With each cyclical revolution of nth-order trust relationships and their associated guardians, of new strains of deviance and new procedural cures, one gets the unsettling feeling that the original agency agenda has become distorted along the way.

XREF: Connects to ideas about institutional mission drift and how procedural responses to deviance accumulate, reshaping organizational purpose over time.

Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Imper…, loc. 128