Our climate is changing right in front of us, and experts are using phrases like “before it’s too late,” and “immediately.” Hate crimes multiply like invasive weeds, repeating themselves, bullets blasting, lost survivors weeping, children hiding in closets while we debate the safest place to hide when death comes knocking. The kyriarchy is exacting its toll on a micro, mezzo, and macro level.
People are angrier, and where there’s anger, there’s fear and anxiety– an ongoing existential dread. What if future generations aren’t headed the way we imagined when we were younger? What if, instead of flying cars, they are headed toward angry weather, famine, increasing inequality, and a host of other worries. Why on earth are we saving for college when we should be saving for survival?
What skills will we take into this unknown? If our kids will be growing up in a revolution, how can we equip them? Whatever challenges await us, our future depends on relational skills. We learn how to take care of each other, how to relate to our host planet in a way that nurtures our connection, rather than bleeding the resources dry. We learn how to relate to each other not by fighting, winning, persuading, but by authentically representing ourselves, sharing our fears and regrets, naming injustice, holding each others’ grief.
We do this through Relational-Cultural theory.