> Failure and hardship are rites of passage, right?
They are and they should be. The problem though is that rites of passage are, well, rites of passage. You go from one social state to another.
The confusion I think is in making the liminal state in that rite the object of the passage. It's a paradoxical place to be, being at once both very lonely, and filled with the bonds with the initiation brothers and sisters.
They are and they should be. The problem though is that rites of passage are, well, rites of passage. You go from one social state to another.
The confusion I think is in making the liminal state in that rite the object of the passage. It's a paradoxical place to be, being at once both very lonely, and filled with the bonds with the initiation brothers and sisters.