society

society ← cross cultural issue

alien point of view	alternate points of view	attitude towards the dead	conflict of privacy preferences	cultural exchange	enemy point of view	foreign point of view	future point of view	multicultural community	past point of view	primitive point of view	religious point of view	when in Rome
AI point of view, transcendental point of view						adapting to life in a foreign culture, conflict of cultural norms, foreign customs, learning about a foreign culture				science as magic to the primitive

society ← international issue

appeasement policy	arms race	arms trade	competition among nations	conflicting systems of jurisprudence	de-escalating a conflict	diplomacy	diplomacy vs. force	exported pollution	extradition	first contact	international politics	international sanctions	nuclear proliferation	political asylum	political neutrality	reconciliation between two peoples	sporting to promote peace	the morality of colonization	transnational conflict over a claimed territory	transnational conflict over a shared resource	transnational conflict over environmental concern	transnational institution for peace	war
						factions joining forces against a common enemy, interfactional mediation, peace process																	civil war	the horrors of war	weapons of mass destruction		aerial bombing of cities, child soldiers, defection, demonization of the enemy, ...
																							military coup, self-coup	atrocities of war, civilians suffering in war	nuclear weapons	biological weapons, chemical weapons
																									nuclear holocaust

society ← national social issue

educational issue	environmental issue				form of government					gender issue			law and order issue																										military issue		political issue			public health issue		social dysfunction	sociocultural issue							socioeconomic issue				sociotechnological issue						special interest group issue
child labor, creationism, historical revisionism, illiteracy in society, ...	environmentalism	pollution in society	waste management	climate change and bureaucratic inaction, eco-terrorism, endangered species, human overpopulation, ...	authoritarianism	political ideology			absolute monarchy, anarchy, caste system, colonialism, ...	sexual norms in society		equal career opportunities for women, female education, female independence, forced fatherhood, ...	crime																							legal duty	legal punishment	divorce procedures, forced confession, impartiality in the legal system, inherited liability, ...	military secrecy	antigovernment militia movement, desertion, drugs for military use, prisoners of war, ...	indoctrination in society	revolution in society	abuse of authority, abuse of real power, anti-war activism, bread and circuses, ...	contagious disease in society	MMORPGs in society, alcohol in society, famine, genetically modified food in society, ...	bad government exports while the people are starving, pervasive marketing in society	harassment	relations between social groups in society					Christmas traditions, antiscience in society, arranged marriage, celebrity culture in society, ...	immigration in society	social inequality	unethical business practices	adds in society, big banking in society, commercialism in society, economic depression, ...	autonomous weapon systems in society	information technology in society	machines in society		out of control technology	data privacy, genetic engineering in society, human cloning in society, mass media in society, ...	child power, child's point of view, feral children in society, orphans in society, ...
	exported pollution	oil spills in society	toxic waste management		creeping authoritarianism	contraposed political ideologies	fascism	capitalism, communism, feminism, free inquiry vs. obedience, ...		homosexuality in society	abortion, bestiality, birth control, bisexualism, ...		crime against justice			crime against property			crime against the person					crime against the public			organized crime	sexual crime	violent crime						bribery, high treason, war crime	duty to disobey illegal orders, duty to rescue, duty to return lost property	capital punishment, collective punishment, corporal punishment, exile, ...		covert military operation		government indoctrination, military indoctrination	The Russian Revolution, the American Revolution, the Russian Revolution of 1905		bioengineered human pathogen, epidemics in society			workplace harassment	hatred in society		prejudice in society		people should stick to their own kind		treatment of migrants	healthcare inequality, inequality in the justice system	corporation interfering in politics		autonomous weapons system killing everyone	Internet crime in society, social media in society	autonomous weapon systems in society	workers replaced by machines	out of control AI
						anarchy vs. rule of law, aristocracy vs. bourgeoisie, conservative vs. liberal, cooperation vs. competition, ...	Nazism			lesbianism, male homosexuality			framing someone for a crime	obstruction of justice	false rape accusations, perjury, vigilante justice	criminal fraud		theft		aircraft hijacking, arson, blackmail, illegal drug trade, ...	framing someone for a crime	murder			child abduction, child abuse, domestic violence, false rape accusations, ...	dangerous driving	terrorism	apostacy, black markets, body snatching	band of outlaws, criminal gangs	indecent exposure, nonconsensual voyeurism, pedophiles, sexual assault, ...	murder			robbery	terrorism	aircraft hijacking, child abuse, crime of passion, domestic violence, ...														hatred of exceptional people	ethnic hatred	racism in society	AI prejudice in society, class prejudice in society, lookism in society, prejudice against ex-convicts, ...									autonomous weapons system killing everyone		AI takeover
													what if I were being framed for a crime	witness tampering		con artistry	art forgery, insurance fraud, match fixing, scams against the elderly	robbery	archaeological looting, burglary, looting		what if I were being framed for a crime	dominicide	parricide	cannibalism, infanticide, mass murder, poison murder, ...		drunk driving	school shooting, terrorist or freedom fighter				dominicide	parricide	cannibalism, infanticide, mass murder, poison murder, ...	bank robbery, mugging	school shooting, terrorist or freedom fighter															anti-intellectualism in society		antisemitism in society, racial supremacism
																quackery		bank robbery, mugging				regicide	avunculicide, filicide, fratricide, matricide, ...								regicide	avunculicide, filicide, fratricide, matricide, ...

