How Everything Broken Will Be Fixed
<p>Ifyou’ve paid close attention, you’ll have noticed that since COVID-19 first arrived three years ago, <strong>everything has changed</strong>. Or, more accurately, everything has <em>begun </em>to change. I’m referring to where and how we work, live, learn and socialize; what we value and thus invest in and prioritize; how we view ourselves, our communities and the planet at large; and how these perceptions are shifting the ground underfoot across the spectrum of human activity, and will likely result in an effective <em>rewrite</em> of a century (if not twenty) of behaviors.</p>
<p>In the past, I’ve referred to the pandemic as <a href="https://aninjusticemag.com/2020-the-reset-year-7915df5b782a" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>The Great Reset</em></a>, because human behavior is remarkably consistent and because the path to any “new normal” starts, progresses and ends the same way, every time.</p>
<p>Everett Rogers brilliantly codified this phenomenon as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Diffusion of Innovations</em></a>, and it looks something like this:</p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*prjUkwCCKPdoBgiWIZdaMg.jpeg" style="height:526px; width:700px" /></p>
<p>Rogers Everett, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons</p>
<h2>COVID-Fueled Innovation</h2>
<p>The pandemic acted as the de facto <strong>trigger event</strong> for a systemic rewrite. It had to, in order to shake things up <em>enough </em>for the cracks to appear to <em>enough </em>people, then disrupt the status quo <em>enough </em>for us to do something about it.</p>
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