Human minds traffic in (at least) two kinds of mental representations. We rely on error-driven learning mechanisms to construct increasingly accurate maps of our evaluative landscape; and we use linguistically-structured representations to broadcast our commitments, and to create shared understandings of the world that we inhabit. To increase the experience of social fluency, we engage in numerous acts of supra-personal cognitive control, to bring our individual understandings of the world into alignment. We teach one another to highlight particular aspects of our evaluative maps, and to think and speak in ways that signal that convergence. Practices of exclusion, oppression, and marginalization can, and often do stabilize around cultivated feelings of individual and social fluency. But feelings of disfluency can lead us to search for ways of revising our understanding of the world, and they can lead us to help one another to find ways to shift our patterns of evaluation, thinking, and behaving. The trick is to figure out how to dealign, so we can re-align, in ways that will open up novel and transformative possibilities. That's no easy task—and I contend that it requires talking, listening, and walking together in struggle.