Problem
Inhibited capacity to visualize a creative future
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Dystopian visionsAbsence of creative unity
Nature:
The capacity of individuals to visualize a creative and meaningful future is hampered by a complex of interacting social images and forms. Cultural traditions limit choices to few narrow areas and fail to provide the ability to respond to needs beyond that culture's experience. Some project present trends into wretched scenarios, killing their own motivation to continue living, moving toward their dystopian visions. Acceptable futures are limited and often shallow: people are consumed with the desire to find some form of personal or family security in the traditional home or job, telling themselves that they are unable to worry about the future until the present is secure. The magnitude of changes taking place has resulted in a fear of the new by some and an infatuation for the new by others.
Broader Problems:
Unchallenging world visionCollapse in providing ethical value screensLimited horizons produced by survival living Narrower Problems:
Fear of future changePreoccupation with security structuresFatalistic attitudes to the use of timeStatic social relations inhibiting vision of the futureParalysis of elders faced with the futureToday mindset dependence Related Problems:
Reinforced parochialism of internal values and images Aggravates:
UnpreparednessMalignant visionsDeliberate invention of new threatsDetrimental story of community futureUnderutilization of potential in local communities Subject(s):
Policy-making → FuturePsychology → Imagery
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST