Grown-Up Topics for a 365 Day Challenge
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maeve66This is a placeholder post, the comments for which are meant to be a place for suggesting three hundred and sixty-five grown-up (or at least not moronic or banal or jejune) topics for blogging. I have two post topics, so I'll put them in the comments. Please, anyone should feel free to contribute. sabotabby's idea was to start actually blogging the topics on January 1st 2013. Ambitious!
ETA: I have corralled what suggestions there have been so far, and added some, and we are 1/10th of the way to 365 topics. Hm. I should probably put this behind a
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Day 1: Have reading and writing changed (in utility, in purpose, in percentage of literacy, in any way) since the advent of video?
Day 2: What would it take to bring down the capitalist system -- but replacing it with socialism (whatever you want to call that post-capitalist economy where people rather than profits are the priority) rather than barbarism?
Day 3: What's worse, the fact that kids these days wear baggy pants, or that they won't get off my damn lawn?
Day 4: What do you do to keep yourself from mentally/emotionally/physically stagnating?
Day 5: If you could take a year off work and volunteer for a cause you believe in, what would you choose to do, where would you choose to do it, and why?
Day 6: How is your life now different from what you expected as a child? How is it similar?
Day 7: What do you think are the most important things to make a relationship work?
Day 8: What behaviors do you think will kill a relationship?
Day 9: Do you believe in "once a cheater, always a cheater"?
Day 10: What aging related cosmetic interventions would you consider, if any? Why or why not?
Day 11: Do you believe people or society have meaningfully changed, in terms of human-nature behavior, in your lifetime? If so, how?
Day 12: How can we reestablish poverty as an evil to be combated in US society?
Day 13: Should Texas secede?
Day 14: What did you expect to be doing at this age, when you were young? How does it compare with the actuality?
Day 15: If you could go back and correct one big mistake, would you, or are you content with where it's led you? Are the good times generally worth the bad?
Day 16: What skill would you like to pick up or improve in the next few years?
Day 17: What would your life be like now without the internet?
Day 18: What does a good life look like, in a generation where there's little access to meaningful work and family relationships are flexible?
Day 19: When would have been the best time to live?
Day 20: What social networks are you on? What features do they have that appeal to you as opposed to others? What's your ideal social network?
Day 21: Do you believe in love at first sight? Do you believe in love at all?
Day 22: Could there be a secular progressive religion-substitute which provided the benefits of religion (community, emotional and spiritual welfare) without the militant atheism?
Day 23: How do you define a meaningful life?
Day 24: Are there any minoritarian takes on what has happened in history (I am avoiding the phrase "conspiracy theories") that engage your curiosity for one reason or another?
Day 25: What is this War on Obesity all about?
Day 26: If you could time travel and be a time-anthropologist for a while, without sticking out like a sore thumb (you have the language and clothes and appropriate money and a reasonable back story) when and where would you go? (I might repeat this question more than once; I can think of several time periods to write about)
Day 27: Why do you think people delude themselves that getting rid of anonymity makes the world a nicer place?
Day 28: Who is a historical figure you find interesting, and why? (Again, this is repeatable multiple times)
Day 29: What fiction that you have read recently would you review/recommend?
Day 30: What nonfiction that you have read recently would you review/recommend?
Day 31: Why is the idea of "class" so nebulous in the United States -- as opposed to, say, Britain.
Day 32: Who is a teacher you recall fondly -- from middle school? (also, other blog topics, from high school, from college, from grad school)
Day 33: What's your current favorite sci-fi/sitcom/any genre TV show and why? What's so appealing about it?
Day 34: What technology that exists now could you not really imagine as a child?
Day 35: Pro baseball, or pro football?
Day 36: What are the books from your childhood that stay with you?
Day 37: How do you feel about aging?
Day 38: Do you think it's possible to maintain your privacy in this networked age?
Day 39: Why cats?
Day 40: Where is going to be the best place to live in 2050?
Day 41: What is your attitude toward, or involvement with, your television?
Day 42: Where do you think you'll be in 20 years?
Day 43: What should they have taught you at school?
Day 44: What's your favorite tea?
Day 45: Is commerical radio still relevant? If no, why not? If yes, what do you listen to?
Day 46: The Beatles or The Stones?
