have you thought about the grammar of ritual and how it evolves via equivalent of innovative novelists pushing boundaries?
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like Burroughs? was just thinking about his cutting thing but perhaps you have something else in mind
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I mean for eg. at some point somebody decided plastic christmas trees were okay, added sock to gift ritual etc etc. How?
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Clearly there are acceptable and unacceptable mods. So there must be a coherent tacit rule set for grammar evol.
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ordinary ritual evolution can be hard to see as it's swamped by ritual shocks- Protestant suppression of Christmas, alcohol prohibition
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I think that should be separable easily, no? Same situation with language. Big shocks+gradual evolutions.
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Would be useful to distinguish between convention in Lewis' sense and ritual.
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Lewis starts out in game theory as scaffolding but then segues into interesting places. Read long ago, half forgotten.

