It is as though France's citizens, or at least a small but noisy percentage, are engaged in a familiar, counter-establishment ritual.
Ritual kinship (compadrazgo) is frequent, the extent of the institution depending on the extent of observance of Roman Catholic sacraments, because such sacraments are considered the proper occasion for establishment of ritual ties.
Also consider bed-time rituals, wake-up rituals, grooming rituals, medicine administration rituals, or litter box changing rituals.
"We may need to look again at the establishment of the ritual landscape, it might be saying more about Mesolithic ancestors than we have realised".
Jacques believes Blick Mead is crucial to our understanding of the stone circle at Stonehenge, erected in the late Neolithic period, at about 2500BC "Discoveries like this give us a completely new understanding of the establishment of the ritual landscape and make Stonehenge even more special than we thought we knew it was," said Jacques.
Today, as the stagnant and fundamentalist elements of the establishment carry on their annual ritual of trying to prevent the anniversary protests, they must surely know that this time things are different.
Founder and co-partner (along with SBE) David Cooley announced last week that the famed premier gay and lesbian bar, lounge and restaurant will no longer allow straight women to bury their single lives by hosting their traditional celebratory pre-nuptial ritual in his establishment.
Widows also engage in ritual sex during establishment of homes and to mark the beginning of food production seasons: cultivation, planting, and harvesting.
If Mr. Bouton is pushed from his pedestal, though, it's likely that his replacement will have followed a similar trajectory to the top and be someone well acquainted with the members and the rituals of the establishment.
At the same time there is a strong tradition of public schools acting on certain temperaments to produce absolutely the opposite: rebels whose anti-establishment zeal seems to have been fired by exposure to the rituals of that establishment at an early age.
Parsons adopted the Thelemic motto of Thelema Obtenteum Proedero Amoris Nuptiae, a Latin mistranslation of "The establishment of Thelema through the rituals of love".
