25 April

Perfectly said. The circle of life is broken. I don’t think this is as easily fixed as the article suggests, you don’t just choose to have rituals again, that’s how we end up with ‘bloated’ weddings and sickeningly sentimental Anzac Days. “So great is our hunger for rituals that when we come upon one of the few remaining ones - weddings, bar mitzvahs - we tend to overload them and turn them into expensive bloated versions of themselves...We've become pretty casual over the years. We've become reasonably present-oriented. As a result, we've shed old rituals without coming up with new ones. We've unwittingly robbed ourselves of a social architecture that marks and defines life's phases.”