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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You're the expert, but I personally expect to see an element of non-utilitarian function in the behavior, some larping
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mass shooting is the ultimate pointless sacrifice for attention
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There's an obv. & quickly expanding/hardening penumbra of ritual chanting now. cf. Twitter before the names came out.
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