This feeling that the status quo will go to any lengths to protect itself...

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This feeling that the status quo – and those who most benefit from it – will go to any lengths to protect itself. Of course it will absorb, it will co-opt, it will close ranks, it will blacklist. But also (when necessary) it will kill, it will torture, it will scorch earth, it will annihilate. At the same time, the status quo isn’t fixed, it shifts in response to activism and protest. In absorbing its critics, internal changes can take place in unexpected ways and at every level. Such changes are never as much as we might hope for, but they are often significant. And then there are moments of possibly greater change, moments of crisis when everything might be rearranged. Before it eventually stabilizes into some sort of new status quo.



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