society ← social ethical issue

defamation of character vs. freedom of speech	human rights issue				medical ethical issue		parent's right to make decisions for their child	social ethical dilemma
	AI rights	animal rights	exploitation of sentient beings	animal cruelty, animal testing, children's rights, civil rights, ...	unethical human experimentation	The Hippocratic Oath, doctor assisted suicide, doctor vs. next of kin, doctor's opinion vs. patient preference, ...		the ethics of interfering in the internal affairs of other powers	capital punishment, choosing between odious regimes, crime and punishment, destroying one people to save another, ...
	killing an artificial person	the killing of animals	child exploitation, worker exploitation		unethical psychological experimentation			interfering in the internal affairs of other powers for humanitarian reasons, taking sides in an international conflict, the ethics of interfering in less advanced societies

speculative fiction theme

speculative fiction theme ← crackpot theory

Atlantis	Bermuda Triangle	Counter-Earth	Hollow Earth	Phaeton hypothesis	alien abduction	alien experiment	alien impregnation of human females	alien origin of an aspect of human civilization	aliens eating people	aliens inspiring great people	aliens meddling in ancient history	aliens meddling in history	aliens talking to us in our dreams	ancient alien archive	ancient puzzle	conspiracy theory	crackpot theory of cattle mutilation	cryptid	déjà vu	extrasensory perception	flying saucer theory of UFOs	impostor living secretly among us	intelligent dinosaurs	lost continent of Mu	men in black conspiracy theory	mystical aura	people meddling in history	psychic detective	secret society conspiracy theory	speculation that the Devil is not so bad after all	speculative hypnosis	speculative subliminal stimuli	spontaneous human combustion	the historical figure was really an alien	the mythological figure was really an alien
								alien origin of a superstition, alien origin of a technology, alien origin of religious claims, alien origin of the human race										Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, living dinosaur				alien living secretly among us, immortal living secretly among us, machine living secretly among us, time traveler living secretly among us					aliens meddling in history, time traveler meddling in history								the Devil is an alien, the god is an alien

speculative fiction theme ← speculative ability

magic powers	sonar sensory ability	speculative ability related to another being					speculative ability related to own body					speculative ability related to own mind		speculative ability related to physical things		speculative ability related to reality at large	supernatural ability
		mind to mind interaction ability		speculative communication	speculative remote living body manipulation		speculative personal body manipulation		speculative personal locomotion	speculative personal resilience	directed energy shooting ability	clairvoyance	dream walking, memories from past lives, photographic memory ability, remote projection of self	telekinetic ability	electricity manipulation ability, pyrokinetic ability, thought materialization ability	time rewind ability, time slow down ability, unbounded thought powers
		telepathic ability	mind attack ability, mind control ability	ability to communicate with animals, ability to communicate with plants	remote harming ability	healing ability	speculatively magnified ordinary personal ability	intangibility ability, invisibility ability, self-healing ability, shapeshifting	aquatic ability, flying ability, teleportation ability	immortality, imperviousness to physical damage, unkillable attribute		precognition, prophetic ability, remote viewing, retrocognition		telekinetic machine manipulation ability
		mind reading ability			deadly touch ability		ability to see through solid objects, super hearing, super intelligence, super reflexes, ...

speculative fiction theme ← speculative being

artificial being				biologically distinguished being											emergently intelligent being	fictional character come to life	inanimate object come to life	intelligent animal	legendary being					locationally distinguished being				mentally distinguished being	monster		personification of a concept	shape distinguished being		size distinguished being		speculative human	supersoldier	transcendental being
android	genetically engineered person	virtual person	cyborg, disembodied head, robot helper	animal and plant patterned being				hybrid being		inorganic being		parasitic being	sexually distinguished being	assimilating beings, being that feeds on electricity, being that feeds on the mind, biologically symbiotic beings, ...			anthropomorphic object come to life		fairies	legendary magic wielder	the Devil	wish-granting being	Bigfoot, European dragon, Lilliputian being, Loch Ness Monster, ...	extraterrestrial being		subterranean being	four-dimensional being, two-dimensional being	collectively intelligent beings, emotionless emotion craving being, empathic being, pure evil being, ...	undead being		giant monster, shadow monster, werewolf	death incarnate, elemental being	shapeshifter	ball-shaped being, blobform, brain-shaped being, incorporeal being	microscopic being	Lilliputian being, giant person, living planet, living space cloud, ...	doppelgänger	genetically engineered soldier	supreme judge being
android clone of a person, sex-droid	genetically engineered soldier	digital clone of a person, virtual lover		canine-like being	fish-like being	reptilian being	amphibian-like being, ape-like being, avian being, chameleon-like being, ...	human-animal hybrid	centaur, cyborg, human-alien hybrid, human-bug hybrid, ...	silicon-based being	crystalline being, electromagnetic being, fire-based being, gaseous being	life force draining being, neural parasite, vampire	gender neutral being, lethal mating practice being, multi-gendered being				evil doll		fairy godmother	warlock, witch	the Devil is an alien	genie in a lamp		spaceborne being	Jovian extraterrestrial, Martian extraterrestrial, Moon people, Neptunian extraterrestrial, ...	mole people			incorporeal spirit	living corpse			bio-mimicking life form		microscopic sentient life form
				human-canine hybrid	human-fish hybrid	human-reptile hybrid		human-canine hybrid		rock being														living planet, living space cloud, spacefaring plants					ghost	undead mummy, undead skeleton, vampire, zombie
																													personal haunting

