Comprehending transformational critical thinking

Looking at the societal functions that cause radical societal change as the products of us – our society's producers and users– entails investigating systems functioning within the nature of our human nature. This article shows the interchange of these systems, the lack of balance among them and their seemingly random overlaps that form in us, all different kinds of persons. A comprehensive framework for these systems allows addressing the fact that scholars too are subjected to them, while we discover and present our research findings. The attestation that we engage in the world making things in our own image, according to the systems functioning in us, while getting to know our way around, shows that our society too is structured in our own image. The article contributes the discovery of a largely overlooked new agent in the systems functioning in us. And it discloses another new, also overlooked societal agent, which we also produce in our image. With its two contributions, the article shows how the new agent in us can become a solution to our transformation and the new societal agent a solution to societal change.