Does Fame Matter?

Does fame make you happier?

Do we forgive the famous more easily?

Is there always a "fame backlash" in the media?

Can Art Change a Society?

Can Artists transform Political Culture?

Do Artists Inform or Express the Values of a Culture?

Can they do Both Well?

Can We Feed the World's Hungry With Organic Food?

Is it justifiable to use genetically modified foods to prevent massive starvation?

What if these foods forever modify the original seeds?

Are Small Scale Tragedies More Affecting Than Large Scale Tragedies?

Is the scale of an event the inverse of its emotional impact?

Are large tragedies too abstract for individuals to truly comprehend?

Are We Happiest When:

We have unlimited choices?

We have limited choices?

We have a single choice?

We have no choices?

Is a Concentration of Human Population a Help or a Hindrance?

In becoming more or less understanding and compassionate?

In the development of innovative ideas?

In conserving energy and resources?

Should Taxpayers fund Research?

Should taxpayers fund medical, scientific and energy innovation?

If so, what percent of taxpayers money should be invested in research?

Equal to military funding?

Equal to managing the FCC?

The FDA?

Is Immigration a Human Right?

Should an individual have the right to flee huger, war or oppression?

Should wealthy countries horde their wealth?

Should Children Work?

If they are sole support of the household?

If they have no access to education?

If they enable a future generation more opportunities?

Should Food be Commoditized?

Is the free market responsible for speculation on food?

On Water?

Does the free market conflict with basic human ethics?

Is Gridlock Inevitable?

As opportunities increase in urban areas, do traditional families disintegrate?

Are cities more or less conducive to strong families?

Should Insurance Companies Have Access to Your Genetic Data?

Should Genetic Profiling Be Used to Develop More Efficient Health Care Systems?

With Universal Health Care, Should there be Caps on Preventative Health Care Spending?

Can Undocumented People be Illegal?

Should a country founded on immigration open its borders?

Should desperate people be considered criminal for being poor?

Should compassion be politicized? 

Will Economic Colonialism Replace Military Colonialism?

Will corporations be the new colonialists?

Will the 21st century be the political equivalent of the 19th century?

Is Beauty Spiritual?

Is laughter healing?

Why is music emotional?

Is Giving Foreign Aid Important?

What percentage of our economy should go to foreign aid?

Should there be strings attached?

Can a country survive and flourish on foreign aid?

Is a Consumption Tax Fairer than an Income Tax?

Is the creation of need good for a society?

Can one ever feel permanently  satisfied?

Is the creation of  new services as good for the economy?

Are All Opinions Equal?

Is balanced reporting necessary or possible?

Are there always 2 sides to each argument?

Is considering all points of view a move to clarity or confusion?

What Should Have a Greater Budget Priority?

Education?

Defense?

Health?

Do Spectator Sports Unify or Divide Communities?

Are sports more than entertainment?

Are athletes more influential than writers?

Is the physical genetic lottery more important intellectual development?

Is History Fiction?

Are historical events clearer the further from them we get?

Is understanding history possible?

Can any one individual actually make history?

Are significant  historical events nothing more than the confluence of culture and memory?

Are Social Networks Truly Social?

Are virtual communities naive?

Does E-mail promote linguistic sophistication?

Does being constantly connected actually disconnect us emotionally?

What are the Consequences...

Of our dependance on technology?

Of our expectations of instant gratification?

Of our hunger for all things new and improved?

Do Animals have Rights?

Is it our Legal Obligation to protect them?

Is it our Moral Right to protect them?

Is it our Social Right to protect them?

Why is Belief in a God a Qualification for Leadership?

Is Religion Superstition?

Is Faith Scientific?

Is Belief in God possible without defining God?

Why is it an important quality in political leaders?

Are Class Divisions more Significant than Race Divisions?

Why are the bottom economic classes so divided?

Why are the top tier economic classes so united?

Why can't we have a national discussion about class?

Are We Responsible?

For ourselves?

For our Family?

For our Neighbors?

For our Community?

For our City?

For our State?

For our Country?

For our World?

