To the extent I learn things from social interactions (which, tbh, is not the best way of learning things), I keep coming back to a fundamental duality of imitative life versus alethic life. If you're doing whatever you're doing because it is an inherently meaningful thing for you to do, I think there might be some danger there. We populate the world of butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, massgoers, coffeehouse denizens, what you will, from a sort of abstract social command. The social deontic governs. But there are also people who use these forms of social interaction to do things. Their behavior is regulated, not constituted, by the social deontic.
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Still on the thought of transubstantiation as the reversal, not the consummation, of sacrifice. In the old sacrifice, which formed a large part of the social form of religion for millennia, you began with living animals, and ended with bits of food. With the sacred meal of the Christians, we begin with the bits of food, and reverse the process.