Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

as a society we are trained to not question the status quo.

The status quo doesn’t shift because you’re right. It shifts because the culture changes. And the engine of culture is status.

The status quo sucks.

Silence isn’t neutrality; it is supporting the status-quo.

Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it — and were often tainted by it.

One reason we resist change is that keeping things the way they are requires almost no effort. This helps explain why we get complacent. It takes a lot of effort to build momentum but far less to maintain it. Once something becomes “good enough,” we can stop the effort and still get decent results. The inertia default leverages our desire to stay in our comfort zone, relying on old techniques or standards even when they’re no longer optimal.

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

We stick to the wrong thing quite often, not because it will come to fruition by further effort but because we cannot let go of the way we have decided to tell the story, and we become further enmeshed even by trying to make sense of what entraps us, when what is needed is a simple, clean breaking away.

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

Unfortunately, too often we find comfort in what worked before — even when it stops working. We get stuck there and resist the new, the unfamiliar, the unconventional.

If You Keep on Doing What You’ve Always Done, You’ll Keep on Getting What You’ve Always Got

Some give the impression they go on living only because it's a habit they cannot shake

Availability bias prevents us from setting our prior beliefs appropriately, whereas confirmation bias stops us from updating them for new information.