speculative fiction theme ← speculative effect

anti-gravity	invisibility		speculative love inducing effect	speculative luck inducing effect	speculative matter manipulating effect		speculative prediction of the future	speculative time manipulating effect
anti-gravity technology	invisibility technology	invisibility ability			matter manipulating technology	what if I underwent a physical metamorphosis		time slow down
	invisible spaceship, personal invisibility cloak, planetary invisibility cloak				food synthesizer, matter duplicator, matter replicator, matter transmuter, ...	apotheosis, what if I grew in size, what if I shrank in size, what if I turned into an animal, ...		time freeze

speculative fiction theme ← speculative experience

body swap	fall from grace	from zero to hero	how to commit a crime and get away with it	out-of-body experience	psychoactive drug experience	rise to prominence from humble beginnings	what if I became telepathically linked with someone else	what if I could only speak the truth	what if I found myself in a different time	what if I found myself in a strange place	what if I had a secret guardian	what if I met an extraordinary person	what if I underwent a physical metamorphosis	what if I were a man who got pregnant	what if I were in a tight spot					what if I were not subject to the normal process of aging	what if an aspect of my personality was slightly different	what if my life were different		what if my personal identity came into question		what if my thoughts became reality	what if someone around me changed	what if the fate of the world was in my hands	what if the people around me changed	what if time passed at different rates for different people
			how to crack a safe, how to murder someone and get away with it, how to rob a bank and get away with it		psychedelic experience				what if I caught a glimpse of the future, what if I found myself in the future, what if I found myself in the past, what if I saw a glimpse of the past	what if I could never go home, what if I could travel around inside a human body, what if I found myself in a high gravity environment, what if I found myself in a low gravity environment, ...		what if I met an historical figure, what if I met my distant descendant, what if I met my double, what if I met myself from a different time, ...	apotheosis, what if I grew in size, what if I shrank in size, what if I turned into an animal, ...		facing an extraordinary accusation	what if I fell into the clutches of a person with malicious intent	what if I was held captive and made an exhibition object	what if someone dangerous was after me	what if I became accessory to a friend's crime, what if I became separated from my parents, what if I became witness to a suspected crime, what if I couldn't trust the veracity of my senses, ...	immortality, rapid aging process, what if I aged backwards, what if I could be young again, ...		what if I lived an alternate life	what if I became extremely lucky, what if I could do anything I wanted without repercussions, what if I had a life-changing stroke of good fortune, what if I had a near-death experience, ...	what if I found myself in the body of another person	evil hand, what if I became a simulation, what if I discovered that I was a facsimile of someone else, what if I found out I was a different person than I thought I was, ...		what if I found out that a loved one was not the person I thought they were, what if a loved one became possessed by another being, what if my partner switched gender, what if someone I knew returned from the dead, ...		what if everyone lost control of their inhibitions, what if everyone suddenly started to communicate differently, what if everyone turned into zombies, what if everyone vanished and I was all alone, ...
															what if I was accused of a crime that I didn't commit	what if I fell into the clutches of a homicidal maniac	what if I was a specimen animal in a zoo	what if a killer was after me, what if criminals were after me				what if I were in a coma-like state		what if I found myself in a body of the opposite sex, what if I found myself in the body of a child
															what if I were being framed for a crime

speculative fiction theme ← speculative natural process

human thought virus	life force transfer	panspermia	retarded aging process	reverse aging	reversed time	speculative evolution	time loop
						devolution, super accelerated Darwinian evolution, the future of human evolution

speculative fiction theme ← speculative place

fantasy land	hollowed out asteroid habitat	isolated prehistoric land	legendary place	magical land in the sky	off-world prison colony	opposite world	rotating space habitat	speculative artificial island	speculative city	speculative cosmos	speculative habitable celestial body
			Atlantis, lost continent of Mu, the legend of El Dorado			reversed time			city planet, domed city, floating city, underground city, ...	cyclical time universe, edge of the universe, four-dimensional space, nested universe, ...	habitable planet in a multiple star system	artificial planet, city planet, desert planet, garbage planet, ...
											habitable planet in a binary star system, habitable planet in a trinary star system

