Much Future-Oriented Literature Claims to Address the Large Issues Facing

question 102

Multiple Choice

Much future-oriented literature claims to address the large issues facing humanity.What is one of the central weaknesses of futurist literature?

• A) It tends to assume that the present social order in the developed world is the best of all possible worlds.
• B) It tends to treat many problematic issues as if they are related and must be studied holistically.
• C) It tends to deny that modernization is the answer for the entire planet.
• D) It is generally based in 19th-century racist assumptions about humans.

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