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?
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Mostly small-scale domestic or corporate context steady-state behaviors, not mass crowd transient spike phenomena. Unpleasant rituals that continue though nobody gets anything out of them anymore for example.
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Like highway expansions...
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Alexei Yurchak has hilarious examples of this phenomenon in the late days of the Soviet Union in his brilliant (and brilliantly named) book, “Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More.” But I don’t think he has a label for this phenomenon.
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internal cargo culting. or temporal cargo culting. Cargo culting across time-like rather than space-like social boundaries.
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