speculative fiction theme ← speculative punishment

implanted memory punishment

mindwipe punishment

prisoners being exploited for entertainment

suspended animation punishment

speculative fiction theme ← speculative society

alternate history	biased sex-ratio society	interplanetary war	interstellar war	multi-species civilization	robotic civilization	single-gender society	society consisting of only children	society living in space	space colonization	space tourism	speculative future event													speculative social institution								subterranean civilization	telepathic society	what if a child had power over adults	xenophobic isolationist society
what if Britain had won the American Revolutionary War, what if the Nazis had won, what if the Roman Empire never fell	female-only society								colonization of Alpha Centauri, colonization of Earth, colonization of Jupiter, colonization of Mars, ...		existential risk to civilization												World War III, peace on Earth, the technological singularity, what if every woman suddenly got pregnant at the same time, ...	dystopia		utopia						community of abandoned children, institutionalized human blood sports society, society in which victims sentence their own assailants, society with a maximum age limit, ...
											anthropogenic existential risk to civilization						force of nature existential risk to civilization			threat from extraterrestrial life		supernatural existential risk to civilization		conformist dystopia	bureaucratic dystopia, communist dystopia, consumerist dystopia, drugged up dystopia, ...	ruling elite utopia	technologically enabled utopia	technology-free utopia	utopia based on a view of human nature	utopia based on exploitation of a group	fabled land of goodness, free market utopia, kill all humans utopia, start-over utopia
											institutional risk to civilization			technological risk to civilization		close encounter with a stray artificial object	approaching astronomical object event	catastrophic solar event	atmospheric dissipation, catastrophic encounter with another universe, catastrophic flood, displacement by a rising new species, ...	attack from outer space	accidental alien destruction of planetary civilization, alien brought pandemic, attack from Inner Earth, being wiped out by more powerful aliens, ...			people forced to be average dystopia		machine controlled society, mind controlled society	genetic engineering utopia, machine controlled society, post-scarcity economy utopia, transhumanism utopia, ...	neo-Luddist utopia, noble savage utopia	free love utopia, kumbayah utopia, telepathic utopia	utopia on the back of android labor, utopia on the back of slave labor
											annihilation by WMDs	ecological destruction	atrophied civilization, global warming, overpopulated world, war of mutual annihilation	biotechnological risk to civilization	AI takeover, autonomous weapons system killing everyone, out of control scientific experiment, planet being knocked off its axis by nuclear blast, ...		asteroid impact, close encounter with a passing astronomical object, moon slowly spiraling into a planet	dying sun, expanding sun, planet scorching solar flare, sun going supernova		attack from outer space by a genocidal enemy, attack from outer space by a giant spaceborne being, attack from outer space by a powerful conquering enemy
											annihilation by a device that stops fusion in a star, annihilation by a planet busting device, nuclear holocaust, orchestrated asteroid bombardment	depletion of a vital natural resource		human-made pandemic

speculative fiction theme ← speculative technology

artificial intelligence							artificial life	astronomical impact avoidance	astronomical-scale engineering		augmented reality	engineered space structure				force field	gravity manipulating technology		hologram	human enhancement technology							invisibility technology	matter manipulating technology	mind altering technology							planetary-scale engineering		spacetime manipulating technology	speculative biotechnology		speculative device													speculative energy generation technology		speculative nanotechnology	speculative robotics	speculative virtual reality	speculative weapon		stasis technology	sub-planetary-scale engineering	synthetic food
android	autonomous weapons system	sentient machine	speculative robot		virtual person	AI assistant, AI companion, AI safeguards, android clone of a person, ...			stellar engineering	interstellar communication network		engineered orbital structure	engineered trans-orbital structure	space station	space mirror, space telescope, sun gun, world eating machine		artificial gravity technology	anti-gravity technology		body implant	body part transplant	brain implant	cure for an as yet uncurable disease	life extension technology	species transmutation	accelerated growth rate therapy, appearance altering technology, artificial body part, brain disembodiment technology, ...	invisible spaceship, personal invisibility cloak, planetary invisibility cloak	food synthesizer, matter duplicator, matter replicator, matter transmuter, ...	brain-computer interface		duplicate of a person	memory erasure	memory implantation technology	mind transfer technology	intelligence augmentation technology, mass mind control, mind control technology, mind linking technology, ...	speculative geoengineering	artificial planet, asteroid mining, changing the orbit of a planet around its star, hollowed out asteroid habitat, ...	device bigger inside than outside, space folding travel technology	speculative genetic engineering	DNA encoded message, bioengineered human pathogen, biological computer, biological machinery, ...	once speculative device	pod or booth-like device		self-replicating machine	speculative handheld device	speculative torture device	speculative vehicle			speculative wearable device			automatic surgery machine, dream recorder, electromagnetic catapult, matchmaking technology, ...	fusion power	antimatter power, geothermal energy from Earth's interior, human battery, perpetual energy machine	self-replicating nanomachines		digital afterlife, speculative virtual reality headset, virtual reality room, virtual reality sex, ...	autonomous weapons system	death ray, implanted weapon, killer microdrone, paralysis device, ...	suspended animation	local weather control system, speculative artificial island, undersea tunnel	food pill
android clone of a person, sex-droid	autonomous weapon systems in society	sentient computer, sentient spaceship	android	mechanical insect, mechanical man, robot helper, robot prizefighter	digital clone of a person, virtual lover				Dyson sphere, stellar rejuvenation			orbital weapons	space elevator	space dock			rotational simulated gravity			implanted weapon	brain transplant, eye transplant, head transplant, heart transplant	brain stimulating implant	cure for Alzheimer's disease, cure for blindness, cure for cancer, cure for the common cold	anti-aging technology, revival long after death	species uplifting				brain implant	plug-in learning device	android clone of a person, digital clone of a person	mindwipe punishment	implanted memory punishment	mind uploading		speculative terraforming			speculative genetically modified crops		ankle bracelet, dictation machine, flat-panel display, flying drone, ...	teleportation device	artificial womb, disintegration chamber, sonic shower, suicide booth	self-replicating nanomachines	intangibility device	pain belt, pain collar, pain implant	speculative airship	speculative spaceship	flying car, hoverboard, mobile life support device, piloted creature-shaped vehicle, ...	speculative full body outfit		speculative glasses	ankle bracelet, jet pack, magnetic boots, pain belt, ...		cold fusion					autonomous weapon systems in society		cryogenic technology, suspended animation punishment
	autonomous weapons system killing everyone		android clone of a person, sex-droid																										brain stimulating implant													space portal					flying ship	Bussard ramjet, biological spaceship, faster than light travel, flying saucer, ...		speculative environmental suit	powered exoskeleton, virtual reality suit	vision beyond the visible spectrum glasses								autonomous weapons system killing everyone
																																																		speculative diving suit, speculative spacesuit

