The Return of Ritual: Why Families Are Rebuilding Sacred Time in the Age of the Attention Economy (opens in new tab)

A strange thing happened when we built the most powerful attention-capturing machines in human history. We rediscovered the family dinner. Not because dinner changed. Because attention changed. For thousands of years, human beings developed rituals that directed attention toward what mattered most. Meals. Holidays. Birthdays. Weddings. Sabbaths. Bedtime stories. Seasonal celebrations. Shared traditions. These practices were so common that they became nearly invisible. Then, within a single ge...