementsExaggerated toleranceLoss of faith in religionDecline in human genetic endowment Strategies:
Being decadentDegenerating References:
Talbot, Eugene S: Degeneracy: its causes, signs and resultsCamille, Paglia: Sexual Personae: art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily DickinsonJameelah, Maryam: Western Civilization Condemned by Itself: a comprehensive study of moral retrogression and its consequencesKeppe, Norberto R: The Decay of the American People (and of the United States)Haworth, Lawrence: Decadence and Objectivity: ideals for work in the post-consumer society Subject(s):
Innovative change → ChangeSocietal Problems → Dependence
Society → People
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
B: Basic universal problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST