I read about people trying to make something edible out of girl scout cookies, but cooking just released the stench of fake vanilla
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also knew a woman who worked for the org, she found the cookie fundraising focus cult-like & creepy
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degraded ritual - actual girl scout camp is one of my models for ritual excellence
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You could argue that original girl scout camp (and boy scout) were degraded hunter-gatherer life larping+aestheticization
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all rituals (even of actual hunter-gatherers) are *changed* versions of earlier things - "degraded" means not supplying same nutrients
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I feel this is a regime of particularly nasty no-true-scotsman infinite regress, along multiple retreat paths of definition
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I thought it was pretty boring & functional - "is it fun? does it help people get along?"
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I always suspect you of trying to sneak in radical assumption stacks under apparently boring observations
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Actually a "stadium" as a ritual venue is an interesting thing to track through time/space from roman origins...