speculative fiction theme ← speculative travel

character transported into imaginary world	journey into the underworld	perilous voyage at sea	space travel		time travel		travel inside a human body	travel into the Earth	voyage under the sea
			teleportation device	intergalactic space travel, interplanetary space travel, interstellar space travel, orbital spaceflight, ...	time travel paradox	time machine, time portal, time rewind ability, time traveler living secretly among us, ...
			space portal		grandfather paradox

the human condition

the human condition ← human idea about life

a danger shared can bring people together	a leopard can't change its spots	a person's true character is revealed in a time of crisis	actions have consequences	appearances can be deceiving	be careful what you wish for	be mindful of first impressions	be wary of strangers	beauty is in the eye of the beholder	best laid plans often go awry	better to have loved and lost	blood is thicker than water	change is part of life	curiosity killed the cat	evil can come in the guise of good	fortune favors the bold	give them a finger and they'll take the whole hand	hardship makes you stronger	hate begets hate	if it ain't broke don't fix it	if it sounds too good to be true it probably isn't true	ignorance is bliss	in for a penny in for a pound	it's the future that matters not the past	it's what's on the inside that counts	knowledge is power	live by the sword die by the sword	material possessions isn't everything	misery loves company	misfortune unites	moderation in all things	money can't buy happiness	money can't buy love	money is the root of all evil	nothing ventured nothing gained	opposites attract	people can change	people may not always live up to their reputations	people should stick to their own kind	practice makes perfect	quality is more important than quantity	the Golden Rule	the boy who cried wolf moral	the dangers of blind obedience	the flip side of a promotion	the flip side of being in power	the flip side of immortality	the grass is always greener on the other side	the greatest among us is the smallest in another world	the importance of being frugal	the importance of being hardworking	the importance of being honest	the importance of faith	the importance of reputation	the price of freedom is eternal vigilance	the road to hell is paved with good intentions	the stupidity of crowds	the thrill is in the chase	there is someone for everyone	there is value in diversity	there is value in redundancy	those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it	true beauty comes from within	we need a balance between rationality and emotionality	we need our darker side in moderation	with great power comes great responsibility	you can't beat the odds in the long run	you can't eat money	you must fight for what you want
							children and candy from strangers							evil can come in the guise of beauty													money isn't everything							you have to take chances to get ahead																	the importance of keeping one's promises

the human condition ← human regular activity

academia	computer hacking	cooking	fishing	gardening	gastronomy	human occupational activity		hunting	recreational activity		sports			the fine arts and the humanities
parody on life in academia, the archaeology profession, the astronomy profession, the geology profession, ...						art related occupation	charitable volunteering, event management, journalism, law enforcement, ...	poaching	tabletop games	amateur radio, classic films, collecting objects, gambling, ...	blood sports	combat sports	American football, cricket, golf, horse racing, ...	acting	art related activity	music	performance art	sculpture	stage magic	stand-up comedy	classic films, creative writing, dancing, drawing, ...
						the entertainment industry, the fashion industry, the publishing industry, the visual arts			Dungeons and Dragons, the game of poker		hunting people for sport	fencing, the sport of boxing		opera	art discussion	opera	circus skill	wax sculpture	ventriloquism	ventriloquism

the human condition ← humans in group

a danger shared can bring people together	belonging	demagoguery	family affairs											friendly competition in groups	getting along together in a confined space for an extended period	group bonding	group morale	human social position			humans at work		humans in hierarchy		humans interacting			inebriated interaction	invasion of privacy	keeping secrets	manners	mass hysteria	misfortune unites	mistrust leading to group dysfunction	negotiation	peer pressure	pluralistic ignorance	there is strength in unity	working together under stress
			coping with a family issue	coping with a problematic family member		divorce	human childhood		human parenting				black sheep, dark family secret, family dispute, family financial problem, ...					coping with having a bad reputation	coping with humiliation	coping with being famous, coping with disagreeable orders, coping with having a stigmatizing illness, coping with having been raped, ...	workplace relations	company team building, coping with being ill on the job, discipline in the workplace, favoritism at work, ...	pecking order	control by intimidation, going over someone's head, hero worship, leadership, ...	getting along in spite of disagreement	practical joking	betrayal, bluffing, cheating, clash of Wills, ...	coping with a drunken fool	nonconsensual voyeurism		sportsmanship, table manners				negotiating deadlock
			coping with being eclipsed by a family member	controlling family member	embarrassing family member	custody battle	coming of age	adolescence, child leaving the nest, childhood as an outsider, childhood aspirations, ...	educating a child	parental disappointment in a child	parenting a child with special needs	absentee father, adopting a child, caring for a baby, child's need to be loved, ...						coping with having a cuckold reputation	coping with being a laughing stock		office romance		the unappreciated and unimportant at the workplace		working together in spite of disagreement	childhood pranks
				controlling partner			rite of passage into manhood		children and candy from strangers, discipline of a child, intellectual development of a child, the birds and the bees	fatherly disappointment in a son, motherly disappointment in a son	parenting a mentally disabled child, parenting a physically disabled child

