[Dottore]

I asked this in another thread (and never got a serious answer), but is there any deep philosophical underpinning to the funny hats, secret handshakes, mysterious numbers, vows of secrecy and small cars?

Something of general interest perhaps? Something that would help all of us to live better lives?

Or are those things alone so interesting (in and of themselves) to practitioners of these arcane rites, that a meaningful underlying ethics or metaphysics would be redundant?

Just asking. Not trolling.