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on which secret societies recruit followers.
Bright students with modest social backgrounds are thus accepted for what they can bring to the secret society as influence, because in general highly intellectual competency is the promise of a bright future, a bright future that networks of influence of the sect can help achieve, against submission to the interests of the sectarian group. Similarly, students from the bourgeoisie, through their relationship with decision-making entities remain very important to the secret society, whose main objective is not to stay only in academic circles, but above all to project itself into the social fabric. influencing society to keep its privileges.
If the prestigious universities, places of training of the elite of excellence, are the scene where these circles of socialization of the elite of pre-eminence unfold, it is because these modes of operation by which the power is held and exercised in secret societies, extremely elitist and secretive, are quite common in the Western ruling class.
Student secret societies have a direct affiliation with secret societies, which exist beyond the academic world, such as the Bohemian Club in
the United States, which brings together a large number of adherents among the most important American industrial, financial and political leaders, exclusively male, and often supporters of the Republican Party. Their annual meetings are held in the heart of Monte Rio forest in California, and are known for their occult and highly alcoholic ceremonies.
Some secret university societies have played a vital role in the history of the Western world. Notably, The Cambridge Conversazione Society created in 1820 by George Tomlinson, at the University of Cambridge in England. Society inspired by Jesus Christ and the 12 Apostles organized philosophical debates every Saturday evening on societal issues. Its Marxist ideology, and pro-homosexual agenda will be unveiled in the 50s when during the cold war Maclean, Burgess, Philby and Blunt all members of the conversazione society were recruited by the KGB for their ideal position in the British decision-making apparatus, they were able to transmit vital information to the Soviets during the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War.
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