Day 47: What's your favorite unusual snack?
Day 48: Dylan or Springsteen?
Day 49: Describe one (or more than one) favorite toy from childhood.
Day 50: What do you think about the American Transcendental movement? Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman and all those folks.
Day 51: What 'guilty secret' reading do you do?
Day 52: Predict future technology -- say, 50 years from now.
Day 53: What do you think about religion, any religion?
Day 54: Describe a compelling historical figure, and say why (second iteration)
Day 55: What cities can you imagine living in?
Day 56: What is a recent pop cultural source of irritation for you?
Day 57: Thoughts on Wikipedia?
Day 58: Do you have experience of depression (or anxiety, or other like issues) and does writing about it ever help?
Day 59: Genres of music you do not like
Day 60: What do you think about crafting? (Theory about it or practice of it)
Day 61: What fiction that you have read recently would you review/recommend? (second iteration)
Day 62: What is your experience with making -- or breaking -- habits?
Day 63: Best alcoholic drink?
Day 64: Last interesting movie you saw in the theater
Day 65: Have you met and made friends with anyone online "IRL"?
Day 66: Do you have thoughts on the open-source movement?
Day 67: What are your opinions on anonymity/pseudonymity/using "real life" names and the way "real life" names are being pushed by Facebook/Google, etc?
Day 68: Your picks for the Oscars? (I'll change the order of this one when it becomes relevant)
Day 69: Gun Control? US culture and violence?
Day 70: Availability/stigmatization of mental health care?
Day 71: Ten most needed reforms, absent revolution (for the moment)
Day 72: Can humans reverse the damage done to this planet by our industrialization, etc?
Day 73: Can China pull off a world empire?
Day 74: Let's do another round of "what are you currently reading and is it any good?"
Day 75: the Google car -- a good idea?
12/16/12: now at 75 topics! Twenty more and we'll be a quarter of the way through the year. I hope the contributions keep coming in. S-J, where are you? Also,slantedeyes65, where are YOU? And everybody else, more please, more!
1/2/13: I will keep trying to add topics, but at this point what I think I am going to do is just dip into this about twice a week, so that I have topics to write on whether or not I am inspired to write in LJ (or DW, whatever). My niece is finally blogging, but she chose Blogger, sigh.
sabotabby's idea was to start actually blogging the topics on January 1st 2013. Ambitious!ETA: I have corralled what suggestions there have been so far, and added some, and we are 1/10th of the way to 365 topics. Hm. I should probably put this behind a
-------------------------------------------
Day 1: Have reading and writing changed (in utility, in purpose, in percentage of literacy, in any way) since the advent of video?
Day 2: What would it take to bring down the capitalist system -- but replacing it with socialism (whatever you want to call that post-capitalist economy where people rather than profits are the priority) rather than barbarism?
Day 3: What's worse, the fact that kids these days wear baggy pants, or that they won't get off my damn lawn?
Day 4: What do you do to keep yourself from mentally/emotionally/physically stagnating?
Day 5: If you could take a year off work and volunteer for a cause you believe in, what would you choose to do, where would you choose to do it, and why?
Day 6: How is your life now different from what you expected as a child? How is it similar?
Day 7: What do you think are the most important things to make a relationship work?
Day 8: What behaviors do you think will kill a relationship?
Day 9: Do you believe in "once a cheater, always a cheater"?
Day 10: What aging related cosmetic interventions would you consider, if any? Why or why not?
Day 11: Do you believe people or society have meaningfully changed, in terms of human-nature behavior, in your lifetime? If so, how?
Day 12: How can we reestablish poverty as an evil to be combated in US society?
Day 13: Should Texas secede?
Day 14: What did you expect to be doing at this age, when you were young? How does it compare with the actuality?
Day 15: If you could go back and correct one big mistake, would you, or are you content with where it's led you? Are the good times generally worth the bad?
Day 16: What skill would you like to pick up or improve in the next few years?
Day 17: What would your life be like now without the internet?
Day 18: What does a good life look like, in a generation where there's little access to meaningful work and family relationships are flexible?
Day 19: When would have been the best time to live?
Day 20: What social networks are you on? What features do they have that appeal to you as opposed to others? What's your ideal social network?
