Disrupting Systems For Good

In early October, I stumbled across, and happily joined, a Free Palestine march in Montreal on the two-year anniversary of the assault on Gaza. Around the same time, I was also reading One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, a heartbreaking, beautifully written book that looks at Western privilege and our history of treating groups of human beings as not entirely human. A few days later, I was working through the back catalogue of the Diabolical Lies podcast and heard a great (and long) episode from April called “The Rise and Fall of Capitalism.” 

I’ve been marinating these three separate but connected things in my head ever since, turning them over, examining ways that they intersect with each other and with my own work.

This post is me sharing some of what I learned and thinking out loud about that intersection, especially within the context of the shift from problem-solving to possibility-imagining, and also the shift from certainty to curiosity. 

Because one common thread is how often we try to fix problems inside systems that are themselves the problem, and how things we have been taught to take for granted might not be true or in our own best interest.

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