Is there a word or concept like "derationalization"? Where a process/practice/ritual/ceremony once had a meaningful rationale that has since been forgotten and no longer applies and is now sustained by random other bullshit rationalizations or sheer inertia?
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There's a German word for it : "Sinnentleerung". Literally "emptying of meaning/purpose". https://m.dict.cc/german-english/Sinnentleerung.html …
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Just what I needed to bring down the high from surfing paleoanarchist Twitter: a button I can click to repeatedly hear a robot German voice speak about emptying of meaning.
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