Rituals

The USA was designed as an "age of reason" monument. You can read the documentation around the founding of the country and the design of the constitution and see the age of reason thinking on display. Thinkers like Hobbes and Locke and Machiavelli helped inform the design of the government.

It's ironic and out of place, though, that most of the founding fathers were freemasons and indulged in it's weirdo rituals and cosplay LARPing. The US capital is basically a monument to elite cosplay, which is extremely out of place with the age of reason thinking. In fact, it makes the age of reason thinking look like rhetorical fraud.

George Washington is depicted in dozens of Masonic art-works with his cosplay outfit on and doing various handsigns and poses.

Why does the "age of reason" rely on a bunch of ritualistic bullshit to glue it all together? It's actually pretty interesting.