the human condition ← humans in pairs

human interpersonal relationship
friendship	human familial relationship									rivalry	romantic relationship		romantic relationship issue			superior and subordinate	a person and their clone, agent and client, commander and subordinate, coping with a loved one being gravely ill, ...
falling out of friendship, female bonding, male bonding, male-female bonding, ...	godparent and godchild	husband and wife	in-law relationship	parent and child			reunion with a loved one	sibling and sibling	aunt and nephew, aunt and niece, brother and brother, brother and sister, ...	female-female rivalry, male-male rivalry	young lovers	beauty and beast romance, boyfriend and boyfriend, boyfriend and girlfriend, cross cultural romance, ...	human romantic relationship choice	romantic infidelity	bondage sex, coming out of the closet, controlling partner, coping with a failing marriage, ...	boss and employee, master and servant, master and slave
	fairy godmother	newlywed couple	brother-in-law and brother-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, father-in-law and daughter-in-law, father-in-law and son-in-law, ...	father and son	mother and son	child unhealthily attached to a parent, father and daughter, mother and daughter, parent and child rivalry	reunion with a long lost child	sibling rivalry			teen romance		choosing between lovers, love vs. career, love vs. faith, love vs. friendship, ...	extramarital affair
				fatherly disappointment in a son	motherly disappointment in a son

