Notes:
Other forms of tacit knowledge include popularity, prejudice, propaganda, and superstition. Tacit knowedge is irrefutable -- by virtue of the fact that it relies upon shared secrets. Revealing them destroys trust and, thus, destroys the community which relies upon them.
Of course, too, in a competitive marketplace, competition itself will destroy organizations whose tacit knowledge fails to conform to the dictates of reality. However, many organizations are somewhat insulated, if not immune from the dictates of the marketplace. Cults, for example, are grounded in tacit knowledge. In large measure, their existence depends upon protecting their members from the free flow of knowledge and ideas. Such is also the case with totalitarian governments.
To the degree that they fail to recognize the importance of objective evidence documented in readily accessible records whose integrity is assured, the acolytes of tacit knowledge are tacit members of the Cult of TK.
