Australia can muddle through for a bit. But unless its politicians take off their hats and get to work within the next 12 months, another poll beckons.
The financial crisis tends to corroborate its ability to muddle through a global recession.
So the EU will, as ever, muddle through.
Never just muddle through your work.
Those enterprises with minimal or AD hoc it governance could muddle through with business as usual.
But this would simply maintain a status quo in which we muddle through, and permit a slow deterioration of conditions there.
If our ignorance is infinite, the only possible course of action is to muddle through as best we can.