priesthood

The IT-as-high-priesthood cult in organizations is strong, and resistant to any application of technology that challenges the priesthood.

Parts of computing have long enjoyed having a closed priesthood that spoke in three letter acronym gibberish.

It's because they view professors as some sort of priesthood that decides what the policy should be.

They seized for themselves a monopoly of the land ownership and appointed a priesthood from among their own ranks.

You're trying to have things both ways: There is no conspiracy, only a 'priesthood'.

It isn't like going into the priesthood where there is an expectation of sacrifice.

The students caught on: IBM wanted to intimidate people and otherwise invite people into their priesthood where they, too, would understand the gibberish.

It is the same reason that pedophiles are attracted to the priesthood, they know that they can victimize people and be protected while doing it.

There is a big difference between a conspiracy and a priesthood.

Such economic priesthood stories conveniently omit world hegemons which send vast armies of uniformed killers across the world against anyone trying out their own systems.

The priesthood probably had the brightest literary minds of their time.

Climate science has the same selection of the process as a priesthood, and that kind of selection process will produce the same errors as a religion.

It tries to answer the much more interesting, intangible, existential question "what is code?", in the sense of what does it mean for the world to depend on a culturally isolated priesthood of technologists who control what computers do?

There was a time where computers was available only to "the priesthood of computing." You had to be in a special group in a very big company (or military research setting).

"Anyone can code now - if only a little!" <insert snobbish sniff here> So developers chase off to increasingly intimidating technologies and languages not necessarily because they have SO much more to offer but because the culture represents a return to The Priesthood of days of yore.