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And supposing there was a link between aesthetics, cruelty, and political seduction within groups of adolescents who are in the process of working on leaving behind their own childhood, in certain circumstances? Hazing ceremonies and practical jokes are not the sign of an unbalanced youth that has fallen prey to the dizziness of the absence of higher authority and has come off the rails, but rather, on the contrary, an abuse of power by the most unbalanced and the hardest of the group, made possible by a sociological and psychological mechanism inherent in the collective system of communication that reinvents itself each time a new gang is formed.