5 Stages of rupturing a normative world view (mostly relevant for people in positions of relative privilege, who have a dominant reading of normative framework).
disclaimer - I went through these 5 stages, not everyone would have, but hey, this is a brain vomit, for now.
1) Ignorance. This is when one is completely embedded in normative structures and mentality.
2) Rupture. The process of educating and questioning. Realizing that one's world view only represents one tiny portion of the world. Also, realizing that structures of power and privilege are ever present and real, despite the idealistic bubble one may have grown up in.
3) Ideal Expectation. When one tries to live one's life by taking an oppositional reading to everything, making the personal political and the political personal. When one holds individuals and society to unrealistically high expectations to function as an ideal society (ie: one where racism, sexism, homophobia, etc doesn't exist at all). There also is this expectation that things should change right away. This is also the stage in which a lot of discourses get stuck...
4) Re-evaluating. Realizing that the ideal image of society that one wishes for is not grounded in reality, and that most people still exist in normative frameworks (stuck in Stage 1). Trying to figure out how to reach people in that first stage effectively without rupturing their world view too quickly at once.
5) Acceptance. The personal does not always have to be political, and vice versa. An ideal world is something to strive for, but recognizing that a grounded approach that acknowledges normative frameworks and people's comfort in them, and seeking ways to gently scrape away at that framework. Realizing that this takes time, and won't happen overnight, and that it is a constant uphill battle.
Friday, January 16, 2015
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