>>11266935This. If OP was truly the autist he's acting like, he would have naturally reverse engineered man and his organization by now, and would recognize that these events and rituals are interfaces. Mediums for breaking from established structures. No different than moving by swimming because you're underwater, the collectively held context and expectation has been altered.
To an extent you might say "I don't need that to do what makes sense, they're the problem", and you may be right. However chances are you have your own rituals and transitionary spaces you use to organize your internal state, objects you put in your environment, sounds you listen to.
I have recently recognized that this is the way my psyche is actually structured, I project myself onto the environment and view it as a representation of my internal structure. By altering it, I may alter myself. Because of this most of what I do is arranged as an "arc". I leave the house, I walk up a hill to the open sky, see the moon and the stars and so forth. (Possibility, false clarity). then I descend down, down to the depths, the "substructure", and walk through the woods. It acts upon you accordingly, it is a transitionary space, and you emerge changed. This is just different for a common, simple, everyday experience. And of course it does invoke a higher power and a higher order. You have finite control of your nature, and even less control of the environment.
That's what ritual is.
