but ceremonies encode a deep sense of historyhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1014650945974648832 …
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No they don't. They aestheticize the forgetting of history.
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my cousin did her bat mitzvah interpretation on a Torah segment about this--I wish I remembered which specifically the moral she took out of it was "forget the specific [bad] things that have happened, but hold tight the lessons that came out of them" ceremonies maybe do this?
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@humanleon story in reply to my previous tweets... that exactly captures the misgivings I have with McArdle's exhortation2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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I'd have to think about that. Religious ceremonies and rituals I think are a distinct beast. Not quite the same as patriotism of a religious flavor.
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I have no problem labeling that particular aspect as probably shitty without digging too deep, having seen similar tendencies in how the hindu right defines itself (and attempts to coerce a certain identity on non-hindus) in India
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