Machinery to the culture of Laughing:

The artifacts of culture are necessary to ensure compliance reaches into our forms of belief. The culture makes itself known by what it recognizes, how it uses those insights in narratives and rituals celebrating desired behavior and penalizing betrayals. To transgress what is must shift culture in what it notices in cites:

Rites of enhancement spread good news about the tactics of value, provide public recognition for achievers, and motivate others to perform: Quarterly Recognition, promotional announcements.


Rites of renewal serve to refurbish social structure and improve how it is functioning: team building, sensitivity training, employee orientation, team learning, team planning, performance goal setting, and large group events etc..


Rites of reorientation serve to heighten the awareness and application of customer needs and knowledge: branding, business plans, internal marketing campaigns, competition from external vendors and relationship building; increased vertical, horizontal and diagonal technologies of surveillance; increased demands for managerial responsibility (increased operational/service provisional visibility), increased use of minimal relationship communications paths (computer based systems, blogs, wikis...); geographically independent communication infrastructure.


Rites of immediacy the cancellation of time back to now: executing all the future in shorter time units .


Rites of loyalty gifts and tokens showered on the convert to signify the benefits of belonging.


Rites of disloyalty such has having to relinquish ones material belongings in order to signify separation

Rites of commendation such has accruing character of despicable, idolatrous or stupid.