Word: inertia
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...order. So far, it hasn't. Japan's leaders still show no stomach for revamping their financial system and slashing regulations that coddle business. No one has shown the interest or strength to break the money links between inefficient industries and the ruling party. Party politics and bureaucratic inertia ground down the reformist plans of the last Prime Minister, and he has been replaced by a cookie-cutter party man with what a Tokyo commentator called "all the pizazz of cold pizza...
...There is a certain inertia in the Japanese system. It has been a successful system. They are conservative by nature until they run up against a wall. It takes some time to forge a new consensus that something has to be done, and new directions agreed. Then the samurais go to the shogun, and off they go. I don't know how long this will take...
...Some students might argue that they chose to remain with their old roommates because they knew what it was like to live with them. But this excuse becomes weak when we consider that most students who abandon their original roommates would give exactly the same reason. Others might claim inertia, but since when do students around here do things out of laziness...
Just going along, and of course the red light has let up, but since you're going along, you want to keep going. The inertia thing. So you do, and--unthinking--you, who has finally accomplished what you have set out to accomplish (i.e. lack of thought and pleasant meditation) are subject to the harshness of a crash...
...University reaction as a whole: rather than acknowledging a problem of far-ranging scope, Harvard prefers to insulate itself by writing off each death, each breakdown, as an isolated and otherwise forgettable incident. Like so many of its constituent individuals, Harvard allows ego and reputation to justify nearsightedness and inertia...