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Managing your secret society Boundless 02/14/21 (Sun) 07:02:49 No.15517

Consider what it must be like to maintain a very old organization that holds betrayal as one of its main tenets. Accept for the sake of argument that this organization also murders with abandon, rapes with abandon, takes drugs like candy, steals without a care, etc. etc. Further acknowledge that secrecy is a MUST for this organizaton, and that telling its secrets will lead to its demise.

How do you successfully prevent people from leaking information for 100+ years?

Technique A) You threaten your own employees with violence if they tell outsiders the truth.

While that can help in ruling by force, it is not so successful if your goal is secrecy. Your organization will undoubtedly attract / create employees with risk-taking personalities. Sure, you can kill them after the fact when they leak information, but threatening them does not always stop them from leaking the information in the first place. This is partially why many infamous drug cartels are widely recognized by the public. While they are fulling willing to use violence to reach their goals, it doesn't prevent random employee #10291 from bragging about the schemes he participated in last year. And if these organizations could choose to remain in the shadows 100%, they would like to do so.

Technique B) You force your employees to take oaths to secrecy, and use psychological mechanisms to encourage loyalty.

This is certainly a very useful technique, and no secret society could remain secret for long without it. However, your organization in particular holds betrayal as one of its core beliefs. No matter what psychological ploys you muster, you can not erase the risk that your employees will direct this belief against the organization itself eventually. Any psychological trick that you use is precariously dependent on your adherents treating your organization as an exception. But the more loyalty to the organization you require, the larger the temptuous betrayal becomes. A single employee that does not see the organization as an exception (and possibly starts spreading that belief amongst other employees) can cause the collapse of your entire system.

Technique C) You use constant drugging regimens to keep your employees in an altered state of mind.

This technique is highly imperfect, because there is no drug cocktail in the world that can create behavior as specific as "Do not mention the dollar amount associated with project so-and-so until this given date". Further, you will eventually need your employees to be competent and therefore not high as a kite. While you will certainly find drugs to be a useful tool in many circumstances, it is not a reliable basis for secrecy to be built upon.

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Boundless 02/14/21 (Sun) 07:03:14 No.15518

Technique D) You compartmentalize as much as possible and keep the number of people aware of the secrets low.

This is another very useful technique employed by many different kinds of organizations. However, your organization is not interested in small schemes, it is interested in large plots that have proportionally sized rewards. So you face the same problem as every other organization that undertakes large engineering projects. No matter how you arrange matters or how many layers you create, you still end up with 1000's of employees around the world that know highly critical information. And it bears repeating that your employees in particular find betrayal to be an attractive prospect, unlike many of the other oragnizations that use this technique.

Technique E) You make use of kill-switches.

This certainly would put a large scare in your employees, but it has some fatal flaws that can not be corrected. First of all, having a network of kill-switches means that an interfering agency could potentially hijack this network and cause all of your employees to drop dead at a moment's notice. Additionally, what do you do about intentional / accidental faraday cages (planes, boats, certain buildings, etc.)? Do your employees die when they lose network connection? Or can your employees only be killed when they actively receive a network signal?

So, with all of the aforementioned techniques being insufficient, what is the only thing that can possibly let something like your organization survive? What is the "bare-minimum technique" or combination of techniques that attains the high degree of perfect secrecy you require? The bare minimum that could possibly achieve it is this : mind control. Or perhaps more appropriately identified, body control.

For your organization to survive, you require the ability to directly pre-empt your employee's attempts to betray you. Not simply hoping that they will never do so, or simply punishing after the fact, but actively preventing their body from communicating what is happening to outsiders AS they attempt to do so.

From the perspective of secrecy, this technique is almost perfect. And from the philosophical perspective, what is the ultimate betrayal you can experience in this physical world? The betrayal of your body to your soul - your body's disobediance towards carrying out your intentions. You have a mouth, but no permission to scream. A betrayal like this would be very consistent with your organization's beliefs.

So consider if your organization did have access to such a technique, what effects might it have on your other beliefs? Would you begin (or already) believe in some sort of collective consciousness, or perhaps the opposite of it, the collective body? Would you actively insult any force that you believe grants people free-will? Would you begin making your members engage in acts of extreme humilation or pain for your own pleasure? Would you attempt to create devices that can bring the same circumstances to outsiders of your organization?

But body control… that would have to be black magick. The best technological attempts at this in 2021 are neurological implants, and those are still under active development with very limited success. And your organization is over 100 years old! The ability to control people's bodies at any distance in the late 1800's would necessarily have to be spell-like in nature.

Phew, it settled then. It's a good thing organizations like this don't exist. That is to say, organizations that have an absurdly successful degree of secrecy, in which the only information about them comes from outsiders who accidentally collide with their secrets. Really, do you think you've ever seen any secret-society members, who somehow appear to be willing and unwilling to speak at the same time? Who appear to be cringing at their own actions right as they do them? Thankfully we do not, because what would be your responsiblities if you became aware of such a person? Even if you sought to treat such a person with kindness, What actions would be necessary to treat this person mercifully? It's just a silly proposition, like having to invite vampires into your own home.

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