the human condition ← individual human experience

human challenge in life																																human character																		human dreaming			human emotion												human thinking about self						human tough decision																		human way of life		purpose in life
coping with a problematic person	coping with life issues	coping with the death of someone			facing adversity											facing death	human emotional issue	human health condition										human in danger		suicide	coping with being in a heat wave	courage	honesty	honor	human character stereotype					human characters in contrast		loyalty	obsession	pride			spendthrift	vanity	chastity, childishness, chivalry, competitiveness, ...	remembering bygone days	remembrance	escape from reality, fantasy romance, thinking about one's accomplishments in life	compassion	fear		grief			jealousy	love			remorse	anger, boredom, contempt, embarrassment, ...	exercising self-control	human self improvement	human worrying about self		letting go of the past	self-deception, self-justification	human life choice					human self-sacrifice				personal ethical dilemma						personal life and death dilemma	personal practical dilemma		survivalism	anti-technology way of life, atheism, carefree way of life, carpe diem, ...	human aspiration	human need							human pleasure
coping with a bad boss, coping with a disobedient person, coping with a drunken fool, coping with a grumpy old coot, ...	abandonment, coping with a life-changing event, coping with a loved one being gravely ill, coping with being a danger to those around you, ...	coping with the death of a family member	coping with the death of a lover	coping with a massive loss of comrades, coping with suicide, coping with the death of a friend, coping with the death of a pet, ...	human vs. human				human vs. institution	human vs. nature			human vs. technology	human vs. the occult	good vs. evil, human vs. inexplicable adversity, human vs. monster, surviving in a wasteland	coming to terms with one's own death, coping with a terminal illness, facing one's own execution, what if I had only one day to live	coping with having a bad day, coping with memories of a lost love, coping with saying goodbye forever	coping with aging	human addiction		human mental condition						coping with a bad hangover, coping with a bad sunburn, coping with a disability, coping with a terminal illness, ...	coping with being lost	coping with being injured, coping with being tortured	coping with a suicidal person, talking someone out of suicide		courage in the face of death	the importance of being honest	family honor	female stereotype	hypocritical character	male stereotype		loser character, mad scientist stereotype, old woman as a witch stereotype, stereotypically innocent character, ...	wicked character vs. virtuous character	EQ vs. IQ, artist vs. scientist, commoner vs. intellectual, extrovert vs. introvert, ...	choosing between conflicting loyalties, loyalty to a cause, loyalty to a friend, loyalty to a group, ...	obsession with a life-dedicated project, obsessive love	pride in an achievement	pride in one's family	attitude of superiority, hubris, pride goes before a fall, pride in one's community, ...	coping with a spendthrift	narcissism		reminiscence about one's youth, romanticization of the past	coping with memories of a lost love		helping a stranger in need	human phobia	childhood terrors, facing one's darkest fear, fear for one's life, fear of abandonment, ...	coping with the death of someone			romantic jealousy	familial love		romantic love		survivor guilt		repressing one's romantic desires	accepting reliance on others, becoming a harder person, becoming a more emotionally sophisticated person, becoming a more self-assured person, ...	coming to terms with things	beating one's self up, becoming like what you oppose, being ashamed of who you are, being bitter about one's life, ...	letting go of a lover		career choice	contemplating suicide	human romantic relationship choice	working hard vs. taking it easy in life	Faustian bargain, choosing between love and family, coming out of the closet, deciding what to wish for, ...	human self-sacrifice for another			sacrifice for one's beliefs, sacrifice to defeat an enemy, selfless service	breaking the law for personal advantage	compromising one's ethical principles for personal advantage	compromising one's ethical principles vs. great need		conflict of duty	abandoning someone to save one's self, breaking the law to cover up another crime, choosing between conflicting loyalties, choosing whether to kill someone to spare them suffering, ...	assisting in suicide, cannibalism to survive, killing for personal advantage, killing to save a loved one, ...	risk taking vs. playing it safe	carrot vs. stick, choosing between equally futile actions, choosing between equally unappealing possibilities, decision making in the face of uncertainty, ...	survivalist stereotype		the desire for a simpler life, the desire to become more human-like	human physiological need	human safety need	human self-actualization need		human self-esteem need		human social need	pleasure in eating	passion for vehicles, pleasure in nature, pleasure in violence
		coping with the death of a child, coping with the death of a parent, coping with the death of a spouse	coping with the death of a spouse		facing organized pursuit	human vs. captivity	human vs. self	facing a conspiracy, facing a genius adversary, facing a home invader, facing a hostage situation, ...	facing persecution by the government, human vs. Kafkaesque institution	charting unknown territory	human vs. beast	facing a vermin infestation, facing an epidemic, human vs. affliction, human vs. space anomaly, ...	human vs. sentient machine	human vs. zombie				coping with time passing you by, menopause	drug abuse	addiction to fortune telling, addiction to sensation, compulsive spending, problem gambling, ...	delusion of grandeur	human phobia	mental illness	psychological stress	withdrawal from society	Oedipus complex, Stockholm syndrome, acute anxiety, anger management issues, ...		coping with being lost in space, coping with being lost in the forest					the importance of keeping one's promises		clingy girlfriend, dumb blonde stereotype, female attraction to bad men, female attraction to powerful men, ...	religious hypocrisy	womanizing man	beards, dumb jock stereotype, inattentive male partner, male brutishness, ...		wicked husband and virtuous wife stereotype, wicked wife and virtuous husband stereotype				pride in one's own creation	parental pride								picking up a hitchhiker	agoraphobia, arachnophobia, claustrophobia, fear of being alone, ...		coping with the death of a family member	coping with the death of a lover	coping with a massive loss of comrades, coping with suicide, coping with the death of a friend, coping with the death of a pet, ...		parental love	filial love, love of a pet, matrimonial love, platonic love, ...	infatuation	epic love, forbidden love, impossible love, love at first sight, ...					coming to terms with having to give up on a dream, coming to terms with living in a new environment, coming to terms with one's own death, coming to terms with one's own sexuality, ...				choosing between job opportunities, family vs. career, friendship vs. career, love vs. career, ...	honorable suicide, life with a handicap vs. death, suicide vs. slow death	choosing between lovers, love vs. career, love vs. faith, love vs. friendship, ...	homework vs. play		helping a stranger in need	sacrifice to prevent mass death	donating an organ to save a life, sacrifice for a child, sacrifice for a friend, sacrifice for a loved one, ...		choosing whether to return found property	benefiting from someone else's work	compromising one's ethical principles vs. self-preservation	killing in self-defense, killing to survive	duty vs. compassion, duty vs. conscience, duty vs. desire, duty vs. duty, ...			gambling with a body part, taking a high-stakes wager vs. walking away					the desire to have children, the need for rest and recreation, the need for sleep	attachment to one's livelihood, the desire to survive, the need for freedom, the need for privacy	the lust for gold	the desire for personal development, the desire to advance one's career, the desire to get away from it all, the desire to marry above one's station, ...	the desire for glory	the desire for fame, the desire for prestige, the desire for redemption, the desire for vengeance, ...	attachment to one's land, child's need to be loved, crew's attachment to their ship, the desire for justice, ...	pleasure in coffee
					being on the run from the law	bird in a gilded cage, facing life in captivity	resisting a temptation			deep sea exploration, land exploration, polar exploration, space exploration	facing a ferocious beast, human vs. venomous animal								alcohol abuse		Messiah complex	agoraphobia, arachnophobia, claustrophobia, fear of being alone, ...	delusional point of view	coping with stress at work, coping with the rigors of command, cracking under pressure, freezing up in a critical moment, ...	escape from reality												the Casanova stereotype																			coping with the death of a child, coping with the death of a parent, coping with the death of a spouse	coping with the death of a spouse			maternal love, paternal love		first crush, obsessive love															picking up a hitchhiker	sacrificing one's self to stop a contagion					prostitution vs. poverty												gold digging, greedy heir		the desire for glory in battle

the human condition ← what life is like

what civilian life is like in times of war	what it is like during a natural disaster	what it is like in a combat zone	what it is like in a legal proceeding	what it is like in a psychiatric institution	what it is like in prison	what it is like in school	what it is like to be a refugee	what it is like to be impoverished	what it is like to live through a military occupation	what it is like to travel
						what it is like in boarding school, what it is like in elementary school, what it is like in high school, what it is like in university		what it is like to be homeless		what it is like on a passenger flight, what it is like on a passenger liner

