day no. 16,862: state-crafted crises

“Once you get an energy department you are in for it, because you have a policymaking body with no interest whatsoever in abundant, reasonably priced energy. A problem solved gives an agency new difficulties justifying its existence. In the economy of the omnipotent state, nothing succeeds like failure.” — Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction

When your livelihood depends upon crises, you are not motivated to cut off the branch you are sitting on by solving anything, and there is always good reason to create at least one more problem when you're solving the last one. The larger the crisis, the larger the scope of authority. So it is little wonder that our current concocted crises are all gigantic and global in nature.

Future crises are all built into the present solution thus simultaneously justifying the overreaching State's existence for now and guaranteeing it's continued presence forever. Manufacturing mayhem under the guise of producing solutions is the epitome of creating your own market like owning the patent on cheese graters and adhesive bandages.