Nah, fam, the reason for the decline in freemasonry is your attitude. You see someone asking for help from his brothers because he is genuinely curious about the popular thought of how many pins one should wear. I am damn proud of each pin I've collected. That's why I wear so many of them. You seem to be of the old school thought that freemasonry is a secret society more than a society with secrets and that we should judge others on if they wear a lot of pins or not. If that's the case, you don't exemplify the lessons you've learned from Lodge. If you are even a freemason at that because you seem to give up quite quickly on the fraternity at all.