Erosion is one kind of change, but instead of making a system better, it makes it worse.
When we talk about change, we mean to improve things, not the opposite. Building a shared reality between the two helps people who care about improving.
The school district in our city proposed closing schools to reduce the budget deficit. They claimed that they are on track to build well-resourced schools without maintaining these buildings.
Closing schools makes things worse for children and families. Keeping the failing school model going is also problematic. Throwing more money into a system that is clearly not working doesn't make any sense. Then, we learn that erosion isn't just a single-dimensional problem; it happens in multi-layers and is multifaceted.
There is a critical way to view the difference when we work to make a change. Are we making things better? For whom? In what way?
Let's not fool ourselves into thinking we are making a change when we are not. Supporting erosion and the status quo isn't the change we set out to create, and that kind of result doesn't help anyone.