the pursuit of knowledge

the pursuit of knowledge ← folk belief

Japanese folklore	communicating with the dead	destiny	divination	fairies	faith healing	haunted object	hexes and curses	life force	magic object			magic word	mandrake root legend	omens	preternatural rain	spirit possession	supernatural luck	sympathetic magic	taking someone's picture steals their soul	the supernatural	wacky dream interpretation	wishing or wanting something really hard makes it happen	witchcraft
	séance	one cannot cheat fate	astrology, fortune telling	fairy godmother		haunted house, haunted painting, haunted vehicle			magic potion	wish-granting magic object	flying carpet, magic bag, magic healing object, magic portal, ...	true name				demonic possession	bad luck signs, lucky charms, portent of luck, reliable streak of luck	voodoo doll		black magic, ghost hunting
									love potion	genie in a lamp, wish-granting shooting star

the pursuit of knowledge ← history

American Civil War	Roswell UFO incident	The Algerian War	The Holocaust	The Russian Revolution	World War I	World War II	cultural history	historical figure	human life in history											the American Revolution	the British Raj	the Cold War	the Korean War	the Russian Revolution of 1905	the Salem witch trials	the Vietnam War	the ascent of man	the ship Titanic
						the French Resistance	Dungeons and Dragons, the Star Trek franchise, the Wizard of Oz, the legend of El Dorado, ...		human life in ancient times	human life in early modern times	human life in historical Asia	human life in historical Europe			human life in historical North America	human life in late modern times	human life in medieval times	human life in post-war times	human life in historical Africa, human life in historical Australia, human life in historical South America, human life in pre-historical times
									life in the ancient Greco-Roman world	life in British colonial India, life in early modern Ireland, life in late imperial China, life in revolution era America	life in British colonial India, life in late imperial China, life in medieval Russia, life in the Soviet Union	human life in historical Britain	life in the ancient Greco-Roman world	life in early modern Ireland, life in late modern Britain, life in late modern France, life in late modern Germany, ...	life in Crow law era America, life in inner city America, life in post-war America, life in revolution era America, ...	life in British colonial India, life in Crow law era America, life in Victorian Britain, life in late modern Britain, ...	life in medieval Europe, life in medieval Russia	life in inner city America, life in post-war America, life in post-war Europe, life in the Soviet Union
									life in Ancient Rome			life in British colonial India, life in Victorian Britain	life in Ancient Rome

the pursuit of knowledge ← organized religion

Adam and Eve creation myth	Ancient Aztec mythology	Ancient Egyptian mythology	Ancient Greek mythology	Ancient Mayan mythology	Ancient Mesopotamian mythology	Ancient Norse mythology	Ancient Roman mythology	Catholicism	Christianity	Judaism	animal sacrifice	deal with the devil	devil worship	divine madness	divine retribution	divine visitation	faith vs. reason	funeral rite	god and follower	good and evil in religion	heresy	human sacrifice	messiah	miracle	monasticism	mortification of the flesh	polytheism	quasi-religious cult	reincarnation	religious festival	religious hypocrisy	religious prophesy	resurrection of the dead	sacred ground	sacred sanctuary	shamanism	signs from the heavens	sin	the Devil	the afterlife	the deadly sins	the problem of evil	the religious end of the world	the soul	virgin birth	vision quest	vow of silence	witch-hunt
									the Holy Chalice																							religious prophet						the deadly sins	the Devil is an alien	punishment in the afterlife				reincarnation

the pursuit of knowledge ← philosophy

aesthetics	ethics	exaggerating the importance of humanity's place in the universe	good and evil in religion	human nature		metaphysics		nature vs. artifice	problem of language and meaning	self-fulfilling prophesy	the problem of evil	what is truth
the nature of beauty, the power of art to influence people, what is beauty, what is perfection	civilization vs. savagery, ironic twist of fate, poetic justice, the ethics of thinking immoral thoughts, ...			female sexuality	a common enemy unites, a common interest unites, celebrity worship, hero's return, ...	time travel paradox	are humans more than machines, are we alone in the universe, can machines have souls, cosmic balance, ...		communicating with deaf people, communicating with someone who speaks a different language, incompatible modes of communication, language change, ...
				female seeking to find a superior mate		grandfather paradox

the pursuit of knowledge ← science

archaeology	astronomy	biology				chemicals	ecology	geology	mathematics	medicine	physics		psychology	sociolinguistics	technology
	binary star system, black hole, planet detection, pulsar, ...	human biology	the theory of evolution	zoology	cell division, genetics, the origin of life				Fermat's Last Theorem, Fourier series, compound interest, computer simulation, ...	acupuncture, lobotomization	theory of relativity	X-rays, antimatter, dark matter, electricity, ...	the placebo effect		solar power	Morse code, early computer, fingerprinting, gunpowder, ...
		brainwaves, human blood types	hominid evolution	animal behavior, mating behavior							speed of light limitation				space-based solar power

the pursuit of knowledge ← superseded scientific theory

Freudian psychoanalysis

alchemy

alternative medicine

human sex pheromones

phrenology

spontaneous generation

the four elements

the pursuit of knowledge ← the art of war

agility vs. strength

brains vs. brawn

brinkmanship

divide and conquer

espionage

first strike tactic

flee to fight another day

high ground advantage

military tactics

self-destruct tactic

sneak attack tactic

test of loyalty

the importance of not displaying weakness