Hazing rituals are not only evident in academia. The Thai army, as is shown in lurid photos on the NoConscript Facebook page and can be seen in videos that occasionally surface on social media, seems to have its own form of hazing, which usually seems to entail highly abusive enforcement of homo-erotic acts on conscripts. In the video highlighted the young soldiers laugh, but their treatment is far from amusing maybe laughter is the best mechanism to assail such oppression, as children are apt to do reflexively sometimes when forced into a corner.
As with SOTUS, humiliation and the liquidation of dignity seems to be the modus operandi of the senior oppressors. Again, this is to preserve the status regimen, simply, to put people in their place, and while the army's thoroughly nasty didactic approach to conditioning might be more severe than what we see in educational intuitions, it's all part of the same ethos: to weaken individuality and enforce a belief in a carefully structured hierarchy.
The oppressed, once endowed with authority and seniority, become the oppressors, and as the students who made the video so perfectly put it, the Vicious Cycle continues. And it won't end until the hierarchy itself is deconstructed in the minds of Thai people.