The reality is that the majority of established unions are too ingrained in the status quo to truly defend their members against the pernicious assaults of the ruling class, and let's also not forget that, much like in the 1930s, the reason many people are disgruntled, resistant, and occupying, is that they are unemployed.
Fierce resistance is predicted by some who are so ingrained in the status-quo.
And it also goes straight to the heart of one of the major themes of Small Great Things: the ingrained prejudice in the political and social status quo that can rapidly mutate into an explosive, uncontrollable and damaging situation.
Gupta says the main challenge Quartet faces as its grows is the medical industry's status quo, or "the deeply ingrained silo'ing of behavioral and physical health".
Perhaps it is this front-runner status, or more likely a trait ingrained since childhood, but Mr. Bush campaigns as an utter stranger to self-doubt.
Reagan's near-idol status in the G.O.P. is so ingrained that when potential party chairmen were asked last month to name their political hero, the moderator hastened to add "aside from President Reagan".
According to the second, status quo, narrative, power structures are ingrained into our society's institutions and internet and mobile technologies don't really change these institutions, or create new ones.
In the most ingrained areas we have become experts at the status quo.
The danger is that a sense of economic decline has become so ingrained that mediocrity is mistaken for excellence and the status quo marketed as a forward march.
But race, gender bias, classism, homophobia, immigration status, and all of the other prejudices that are ingrained and come out innocently need to be confronted.
