Unless you can demonstrate that control/relevance are equally distributed, this is actually a definition of power. And I suspect it can’t be equal because that would require actually creating meaning and stability, not just a “sense” (aka illusion) of it that’s stronger for some.
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This is…a subset of rituals, but by no means all of them. Many are about control, yes, but more in terms of asserting human control and relevance in an uncertain universe and creating a sense of meaning and stability.
Like funerals. Or (non-coercive) prayer.
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