Repetition and ritual help us hypnotize ourselves (however temporarily) into sensing the world as safe and unchanging - average-everyday.
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So we can see "the news" as, in part, a ritual for domesticating novelty and bringing it in line with expectation & repetition.
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@semiotechnic average-everyday sense of peril is an interesting subversion of average-everyday safetyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@AuerbachKeller are you implying twitter is the exact same kind of ritual!!?! ;)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@semiotechnic it may be - the news c. 1895 in Wisconsin Death Trip is similar, maybe with more group sharing of griefThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@semiotechnic@sarahdoingthing Love will tear us apart.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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