The Truth Isn't Out There
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Saul, p. 299:

Truth today is not so much fact as fact retained....

Our obsession with secrecy and plots is therefore not aimed at opening the curtains in order to let in light. Rather we are wallowing in the dream that our personal limited powers of retention belong in the same category as those which occupy the front pages of the press....

We do not follow the trial of mystery in search of the truth, but in search of the confirmation that mystery exists. These imaginary secrets are titillating because all of us are bearers of fact and therefore control secrets.