Day 21: Do you believe in love at first sight? Do you believe in love at all?
Day 22: Could there be a secular progressive religion-substitute which provided the benefits of religion (community, emotional and spiritual welfare) without the militant atheism?
Day 23: How do you define a meaningful life?
Day 24: Are there any minoritarian takes on what has happened in history (I am avoiding the phrase "conspiracy theories") that engage your curiosity for one reason or another?
Day 25: What is this War on Obesity all about?
Day 26: If you could time travel and be a time-anthropologist for a while, without sticking out like a sore thumb (you have the language and clothes and appropriate money and a reasonable back story) when and where would you go? (I might repeat this question more than once; I can think of several time periods to write about)
Day 27: Why do you think people delude themselves that getting rid of anonymity makes the world a nicer place?
Day 28: Who is a historical figure you find interesting, and why? (Again, this is repeatable multiple times)
Day 29: What fiction that you have read recently would you review/recommend?
Day 30: What nonfiction that you have read recently would you review/recommend?
Day 31: Why is the idea of "class" so nebulous in the United States -- as opposed to, say, Britain.
Day 32: Who is a teacher you recall fondly -- from middle school? (also, other blog topics, from high school, from college, from grad school)
Day 33: What's your current favorite sci-fi/sitcom/any genre TV show and why? What's so appealing about it?
Day 34: What technology that exists now could you not really imagine as a child?
Day 35: Pro baseball, or pro football?
Day 36: What are the books from your childhood that stay with you?
Day 37: How do you feel about aging?
Day 38: Do you think it's possible to maintain your privacy in this networked age?
Day 39: Why cats?
Day 40: Where is going to be the best place to live in 2050?
Day 41: What is your attitude toward, or involvement with, your television?
Day 42: Where do you think you'll be in 20 years?
Day 43: What should they have taught you at school?
Day 44: What's your favorite tea?
Day 45: Is commerical radio still relevant? If no, why not? If yes, what do you listen to?
Day 46: The Beatles or The Stones?
Day 47: What's your favorite unusual snack?
Day 48: Dylan or Springsteen?
Day 49: Describe one (or more than one) favorite toy from childhood.
Day 50: What do you think about the American Transcendental movement? Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman and all those folks.
Day 51: What 'guilty secret' reading do you do?
Day 52: Predict future technology -- say, 50 years from now.
Day 53: What do you think about religion, any religion?
Day 54: Describe a compelling historical figure, and say why (second iteration)
Day 55: What cities can you imagine living in?
Day 56: What is a recent pop cultural source of irritation for you?
Day 57: Thoughts on Wikipedia?
Day 58: Do you have experience of depression (or anxiety, or other like issues) and does writing about it ever help?
Day 59: Genres of music you do not like
Day 60: What do you think about crafting? (Theory about it or practice of it)
Day 61: What fiction that you have read recently would you review/recommend? (second iteration)
Day 62: What is your experience with making -- or breaking -- habits?
Day 63: Best alcoholic drink?
Day 64: Last interesting movie you saw in the theater
Day 65: Have you met and made friends with anyone online "IRL"?
Day 66: Do you have thoughts on the open-source movement?
Day 67: What are your opinions on anonymity/pseudonymity/using "real life" names and the way "real life" names are being pushed by Facebook/Google, etc?
Day 68: Your picks for the Oscars? (I'll change the order of this one when it becomes relevant)
Day 69: Gun Control? US culture and violence?
Day 70: Availability/stigmatization of mental health care?
Day 71: Ten most needed reforms, absent revolution (for the moment)
Day 72: Can humans reverse the damage done to this planet by our industrialization, etc?
Day 73: Can China pull off a world empire?
Day 74: Let's do another round of "what are you currently reading and is it any good?"
Day 75: the Google car -- a good idea?
12/16/12: now at 75 topics! Twenty more and we'll be a quarter of the way through the year. I hope the contributions keep coming in. S-J, where are you? Also,
slantedeyes65, where are YOU? And everybody else, more please, more!1/2/13: I will keep trying to add topics, but at this point what I think I am going to do is just dip into this about twice a week, so that I have topics to write on whether or not I am inspired to write in LJ (or DW, whatever). My niece is finally blogging, but she chose Blogger, sigh.