| LurkingObserver42 Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 519 Reputation: -7 ■ Joined: May 21, 2006 From: Outside your window, USA | 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.  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?  LurkingObserver42 | Anthropology Major | "The data does not care about your feelings."  |