Thresholds: Initiation Rituals in Modern American Culture

Call it the participation trophy problem, after those little totems of insecurity that older people like to bring up – forgetting that they’re the ones who spent money on those trophies and no one my age cares about any of the participation trophies they received: because if everyone got one, that means that they don’t matter. We don’t feel that we earned them, we feel that none of them actually signify anything, and so praise is fake.

Analysis, Written by: CameronCameron SummersAugust 18, 2021America, Rituals, Initiations, Dry Cleaning, Menstruation, Prom, High School, Community, Donald Glover, Graduation, King of the Hill, memoir, Carcosa ShitComment