That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.

Walter Benjamin
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That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe. The word status quo comes from the Latin word statu for ‘standing’. This means that the word status quo is defined as “the condition in which something remains at its current state or position” or “the act of maintaining or continuing something in this condition”. We often use the word status quo when we want to say that things are not changing, but simply staying the same. For example, if you say that something is perpetually stuck, then you would be using it to describe that things are stuck in their current state.

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