These videos are interesting. Better than the spike Jonz thing. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9-cOe6AxtdE Of course with his society of smart people Langdon is talking about recreating the original freemasons idea. The masons were the smart engineers fighting the corrupt all powerful church. They took to secrecy to spread and hide logic and knowledge from the academics with power in the church who were dullards successful as climbers.