open-source software as ritual community, with @maradydd's "network proprioception" substituting for numinous statespic.twitter.com/EeaPxMIfXC
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@St_Rev she's talking about perceiving a literal computer network in that essay, similar phenomenon though. driving is anti-ritual.
@St_Rev there isn't enough to ordinary driving to perceive interestingly - cognitive surplus, not flow state
@St_Rev I wonder if there's something about complete cognitive absorption that had made math such a powerful ritual community at times
@sarahdoingthing I read the same essay. Driving is anti-ritual to *me*, but some people seem to process it that way.
@sarahdoingthing Some people totemize cars. Driving music is a thing. Drag racing is one kind of ordeal, long-distance night driving another
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