Shared ritual binds members more strongly than shared secrets do
Evidence
It is obvious that people are more securely held together through the common experience of a secret ritual than by the common sharing of the secret itself. That the secret of totalitarian movements is exposed in broad daylight does not necessarily change the nature of the experience. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 871
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Ritual binds members through shared experience of awe rather than shared belief (similarity 0.87)
- Including external forms in the secret unifies the society’s total interest sphere (similarity 0.81)
- Totalitarian movements replicate the structure and psychology of secret societies in public (similarity 0.78)