Human organizations, ranging from small committees to large federal agencies, are fundamentally driven by the desire to accumulate power for themselves.

“Organizations by definition exist for their own enlargement to acrue power to themselves. That's the real reason all human organizations from the church bake sale committee to the CIA. That's the real reason they exist because that's how people are.”

Public officials and government agencies are often prone to corruption or moral failings, making public distrust of those institutions a rational response.

“wherever there's power where somebody has a lot of power and money and influence and other people don't then the people that don't are very suspicious of the people that do have power and for reason really this is what I call constructive conspiracism”