In one of my favorite 1990s movies, every night Aliens would reconfigure a human city. So one day you could be a beggar and the next a millionaire. One day a mother, the next a woman who never had had children. You would wake up and think this is who you always were.

Our society is socially constructed. Sex roles, racism, culture, are not actual physical things.  They exist because we all collectively believe in them.  There is no physical thing called America. We all just believe in it, and believing in it, we make it exist.  A dollar is just a piece of green paper, no different than Monopoly money.  It has meaning, because we all collectively agree it has worth and how much it is worth. Our culture, our beliefs, even the idea that a dollar bill has money, is passed on.  We pass it on. We pass it on, everyday because each day, we all collectively continue to agree to.  

So imagine if one day, we all collectively agreed that a dollar was only worth half of its worth.  This actually happens somewhat regularly. It’s called inflation, and in severe cases hyperinflation. 

Now Imagine, if tomorow we all just collectively said when we wake up, that this is how the world will be.  That there will be equal rights. That the color of your or my skin will not mean anything. That we will judge everyone by their character and not by their gender, race, or sexual orientation. If we all believed it. Itwould be so.  WE have the power to transform the world. So why don’t we?

copyright by Dan DeMarle 2017