"self-perpetuating" meaning in English

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          "text": "The committee was self-perpetuating: all it did was hold a meeting to decide when the next meeting was, and consume funds to do so.",
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          "text": "It's a self-perpetuating error, now that we've made it, we can't fix it without breaking things that depend on it.",
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        "Causing itself to continue to exist."
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