Statuses quo

Sir Julian Paunceforte will purchase a farm near Washington when he returns to this country. His chief crops will be protocols, moduses vivendi, statuses quo, etc.

WIDOWS GET STATUSES QUO / Each Side in Protective League Feud Asks for One and Court Finds Easy Way to End Melee if He Can Only Dig Up Enough to Go Around

Of course, the usual function of courts is to protect statuses quo and to forestall change; […]

Similarly, it takes no great historical or contemporary exposure to admit truth in the Marxist claim that religion can prop false consciences and unjust statuses quo.

People who confuse laws or established cultural outlooks or statuses quo concerning power with the will of God are always making themselves liable to mindless hatreds.

Richardson (1987, p. 341) has written more generally of critical researchers’ efforts to study accounting as a “legitimating institution,” ranging from the existing social, political, and economic statuses quo (Cooper, 1980) to ideology (Tinker et al., 1982).

A significant number of the texts and films considered, however, possibly for pedagogical reasons (the consciousness that old habits die hard and that even near-cataclysmic lessons may not always be thoroughly understood), warn against re-born statuses quo that in essential ways replicate the dogmas and problems that brought about their destruction in the first instance (John Wyndham, Ira Levin). […] King Kong, the ape from a geographically, chronologically and evolutionarily remote island (which includes the standard period marker of dinosaurs), not only stands as the atavistic progenitor of civilized humanity’s self-assuredness (‘look how far we have come’), but, paradoxically, also casts an unexpected light on the ways in which contemporary, scientific and urban statuses quo compare unfavourably with the untarnished wholesomeness of the wild (‘look how badly we have turned out’). […] It is worth pausing briefly, however, to consider three versions of the traditional vampire genre which, like plots of alien-invasion, puts forward the politicizing motif of the insurrection of erstwhile minorities against preexisting statuses quo.

This is not the place to rehearse all the ways in which Weberian, fiscal-military, and rational choice models fail to identify the sites where, the moments when, and the actors who successfully challenged patrimonial statuses quo in early modern Europe.

For how different the structures of criticism deeming the protestations of Lowers unreasonable and unseemly, to the line of poor bastards snuffed out or criminally intimidated in the Godfathers’ preservation of their statuses quo?

It is possible these and many other inventions wouldn’t have been possible had their inventors confined or limited their thinking to their current statuses quo.