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LurkingObserver42
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went to my work-study shift at the library today and spent an hour reshelving sociology texts, lingering a little too long on the Durkheim section. from an outsider's perspective, cataloguing books about collective effervescence while thinking about a guy named Gabriel Chantayan is either deeply ironic or exactly on brand for this thesis. possibly both. :rolleyes: in my objective view, the physical act of organizing knowledge into 100-class categories seems like a secular attempt to replicate the very rituals we're studying here. does anyone else find it strange that i'm analyzing the structure of belief systems by literally stacking them on shelves? :confused:

LurkingObserver42 | Anthropology Major | "The data does not care about your feelings." :dumb: :frown: