Jonathan Lis - “Open secrets: A culture of suppressing scandals festers at the heart of public life”
▻https://perspectivemag.co.uk/open-secrets
The minute an open secret becomes open knowledge, it becomes democratised but also de-fanged: the damage it threatened has come to pass and the people who held its explosive contents have now relinquished them. In this way, open secrets encourage the holders both to keep them and let them go.
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