I wish I still had Antony Sutton’s America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones still with me. (I checked it out from the library, and returned it when due.) Then I’d be able to place excerpts from it alongside excerpts from Alexandra Robbin’s book.

Robbins spends the first chapter of her book ripping on the all-encompassing conspiracy that the Antony Suttons of the world have construed.

But, there are moments when a creeping sense of “WTF”-itis comes in, or the book somehow inadvertedly feeds the deep-lying concerns of the Sutton view.

By now everyone knows the rumour about the S&B initiations: masturbate in a coffin in front of the Skull and Bonesers, whilst telling them your sexual history. … And everyone knows about the video.

Self-indulgent silliness… except that it’s taken uber-seriously by all involved.

Robbins believes that the Skull and Bonesers were putting on a show, fully aware that the they were being filmed. Thus, they put on a show for the pleasure of knowing that they pulled the unsuspecting outsiders.

Pretty elaborate lengths to go that route, I must say.

Don’t these students have something … better… to do? Or do I once again have to return to the thesis that the Wild Dada Ducks came up with, and assume that this is training for the games that they’ll play when they come to high power later in their lives?

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