The hatred of secrecy is basically nothing but one one of the forms of hatred for anything that surpasses the level of the ‘average,’ as well as for everything that holds aloof from the uniformity which it is sought to impose on everyone. Nevertheless, there is, within the modern world itself, a secret that is better kept than any other; it is that of the formidable enterprise of suggestion that has produced and that maintains the existing mentality, that has constituted it, and as it were ‘manufactured’ it in such a way that it can only deny the existence and even the possibility of such an enterprise. And this is doubtless the best conceivable means, and a means of truly ‘diabolical’ cleverness, for ensuring that the secret shall never be discovered. - Rene Guenon, The Reign of Quantity and the Sign of the Times. New York: Sophia Perennis, 2004.

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