We have to become masters at exploiting pain

[Tom Rinaldo]

8. It's the dialectic.

Something basic always changes, and then there is a reaction to that change, and an adjustment until the next basic change takes hold, and then the process repeats. But underneath it all fundamental human nature doesn't change very much.

The changes you describe manifest in a society that has itself changed since the 1920's and again since the 1960's, etc. I'll give a totally unrelated example. American's attitude toward pets. Millions of Americans were virtually indifferent, for generations, to dogs being kept in conditions that they increasingly are unaccepting of now.

Racism itself has changed. Very slowly and subtly at times. MAGA Republicans by and large really really like Clarence Thomas and Tim Scott though they fiercely support institutionalized racism.

What it takes to achieve a break through in consciousness keeps changing, but break throughs will always occur. That's why there is always a good market for media gurus and marketing wizards and new paradigm masters of every sort.

I'm not sure what it will take this time. but I think this is where we have to become creative.