Ritual America Trailer - New Feral House release!

Video by Robin Stein:
http://originaldocuments.net/
Opening track: "Extrapolations" by Devin Welch http://soundcloud.com/minticicles

Just five or six decades ago as many as a third of all American males belonged to a fraternal order.

The substance of so-called secret rituals could easily be purchased in cheap paperback books. The true secret of these fraternal orders may be that all the classified information was hidden in plain sight.

Secret societies had extraordinary influence on practically everything in our culture, from business networking, entertainment, friendships, life insurance, and the structure of the government to the nuclear family itself.

The pomp and circumstance, the patriarchy, the racism, the misogyny ... it's all revealed in Ritual America with more than 400 rare images, and strange and humorous text that goes far beyond impenetrable esoterica or near-psychotic conspiracy theory.

This expansive visual guidebook unveils the strangest sort of American history accessed from personal scrapbooks, snapshots, news service photos, lost era magazines, internal documents... Here's a way of "coming to grip" with the strange phenomenon of fraternal organizations in America, both yesteryear and today.

More at http://feralhouse.com/ritual-america/

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[tommykwikstep]

Ditto my friend. "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER". Groucho may take on the mascot of the anti-society reformation. Generation X, Y, Z don't care for secrecy, closed meetings, and cloaked activity. Once the Universities are brought down - the fresh blood for Lodges, Temples, Bohemian Groves will be gone and the the masons will parish with the boomer generation. The USA will someday be free of all (lodges+churches= prison)

[tommykwikstep]

Sorry JRATCLIFF - nobody's worried about little civic institutions - THE PEOPLE, AND THE FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION, INTERCONNECTED FOREVER THROUGH THE INTERNET, WILL TAKE THE POWER BACK 33: 3 X 3 = 9. If you haven't been told what the true meaning of this is - we're not worried about you as a mason...it's your buddies up the food chain that are fuckin it up for everyone. Stop deluding yourself with bullshit about the social infrastructure of our nature. Our nature is made of 1's and 0's.

[Chesterton7]

This is excellent.