Why Rituals Exist Everywhere & The Exercise Paradox - SYSK Choice

1342.042 - 1368.784 Dimitris Xygalatas

Absolutely. I tend to see rituals as social technologies. They are successful social technologies because they're able to harness all kinds of different mechanisms, the psychological mechanisms. So it is not just pain and suffering that they can recruit in order to make an occasion seem special. They can recruit things like emotional arousal. They can recruit things like sensory pageantry.