There are things that persons in power could say that would greatly upset everyone else in society.

Like if a critic said that he only writes good reviews for the books and movies that are already popular and he writes bad reviews for the ones he’s already found out that nobody likes anyhow, or if a politician said that the elections are really decided by the people already in power and all the vote tallying is for show, or if a drug company finally released the cure for cancer because it was no longer profitable to keep it a secret, or if a banker said that he really truly believes the financial system is not fair and unequally favors the rich over the poor but he keeps on with his job because he has a wife and family and four homes and two boats and he’s got to keep making just as much money each year to pay all his bills so he pushes out of his mind that he plays a role in the unfair system.

The stability of society depends on persons in power not saying these things. For the most part these seem unlikely to be true, but sometimes I wonder whether it is that they are not true or if the persons in power are just very good at keeping secrets—and even from each other, for surely a banker’s mother has died of cancer and a movie critic has voted in an election.