am I allowed to call a mass shooting a "ritual" if it's pretty obvious I'm not pro-mass-shooting, asking for a friend
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Hmm. Actually mass shootings seem anti-ritual to me when it's not by an org... a kind of reaction to anomie.
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I mean in terms of being a public performance that is copied and spreads
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the public reaction is 9/10 of the ritual
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Hmm. But many things are copied and spread... memes, linguistic usages. Seems to dilute term 'ritual' to be that broad
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