Our society is built on secrecy, from the “front” organisations which draw an impenetrable screen over the concentrated wealth of their members, to the “official secrets” which allow the state a vast field of operation free from any legal constraint; from the often frightening secrets of shoddy production hidden by advertising, to the projections of an extrapolated future, in which domination alone reads off the likely progress of things whose existence it denies, calculating the responses it will mysteriously make.
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle §18