>From: "denis bider" <denis.bider@globera.com>
>Maybe this is what happens when there isn't a real challenge for these
>organizations: they invent their own challenges, which then help perpetuate
>their existence.
>
Of course.. think of it as a metaphor for cancer.
Nobody wants to lose their job. If your livelihood depends on the perception
by the public of a vast problem, you're going to do everything you can to
perpetuate that perception (perpetuating the actual problem is just one way
to accomplish that but it's not neccessary - think of how much money Pat
Robertson has made from Satanic child abduction).
I know a grantwriter, and around the time of the Colmbine shooting I asked
her if she thought there would be more incidents like that. She said "I hope
so, I got 3 anti-school-violence grants just this week."
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