Comments on: Meaning in Tragedy http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4872.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Fri, 25 May 2012 00:42:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Grotius http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4872.html/comment-page-1#comment-46090 Grotius Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:41:51 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/004872.html#comment-46090 Why does this sound like the conservative version of identity politics? Why does this sound like the conservative version of identity politics?

]]> By: Shannon Love http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4872.html/comment-page-1#comment-42965 Shannon Love Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:22:12 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/004872.html#comment-42965 I think the modern world strongly underestimates the power of ritual. We believe ourselves so self-aware that we no longer will respond emotionally to ritual. Yet evidence suggest that we still do. I think rituals still function as temporal markers in our memory dividing that which came before from that which came after. A ritual like a wedding alters people's behavior and expectations about a relationship by dividing the relationship into a before and after. A gradual drift into long term cohabitation doesn't create a similar boundary. I think the modern world strongly underestimates the power of ritual. We believe ourselves so self-aware that we no longer will respond emotionally to ritual. Yet evidence suggest that we still do.

I think rituals still function as temporal markers in our memory dividing that which came before from that which came after. A ritual like a wedding alters people’s behavior and expectations about a relationship by dividing the relationship into a before and after. A gradual drift into long term cohabitation doesn’t create a similar boundary.

]]>