[runtime_blues]

I think the point is that if we used the language of museum displays and pop-sci books about antiquity to describe the modern world, the results would be comical.

In all likelihood, big-bosomed stone pendants dug up in Mesopotamia had as much to do with "fertility rituals" as truck nuts do.

[7952]

Although magical thinking seems to be alive and well in all corners of life. Maybe we still have those kind of behaviours, just expressed in different ways.

[dTal]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema

[wiml]

Are you saying truck nuts aren't part of a fertility ritual?