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I think the historical record demonstrates that broad sociocultural change primarily happens after some great destructive crisis (war, famine, plague, etc)

It is hard to not agree that the real change usually came out of unpredictable (and painful) chaos, but does it mean that always has to be like this? As Slavoj Zizek said, Soviet Union, Cuba, etc. failed since they changed only the social conditions, but they failed to change people's dreams. I admit that nowadays people frequently have ugly, consumerists, selfish dreams but what if this could be changed by some attractive, progressive vision? If not now, maybe in 50 or 100 years (assuming humanity would survive the climate collapse)?