Furthermore, historically, various organizations, ranging from secret societies to religions to militaries have sought to utilize very specific physical gestures as a way of communicating affiliation covertly or overtly for various purposes.
What makes you think that communicating affiliation is the primary goal of those gestures?
What makes you think that
communicating affiliation
is the primary goal of those gestures?Well, there’s obviously lots of possible uses for gestures like these. I’m only choosing to emphasize one that I think is reasonable to consider.