Wiktionary
self-perpetuating
a. Causing itself to continue to exist.
Usage examples of "self-perpetuating".
There was to be no controlling center, no capital, no establishment for the self-perpetuating machinery of bureaucracy and the dominance drive of individuals seeking to become captains, bosses, chiefs of state.
Emotionals and Parentals were created because they were necessary for the self-perpetuating machinery that made new Rationals.