How do we decide where and when to "draw a line" wherein we absolve that responsibility?

Is Money Speech?

In a democracy should influence be asymmetrical and based on media ownership?

Should broadcast networks work for the public good - education - long form investigative reporting - to retain their licenses?

Is all fair in love - war - and political campaigns?

Is Personal Ambition Important?

What is the balance of personal ambition and personal responsibility?

50-50?

60-40?

70-30?

Is responsibility quantifiable?

Should Innovation be Risk Free?

Should we encourage failure as a path to success?

Should we value failure more than we do?

Should society protect innovators from failure?

Should the government be bailing out investment banks for risky investments gone bad?

Should a Majority of One "Take All"?

Is representation by population possible?

Is one man/woman -  one vote possible?

How can a minority of one retain its true political power?

Does Social Diversity Strengthen or Weaken a Society?

Why is religious, ethnic and economic diversity a good thing?

What is the alternative?

Does diversity promote conflict or understanding?

Is Plot Character?

Is story character?

Is plot story?

In life, is your story, your character?

Is Society a Marketplace?

Do we negotiate selfish and selfless behavior?

Do we negotiate defensive and offensive behaviors?

Do we negotiate our own afterlife?

Is It More Important to be Grateful Than to Be Proud?

In the discussion of national identity?

In the discussion of religious identity?

In the discussion of social identity?

What Art Form has More Lasting Impact On Our Culture?

Literature or Film?

Music or Architecture?

Graffiti  or Photography?

What Has a More Profound Impact on Your Consciousness?

Drama or Comedy?

Stillness or Movement?

Relaxation or Adrenaline?

Fact or Fiction?

Is Understanding/Studying History Important?

For Citizens?

For Consumers?

For Activists?

For Politicians?

Are We More Connected to Brands than to Real Ideas?

Are cliches a viable political message?

Is a political message just a branding exercise or is there a deeper meaning to sloganeering?

Do words matter?

Is Sovereignty Possible in an Interdependent World?

Can the U.S. solve its economic, health and climate issues unilaterally?

Why don't Candidates mention Global Interdependence?

Can An American Candidate get elected by having an open and honest discussion of the real issues?

Is War Part of the Human Condition?

For the last 5000 years, has there ever been a time on earth without war?

What drives humans to fight so consistently?

Is it to:

Defend their lives?

Defend their property?

Spread their religion and culture?

Expand their economic influence?

Service the ego of their leadership?

Should the United Nations be Abolished?

If so, should it be replaced with an international organization focused on social, medical, educational needs?

If not, should it build the world's most powerful armed force?

Is false hope more dangerous than real hope? 

Marketing or Advertising?

Is effective marketing a cultural assault?

Is advertising educating?

Is news marketing?

If so, for what?

If not, why not?

Pragmatism or Optimism. What is A More Useful Approach?

Reaction or Proaction?

Engineering or Design?

Linear thinking or Lateral thinking?

What Should Have Priority in our School Systems?

Science or Art?

Literature or Social Science?

Constitutional Studies or Media Studies?

Political Science or Religious Studies?

Majority Rules or Minority Rights?

How do we balance the power of a majority with the needs and rights of a minority?

How much power should a significant minority have and how can it be manifested?

Should Individual Citizens Have the Same Rights as Corporations?

Should a failing bank be bailed out by taxpayers for assuming ill-considered risk?

Should an individual be bailed out by taxpayers for assuming ill-considered risk?

Should small businesses have those same rights?

In a free market is risk- reward only the purview of small investors?

Should Oil Companies Pay Windfall Taxes?

Given that most oil fields have been discovered, what is the current market risk to oil companies?

Is an unrestrained market in essential goods harmful to national security?

Is A Universal Standard of Ethics Possible?

If so, who or what determines it?

If not, how can we adjust our determination of what is ethical?

How can we apply those ethical standards?

Does Foreign Aid Work?

Can any country survive on foreign aid?

How can foreign aid investment benefit the giving nation?

How much foreign aid is enough? 1% of GDP?  5% of GDP?  10% of GDP? 

