what are the elements that make group ritual behavior embarrassing vs fun or creepy and threatening vs harmless and ignorable?
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Replying to @thesublemon
big public school spirit rallies were alienating but also felt too rote/ like watching an alien culture for me to experience strong aversion
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but any time people got into 'yale spirit' or spoke reverentially about it or cared about yale traditions i wanted to run to the hills
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perhaps b/c being glad you went to yale is sort of obvious enough that it felt like people revering themselves/ their class
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@thesublemon I thought most yale/MIT culture stuff was basically anti-harvard2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing yeah that too. the anti-harvard self-revering stuff was clearly all ritual purging of insecurity.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@thesublemon "the yale-harvard game"
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