ritual
alex added 5mo ago
- We need ritual technology. Technology designed for ritual use.
Why? Most of the software we use daily is designed to engagement-max. Social media feeds, loot boxes, compulsion loops, gang gang yes yes yes ice cream so good. You’re caught in a feedback loop with the algorithm, and you are the squishiest part of that loop.
Ritual technology operates on... See morefrom Ritual Technology by Gordon Brander
sari added 1y ago
- That, I think, is the power of ceremony: it marries the mundane to the sacred. Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
sari added 1y ago
Rituals have been crucial for humans throughout history – and we still need them
Laura Pike Seeley added 2y ago
- Most native societies around the world had three common characteristics: they had an intimate, conscious relationship with their place; they were stable "sustainable" cultures, often lasting for thousands of years; and they had a rich ceremonial and ritual life. They saw these three as intimately connected.
from Ritual is Essential by Dolores LaChapelle
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- The largest companies today are obsessed with generating content in a completely de-ritualized context. But content always exists in tension with form. Ritual is the form we have abandoned in our relentless quest for content.
from 13 Observations on Ritual by Ted Gioia
sari added 8mo ago
addictive scrolling and swiping can never achieve the sense of closure and boundedness we all crave.
In France, food norms are powerful and cohesive forces, while in the US food is simply a whirlwind of chaos.
from A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures by Jasmine Bina
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
- The relationship at the heart of ritual is the relationship between life and death, mediated by elemental forces. The kinds of rituals that fall out of that might be a monthly day of silence, perhaps periodic fasting, perhaps singing around the fire. All such things need to be done as symbolic testimony to the joy and sorrow of being human, no... See more
from Imagining a World Beyond Consumerism by Substack
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
ordinary rituals:
-drying your hands all the way
-opening mail without ripping it
-putting an object back where you found it
-parallel parking
-hand washing the chopsticks
-drinking water from a glass
-actually tying your shoes
-closing the car door without slamming it
-kissing someone backandrea added 8mo ago
SpaceXponential added 2y ago