Bruce Feiler

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802 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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Someone moves, gets sick, changes what they do.

The group has now this group quake, as I was just calling it.

It has this source of instability.

I remember when my dad died in 2021, there was this sense of, oh, right, he performed a lot of roles in this group.

And the group now needs to reassign those roles in a lot of ways.

And that's what the ritual does.

It's the elemental human act.

It's the glue that holds society together.

I've started calling it the original human algorithm.

It's a mechanism by which the group tends itself.

And that, I think, is the connection with homesickness.

We have this longing for

But we're kind of frozen.

So that's beat one of the paradox.

The second paradox is that the rituals we've used for all of these centuries, we've turned our backs on them.

So no one's holding birth rituals or coming-of-age rituals.

In 1960, 90% of American adults got married.

Right now, fewer than 50% are married.

And no one's having funerals anymore.

This was shocking to me.

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