Opacity Unlimited

When Secrecy and Pedantry combine
they are like fallen angels who give birth
to a powerful and impenetrable opacity.
Each works for themselves first,
and the other second.
Their task (which they don't discuss)
is to erase the line between overt and covert lies
in all they do, thus erasing all chance of transparency
in the minds of everyone below them, and with each other.