#social acceleration

[and-then-there-were-n0ne]

Rituals are architectures of time, structuring and stabilising life, and they are on the wane. The pandemic has accelerated the disappearance of rituals. Work also has ritual aspects. We go to work at set times. Work takes place in a community. In the home office, the ritual of work is completely lost. The day loses its rhythm and structure. This somehow makes us tired and depressed.

In The Little Prince [1943], by [Antoine de] Saint-Exupéry, the little prince asks the fox to always visit at the exact same time, so that the visit becomes a ritual. The little prince explains to the fox what a ritual is. Rituals are to time as rooms are to an apartment. They make time accessible like a house. They organise time, arrange it. In this way you make time appear meaningful.

Time today lacks a solid structure. It is not a house, but a capricious river. The disappearance of rituals does not simply mean that we have more freedom. The total flexibilisation of life brings loss, too. Rituals may restrict freedom, but they structure and stabilise life. They anchor values and symbolic systems in the body, reinforcing community. In rituals we experience community, communal closeness, physically. [...] Today we reject all rituals as something external, formal and therefore inauthentic. Neoliberalism produces a culture of authenticity, which places the ego at its centre. The culture of authenticity develops a suspicion of ritualised forms of interaction. Only spontaneous emotions, subjective states, are authentic. Modelled behaviour, for example courtesy, is written off as inauthentic or superficial. The narcissistic cult of authenticity is partly responsible for the increasing brutality of society.

In my book I argue the case against the cult of authenticity, for an ethic of beautiful forms. Gestures of courtesy are not just superficial. The French philosopher Alain says that gestures of courtesy hold a great power on our thoughts. That if you mime kindness, goodwill and joy, and go through motions such as bowing, they help against foul moods as well as stomach ache. Often the external has a stronger hold than the internal.

Blaise Pascal once said that instead of despairing over a loss of faith, one should simply go to mass and join in rituals such as prayer and song, in other words mime, since it is precisely this that will bring back faith. The external transforms the internal, brings about new conditions. Therein lies the power of rituals.

— Byung-Chul Han, “I Practise Philosophy as Art”

#social acceleration #time

[immortalfornow]

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#to be fair the person asking is only on freshman year #and i relate to a lot of other bad kids on some level #(queer. social chameleon finding my own identity. always the responsible one in a group. etc) #but really gorgug is just so me. esp this season #i think before this i might have related to riz the most but everything gorgug is dealing w in fhjy is something i dealt w #even w the teachers hindering academic acceleration! #i had to actively fight the whole school district to get enrolled in high school early #i had to take a trial class at the ap level and do iq tests for them to let me take standard freshman classes after i finished 8th grade #and even after that we had to argue with the district superintendent #anyways!! don't mind me dumping life events in the tags lol #fhjy #d20 #gorgug thistlespring

[calamitys-child]

Unstoppable force (I wanna make a ttrpg campaign I wanna make it so bad it would be so cool) vs immovable object (any time I see a rulebook or a form of literally any kind it makes me hiss and spit and have a furious panic attack and never touch it ever again)

#i want. to run a campaign set in a haunted funfair #where all the characters are just pitched as like. kids who like the funfair #theyve got like some discrete personal goal like maybe they all want to like. collect a rare prize. impress a cute girl. hide from bullies. #look im rereading It okay you get the vibes #and I wanna get them all pressing for those goals and just dial up the horror underneath it all #like one day a bunch of folk get sick with food poisoning from eating the definitely 100% pork #that definitely doesnt have a human fingernail in it #another day they might win a prize thats like. a cool hat with the name of a kid who died last year written on the band inside #and like. just drop little hints in there while running it as a regular funfair and social interaction game #and maybe they slowly realise that half the staff that work there are. dead. and the guy who runs it is like a vampire or something #but i looked at the fate accelerated rulebook - possibly the single easiest and most flexible system - #and i opened the character sheet pdf and went i think i hauve covid and had to go for a walk so i wouldn't kill my laptop in self defense

[popsicle-stick]

joni mitchell was right they are paving paradise and putting up a parking lot

#or a car park. in mine native tongue. #we have a housing crisis but the solution to that is regulate landlords not to put up a luxury development on every other field...bro...... #biodiversity is plummeting here bc of intensive farming and overdevelopment but the gov continues to do Nothing but accelerate the decline #this gov is obsessed with squeezing more and more productivity out of the land and failing that‚ development #they simply do not care #call me a nimby but i have to ask the uk government what kind of world are we leaving for our grandchildren. what the fuck are we doing #i feel this is niche bc it's a controversial topic here in the uk and noone talks abt urban sprawl as an environmental/social issue on here #but its something that makes me so insane #ukpol

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[poptartmochi]

the quest for claudia's birthday takes me to strange and unknown places

#sriracha.txt #the original way i understood the timeline allowed for a much Slower building of events #there were originally 5 years after claudia's death + 7 years of agu living in hiding after cesare's death #but if she dies at 12 that means a whole 12 years has passed. so she'd be 24 in the modern day.. roughly wyll's age #it simply couldn't work.. wyll is Older. he's like the super cool cousin she orbited around at social gatherings until he disappeared #and then. well </3 #i don't know if the satie-gortie-augie hellabonanza trip will stick but i think the accelerated timeline Will #because now it's 3 years between claudia's death and the start of the game. which imo makes more sense.. the grief and longing agu would #feel for his departed daughter would be MUCH stronger in that time frame + thus make him easier to manipulate via the dream guardian #i never thought about it being a 12 year gap before but now that i do.. idk i think he would simply live w the grief and be immediately #suspicious of the emperor instead ykwim #this is fun as well bc WHAT effect does this have on the agu-ketheric beef... before it was him being pissed that ketheric wrought so much #suffering because he lost isobel. but now?? #unsure. HOWEVER it's funny that he gets ketheric's netherstone on account of ALSO being a father who does some Higher Being's bidding with #the promise of getting their daughter back. and it ends well for Neither of Them </3 #bg3 spoilers

[dottyistired]

if ur a customer this week, consider: not being. i hope the gougar gets you

#esp if you don't bother to help pack any of ur $100+ purchase and make me bend over dozens of times #accelerating my repetive back injury #i calculated if i forgoe a couple of my chores and all socializing i will have time for. 2 hours of leisure in the next few days #meme me a river

[can-we-die-now]

physics just goes around giving everyone existential crises

#physics please we are all depressed enough as it is #we have a crisis every day now #gravity might not even be a thing anymore #gravity is acceleration apparently????? #physics #physics jokes #stem student humour #science #science jokes #science humour #this is why science students have no social lives #science jokes are all we can do now #chaos #college #college aesthetic #college humour #collegeblr #study tumblr #study study study #physics be like #existential crisis #school #school broke our brains #study inspo #desi tumblr #study #AK #desiblr #desi studyblr #studyblr

[milfbro]

had a very frustrating day i gotta say.

work was so brutal I accidentally tied my mask to my ponytail and I haven't had the energy to fix it

#even benign socializing also leaves me with an accelerated heartbeat

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[tarh-and-social-impact]

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A Reflection and Invitation to Action

As I reflect on my journey through the realms of blockchain and ethical philanthropy, my belief in the transformative power of technology to foster positive change has only grown stronger. The insights from the Socious blog have been invaluable, shaping my understanding and approach to supporting social impact projects. We stand at the brink of a technological revolution with the power to redefine philanthropy and sustainability.

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[jjacko434]

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