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Flashmag May 2019 www.flashmag.net
. At a time when being white is a privilege, student secret societies sharply reestablish schema of a society hierarchized by race and belonging to a group of privileged peoples. Black American scholars will have to crane for more than a century to find a black lineage to ancient Greece at the same time hoping to be admitted into these hermetic groups, as full members and not as agents serving the world domination of one race over the others. Until today, there is a gray zone in which African Americans and Africans are moving, which consists in adhering to these sects for personal advancement against servicing the racial order.
The sexual orientation of secret societies with a Hellenic connotation in general is homosexual, as they are greatly influenced by the sexual practices of ancient Greece where lesbianism and pederasty were a norm. It is not uncommon that during hazing, young recruits engage in sexual encounters with same-sex partners. Practices that can be morally criticized by lay people, seal better the laws of omerta (silence) that govern secret societies.
In the same philosophy of domination and conquest of one race over the others, secret societies like the Skull and Bones, very famous for the number of American rulers who would be affiliated, would have relics of the kings of the conquered peoples as the skull of Geronimo Goyaałé (1829 -1909) a great figure of the resistance of the Apache tribe against American settlers. Drinking in the skull of a conquered adversary would confer a certain domineering aura, on the future heirs of the empire.
In parallel with the academic system based on a meritocratic ideal, despite scandals like the one
recently uncovered in the United States, which would have favored access to prestigious institutions for the offspring of the most affluent by corruption, secret societies of student circles perpetuate a system of elitist socialization. And the secret in itself is a tool of social engineering whose hidden objective is the manipulation of the masses. One of the first manipulative effects of the secret is to isolate those who hold it from those who do not know it.
In parallel with the academic system based on a meritocratic ideal, despite scandals like the one recently uncovered in the United States, which would have favored access to prestigious institutions for the offspring of the most affluent by corruption; the secret societies of student circles perpetuate a system of elitist socialization. And the secret in itself is a tool of social engineering whose hidden objective is the manipulation of the masses. One of the first manipulative effects of the secret is to isolate those who hold it from those who do not know it. Knowledge being the sieve, between the elect and the plebs. Moreover, the secret must be handled by the adept as an instrument of power. As Jamin so aptly puts it in his work published in 1977. The possession of a secret implies certainly a know-how to shut up, but especially a know-how to tell. You have to know that you have information without revealing it. It is therefore important to subjugate the masses by stimulating curiosity, knowing how to give bits of stories, rumors, legends, because the secret and the occult always fascinate.
Wearing dress symbols and signs, or doing gestures, often makes it possible, beyond showing one's belonging, to others who know, to pass on a message according to the situation in which an adept is. For example, a member of a sect facing difficulties during a trial may pass subliminal messages to his frater so that they can help him in the outcome of the trial. And often when a dispute opposes two members of the same sect, the lodges, are first seized of the case for a secret trial, and the final public judgment in general is directly inspired by the verdict in the secret lodges, since even judges are sometimes members of these secret circles.