# 30. Ritualism ## 30.5. Methodology/Refinements/Sub-species ### 30.5.2. Schematising rituals Here the concept of "truth" and the manipulation of natural power are the primary considerations of the participants. The scientific, technical, legal community are all ideal cases of groups which indulge in this type of ritual, but it is by no means exclusive to them. This method of ritualistic manipulation tends to be associated with the use of strange coded language, which only the elite ritual participants can understand, and with a preoccupation with certain forms of logical methodology which are totally alien to most of the human population. Along with being generally lazy, most of us are naturally fairly sloppy when it comes to being objective. "Objectivity" is the high altar of many of these rituals and the participants develop methods of working, communicating, innovating, and gaining insight, which are quite outside the understanding of non-participants. The use of abbreviation in language is a typical trait in schematising ritualism. Apart from their core objective of "seeking truth", one of the main priorities of these elite groups is the exclusion of non-initiates from access to information and methodologies held or understood only by the elite group itself. Science must be left to the scientists, law to the lawyers and technology to the technologists. ***Parent:** [[Ritualism]]*