Institutions rarely admit their founding mission is obsolete

Evidence

That the military, too, has looked for new things to do is in many ways understandable. Few of us have the vision and strength, whether as individuals or as part of larger institutions, to say that we are not needed or that our roles should be reduced or eliminated. (The March of Dimes had a similar problem after the eradication of polio, the disease the organization was founded to combat.) But this understandable inertia does not justify the massive waste and suffering that overseas bases inflict. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1056

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Successful institutions can dissolve from their own premature success — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 314; Intellectual openness can subvert an institution’s founding purpose. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 55
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Successful institutions can dissolve from their own premature success — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 314; Intellectual openness can subvert an institution’s founding purpose. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 55

Broader Connections

• Intellectual openness can subvert an institution’s founding purpose. #complicates (0.78) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 55