A propos of nothing

Chris Hayes' article on declining trust in elites is definitely worth a read as a whole. But one passage in particular looks to be worth highlighting for its application to the Cons' "trust us to protect you from the truth" stance on information:

According to McKiernan, the main institutional characteristics that produced the crisis were the Church's obsessive secrecy and its hierarchical nature. Those at the top of the pyramid, the bishops, were exempt from any corrective accountability from below. This dynamic isn't unique. "There are various ways in which the Church is a peculiar institution," McKiernan says. "But," he adds, "it is also simply an institution in which the rules of power apply and the effects of secrecy apply. I'm not surprised that people doing unexamined things do bad things."