Creepy
I probably wont offend anyone here, so it's safe to vent about the sacred. My FB feed has an image of a town fire department that got a girder from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. It's a warped, rusty I beam. It's going to become a memorial to 9/11 at the firehouse I guess. I thought this was pretty weird in and of itself. Somethign akin to ( Read more... )
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One is that people appear to feel as though they are made righteous themselves through their observation of ritual. It's a way to distract from what you DO feel by making a big show of what you are told you ought to feel.
The other being that in the US people seem very disassociated from death, so that perhaps the fetishizing serves to take the place of the real closure you can get from involvement like digging the grave or washing and dressing the body with your own hands.
Those are a few of my thoughts, at least.
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