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"new rituals hubristic and naive."

I think the author handles this by pointing out the constant in change: human nature which does not change plus change itself.

In that context ritual symbology has a half life in human nature. It needs to be periodically made anew.

Ritual becomes form without substance or becomes corrupted eg.Martin Luther's grievances to the church.

As another writer (I believe Joyce) once analogized, periodically there's nothing left but to pick up the broken shards of colored glass from the cathedral and reassemble it making anew partly connected to past but mostly reconfigured to now.

Whence the 64 million dollar question here: why broken?