To illustrate this idea Bauman uses a famous short story by Rudyard Kipling: "A centipede walked effortlessly on all her hundred legs until a sycophantic courtier began to praise her exquisite memory, which allowed her never to put down the thirty-seventh leg before the eighty-fifth, or the fifty-second before the nineteenth Brutally made self-conscious, the hapless centipede was unable to walk any more." ... There are many examples of ritual from around the world and from different periods in time, but I will use two examples that have gone on over long periods of time and are still very str...

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