self-perpetuation

A country based around the kind of self-perpetuation at all costs kind of philosophy the GPL is built around would be a dystopia.

As a side effect, they collect taxes or issue you your driver's license, it is just a means to the end of self-perpetuation.

Even a modicum of self-perpetuation would have seen Snowden run into a brick wall of technological access controls.

The idea is that rage is its own, self-replicating emotion, and given the medium of the Internet, it's possible that some memes have no purpose other than self-perpetuation.

But that's not different than DNA: DNA itself isn't the machinary, but its self-perpetuation is what recreates other parts.

There's a self-perpetuation element to this graft, when aligned partisan media groups are funded with state funds.

There is definitely a strong element of self-perpetuation at these schools, for better or for worse.

They always work in their own interests, and among these are self-perpetuation and grabbing more power.

How can union rules get crafted to keep the company in business, fire incompetence, and breed innovation, rather than self-perpetuation?

As far as self-perpetuation of the state, yes this is how a state operates, this is the nature of it.

Yes, this self-perpetuation of platforms for power users business does indeed create 'meritocracy and value' of the readers attention and time.

Bureaucracies are soulless moral-free machines good at crushing individuals in some mindless goal of self-perpetuation.

Like every other giant bureaucracy, the TSA is only interested in self-perpetuation, not actually protecting our constitution and keeping us "safe." And all the while, they're really not stopping anything, especially all the guns that get put on a plane everyday without anyone noticing.