Cultural Trends

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  Roads and Recessions: A Socionomic Analysis of Cars and Travel

  Euan Wilson takes the wheel and drives right to the heart of how social mood affects trends in auto design, driving habits, and even your safety on the road in this issue of the Socionomist.
   
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  [Article] Television Ventures to the Dark Side

  The current “falling transition” in social mood makes for strong, complex cross-currents of artistic expression throughout society, including on television. Breaking Bad and other lauded shows are similar to what happened in rock music in 1967-1968. Then, a falling transition produced relatively artistic popular music, with complex influences and innovative arrangements. Bright “psychedelic” lights accompanied moody lyrics. Bands epitomizing the style included The Beatles, Big Brother, Blood Sweat and Tears, Chicago Transit Authority, Cold Blood, Cream, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Santana.
   
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  [Article] Film, Fur and Fright—A Mixed Bag for a Mixed Mood

  Will the newest James Bond film be a success?
   
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  [Featured Article] Film, Fur and Fright—A Mixed Bag for a Mixed Mood

  Will the newest James Bond film be a success? A Japanese company lets you express and share your emotions with an attachable tail. Hollywood is so busy cranking out horror films that it has to expand its fall movie calendar.

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  Will the newest James Bond film be a success? A Japanese company lets you express and share your emotions with an attachable tail. Hollywood is so busy cranking out horror films that it has to expand its fall movie calendar.
   
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  [Article] Hard Data, Hard Knocks and Hard Times

  Government surveillance is burgeoning, entertainment is rife with violence, disruptive technology threatens education, and you won’t believe the bear-market sitcom that is making a comeback.
   
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  [Article] Black Wedding Gowns: Not Just for Goths Anymore

  What prompted the world’s top wedding gown designer to color half her latest collection black?
   
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  [Article] The Education Bubble is on its Way to Collapse as Negative Mood Looms

  Seven developments in the education industry.
   
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  [Article] TV Show Touch Displays Society’s Growing Fascination with Patterns of Social Behavior

  Popular television shows tend to reflect the broad ebb and flow of social mood trends.
   
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  [Guest Article] The Beatles and Wall Street

  What do The Beatles have to do with the stock market? Everything, says Robert R. Prechter, Jr., one of America’s leading stock market analysts and founder of Elliott Wave International, the world’s largest market forecasting firm. Prechter has developed a new theory of social causality called socionomics. It postulates that waves of social mood regulate social actions – including even the popularity of rock stars.
   
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  [Article] Tiger Woods Update: The Ex- Golf Hero Struggles to Regain Stardom

  The bull-market icon is struggling mightily to regain his former reputation.