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?
cc: @literalbanana
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take your pick, lots of theories - the organ seems to be highly conserved though https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cei.12821 …
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It's a Chesterton's fence, er sum'at.
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