10 most significant cultural trends in the last decade

according to andy crouch can be found on his qideas.org blog (found via a post on thesimplepastor.co.uk) are:





1) connection - the technologies that facilitate it - e.g. facebook
2) place - local, putting down roots, volume of travel flat
3) cities - revival and growth of
4) the end of majority - cultural majorities collapsing - we are all minorities
5) polarity - what do we have in common?
6) the self shot - is how we see ourselves - not mirror images with R & L reversed
7) pornography - omnipresent yet still underground
8) informality - only low status employees wear uniforms
9) liquidity - and the betting culture in financial markets whilst raw material prices rise
10) complexity - through countless connections