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The line is actually closer to "we're not a secret society, we're a society with secrets." Basically, it means that we're not a shadow organization that cloaks
by bovermyer 7y ago
The line is actually closer to "we're not a secret society, we're a society with secrets."
Basically, it means that we're not a shadow organization that cloaks all it does in secrecy. Rather, we are a public organization that guards some internal knowledge behind closed doors and cyphers.
- tartoran 7y agoThis euphemism makes it look like it is a lot more transparent this way, but it isn't really if secrets are being guarded from the outside world. The only different thing is that it not being a shadow organization there's a possibility one can join its ranks.