Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
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sari added 9mo ago
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David Pennington added 3mo ago
Ritual is vital because it gives us a sense that we belong to the world. A sense of connectedness, whether to society, nature or the divine, is in turn linked to a sense of psychological wholeness and lower rates of mental illness.
Social media offers the opposite; connection without relatedness.
simon added 4mo ago
sari added 9mo ago
Traditionally, myth and story has been one of the most important ways people gain a sense of ‘being at home in the world’ that we now know is so crucial to our psychological well being. And fundamental to this is the kind of attention it requires: a deep, abiding presence.
simon added 4mo ago
sari added 9mo ago
Listen! This is how stories used to begin. It is the opening word of Beowulf , the oldest piece of English literature. We don’t know who wrote it, but it almost certainly began as an oral tradition, and it reveals something about storytelling that has never left us. It begins with a call, with a bard asking a crowd to give freely a resource that h
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