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Originally Posted by Richard
Gofers can have their own gofers, applying a well-known principle of behavior in hierarchies:
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
-- De Morgan: A Budget of Paradoxes, p. 377.
Just substitute 'gofers' for 'fleas' and the concept is clear enough. 
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Are there whiney fleas? I mean, gofers?
I whine. The flea would quit. I mean, gofer.
Ad infinitum in paradox ..
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