“Disruption” has become a common term used to refer to current business conditions, with new offerings, unique competitors and shifting finances becoming widely recognized. But now, disruption also refers to social conditions, with pushbacks surfacing with force – often to the surprise of those being targeted – in gender relations, digital effects, gun availability, teacher strikes and other areas. What has triggered these kinds of pushbacks, all within a few months of one another? We have identified three characteristics of the situations: Unanticipated Pushbacks, Digital Communications and Sometimes Smarter Followers. But these have been around for some time, so why all the pushback now? The answer? Kindling. Like accumulated kindling on the forest floor that finally breaks into a blaze, society’s growing frustrations, anxieties, stresses and anger have been building up for years and have finally broken into the open, nurtured by a lack of leadership and especially the lack of significant changes to the “same ol’ shit.”