If everyone around you often says "we live in a thoroughly X-ist society, it's horrible, and we need to switch to Y which is a refreshing new alternative", consider that you might actually be living in a thoroughly Y-ist society.

what about the possibility that you're just involved with a small subset of people who wish for a Y-ist society but the majority are unaware, therefore you're actually living in an X-ist society?

or are you saying by being involved in the subset, you're living in the Y-ist society already?