Crisis and Inertia (1)
Physical objects resist any change in their position and state of motion. This is inertia, often defined as the physical principle that moving objects keep moving in a straight line with constant speed unless or until something stops them or changes their direction. Inertia doesnβt just apply to physical objects, however, but to social (and other kinds of) objects as well. Social structures and systems, or βinstitutionsβ, are as inert as physical objects. If an institution is moving in a certain direction, it will keep moving in that direction with more or less constant speed (which can be zero, of...