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synkar’s notes:
vol.1, 5 - 201 - 205 - this dichotomy between the non mentioned but obvious anxiety for harving to participate in the ritual, the gifting ceremony, the symbolic exchange with unknown forces, the magical tradition, the idea of the wholeness of community, and the present hardships as liberating, this anxiety, juxtaposed with the supposed joyfulness one is supposed to attain from celebrating the ritual and "wasting" (making use of them by highlighting the intensity and finitude of life) the gathered resources is superimposed by another anxiety, so its a constant systemically re-introduced back-and-fourth between this presumed expected joyfulness of sacrifice and the sacrifice of the every day life thats supposed to make it happen, with abstraction serving as the severed tie between these interconnected modes, specifically when it comes to lefebvre's analysis of this domain. he uses abstraction as a crutch to lay out his idealization on one hand, and the urgency of the primacy of community on the other end (synkar, 2025)
supposedly, abstraction is what causes a failure to participate in the moral and joyful community, or in other words, a turn from magic to religion, but if this simply isnt the case, and a refusal to participate in the festival or its ceremonies isn't simply a symbolic disavowal but anything else, like shyness, or content, or resourcefulness, or a sense of pride in the mundane over the dionysian, or simply frivility, or maybe a masochistic renouncement, then no psychology is being considered tanamount with the economic assemblage that forces these social movements, which makes it seem like a bizzarre and tribal motive, that at the end of the day, those participating in the sacrifice are deemed truly deserving of themselves being sacrificed, only because this historical mode is being drawn into its ideal image for reasons that have nothing to do with its inquiry. not to say that its ethicization is bad on its own, but that it draws on the wider problem (synkar, 2025)