Societal change tends to actually proceed under a punctuated equilibrium model. We go through short periods of large, revolutionary change with longer interim periods of relative stasis or slow incremental change. The revolutionary change periods tend to coincide with major events like technological advancements or environmental perturbations. COVID and an attempted coup in the US might be sparks for big change, might not though. Covid and the Coup are really a product of other phenomenon growing over the last 3 or more decades: globalization, digital networking, climate change. Revolutionary changes in the way individuals live their lives are resisted at the macro level or we lack the governmental infrastructure to manage new technologies. Society often tend to resist changes because people that amassed power and wealth under the old systems don't want to give things up.