The more someone insists that the security services and various elites, operating through obscured and camouflaged channels, have in fact artificially produced what we take to be the history of the last couple of centuries (at least), the more likely that person is to arrive (pre-arrive, really) at the conclusion that we must throw off this entire insidious infrastructure and return to some form of national and political transparency, so that things will in fact be something like what they have so far only seemed to be—that is, determined by identifiable and intelligible social agents and goals, whatever we might think of those agents and goals.