# Spectators Support the Status Quo By:: [[Ross Jackson]] 2024-01-07 To be uninvolved is to perpetuate the status quo. People tend not to like this insight. People want to be able to avoid responsibility. Most people want to be left alone to focus on their own lives, pursue a career, find love, and make a life filled with the narrow accomplishments they envision within their society. Problems with society are beyond the focus of most people. They don’t have time for it. They don’t have the power to engage. All this is normal. All this explains why the status quo is so persistent. The status quo has an army of support. In its ranks are all those who benefit from the way things currently are, as well as most people who aren’t engaged in active resistance. The resistance is almost always the minority. Vocal and active but constrained in number. There are no spectators on the side of resistance. Resistance requires action. An interesting correlate to this emerges within organizations. Organizational change is most frequently downward-directed. Those in power are telling subordinates to implement organizational change. In these activities, a vast majority of people still want to avoid engagement. However, implementing organizational change strengthens rather than weakens the status quo. This is achieved because it is downward-directed. As one implements downward-directed organizational change, one is reinforcing the status quo. One is doing what one is told. A real organizational change will occur when workers ignore the order to do so. #### Related Items [[Organization]] [[Status Quo]] [[Management]] [[Resistance]] [[Society]] [[Change]] [[Ignorance]]