{"updated":"2026-11-04T19:51:00Z","content_md":"[Martin Buber](https:\/\/ammdi.hyperphor.com\/Martin-Buber) thought. Protocolization turns interactions into I\/It, even more so than the usual transational social interaction. It's a step beyond I\/It, like I\/[procedural cloud]. Economically efficient but also alienating; they remind us of our unimportance and lack of specialness.\n\n![[4s5nvjr8n3skpg7sza10fjknhm]]\n\n![[7rrdkess1cbwcs09exsfbfdd10]]","changelog":[{"version":1,"at":"2026-11-04T19:03:05Z","note":null},{"version":2,"at":"2026-11-04T19:51:00Z","note":null}],"transclusions":[{"id":"4s5nvjr8n3skpg7sza10fjknhm","version":2},{"id":"7rrdkess1cbwcs09exsfbfdd10","version":1}],"created":"2026-11-04T19:03:05Z","page":"f\/0wpcnjxra1vxmsza0ggwcjffjw\/","content_hash":"sha256:2a39e029910e055c6e40c7449f9ea3ff5adb6c6fe45835fb04fcbf05652839f8","id":"0wpcnjxra1vxmsza0ggwcjffjw","kind":"thread","origin":"https:\/\/ammdi.hyperphor.com\/blyg\/","content_html":"
Martin Buber<\/a> thought. Protocolization turns interactions into I\/It, even more so than the usual transational social interaction. It's a step beyond I\/It, like I\/[procedural cloud]. Economically efficient but also alienating; they remind us of our unimportance and lack of specialness. <\/span><\/div>
Religious rituals are protocols (sort of) that push in the opposite direction; they aim to restore the soul, to remind us of our connectedness, to assert that we matter. Every time I participate in one I wonder why, since I don't believe in any of this shit, but it's probably something like this.<\/div>
  • Are such rituals protocols? They are repeatable patterns of interaction with imaginary beings<\/i>. I'd say so.<\/span><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/blockquote>
    The Starbucks practice of adding little cheery personalized drawings on your order seems like an attempt to add an element of human individuality to a vast inhuman machine. It's so lame and obvious and yet it kind of works. It's better than nothing! It feels like capitalist acceleration making a minor concession to actual human feeling. As a human, I appreciate the gesture.<\/div><\/blockquote><\/div>","version":2,"media":[],"blyg":"0.3"}