The Based Ritual
However, he continues, over the last 50 years the need for people to be “legible” and fit into a standard model of work has merely become “industrially preferable.” This puts government and institutional leaders in a position where they are incentivized to convince people that following rigid paths in their institutions is the correct path for
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young warriors, not so young now, because we failed them. They were made into warriors by incompetent ritual elders who were ritually tone deaf, a bunch of drill sergeants who knew how to turn people into “shadow warriors” who did not know the moral responsibilities of a true warrior. When the young warriors came home, we failed to bring them
... See moreRobert L. Moore • Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity
Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself. They turn being in the world into being at home. Rituals are in time as things are in space. They stabilize life by structuring time. They give us festive spaces, so to speak, spaces we can enter in celebration .
As temporal structures, rituals arrest time. Temporal spaces we can... See more
As temporal structures, rituals arrest time. Temporal spaces we can... See more
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
1993 I volunteer for a one-year exchange program in Japan, where people work themselves to death—a phenomenon called karooshi—and are said to want to be Shinto when born, Christian when married, and Buddhist when they die. I conclude that most people are really confused about life.
Timothy Ferriss • The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.
We recognize Max Weber’s concept of the penetration of the Protestant ethic into capitalist practice and Carl Schmitt’s concept of confessional principles shaping the nation as prime instances of traffic.