We live in a time when the status quo is changing. In the 1920s, 1980s, and 2010s the status quo moved in dramatic ways. In the 1920s the status quo introduced the world to the joys of the mass delusion that life is shaped by individual desires and dreams. In the 1980s the delusion was that personal greed based on individual wants was a good thing. By 2010s the delusion was that government could save the individual from being cast in the role of victim while living a life defined by unrelenting inequities.
This new status quo is unprecedented in the sense that it casts a global shadow over individual lives. The stability of the emerging status quo can not, and will not, be sustained if the old institutions are retained, maintained, and sustained. It is the institutions that structure the lives of individuals and now they must be demolished or re-framed.
The new status quo is not capitalist nor socialist. It is not concerned about Climate Change, social order, or past conventions for government and commerce. This new status quo is focused on exercising control over a world population that has been largely satiated with consumer goods and services.
It is the mindset of people that the new status quo seeks to influence, shape, and control.
Richard
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