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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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"fun" also covers huge range of symbol-binding. Kool-aid, wine-in-church-as-blood, holy water...v. diff meanings of "fun"
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quality of life is complicated but not infinitely subjective
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I think it can tend to infinitely subjective w expanding menu/buffet of using tech to feed striatum satisfaction circuit
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what I'm mulling is whether internal satisfaction loop necessarily creates extended phenotype consistency patterns (ritual)
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