Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
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Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
The consequence of our content-addicted culture is non-stop diversion from having to come to grips with the big questions of reality, of life. The American social scientist Herbert Simon wrote: “The wealth of information means a dearth of something else—a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvi... See more
Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence
Though we don’t always recognize it, it is this reciprocity we long for. We still have that urge to be fed by myth, through our communion with elders, but because these ways don’t exist in our culture, we turn to the material facsimile.
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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 ... See more
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