anything that has existed for > 1,000 years must have some component of meaning
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Personally, I suspect that the most popular rituals are actively hurting progress towards becoming a Type I Civilization because they bind people to communal beliefs which either anti-correlate with that goal or are merely inconsequential to it
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I don't see communal beliefs as acting in opposition to global-scale technological progress. Other global-scale beliefs (various strains of evangelism, which are NOT inherent in communal ritual practice: see Judaism) are the main opposition.
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