Each sector rapidly separates its attentions from the social and human impacts of the problem, reinterpreting it and transforming it. This reduces the significance of its particular content and diverts attention to the various formalistic features of the manner by which the original problem is contained and encapsulated. This is accompanied by an effort to concentrate more upon what is being done to remedy the problem situation than to clarify the nature of that problem. A supposedly less desirable state of affairs is conveniently called a problem situation and the more desirable situation is termed the solution situation. Adequate solutions lead to large problems.
Good solutions create fantastic problems.
He cites the consequences of successful agricultural development in developing countries. But he does not solve these problems, simply because from the folkloric world he can scarcely see, let alone touch, the actual world. His is a phantom reality. The very things he calls problems are, in fact, solutions in the real world. He cites the unemployment problem as a conventional solution to economic problems, and the urban problem of overcrowding as a solution to the problems of housing increasing numbers of people.