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Why we need societal systemic transformation now—enough talking, more conversation
And do we have a media class division impeding transformative conversations?
We don’t need mere societal changes. We need transformation.
In some ways, we’ve made rapid social progress in the past ten years. We’ve proselytized feminist theory across mainstream culture, thanks to social media. We’re quashing rape culture and diet culture, for example, and it’s great. But these are problems Teen Vogue discusses for a reason: they’re simple-to-complicated problems even teenagers can unpack and attack. They’re solved by the solution, “Let’s stop doing this, because,” and then some pretty elementary concepts are laid out.
When a problem requires us to stop doing something, it’s a lot easier to understand and solve for than when it needs us to invent a new way of thinking and operating in the world.
The problems threatening our survival are systemic and complex. Climate crisis. Race relations and reconciliation. Decolonizing: what, how, and what to leave alone. Capitalism, inequality, and uncertain destabilization when dismantling all we’ve ever known. Sexism and the oppressive state of the motherhood construct. War.
