Omerta secrecy is a protection-market function, not an inert cultural code
Evidence
By controlling their own records, and purging them, and cutting all the interesting parts out of them, they are forcing a state of amnesia on a whole country—on us—so that we don’t know what we as a purportedly self-governing nation did. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1085 (
#contradicts, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Mafia secrecy is functional information control, not just cultural code; Secrecy suppresses knowledge, enforcing historical amnesia. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1085; Mafia discretion is analytically identical to corporate industrial-secret protection (+1 more)
Related
- Mafia secrecy is functional information control, not just cultural code (similarity 0.82)
- OmertĂ reduces analytically to ordinary corporate trade-secret protection. (similarity 0.80)
- Secrecy suppresses knowledge, enforcing historical amnesia. (similarity 0.79)
- Mafia secrecy is a functional business resource, not a cultural code (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Mafia discretion is analytically identical to corporate industrial-secret protection
#expands(0.85) - Secrecy suppresses knowledge, enforcing historical amnesia.
#contradicts(0.80) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1085