This song and this specific band indicate the preferences of a model icon of this time.
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Basket Case - Green Day
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H. G. Wells
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The issues regarding Technology have gained a popular recognition by the influence of the science fiction genre. Emerging essentially during the 19th century, this genre is concomitant with the advancements of Technology and Science.
Science fiction takes themes which are at the time often approached in society, as well as imaginative possibilities of what may occur according to scientific aspects. For example, Jules Verne explored the idea of travelling to locals at the outset impossible to reach, like the center of the Earth, and H. G. Wells explored the idea of time travelling.
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Jules Verne
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However, the progresses in Science are determined by people mentality, which is intrinsically related to Culture. Although this genre is influenced by technological advancements, the fiction has also a role in the progress. An odd case of this fact is a popular belief that the moon landing in the Apollo program was an idea of the President John F. Kennedy, as he watched the sitcom The Honeymooners.
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Allegorical perspective about Globalisation
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In a brief analysis, we would affirm that the most relevant advantage of the phenomenon of Globalisation is the possibility of integrating the ideals of peace and freedom, without compromising the status of economic and social independence of a nation. On the other hand, the most relevant disadvantage would be the possibility of Cultural Assimilation, if a country has not sufficient conditions to maintain its independence of a considerable dominant other.
However, the theory of Globalisation is more embracing. The phenomenon of Globalisation would finish with the frontiers which separated each culture along History. According to this idea, it may bring stability or inconstancy, depending of the case. If there is the necessity to establish barriers, in order to avoid conflicts between two cultures, Globalisation wouldn’t be correctly practicable. For that reason, we cannot argue that this is not a so fascinating fact, as we agree fondly that a Globalised world would be a wonderful way to solve nowadays troubles.
BBC short film about Globalisation
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Martin Luther King
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Since the re-election of Barack Obama in the last month of November, it is relevant to refer the historical facts inherent to the African-American Civil Rights Movement, from 1955 to 1968.
Martin Luther King, the most prominent figure of this movement and the racial discrimination against African American people, was a man whose actions didn’t involve essentially any specification of his profession as a clergyman but a pure altruism and a thoughtful Activism.
On 14th October 2012, it made 48 years since Martin Luther King II won the Peace Noble Price. His actions had a large contribution in the history of the United States of America, having made a reenactment of the values introduced in the Declaration of Independence.
However, this man hadn’t only contributed to the modeling of the ideas of a nation. Whole the world recognizes today the glory of Martin Luther King.
“I Have a Dream” full speech
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The Dark Ages
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Just like Japan hadn’t the opportunity to develop in the Feudal period, the Middle Age in Europe brought a climate of terror and darkness to people minds, due to the formation of certain dogmas.
The dogmas of society, religion or any institution don’t allow the increase of our ideals, of our economy, of our society in general. The feudalism is against the evolution of the human communities.
In the Middle Age, between the 5th and the 15th centuries, people feared the apparitions and, so, feared the evolution. The Technology in this period was essentially related to Mechanics, and not really scientifically elaborated assumptions. The period next to the Middle Age were so productive that we call it the Renaissance, allowing us to understand that, if the dogmas in Middle Age hadn’t proliferated, society would be more technologically developed.
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Greater Tokyo Area
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Between the years of 1868 and 1945, the Oriental Empire known as Japan experienced a large economical and cultural transformation, refraining from the feudal ideals which ruled along centuries.
Today, Japan is a country with a large social development, perhaps the most developed nation in terms of technology. This considerable development enabled Japan to exercise its influence around the rest of the world. Nowadays, the anime and the manga became popular between children and even adults, even more than American and European cartoons. Also, the videogames produced in Japan gain fans in the whole world. Most of the fiction created in Japan reflects its technological development, which influences the ideas of a creative artist like Akira Toriyama.
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Poster of the 1931 film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Beyond being a typical fantastic story about the duality of man and beast, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide is a quite written science fiction novella by Robert Louis Stevenson. The work is considered a pioneer in the theme regarding the complexes of an alter-ego.
In terms of symbolism, this work reflects well the distinction between the dark and bright sides of the Victorian Age, in which Jekyll represents simply the good and Hyde the evil. However, the symbols of this work are not so simple and the message passed is much more complex.
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