Another Secret

To those of you reading this: you are in the know. This is a secret blog.

Yes, it is readily accessible, but too obscure to be anything but secret. This is true secrecy.

False secrecy is the  more  common type: The secret is to keep things secret. The power of knowledge needs only to be perceived to exist by those outside of the “secret.” As the perception of power becomes reality,  to the extent that people believe and respect the power of the knowledge that is kept secret. The beauty is that the perceived  power of the secret (and its actual power) increases as more people believe it. At a certain point, however, this house of cards may collapse as the secret and the power are challenged. Real power is knowledge that is too obscure to be known. When one is not believed, one has the capacity to exercise that obscure knowledge absent of scrutiny.