Is it Oil?

Does our addiction to oil reveal an even greater addiction to consumerism?

Does it reveal a fundamental flaw in how our cities work?

Are we fooling ourselves when we think that alternative energy will cure our destructive addictions?

Is it like methadone and heroin?

Is The American Senate Democratic?

Should Americans re-write their constitution?

Should Congressmen have to spend more time raising money than legislating?

Should elected officials be able to choose their voters? (gerrymandering)

Do Human Cells Possess Intelligence?

If so, can we tap into it?

If not, how do they "know" when to divide, or what kind of cells they are?

Can we understand ourselves from the inside out?

Can Education Flourish in a Consumer-Based Society?

Does American culture promote ignorance of history?

Are Americans anti-intellectual?

Can an American Education System be revitalized enough to transform the culture?

Is Fashion Important?

Does it transend social and economic divisions?

Is it an expression of genetically programmed signals designed to attract and express?

Is it an art form?

Which is Preferable...

Genetically engineered food that could feed hundreds of millions cheaply?

Or

Organic food for all but at a much higher cost?

Can Good Intentions Overcome Bad Systems?

Do bad systems eventually corrupt the system users?

Can corrupt users corrupt good systems?

Can fundamentally bad systems be corrected?

Should Life Saving Drugs be Patented?

If so, for how long?

If not, how do we compensate the developing companies?

Should the prices of these drugs be regulated?

What is saving a life worth?

Which is More Effective?

Incremental Change or Distruptive change?

Slow Change or Fast Change?

Rennovation of "tried and true" Systems or Ground Up New Design Unbugged?

Constant Fluid Change or Intermittent Dynamic Change?

Why do People Have Children?

Because-

They are optimistic about the future?

They like raising them in  the image of themselves?

They want them to build a better future?

They want to feel powerful and significant?

Canon fodder is needed?

They like small helpless beings around?

It's what people do?

Is Hipness Stupid?

Is it based on ideas, fashion, entertainment or status?

Is hipness cultural coding for anti-intellectual insiders?

Is hipness about smugness that reinforces a desperate sense of significance?

Can hipness last?

Does anyone care?

Who owns Airwaves?

Should corporations "own and control" broadcast airwaves in perpetuity?

Do they have a responsibility to use them for more than profit?

Does owning a forest, a river, or lake involve absolve the owner of responsibility to the greater good?

Is corporate social responsibility antithetical to shareholder value?

Is Democracy...

a passing historical concept?

possible?

growing?

in need of renovation?

something we desire naturally?

a fools errand?

corrupted by corporations?

a hope and dream to be nurtured? 

Are We Better Off?

Than we were:

10 years ago?

50 years ago?

100 years ago?

500 years ago?

5000 years ago?

Is Tribalism a Basic Human Trait?

If so -

Is it inherent as to aid physical survival?

Is it inherent as to create as sense of significance, social superiority, for the benefit of the mind.

If not,

Is is taught?

Can Big Ideas Have Influence Anymore?

In an age of channel me?

In the world of unlimited choice?

Do Polls Influence?

Have you ever changed your opinion because of a poll?

Are polls reactive or proactive?

Are polls information or opinion?

Is Language Culture?

Are images language?

When we speak a different language, are we thinking differently?

Is the post literate, visually focused generation,  a separate culture?

As separate as religion, race or generation?

What would Happen?

If every country on earth lived the American lifestyle?

If every American voted?

If every vote counted?

If money was not free speech?

If voting districts were not gerrymandered?

Are Opinions Without Actions Relevant?

Are good intentions enough to make social change?

Where is the line between personal responsibility and social responsibility?

Can we learn from History?

And if so,  can we ever apply those lessons? And if not, what is it about us that prevents us from doing so?

Darwin vs. Locke

Do we feel more free in a world where the strongest survive or in a world where we must give up some rights to maintain a cohesive social contract?

A World Without

What would be worse? A world without art or a world without sports?

Or a world without water.

Which world is closer?

Where is the anti-war movement?

On facebook? Watching youtube? Playing Xbox?

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