I wouldn't fear the status quo's clinginess too much, the world is moving too fast for anything obsolete to even stand a chance anymore. The world is not quite as it seems, but by this I don't mean anything sinister - I mean that the forces that churn over the old into the new are continuing as they always have, and as such, we are at a turning point in history, but one that I think will play out more quietly and subtly than most imagine. It's hard to imagine anything but the worst of the past repeating sometimes, but the reason history repeats itself is that each repetition sheds some amount of the errors of the one before it.